jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> as a gig or piece worker, you can choose to do something else

Not if every other job is gig and piecework.

> Do you feel kind of dirty suggesting that a slave can just choose to kill himself and comparing that to Barcelona cab drivers? If you don't, why not?

No, because choice is a word that means something. You're doing the common rationalization that there are always choices in employment, so while any particular employment can be arbitrarily bad, it's not slavery. I'm pointing out that slaves also have bad choices.
> that made the obvious approach untenable

What's the obvious approach? You do have to dig into the source of memcached and understand some internals. With good use of grep and vim it can be done quite quickly, but I wouldn't call it obvious.
There could be an equilibrium where players are net positive.

But given the housing shortage, how expensive everything is, and how many people are raising children paycheck to paycheck, I just don't see how we'd be arriving at such an equilibrium in the US.

Maybe in some rich Northern European country.
Just for the record. Last time I was given to code something up within 3 hours, my task was to write a Minesweeper clone (pretty graphics optional). I ended up with a workable console-mode implementation, using Python.
I suspect there's very few competent anesthesiologist who would be willing to do lethal injections. Even if they believe in the death penalty the risk to their careers seems not worth the non-existent reward.
Correct. Even if I survived the immediate blast effects, I think I would be in for a painful and unavoidable death from nuclear poisoning. I don't have a fallout shelter. The best I could do is close all my windows, but those would be shattered I'm sure. And seeing as I live in a 5-over-1, I think my building wouldn't survive anyway. The [normally reasonable] fire safety of these primarily-wood buildings depends on a functioning sprinkler system, which assumes municipal water still works. That won't be the case in a nuclear war.

The only realistic plan for this scenario is to leave before the war even starts.
It's too bad that none of the stimulus spending over the last couple years went to infrastructure that could actually give this country a future, like community fiber networks. Maybe some more competition from companies like Google can spur the telcos to get moving, but I highly doubt it.
Interesting. Seems reasonable.
Did he file an extension? If not, and you asked him to, then yes, you probably have a case. Might be a little difficult if it isn't documented somewhere.

If he did file the extension, you're going to hate this, but, taxes were still due March 15th. Filing an extension is only to give you more time to properly file and you're supposed to include a payment estimating your liability. If you filed the extension, and didn't send in an estimated payment, you're probably on the hook. You might contend that he didn't estimate the numbers properly, and, if you get a sympathetic IRS employee who hasn't heard this story a thousand times before, you might get it reduced.

Your chances of getting the penalty and interest reduced strongly coincide with your ability to make quick payment. I.e. they offer to reduce the penalty to x, you're ready to write a check and send it to them tomorrow. If this is the first time it has happened, it is possible they could waive most or all of the penalty, but, leave you with the interest to be paid. Best thing to do, call. Be prepared to stay on hold, have drink in hand, and take notes. Who you talk to, what their extension is, the time you started talking with them.

No matter what the outcome, the tax lien goes against you, not your preparer, so, you end up having to take care of it.

The time to do all of this has to be weighed against what is more worth your time. You could easily spend 4-8 hours handling this and still owe half or more. Can you earn $712 elsewhere more quickly?
Yep, the AOLification of facebook has gotten so extreme that I think many people are now seeing that they don't WANT to be connected to their acquaintances in such a fashion.
The going rate for donations to plant trees is around $1/tree (see http://www.google.com/search?q=plant+a+tree). Assuming the conversion rate is constant, that would mean the conversion rate is $0.10/tab.
That's right! The next Facebook will be coming out written by my fingers! In PHP, no less! That's what my client says anyway. I'm being paid in free run eggs.
"The Olympian stands alone." --John Biglow
Halfway through the 7th paragraph (of 8) and finally a vague answer to what the title promised.
As noted in the OP, it takes far, far less than one second to hash one password using standard algorithms.
Radiant (http://radiantcms.org/) is very popular. If you want something more lightweight, I've just started using blogcast http://techoctave.com/blogcast/ which is a great rails based blogging engine.

If you really want to learn Rails though, write your own CMS with it!
I agree about fractals looking very similar after a while. I have seen some truly artistic fractal images created by people who also create art using non-digital tools. My hobby is "generative" digital art, and I prefer to write 99% of the code myself in order to feel that the result is truly my creation.
Did you miss the part in my 20-word comment where I said "I don't think banning countries from the internet is the answer"?
>too like gokarts for me.
But even Formula 1 is essentially pimped-up shifter gokart.
Why do you think that's a bad question for a senior engineer? I think it's great. This is much closer to the actual work that software engineers have to do!

That's what I do most of the time when I'm working with code, it's always an existing system that you need to add a feature to without breaking something else.

