jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When soft bank is handing you billions it's not that impressive to grow. All you have to do is spend the money you are being handed.

Its impressive if you can do that in a way that creates long term value but just spending it isn't hard.
They're orthogonal to good security. Missing data is always better than encrypted data. I wish it had a global keep messages for X time feature like iNessage instead of tge per yser configurable dissappearing messages.
I can only speculate but what I think we are seeing here is a statement made in earnest by a corporate communication team, crafted with significant input from a product team. To admit that this was an intrusion would be severely career limiting. So they explain it in a hand-wavy fashion, enough to get the Comms people off their back. The end result is this unsatisfying explanation.

Just speculation. There has to be a method to the madness that is Facebook press releases.
No, you can discriminate on any basis if there's a "reasonable factor" unrelated to that basis. Models and actors, for example, are selected by age, race and sex quite routinely.
I was out of work during lock-down (I was a consultant) and being out of work for 8 months almost crushed me when I came back to work because I had to remind myself how to do some relatively simple things (e.g. how do I write a mock?).

Being out of the industry for 10 years is basically starting from scratch (almost).
> agencies have an Auditor General with a cadre of agents whose entire role is to investigate and publicly report on what that agency does wrong

This was the case with prosecutors. Then in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant consolidated them under the DOJ [1]. The common portion of their work, criminal litigation, was specialised and conflicted enough that the benefits of densifying its practitioners outweighed the cost of distance from the field.

I argue a similar problem persists among our Auditors and Solicitors General. Yes, there are advantages to having them in house. But there are disadvantages, too, and the bad outweighs the good.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ju...
I'm management, albeit not at Intel, and I don't have/have no interest in an MBA, so read in whatever biases you'd like. Or decide I'm full of shit, that's possible too. There is value in management, but management has to realize that it doesn't exist for its own sake. That's a tough one when "management is the company" is effectively what anyone's been taught for decades now. The problem is, I think, that it is an oversimplification. Nominally management makes the decisions, but we aren't where the product gets built or sold. The company is as successful as its products, and so maybe the product is the company, and we're all doing our part to make it the best thing that people want.

I'd like to think I'm a good leader. Probably not the best one - there are plenty of folks I look up to. Probably not the worst one, but that's not for me to decide. In any case, as middle management, [0] I see three major components to my role:

1. Hire and retain really talented people who are good at what we do;

2. Decide what we'll work on now, what we'll do later, and what we won't do; [1] and

3. Sponsor my team and provide air cover for #2

I generally have a pretty good idea of _what_ to do, but not always exactly. I used to know _how_ to do it, but I'm probably not the best at that today. My goal is to hire or develop a team that can put a fine point on the _what_, or challenge me when I'm wrong, and to own the _how_.

In terms of sponsorship and air cover, it's taking 1 and 2 above, and keeping it on the rails with minimal disruption. I see good middle management as needing to be very team-focused, caring for the health and composition of the team above all. Sometimes that means absorbing a lot coming from above, and sometimes it means being really pushy upwards to get what we need to be successful. But the team should be free to execute if we're doing our jobs well, and their end of the bargain is to deliver what we agreed to do.

This is not the philosophy of all middle managers, and I'm sure there are other models that work. This is the one I can speak to.

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[0]: "Middle management" defined as someone who manages other managers but is not C-level.

[1]: This doesn't mean I cook this shit up. I'm listening to the team I manage, as well as the priorities and directives coming from above, and applying my filters. Gotta figure they hired me because I know generally what to do in my space, and the team agreed to work with me because I have the ability to point them toward the critical path and push the debris out of the way before they run into it. Without management, there are either too many ideas to harmonize, or you get lucky and the team converges on the right one. I think good middle management helps us converge on the right ideas faster.
Eh, that’s not how it’s written I believe? Not that it really applies here, but you can (and have to) discriminate against a protected class if it is a core part of the job requirement that excludes them and there is no reasonable workaround. For instance, if there are no accessible robotic exoskeletons around, discriminating against someone unable to lift 50 lbs because of a physical disability if the job requires someone to lift 50 lbs all day is perfectly legal. If you’re hiring someone to act as a 20 year old, you can discriminate against people because of their inability to look 20 all day long, etc.

The problem is such as this case where the company seems to think that people aged the same die at the same time? Which doesn’t seem to have any plausible basis in fact or a reasonable job requirement.
I like the idea in general, but I have reservations about the way they're trying to sell it to people.

