jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I moved to Berlin few months ago to work in a fintech company and the process was super quick and easy.
It only took 2,3 weeks to finalise everything.

Now, I applied for a blue card, but since you don't have a degree its best to apply for work permit.

The waiting time for this whole process largely depends on the waiting time in your home country for the embassy appointment. I recall in my situation - people had to wait up to a year for a work permit appointment, while for a blue card the waiting time it was only a few days!

In both situations blue card or work permit, you have to have an employer, since you will need documentation from their side.
First off, does every court case's records show 100% the true story? If this were true, wouldn't every court case in history be completely incontrovertible? I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that just because it's been through court does not mean that the whole story is evidenced in court record. But IANAL.

Second, the article goes into things that happened after the audio confrontation, and it's claimed that those are the things that led to his dismissal. I would want to know more about those things, and not just whatever evidence has been accepted by the court, or the interpretation told by this article.
As someone dealing with life in Germany, I’d appreciate the link?
> For example, if a policeman A catches county clerk B speeding, B could bribe A to forget about that ticket. That would be corruption, but A and B are not in any hierarchy relation to each other.

This example only works if there is a hierarchy:

- Policeman A wouldn't take the bribe, unless it's big enough relative to his wealth

- Clerk B wouldn't offer the bribe, unless it's small enough relative to his wealth

There is an economic hierarchy implicit in the example. The consequences of the ticket are also important, since there's no point spending more on a bribe than would have to be paid in fines.
>you really want to foster a kind of contagious, optimistic busy-bee state

Is that really how american workplaces look? Sounds incredibly dystopian.
Guessing, but it would make a lot of sense if there was a fair number of humans that are just primed to constantly look out for threats. If such people exist, they would love 24-7 news coverage of bad news even though it makes their lives worse.

Following news makes little sense for keeping a person informed. There are too many completely conflicting sources of news. All the news informs of is what other people who watch the news will have opinions on.
Hertz issued new stock when its stock started rising while it was in bankruptcy proceedings, with permission from the bankruptcy court, until the SEC told it to stop (AFAIK, the SEC did not penalize it for the stock it had issued up to that point.)

GameStop could not do this during its initial crazy ride, on account of being in a fiscal-year-end blackout period. Since then, it has said it may issue new stock.

Any company making such an offering whould have to be frank and completely transparent about the risk, to avoid any hint of securities fraud, and I would not be surprised if the company would still be sued if the price subsequently fell. In Hertz's case, being sued would not be a problem.

ViacomCBS claims to not have known that the run-up of its stock was driven by Archegos's speculation, and seems to have been harmed by the outcome. It had Goldman and Morgan Stanley leading the sale of its new issue, and it so happens that they were also prime brokers for Archgos, but bailed out fast enough to avoid big losses. Make of that what you will.

I am just repeating here what Matt Levine has said on the topic.
speculating, but don't think it's about use case so much as it is about it being a simple way to implement ('C is portable assembly') which probably carried through to our more current notion of this being a 'language level' thing
Yep. A lot of people "quit" these nasty centralized you-as-a-product services but what they mean by quit is that they don't use their account anymore. They still use the services.
I too have downloaded a lot of e-books, but really have a hard time with managing them. Several years ago I decided to subscribe to Packt's e-book service, at $10/mo it's a pretty safe investment to try out. I honestly found the fact that it manages the book for you (favorites, folders, keeps the right page amongst multiple devices, history, etc) was pretty much worth the price. After the first year I upgraded to SafariBooksOnline, which is quite a bit pricier, but has all of the Packt, Orieley, and more books. There are still a lot of books that suck, or aren't what you're looking for, but you do get to look at the whole thing before investing any more money or time into it.
Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga has a pretty good treatment of the subject. His society has rejuvenation treatments that take care of aging bodies as well as artificial memory/personality backups. You age, you go through a rejuve, you die of unnatural causes, your insurance grows you a clone body and dumps your memories in from backup. Pretty interesting consequences. They also have wormhole technology and a budding star empire, so population expansion is not really an issue.
Pumped storage is cool for daily cycles, but the real source of electricity storage is going to be bigass batteries that can respond to demand as quickly as a natural gas turbine: http://www.ambri.com/technology/
I don't think php has reached the point where a lot of libraries have reached stagnation.

In general though it would be cool to just automate this in some fashion. Occasionally email participants a link to projects that haven't had commits in many months but have open bugs or feature requests.
Spaniard here.

The main difference between political parties in Spain is whether they prefer to build or burn churches, so to speak. In economic matters they are all highly interventionist, and we like it this way, sadly.
Are there any guides to getting started quickly on Mac and Linux? Is F# baked enough in Mono to be useful?
I'm in.

