jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So where's all the error handling? File IO in Java would be rife with exception handling and not without reason.
A quick look at my voip carrier says calls to us are 1 cent, and calls to Japan land lines are about 2.5 cents, and Japan mobile is 10 cents. They've generally got pretty good pricing; with volume you can get better, but this is a good place to start. So call cost is going to be a lot more.

Then you've got to find voice talent. You can find English voice talent all over the globe, Japanese voice talent is harder to find and probably costs more.

STIR/SHAKEN will likely help somewhat. It should make it easier to track down accounts of callers, but we'll have to see if enforcement becomes effective, or if actionable complaints make enough of a difference. I don't think telephone companies regular record enough metadata for effective enforcement at the moment, and there isn't a reasonable way to report abuse, so most people just shrug and pick up less calls; we really need a useful reporting mechanism (dial * something after you get a spam call should work IMHO; but that's not me doing the work to correlate reports and what not)
Over the last 2 decades I have switched from development to business owner/management/marketing/sales and back 3 times.

Right now, I am doing a rewrite of my online 3d engine for consumer products, after being active for 3 years as an enterprise consultant for mid and large sized organizations, mostly initiating first roadmaps and identifying how to onboard new clients, reorganizing my client's product and solution portfolios, figuring out/maturing pre-sales tracks etc...

The reason I switch from development to other tracks and back, is that after a few years I feel like I am stuck in an echo chamber, where I tend to overestimate the value of the thing I am doing, and underestimate the importance of what others do.

The biggest disadvantage is that I could have probably retired from a financial POV about a decade ago if I had stayed on the same track, while this might now take another decade, but on the other hand, for me the chase matters more than the catch.

The biggest advantage is that - due to my broad experience - my kind of profile is extremely unique, and I can find a well-paid freelance gig in about a week without to much effort if I need some cash to bridge one of my many mini-sabbaticals.

This might not be for everyone, but if you like to spend time out of your comfort zone, I would strongly advise anyone who tries to understand the bigger picture to switch every n years; it is super valuable to understand the drivers from both sides and makes the job so much more interesting.

Edit: typo
How would Rust check at compile-time whether an array index read from a file on disk (at runtime) is out of bounds?
That's the planning part.

Usually it's done as a collaboration between the systems architect and the QA team. The process is essentially "design the system architecture -> document the APIs -> write the tests -> implement the code -> QA". It takes a level of rigour and planning that most teams don't want to do, and it relegates developers to a pretty minor role in the whole development process. They end up just filling in the blank bits in someone else's design. Most changes in team structure over the past couple of decades have been about developers taking on more of the responsibilities rather than less.

It's actually one of the aspects of TDD that makes it so robust. If you properly design your code and really think about its APIs you get a better app at the end. It does take longer to get something a user can see though, but often the process gets to a finished iteration of an app quicker because there's fewer cycles of debugging and fixing needed.
would love a better explanation of this, I can't really tell what this is even after reading the read me.
Orbital changes of the ISS are typically done by firing the rockets of docked space-craft rather than the ISS's own rockets.
There are certainly always important things going on at home (Earth). I am not suggesting that these will always be more important than manned space flight; I'm suggesting that they are more important at this time. Are you saying that prioritizing manned space flight, above all else, is always a good idea? If not, what priorities have you before manned spaceflight? What's the rush? Are you concerned with climate change? Is the answer to it to move on from Earth, instead of _first_ trying to nurse it back to health?
I'm puzzled. What are they going to use all that capital for? The business already seems quite successful and profitable.
I don't have time to find source on the web to support that but in his graphic novel about Pyongyang, Guy Delisle describes how a lot of anime are made (if I am correct he is talking about Disney but it is all from memory so correct me if I am wrong). Basically Westerners make some designs and all the animation in between 2 designs is made in North Korea.

EDIT : I have found this https://www.gpic.nl/producing_animation_in_North_Korea.pdf

"Q:How is the North's animation seen in abroad? A:Compared to North Korea's general image around the world, their animation sector has a remarkably good reputation. The nation has been receiving many orders from abroad for quite some time, including many from France and Italy. The workers usually participate in original drawings and coloring. Some of the well-known foreign animation projects the North has been involved in include "Lion King", "Les Miserables", "Pocahontas" and an Italian production of "Hercules" and "Billy the Cat" from France"
There is no general answer to this question.
Can you explain how you can use Yahoo Finance commercially?

