jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In 1953 IBM launched one of the first commercial computers, which your parents definitely didn't have in their home on account of it costing $15k per month to rent access to.
Rent has gone up relative to everything else because the housing supply hasn't grown fast enough, but the average person today has gadgets and treatments which were unfeasible in 1953
You'd be surprised :P
I'm in the UK and my general impression is that people absolutely hate "throwing away" money paying rent, and would rather they were "investing" in property. Of course, they often don't take into account that they might end up paying more on mortgage interest than they were on rent anyway, and if they hate the place they're going to be out potentially 10s of thousands in fees
I am a woman, 45 years old, building websites for a living.

After 13 years, I still prefer to sit down and disappear into the screen and build things. I have natural leadership ability, I have a big personality when required, but I just don't feel motivated by money or rewards to take on the responsibility of leading a team.

I watch my colleagues get promoted, all male. And then I watch them try to balance wife, kids, and life. Without their wives, they tend to do poorly at life maintenance. They get fat, or pot-bellies at least, their hair falls out (probably just genetic but still) and after a few years the stress has broken them. The factors of leading means your reward depends on others whom you are unable to really control. So they spend time playing head games with people and taking work home that others can't or won't complete.

The handful of women I know in leadership positions also have a stigma attached. Their ego leads just like the males, but the women are considered "too aggressive" and get labeled as such.

So with minimal reward (I require double my income to ruin my life), management/leadership is just not an option for me, regardless of my abilities. I suppose living up to my capabilities should be reward enough, but it isn't.

Until I get a wife and/or make enough money to pay for the easy leisure and lack of worry I have now, I don't care about the prestige of leadership.

Chauvinistic or not, I truly believe if the reward were there, our society would have more women in leadership positions.

My personal life has a higher "fee" than men for living and breathing my job. Pay me that fee, I will make a go of it.
Failed Windows 7 launch? What the hell are you smoking?

Has a lot of failures on his plate for one man? Please hand this comment an award for middlebrow remark of the year.

Let's put Steve Ballmer's accomplishments in perspective: Have you tripled a multi-billion dollar company's revenue over ten years? Did you launch the Xbox? Did you launch Windows Phone (10% marketshare in 3 years)? Did you launch Bing (growing faster than the search market)? Did you grow .NET into the most widely adopted application development platform in the world? Did you grow the Windows Server business out of nothing compared to where it was 15 years ago? Did you turn Visual Studio into the gold standard for IDEs?

Didn't think so. Ballmer will be remembered for one great mistake, and that's denying Microsoft's culture and employees a strong technical visionary over the course of his tenure.

Ballmer is a COO, kind of like the guy running Apple these days - neither Ballmer nor Tim Cook have a strong ability to anticipate changes in the way technology is consumed compared to their predecessors. And this is largely what's responsible for Microsoft's big whiffs - they missed the mark multiple times on the consumerization of technology.

People are already starting to grumble many of the same criticisms of Tim Cook's innovation that they did about Steve Ballmer, and who can blame them? Over the past three years all Apple has shipped are the same products they had before but with different screen sizes.

However, that doesn't mean that Tim Cook won't be successful in growing Apple's business, nor does it mean that Steve Ballmer was a failure.

As an ex-Microsoftie, I could not be happier to see Steve go. The company needs a technical visionary in order to stop having to play from behind every time there's a change in the market.

But to call Steve a failure is utter nonsense and requires overlooking all of the successes that he and Microsoft had during his tenure.
There are 12 volt AC units available, but they are more expensive, and not every vehicle's electrical system can handle it.
Mine is the 370 JCL, because of the surreal but instantly familiar "three years later, your foot comes back deep-fried".

The only problem is that neither i nor anybody else alive today has any idea what 370 JCL is. Can someone repurpose this to be about the Cloud?
While Australis is neat, doesn't bother my experience much since I use pentadactyl heavily and most things seem to just work™.

