jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
None of this is true... politics mainly happened at the local level because the imperial Roman empire was destroyed, but that only changed development and innovation. Have you ever read Beowulf? It is one of the most highly developed pieces of Old English poetry, at 3000 lines, and was written in this time period. Silver mining increased, and many technological innovations like iron plows emerged. Beautiful cathedrals were constructed in the Romanesque style, and learning continued in monastical schools all over Europe.

There was international trade and military activity ranging from Scandinavian societies raiding into Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as the Crusades starting up near the end of this period. The Christian church of the Roman empire, otherwise known as the Roman Catholic Church, was alive and well, becoming one of the most powerful institutions for the next several hundred centuries. "Dark Ages" is an antiquated term - think transition, not Camelot (although the legend did originate in this period). It is often called the "Early Middle Ages" these days.
Yeah that's not true, diffusion exists.
You are terrifying and I am not being snarky. If you have done your market research on the perception of terms like “meditation” for exercise moms, you will choose the correct path.
Phoebe Connop, the girl who died, was British so I think it's kind of reasonable to post British papers about it. But here are some non-British ones if you really want.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/uk-teenager-phoebe-connop-hanged-h...

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/school...
If basically everything stays on the stack, you’ll have a much lower chance of seeing a memory leak, by definition.
Not in the UK...
If you run `npm install -g sass` you'll get the native JS version of SASS.
No. There are two main points for a programming blog - to keep your own notes in one place, and to try and raise your profile / build an audience to make the next contract or pay review a much happier experience.

Neither of those are helped by ads, and the latter is probably negatively impacted.

You have really impressive views afaik - which is why someone probably called you. But even so, you are thinking a rough likely income of 140usd a month. It's really hard to put the logical business case, but being the guy in the department who gets 100K views on his blog is easily worth 1700 usd at the annual pay review (read patio11 post on this subject).

If you are a contractor or can build a network from the blog that 1700 pa is going to get wiped out in one deal.

Stick a mailchimp form on your blog and keep writing interesting stuff.
More likely their online 'Killz n Skillz' are being sucked up to train AI.
The wiki article for Febreze is very odd. At least a third of the edits (in terms of characters) were done by single-purpose IP addresses, see https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Febr...

Moreover, the claim you cite references a now defunct website operated by P&G from 2005, archived version (it automatically downloads a perl script on my PC...): https://web.archive.org/web/20060515060609/http://www.scienc...

It seems that the P&G article promotes Febreze as a fabric refresher. It does not tell anything about the air fresheners from the same brand which are the topic of this thread.
props for keeping a streak that long! awesome
If you have some stupid custom software that's making bad private keys you would never notice until you go to use them (or test them). Even more plausibly, they mention in 2011 to be using a custom system like Shamir's Secret Sharing, maybe they suddenly realized that their shared secrets are all bad?

Not saying that's what happened, but it's not an unreasonable thought. It's more reasonable than losing 750,000BTC to an issue that could have been picked up by even the most basic accounting.
Glad to see someone else here who is baffled by the state of American telecom industry as I am.

So here's what i understand about the industry prior to TMobile's "innovations":

- You buy phones from the Cellular service provider, which are bundled with the service (hence apparently higher bills)

- Since the phone is bundled with the service, i assume even if you don't use the service you still pay a good amount every month.

- You have a contract with the Cellular service which forces you to stick with them till the term of the contract.

- So its usually painful to switch carriers (breaking fee etc). (Do you get to keep your old number if you switch?)

- Since you are stuck with the cellular service they can pretty much charge you whatever they want during that time. Sure they gotta give you an incentive to renew the contract but as i see it the competition between carriers isn't that much.

Now here's how things work in my country:

- You buy mobile independently and then pay for the service

- You pay the service typically below 3USD for most users. And it depends ENTIRELY on your usage. No usage = zero payment.

- No contracts with the carrier. You get to switch at the drop of a hat.

- Thing is, cellular services mostly "prepaid" (post-paid is available but few users go for that). So you just pay the service in advance what you think will use and that is credited to your account. This doesn't expire for several months so no worries about over-estimating.

- So switching a service = getting a simcard of that service, adding balance to it (which you can from any corner store).

- Oh they even let you keep the number provided by the old carrier so virtually no switching costs.

- Hence the competition here is unimaginable! "Price war" would be an understatement. They even keep giving incentives to inactive customers to plug in their old sim cards.