As stated on the below link, "Data available on the Yahoo! network (e.g., Finance, Weather) is not approved for commercial usage via YQL, unless mentioned otherwise in the Terms of Service."

https://developer.yahoo.com/yql
- Put more effort in my bootstrapped startUp (a founder just left)

- Read a book at least one every month

- Exercise daily

- Launch my Startup and get Funding.

- Quite every trace of freelance and focus on the Startup.

- Date more

- Work more at Nights

- Get a hobby outside programming
This isn't a big deal. There's a long history of product names being screened for this kind of unintended confusion - at times this leads to commercial products having different names in different countries, which isn't really an option for open-source software.
Yes but but I guess he is worth more to his family alive than dead. That likelihood is pretty high, either in a Russian jail or poisoned again with a nerve agent. I don't think he'll be lucky to survive another attempt like that. He is really courageous but am still not convinced his decision to return was a sound one. Putin ordered the killing of many opponents and the Russian people as a whole don't show any sign that they care.
To me, the non shitty choice is for people to stop acting like children and having a problem with a word, even if it does sound like cock.
Almost to the end of the "5 whys" analysis:

The reason that the mislabeled category was a problem was that the system used those cultural honorifics to estimate takeoff weight.

The reason takeoff weight was estimated using those categories, rather than from more accurate birthdate data, or calculated from actual weight data, was...
I don't know how to convince someone that people stop going outside when the weather gets cold. I thought that was a normal fact of life for everyone who doesn't have an outdoor job.
It's a word that has, in the English language, been a euphemism for "penis" essentially forever.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/cock
Your words, why do they sting so true :(
Yes, my goal is too abstract. I know that I won't aim for Facebook or Google rich, but I haven't decided what exactly I want.

Edit: Thanks for that John Carlton link. Love it!
Well, for his accurate beliefs, let's look to another excerpt from In Our Hands:

"The libertarian solution is to prevent the government from redistributing money in the first place. Imagine for a moment that the $2 trillion that the US government spends on transfer payments were left instead in the hands of the people who started with it. If I could wave a magic wand, that would be my solution. It is a case I have made elsewhere."

His eugenicist UBI is an alternative to his ideal proposal.

As a public figure with extensive writings, his internal state of mind does not matter.

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edit to respond because I'm "posting too fast":

> So as long as you don't write anything down or have yourself recorded as having said racist things, you can't be racist?

What? A logical statement does not imply it's converse. I'm talking about public figures like Murray here, not average private individuals. Besides, structural racism of the sort Murray advocates for has a much greater impact on material conditions than what some rando believes in their heart.
I don't think that ruins it, really. It's also quite a loved game, although it hasn't been recreated like DM has. The lack of instructions was just criminal - there was a lot of the game that you had to learn by trial and error and you weren't given a lot of guidance!

The multi-way switches were a bit cheap, but the atmosphere and the little details were wonderful. The engine was very technically strong, too.

You should definitely check out Legend of Grimrock (and its Ishar-inspired sequel?) if you haven't already. I think they're on sale at the moment.

Speaking of Ishar, its copy-protection on the Atari deserved mention. Absolutely loaded with checksums, and it jams the reset vector, and it skews a protection track between two tracks and repeatedly changes tracks and reads at the same time to try to pick it up (which is what that strangled sound from the drive is!). I doubt that does your drive a lot of good, and it failed sometimes, which was… irritating.
The other way around? What other way around? People in China are terrified by Tibet, because of Tibet's historic human rights violations? Like the Chinese are scared that Tibet might invade and take over China? Really?

