jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Remember that both Google and Facebook are publicly‐traded transnational corporations that are legally mandated to act in the best interests of their shareholders.

This is a huge misconception. The idea that corporations should maximize shareholder value above all else is very modern and likely came from Jack Welch. The truth is that there is no enforceable legal mandate for corporations or their officers to maximize profits.

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2012/06/26/the-sharehol...
I admit I've never experienced what you describe with a client - at least not to that degree. On the other hand, as another poster stated, with a client you've already established some level of authority and can bring them back down to earth or tap a teammate for help/clarification (unless you are working solo) or give a general response and say you will need to get back to them with more specifics. (Of course, with a prospective client, you are, in fact, interviewing and may not want to do that.)
How small of a pill can they accurately cut? The caffeine pills I got off Amazon are about the size of 2 pinheads and are kind of soft. I don't think they would be easy but I've never used a pill cutter.
But is Cassandra web scale?
I wish I could use everything. I want to use it all. All the new platforms and technologies and even old ones that are still awesome. RethinkDB, mongodb, redis, Firebase, Parse, meteor.js, Postgres, Go, etc etc. Just take all that awesomeness and put it in an app and have it do awesome stuff.
Anyone uses cassandra with OrderedPartitioner and is it good ?(i know random is best)
The article doesn't have absolutely any details.

1) What was the dose they took?

2) Where did they get it?

3) Was it medical-grade?

4) Did he die from it or just after taking it. Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is in the title.

5) Is this man even real or is it an article designed to scare people against self medication or as a political hit piece?

Chloroquine is a quite common antimalarial drug, and this article just stinks.
The recommended dosage of chloroquine for treatment of an active malaria infection is 1000 milligrams per day on the first day, followed by an additional 500 mg 6 to 8 hours later followed by 500 mg per day for three days afterwards. There are slight variations of this regimen recommended by different clinical sites. The point here being that if this man and his wife both became critically ill less than an hour after consuming whatever form of chloroquine they consumed (possibly literal aquarium cleaner with whatever other chemicals it had), it seems probable that they really, truly fucked up their dosage and the form they took it in in their ignorance or panic. Many people take chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine regularly all over the world for different conditions without harm, it's a well established medicine with well established dosage guidelines that rarely cause problems for a majority of users.
most powerful nation on this planet

That was true once. I doubt it’s true today.
Including some of the most populous states. It might not be "most people", but a heck of a lot of people are under similar orders.
Anyone feeling that Python 3 is gonna do the same to Python as Perl 6 did to Perl?
Here's another good book, published by Silicon Valley Historical Association

http://www.siliconvalleyhistorical.org/#!silicon-valley-hist...
What is the purpose of learning/teaching lambda calculus? I get that it's cool. In what ways it is an important or useful concept?
An interesting aside in all this is potentially getting a free cellular
data modem. Progressive provides a free 30 day trial of "Snapshot"
according to their FAQ [1], so it's possible to get the device itself.
Inside the device is (supposedly) a cellular data modem by u-blox [2]
according to the Forbes article.

Much hilarity and havoc could be wrought if you can get the modem
working outside of the snapshot device. Would you like to be the poor
sysadmin at Progressive who notices that one Snapshot enabled car keeps
trolling Homeland Security and downloading hermaphrodite dwarf porn?

[1] http://www.progressive.com/auto/snapshot-common-questions/

[2] http://www.u-blox.com/en/wireless-modules.html
While you may end up being right, Perl6 is a much larger departure from Perl5 (than Python3 is from Python2). Can one even use CPAN with Perl6? Is it even possible to convert existing Perl5 CPAN packages to support both versions at the same time (like all of the PyPI packages that support both Python2 and Python3)?
Not at all. Unlike Perl 6, Python 3 1) exists 2) has a significant amount of library support and 3) is clearly intended to supplant Python 2. None of those points apply to Perl 6.
Try going through a few rounds of IVF in a state that doesn't require insurance companies to cover it. Not exactly the greatest boost to your net worth, monetarily-speaking :)