Some years ago I tried to motivate people to contribute to Perl 6, and found that while many had some lingering interest in doing so, they needed some steering.

This was hard for me to do, because usually in Open Source communities, you aren't supposed to tell people what to do; they are free to chose the occupation after all. But I found that it worked very well.

So I think the CPAN Pull Request Challenge is a very good approach to steer people to particular projects, without causing too much work for those who steer. At least it's a very good experiment to try.
Indeed, it was a neat way to develop in isolation when I needed it (PHP).
They did the same to me, when I dropped my first iPad and cracked the screen. They looked at it, and said "We'll sell you a new one at half price". Oh thanks, not even going to pretend to try to fix it?

But I did buy the new one and let them have the cracked one.
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I am wondering if we could solve the current madness with arbitrary content policing by waiving copyright protection for monopolistic platforms and enforcing interoperability.

Imagine if anyone was legally allowed to create their own fork of Reddit, or Google Groups, preserving the original content, and even being able to post new content through the fork, as if they did it directly. If google decided to ban some content, the fork could easily show it from a backup, leading the users to quickly flee the over-restrictive platform to the fork with the most reasonable moderation.

As a nice side effect, this would kill the rotten ad-based revenue model where everything is free, but your data is sold to the highest bidder. Ad-blocking forks would quickly take over the originals, so in order to be profitable, the original platforms would have to charge the costs to the users directly (or to the forks that would pass them to the users with a possible markup for their added value).

That said, it would be completely against the interests of the VC crowd that wields considerable political influence, so I cannot imagine this happening in the U.S. Europe is another story though.
You're describing collectivism thought. Everyone shares an identity and as such everyone needs to participate. This only can happen on one side, the other side believes in individual choices that aggregate to a greater good so long as everyone is responsible in their own choices. So yeah that is how the extremes go about it, and it seems to have been successful to some extent in social media (apparently by who the current big platforms are).
NO. Different oils are meant to be cooked at different temperatures. Find the right one for your use case.
People also roast chestnuts and cashews over a fire. Marshmallows are also roasted. It’s seems like a term originating in common parlance and not specifically a marketing term. I seriously doubt coffee is carcinogenic (if that’s what you’re suggesting) besides the baseline grilled/roasted food danger to the stomach/small intestines.
Really we know that chemicals absolutely do seep into the food... but we don’t know if they are harmful yet. All plastics shed & leech.
You're saying this from atop your own high horse.

I used to fight about prettier (js) gofmt and so on. I just finally found I don't care. It's more fun to just code and watch it all get autoformatted to the project or language standard
Alina Chan's WSJ article is a decent popular summary,

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-world-needs-a-real-investig...

https://archive.is/R6kwN

There's also been a string of academic preprints and articles, like

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2102/2102.03910.pdf

The authors tend to be kind of fringe, not surprisingly given the reputational cost (and given that if a lab origin is ever confirmed, many of the techniques that top researchers have spent their lives mastering will probably become illegal). A lot of very senior virologists are on the record as open to the possibility of a lab escape, though, for example:

> Baric said he still thought the virus came from bats in southern China, perhaps directly, or possibly via an intermediate host, although the smuggled pangolins, in his view, were a red herring. The disease evolved in humans over time without being noticed, he suspected, becoming gradually more infectious, and eventually a person carried it to Wuhan “and the pandemic took off.” Then he said, “Can you rule out a laboratory escape? The answer in this case is probably not.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/coronavirus-lab-esca...

I don't recommend that article in general; the author uses his talents as a novelist to paint a more vivid picture than I believe the evidence justifies. I do trust him to faithfully print the quote, though.
Your wording suggests that the "flip" was caused by the civil rights issues. Yet in reality the "flip" was a gradual realignment over 30-40 years. 80% of Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act and remained the worst enemies of white supremacists. Jim Crow Democrats did not flip Republican. They had nowhere to go, so they stayed Democrat for decades. There are still Blue Dog Democrats to this day. The South eventually became more Republican as the older voters died out and a new generation with different views came of age.

