jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry for the diversion, but what is/was it like to be able to ace a test without really studying for it?

The only emotion I can ever recall feeling when staring down at an exam is abject fear as every fact I knew drained out of my head.

I was always a relatively bright kid, but never super smart. When I worked hard, I got top grades and when I slacked, I didn't. At some point I stopped working hard and drifted through education, getting a mediocre degree on the way (on the upside, I have great soft skills).

From discussions with other gifted people, I get the impression that most of them worked really, really hard, even if they didn't realise it. But I have heard the odd person who maintains it all came naturally. Is this you?
But isn't sun rotating around galaxy center? So the velocity of sun isn't line, but an orbit, so it isn't constant (it's always changing direction), and we (Earth) do orbit the place that sun would be if not for the acceleration of sun caused by combined gravity of galaxy?
They still won't be always in your pocket and ready to draw out. That's the big deal with cameraphones: users are already trained to whip them out at every small notice (vibration, ringing, ...) extending the stimuli to "something interesting is happening" is not very hard, and as a result camera and video phones capture a lot of things.

Most people don't whip out an actual camera that easily. And cameras generally aren't kept in as convenient a place (or they're always out and then they annoy all the time)
And who says there actually is genuine need for such masses of employees? Many say that there ought to be, or that they wish there were, but that isn't the same.
Any phone camera would be worse than any decent point and shoot, even an older model. They say the iphone 4 cameras are the best but I doubt even those would be better than a decent point and shoot.

Phones just do not have enough space or money for a good optical system.
Glad to see it in action :)
Thanks for the advice. Good idea, the original aim was for a newsletter aimed at an existing community but from some mentions on Twitter it looks like other people are interested too.

I can also claim very little credit for the design, that goes to peterc who writes Ruby Weekly. I spoke to him first about launching a devops variant and he very kindly said I could borrow his design from http://rubyweekly.com/.
We have few business models in mind and monetization strategies. We will explore them as time goes on very carefully, but right now our goal is to make Minus better and increase compatibility for mobile platforms and more such as allowing documents and other filetypes.

John
Neat but not really exciting from a technological standpoint. Then again if I was 12 this would be pretty sweet....
Panic comes to mind as a company that makes software with personality, just look at their site:

http://www.panic.com
You see this tendency creeping into larger Christian churches more and more. If you can stop swearing, donate more money, avoid sex outside marriage, and generally focus on your own purity, you'll be happy and enjoy rewards in heaven. It's perfect for mega-churches and those that aspire to be mega-churches because they don't have to figure out how to create a meaningful community out of 5000 attendees. Each attendee is his/her own congregation, perhaps with a "buddy" to help enforce self-discipline.
> I know security people at Apple.

Do you have any information, whether they're using any kind of of code -security- auditing tools?

Could it be that the programmer simply got a backdoor request, which s/he in protest implemented this way to ensure to be caught.
what was it like working on mt.gox? is the code crappy?
It's been multiple experiences with a variety of teams in the megacorp I used to work for, as well as third party contracting/outsourcing firms.

I have no doubt it's a cultural misunderstanding rather than an attempt at deceit, but then... how the hell do you communicate technical knowledge to people who won't tell you what it is they need to know from you?
MyKolab. As secure as a hosted service can get, located in Switzerland.
Just vouch the original submission.
I'm curious what they think guarded this secret before NASA
See also https://lnav.org
I am very happy with (technical writing) experts helping with their expertise.
That is how I want culture to see their role.

Maybe a bit over-simplified: SW-Devs talk to the machines, Doc-writers talk to the people.
If you can't make the machines understand what you want it to do, you fail.
If you can't make the people understand what to do with your precious developed system, you fail.
Why is that naïve?
> How do you measure "sea level"?

A lot of places around the world have rulers that are fixed to the ground and have been regularly read for many decades.

The process is basically that one person reads the level at regular intervals for several minutes throughout the day (every 5 seconds for 4 minutes, once every hour for 8 hours, starting 4 hours before high tide in my case, not sure if it's exactly the same everywhere). The place is sheltered from waves.

Since tide effects are very well known and there are a lot of such stations, it is actually easy to get an accurate image of the global sea level from all these measurements.

Nowadays, they are also complemented by GPS-based measurements, and the stations themselves are also GPS-monitored in order to prevent long-term ground movement from adding bias to measurements.

Since the measurements are done on a global scale (in my case, I performed those while I was stationed on Kerguelen island) and since they have been done for so long in always the same way, they do allow to compare current results to any previous results with much better precision than 2mm.
This is better than a "container." A Mirage unikernel literally compiles in the pieces of an "OS" as libraries. There is no monolithic operating system with code sitting around waiting to be exploited. The web server in this example is the kernel.
That's not what a straw man argument is
There is nothing wrong with yoga or pilates, but they are not a replacement for good old fashioned weight training. If you really enjoy yoga mix it in with weight workouts. Do weights a couple times a week and yoga a couple times week.

