jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The value investor type (buffet etc) would call this speculation, not investing.

Speculators control all of the short term movements (everything on a time scale of <1 year). Sometimes when new financial instruments (what value investors would call fads) are created, they can control it for years (securitized junk bonds, in the 80s, sub prime mortgages in the 2000s).

But the pricing of securities in the market has always regressed to fundamentals in the long arc of history.

The value investor types agree with the nasdaq guy, though. All institutional investors (even the pension fund managers!) behave like speculators, since at least the 80s. It’s just how the incentives are structured.

It’s important to understand how they think, because you don’t want to be trampled by them. But playing their game is not the way to win in the long term.
This must be the 4th time ive seen this app linked here and every time i go to use it THERE IS NO WORKING PRODUCT THAT I CAN USE. Also the hipster tone from the founder of this app makes me cringe every time because it seems very forced.
How would you know it’s a good filter? What position are you interviewing for?
Walkability scores of downtown Austin are very high.
Purely from a business perspective:

Wait, this makes me wonder. Isn't it in a lot of companies their best interest to pool money together for rapid COVID-19 research? If a cure is on the table ASAP, then governments will stop implementing harmful rules.

Or is it the case that it takes too long and no matter how you slice it, businesses will lose a lot of money either way? In other words, hypothetically: it doesn't matter whether there's a cure within 6 months from now versus 2 years from now.
@dang thread's title is embellished/wrong ("Covid-19 might not be from bats [pdf]"). Journal article refers to the original SARS-CoV, not SARS-CoV-2, and therefore does not reference COVID-19.

This is given away by the journal article being from Feb 2008.

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Edit: thanks for the fix :)
After Coronavirus, I can see even that dwindling further. Laptops are cheap enough that TCO-wise its better to have a small, portable all-in-one solution than a desktop.
That’s a pretty good post thanks for sharing. It’s fun and you get to be in a club is at the heart of it I also think. Life is about coping with our existence, and being stone cold rational often appears to me as much of a coping mechanism as being a flat earther.
It seems quite a few countries in Europe are moving towards hydroxichloroquine/chloroquine and away from lopinavir-ritonavir for the recommended treatment of severe cases.
The fighting in Berling was teenagers, sometimes preteens wielding the Faust. They called it "panzerknacken" i.e. "armour knocking" or "armour smashing".
> But now that the capitalists are ruling Sweden and Denmark, the ship turned towards the US and UK systems. With its known problems.

the UK system is public, one of the best in the world.
the US system is private and one of the best in the world.

> Their healthcare system is now the 2nd worst in the EU.

you haven't been around the EU a lot right?
i come from a 3rd world EU country and I can assure you Sweden is in the top EU countries.
I'm guessing economics happened. Beancounters got into power and all the surplus and redundancy was cut out as a "fat", in the process of becoming "lean" and "just-in-time". It's the same story everywhere.
No idea, I still cannot access it.

Only the header is fully exposed, everything else behind some semi-transparent overlay. It seems that on on initial page load everything was visible and then hidden with JS.

And there is a link behind overlay: "To see full article, subscribe here."
Drones are still going:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/30/canada-proves-fertile-groun...

Don't forget they started in books and now sell pretty much everything. Also, the kindle seemed to work out pretty well.
But with the camera you have control over the lighting, and can move the lighting such that the etching has more contrast.

I'll just assume that they tried the camera and the scanner works better.
People are making the claim that money buys happiness up to a certain number and then stops.

But there is no inflection point. 10% more money always buys you the same amount of happiness.

Nothing makes $75k the point where you have 'enough' money as opposed to $5k. 75 million is just as far ahead of 5 million (at least if it continues to be logarithmic).
It all boils down to: Javascript developers were already used to this paradigm in the browser.
There's the earthquake risk along the west coast...
Western Ireland also has the best air quality of all of Europe.
The wikipedia entry for jq was deleted because the person who decided it should be deleted thought it was Stephen Dolan's personal project and not a proper programming language, so fuck it, it's gone [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQ].

I gave up arguing about it. It's truly unbelievable. Yeah, it is Stephen Dolan's personal project, and yes, it deserves a wikipedia entry because it's a fascinating and very popular programming language that now has more than one implementation.
If you and yoir partner end up wanting to explore more than wikipedia, feel free to contact me with questions.

Safety first can be hard with these ;)
MiB is an attempt to disambiguate what used to be unambiguous before the hard drive companies set their marketing teams on it.

Specifically, MiB is 1024^2 bytes. MB is either that or 1000^2 bytes, depending on who you ask and if they're trying to sell you something.
Yeah this article is nonsense. No one is moving because of Climate change, they are moving because Real Estate is mental right now.
It sounds like you're trying to engage me in a debate, but there really isn't one to be had here.

