jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Took me about half a week last time I tried this. That's from signing up to getting all the approvals needed and finally getting my jar out via maven central. I imagine they may have improved their processes a bit since then but as far as I know it still involves creating tickets in their issue tracker and a human doing stuff with it.
Did Siri flop?
Great VPs need to good at two very different things: politics, and their actual job, and for this reason they are rare.

They might not be rare if more organizations had a smarter idea about the actual job a VP of technology needs to perform.

One of the best VPs of technology that I ever worked for saw it as his job to use his considerable abilities at playing politics to guarantee that no tech person below him had to deal with any political BS. He himself had no ability to work with technology, and everyone knew it. But he knew who did and enabled them to do their job.

Every technical person in that organization understood and valued this about him. As he moved from company to company, they would voluntarily seek him out. And now that he founded his own company, the fact that people who have worked for him wanted to work with him again proved to be one of his biggest assets.
Thanks. I'm on 32-bit Ubuntu 13.04 but problem has presented itself for at least last several releases.
By socio-economically crushed, that is essentially what I was referring to. Until some hypothetical post-scarcity future rolls around, we can't be in every household stopping every abusive parent or helping every kid have a quiet study space. But in a developed country, I would still wager that for the vast majority of people who could enjoy social mobility from coding, the extrinsic pieces are there for the most part, the awareness of the possibility is there, and the main obstacle is having enough intrinsic motivation/ability to get there.

To be perfectly clear, I am not making a by-the-bootstraps argument, just trying to look at the situation as objectively as my biases allow me to. It might be far, far easier for the scion of a tidy bourgeois home to make it, but unless they have the right personality type they are still highly likely to fail eventually. They'll go further than a student with the same personality type but fewer resources, but the roadblock will still appear later in the sequence, possibly at the very end. Conversely, a disadvantaged kid with the right personality type will typically have the possibility to get to the launchpad zone towards a better life. At the very least, the conditions and probability distributions have never been better compared to other careers and aspirations.

What could change this is to have better opportunities for mediocre coders, but it appears to be going the opposite way. Due to the extrinsic rewards there is now a glut of such employees that might pop their own code-monkey bubble soon while leaving the outrageous tech salaries for the higher tranches intact for at least a bit longer (if there is in fact a separate bubble as well for the latter).
I've worked with sleep labs on a project regarding actigraphy data and another interesting tidbit is the fact that we wake up 20-30 times per night but have no recollection of it.

We don't know why this is the case, but one theory is related to the story of the ducks in the article. In our past we used to sleep in groups and so at every point in time, at least one group member was alert to watch out for predators.
There is a two day closing period for stock sales. During that period the exchange needs colateral to ensure when the transaction closes it will be paid for.

Typically this collateral is small, like 3% because most stocks aren’t volatile and buyers almost always pay up.

But when a stock gets incredibly volatile, there is a risk that buyers of $480 shares may refuse to pay when the price is $90 two days later. Especially when the buyers are a bunch of new retail investors who just opened accounts.

You could buy GME from most brokers because they didn’t have the GME volume Robinhood had, and they had more collateral, so the 100% collateral requirements for GME were manageable.
I find it interesting that you can get the mobile carrier from this. The first thing I pictured was a voice phishing attack: "Hello, this is T-Mobile, there's a problem with your account..." you get the gist.
> ...none of your claims follow.

That was my claim. To wit, that a college education is more valuable than the credential.

> If it costs X to educate 10% of the population, it takes more than 2X to educate 20%.

Why would the cost of providing education to more people increase as a multiple of the baseline costs?

> And since there is no relief from lowered enrollment, prices will stay high.

Restricting enrollment would increase costs as there is more competition among prospective students for the service. Students would have to outbid each other, not merely outperform each other to secure a spot.

> Now college is something everyone's entitled too... [sic]

An education is what we should entitle them to. As you note, colleges have been locked for decades in a competition for students by investing in new buildings, amenities, and sports with no regard for the effect on costs because of the price inelasticity of demand. And it has been a safe investment because student loans & grants have been so readily available.

The best price controls available to us are exercised by holding the institutions accountable for certain outcomes (like excessive dropout & loan default rates), by providing an equivalent service at a lower cost (something like Obama's "free community college" option), and by making student loan debt dischargeable like most other debts. The ready availability of capital is part of what has driven up costs.

> You should look at how many drop out after $20,000 or $50,000 worth of student loan debt.

The national graduation rate was approximately 60% in 2012 [1], while the national student load default rate was 13.7% in 2014 [2]. Students who do not graduate are several times more likely to end up in default, but it is still a manageable risk overall for investors because student loans are so difficult to discharge and because most people will eventually pay them back, and still worth it for students because they still have a positive net ROI.