Also, as someone else mentioned, don't be afraid of doing weights. The only way to gain weight and thus more muscle is by eating a surplus. So many women shy away from weights because they don't want to get 'bulky', when it's the food that makes you bulky not the training.
Woah a lot of strong reaction to this, which is perhaps not unsurprising.

I certainly think it is extreme language and I certainly didn't mean to imply that, as well-paid professionals, the majority of people on HN would be in a situation comparable to those truly in terrible situations: both overt slavery and what really amounts to actual slavery. I see it as purposely strong language used for emphasis.

I'm thinking more of the relationship between the employer and employee; ultimately you rent your time in exchange for money, which arguably for the majority of people is just enough to live their lives with some greater or lesser luxury, but ultimately doing unpleasant work which, though of course to some degree is necessary and serves society, is largely in place to make rich owners richer. A large mass of population simply acts within a confined system as 'slave wages' servicing the needs of the rich while only subsiding at a certain living standard.

I am contrasting this with those of us (and ultimately this probably applies to far fewer HN'ers than the general public) who find a way out, i.e. find value in our work beyond that of its means to provide us with an income, or in fact become one of the rich ourselves.

This is not a criticism of capitalism either, especially since I personally believe capitalism is the best means of distributing wealth, assuming controls are in place to prevent abuses.
I'm sure it's microtorrent...
Here's a response to the web browser tests recently performed on the Internet Explorer Testing Center:

http://www.freeciv.net/yet-another-html5-browser-test/
QE2 is just bad, the same way like QE0,1 or 3,4...

The government gives money to guys like Goldman which buy treasuries using these cheap money (call it "QE1" or low interest window or whatever). After that the government buys these papers back making a good profit for Goldman.
"Trickle down" here is that somebody would get paid washing Ferrari and Lambo of Goldman's people.
> Please. Bush didn't threaten vetos of profligate Republican spending either.

I didn't intend to suggest that he did.

> He doubled the national debt from about $5 trillion to $10 trillion, and it didn't all happen in the two years after 2006.

You're right - it didn't. The deficit went up, to a peak of around $600B, after 9/11 and the prescription drug monstrosity, but had dropped to $100B when repubs lost congress. That six years, plus the 2 years of a Dem congress, added $5T to the debt.

Obama is on schedule to add $5T in four years....

Yes "profligate Republican spending" was horrible. My point is that Dems have been worse.
I've been looking forward to this for a couple of months.

Dave Ambrose, the Hackers and Founders NYC organizer has a background in PR and Marketing, and he wanted to have an event trying to help startups manage their own PR better.

They are streaming it live so the other Hackers and Founders chapters around the country/globe can enjoy, and everybody is invited.
This looks nice, but why do so many online services have a delay between signing up for a beta and actually getting access? It is incredibly annoying.

The situation would be improved if you could tell me when to expect the invite instead of a vague 'soon'.
I will not defend words I didn't write. I will repeat what I did write, which was to suggest that I was saddened by the proportion of interest, and to say for the third time that I do not believe anyone is wrong to have a certain interest or to talk about it here.

Since you have a suggestion for me, I have one for you: Update the wikipedia article about John Draper the person to include information relevant for people who wish to understand John Draper the person.

Pax.

UPDATE: I don't appreciate your patronization either. You're right about that. I apologize.
Maaaan.

This says absolutely nothing, except for the ever-present "just start-up, it doesn't matter." It doesn't matter only if you're a Blub programmer (see http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html though I imagine most people have already seen it), or if you're a non-technical manager needing to convince himself that it doesn't matter.

So here is some real advice: if you are doing a typical "mostly-web-but-a-lot-of-little-elses" choose Python. Python has good frameworks like Django (that will bring up you to speed clearly for a CRUD-based web site) and Twisted (for the small "everything elses"). If you find performance bottlenecks, well, the C-API is not a "pleasure" to work with, but it's reasonable at least. It is easy to learn, so the whole "find an engineer familiar with it" is a bit of a red herring.

Sure, this advice will not fit all start-ups, but if you think it doesn't apply to yours, you better have fairly solid arguments.

(Some arguments that I think are solid: "We already know Ruby well, and the difference is small enough that this tips the scales", "we need to write in Davlik for Android". "But I know C++" isn't, for example.)
I still don't understand why they didn't use a more pleasant image, say, pictures of kids learning in classrooms.
I'm trying to find my "privacy outrage" / "who actually owns your content" soapbox but having trouble.

In fact, I find it kind of refreshing that Twitter is just flat out saying all your base belong to us, and anybody that wants it gets access for $360,000 a year.

