jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The worst and most common argument I’ve heard for the daily standup is that it somehow facilitates team bonding and and passive, “osmosis-like” transfer of knowledge.

Like... why would you ever do x with the vague intention of getting y as a side benefit? Why don’t you just do y directly?

I frankly don’t care what my teammates are up to. I don’t care what the team is up to. It’s not my job to care. It’s my job to send commits and get paid. If I need to collaborate with a teammate why wouldn’t I just reach out directly? If I need “context” about something, whether it’s company goals or how some piece in the code works, why don’t I just have a meeting specifically about that? If we want team bonding why don’t we have the team bond over actually working together in real ways?

I hate this culture of by default having all these regular meetings for no explicit reason.
Broadly it means there's an emphasis on creating your content declaratively, often in a config file format (i.e., not in code). Saying "there's an entity X, it has these behaviors, it has these properties" in XML or JSON or whatever else. And then actual code is written separately, to handle specific logic that uses those declarative properties.

I'm sure somebody else can give a more precise definition
> "I have decided to leave Google in order to pursue other exciting opportunities."

Looks like he was leaving anyways and decided to cash in some brownie points on his way out?
They'll get five minutes of newsworthiness and prompt many to throw their two cents in about how asinine their argument is, but I imagine it's a bit late to rock the boat for them.
So smaht
That is only a temporary problem. Eventually employees will quit or die. And when that happens you will hire a replacement at current market rates.
> Are most mortgages in the US not pegged to some reference rate like Euribor?

There are both fixed and variable rate mortgages in the US, but variable rate mortgages usually have a minimum interest rate regardless of how low the index it is pegged to goes.
Buy the company for $50B, sell the alibaba / japan stock for $45B, and the net cost is $5B.

Let's not pretend like Yahoo is a $45B company. It is consistently valued between +/- $5B.
Why anti-patterns?

Pandas makes a great companion to a database. Aggregate / reduce large datasets (>RAM) efficiently in a DB, then pivot in Pandas, and perform non-SQL-support analyses in Python. Same can be said for R.

iPython is just a shell, a very good one, with options to share work for presentation and reproducibility.
Looks like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett share another thing in common: voracious reading habits

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000251628

Seems like 500 pages/week is the magic number
It's amazing how well this improves the experience of using the internet with such a small change.

Rarely there are sites that hide their flash elements if they aren't loaded properly, which can make it difficult to click them, but then you just whitelist the website if it's really important.
We are going to be a space faring civilization.
For others like me who are unfamiliar with the word tenacity: "The state or quality of being tenacious", which in turn is "Holding or tending to hold persistently to something, such as a point of view" or "Tending to retain; retentive".
I think if you are forced to do it, it won't work. If you do it for the fun, there's is no age.
I've seen this question asked by many people over the years. It's never too late for anyone to start programming. As long as you have a hunger for knowledge and creation, plus a fair amount of patience you will learn to program well.

If you stick with it, in a year you will have laid the foundation for your problem-solving skills. In just a couple years you will be able to produce all kinds of things. In 10 years there won't be a problem you can't tackle with perhaps a little more reading online and a few hours in your favorite text editor or IDE.

If however you don't hunger for the ability to create but simply want to flesh out your ideas then you might consider finding a programmer (or rather, a talented web developer) to create your sites. Either way I don't believe there is an age in your life where you just can't figure it out.
True, although the 3 year world-wide non-compete in the mobile market was also an issue (see his comment http://rodinhood.com/2010/06/17/the-toughest-decision-of-my-...).

I can see this being a difficult decision, but he only took a few weeks to come to the right one (at the time, let alone with 20/20 hindsight).
Do you have a green card? Are you legally permitted to work in the US?

If the answer is "yes", then you shouldn't have any particular problems, supposing that your skills (including English language skills) are competitive-- "any particular problems" meaning "no problems related to your EU citizenship, just the usual problems that people have trying to find jobs in a difficult market."

If the answer is "no", then you're shit out of luck. There's absolutely no way you're going to get an offer without a green card, unless your skills are absolutely stellar-- and your question refers to you as "your average coder."
>The claim that you can recreate "any sound" is a probably true (I had some crazy patches), but you have to realise that most "sounds" are completely horrible and unappealing.

That is, if you don't like electronic music (EDM et al).
how would changing the filename fix it? it's a hack relying on the globbing of the shell. if you're not using the globbing, the hack can never help you.
Am surprised you didn't mention climate.
Most of the time this is referred to as a MAP agreement and companies can be real aggressive in enforcing them.
Well... in a perfect universe where bad decisions are never made, sure. But a few years after the turn of the century someone at Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/whatever decided to rewrite the IDE while chasing .NET when under a company that by that time had completely lost any interest in development tools.