My pet bug still lays untouched though. https://bugzil.la/444284
Right, and the lenders are typically institutions who are holding the stock for reasons other than speculation (e.g as part of a tracker fund for clients) and are simply attempting to extract more value from their holding. No point it sitting there in your depot account if you can get paid a few % by lending it.
That's not how Human nature works. The world is filled with failed experiments of "Just do good without expecting anything in return".
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" has failed utterly, at every scale. Be it the soviet union, or small bankrupt "kibbutzim" in Israel.

Capitalism is much more than "expecting a financial reward". It's a complex system of signals which let producers determine what is the most valuable and efficient use for their resources.

What Should I build in my basement? A sous vide cooker? A drone with a camera? A computer game or a new social network?
Capitalism and profit give the correct signals - what is it that the market demands. What do people truly feel they need?
When one of our cats (we have two Burmese) gives me a long hard stare, I am reminded of War of the Worlds:

minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us
Why on earth was that voted down? It wasn't rude, spam, nor factually inaccurate.

I'm getting quite fed up with people who abuse their negative karma privileges. I mean, at least justify your peer moderation with a follow up comment when the reason for the penalty is as ambiguous as it is in this instance.

I excepect I'll just get down voted again though, for daring to have a rant about people who do "hit and run" down voting...
> As a general rule, never disclose current or old salary

Don’t worry, Equifax takes care of that for us. Both who you’re currently working for, and your current salary. It’s a service it offers to HR departments across the US.
This is not always the case. There's a growing number of states in the US that allow state education funding to follow a student wherever they go.

Wherever these laws arise, profit-based schools appear and attempt to draw in as many students as they can. Often times it's the least educated, least privileged people who are pulled into these programs. There is little or no regulation on claims these schools make in their marketing materials, so they promise the world and then dump students into large classes led by gig-economy "teachers".
Now you are back at the "evading" use case. BTC works better if you want to send six figures to somebody in Iran. That remains a pretty small use case.
You determine the value you're willing to work for: not just your employer. It sounds like you've never looked for a job while still employed. Take your location out of the equation: Is another employer willing to pay more for your skills? If so, you should be interviewing. When I'm hiring an employee I'm looking for anybody that has the skills I need, not their location. I'll pay top dollar to get hard-to-find skills regardless of where that person is located. I'm not going to tell them "Well you live in India so I'm only going to pay you half of what you're looking for" because they'll reject my offer and take one from another employer. If your colleagues are making more than you and your skills are comparable then you need to begin interviewing immediately because you're undervaluing your own work.
It's pleasant in short bursts but I find that after walking to work for 25 minutes in sub-freezing weather, my mask gets clogged with condensation and becomes stifling to breathe through.

During the spring though, I found that wearing a mask completely prevented all of my seasonal allergy symptoms.
but why would they agree to that blockchain standard in the first place? it’s the same issue
I haven’t been following this massive side-thread, but maybe you are getting downvoted because you are using white supremacy to describe anything that structurally favors white people. Policies that merely favor white people are not necessarily “white supremacist”, unless those policies are also motivated by a belief that white people are better than other people. Maybe “structurally racist” might be a better way to describe the things you are describing? But what do I know, I’m not a sociologist.
It should be clear from context but:

* A 580 square mile

A 580 mile radius
Considering phonology... Mandarin Chinese has 400 syllabic sounds, each with 5 tonal choices (4 tones plus unstressed). English has 170,000 possible sounds (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Total_number_of_syllables_in_Engli...), each either stressed or unstressed. So the phonology of English seems more like Scala's in allowing symbols, not just alphanumerics, for names.

As for graphology... Chinese has 3000 commonly used characters, >50,000 counting all historic characters, compared to English's 54 (26 uppercase, 26 lowercase, hyphen, and apostrophe), so at first sight looks more varied. But most Chinese characters are made up of components, e.g. 蜱 being composed of 虫 and 卑 in a left-to-right pattern. Depending on how you count them, there are about 400 to 600 hundred of these components in all Chinese characters, including historic ones. It's better to compare 54 English tokens to 600 in Chinese, more but only 10 times more.