I mean, I suppose Americans are terrified of the Pakistani children their military is killing with drones too.
looks like it's getting DDoSed to me :/
There is nothing quite like Nim in the other languages you mention. Nim's GC is different than most of the others and you can also control it so it only runs for a certain amount of time. Nim is also very expressive and clean. The meta-programming capabilities are fantastic. Its overhead is significantly lower than the JVM and it is cross platform (unlike .net).
I'd be interested to see how this does. I'd imagine MAYBE a 1-5% conversion and 95-99% of your potential customers leaving very annoyed.
New attack against AES? - The Tau statistic:

From the Spiegel article:
"Electronic codebooks, such as the Advanced Encryption Standard, are both widely used and difficult to attack cryptanalytically. The NSA has only a handful of in-house techniques. The TUNDRA project investigated a potentially new technique -- the Tau statistic -- to determine its usefulness in codebook analysis."
My new game "Cut the Flappy Candy Saga-ville" will be coming to the market soon... it's just a calculator with banner ads.
1. Define exactly who your ideal customer is. This should be very specific - come up with an exact customer persona (e.g. Not just "people who have businesses"). I like to find 30-50 real people that would be my ideal user/customer.

2. Reach out to those ideal customers anyway you can. Email, phone, twitter or in person and try to setup a 5-10 minute phone call with them to describe your idea, the problem you are solving and to find out how big of a problem it is for them.

3. Ask them if they would be willing to pay $x for whatever you are selling (insert the price you plan to charge for X).

4. If they say yes ask them if you can take their payment information right now for a pre-order and they can help you build the product so it is perfect for them and be the first to use it.. Literally take a check or credit card information and charge them. I've found that customers may say they like your idea and would buy it but the ultimate validation comes when money actually exchanges hands. When you ask someone for money there are often other objections and excuses that come up of why they can't buy it.

I'll also add that for a lot of people it can be very difficult to talk to customers and get feedback. We tend to have a fear of hearing bad things about our idea or simply not wanting to bother people. However, it's something you have to fight through and just do it.

You'll also find that many people will be happy to talk to you for the 5-10 minutes that it takes. You'll likely get your best feedback from face to face and phone conversations where they don't have time to craft out a carefully worded email.

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Location: Asunción, Paraguay

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Java (EE and spring), Javascript, Docker

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That is entirely subjective.
Almost all cars are always parked for more than twenty hours a day. Instead of extremely fast charging we can just put chargers at every parking spot, including curbside parking.
Not that many jobs, especially good ones, are filled by applicants replying to want ads. You should be leaning on your personal network more and on “job applications” less.
Where can I read about conditions and restarts?
A man can only take so much.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/in+the+blink+of+an+eye
> dumb, rich

They did invest in Alibaba as well as ARM and Uber and runs the SoftBank Vision Fund. They may have failed huge on this one but have been doing quite good.
I live in a place with no requirements to be an investor and it's still all the same. It's just in general a very, very bad idea.
It makes more sense to charge the end user of infrastructure to help pay for the development and maintenance of the infrastructure (fuel surcharges / iDevices cost money) than it does to charge the developers and maintainers of the infrastructure (the $99/yr).

That's like charging mechanics for repairing cars or charging road workers for the privilege of repairing roads.
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> And yet we're allowed to spend our money freely in casinos.

That actually isn't true. In the US, almost all states have restrictions on gambling.[1] These are generally enforced by criminalizing or requiring government oversight of those offering gambling services.

[1] https://www.letsgambleusa.com/laws/
The margins around the edge, between the device edge and screen edge, where you can hold the tablet. These were large in the original iPad making actually holding the device and not accidentally touching the screen easy. Since then the iPad has shrunk the non-display edge width considerably, and other tablets always had narrow widths. Looks gorgeous, but makes actually using the thing annoying. You can hold phones in one hand from behind and there's no problem with edge-to-edge screens.
Interesting summary and a good read.

I would like to know the author's opinion on whether or not women could be more censorious of harmful discrimination due to experiencing more of it in their lives first-hand than men do.

And similarly, whether it could be significant that some of the materials mentioned (studies and books) present conclusions in favor of men.

I didn't see these potential causalities explored though others were.
A significant amount of programming is done without articulating either the problem or the solution.
Young parents are also much less likely to get severely ill than older parents.
> From a GDPR perspective it's not even clear if this is even lawful

It is pretty clear it is
> The tests are optional, self administered, self reported, only available to staff (not students)

That's rubbish. My kids are stuff swabs up their nose twice a week - and they are lateral flow tests, so we sit there waiting to see whether the double line appears.
From article:

