jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Being denied entry isn't illegal, and isn't necessarily going to adversely affect future entry attempts. Overstaying your visa, or illegally entering a country on the other hand is a crime. If you have committed crimes in a country, you will have a harder time getting in next time.
And now you have to debug your log files (don't worry, though, the log files log their operation so any bugs will be easy to track down).
Out of curiosity, why does the 1700s timeframe preclude such a purpose? That was an era when incredible individual invention occurred, largely in machines and chemistry. It was seldom the R&D division of a large manufacturer (those robber barons), but was often individual inventors.

Virtually all invention was a individual or small group pursuit.
no never. not jordan hubbard, not dominic giampolo. no-one.
Have your saved username and passwords sync to the cloud, and you'll be even happier. Jeff is still beating a still-born horse here -- yes, a problem exists, but OpenID is the wrong solution.
We're using RingoJS under the hood (a server-side JavaScript engine similar with NodeJS --they're both CommonJS compliant) and provide integration with a browser-based editor, online hosting and a marketplace with e.g. two GPLed server-side JS apps, Form Creator and Erbix Blogs (which we've launched today - you can find more details about the announcement at http://groups.google.com/group/ringojs/browse_thread/thread/... ).

We wanted to do a rate-our-startup on HackerNews for some time to get feedback for pivoting the next iteration of Erbix as a JavaScript platform. Due to today's launches, it looks like a good time to request some feedback and what you'd like to see next from us.
A good interview should be language-agnostic, if it's not a junior position IMO.

Most of my code-based interviews have been this way, and when I've been the one interviewing, I say: "Use whatever language/tech you like."
No, they survive on subsistence farming regardless of what any cities do. That's the definition of subsistence farming.

I agree that the situation in cities would be dire, but over 40% of people live in rural areas and half of them are already growing their own food.
f.ex. like this

python webkit2png.py -x -o hn.png http://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.alexezell.com/code/webkit2png.txt
Neither is positive, both are negative. Also the former does not exist in reality, in fact you often don't have a right to build anything in a township thus you have to get a permission from the local government for almost any construction (with some things implicitly permitted).
Also, according to the Nukemap website the author links to: https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/ you can hit everything from Philadelphia to New York with a single single Tsar bomba. With a bomb like that it hardly matters if you aim it at Port Elizabeth or Manhattan.
I've always thought try/catch is a very good model.

When you have an error, you have to handle it, or someone up the chain has to, or the program crashes(Or behaves in an undefined way, if it's a language like C that makes it way too easy to ignore return codes).

Try/catch directly expresses all that in a language construct without requiring you to explicitly think about it much, except in functions that throw or functions that catch.

Requiring functions to declare throws fixes most of the issues with it.
Arguably https://www.bloc.io/ruby-warrior (warning: sound autoplays) - although there's something direct and storyless about the elevator one that I prefer.
I guess Pluralsight might be interested in a series later on. Sounds similar to what NServiceBus is doing, but unfortunately NServiceBus is a bit of an endemic.
P(burn|fighting-fire-with-fire) ≥ P(burn|fighting-something-else-with-fire).?
I would guess wealthy or powerful connections matter a lot. Ideally if they are family, childhood friends etc.

I know that is a sucky answer but I am assuming you mean all billionaires not just the completely self made ones.

Also for most people making a few million is enough to solve the money problem. There may not be any further desire to get rich.

However if you do have that desire and it outweighs other psychological constraints (avoiding fear, pain, change etc.) and that desire can last decades then it is possible to get from well off to rich.
Billionaires have enough money that they probably don't have to worry about money. Millionaires are mostly pretty ordinary people, except they own a house and have a job and a pension fund. Many of them are "asset rich, cash poor": they have to watch what they spend.

The average house price in London UK is $771,360, so lot of people own houses worth more than $1 million. The median house price in New York is $548,500, while "The median price paid in June for a new or existing single-family home or condo in San Francisco hit $1 million for the first time, according to a report released Wednesday by DataQuick."
http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/1-million-ci...

You can become a millionaire by working hard at something and investing wisely, and a multi-millionaire if you're exceptionally good at your trade (or lucky). Becoming a billionaire looks a lot trickier, but I suspect you're less likely to do it while working for somebody else.
The guys who make it are really cool and accessible. There have been lots of crazy fan projects doing research they hope for them to incorporate in the game somehow (e.g. material properties research, tree research, http://imgur.com/EPtgt ...)
Wouldn't it be more fair to compare Gotalk to Kite's underlying dnode-protocol[1] ?

Personally Gotalk's protocol seems much better thought out; size-prefixed messaging, rpc & streaming support, multiplexing (especially important with WebSocket).
The only missing bit would be some form of heart-beating.