What do you think is a good question for a "senior software engineer"?
In Korea Samsung's whiteware business is considered vastly inferior to LG. It's not an area they excel in, and never have
This is really interesting!

I'd love to be able to reference against US (and maybe world) population numbers, too, to see how a company's employee base compares to the population they hire from and (sometimes) the population they are trying to serve.
I dunno dude, I bought it, tried to use it, and quickly discovered that it's a pretty poor product. I won't go into it here, because it's off-topic and I left a two-star review in the App Store anyway. But my impression of the app is that its success is mainly due to marketing savvy and the current infatuation with "minimalist" writing apps that use Markdown. So I would say yes, DF advertising clearly worked here, and props to the author for also getting extra mileage out of it with this post + HN hit.

Not only is his promotion on DF and followup blog post a model of How It's Done, but his entire blog is really well-done from a marketing and SEO standpoint. Lots of relevant internal links, good photography, great design, and posts that are devoid of keyword spam and are just the right length and reading level.

Anyway, great design, very savvy marketing and SEO, wrapped around a buggy app that ticks a lot of the currently trendy boxes and contains some shocking deficiencies. And if I sound irritated for being taken, it's because it cost me $30, which is what a mature, quality, premium app like Pixelmator costs.
Liz Keogh's "Translating TDD to BDD" was really helpful to me when I was coming from a test-driven development perspective and just starting to wrap my head around BDD. http://lizkeogh.com/2009/11/06/translating-tdd-to-bdd/
We tried FP but it didn't take with the more average dev in our number.

It is fun, can be a lot of pressure, and the sheer quantity of issues and the speed with which they must be dispatched means I always have to learn and I often screw up analysis. Humility and the ability to prod people who know stuff and grok what they say quickly is essential.

We use a major DB (not Oracle). Again, think unfashionable, think speedy.

Sorry, don't mean to tease - I just don't want people to be able to track me down.
It's an interesting problem that will probably never be solved, only optimized and amortized. That makes it good for papers!

The most efficient scheme probably is a "stop the world" system. The regular program might mutate concurrently and the GC could indeed be concurrent, but making them run at the same time is a real challenge.

Of course, people don't like it when their app pauses.

I think it's noteworthy that there never was a big office suite or even a web browser written primarily in a GC system, despite many years of promises.
Spamming projects?
Don't you have your own startup to work on? :)
This is despicable. People have CATCHAs to keep you idiots out, can't you respect this?
Customers pressure us to use Oracle but we resist. I'm sure you can make it fast. Our argument is: why switch from what works; then it's "want to pay for it and be the first to use it"?
Hi guys. Thank you all for supporting me. I'm just reading all of this, because I've been at a meeting for a couple of hours. Server is up again, but I wasn't expecting it to be this huge. I'll make some changes, so please don't blame me if it's down.

I'm just another Dutch student trying his best to graduate. And yes, I did let a few people check the site before I launched it (not only Dutch people). Still, my English isn't the best and thank you guys for pointing that out. I'll change it as soon as possible.

I'll give all comments a closer look soon. Again, I didn't really expect this (otherwise I'll optimized it first and put it on a CDN and stuff). I'll also get into details (specs, technical details etc).

And again, thank you all :-)
i certainly agree that there are a lot of extra sources for error using Cucumber, and learning the regexp-style programming and syntax was a pain.

one of the things I like a lot about Cucumber is having precise definition of stories in a way that I can discuss with actual users. in a Steak world, what mechanisms get used for that?
> But think of the general US electorate. How many of them, seeing this clip on the news as they prepare dinner, would know it’s fake?

The technology to fool someone who has the TV on in the background has existed forever. You could do it with a stunt double. The problem is fooling everyone such that "this video is faked" doesn't become a bigger story than the fake video in the first place.
I once pulled a rather Jeep out of a ditch in my old Volvo 240 station wagon. At low speeds basically every 100+ HP vehicle is traction limited. It also did surprisingly well in the snow with a little practice and good tires.
Hugh mongous what?
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30012
This is great advice. I'd say do exactly this, PLUS, accept it in the end, regardless, because non-competes are invalid in CA. (provided it's a CA job).
That's immaterial here and not the point. The pension is not the employer's, it is the employee's and part of their compensation.
It depends on the channel, really. I remember once I was sitting at an eatery in the Philippines (basically a cafeteria with immediately-available food) and the TV just played commercials from the time I sat down until I left.
This isn’t how the real world works. If it’s your kids who have a terminal illness, and require a surgery with a low survival rate, and you have the resources, something tells me you’re not going to populate your short list of doctors with the “economy” options.