To have any kind of rational discussion about whether God exists, you first have to define what a God is. Either that or have some pretty strong evidence that can be used to draw a box around the question you're asking.

The existence of God is a non-question, because we have neither a definition, nor evidence, nor a way to prove or disprove even if we could agree what it was that we thought we were talking about. You, me, nor anybody else has the slightest figment of a clue, not a scrap. Nor apparently can we, because conveniently all major religions also define God as unknowable and untestable.

Sure people can have faith if they like, maybe they've been touched by a deity and I haven't (personally I doubt it), but anyone taking a rational position that there either is, or isn't, a God, is just expressing a fantasy that originates in their own emotional needs.

To try and dress up either atheism or theism in rational arguments is absurd.
There are dozens of open source programming languages. If one really just wants to create a language with improved concurrency support, he/she can just take one and modify it – this would work a lot better than relying on ready-made components/libraries which can't be modified.

There are some mature languages with an active "modding" community. Haskell, for example.
Okay. I guess riding around on a high horse leaves you plenty of time to cook.
Please don't do this here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22755974.
This comment breaks the rules at the top of the thread. Please don't do this here.

Obviously people have specific concerns about specific companies all the time, but a Who Is Hiring thread is no place to adjudicate those.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22752508.
"unlike other rocket-less plans for space entry, each relevant technology is advanced enough that tests could take place in 10 years"

Meaning a decades-long hellishly-expensive program.

Compare that to the light-gas gun, which is a proven concept and works with current technology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_HARP

A startup working on the concept: http://quicklaunchinc.com/

According to the Quicklaunch people, a completed cannon should cost in the vicinity of $400M.
No, I want to do something else. Actually I did the site with the features which I want, but it is hard to get traction. I just want to know who else has such problems and want such site.
I agree. And the first step to having a good economy is personal freedom and the ability to freely buy and sell goods across your border.

All of which Israel denies the Palestinians.
It's the economist (which I like and often listen to and read), however doing a PhD, imho, is not about money. More extreme; if you are doing a PhD for the money, you are not really worthy. It's about getting an academic career, which means research, which means going hardcore deep into the things you value and are passionate about. It's about shaping your head to be a scientist, not a millionaire. If you do the work to become get a PhD, you know that you'll be in it for a long time and you do not belong to the 'normal workforce' or to the 'become rich people'. PhDs hardly ever become rich, nor do they particularly want to (at least not the ones I have met). In my experience a PhD doesn't make you more qualified for software related jobs than a MsC, probably less so actually. It's a different mindset; you are a scientist or you want a good, commercial job. You can have both, but don't whine if the effort of the study didn't pay off; it was not meant for that.
You missed the point.

If you're build mobile services like mobile payment platforms, video games, ecommerce solutions etc., a PhD isn't going to get you more money from a customer.
I don't have a fixed view on the issue of Palestine and Israel. Doesn't Israel have military control over the West Bank?
Also not on the list and doesn't take place in SV but I loved it and the culture is very SV like - http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d...
The reddit thread has no discussions. Here's the link to original article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/after-the-social-web-here-c...
This is the by-product of organizing ourselves by what tools we use, rather than what problem domain we immerse ourselves in.

Tools are a means to an end. Attaching anything more to them is silly.
Even all you claimed stand, China stop its whole country in Jan and achieved 0 domestic new case in 2 months. This is already the biggest positive news.

Speaking of that:

- Hongkong and Palau has much worse eating wild animal habit than Wuhan.

- Hundreds of Wuhan gov officials got punished due to inefficient response, more investigation is still continuing.

- First case reported at end of Dec, China CDC shared out coronavirus gen sequence in Jan, Wuhan locked down in Jan, but the most of the world simply did nothing in the upcoming 3 months and keep spreading unchecked globally even today.

- "Incarcerated" or die, you make the choice.

- Loan payments are postponed as well.
There are all kinds of problems with existing currencies.

Ask a Russian if they're feeling good about the recent fluctuations in the value of the ruble. It's telling that some Russians consider Bitcoin to be more stable than their national currency!

Ask an Argentinian if they're happy with the currency controls their government has imposed on them.[1]:

–In the U.S., bitcoin payment processors generally
find merchants want them to immediately convert
their bitcoins into dollars.

In Argentina, the exact opposite occurs.
Firms such as San Francisco-based BitPagos
will take the dollars received by tourism
industry clients in Buenos Aires and deliver
them bitcoins in return.

That their clients are opting for this says
much about Argentina’s dysfunctional financial
system and bitcoin’s potential to provide an
escape route for citizens of countries with
strict currency controls.