I've only tried the trial/free Delphi versions sporadically and TBH 'polished' isn't something i'd use to describe them. Then again neither is something i'd use to describe Lazarus (which i'm using much more often), however that is for completely different reasons.
Laravel Eloquent permits sparse loading of a model; but the way ORM is used in general, this might be a bug factory. Nevertheless I do use the technique where the objects exist only within the scope of a given subroutine.
"More police" has been on the menu for a long time. The SF police budget has increased 60% in real dollars between 2000 and 2020, and now stands at $5000 per household per year, which is absurd. Obviously, that's not working.
"routinely hired armed security services to threaten and ultimately murder people organizing to get their share of what wealth they created"

To be honest that sounds to me as if those people "organized" to take by force what they thought they deserved. In that case, hiring security for defense seems justified.
Isn’t that kind of what you are doing by posting that comment? You could respond and explain why you disagree - instead you just shallowly dismissed their comment by saying it was shallow.

Also maybe I’m crazy but their comment seemed to be a joke/commentary on the environmental resources used by Bitcoin. That isn’t a shallow dismissal.
If you break the rules, not for having an opposing viewpoint.
I really like the idea of a beacon, but I wonder how far out that beacon could be picked up by a user driving down the highway towards it?

Or maybe relating to my last comment above, use a 3G/4G device to broadcast information to a "City API" that a app on the user's phone can utilize for notifications, etc?
For posterity's sake... I kept having bad issues with the wifi. The problem seemed to get worse after the computer went to sleep. It would take websites a long time to load and drop out completely sometimes. I ended up getting a new router since I saw on a couple of forums that it helped. Specifically I got a Linksys WRT AC1900. The problems so far seem to have been resolved. Websites load quickly and no cut-outs so far.
I was going to write your post word for word till I saw it.

"What motivated me?" A HUGE PILE OF CASH!

But really ain't nothing wrong with that. I worked in investment banking and the loot is a good thing.

I don't agreed that Morgan Stanley's tech would be old or boring though - banks typically spend big money on their systems. There would be some really interesting challenges and I'm guessing he'd be free to do whatever he feels like with no questions asked.

Good on him I say.
I met some ambassadors from Morgan Stanley who were wearing a shirt which had a list of check boxes that went something like this:

[ ] Had a holiday recently

[ ] ???

[x] Met inventor of C++
I went to university with a girl who didn't know how to operate a dishwasher. At first, I assumed it was because her family had not been wealthy enough to own a dishwasher; later, I found out it was because they were so wealthy they had servants who loaded and ran their dishwasher for them.
That is a great idea, but by crowdsourcing I assume you mean the end-users reporting the accident, the work zone, etc. correct?

I love that idea and it is a old/tested one, but from a safety perspective do we want people touching their phones while driving to report the location? If they wait till they reach their destination to report, the accident may be cleaned up or the exact location data of the work zone may become inaccurate. Also, who would be in charge of removing that data, checking if an accident is gone, etc?

Just some random questions I am throwing out there. I was going more for a very cheap 3G/4G-enabled device to broadcast live to a "City API". Thoughts?
GG: two Generals..
It has long descenders and ascenders which make it easy for dyslexic readers to differentiate letters. Dyslexic readers also find handwritten looking fonts easier to read because they are more familiar with that style.
It's the amount of energy required to lift one pound vertically by one foot, or the amount of momentum a one pound object gains by falling one foot in a vacuum.
a C# target is scheduled for this January, while Java should follow soon after.
http://twitter.com/cwaneck/status/15486381623091200
linky link http://venturesocially.tumblr.com/post/2403935795/startupcov...
The interpretation of the [aIə] as triphthong or diphthong varies according to one's source. For singers (I stated that my background was from diction as taught to singers), we tend to be taught that it's a triphthong, because for singing or stage diction, it's often desirable to not be saying an American "r" for seconds at a time...not a pleasing sound. The IPA symbol used varies as well, for the same reasons.

Of course, in some places in the South, "fire" has the same pronunciation as "far".
Edward Tufte says this is "Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn." It is discussed in Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information and he even sells a poster of it: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters.
From the point of view of the company sending the email, this is why marketing and sales _shouldn't_ have separate channels.
This is silly. There is no business incentive create a new labor category that can command high rates. Why would they want to make some programmers much harder to replace when they can stick with 9-5ers that are constantly replenished with new batches of college grads annually?
Which, from the view of customers, is websites which support their phone, not a phone which websites support. If enough of your customers use WP7 for it to be cost-effective to support, don't piss them off by not supporting it just to be vindictive, because they'll blame you and it will, indeed, be your fault for not supporting it.
> I've met a lot of folks who didn't believe it... right until they met one.