The truth is, life is messy. Everybody has things come up. Heck, even some of the greatest entrepreneurs have found themselves dead broke at one time or another. It's hard to say that it's an indicator of success or failure though. Due diligence could weed out the financially-irresponsible, but it's not always as simple as looking at a bank account.
I watched the show a couple of weeks ago; it was great. Between college and law school I did my ROTC-scholarship payback time as a Navy nuclear officer. To get into "The Program," I had to interview with Admiral Rickover. I can't remember ever having been as furious as I was during our "conversation," which of course was one of his interview techniques. Rickover was sometimes known as the Kindly Old Gentleman; he was only two out of those four, but damn was he effective. I'm more proud of having been a Navy nuke than of anything else I've ever done professionally.
In light of my previous reply, I wonder why you think appropriation of terms is okay going one way but not the other. It really seems a bit like bullying. Why can't the weird kid call itself whatever the weird kid chooses? It seems like the job of a bully to say "no way twerp, you can't use 'The Chief', that's only for cool kids to use". I don't know why you'd willingly take on that role.
I came here to say roughly this. This isn't so much a topic for discussion today, but not long ago I can recall arguments about the difference between programming and scripting. Not long ago, calling yourself a programmer since you made a website in HTML with some CSS was laughable.

I also think the issue with the "Rockstar Developer" discussion is that there's no clear definition of what that even means. The author notes this in the article - and there have been terrible attempts at measuring this (anybody remember getting paid per lines of code?)
Will 2015 be the year Microsoft fully supports C++11?
This states the obvious: the very rich or very successful ones are not happy. Bill Gates doesn't have a better life than the first rickshaw you'll find in Kolkata. The main reason will probably because of the kids, which are not likely to be spoiled in the case of the rickshaw.

And this is where I find some demonstrations of pg fall short: the reason to start start-ups is to make huge money, but huge money is dangerous for the mind. In this case it is better to make normal and steady amounts of money, which normal corporate jobs provide.

I guess starting start-ups is only for those with very solid psychology, or for those already crazy.
You're assuming $20k limit why? For my part I have several cards that individually have limits in the $50k range. Not so much because my income is all that huge, but because I have quite long, good credit history. I don't think that's all that unusual in places with SV level software developer salaries.

I'm not saying there are no cash flow issues here, but it would not take a very unusual team to be able to scrape together $500k-$1m in credit on cards alone.

It's something everyone can do, but it's also not something that's necessarily going to be all that difficult.
Someone wrote a GraphQL query parser. https://github.com/madjam002/graphqlite There aren't any GraphQL servers yet though. Pretty hard to write too in a generic useful-for-all manner.
> One of the saddest things about this whole incident is the idea of the senior pilot futilely banging on the door with no way to get in, and no way to even communicate his predicament to the ground.

I 100% agree. The radio is the most obvious addition that reaps benefits without adding risks.

The cockpit should remain as secure as it is today. As inhumane as it is, the accident was a "best-case worst-case scenario." i.e. A bad thing that arose out of the best-case being not absolutely perfect (considering perfection may be impossible). If every human has equal probability of trying to take over an airplane to crash it, two people locked into the cockpit results in less likelihood than the numerous people in the passenger area. Even giving the pilot a way to let himself back in is a risk: someone could wrestle he access token/key off of him if he left the cockpit.

Possibly, the cockpit should be more thoroughly isolated from the rest of the plane. A door is not needed: a solid steel wall is. Nobody goes in or out while the airplane is airborne.
Yep. Quite a few use those same rage faces. Reddit really ought to just implement that themselves and let subreddit mods turn it on or off, since they're getting so popular.
You're reading too far into this. OP is just saying that Amazon's propaganda is slimy. Everyone else is on the same page here.
Many people are daytrading it
We are having a CAD software (like solid, but written in python) on the backend, it does the magic
Wow that's actually a really cool idea
I’m always surprised when my tiny (in population) and insignificant country shows up in HN.
I’m now in the US and the power of going there with dollars in your pocket is incredible.

