jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Identifying leftism as a harmful ideology is certainly a critical step, however it's very difficult to gain traction with that because the term "leftism" is very, very close to "left wing politics"

They aren't “very close”, they are exact synonyms.

> Unfortunately whilst there is an abundance of words to describe the new left wing politics (woke, wokeism, leftism, identity politics, critical theory, neo-Marxism, "anti-racism", third wave feminism etc) there aren't many terms which clearly describe the old left wing politics

Yes, there are. You even used one of them with a “neo-” in front of it to describe new left-wing politics.

Also, many of your “new left wing" labels are inaccurate; “identity politics”, particularly, isn't specifically left-wing; there are progressive identity politics, center-right neoliberal identity politics (the dominant ones in the Democratic Party, which serve as a capitalist distraction from left-wing economic justice issues), and right-wing identity politics (in the US, various strands of White and/or Christian supremacism/nationalism are prominent here.)
Log into work's Microsoft subscription from hotmail.com to keep The Man humble
I wish there were a good tutorial about FPGA development using version control tools. It’s easy having Vivado project with couple source files, but totally uncool using block design. Especially with my own IP blocks.
1. Meet and befriend more freelancers of similar caliber and complementary skillsets.

2. Help each other find new clients and pool your incoming work.

3. Hire subcontractors for the little stuff that piles up.

4. Slowly back away from the less interesting stuff, and take on the most-interesting/high-paying/high-responsibility jobs.
I wish these were steam boxes with a good video card.
The size factor is great, I would love to use these as a console replacement.
One day, hopefully . . .
Ctrl + Shift + B

Run Command has been replaced with "Build With" command,
Why wasn't it was kept at its place and additionally "Build With" was introduced? Some disturbance is created.
"In Canada, the flu vaccine could be working even more poorly, with "little or no protection.""
...
"About 98 per cent of the viruses are mismatched that have been characterized in Canada, whereas in the U.S. its closer to about 68 per cent, or about two-thirds are mismatched. So it's not a good omen," said Dr. Danuta Skowronski of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control.
"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-only-23-effective-...
I respectfully disagree; the advantage over injection molding is clear - you can have any design you'd like. I'm not sure how much is online at the moment, but they've designed a system that lets you design cases in illustrator and convert the files to a case design on the fly in your browser. This means you can design any case you want and have it delivered to you quickly.

That is a fundamentally different value proposition for the consumer than injection molding. Any individual design seen here could be recreated with injection molding, but the point of this company isn't to provide you with a cell phone case, it's to provide you with any cell phone case design you want.

That's not something a company doing injection molding could offer. Molds for injection molding cost a minimum of a few grand and usually tens of thousands of dollars. You can't deliver a unique item to each customer with injection molding.

Disclaimer: I know one of the creators, and I have helped give mechanical advice over the past year. I think its a really great product. I'd be using them if I had an iPhone!
Hi Romeo, something to keep in mind. Most "Meal replacement" type bars (cliff, power bar) etc.. are super sweet, lots of sugar. I'm actually not a fan of sugar in general and would love an alternative that is more neutral or even on the salty side. I see on your site what look like chocolate chip cookie chunks and that turns me off. Maybe you can come up with something that has flavor but is not sweet?
These days, font rendering does not often rely on bitmaps, even at small sizes. Instead, they typically use hinting and subpixel rendering. I would love to see these effective techniques applied to vector graphics too.
Yeah I hear you.

in Danish fag is trade/profession/"subject area" and idiot means well idiot.

Although it has negative connotations it's accepted.
Apple was undoubtedly a huge success long before then. Every school in the country had Apple IIes in the 1980s.

I think you need to accounting for inflation and the growth of the electronics market in general.
Darn, it seems Tumblr is acting up again. Url is not loading for everyone.
Correct mate, I am an Australian. I would say that our job security level is closer to that of the USA than the UK, but I don't think it's exactly the same.

On the whole I've seen way too many good people let go from permy positions while other plebs are retained. In same cases there doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to who gets culled and when. To me that's a real sign that the "important" differences between permy and contractor are well in favour of the latter.

Cheers!
Have you ever called a locksmith? Usually it's because you left your keys inside and you closed the door without realizing. When a door closes this way it doesn't matter what lock it sports: could be the best in the world but is still unlocked and easy to open. If it is not a credit card, is something slightly more sophisticated.

The price of a service is always dictated by competition. Obviously, there is not enough competition in the locksmith world.
I've pushed other folks' cars out of traffic or into a station before, and there's nothing like that sheepish smile you get as you wave them off and get on your way.