That right there is the truth about 10x engineers. We have one in particular I will mention. Sometimes he is a 5x, and at other times he is 20x. This is true and measurable according to the number of tickets that get closed, stay closed, and test as correct. He doesn't read HN, stack overflow, fb, twitter, tiktok, blogs, or emails during work hours. He sits down and cranks out code.
It's low compared to some base rates.

60% of 750 - 800 math SAT scorers are Asian

https://i0.wp.com/www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

I looked through the list of USAMO finalists in recent years and > 80% have Asian surnames.
Using multiple words or even sentences as password (as described in the article) doesn't even work always, there are too many websites or application which have a password length limit.

I recommend to use a password manager, KeePass is quite good.

Good password manager should be able to easily generate a new strong and complex password every time.

Remembering only one password and getting rid of the laziness of choosing always the same password is another advantage too.

Even if a website that stored your password in clear text and someone hacks the website, you shouldn't have to worry about other applications or services you may have used with the same password.

My personal rule is to choose unique strong passwords (alphanumeric and symbols) with at least 9 chars.

Brute forcing a password with 8 chars was with my 5870 no big deal at all, but cracking a password with 9 chars is too expensive (ec2 gpu) or takes to long for the usual hacker.

If someone really brute forces my password, with gpu and a cluster support, damn, than he really deserve it.

But that's just my two cents.
> all around us right now (if you live near leaf-dropping trees in a temporal zone), leaves are turning yellow and looking a little dry and crusty.

At first, I was like "Huh? Do they have NPR in Australia too?" and then I remembered to check the publication date.

Very clearly written, and easy to understand. I love articles like this.
I have looked at the relevant laws, an the liberty dollar does not violate either. They never passed it off as government money, nor did they mint any coins. (Coins are government only, so to have minted them they would have had to pass them off as government money.) These are not easily mistaken for government money, and there are a variety of other currencies, such as disney dollars, that are passed off, are physical objects, and are exchanged "as money would be" (though that phrase is not relevant legally, that standard is your opinion.)
I'll raise you one: yesterday I headed out to the local library for a change of scene and to get some work done. I was going to plan the refactoring of my web app, so I was already thinking about it on the way there. Now here's the thing, I didn't go straight to the library, I walked on autopilot to the newsagents instead. Missing your stop is one thing, actually walking to the wrong destination and not realizing until you're literally there is considerably worse!
seems to open fine in california
What the Constitution allows and disallows is a matter of the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution at the time. You have yet to make an argument that the federal government's seizure contradicts the established jurisprudence on this topic.
It's true that I wouldn't apply it to prose, but that doesn't mean it's not useful for code, where you often want to look at lots of it and get a gist of what it's doing. Also I often do think of a programming language as a user interface, even if it's not actually made of buttons and icons.

I'm not claiming this is the main problem with Lisp; only that it's one of them.
“In a sense, there is no such thing as a random number; for example, is 2 a random number?”
Thank you. It's stories like this that inspired my essay. I wish that I had saved links to all of those other instances.

Whenever I've read of people complaining about the dearth of code libraries for Lisp, sooner or later, some commenter points out that they would rather roll their own functionality into whatever project they're currently doing. It happens too often to be a coincidence.
there’s plenty of variation. most people who work do not work 40hrs/5 days a week. this is actually a luxury compared to the majority of people working in the world today
There are almost certainly 0.0x to 0.1x programmers. What percentage of the people working as programmers are in that realm is subject to some debate, but I've absolutely worked with programmers whom I would put into the "obviously 10x more value-creating than the median" camp.

(Some, but not all, were also abrasive personalities who didn't work well in teams.)
There are pros that don't even need a computer.

We're talking here about pros in the context of "increased hardware demands".

This has little to do with "Pro" in the product name or not, nor with them being more professional than other working people.
I appreciate the response and explanation, I guess I was mistaken on which direction DST was being used for! All my life I was under the assumption that it was the other way around, to try and get back more time during the winter. Thinking about it more now though, that doesn't even make sense given the direction the clock changes..

I'm still not sure it is worth the confusion it causes but I do have a better understanding of why it exists now. Thank you!
I noticed a lot of the MSM eulogies focus on Chick being a pioneer of fusion, which is true, but only one of many of his musical facets.
I think around that time, postgres was handicapped because of performance reasons. It was considered slow because of ACID compliance and MySQL was all the rage with MyISAM.

If only postgres won the marketing battle back then...
> Why is Microsoft sharing this level of information (from a corporate account) with third parties?