As for curing diseases, I can’t imagine why anyone would care why someone developed a cure. As long as Doc saves my life, I do not care if he did it for the money or for the feels or because he had a weird fetish and liked the shape of the mole on my rear.
Here’s what happens when you don’t have residency rules:

Suppose you have suburb A next to suburb B. B has an awesome Little League local organization, but A’s is awful. Parents from A all send their kids to play ball in B. The problem is that B’s resources are finite, too: there are only so many baseball fields available for practice at a time, or batting practice cages, etc. And since the kids from A that are coming over tend to be the more skilled ones, if B has too many kids apply than they have the resources, they’ll likely end up dropping the kids who actually live in B.

This is much, much more likely than you’d expect if you’ve never been directly involved with kids’ sports. You’d be amazed how many parents think their kid would be the next MLB rookie-of-the-year.
Not a lawyer, but I recall hearing or reading at some point that it's actually a valid cause of action merely to be asked to sign an illegal non-compete in California. Does anyone know if that's true or I imagined that? It's academic anyhow since even if so good luck finding a lawyer to take the case since the actual damages will be miniscule.
I'm curious - what do you mean by million dollar memes?
The UNRWA has found rockets in their schools on multiple occasions:

http://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-...
I love this. It indicates that Lyft truly has a big vision, just beyond ride sharing. I bet Fred Wilson blogs about this tomorrow.
Median wage for food preparation is $19000. 30% less is still above poverty line. They can survive, but they prefer to earn $5700 more per year and have less free time. And situation is the same with programmers, only numbers are different.

People think they value free time, but they act as if they value money more.
Good point about ores. I think it's a bit of give and take there. There are many unrecycable products trashed but there's also no doubt major advantages there.

Yes, as for oil I was thinking more along the lines of being essential to produce machinery, and the problems when you end up walking up that chain all the way to the lowest common denominator, so to speak, or conversely the added costs which get added on top of each other. It would be a quite different world. I wonder what it would look like.
An interesting article to say the least, seems that former areas exploited once by Western powers are they themselves doing the same to countries that are in a position they once were.

With regards to Minnesota, there are a number of active "sand mines" down here in Georgia, mostly exploiting old deposits when the ocean was much further inland. I remember visiting one while going for Pecans. They are used for everything from providing construction sand, braking sand (think trains), to extracting other valuable minerals like zirconium and titanium.
I'm sorry but that article has nothing to do with the topic at hand. Every country on earth executes informants.
Another solution in such a language would be to abandon the feminine forms and use solely the masculine. The justification would be that since we want to treat sexes equally, they should use the same grammar. The masculine forms are chosen because they are already sometimes used as the "default".

A version of this in English is to take a traditionally gendered term like Actor/Actress and switch to using Actor for all.
The one you /can/ use for both your current and future job you need to be capable of using effectively. The others you do not.
I tried replying to your article. Since I now notice it's been six years, I wonder whether you did anything with this?

I don't think professional mathematicians would say you shouldn't pursue it. The opposite, actually. If people like myself who never practiced it in their own time can get degrees in it, so could you. You don't need to be any kind of genius.
The point at which you have multiple teams working on the same codebase, and their velocity is suffering from communication overhead and missteps.
FYI this is based on my remote browser and it's just that with an audio component so you just have to navigate to any pages with audio and if you're on your mobile device you can do it and then lock the screen and keep listening to it.

I made this because listening to audio from YouTube on mobile is not always possible if you lock the screen. I want to be able to lock my phone and just kind of have it in my pocket.
The government makes a profit? How does that work?
To me, reddit is like a really cool charter school with lots of AP and college level classes with a few brilliant geniuses, but at the end of the day it is still a high school. HN is more like a fine graduate program at a respected university. That's my take.
Has there been any actual public discussion about revitalizing Redwood Junction? I mean, there are literally train tracks running from the Redwood City Caltrain all the way to Facebook. Curious what the main obstacles are.
If you wanted to grab 10 lines from /var/log/messages, starting at the first line that has "pjungwlr" in it, you could:

$ less /var/log/msgs
/pjungwlr^M
^G (note line informational line numbers)
v (launch vi)
[double check your line #s, etc]
:d1,. (delete from 1st line, to current line)
10j (go down 10 lines)
:d,$ (delete to EOF)
:w my_newfile
:q
Fair enough, but Apple (Jobs) started this madness.
Remember that they failed though.
If you're landing in Asia from the US you're probably not going to care about the price (there are exceptions), and Uber has been reliable for me travelling, if that costs a few % more than the local version I'd be happy to pay for convenience.
Everyone dies. No one has the right to live forever. We could probably prevent a lot of deaths from influenza if we imposed permanent lockdowns on everyone forever. But there's more to life than avoiding death.

And besides, the UN is a joke. It's a nice little debating society, but otherwise in the real world no one takes it seriously.
it's so surprising to hear there was a Zig Meetup in Milan, I'd not expect a large enough community to exist there, pretty cool!
Have you heard his "threats" against federal agents?