* [1] https://github.com/substack/dnode-protocol
I think it is important to have some empathy for surgeons, despite the commonness of arrogance and the mostly absurdly high compensations they receive. Their work is to intentionally mutilate people and their skill is to make it so that the mutilation will improve health. It is an incredibly dissociating job, taking you out of all standard relationships to the body and other people. It takes years, sometimes decades of training to become skilled enough to lead operations, and even short breaks are known to significantly diminish skill and outcomes for patients. The stress level is unfathomable for lay people, and the distance it creates in them from other people is not a sign that they’re assholes but the remnant of the sacrifices they had to make to fulfill our idea of what they have to be. I know not all surgeons are arrogant in the way you and then I have described, but I always feel sad and caring for those people who are wrecked enough by the process to become so socially inept and disconnected from the people around them.
I guess I should have said German "genes"?
Poster child for useless features: MS Word & Excel. Someone, sometime, asked for each feature, and they dutifully put it in.

I saw a tech writer's post where ALL the toolbars of Word were expanded. It took up almost the entire vertical space. His point was "you need really good tech writers to explain all this."

No, they needed some PMs to say No. There's an overall cost to the collection of all the features, and it's much more than the sum of each one. Maybe "The Tragedy of the Commons" explains it?
I've suggested creating a company forum at a few different places, but it's always received like a strange idea that nobody will actually engage with or give any thought to.

Email, Slack, etc, none of them create a good long term record that outsiders and newcomers can consume. Some companies have a wiki, but I've never seen them used. Forums are good for long form communication, people can put in more effort knowing that their effort will be available to all going forward.
Ars Technica is on my shitlist because they chose to make their site content shift around as you scroll, to make way for ads or email lists or whatever. I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this.
This seems to just be a pastiche of ‘how to write well’ advice that you’ll find most anywhere. That doesn’t mean it’s not useful, but it’s not saying anything that hasn’t been said before, and often more clearly.
They've "memory-holed", 1984-style, other conservative sites as well. Just another narrative-enforcing search-engine.
What's the article? Let's look at the specifics. Things definitely go wrong on WP!
> What you encountered sounds like a traditional lack of product management focus

Yeah, you're right.
I misunderstood a little that the YAGNI principle can apply to both programming and product management.
It was not the devs implementing something unnecessary, but the management wanted unnecessary features at the time.
Same here! It's saved us a tremendous amount of time for screenshots, especially when dealing with different sized viewports. Happy to see CSS3 is supported in 2.0 :)

A big thanks to PhantomJS devs!
This is possibly the worst name for an iPhone app one could choose. It's like on page three of the app store when I search for "path".
So 50 is the new 140?
If I'd paid $2.99, I simply would not pay for anything else from Alphonso Labs. I'd just wait until they gave it away free - that is a shame, because that way any app is unlikely to be successful enough to be given away free.

If they give it away free, then I would expect that they do something for previous purchasers. If they don't, they risk building a lot of bad will from early adopters that could kill their next venture.

Then again, one could argue that you paid that premium for early use of the app, and for $2.99 it's not worth holding a grudge and refusing to purchase their next product.
According to the TSA, http://bit.ly/b133H4 ,
"there is no fondling, squeezing, groping, or any sort of sexual assault taking place at airports. You have a professional workforce carrying out procedures they were trained to perform to keep aviation security safe."

Does this mean my government lying to me?? Well I'll be damned!
The production quality here is really really good.

However, I agree with the excellent presentation posted here a while ago 'The Real Life Social Network' (http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...) that the issue isn't number of people I want to share with. The issue is that the groups of people I want to share content with are completely separate. There are a number of pictures I would be happy to share with all my friends but would not want to share with my parents, or pictures that would be relevant to share with my co-workers but not all my friends. Until that issue is solved I'll continue to not share as much as I would were I to have more flexible (and easy to use) permissions.
Kudos to them for having the guts to say publicly that they accidentally destroyed their production database.

It's been a great service, and I think as long as this kind of thing is rare, and none of my code repositories get corrupted or destroyed, I plan to stick with them.
so the preproduction works stays in USA, the labor-intensive animation goes to low cost location such as China, India, Phillipines.

And Singapore animation companies are just dumb-money equity investor coming up with the funds.

So what animation industry again?
cute, but where is the energy for all that light coming from? Can't be healthy for the growth of the tree.
In my experience, all of these are great except the last one. I used to rest my wrists and now I can't because my RSI progressed. I wish someone had told me 10 years ago to keep my wrists straight when I type.

I use an angled keyboard and a vertical mouse to reduce twisting.
Chris is correct that being able to model is a prerequisite for effectively doing a lot of things, coding is one of them. Sort of like saying that schools need to teach 'critical thinking.'