[1] https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=40
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/national-stude...
Clippy: I heard no one likes our phone OS, so we are going to put it on your desktop for FREE, arent you glad? Metro squares for everyone!
To me, the phrases 'H1B' and 'startup' are inherently disconnected. I -- and many others, i imagine -- would love to read your post on your immigration issues. Thanks!
IMO, this is a terribly-written piece, giving a very false impression of reality.

"Because so many sites — including TIME — use Facebook's user-tracking "Like" button, Zuckerberg is able to collect information about people who aren't even users of his site. These are precedents which hurt our ability to freely connect with each other"

Nope - it just hurts our ability to connect privately. Not the same thing.

"The fact that Facebook's code is hidden from view means that its users are not connecting directly with each other. They are speaking to Mr. Zuckerberg [...]"

What does Facebook being open-source or not have anything to do with it? Does Word being closed-source mean that everything I write in Word is really a communication to Microsoft?

Even worse, that sentence leads to this:

"witness the recent reports of Facebook's messaging service blocking messages based on the words and links in them, because those links point to services which Facebook would prefer we not discuss."

I'm assuming this is about Facebook blocking links to Lamebook. According to Tech Crunch, this went on for only a few hours. It was probably a bug/mistake - I can imagine the same thing happening from Gmail or any other mail provider. TC article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-censorship/
I didn't say it was a good choice, it's just their choice. For what it's worth, I agree that there were better options.
I think we're starting to need a "dislike" button for HN submissions. How does this get to #1? Time is a private publication. If you don't like its choices, don't read it. If you have to vent about it, you'll find a lot of friends in Reddit.
That seems like a good idea, until you plonk your US Airways newsletter and realize that you've plonked future flight confirmations as well.
People who can't get over the syntax never actually get Lisp.

So tired of hearing this from Lisp zealots. There are actually many intelligent people that understand lisp but don't think the plusses of the syntax outweigh the minuses.
Ideas looking for solutions in their official website
http://www.coinnovation.gov.sg/co_innovation_projects.html
> and the article linked from that comment is why I think Go is posed to become dominant over other new languages like Rust.

Apples to oranges. Rust is aiming to be a C++ replacement.
No, not all citizens salaries are disclosed, it's a feature of the H1-B program.
When I started working with Indians, this is exactly what it reminded me of.
"Yes, ftp is the file transfer protocol, used to move files"
"Can you ftp the files up please?"
"No, I have never used it"
I agree with that. It's not a black and white thing and it is sometimes very difficult to even tell goals and approaches apart because a particular approach to solve a larger problem can become an intermediate goal. Sometimes minor differences regarding the preferred approach become dogma. On the other hand, it's always possible to define goals broadly enough to find common ground with almost everybody but then it becomes meaningless. So I still think Stallman's skepticism is legitimate and doesn't necessarily mean he is ignoring other opinions. But I don't know him personally and I don't share his opinions on freedom.
Then you’re probably a dogshit driver.
howareyou.com – Shoreditch, London. Front-end developer, onsite.

We're hiring for a senior front-end developer (JavaScript, Angular.js, Node.js – for tooling – and LESS, to name a few technologies), someone who is not reliant on frameworks, who understands performance implications of a given solution (especially on mobile) and who is comfortable with terminal and scripting languages.

We are behind howareyou.com https://howareyou.com/, an award winning online health record completely free to NHS professionals and patients.

We are committed to building the best clinical API https://api.howareyou.com/, highly available and secure. Our API is a collection of services distributed across multiple infrastructures (including AWS).

Our approach:

- RESTful APIs - including the hypermedia component
- non-web Ruby services - we're big on EBI (Entity-Boundary-Interactor)
- non-Rails apps - we are slowly phasing out Rails
- client-side apps - our newest apps are all Angular.js talking to APIs
- Service Oriented Architecture
- hybrid infrastructure
- Redis and Riak - masterless clusters is where we're heading

You will be working alongside the best in their field (including regular speakers at Ruby Manor and other leading conferences) from Google Campus, less than 5 minutes walking distance from Old Street station.