- Its so freaking affordable people buy multiple-sim cellphones so they can use multiple services at the same time (hence utilizing best of each provider)
He's Ryan Selkis, a well-known Bitcoin blogger who leaked the original Mt Gox insolvency documents. This could be wrong, however he has the best track record so far.
My 2005 Prius has a 1.3kwh battery. A 2014 hybrid can do much better - not to mention the fact that it doesn't sound like it's aggressively managing battery life like my Prius does (which still gets 53 MPG highway).
I checked it out (as recently as yesterday, right after my comment), but it is too buggy and featureless for me.
If you read french or want to dive in the mostly english code, you can fork https://github.com/betagouv/mon-entreprise.

It doesn't fill tax forms, but it's a set of simulations and a framework to write more models and generate UIs automatically.
Startlingly contentious hair-splitting re the “nucleation event”. I had no idea.

Bumbled into this while reading about the crazy cold weather in Austin.

https://eu.statesman.com/story/weather/2021/02/14/austin-tex...
not if they use the editor specific features like jumping to a specific line in the text
As you said, Decathlon is a primarily brick and mortar shop. They have huge revenue worldwide ($13B in 2019) from their shop and it really doesn't look like they pushed hard for e-commerce. The thing is, a lot of what they sell is big or heavy, so the shipping cost would be very high. Plus, a lot of items they sell are something that most people will want to try before buying. So their business doesn't work too well with e-commerce. Combine this with the fact that, if you are not in the U.S.A, you probably have a Decathlon shop not that far from you, and their website is basically just a vitrine. People look at product there but go to the shop to buy them.
The only thing I know people buy from their website is replacement parts.
The managers of the RIRs themselves are more pessimistic, and I'd expect them to have run a bit more analysis on this than the writers of this article. For example, RIPE predicts they'll exhaust in September [1], and ARIN is also expected to exhaust within a year [2].

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12306573
[2] http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3...
It depends on whether you're looking to get it in front of lots of eyes or whether you're more concerned about it not being taken down.

For the former, I'd use a .is domain (Iceland) and host it with OVH or Nearly Free Speech.

For the latter I'd host it on Tor as a set of static files, available via a torrent for mirroring, and would encourage mirroring in the name of free speech.

"All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers." - George Orwell
I stand corrected indeed, sorry. I heard it first played by Guns'n'Roses, and the association is so strong I did not even have a second thought.
This is also an issue in Dependent Types. But the case is not as clear cut as you paint it as some argue that the expressibility lost and complexity gained in the system by forcing type checking to terminate is not worth it in practice.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~liminjia/research/papers/lambda-e...
You didn't see the post about IANA depleting their end of the IP spectrum? [1]. This was the first sign this year that things are speeding up, and had a pretty big post on YC [2]

[1] https://www.arin.net/announcements/2011/20110203.html
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2129710
I manage people, am managed, and work strange hours.

In the scenario you describe, you have set of inconsistent requirements:

1. A developer that works strange hours

2. A need to get everybody in the same room

3. The "perception problem", a.k.a. snide remarks from the peanut gallery.

The first thing to do is to be a good technical manager and admit that you do, in fact, have inconsistent requirements. Something on this list must change. You cannot satisfy all three.

The next thing to look at is what is the best (or least-bad) requirement to change.

The simplest option is to fire the developer. I don't actually recommend that, but it is simple. Embedded in that statement is the implicit assumption that you will never again hire someone who works odd hours, and in my admittedly biased experience, people who work odd hours tend to be good, so there is a hidden cost to that scenario.

A more complicated option is to figure out how to eliminate or reduce your dependence on in-person meetings. For example, having discussions via email or on GitHub. I would probably argue that if your software developers are having meetings more than 0.5 times per day, they are not being productive to start with, so there are reasons independent of this particular developer to study that problem. For more on this strategy, I would recommend looking at the GitHub model. [1]

Finally, to address the third issue, you need a performance review mechanism that isn't attendance-based. For example, consider mechanisms that are feature-based or deliverable-based. Attendance-based performance is bad for a lot of reasons independent of any particular developer's situation--it motivates working hard instead of working smart, and so on.

The thing to see here is that you're either going to have to change the environment or the developers you place in it. Personally, I would recommend the former, but in any case, something's going to move. The advantage of changing something now is that you get to decide what to change. If you let the situation run its course, it will change in a manner and at a time that will be less convenient.

[1] http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-asynchronous/
Probably a lot. Gnu COBOL has some annoying limitations, such as no easy to use network API, nor do they make it easy to read-write files whose names are not declared at compile time.
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You might be interested in this paper then:

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1898...

(not lighttable, but more research on the topic)
Yes, but the coal plant won't suffer a catastrophic failure. It has negative effects, sure, but they're diffuse, not acute, like a nuclear meltdown is.
The grid is a common good.