This in contrast to Google, Facebook, Yahoo etc that muddy the waters whenever it comes to how they're actually using / sharing your data.
As long as they don't require me to login before I can read some tweet.

I think that's the only reason I have an account.
I like paying taxes. I get "free" healthcare and education and so many other things here in Sweden that wouldn't be possible without taxes. Simply not having to ever think about the financials of those things is worth a good 5% taxes if you ask me.

I wouldn't want to pay any less in taxes if it meant taking any of that away, but I would happily pitch in more if each additional krona would do as much or more than the one before it.
Personally, nothing. (Perhaps if others have the same answer, they can reply to this to keep the top level interesting.) But I'm curious...
These people shouldn't even be needed because they're completely inept at interviewing for technical skills, and they're pretty easy to game if you use the correct lingo. The vast majority of them are a waste of time; I've only ever met 2 that either actually got me a job or at least intended on actually getting me one.

I’m betting close to 100 with recruiters over two decades. The external recruiter’s purpose is not to access your technical skills. Their purpose is to see if you are the product that their buyers want and to make you look as good to the buyer as possible. You are not “gaming the system” by making yourself an attractive candidate that they can present to their client.

If you are looking for the standard median, commodity job , you have kept your eye on the market, done the correct amount of resume driven development, and you live in a major market, with local recruiters, it usually isn’t hard in my experience to find a job.

I won’t fit that description when I’m looking for my next job - I’m not looking for either the commodity job or to be in the 3rd quintile of pay for my local market. Networking will be required.
Does this count as fluff, or fake news?
Really cool! I especially liked the external EMP-shielding-box. I wonder if it's tested and how would one test those? Put it in a microwave and see if anything breaks?
"I think I would have stopped digging as soon as I got a hint of how deep this rabbit hole actually was"

Or maybe find a way of making the news public under anonimity, which brings us to the importance of being able/allowed to do so when necessary.
This is an oft-repeated myth.

Per-pixel noise depends indeed on the pixel size, but image-scale noise is almost completely independent of the pixel size.

That's because while a large pixel has less noise, it appears larger in the output and so the noise is correspondingly more visible. A small pixel is noisier, but smaller, so the net noise is the same for the same sensor size.
I think it just plugs into the Ayn Randian / objectivist mindset. "Some people are hard workers, and others are parasites, let's identify the parasites and axe them and we will have a utopia."

Yes, nobody thinks of it in such an outright simplistic way, but I do think this is the basic appeal.
I was in your situation at 15 (needed to develop something for a family friend). It was a total failure but kept going thinking up stuff on my own, reading and learning. Three years later I finished high school and got a job. Havent looked back since, ten years later started my own development/consulting company now running for three years.

My point is, if you bite hard enough, your education doesn't matter.
Nice.

There's also something to be said for picking something you're naturally good at an running with that. I, for example, had perfect pitch as a kid and with no practice managed to find myself in the church choir doing solos. I suspect that had I decided to follow up on it, I would have had an easier time than the author making it into a career.

In contrast, I can't dance. And it's not from lack of trying. I've taken classes (like college classes even), salsa lessons, you name it and I still just plain suck. Like the author says, I'm sure I could stick with it for 15 years and get good, but shy of that I'm always going to suck at it.

Other datapoints for me include rock climbing (naturally good), surfing (naturally bad, but on the 15 year path), basketball (naturally bad and gave up early), and computer programming (naturally good and making a career of it).

If you pick something you're naturally OK at and choose that as your focus, I think you'll get a lot faster results than the author.
yeah 2006 was a tough year.
In Virginia?

Death.

But it will be enforced by the velocity squared proportionality of kinetic energy and chronically underfunded highway maintenance coupled with old highways, not the police.
I had a scanner that became much more stable running on a Mac OS 9 machine than a Windows machine simply because the scanning software could "hang" the mac and monopolize the SCSI port with exact timing.
ESP32 can do it.
> All radio receivers have local oscillators built into their receiving circuitry that actually transmits energy that can be detected by specialized receivers.

All efficient radio receivers....

It is possible to build radio receivers without such. I built a crystal set as a child that could power an air piece without a battery using only the AM signal.
VRML never had facilites to define meaningful interactions comparable to what a real video game engine like the Unreal Engine can do and I think the current "metaverse" platforms also lack that.

A run-of-the-mill game like Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet has meaningful interactions with NPC characters that are NPC characters in the game. Mario and Luigi: Dream Team has NPC crowds that shower you with admiration.

Capital One (Progressive Insurance, AT&T, ...) establishes an emotional connection with me through actors who plays characters on television commercials, operating themed stores, etc.

They aren't going to move to the metaverse until they can give an experience at that level.

Single player video games succeed at this.

Fiction (Sword Art Online, Ready Player One, The Matrix, Disneyland) tells us clearly what the metaverse is: you share the space with players and NPCs.