On the other hand, I've also had a borrowed, beaten-up car break down in peak hour in the inside lane and no-one is letting me push it over two more lanes to the plentiful parking on the side. I waited for about two minutes for someone to give me a gap before I realised "hey, car is beaten-up anyway, if it gets hit, it's just another scratch". Waited for a small gap and just started pushing. Not particularly suprising that people with their nice clean paintjobs don't want to plow into a beaten car just to prove a point :)
> D takes a different approach. D has a type constructor `shared`. Only types marked as `shared` (or `immutable`) can be accessed by multiple threads.

This is called Sync in rust. There is also a Send trait for types types which can be moved (but not necessarily shared), as there are data items which can not leave their origin thread e.g. thread locals or non-atomically refcounted instances.
> and ultimately because the deals were so good he already reneged on the number of jobs promised by creating 2 new HQs resulting in 1/2 the jobs and investment while double dipping on the tax credits.

They lost the NY tax credits because they were so cartoonishly aggressive that AOC got the whole thing canceled by tweeting about it. Then they built it anyway without any credits.
Parent poster has PTSD-related hyperbole. Home invasion rape and murder are hugely less common than burglary
I have FireFox/NoScript, and with that it's even worse: After a few seconds of a screen with a tiny "broken plugin" window, it does a redirect to a "noflash" page. The only link on that page is to the Adobe Flash download.

The redirect is one where the back button doesn't work; to me that's one of the most incompetent web design flaws: Send people away from your main page and then not give them a way to get back. It's bad enough they demand you have Flash (do all iPhone/iPad users drink coffee?)

I've seen similar "Please enable JavaScript in your browser" pages without a path back to the main page as well. Idiocy.
eh, my understanding was that Gandhi had some, ah, issues[1] in that area as well. We're all human. I think few people are up to resisting that sort of temptation when the opportunity is available. It's probably better to accept it and try to channel it into something you don't mind other people finding out about than to try to hide it.

[1]http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/featur...
For those not familiar with the whole router firmware hacking thing, here is the backstory

http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391/The...

Also in addition to DD-wrt there is openwrt which I've got running on my router, and probably a number of others.
OT: She is the cutest geek ever. They should have a movie based on her with Diane Kruger playing the lead.
"Why not give me a real world use case, with a code base to work off of?"

Because they want you to be good enough to do it without that.

(I'm saying this as an about to be new grad who is studying these subjects to not have that much help and have to do it on a whiteboard in an interview

and also working on these puzzles and similar ones from a lot of other companies)
You can re-write the parable if you wish, but it no longer mirrors reality. Any reduction in tax rates is commonly decried as "Tax cuts for the Rich." No one says anything like , "the poor always win!"

Obviously, a parable is only as good and the truth it illustrates. If the parable is implausible (like your revised version), it obviously carries no weight.
It can be causation without female workers adding anything by their "femaleness." Any effort to break old routines can result in replacing old, unexamined habits with better ones.

Case in point: I read an article in the Financial Times several years back about how Norwegian companies adapted to the quota law requiring 40% of board members to be female. Norwegian companies were kind of at a loss because they normally recruited directors out of a pool of candidates known to their current directors and executives. They knew those traditional candidates very well, often personally, and knew their skills, qualifications, and trustworthiness. Unfortunately, that pool didn't include very many women.

The companies were leery of hiring complete strangers into their boardrooms. Still, they were stuck with it, so they did their best. They identified skills and knowledge that would complement their existing boards and launched international searches for qualified candidates. Just by taking those steps, which most of companies had never bothered with before, they discovered a huge number of stellar candidates with skills that were completely lacking in Norwegian boardrooms. The candidates they found were significantly younger, more accomplished, and more internationally savvy than the usual old boys' club candidates. Result: big win for Norwegian corporations. Instead of looking at a few dozen old Scandinavian men, they started recruiting out of a huge pool of international talent. Being limited to female candidates was a minor factor at that point. At least, that's how the FT presented it.
So what's "familiar" to the IT-illiterate?
I'm not sure about the specifics of what iwwr is thinking, but basically I think he means that humans have the ability to create and pass on knowledge (state) from one generation to the next. Because each generation only has to build off of the knowledge of previous ones there is no set limit to how much humans as a whole can know.

Technically, this ability isn't unique to humans alone. Other species, such as dolphins and chimpanzees, are also able to create and pass on knowledge. For example, certain dolphins around Florida have developed a strategy of catching fish by first encircling areas of water by kicked up sand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArsoMcVi5MM&feature=playe... This is purely a learned behavior and has to be taught to offspring.
Natural selection would make people help each others, not killing each others.
Okay, but it’s not like people expect Scott to denounce these things apropos of nothing. He publicly discusses them. It’s fine to have a nuanced take — but if you leave room for interpretation, don’t be surprised when people side-eye you for not taking a clear stance.
> Being judged attractive is a cultural thing that varies with time and place.