It's the same for the grid in Sweden (Svenska kraftnät), also how optic fiber is deployed here in Stockholm, the costly infrastructure was developed and is maintained by the government, private ISPs can lease out capacity but aren't the ones maintaining it. That avoided the costly deployment of multiple similar infrastructure per provider like you see in the US, where corporations cornered some markets and made the barrier of entry so costly that they became de facto monopolies.
GPLv3 allows adding a clause that would force them to change the name if they make changes. If they do it anyway they're in violation of the license, no trademark required.
It is sad if in 2021 a wife (or a husband) cannot take even a year or half-year break from the career.

(To avoid possible confusion, I am shaming the society, not you.)
You forgot to use "whimsical", "flabbergasted" and "discombobulated" ;)
Yes.

https://t.me/wallstreetbets
Most flights aren't conducted at low levels, unless you're fighting 3rd world insurgents. And again, which manpads are you claiming can down a Gen 5 aircraft?
You know, the book looks interesting - but not in pdf, and not as a physical book (I try to live without physical books - won't I be a sad case when the singularity pushes us into post-apocalypse?)

Did you cconsider selling access to the source (eg: private github repo, suitable license)?
Not true. Congress passed the Federal Reserve Act and assigns to the Board the implementation of it and regulations that are written down in the Code of Federal Regulations. And the Chair is confirmed in the Senate of course.
Echoing the sentiment, it's good to see hard work and dedication get rewarded, despite such adversity.
It's safe to say you'll go far and considering what you've had to deal with, a P1 outage (which is a rite of passage) will be a breeze :)
All the best for the future
Manga what?
He did say that it has to work in the absence of a central authority. It's hard for a central authority to control your device when it doesn't rely on a central authority.

Maybe we just need to re-imagine the operating-system level security model in a way that tries to tackle the security issues that we have today.
Difficult to say exactly. Both are definitely high-risk industries. The key difference is probably the timespan over which you make your money. A moderately successful entrepreneur might work hard for five years, sell his company for $20M, and get $4M of that. A moderately successful financier might work hard for thirty years, and make $500K - $2M every year that he works. Essentially, successful financiers tend to be older (50s and up) while successful entrepreneurs tend to be younger.
That'd be an interesting number as well, but my guess is that financiers win there, too. Even if you don't make it big in finance, you can "fail" into a lot of lower-level jobs that pay around $200-300k. In tech, the fail-out-into-a-salary route tends to get you more like $100-150k.
There's a fundamental difference between 'there are more financiers than start-up founders in the Fortune 400' and 'a greater percentage of financiers in America make the Fortune 400 than start-up founders in America'.

Using extreme example to make my point, if 0.001% of all 'financiers' made the Fortune 400 and 5.000% of all start-up founders did, no-one would claim that 211 v 59 means much because of the asymmetrical volume of the candidate pools.

The percentages won't be that stark, of course. Are there 4 times as many financiers as start-up founder? I would suggest more (many, many more) which would indicate that being a start-up founder makes it more likely to hit that measure of financial success than being a financier, based on those figures.

I make no comment about the relevance of this to the original discussion and pg's right or wrongness, which I was not a part of.
Which don't even link to original contents to look like their content is actually original... Do something about it google please!
I just played with atom for the last 2+ hours.

It is kinda cool, but holy shit is it slow. Editing a plugin requires a reload. A reload is a good 2-4 seconds on my 4 year old mbp.

The vim-mode is very incomplete and very buggy. Granted that should get a lot better in time.
I think you need to google salaryman. There is nothing equivalent in any Western country, not in scope, extent, social significance, prevalence. Nothing. It may be unique to Japan. The "Organization Man" was as close as the West ever got and it's been a long time since most professional business people worked like that, if they ever did.
I know of some people that paid for their PhD (UK) only to be "recommended" to not continue and leaving with an MPhil.
"For many years, I have wondered why a great programmer (one who is 10x as productive as a poor programmer) doesn't make 10x the income."

For many years I have wondered why so many people think that supply versus demand ought to be a linear function.

Even in the most simple economics 101 scenario you do not end up with a demand curve which is a straight line. It's always a curve, which is usually very steep at one end and very shallow at the other.

If the supply of oil dropped by 50% overnight, what do you think would happen? Those people who absolutely have to have oil, and can afford it, will pay for it, through the nose!

The price will go up (and up and up!) until we are at a new equilibrium in which only 50% as much oil is consumed by those buyers that are still able and willing to pay for it at the new price.

If the supply dropped by 50%, the price will probably go up by a factor of 100 or more, not just 2.