God forbid journalists protect their sources.

https://wikileaks.org/Assange-statement-on-the.html
This is pretty damn spot on. My company raised $700k, and just hired the fourth person for our four-person team. I've had a lot of people ask me about how our expenses work out, so I figure I'll be a little bit transparent in hopes of helping newer folks out.

Person 1: Business/operations/marketing/CEO stuff (but still likes to get hands dirty in code when possible). 60k/yr, lots of stock.

Person 2: Brilliant programmer, mostly back-end. 115k/yr, lots of stock (family + student loans).

Person 3: Good programmer, mostly front-end. 120k/yr, a little stock.

Person 4: Great designer/product/UX. Can write HTML/CSS/JS, but it's usually faster for him to pass it off to #3. $100k/yr, a little stock.

The salaries are, of course, dependent on our needs and personal circumstances. The person who makes 60k has practically no expenses, at least relative to some of the other members of the team. We're also distributed geographically, so the salaries will change slightly in SF vs. middle-of-nowhere, but that's the gist of what I consider the classic team.

After taxes, office space, etc. Our burn will last us just more than 18 months (we're frugal on this stuff - didn't need new computers or many monitors or other stuff). We also spend about $500/month on various types of software. If something slows us down even a couple days, it's cheaper for us to buy a software solution than to pay salaries while everyone works through it manually.

Everyone has to be a generalist to a certain extent, but we all naturally gravitate to what we're good at. It took us a long time to hire person #3 - we thought we would be able to get away without him/her, but adding him/her feels like it's doubled the rate at which we can ship product. We formerly compensated for it by having #1 and #4 do his job, and that really slowed things down.

Now we have every opportunity to do what we need to do. It's all up to us.

Hope that is helpful to someone.
Not to mention that most podcatchers I've messed with also allow you to search for content and listen on demand as the file is downloading (which is all a stream really is anyway).
They are very clear and upfront about it and there are many cases where their simplest offering (the one with no encryption behind edge server) is good enough.
No doubt. And if you were really trying to be stealthy you would open up an "e-waste" store and use it to collect things which you could scavenge parts out of. (would make for some good fiction as well). Thinks like GPS units are hard to get in junk bags, but easy to pick up at a recycling store out of an old phone (assuming it isn't part of the SOC). But the point remains that all of those things have 'tendrils' and the mosaic effect is very real.
This is awesome, however is there any way to get better syntax errors? Damnit Jim, I'm a C programmer not a Javascript coder!
Same.

Visual, wherever the arbitrarily privileged line is drawn, is another convention.

To suggest that somehow the nebulous “visual domain” doesn't require reading would be to ignore much of art history and theory.

Again, there is no “visual” realm that is not steeped in vernacular; cliche, symbology, context, etc.

In this way, the visual domain is not somehow more elevated / pure / true than any other language, despite the sad reality that many have been unexposed to understanding it as such.
I got to Challenge #5 by just having the elevators go to every floor like in the first example. It'd be nice to have an earlier challenge with only a single elevator force you to have a more complex controller. With 4 elevators going at a time, it's harder for me to "debug" and figure out how to use the API.
They weren't "beautiful and innovative" 30 years ago in your sense that they were "modern" then and "archaic" now.

30 years ago they were also "archaic" in technological capability sense.

People played those games well into the era of Amiga and Atari level graphics, and played them for what they were, not because there weren't graphical games available in abundance.
I think that if you want your own classification you have to put away your own laundry ...
There is a strong contingent of bitcoin cash people who post a lot of conspiracy theory and negative sentiment around bitcoin core and try to convince people that bitcoin cash is the “real” bitcoin. I assume they are strategically upvoting this.
Forget 100 years ago. I'm only 40 and I remember when anything even remotely suggesting homosexuality was considered perverted, and marriage wasn't even on the table.
What other issues would you not trust the Chinese government on? For example, is food safety one of them?
There is only so much analyrics a person can do. I can do my research when it comes to my immediate proffession, and my interests. But there are only so many hours in the day, rely on the rest of society to get it right when it comes to other aspects of my life.

I cannot question everything i was ever taught in school. I have to assume that the basics physics is correct, that the fire safety and contruction people do their job, and that the doctor doing ths blood test knows what he is doing, etc.
So does the NYT. The bias of the times just happens to be really well aligned with mainstream liberals in the US so it’s much harder to notice if you’re in that camp.
> NYT decided to dox him.

Not really. "Doxing" [1] is from message board culture, but the NYT is not some poster on a message board. To expect them to abide by message board law in their newspaper as if they're just a poster on reddit is like expecting an American to live by Chinese law and custom in America.

[1] At least in the sense of using someone's real name.