This is partially true, but there are many significant markers of attractiveness that are not particularly context-dependent.

> Being judged intelligent is also a cultural thing that varies with time and place.

This I disagree with much more strongly. "Being judged intelligent" isn't explicitly isn't the only thing that feeds into the evolutionary drive, and the second-order consequences are much more significant: being quick-witted/funny, increasing likelihood of success/resources, etc. The concept of general intelligence is not nearly as narrowly-defined as you're implying. To take an example, subsistence farming isn't exactly _easy_. General intelligence is an important factor in success at subsistence farming just as it is in success at post-industrial white-collar work.
Regarding the sentencing differential: Joe Ligon, the subject of the article, is black, while Kyle Anger, the “mastermind” behind the fatal rock-throwing incident you linked, is white.
I think 30% is too much, but ethically not really comparable to trading my data behind my back in the alley to shady or non shady businesses - outcomes and implications are not understood, not even by Zuckerberg himself (besides making $$$)
"Kitsch is the absolute denial of shit, in both the literal and the figurative senses of the word" ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Shitdrawer is the Amazon Glacier of Shitbowl. Easy to throw stuff in, generally it stays there very long term.
> And all of this comes up against the simple and obvious truth that all someone in this position has to do is speak what so many would like to hear; that they didn't understand what this person was doing, that it isn't what they believe, and to create distance. But they won't. I wonder why?

The thing is we have lots of perfectly good examples of people associating with conservative people with a few noxious views. John Legend and Chrissy Teigen, for example, were well known as family friends of Kanye West but they managed to go years asserting they were personal friends and disagreed with his political views and hoped he would come around. Eventually Kanye went a little overboard and they started distancing themselves further, but pointedly that was Kanye’s fault and not the Teigan-Legend family’s.

It really is not that hard to adopt a “love the sinner, hate the sin” position. But when people adopt this position of hemming-and-hawing any time someone asks “do you really hate the sin though?” it understandably raises some questions. People have blogs where they engage with bad ideas all the time. There’s a style in how they present and engage with the ideas that doesn’t leave much room for doubt.

I also don’t think advocates for “places to debate” these things really understand the purpose of debate. These arguments for scientific racism are well known and understood and mostly debunked by actual well-regarded experts in the associated fields. There is no value in debating bad ideas ad nauseum with randos online. You’re not learning anything from that, you’re just engaged in a sort of rhetorical sparring match. Is society well served by you trading bad faith arguments with strangers? Maybe. At the expense of exposing impressionable spectators to arguments with poor empirical grounding that are nonetheless seductive for taking advantage of common misconception and flattering peoples egos? Not so sure about that.
If you fund less science, you will favor older researchers (that cost more) because they are the ones thay can produce more and have inertia from previous research project, and they know how to game the system. Thats a big issue with the NIH (in US) that they are trying desperately to solve. Unfortunately, they also often favor and give too much weight to old researchers in their grant panels and they tend to favor (not always consciously) people that think like them.
Have you gone independent? Any advice for those thinking about making the jump?
Sure. When I was a freelance consultant doing Windows stuff, I did have a backup laptop for just that reason - in case an upgrade borked things, or my hardware failed.

OSX makes this particularly easy, though: you clone an OSX install with Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to an external drive. (I have this scheduled to run nightly) You can then boot another Mac from that external drive.

The result is that you don't have to maintain two separate OSX installs. You can borrow somebody else's Mac, boot from your external drive, and boom - your data and your entire working environment are ready to go.

Of course you could also accomplish this with other operating systems. If your main work environment is a virtual machine, it's pretty trivial.
Sure we can.

Groupon is Cyber Pennysaver, at best. They can execute well, but it's very competitive. The business is high touch.

Google helps to render or find almost every page on the Internet, thereby shaping reality for a huge number of people. Mind control is a lucrative business.

Ergo, Groupon is a bit player compared to Google, and they always will be as long as the meaning of the businesses stay where they're at.
Yup. It's totally possible to replicate the "value proposition" of a network-effect-exploiting service - the easiest way is to just wait a single generation. Younger people tend to avoid things their parents use; it's a problem that Facebook is starting to have right now.
But did you ever wonder where the stability of USD comes from? It all comes down to how big the transaction volume of your currency is. Things like "Petrodollar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_recycling#Petrodol... increase the volume and provide additional stability. As "market cap" of bitcoin increases, so does the stability. All things considered, bitcoin still is very bad because of the transaction throughput which still remains an unsolved problem. I don't see how arbitrage can happen on the price if the transactions are so expensive. I guess BTC will end up living in the various exchange siloses
The truth is that even with a strict definition, it is subject to change.

The meaning of a word or term today may not be the same tomorrow, languages evolve with the way people communicate, not with the way they get defined.