BTW, I especially like the section starting with the Alan Kay quote. I have recently started (yet one more time) hacking in Pharo Smalltalk which is one of the better programming environments for exploring code and understanding it. I am sure that Chris was strongly inspired by Smalltalk when he created Light Table.
I would buy it if it could be made certain that the data is not going back to China.
Maybe pick up a history book.

The protests of today are nothing at all compared to those of even 40 years ago.
It's not exactly been bleeding edge the past few years. Now with the 2.7 release and the 3.0 release (which is hopefully coming very soon) it's receiving a major revival.

One of the most important new features are javascript interopt, which enables you to write libraries in java and let other people use it like any other js library. In the other direction, you can easily use javascript (libraries) in java.
That means it's possible to just use modern stuff like polymer from within gwt without much of a hassle.
Free speech protects you from the Government, that's it. We as society commonly confuse free speech with free from consequence speech which doesn't exist. Donald Trump is the reason Donald Trump has been silenced.
Fucking cancer, when will the science beat it once and forever?
It depends on the developer.

Some are social and know how to talk to the customer. Others, like the one in this article, are anti-social and shouldn't be anywhere near the customers.

I also don't like the idea of developers talking to customers because many companies decide they can cut costs and hire one person to do both.
Just got min too. Fantastic!
Why not also add

HASH.update(salt)

On each iteration as well? Then again, if things were this simple, someone would have already said "just do this", it would have been peer-reviewed and would have become widely used. Anyone know why this hasn't caught on yet in web frameworks like Django/Rails?
That's a solved problem, it just requires the fingertips of gloves to have some conductive material.
Since we're being nit-picky, this wouldn't get you thrown out of a real card game. The raise would simply be pushed back by the dealer.
A private key (or client cert) is generally more of a "something you have" than a "something you know" credential.

(unless you memorized your key - it's something you have, not something you know)
The author seems to have bought a Mac without doing any research on how to make the transition. Regrettable, but not exactly a failing of the Mac.

I think this is a really good article for people who don't want to switch from Windows to OS X and still want to be convinced they shouldn't switch.

My personal favorite -
"For a second I thought, well, I could load Parallels, the Mac OS program that allows you to run Windows applications on your iMac. But that plan was squashed fast. Before I could complete Parallels' installation, it asked for a copy of the Windows CD. I shook my head in disbelief: where the hell am I going to get a copy of the Windows CD? And if I need Windows to perform basic functions, why don't I just get a PC with Windows already installed?"
Romantic, starry-eyed, hopelessly idealistic and mostly true.
I can't express how awesome this is...I was literally thinking about how great it would be to gmail in vim the other day. rad++
You joke but a future were corporations control ICBMs to their advantage is a realistic worry.
So Mugabe was spared from having to manufacture one piece of evidence against his political opponents. It doesn't look like there is much to set back in terms of democracy. The Atlantic folks are really clutching at straws with regard to Wikileaks.
As a high schooler, I'm fascinated with a similar paradox that I've observed. In my opinion there are four defining types of students, smart with a strong work ethic, average intelligence with a strong work ethic, smart but prone to procrastination, and average and prone to procrastination. In the schooling system, the order I listed is also the order of highest grades to lowest grades, meaning that these groups are ordered in highest to lowest scholastic value. I don't think this order is relevant outside of school though as people take more targeted jobs that appeal to their interests. This presents a problem as college admittance is based on the hierarchy I listed, meaning that some of the smarter kids will be put on a path that doesn't set them up for an optimal career.
How about if you make diners pay for the menu before they're allowed to order? And also kick them in the nuts while they're reading it. But then you give them the food for free. (This requires pricing the menu appropriately, of course.)
29

But I don't care what it means and don't buy the autism hype.

"The Truth Wears Off" http://crayz.org/science.pdf seems relevant here. Many early studies and experiments based on fresh theories produce dramatic results, but decades later, when experiments are repeated the results are still there, but less dramatic.

Hype and bias affect which tests get popularized. Also a good explanation for the ADD/depression medication craze.
Actually the test scored the "slightly" answers as well.
"How to score: "Definitely agree" or "Slightly agree" responses to questions 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 33, 35, 39, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46 score 1 point. "Definitely disagree" or "Slightly disagree" responses to questions 1, 3, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 36, 37, 38, 40, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50 score 1 point."

I'm the opposite of you, I answered mostly "slightly" answers. I too scored 28.
India began on socialistic ideals and the streak continues somewhat to the current day (it has reduced immensely since the liberalization in the early 90's). That being said I do not recall India or its economy being communist at any point. (There is a Communist Party of India to this day but it has never been significant on the national stage).
You may have missed my point.

I have met both. Again, they are both smart, but many people are smart. Many people who read Hacker News are technically capable of doing what each of them has done. Of those, very few were also able to benefit from a number of the external forces that supported each of them, and fewer still would actually want to do what each of them did.