For the best contractors, we are willing to pay £450 per day. All candidates are encouraged to get in touch with us on jobs.hn@howareyou.com
Have you asked the reddits for people on social security? There's probably a fair few people in there who know how to answer your question. That's not meant to be derrogatory, just honest. There are people whose entire careers are gaming systems like you're wanting to do.
This is similar to what happened with studio-owned movie theaters. The right solution is to outlaw exclusive distribution deals and production-company ownership of streaming platforms (yes, that means Netflix would have to split up).
its just not worth my time to torrent anymore. It makes more sense for me to pay $10 then spend 5 minutes torrenting something.
I sort of went the opposite direction. I drank too much in college and had a naturally high tolerance. Now I can feel 2-3 beers if i didnt just eat a meal. I much prefer being a lightweight.
Disney also owns 20th Century studios and Searchlight, which makes for a significant back catalog they could draw from.
"Designed for AOL Netscape 6"
I don't think they need to though. Playing safe with their popular IPs seems like a fine strategy.
That might be true sometimes, but it isn't the general rule. SAG is more akin to the way medical and legal organizations constrict supply. But most unions instead fix a structural problem.

One of the fundamental asymmetries of our corporate age is that employees have ~1 company, but companies have many employees. That gives a company enormous negotiating power: it's easier for them to find another employee than for you to find another job.

Unions act to restore balance so that companies and workers have more equal negotiating power. That doesn't come through supply restriction. E.g., in high school I worked for a grocery store and we were unionized. They could have fired all the stockers at once if they wanted, as it was not particularly hard to learn the job. But what they couldn't do was pressure me into taking less money by threatening to fire me.
Microsoft as led by Bill Gates was an aggressive, anti-competitive entity.

They crushed competitors with the motto "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish", where they'd start to embrace an open standard, extend it with their own customizations, and use that to crush the competition.

They tried to do it with Java, but Sun prevailed in a lawsuit against them.

Before that they crushed word processor rival WordPerfect (though arguably, WP did not handle the migration to GUI properly), and spreadsheet rival Lotus 1-2-3 this way. They leveraged their control of the Platform (Windows) to control any software market they wanted, such as internet browsers, crushing Netscape, leading to an anti-trust lawsuit [1] that almost caused Microsoft to have to split up (arguably saved by Bush Jr. being elected to office).

There was also the SCO lawsuit against Linux, but that was after Bill Gates stepped down from CEO, so it's at Steve Ballmer's feet.

Needless to say, he (& Microsoft) accumulated so much ill will that it basically required a generation turnover (as you've demonstrated ;) ) to forget.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
Both the queries mentioned in the article return nothing relevant.
I highly recommend continuing with your education. It's going to be tough going into the job market without job experience and no college degree.

If you're interested in hardware as well as software, maybe you can look into the Arduino (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino).
Four hours? Your bladder must be made out of steel.

What value to you get in return for this significant investment of time? I've been curious about meditation for a while, but never really understood the benefits. Every time I've tried it, I've walked away cranky and uncomfortable.
<cisco plug>
There's the $600 version that uses your existing TV also. Imagine this may be closer to what startup's could use. Monthly subscription of $25
http://home.cisco.com/en-us/telepresence/umi/what-you-need
</cisco plug>
Browsers store cookies that allow you to stay signed in.
I recommend community college for now. It's cheap, easy, you'll be ahead of everyone in the class, yes, but you'll learn that there are a lot of things you probably don't know about yet.

Notice I didn't say you'll learn them :-), that will be up to you, but for instance, you'll be exposed to ideas and concepts you haven't encountered in your hobby programming.

Once you're in school, apply Google Summer of Code. Working on an Open Source project in a team is invaluable.

I also learned to program from doing hobby projects, but writing real code that others use and look at is a whole different world. I regret I waited till I was done with my college years before I started getting into Open Source development.

Good code you can show people and contributions are invaluable both to learning, your resume, and getting scholarships to a four year Uni when you decide it's time to transfer (if).

Good luck, keep coding!
If you find out the name of someone who will be interviewing you, and they have a LinkedIn profile, you'll find out their job title, and possibly their whole resume. That should help you prepare for the interview.

Unless you're actively looking for a job (or are trying to hire someone) it's probably not a site you go to every day.
I believe Stack Overflow does some of this too. Though I can't seem to find the source that convinced me of such.
You sound like a good fit for NexHealth. Shoot me an email at alamin@nexhealth.com. I'd love to chat.
This shows how much work goes into moderation here. Almost all titles seem more accurate and less clickbaity.
To play the devils advocate: IMO, it's the focus on the micro steps that's the problem.

HS level math is vary simple. You can write a single textbook that covered the full range of math from preschool to calculus, but the focus on 3 days of instruction, a day of review, and then a quiz or test slows things down. It can be easier to skip ahead and then go back and review than try and approach math in tinny nibbles. It's like spending a full year going over cement foundations before you mention that the goal is to put a house on top of that flat slab.

Personally, I used to do other classes homework assignments in my math classes. I can recall getting in about 4 seconds a new topic that the class spend a full week going though in minute detail. It was so bad I once accidentally did the next chapters review vs the assigned homework and did not even notice at the time.