The will has to be there but the technology isn't ready yet.
What is the power consumption? Curious how it compares against a Raspberry Pi Zero.
There was a thread about Franz Lisp founder where he explains that DARPA D.A.R.T project was done in C, about 30M LoC, and failed hard, while the Lisp implementation was running nicely, easy to fix in hours not days.

I'm not an experienced lisper, but it's not the first time I read this kind of report.
To be really technical about it: there's a reasonably popular brand of tape called "Duck" (https://www.duckbrand.com/). They refer to their main product, which is a kind of duct tape, as "Duck Tape." To clarify that the term "Duck Tape" refers only to their company's product, they refer to it as "Duck Tape® Brand Duct Tape."

So the phrase "Duck tape" is fine, if you capitalize the first word and use it to refer to tape made by the Duck brand. Likewise, "Duck Tape" is fine, if you capitalize both words, since it is the name of the specific product line made by Duck.

In fact, if you call store-brand adhesive bandages "Band-Aids," and you call store-brand acetaminophen "Tylenol," you could argue that it makes sense to call store-brand duct tape "Duck Tape." And if you don't always capitalize "Band-Aids," you could argue that it makes sense not to capitalize "Duck Tape" either.

So I would argue that using the phrase "duck tape" to refer to duct tape is fine, provided you accept that it is effectively a genericized trademark.
According to wiki, autos are more than an order of magnitude more dangerous per mile:

Air Car
Miles driven 40 450
Risk (millionths) 0.60 6.75

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...

edit: that was a shallow misreading of the data. But the end concludes that air travel is roughly slightly less than an order of magnitude safer.
The rent in the Bay Area is a huge problem. If was starting out my 5th person would be a homeowner who would
let me use their garage, and a few bedrooms in exchange for stock in the company, and maybe a little help around the house? We seem to be, as Americans, too concerned with the
right living situation? I've lived in a garage and couldn't
care less. My dates did though? But the ones who looked beyond the rust stuck around for the finished product.
>This could only be considered a meritocracy if the potential to become educated was equally available to all, but the situation in America is further from that ideal than almost any other place in the world.

This is part of Europe's cartoon view of America. The educational problems in the US are largely cultural.
Don't forget:

sites.google.com
wiki.google.com
apps.google.com

This probably scanned Google's old Sites product; the equivalent of Geocities for the early '00's.
What blows my mind is not even wiring this up - it's how he managed to debug this when he made a mistake (say, plugged something backwards or let the wires touch). On a project of this size and scale it is pretty much impossible not to make one at some point, no matter how careful you are.
Your entire premise was on what could be heard outside the cruiser.

And yes, it's fundamentally OK to hold police to a higher standard than the general public, including literal children. I'm not sure why this is in question.
When popping over a mates I often just plug it out and stick it in to their machine.

This was one of the touted technical uses for the first (Firewire) iPod. Apple had a notion that people could carry an iPod with them, and then boot any Mac from it and start working right where they left off.[1] This is why Xserves had a Firewire port on the front.

[1] As a point of interest, this used to also exist in the radio industry. Certain brands of control boards had "personality cards" that could be tuned[2] to a particular D.J. Then when the D.J. had to work from another studio, or remotely, he could pop his personality card into the control board and it would be preset to him.

[2] And by "tuned," that meant tuned for his voice[3], to make it sound the way he, or his program director, wanted it to sound.

[3] Even more interesting: Though these were circuit boards, the tuning was done mechanically, and by hand. They were a series of potentiometers covering different frequency ranges.
> it would be quite interesting to have a way to remotely know that a certain service is running the code you think it's running.

It sure would, and it would be a hell of a discovery if someone could come up with it. Because I sure can't think of a way that I can't easily debunk.
What if the “physical” exercises included aspects that qualitatively changed the state of one’s mind in ways that cannot be contained by thinking and thus cannot be expressed by language?
Sao Paulo, Brazil banned outdoor advertising signs in 2007.[1] Big win. It can be done.

I'd argue that advertising should not be a tax-deductible business expense. That would discourage overdoing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cidade_Limpa
> that makes a massive difference because you end up thrashing main memory when you could be spending those cycles getting work done.

That is true, however there is a huge domain of problems where that isn't much of a concern, while development time spent on it is a concern.

Then sacrificing a bit of performance over development speed can be quite worthwhile.

Of course not a high frequency trading platform and not an AAA+ Game, but a small Webservice just taking data from a ("slow") database, doing little transformation, and sending over network .... less of a problem
it is race-based discrimination is just as unproductive for society as racism and being racist.
What if someone else was building a house for you, rather than you building your own house? Wouldn't you like to know what you are getting?
Open up the link in a new incognito window. That's all. It works every time. Don't clear cookies, or disable javascript, or any of that other stuff.
You're making a whole lot of speculation here that you don't back up in the slightest.