Because why not, it's allowed by T&C
> But given all women involved in accidents, it intuitively makes sense to me that they are driving the struck vehicle more often.

Yes agree with that: women who are involved in accidents are more likely to be in the struck vehicle makes much more sense.
Man I remember when Splunk were the innovative disrupters. Now they're the ones who won't update their library for the current version of Python.
Stallman has a nice fable about locking computers down - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
> In your "dorm room" scenario, I fail to see any advantages in server utilization perspective.

Well, look a little harder, bub. I'm talking about installing one to share amongst an entire highrise. :) A mini-datacenter if you will. Each city could have one out in the burbs.
Clojure Protocols are really a great way to extend types. I think it's a nice fit with both the functional and dynamic nature of Clojure, and it is carefully designed to allow "open" types while completely avoiding monkey-patching. It just seems like the perfect balance, even if it's hard to understand at first. I think it might even lead to "better" OOP in Clojure than in Java.

Exactly. Funny thing. Better OOP in a functional language than in a OOP-language.

But i don't think it's hard to understand. I've seen a lot of good explanations in presentations and articles. Also the concept is really easy.
I'm a huge fan of Listia. It is really impressive how they have turned giving away free stuff into a real business. Listia seems to really understand giving away badges and coins.
Don't take it literally, as in "add more hours to a 24 hour day".

Think deeper: "spend less time with 'watching TV' as your top priority".

LOTS of people want to learn to program, want to write that book, want to start a company.

But rarely do they want it bad enough to do anything about it, including changing their habits.
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My advice would be, talent /= experience.

I'm sick and tired of companies being super picky because I don't know their technology stack or maybe just one element, they don't even offer a technical test these days.

I wont learn Cassandra or Scala because they are popular on super-webscale sites, I did, though, learn Haskell, Node, MongoDB, Redis, Python, Ruby, not because they teach that in college. I think that tells you I can learn other technologies.

But I get a feeling - in many interviews I've had in the last couple of month - they get disappointed when I tell them I don't know Scala, Cassandra, Hadoop...

Most good programmers I know (they're not genius level, nor most of the people here) are willing to relocate wherever you are, but they might not know the super-awesome-webscale technologies you use because they work for actual businesses that charge customers and don't need a billion uniques a month to be profitable.

Instead of bitching about the lack of talent (and there are many programmers like me) be willing to train people on your weird-ass technology stack.
I understand that isn't the case, but they obviously want as much attention for each update as possible or else they wouldn't bother and regardless of their expectations, it's still more stuff that every other person has to sift through.
Exactly. One of the few clear-cut results of happiness studies is that commuting really, really sucks. I can understand why telecommuting might not work for some companies, but there's rarely an excuse for not offering flexible hours, so you can at least dodge rush hour by coming in earlier or later.
You're allowing the BLM supporters to characterise their motivations, and the Trump opponents to characterise the motivations of this protest. That isn't fair.

Someone who turns up in a Viking hat, tattoos and a spear isn't looking for a fight. A person looking for a fight wears a mask, armour, carries a gun and probably camouflage.
> sustained left-wing effort to paint the 2016 election as illegitimate

That is such a purposely flawed statement that it is effectively a pure lie even if some of those beats are somewhat true.

Trump has been claiming election fraud since 2016. He claimed he got more votes than Clinton and that three million people voted illegally in California which is why he lost the popular vote.

The only things claimed illegitimate by anyone with any power in the left were either "it isn't fair that the popular vote doesn't matter", "we shouldn't disenfranchise voters as the GOP keeps trying to do in the name of 'election security'" or "certain actors illegally acted around the 2016 election".

There is a world of difference between that last one (the closest to illegitimate) and an actual claim of fraud.
Because screenshots are slightly harder to fake. If it were only text you could just type in the spreadsheet.
Arthur’s comments are also not acceptable. He should’ve gotten a one day ban at the least.

But two wrongs don’t make a right.
You'd do well to cite sources and provide evidence - specific to this, not just a generalized Wiki article - when making such claims.
Radicalization because they're too lazy or too dumb or whatever to create their own platform. I'd be mad too if I couldn't harass folks and spread my hate easily.
It supports python3 too[0]

[0] https://github.com/Russell91/pythonpy/wiki/Python3
This seems cool to me... does it let me text in expenses, and then track my balance? Issues tho:

1) It wasn't really clear to me what "initial budget amount" means... monthly? I was expecting to put in my balance I think.

2) I think I was confused about the description too... description of what? My monthy budget? It's my monthly budget! What else is there to describe?

3) It says "Whoops! That password was bad" when I try to log in