Then again, maybe the politicos would take it more seriously if they knew that each person to send one of those was serious enough to spend $30? It's my understanding that they generally use the time & effort spent by a constituent to gauge how serious the person is and how strong the support is.
It seems to be the sum of upvotes for anything you submitted, plus (or minus) any points from comments you've made; and a comment score of 1 is not counted.
Don't worry about it. In my experience, a lot of the criteria listed in these job postings were done by non-developers and have little to do with the actual job. Also, when in doubt, just apply. Interviewing is a skill like any other. It requires practice. Even if you feel you're not qualified, the interview might surprise you, and if it doesn't, it's still good experience.
A few of us were sitting around in the Computer Club office, and Steve comes in and asks us if we want jobs for the summer. So Tony, Jim, and I ended up working that summer on a weird research experiment, hooking computers up together. Part of what I did was writing test programs to make sure the computer could talk to this smaller computer, that knew how to talk to others of its kind.

The smaller computer was called an "IMP". The main one was the Sigma 7 at UCLA, host #1 on the ARPAnet. Steve was Steve Crocker, and other folks on the project included Jon Postel, Vint Cerf, and Prof. Leonard Kleinrock.

Last year, I got to mention to Vint Cerf in person, that we had last worked together some 40 or so years ago.

So, to answer some of your questions, 1- definitely underqualified. I was 16. 2- Lucky? No kidding. Right place at the right time.
My first gig was a FoxPro contract to find a bug in a very messy report generator, written by a recently divorced, overweight diva in her late 40s. That, my friends, is as close to an immersive reality check as it gets. I was on 3rd year in the Uni and had fluent Pascal, working knowledge of C, could solve Hanoi towers by hand and tell the baud of the modem whistle by ear. Quit in one week, earned $40, didn't manage to make a single change to the code, and acquired a life-long dislike to anything database :)
I'm in. How about Cherrywood coffeehouse ? If you talk to the guy who owns it, you can reserve the back room. For the first meeting I would not bother, let's see how many people show up.
Still, thoroughly fascinating.
My point is that "banned" requires some attempt to interfere with access.

Taking something off a reading list isn't interfering with access. ("They won't read it if it isn't on the list" doesn't change things as it applies to everything that's not on the list and you're arguing that the reason matters.)

There's nothing wrong with objecting to how a reading list is selected, but no matter what the reason, that process does not ban anything.

Yes labelling something as a "ban" has persuasive power, but that doesn't make the label accurate.

Such mis-labelling actually makes it harder to get people to react to actual wolves, so to speak.
Find your passion. Plain and simple. Although it's better if your passion is something in high demand that you can easily make money off.
I have nothing against service in the armed forces, but I doubt it would be more lucrative. You may sign up to be a pilot and wind up doing something completely different (if you don't make it through the training). Also, if consider time on base as time on the job, it may equate to less than minimum wage overall. At least, that's the way it is with mandatory service in Israel. Not sure how it works in the US though.
A little different experience by my side: I always try to have as little devices as possible. So I often buy smartphones with large (6.4+ inches) screen, to serve as e-reader (among other features). The screen technology might not be the same, but I'm quite satisfied with it.
From the FAQ:

> Will people see my real email if I reply to a forwarded one?

> No, your real email will not be shown, the email will look as if it has come from us instead. Just make sure not to include anything that might identify you when composing the reply, i.e. your full name.

How does that work? Do replies actually go through your servers, so that to the outside world they appear to be a proper mail from someone at AnonAddy, with SPF and DKIM all in order?

> How do you prevent spammers?

> The following is in place to help prevent spam: [list of six things it does to fight incoming spam]

Can someone with an AnonAddy address send an outgoing mail to someone who has not previously sent a mail to that AnonAddy address? If so, how will you try to prevent outgoing spam?

If outgoing mail is limited to mail to people who have sent you mail, can you initiate new mail to those people, or must each outgoing mail be in reply to a previous incoming mail?
No worries, though: if you forget your password you can just call up IT and get it changed to "welcome1" :)
A few websites that are disguising third-party trackers:

Fox News: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/foxnews.com

CNN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/cnn.com

BBC: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/bbc.co.uk

WebMD: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/webmd.com

ESPN: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/espn.com

Ars Technica: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/arstechnica.com

Go.com (Disney): https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/go.com

Washington Post: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/washingtonpost.com

Walmart: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/walmart.com

Weather.com: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/weather.com

Apple: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/apple.com

NFL: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/nfl.com

T-Mobile: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/t-mobile.com

State Farm: https://trackingthetrackers.com/site/statefarm.com
Hell, they sell those lists. Though just because you are on those lists, does not make you the typical “gun nut”; FWIW I fall in that gun nut category.