A good example is Robert Byrd. A former KKK leader, he is also the longest-serving US Senator in history, from 1959-2010. He remained a Democrat the entire time, and was particularly skilled at outmaneuvering Republicans. He doesn't seem to have had a real change of heart. He was just a political opportunist who didn't mind compromising his principles to gain power. He called himself "Big Daddy" due to how good he was at getting pork.
And then go into one of those noise cancelling rooms, and the only sounds you can hear are your blood pumping through your body and the tinnitus ringing.
Can we also at least agree that enough is known about nutrition to determine that soylent is nutritionally better than the $6 options you provided? So as long as we're comparing alternatives to soylent in price, let's also compare them on the qualities of nutrition that we do know.
Technical / Physical Questions
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebooks-zuckerberg-has-ri... has the actual story.
They see him sweating and are trying to help him out. The odds are he was baking under those lights. Though he also looks quite nervous.
I think the bottleneck is the problem he is trying to solve: forward messages from one producer to one consumer in order. This is an inherently sequential problem, all it requires is a FIFO and a select on two file descriptors. The only thing that changes if you introduce treads is that they must continuously coordinate to find out who should send the next message. "I'm only dangerous with synchronized blocks", indeed.
These changes save me $120 over 2 years so I can't complain too much about losing bandwidth I wasn't using anyway. AT&T could have probably made these changes without cutting prices by simply adjusting the definition of unlimited. For tethering if you figure $25 (base) + $20 (tethering) + $60 (overages, to match Verizon's 5GB cap) you're paying $105/month without the option to wifi tether. Looks like AT&T doesn't mind high usage customers going to another carrier.
Loved the inside of the hoodie moment. Very interesting, and a bit creepy.
The stats can be misleading, nginx is very good at being a reverse proxy or software load balancer and tends to be put to use in those contexts with pass-thru to existing web servers.

Because the stats look at headers, the last header before hitting the internet will be the nginx caches.
In some provinces here in Canada we do have limits on our trash pickup.
Growth might have been faster or slower, who can say.
It may seem more complex, but it really isn't, and it typically ends up so much cheaper than EC2 it's not even funny.

And you don't need to straddle data centres as most data centre operators these days have their own cloud offerings - often cheaper than EC2.

I don't know his margins, so maybe it isn't worth it for him specifically, but I know plenty of businesses with small enough margins that the opportunity to halve a half-a-percent-of-revenue cost like that could easily add 10% to profits.
The thing I'm most pissed off about is having this rubbish bundled in with Prime at a non-additional extra cost. As a current Prime customer, I will not be renewing next year.

I generally respect Amazon, Bezos, most of what they do and their business strategy, but this is a real shitbag move towards paying Prime customers.
Why are posts allowed that just have the site's URL as the entire post title?
"Yes" isn't yet supported by the evidence. "Maybe" or even "Probably" would be.
It's a nice place to live. Period. Can't go further than that.

Life is about series of choices:

- Work hard vs enjoy life

- Spend time writing unit-tests vs hack and go home by 5 PM

- Come in early 8.30 and build relationship/culture vs come in at 10 and make yourself a cup of coffee.

- Today is snowing, take a day off and go to Whistler vs stuck at the office along with colleagues and have a great time not just working, but share stories (again, build culture).

- Discipline vs "It's 4PM on Friday afternoon, let it go"
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I think it's a good read from slide #29 on if just for being food for thought.
The Libya story is here: http://blogs.jobdig.com/wwds/2007/11/19/sr-71-now-that-was-s...

I love that he accidentally overshoots the refueling in Gibraltar -- and ends up next to Sicily.

The more detailed Libya stuff is at the end, though he summarizes it in the beginning.
I was wishing for a site exactly like this when I was reading.
I'm not sure what you mean by context. Clearly nginx also has some context, such as the data read so far, associated with each handle. I guess you mean thread stack?
Submitted 7 months ago on a more readable, seemingly more original site.

http://www.vfp62.com/SR-71.html

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1247709 (good amount of discussion)
Great comment - I completely agree about REXML. One question for you - what's an example of a http library in another language which you think provides a good API? Personally, I haven't found net/http to be any worse/better when compared to many other standard http libs.
I thought I was the only that did this! Only two passwords of mine need to be memorized. Dropbox and Gmail. 1Password for everything else, with a dedicated Dropbox account solely for keeping the 1Password vault backed up (I've had my laptop stolen before, and being locked out because you don't know any password makes for a terrible afternoon).
I'm an advanced programmer, but I know very little about web programming in particular. Most web programming tutorials seem like they're designed for beginning programmers. Is there a resource designed for someone like me who already knows how to program and just wants to learn how to do it on the web?
The macroexpansion hook isn't nearly as powerful or useful as it could be because the process of macroexpansion is not recursive. Although expansion functions can access information about the lexical environment via an &environment parameter, the invocations of those expansion functions do not share any dynamic context with other invocations at nodes above or below them in the syntax tree.