I’m not an economist or even a very well versed person in the matter, but it is my understanding that Argentina is always almost out of dollars in its reserves and the local currency has been devaluated steadily since 2001. People figured out rather quickly that holding dollars is the only way to save money, but if let free, the demand would make the exchange rate skyrocket. So the Government (who put us there in the first place) has put limits on how much people can acquire per month.

This of course has implications for the whole economy I’m not equipped to answer or understand, but by “faking ” a lower official rate, most legal business happens at the official rate, while the street market dictates what the real value should be close to.

If you do business internationally and it’s bank to bank and all legal, you exchange at the official rate.

If it’s cash business then you exchange at the blue rate. Or if it’s in Pesos but it’s an imported good, calculate pesos value based on blue value.
Linode was founded in 2003, not DigitalOcean.
Well that’s exactly the point - Prop 13 strikes a compromise.

It allows for yearly property tax based on what the person could afford when they bought the property.

That’s a reasonable compromise.

People still get to own and live in homes and not be driven out by the actions of others over which they have no control.

And the community gets a reliable long term revenue stream, that is relatively stable even though boom and bust cycles.
Whatsapp is indeed ubiquitous, but it is known that it's just another messenger platform - switching to alternatives wouldn't be particularly painful. In fact, switching back to one that is easier to eavesdrop on, would probably be considered a boon by the ruling classes.
The way ETag-based tracking works is:

* When you load a resource it may return a "ETag" header

* The browser stores the resource in its cache under a key like [site, resource url]. For example [example.com, https://example.net/foo] means "https://example.net/foo" requested when visiting some page on example.com.

* When the browser tries to use the resource again and sees that it's expired, it asks the server for it, sending along the previous ETag value in the If-None-Match header so the server can avoid sending an updated copy if the resource hasn't actually changed.

* Since the original ETag value is echoed back to the server, the server can tell this is the same browser it was talking to earlier.

Now, a few years ago, when the browser would store resources in its cache under a key like [resource url], without sharding by site, this was occasionally used like a third-party cookie. When visiting any site that is using the relevant tracker, the tracker would request https://example.net/foo, and as long as the resource had not been evicted from cache the tracker was able to reidentify users across sites. With the HTTP cache sharded by domain, however, this no longer works across sites.

This seems to me to be entirely orthogonal to CNAME cloaking; where do you see that fitting in?
> I don't think any other (non-verbose) options encapsulate what summer means with the same specificity.

You mean lack of specificity?

From what I gather, it's at some point during the middle of my winter.

Of course, nobody actually remembers when the seasons start and end (though we just check wikipedia), while most people definitely know the order of the months. And even after checking, "this summer", is really a 3.5 month period, which is still as vague (if not more) as "mid 2015".
Funny to see some of HN hating on Morgan Stanley and Wall Street. You're biting the hand that feeds you...
I do this. A small annoyance can crop up when trying to log in to a service with your + modified email address. Hmmm, what did I append after the plus? If you can't remember that, you can't use the "forgot my password" function either :)

Usually soluble, but irritating.
TL.DR: Discovery is curiosity’s product; everything else, including immeasurable economic value, follows.
I have 300/100mbps down/up fiber in Paris. As important as the bandwidth is the latency. Basically it means I do most of my work SSHed (mosh'ed actually) to a cluster and don't notice I'm working from home or the company's network. Streaming plots or even videos for debugging is seamless.
As developers, we're blessed to be a part of a future where we can take a sometimes clunky language like JavaScript and improve it to incorporate elements of our favorite languages.
Wait why is this bad? I thought it was crappy statistics handpicked to make China look good!?

Why is progress in countries outside the western civilizations a bad thing?