The “I lost them in a boating accident” won’t work when they zip tie you to a chair and start cutting off body parts.
see also recent related:
Chart.xkcd – library that plots charts in Xkcd sketch/cartoon/hand-drawn style
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21566084
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine: https://twitter.com/VPrystaiko/status/1199725757762850819

>IPhones are great products. Seriously, though,
@Apple, please, please, stick to high-tech and entertainment. Global politics is not your strong side. #CrimeaIsUkraine
Personally I prefer to stick with KDE neon for a full KDE experience. It's built on Ubuntu LTS but uses the latest KDE packages. I've found it to be a lot more stable than just using KDE on top of a Ubuntu release.
I’m not sure about suicides. But just think of how much people are willing to lock out any information once they are set on a specific idea.

IMO that’s the only way the gloom and doomers are effective; to radicalize their base.
Reading in context, I was talking about languages holistically. You can't entirely separate a language from its context, e.g. JS is the only scripting language that runs in browser (as I highlighted in my original post).

And do people transpile to JS because the language is bad, or because the interpreter and runtime are good?
I think software as a whole is a lot more subject to fads and personal preference than you're leading on here. Which is okay because picking the exact best technical fit (if it's even possible to figure this out ahead of time) for any given problem will give you tech ADD.

E.g. lots of people use node.js because its in a language they're familiar with and it fills a niche (lightweight process that can accept and process many incoming requests). I use Erlang for those needs, which actually existed before node.js. But it's a "weird" language so most people don't use it.

I like Python more than Ruby. I've learned both but never use Ruby anymore. Other than preference or mandate I'm not sure why I would use one over the other.

Lots of people used to writing in scripting languages seem to be discovering the wonders of a speedy language like Go. You could obviously use speedy languages before Go but their preferences made them not want to use them. For whatever reason Go is attractive to them.
Things like this makes me wonder if RH changed once Oracle bought Sun and then forked RHEL into Oracle Linux. Thus Oracle went from being something of a partner to being a competitor, and RH rolled back on various behaviors (package patch sets etc).
>Math always sounds mildly interesting to me and I get the concepts quickly, but i lack the discipline to really internalize it for a few months, especially bottom-up. For me it is easier to come from the other side, for example digging through scikit-learn and learning the math after I already got the big picture.

You probably already know this, but that just means you're an inductive learner, not a deductive learner. I'm also an inductive learner, but unfortunately the majority of math instruction is based on deductive learning.
Yes there are 2 kinds of illegal: de jure and de facto. You need it to be illegal both way.
"misogyny, noun. dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women."

I'm not redefining the word. You're wrong. Have a nice day.
is there something particular about Numb3rs that applies to this discussion?

Yes, it enumerates real-world applications of mathematics in fields other than Physics/Chemistry, of which you said you were skeptical.

This is mainly because the math doesn't actually tell you something that you qualitatively didn't already know.

So I take it that the depth of mathematics is determined by its ability to predict?
Don't make me wrong davidw, Italy is one of the best countries on Earth to live with your family, but from the business point of view it's a nightmare. It's cute, unbelievably cute, but sometimes it's not enough to live a happy life.
R&D in Italy it's one of my dreams and remote working tools are out there to help, but in my experience it is very complicated to make it working in the long run when the company scale. You save money, but not that much. On the other hand you slow down a little bit the execution. It's just my own experience.
Interestingly that crazy looking magic roundabout serves a purpose. The (seemingly correct) theory was that such a setup would slow people down and make them cautious, thereby dispensing with the need for traffic lights and allowing safe self-organisation.
This is the first time I've looked at our app since we sent it in (that I can recall), and I was extremely surprised about how prescient we were on some things. Not only Google Calendar, but who would be potential acquirers (we were talking to them during Kiko and actually had a verbal offer that fell through, although that is a different story to tell), that social networking features would be important in all web applications, that javascript client applications would be actually a good thing to do.

The only thing we weren't good a predicting was our release schedule :)
Sure, there are other ways to get better. But Toastmasters exists to do exactly this, and has a good track record at it.

You don't need to join a club to get help though. Shoot an email to a local club and ask to give a guest talk. They'll evaluate you and you'll get tons of constructive, actionable feedback you can use to improve.
"Social networks have an abundance of data which they should be using to display context relevant advertising."

I wonder how the author feels about the way Facebook advertises, if that is what they imagined or if it's better/worse if it isn't.
Goddamnit, rickrolled again!
Wait people don't have offices in Africa?
"wrote Prototype and script.aculo.us in 2007" and yet http://script.aculo.us/ claims Thomas Fuchs wrote it. What gives?

EDIT: it seems they mean the book "Prototype and script.aculo.us" - another one of their pragmatic guides.. I think.
I don't get the impression the past was that terrible for him, regardless of the headline. His professors didn't flush his head in the toilet, there were merely unsympathetic when he was late handing things in.
This is implicit in having access to the (cumulative) key distribution. Still, the interpolation function can turn out to be pretty expensive, if your data isn't uniform 0-100.
I don't think it's a matter of proving anything. I think the issue is that no matter what the answers to these questions are, you have a good reason for interviewing the person.