Here's a more thorough summary of the problem: http://qiita.com/guicho271828/items/07ba4ff11bff494dc03f
It's a question of choice, as a user. My original question was - why? Saving Earth, that's one way to look at the thing. Why then, amazon.com connects just fine with 256 bit cipher, but then fails when one goes to personal recommentations section. Most likely, of course, it's a misconfiguration issue, but is it possible that there exist more sinister reasons?

Recall RC4. We now consider it broken. But it is still allowed on many servers, and even on 34.0.5 Firefox.

I agree, when one goes to disable legacy functionality, one should be prepared to suffer consequences. That's why my original question was "why".
It would be exceptionally epic if you didn't "speak too soon" but instead "gave them the idea" ;P.
Why wait and not use it right away? If you have read access now you can exploit now.
I wrote a paper on what we thought was the optimal strategy for the beer game. My team won a beer game session run at the system dynamics society conference about 10 years ago.

1. Push all the inventory to the end of the supply chain (the retailer).

2. Run the inside of the supply chain on a "pass-through" strategy - order exactly what is known to be coming down the supply chain on that turn.

3. Use a control algorithm based on the outflows from the retailer to control production at the factory (the factory player has to watch the retailer's inventory closely). The best parameters for the control system depend on the exact demand deck.
People consider coal mining to be a good blue collar job, and I bet it's 100x worse.
This was flagged/dead and I vouched this because I think it is an interesting issue that we should be able to have a reasonable discussion around. Currently we have on the front page of HN an article talking about what makes a great company culture, so clearly culture screening needs to happen before you hire someone. There also needs to be a check on this very subjective metric though, otherwise it is a way for conscious or unconscious biases to sneak into the process.
can you back this up with sources or more than one example?
I am referring to the case
x=3 y=3 of the assertion 4.442
He is exactly a cultural leader in the space of operating system distributions. I think this is a prime example of using organizational system leverage for profound technical impact.
This, but also faster charging and abundance of chargers is needed. I can drive an ICEV / HEV / PHEV anywhere in Europe and refueling is no problem. I can't do that with an EV. And even if I find a charging station, it might be all busy and then what - go to another one or just wait half an hour or more until someone finishes charging.
What I'd really like is for the businesses we work at to get serious about their commitment to the environment (instead of doing token commitments). In particular they could invest or participate in a fund or estate, on our behalf, which would take the forest out of its current status of unclaimed territory. Facebook alone could likely buy a significant chunk of the Amazon.

Instead we'd want it to only point the finger, also on our behalf? I'm sure Facebook would actually love to be required to police and to eventually govern us. It will misconstrue that we wanted it to.

Let's work with each other, not against each other. A cry for more control and repression won't bring a smile to anyone's face.
Realistically none of these are very good options. Starting a competitive messenger application is likely to be impossible - Signal got to where it is thanks in large part to 50mn USD from Whatsapp's founder. The fact that it's very difficult means that there aren't a huge number of competitive choices, and none that are "Signal but you can access your data". So even though complaining is not a great option, it might be the most likely way to get what is wanted, whether by someone from Signal seeing the request and agreeing, or someone else seeing there is a market for this.

If you have a choice between Whatsapp (metadata not private, but has backup) versus Signal (metadata private but no backup), if you need backup (or anyone you communicate with does), you lose privacy because you're forced to use Whatsapp. Arguably because of Signal's refusal to "compromise" on privacy by allowing backups you have lost privacy anyway.
Or he'd figure out a way to use each of the 2 million pixels to display useful information! One thing about old "business" UIs designed for terminals or small screens - they certainly didn't waste space.
I wonder why this was flagged...

Was it about his view on zig? Or his comment about rust??
I love the methodology bikeshedding. If it were 1999, they'd be diagramming Super Star Trek in Rational Rose.
yea, write it, in Swift because for MacOS (I have MacOS). Should be simple thing.
If there is a claim that an anonymous currency is owned in major part by a certain gender the burden of proof lies on the people making a claim..

I don't think anyone can actually prove these numbers..

If I say 70% of cash is held by group 'x'. prove me wrong, you can't. No one is going to be able to do that.

Let me know if you have a link to MtGox sharing gender breakdown of their owners..
Oddly, the manual download links have been broken for a while, but the full manuals are included in the IDE download, which works great.
Bill Gates has been talking about, and investing his own money, in clean energy for years now.

He's been working on global health for a decade.

That's about it. Until recently the public at large didn't really care about either so his massive (billions of $$$) investments in both didn't get regular press attention.

But this isn't anything new for him, it is all stuff he's been focused on for over a decade.
Fun idea, but i can’t shake the feeling that I’m doing free work for domain speculators...