PS: I am all for better instruction, but perhaps we could consider going a little further. We could probably get the average 10th grader to really understand Calculus, but I think the goal should be to dive into DifEq and number theory etc.
Bit of a plug, I've written something like this except that it doesn't work via GHC and instead outputs source code (which means the gensyms aren't very safe...)

I'm not working on it anymore (unfortunately never really got over the static typing) but it should run and might be of interest:
https://github.com/aliclark/hasp
http://www-student.cs.york.ac.uk/~anc505/code/hasp/hasp.html
In addition, you can use my weekend project:

http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.nytimes.com...
I couldn't get it store hardlinks properly (using ditto). Do you know how to fix that?
Really like the design of Summify and how easy it is to setup. Now trying it out.
Excellent resources on Twitter:

- http://twitter.com/bashtips

- http://twitter.com/climagic

- http://twitter.com/zshtips

And an oldie but a goodie:

- http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml
Programming Perl

Larry Wall is a mad genius, I don't care if anyone says otherwise. Plus its frequently laugh out loud funny.
Interestingness is quite complex, and those studies seem to be about absolute interestingness. I wonder what predictors would determine relative interestingness. For example, given a set of articles that a person found interesting in the past how well could you predict that some new article will be interesting to that person? How well could you predict that given articles their friends found interesting? What about articles that came from a source that produced interesting articles in the past, or articles that were tagged with the same words, and so on.

Furthermore, what algorithm would be best? A type of Bayesian filtering is really effective at separating spam from non-spam, would it be effective at filtering interesting from non-interesting?
I guess that I used the Dutch categorization ;).
Random musing: What if karma was kept as a way to sort comments in each thread, and to maintain a threshold for the ability to downvote, but was concealed from the user?

i.e. I can upvote or downvote someone, but not see the current score their comment has, or their overall karma, or my own.

What happens then? Do we stop our subconscious trepidation over whether we will be downvoted and begin posting whatever pops into our heads, thereby improving HN, or do we begin posting a bunch of crap because karma no longer matters, thereby worsening HN?
but they're gradually changing the rules of what tweaking you'll be able to do with your mac

How exactly?
I warned about this back in the day, when iOSification was on the horizon. The trouble started after Steve Jobs died. Yes, iOS before him had problems but nothing like what came after. The obsession with "wheeee we can get rid of all skeumorphism" caused Apple to become a follower and not an innovator, and took away focus from things that really mattered.
How long should you hold them to your face?
My primary professional OS progression went something like:

Slackware -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> OS X.

As with the author, I'm pretty sure I'm done with OS X. If I want to go back to Linux, what is the best path? Mint? Back to Ubuntu? Something new?
Chrome on mobile. I do block scripts on my computer, but on mobile I haven't bothered so far.
So can someone please explain to me if its better to use "mitigations=off" with Linux Kernel 5.10 or have the default from kernel with "AMD Phenom II X4 955 Processor"? By running "lscpu" I see only two lines in default mode (not using "mitigations=off" right now), everything else "Not affected";

Vulnerability Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Vulnerability Spectre v2: Mitigation; Full AMD retpoline, STIBP disabled, RSB filling

By having those it will affect my CPU perferomance? Will applying "mitigations=off" help with perfermance? Also by having "mitigations=off" what are the real security implications? Thank you for your help!
There are flicker free 60Hz monitors.
Maybe it wasn't in the party program, but everyone knew what SA violence meant and Hitler had been pretty explicit about his views of the racial supremacy of the Germans and what he thought should be done to the Jews in particular as far back as Mein Kampf.

Maybe if the NSDAP had campaigned with "we want to gas all the Jews" they wouldn't have won so many votes, but nobody can say that NSDAP voters could have been ignorant of the general tendency. In fact, I think this kind of "we couldn't have known what would happen" is IMHO revisionism.

The truth is that, while everything about economic depression, the political instability of the system, the KPD and SPD being unable to cooperate, etc., were important factors, it remains true that a large segment of the German population were totally OK with ideas of German imperialism, revanchism and anti-semitism, otherwise Hitler's rise to power would never had happened.
I think a better wording is “you can learn how to do it”; treading new waters is a daily task for software engineers.
To clarify (and I'll get the page updated to make this clearer) we're handling 185 requests/sec per server on average. There are other things not even touching IIS of course, so we're usually seeing somewhere between 2,400 and 3,000 requests per second overall coming into the network (not including WebSockets for various reasons).

Here's a grab from bosun taken just now of web tier load on those 9 servers: http://i.imgur.com/RJeEiYV.png

And here's a view of overall traffic coming into the NYC data center (except WebSockets): http://i.imgur.com/LV30989.png

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Stack Exchange Developer & SRE