Similarly, in the same article he mentions that some NBA players are paid 1000x as much as some others. But are those players actually 1000x better? No of course not!

The right way to think of this is "supply vs demand for someone with that particular skill set".

The only thing you could reasonably expect is for a more productive/smarter/better person to be paid more than someone else. But how much more is going to depend on supply vs demand for someone with that skill set.
I'd speculate the price level is now being protected by 'insiders' with large existing positions.

By one estimation, 1000 people own 54% of all Bitcoin in existence. 10,000 people own 78%. The market could be easily manipulated by a relatively few number of people.

On the day the Mt Gox news box, the number of buy/sell transactions increased by ~300% from the day prior, but the currency was mostly stable. To defend the price level on that day, about $75 million was required. So it's a big bet. But also minuscule compared to the amount of capital that traders on Wall Street play typically work with.

I wonder who is buying it? I wonder if increasing the concentration of wealth into the hands of the few will eventually have adverse consequences for the value of Bitcoin?
Construction workers in Kerala make 20000 a month - would you move and do that work?
150k is pretty bad for a senior dev in NYC fyi. Perhaps you have answered your own question.

Banks will pay at least 2x more and large tech companies closer to that than what you are offering.

Note I'm not talking about truly great developers, merely good senior ones.
This was my experience with Apress as well. The editing support was fairly minimal, and usually amounted to "this chapter needs to be longer."
>> consider writing a Haskell, not a Lisp.

Has anyone written a Haskell (or subset) as a hobby project? I would think it would be much harder than writing a simple Lisp, which seems to be designed so that simple versions can be written almost recurvisely, where more advanced functions are decomposed into a few primatives.
Me: How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Clever: How much wood could chuck norris chuck?

Nicely played, Cleverbot... nicely played.
Glenn probably should have done us a favor and just made one giant post, like he so often does. Thanks for the correction!
1) I'm not convinced about judging all the developers you hire on with the same criteria - I think you just end up with a clone army

2) I'm not convinced about hiring someone based on their ability to bang a working algo out in 30 minutes

If you are running large teams that will be closely managed using a methodology then this probably works.

I don't think it works for the kind of 'thinkers' you need to build the kind of apps required by YC type startups.

To build big, innovative apps with a single person or small team you need people who don't necessarily have the skill/focus to crank something out in 30 minutes - but can, over weeks and months, think through a complex architecture and bring it to life.

I often look at interview questions and think I would never get the job - but I'm exactly the type of person you need to build an app.
> it would certainly make patent lawsuits impossible between them

Or they sue each other anyways and it takes another 5-10 years to figure that situation out, hobbling any OS development under those licenses while there are very clear and widely used and accepted patent grants available.

There's a reason the FSF recommends Apache 2.0 if you aren't going to go GPL.
I don't really think you're reasoning pure logic more than personal opinion.
So here are mine.

1.This quote, The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates along with many more reflect a part of the human condition that has not changed. Even modern advertising deals with ethos,pathos, and logos http://avenueright.com/entries/83/a-three-minute-guide-to-et.... Even more relevance in thoughts about is war ever just ?, freedom of speech, ethics,rhetoric and dialectic(what good lawyers abuse), and etc.
There seems be a large amount of timeless truths about humanity and human nature.

2. It's true , somethings aren't the same., but somethings are. Also I think there is a good reason they are still taught in a typical PHIL 101 class. They still have value.

3. The average 14 year old would probably not care. However in reference to this 14 year old, maybe. Child prodigy's exist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_prodigies

4. Finally, I said I regret not learning it, and offered my opinion. It was nothing more than that.
Only if you're parking in garages; if you get out of midtown, there is free street parking.

'cept you have to get up early twice a week to move your car for street cleaning.

And it can take you an hour to find an empty spot sufficiently close to your apartment.

And on Sundays, many neighborhood spots are taken (and double-parked) by church-goers.
I would recommend a book on selling and marketing. Influence the pyschology of persuasion, for example.

And as practice, take a job as a door to door sales person. Build up resistance towards rejection and learn how to influence people.
Idris and Coq are based on the Curry-Howard correspondence. That makes it difficult / impossible to integrate Z3, because Z3 in general does not output concrete proofs. More precisely, some Z3 modules can output proof objects, but not all. There is work on integrating Z3 with LCF-style provers like Isabelle [1]. There is also active work on Z3 integration with Coq, although I'm not sure how this works. See [2] for a brief discussion of these issues by one of the Z3 authors.

[1] http://www21.in.tum.de/~boehmes/proofrec.pdf

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11531589/difference-betwe...