"What past success and experience do the founders have?"

"Well, we've been involved in small projects individually like a b and c. But we've surrounded ourselves by great advisors like Mr. W who did x in 2001. And Mr. Y who was CTO at Z Corp."

etc.
Apologies for a clumsy touch-screen downvote.
I think Google is planning on doing some sort of "reserved instance" type thing, where you can pay $x/month to keep y number of instances running.
This is not innovation; it is an improvement. If you want innovation, look at Gnome-do, rhythmbox, gimp, and any upstream project. The purpose of elementary is simply to improve usability and add small usability-related features.
A real simple one is that an ideal-Wikileaks would only safely shuttle information from leakers to the public, and not reframe and editorialize the information to favor Wikileaks own political agenda.

Another one would be than an ideal-Wikileaks wouldn't have a critical operational stakeholder going on media tours, which make Wikileaks less about the information itself and more about the personalities of the people running Wikileaks (which are ultimately irrelevant), and, more importantly, which create situations in which the security of the whole endeavor could be compromised by a single arrest.

There are lots of others I'm sure I could come up with. The fact of the matter is, for all you know, Wikileaks could be a very elaborate 4chan hoax. You know nothing at all about this organization or its true motivations, which is as it must be, since a "transparent" Wikileaks would immediately be shut down.
Question for those of you working inside of big companies:

I am sure many of you are getting recruited to join startups. What's the general sentiment in this demographic - are you guys torn between feeling like you should join a hot opportunity now, but in some ways afraid that you might give up that 6-figure salary only to get hit by a burst bubble in mid-2011 and would have to crawl back to a more stable corporate gig?
I expect that the middle ground of C+HLL is more common than the purist approach simply because it makes sense to use the right tools for very different jobs.

I know that Eve is Python on top of a large, custom C++ code base. Civ and Blender as well. Adobe's Lightroom is a nice case study of 50% C++ and 50% Lua.

I've never used Python+Weave, but it makes total sense. I do think Python's built-in CTypes library is unfortunately underused. (highlights: You can create C-callable function pointers and you can call C DLL functions from default Python. No add-on libs required.)
I agree. It's a very nice design. Nicely done!
I'm not interpreting your comment as flippant. :)

In terms of shortcuts, that would depend on what they were. Some are fine, others are not. E.g. 'borrowing' answers from other students on homework is a shortcut, but it's okay if the student understands the material in the end; cheating on an exam is not an okay shortcut.

"Surprisingly hard" is the name of the game. I mentioned that writing exams is hard to motivate why an instructor would use a test bank. At a research school (I'm at a research focused school), being an instructor is only a small part of a professors (or grad students) job. Using a test bank (from books/publishers or private ones) is considered to be fine, as it lets them focus more time on the things they "should" be doing. Many things that are considered okay in this context are abhorred in others, e.g. having grad students be primary instructors is okay here but would be taboo at a teaching focused school. Of course, most teaching focused schools don't have big grad programs.

Incidentally, I'm on track to graduate this year. I'm sending out academic job applications and I find myself more drawn to teaching schools than I thought I'd be.
I mean many games do have a privacy problem and I can't imagine it will just go on like this.
Definitely waiting till the tech is a tiny bit better before I request drones fly at my windows with hammers...

;)
I've never practiced eastern philosophy, but it's not surprising that people arrive at the same conclusions on psychedelics.
See, psychedelic plants/fungi have been around since before humans and people who took them, say, 3000 years ago had the same trips and the same realisations that we have today.
Then they came back and wrote about their conclusions, which has sometimes led to the creations of new philosophies or religions.

This is one other realisation that you have while tripping - "I have been in this state before, many times before, but not in this body, I was a yogi in India or a shaman in South America or a philosopher in ancient Greece and I've always remembered: I am. It's always been me."
So here's also my answer - I believe in God, I was raised in Catholic environment but lately I stopped going to Church - I've lost faith in Church as a place & organization and started to believe that by being just the good person for other people (& world environment) will be enough to achieve redemption - and I believe God is generous enough to respect my way of 'believing'.
You said: "In other words, it's just wouldn't be practically possible to create an application that uses standard memory allocation functions and reliably can free some memory back to the kernel."

So I thought you'd be interested to know that you can do just this with the standard functions mmap() and madvise().

No, it's not a replacement for malloc/free, but it does have value to some applications for some use cases.
Is it still possible to asscess comp.os.minix old archives through NNTP somewhere? Google Groups have the old emails but I can't find a way to read them in a local email client.
QNX http://www.qnx.com/

L4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family