Don't we want the people who make our iphones and oculus rift headsets and shiny usb-c devices to have apartment buildings to live in?
That's probably what facebook is growing revenues, so maybe it's rational. this (a little out dated) chart shows that: https://marketrealist.imgix.net/uploads/2014/05/Companies-Ad...
I have a hard time processing why people would spend their money this way. Here’s an insane auction going on right now: https://nft.3lau.com/#/auction

It has reached over $8MM... why
I misread an important part of the article in a way which motivated me to make an irrelevant comment.
i remember looking into this stuff circa 2014 and thinking cinder was well designed and had a nice interface and consistent interface philosophy, but was not as fleshed out functionality-wise as openframeworks...

openframeworks seemed to have almost everything, but just kind of felt like it had little organization or consistency and instead was just a repository for other libraries.
>You have to start somewhere, right?

Agreed, and I suspect from a scientific method perspective, MBTI is something that's being explored in reverse. We've got a strong feeling that these different axis exist, but haven't yet landed on a truly robust and reliable way to evaluate them. So it's a lot of fuzzy intuition about things still.

As long as these proponents explain the analog nature of the scales and the immaturity of the field as a whole, (which I know doesn't happen much), I don't see much harm in it. But I agree that outside of one's on personal insight, using it to make any sort of business decision is folly.
Physical remote > any app. By far.

Die apps, die. I want dedicated remotes for lights, stereo, curtains, garage door, and TV.

Apps won’t be around – forget 20 years, 5 years if you’re lucky. A company can disappear along with its stupid fucking app.

About the only advantage an app has is a keyboard.
I'd like if it remembered my common orders. So I can have my own version of a meal #1 etc. To be honest, I order the same small sets over and over. It would really speed things up.
Why bother to write a book if you want to make it some kind of wishy washy political hack job that doesn't stand up against any scrutiny? What exactly is the point? Does anyone read it aside from reviewers such as the author? Who is the audience, and why? I really don't get this.
Nope. iCloud Drive is a virtual folder on your device.

When you drop a file into this drive, it will start "Uploading". Once it has uploaded, you will see "Remove Download" option which removes the local copy but keeps the copy in the cloud. If you click on such a file whose local copy is not present, it will "Download Now" (you can select and option-click and find this option as well).
Counterpoint: I and my friends have bought this bag for gravel/randonneuring.

And that segment is a growing segment.
> it seems likely that "relevant" knowledge is not infinite.

Does it? At the very least, the relationships between prime numbers "seems likely" to be infinite, and that's only taking into account patterns in a countably infinite set, which likely have measure 0 as a subset of patterns in any uncountably infinite set (and there is an infinite progression of such sets uncountable sets such that each is of measure 0 compared to another).

This attitude seems very "all science has been discovered and it's only a matter of precision" to me.
That was the inspiration. I find the output of our slide template to be much friendlier, but the build system itself is a little rough. The Pandoc S5 examples using Markdown look much more convenient.
This is good. Maybe also mention the 30-day UK credit period (with which I, as a California resident, am unfamiliar).
I would buy a Passport if there was strong privacy/security/policy isolation between Android apps and data on the phone. Something like what Cyanogen does, by faking blank data (e.g. contacts) in response to apps which insist on having permission to access contacts.
I've seen the same $20k bobcat skid steer air freighted express multiple times, due to weird accounting issues.

And "the world's largest plane" chartered to ship ballots.

Exotic/live animal transport is probably the weirdest, though.
> It looks like they are slowly catching up to Gandi.net, who have offered free one year certs

As far as I know, you only get a free certificate with a new domain registration, so after the first year, you'd still need to pay an annual renewal fee for the certificate.
Hey Luiz,

I have a comment in the other thread that you sound perfect for: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22667729
Location: New York City, NY / NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right opportunity

Technologies: Node.js, Python, Haskell, OCaml, React/React Native, GraphQL, SQL/Postgres, MongoDB, Neo4j, Docker, Kubernetes, Compiler Design, NLP, Distributed Systems.