So while they both may be quite intelligent people, they are not the most intelligent people ever to have lived, and are probably not even close. Being "brilliant" and being rich are not the same and there is no causal link in either direction!
You don't.

You assume that, innate talents being equal, women are equal to men in terms of productivity. I mean, this is the stated intention of the Feminist movement in a nutshell, yes?

And then you take a look at the other stats (as I mentioned, females take more leave. And females are more likely to have a child and stop working [1]. And there are the liability issues, ironically caused by the Feminist movement.)

And so - equal productivity, but less hours for the amount of money you pay. It's a simple calculation, with the result that, if the above assumptions are true, women should, from an economic point of view, be paid less than men on average.

At which point, if you are still arguing that wage should be equal from economic terms, you've gone beyond saying women are equal to men and saying that women are better then men - and that is an entirely different ball of wax.

[1] http://www4.hrsdc.gc.ca/.3ndic.1t.4r@-eng.jsp?iid=13#M_7
Could you give an example where a good, well-meaning person would have a logical reason to pay a minority less?
Please downvote the solution above as it incentivizes transparency, public scrutiny and more choice, while creating a more targeted product with guaranteed success (since it's been paid for and returned profits in advance of its making).

Please go on with your other solutions involving more lawyers and copyright protection schemes. I didn't mean to distract you.
An interesting development of open floor plans is the addition of white noise to reduce distraction. Has anyone seen this used at their office?

>>sound is controlled with dividing walls and “pink noise”—white noise focused on the frequencies of human speech, which can reduce the distance at which a conversation is audible from 50 feet to 12-16 feet. The result, the firm says, is greater focus, accuracy and short-term memory.
I was under the impression that Thunderbolt and the latest USB protocols actually are PCIe under the hood. This is why you had to have Thunderbolt security, because essentially you can tap deep into the hardware via a simple external port.
So the new model seems to be suggesting that high LDLs are not a cause for heart disease, but rather a symptom. Have other studies tying high LDLs to heart disease taken this into account, or did their main findings just show a correlation with high LDLs and heart disease?
The search can still show ads that are relevant to my search terms, right?
Yet it would be ridiculous to claim a privacy advantage by doing this move, since the only change here is sending your browsing activity to Apple instead of Google. And the Safe Browsing stuff is already kinda high in the "anonymized" scale anyway, up to the point Mozilla uses it.

If they wanted to claim privacy advantage, they could offer these lists for rsyncable download, like antivirus of more civilized eras used to do.
HN is much more conservative and libertarian than you might think.
Small restaurants rely on postcards sent to targeted addresses in the neighborhood to get off the ground. I can appreciate those. Is that targeted?
Doctors learn the results of science, but generally aren’t scientists. People doing science outreach are generally in that same category where their knowledgeable, but speak outside their specialty. Simply because being able to do original research today means a very narrow focus.

Beyond that, the best available information isn’t always that clear. Low salt diets for example where prompted based on very limited information that suggested they where slightly more likely to be useful than pointless. Unfortunately, we rarely have unambiguous data which gives clear guidance. Vitamin C for example is mandatory, but you can have zero vitamin C for 2 weeks without issue or quickly excrete excess. For more subtle interactions it’s just difficult to figure out what’s going on.
This kind of thinking is so unhelpful. You are complaining that she is being bullied by keyboard warriors. Easy mode/Hard mode? What are you talking about? Fundamentally, the only question here worth considering is whether the idea of turning plastic trash into building bricks a good idea or a bad one. This question isn't altered the inventor's genetalia or skin color.
> because the tool forces them to do the job properly

I'd argue the same restrictions on "setting handwave to maximum" and "XHTML doc has one missing brace, no web page at all now" are two extremes that have their parallels in the 'dynamic vs static typing', 'immutable pure vs mutable impure functions', 'XML vs JSON (oh wait!)', and 'web app vs native program' arguments that we HN readers love to debate.

The trick is finding the happy medium between both extremes. Training some 'slackers' to "do the job properly" and convincing some 'purists' to be more pragmatic to the limitations of the world around them.

After all, we need something to occupy us during this Eternal September.
Oh, I definitely agree, I'm just trying to point out that a lot of people here are making assumptions about what "Free Software" means that literally nobody in the FOSS or Open Source movements have ever said were goals.
Here's a link to the legal stuff. I'll find the best link for the red team statement.

http://criminal-law.freeadvice.com/criminal-law/arrests_and_...

EDIT: Here's an example of a red team "success:"

http://www.9news.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=67166&catid=222
If a guy named Balaji Srinivasan has to defend himself against accusations of white supremacy.. maybe he has a point and is right to push back?