Those are just two quick examples.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/06/25/bitbeat-why-bitcoi...
Btw Gnome 3 looks and feels almost like Mac OS. But it works and does not crash like Mac OS. Everyone who uses Mac OS should try modern Linux distributions. They do not suck so much as 2 years ago.
Clearly I am not, and strawmanning me won't help the conversation.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you really did miss my point:

Twitter controls access to a very large audience, only rivalled maybe by Facebook. If you get banned from Twitter, you can't easily go and use a competitor. If there were tens or hundreds of Twitters in the world, then yeah, the "being thrown out of a bar" analogy would hold.
Maybe we should lock the owner up for 12 hours instead?
BLM: protesting the repeated and unpunished murder of PoC by the police, that was immediately met with excessive force in a way known to cause reciprocal violence in the form of riot damage.

Vs this: police not using any force until after people violently invaded the literal government because their favorite lost an election, and they want to stop the peaceful transfer of power. The police didn’t use any meaningful force until well after people had called attention to the disparate response.

These are clearly equivalent.
> ...it is unprecedented that a company has the power to silence a sitting president.

Trump can dial up Fox News and be on the air in 10 minutes.

Not what most people would consider "silenced".
We're in some really messed up limbo situation here. Reading all these back and forth comments, I can't even fathom what legitimate "evidence of fraud" would even look like other than super blatant ones. It's not like we'll find some guy holding a gun at a polling station and forcing people to vote one way.

If fraud is happening, and the people doing it don't want to get caught, then you won't find any blatant evidence unless they're sloppy. And even if they're sloppy, at most you'll find hints of what occurred. We have plenty of those.

But somehow in this whole back and forth mess, various facts/stories/details/testimony with various levels of validity/credibility that seem to question the integrity or hint at fraud occurring, are being dismissed with constant repetitive calls of "where is the evidence"?
This, absolutely this!
I did a lot of interviews (as interviewer) at a non-fang-but-close-enough, the guideline was to tell interviewees to pick the language they most prefer. Even if we didn't know it, the valuable part was the problem solving, and the candidate could display good communication skills by explaining the language features you were not familiar with.
This is much better than picking a language that you don't know (happened several times that someone picked python, and when asked to write a class said "I know how to write classes in java". We switched to java, no problem.)
It depends. A README for a custom TCP implementation does not need a section explaining what TCP is, that’s just clutter. Some types of projects are targeting a specific user group that has to have some level of knowledge.

Example: The readme for ripgrep does not explain what a shell is or how to pipe output.
I recently learned that Scala.js doesn't yet support generating TypeScript *.d.ts type definitions. I intend to open a Gitcoin bounty to get this work done.

Have you had any success using Scala.js-generated JavaScript in TypeScript projects?

I'm quite interested in a full stack of create-react-app + TypeScript + graphQL + front end libraries written in Scala + back end services written in Scala.
Programmers need job security? That does not seem to correlate with reality.
Interestingly, this earthquake is a key part of the evidence that a new subduction zone may be starting to form off the coast of Portugal. (E.g. Duarte et al, 2013 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_Duarte9/publicatio... )
Maybe in 1950. Today, it can be any retired person, highly educated or not, who can't find a better job.
If someone is spending $130/month dating while at the bottom rung of the income ladder, They're Doing It Wrong. If they can't talk someone out of their clothes after a $10 coffee date it's probably best for everyone that their genitals not come near another human being's until they've leveled-up their ability to intelligently utilize their available resources.

And a GYM MEMBERSHIP?!?! On minimum wage?!?! Prison workouts/calisthenics/military-style functional fitness. That stuff costs $0, and can be learned from free YT vids.
Software Foundations (https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu) is pretty informal and understandable, what it isn't is short. But it's a very useful resource.

The best general introduction is probably still Types and Programming Languages: (https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/index.html)
It's a great book, but it doesn't get to dependent types.
Morality is simply "things I like" and "things I don't like". It's not a good basis for policy, especially when moral standards vary significantly between individuals.

It's a fool's errand to try to impose your morals on another person as if they were somehow superior (though that arrogance is the foundation of the American psyche). You literally just can't.
It was someone else who made that initial claim of 2%

Sorry, complete failure to pay attention on my part.

Though as to your other point, unmeasured factors could push the figure either way, so if you allow the error bars to go as low as 2% purely on a hunch, then you should also consider that it could be up to 9.9%, if trying to work out any sort of reasonable policy.
The parent suggested he would prefer a world where housing was cheaper but was willing to concede that electronics could be more expensive. Not a paradox.
"what would society be like if all the attention given to sports was put towards politics?"

Sounds like hell to me. What would society be like if all the attention given to sports was put towards minding our own business?
If you watch Patriots games, you'll see that if Patriots running backs fumble, they get benched. If they do it again they get released. Belichick is maniacal about getting on his players about fumbling. That is a simple explanation. The team has been well-coached for a long time. If you think the Patriots' success is all from deflated balls, you need to explain how they out-scored the Colts 28-0 in the second half (and didn't fumble in horrible conditions).
All the answers that the other guys provide is awesome, but let me give you an answer from the other side of the pond...