Résumé/CV: Available on request via email

Email: sj2564 [at] columbia [dot] edu

What sets me apart? I have entrepreneurship experience that gives me an understanding of the end-to-end product development process at early stage startups. I am skilled at taking initiative on projects and turning vaguely defined requirements into concrete solutions. I am passionate about functional programming, and building reliable and scalable software systems. I also speak 3 languages fluently (English, Sinhala, and Mandarin Chinese).
I just discovered Nvidia's cloud gaming platform [1] as a way to play MTG Arena on a Mac. Works great, without having to partition my already thin hardrive...

Limited booster drafts are one of my favorite things to play since forever ago. Finally found a way after a bunch of years (had tried Cockatrice, etc..)

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/
Edge Impulse (https://edgeimpulse.com) | Technical marketeer | REMOTE (North America or Europe)

Edge Impulse enables developers to build the next generation of intelligent devices with embedded machine learning (also known as TinyML). We believe that our platform will unlock immense value from 99% of edge devices data that is currently being discarded due to cost, bandwidth or power constraints. Our SaaS platform provides new ways for data ingestion, labeling, training, and deployment capabilities to accelerate developers' success with ML on the edge. In short, Edge Impulse helps developers make hardware magic.

As our first technical marketing hire you'll work with our customers, our developer community, and partners to define the market, build compelling stories, educate the industry and have a big impact on our roadmap. We’re remote equal, with leadership split between San Jose and Amsterdam, and welcome candidates in North America and Europe.

https://angel.co/company/edge-impulse/jobs/761284-ml-marketi...
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AWS, DigitalOcean, Linux, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, ELK stack, Zabbix, Docker, Nginx.
Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-lopez-55442549
Email: jklopez@outlook.com or contact me over LinkedIn

8+ years working as System Administrator with the last 2 years as a DevOps Engineer. Experience working in different environments from startups to large enterprise. I enjoy learning new things and I'm eager to improve my DevOps skills.
Are they planning on making one that has discrete video? These specs look pretty nice other than that.
AWS is all about the API, some services don't even have a UI. Once you start using the API AWS is the best option out there.
Video: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

IDE: http://www.racket-lang.org/
Show me do (http://showmedo.com/) has a diversity of subjects, including programming.
After a couple years of seeing code in the "job world", you will know if you are good or not. If you understand CS topics well and you enjoy hacking, then you are probably good.
> But how would one represent a configuration like "don't require auth for /, but do require auth for /foo/.jpeg" in a table?*

Are you confusing offline representation with a runtime structure?
TekPub (http://tekpub.com/) has some other tutorials more/less in the style of PeepCode. A couple of the series are free.
Yeah, modern derailleurs have fixed that problem - it's a fairly old article. A couple of our bikes have gearing that low, and no issues with chain slap. They use MTB derailleurs.
And don't forget Ultima Underworld. Released in 1992, it sported 3D grahics and a decent amount of choice in the game. You could alienate a race by killing one of them and it would make the game much harder to finish. A nice link: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/content/ultima-underworld-co...
It isn't file sharing, it is greed of a service providers.

In India, for example, unlimited data plan from Airtel (country's No.1) is Rs.35 ($0.80) per day. But it is only 2,5G and their DNS servers are constantly overloaded and are lagging as hell. =)

btw, 3G spectrum auction finished a week ago.
Does anyone have confidence in TechCrunch? I'm coming to hate them so much for their tabloid style.
See also on Haskell Reddit --- http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/encrv/whats_happene...
Now THAT would be an elaborate hack to pull off. Obviously Amazon never thought of that! Between this and the magic goggles, this week is turning out to be so interesting.
That's definitely the can-do, spontaneous hacker spirit! But aren't there already like 90 delicious clones out there?
The direct link, as opposed to the link via Google, was submitted a while ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2018664