0-day is a good example, because people outside the security field only care about whether they're vulnerable or not, not about the intricacies of the term.
You could call this article UML editor vs text editor. What it may point out would be the lack of a modeling tools. UML is old fashioned, java/entreprisy, and new ones like omnigraffle aren't specifically targeted towards modeling domains. Whereas text-editors are evolved, bright and shiny.

On a another level I agree that what's truly fascinating with programming is not mastering the quirks of a specific language but translating an external model to the shape of rules expressed in a language which has it's own internal logic. Not just to have a static interpretation like painting or literature would provide but a dynamic one which evolves with user and data interaction.

This is really unique in human history
Actually, honey keeps as long as you don't get extra water into it. Almost nothing else does.

The container is key for storing it in terrible conditions.
Why are the dates in those excerpts in non-US (day of month first) format?
This is not mentioned in either the blog post or the docs, at least not easily findable with a cmd+f

"Use some of the libraries on the server with NodeJS. i.e. DI." - some, and I'd expect an explicit mentioning of isomorphism if it were possible at the moment to render it on the server side.

Shadow DOM != Virtual DOM. I mean the React-style Virtual DOM.
How common was use of stilts in the past?

Several of these jobs seem to involve poles. Other similar jobs, like [tree] fruit-picking, seem to lend themselves to use of stilts.

Stilts can be dangerous - but there are surely advantages too, a knocker-upper could knock on the window until they hear movement, they could also sell them a morning paper/loaf/whatever through the window; I'd imagine they could do their round faster too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilts
I heard from devs Swift 1.0 is still alpha quality (tools) and Apple shouldn't release it. Would you use it for new project?
Wow, as someone who is going to start doing Computer Science next year, I had already heard that most of programming is about thinking, but had no idea that is was to the point of 5 lines of code per day being exceptional.
Completely remote work usually has overhead. First, time zone differences really hurt work.

>Meetings, brainstorms can be done remotely - and very often are. Many companie already work remotely.

Meetings over internet work worse than in person. Also, I don't know any decent low cost software for this. Skype works well with sound, but video is far from ideal. The same with google hangouts.

Personally, I work from home 3 days/week and 2 days/week in the office. We have team members in other location with a large time difference of about 8 hours and this complicates things a lot.
Now I just need to finish my AI that founds tech startups...
What do you mean by soft skills? Soft skills for a manager might be an agreeable developer, who agrees to unreasonable deadlines. The manager would would say he had a good positive attitude, but the project would certainly fail.

Soft Skills from the development teams perspective is assertiveness. The ability to say no(in a nice way) to an unreasonable request, without some kind of compromise on timeline or scope. A manager might say that guy is unreasonable, stubborn or manipulative(if you say no diplomatically). However the project has a higher chance of succeeding towards realistic goals.

Point being soft skills means different things to different people.
Correct, when a third-party is involved, it's no longer the same employer in both countries.
Some guy lost 4 Bitcoins that were encrypted with a line from some obscure afrikaans poem, because someone was crazy enough to brute-force all possible private keys that you can come up with using basically any phrase you can find on the internet [0]. So as someone else already said - if it's online, it's not safe.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ptuf3/brain_wallet...
http://pastebin.com/ZJXsygQx (imgur didn't support svg.)

Converted using inkscape from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AA%E3%...
>And who decides if such has been done and how do they decide it?

The SEC, just like now. You could argue they aren't as good at it as they should be, but that doesn't really change anything.

There are limits of what you can invest here, as opposed to the normal stock market where there aren't. So at least that's a plus. Nobody will in fact be able to lose their life savings here. Just 10% of it.
Go search for "Prevention Of Terrorism Act." We'll wait.
Not the rsync creator, but the creator of rsync.net - just to clarify :)

Yes, you are correct - we built our own infrastructure. We built the boxes ourselves and we purposely chose Hong Kong and Zurich to be other than the AWS locations. We have no connection to AWS.

Except, we do have s3cmd and gsutil in our environment, so you can very, very easily import and export data with those tools:

ssh user@rsync.net s3cmd get s3://rsync/mscdex.exe

In fact, we have in the past, run ad campaigns reminding people not to have their infrastructure and their backups all in one place.
It wobbles ever so slightly, but that's mostly due to the fact I'm using it with a $20 Ikea Lavia desk on carpet. It's plenty stable for my needs, but there may be better solutions out there.
Any other framework like this in Python or C++?
I just use the regular swipe code, frankly I'm not opening it that many times a day anyway, I think it's a feature not a bug.
It should be std::string’s job to store strings. If people want to perform operations on them, that’s what free functions are for, right? Nobody wants std::string to have hundreds of methods.

Tbb is great.