Along with many in the free and open source software world, the Fedora Council was taken aback that the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has allowed Richard Stallman to rejoin their Board of Directors given his history of abuse and harassment. The Fedora Council does not normally involve itself with the governance of other projects. However, this is an exceptional case due to the FSF’s stewardship of the GPL family of licenses, which are critical for the work we do
I suppose, but I'm not sure it was that much more salutary obsessively reading GameFAQs or Something Awful forums.
My 11yo son was tested in school first couple of weeks after returning, and now have self-testing kits that are meant to be used twice a week.
This might be useful for some: https://mosh.org/

It is great for unstable / slow links and pressing ctrl+c works immediately which is nice.
It's just pinging the nearest base station in response to a periodic poll of which devices are in the cell, like a 'stay alive' ping on a temporarily dormant FTP session. You can probably limit how diligently the phone keeps in touch with the network but will have more missed/dropped calls as a result.
Oh, I just assumed the US went through the same cycle of consumer disinterest as the rest of us.
There you go again with the strawmen.

Who is talking about deceitful or lying?

I suggest no such thing. I actually believe that Jobs believes what he writes. I just think what he writes is wrong.

Regarding a stable mobile flash implementation. You are right they haven't.

But the same can be said about HTML5 convincingly showing that it can compete with flash on other than some video, without sucking up CPU.

Showing a slideshow or some simple transition simply isn't going to cut if if you want to talk about comparative experiences.

The whole multitouch argument is also misleading as there really isn't any reason why Flash wouldn't be able to work with that. The flash player would be written specifically for the iPad/iPhone anyway so that could be solved. And rollover isn't by any metrics a problem. That too can be easily solved.

If Apple really where serious about open standards why not disallow flash on the laptops? They have far less battery life than their mobile peers so the reason to remove it from there would be just as strong.

I don't really care whether you like the things that flash is being used for and there is absolutely no reason to believe that HTML5 wont be the exact same things happening. Whether annoying banner ads or clunky recreations of gui elements.

If HTML5 is better it will end up replacing Flash. But HTML5 has a very long journey before it's anywhere close to flash. At least if it was possible to opt in or out of flash in the setting people would have a choice and we would see a natural selection process taking place.

Instead what we have is a bunch of bad excuses for why Flash shouldn't be on the iPad and iPhone.

The only thing apple get out of that is going to be substandard flash emulation with JavaScript and Canvas. Surely not something to wish for.
Could be your phone being pinged in order to keep tabs on your location. I would throw the phone away and change your identity. You must have upset someone in the government.

That or its nothing at all.
Yes, because no-one wants to be able to use wifi with their consumer electronics ever....
Do you actually have an attack in mind based on the fact that it's implemented in the browser?

You, the owner of the server, change the code. That's the attack. There's no way for me to tell my friend Charlie that he can use the service and get secure communication, unless he installs a plugin for his browser to verify that the server has not changed the data it sends the user from the time when I verified the correctness of the code. And if he has to install a plugin to safely use this service, which is now never permitted to change its code, he might as well just install a plugin that has the code, or install a separate application for this purpose.
No, the German data protection officials insisted on Google blurring the original source material and not preserving any unblurred copies.

IMHO, that might be appropriate in certain exceptional circumstances, e.g. when inadvertently something very private or embarrassing has been captured, but it is a bit over the top as a general policy.
"some youths high on googlemania - a local thing"

Is this really a thing in Germany? That's the weirdest part of this whole story, that kids would care that much about an international corporation like Google. It'd be like getting in a fight with someone because they didn't drink Coke.
I get your point but, who gets to decide if a thread is boring or not? What gets stuff on front page is the collective opinion of the community. Saying that something on front page is boring is merely a personal opinion.

Lack of the ability to downvote definitely cripples the way to represent the opinion of the community about a specific thread. Considering that, your argument makes sense but my point is, flagging the thread will make absolutely no difference as long as there are a significant number of people who show interest in it.
I already have one. :)

I didn't question whether this book has worked for you or not, it's good if it has and more power to you.

It's about the reader's own attitude towards it. If you really believe in those passages (which, based on the passage, seem to be written like horoscopes) then of course they're going to work for you. Just like horoscopes magically seem to work into every situation.

In my humble honest opinion, advice like "I will persist until I succeed" just creates train wrecks. Especially when repeated 75 times in a month. I also believe that self help books like this one tend to cloud the reader's judgement and inflate their egos - which is not nice.
This comment probably has one of the highest upvote-to-character-length ratios in HN history.