There is just one skill you need:

The ability to persevere and actually build something that other people can/will use.

Once you're there (like really really there), you won't need some role where they paint a rosy picture but you end up doing WordPress hacks for a living (although to me personally, I'd never overlook any type of work that puts food on the table).

Also, you'll become more confident in yourself and end up doing things like 12 startups in 12 months [1].

Truth be told, if I had to run a survey on HN right now and ask just one question: "How many of you are coming to HN everyday hoping to be inspired but haven't written one line of production-code for some idea you have?"

I will get at least 40 "Yes" answers. Take that answer and multiply it for bigger communities, because while we're all reading about awesome Growth Hacks or that 1 guy who builds cool side-projects, the rest of us are doing jack.

[1]: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/12-startups-in-12-months/
No, he didn't. A call to ipv4_recv() is obvious, a call to impl->recv() less so.
I checked and couldn't find any direct flights. The cheapest way I could find from SNA to LGB had a one-hour stopover in Phoenix.

Probably not a popular route.
A 40 inch monitor that's 1 inch tall would also be useless.

Besides, 4:3 screens aren't square either. Why not demand 1:1 screens? Wide screens are more aesthetically pleasing (for most, not all).
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/who-moved-my-cheese-spencer-...
If you are a Ruby user I would recommend looking at the r509 project. [1]

It includes a HTTP interface for issuing certs and an OCSP responder.

[1]https://github.com/r509
Another article on the topic from The Economist (lead article from the latest issue) that is worth reading:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21637393-rise-demand-e...
The videos here:

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/new-amazing-metal-is-so-hydrophobi...

are pretty amazing. Water bounces when it's dropped on the surfaces created this way.

They mention uses such as aircraft wings (no de-icing) and sanitation. I didn't see a mention of boat hulls, but that would be another area with a ton of commercial application.
In the discussions about rockstar developers people pay far too little attention to context, to the environment in which people work. Some people have both the education and inclination to be great at developing CRUD apps. And if the job requires churning our Rails or Django code, those people will appear to be rockstars. Meanwhile a guy who really groks distributed multiprocessing doesn't have the raw material to work with to display his talent. But if the context changes, the needs of the company shift, then you will see a new rockstar emerge and people will be wondering why the old rockstar simply can't cut it any more.

Unfortunately, most jobs are in an environment where needs do change, and the majority of developers who work in such environments, do not see a real clear "rockstar" distinction among the people they work with.

To me, this suggests that hunting for a rockstar to add to your team may well be a fools errand. We should probably do more to raise up all developers in our team to a higher level, by making sure that everyone understands our set of tools, the apps that we have already created (and will have to modify in future months, years) and the upcoming new business requirements. Everyone in our business knows that we have to be constantly learning, but few development teams try to manage that learning as a team so that everybody's competence level rises. It does no good if your job requires great CRUD apps while you are learning Clojure on the side, your workmate is learning Go language, and the architect is busy learning .NET Reactive eXtensions.

If the job requires CRUD using Rails, you would likely be better off if everyone learns Python/Django because then you all have a choice of tools to use that fit the needs of the work you are doing. Or Grails on Groovy. Even node.js and Lua have some good CRUD frameworks.

In another environment, Clojure, Erlang, RabbitMQ, Celery/Python, Scala/Akka etc. will be the things you need to know.

And in another environment, even today, C/C++ with SodiumFRP would be a better thing to know.
Counterpoint: I fact checked and corrected an article - the original article author misread the cited source and claimed statistics that were plausible but incorrect. In the process I improved the readability of the paragraph I touched up. My change was never reverted, and it was within the last year on a page related to slavery and human trafficking.

I suspect people complaining about reverted edits follow the same pattern as people leaving negative reviews online: people tend to be vocal when unhappy, and people that haven’t had problems aren’t motivated to do the opposite.
Gitea isn't too bad to hack on, it's just Go and Go templates for the HTML pages. I haven't dug in much to see what their API looks like but I assume it's not too wild or radically different from any other Go web project and easy to change as necessary: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea
I shared a similar opinion a while ago, but lately (last two years perhaps?) the general consensus is pretty much shadow-cljs which has stellar support for node modules. shadow-expo also integrates with RN effortlessly.

Cursive is really good at handling cljs too, with jump-to-definition and refactoring without using a REPL
Thanks for sharing. Your company definitely needs some “how to WFH” training. Taking 24-48 hours to respond to an e-mail is totally, absurdly unacceptable, and if I (as a fairly senior guy) saw this regularly happening, I’d bring it to the offender’s attention and to their manager if they didn’t take corrective action. If someone is too busy to respond to their e-mail, they need to discuss their workload with their manager.