As for lexis... Last year English reached one million words, the most words in any known language (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5454273/1000000-wor...). Not sure how many 'words' Chinese has, but it seems until recently Chinese never defined the concept of 'word' in their language, only of 'character', so there's no (intra-word) morphology in Chinese, only (inter-word) syntax. So perhaps it's best to leave the comparison at the phonological level.
Depends on what the application exposes. For instance, the recent unserialize() vulnerability is remote if the application deserializes data from the user. This is a bad idea, but a lot of applications do it anyway.
Apologies - it seems my earlier comment was made during a brief respite.
Sorry, I was just trying to help clarify what was being said -- not trying to argue against your points.
Scott Hanselman's great podcast interview with Zed Shaw:

http://hanselminutes.com/407/learning-code-the-hard-way-with...
Well, that sucks. That effectively makes HTTPS worthless there doesn't it?

Also on the other link I have seen another relevant article [0] on how BitTorrent could be used for attacks from China.

Scary stuff.

[0] http://furbo.org/2015/01/22/fear-china/
Love the concept. Tried adding products with the Android app- it would be good to add more details than just the name and pictures (on the app that is)

Also encountered a bug for a new product ingredient. The unfortunate part is that it lost all the data that I had entered till then.

Looking forward to contributing.
Advice: only write sentences that are true.

> Bitcoin could never replace a national currency.

You can't predict the future.

> With transaction times in the tens of minutes and with a maximal global transaction rate of 5-10 per second. The Blockchain couldn't replace the banking system of single mid-sized town.

With millions of transactions per second, the Lightning network could.

> It's not money.

It's money. Here's an explanation of money https://powreach.com/crypto
Very close to my first "real" (well technically my dad's) computer - he had a custom workstation at home to do some work on but the 386 was the first PC we got. He went out of his way to get a DX and it had an 80 MB SCSI drive and 4 MB of RAM.

I spent literally HOURS trying every single driver on the SimCity 2000 CD until I found one that worked - it was an OAK videocard with the bare minimum of RAM needed.
> I’m super proud that humanity has at least until now had an open web, and that partly is due to the great work of W3C standardizing web languages.

W3C undoubtedly had a role, but i think this is a bit of a revionist history to say that w3c is what got us the open web.
gx is cool, but seems broken on mac at the moment: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/4738
Do you have more info on the streaming rights thing?
I’ve driven 10,000 miles since Christmas, just for fun/recreation.
What do you mean by lose everything? AFAIK, suspend syncs the disks so there really shouldn’t be any half-written data.
for reference: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/wsl/blob/master/WSL/install...
I think the assumption of editorial action or censorship is coming on the heels of amazon removing certain controversial books.
I've been daydreaming of a typewriter that appends to a file on a USB stick so when you're done writing you can take it to a computer to edit.

There's also the Hemingwrite https://hemingwrite.com/ which is like an eInk typewriter. I prefer having immediate physical output which is why I'd rather have a mechanical typewriter that also saves to digital. But it might be what you're looking for.
yes, that part makes sense, but in Haskell, an unknown "message" is a compiler error, and bottom represents abnormal termination (e.g exception or even non termination), I don't really understand how that's related to inheritance.
>Many folks have relied on FB traffic only to be crushed beneath the mighty hand of an algorithm change.

I was thinking the same thing. What could they possibly pivot to should Facebook kick them out without having to fire all of their staff? The long tail of clickbait clicking sounds like an unattractive proposition.
Without any prior knowledge on the subject, it seemed obvious to me that the reason altruism exists is the same reason our bodies' cells don't attack each other. Groups of coöperating individuals have a much higher chance of surviving than groups of naïvely self-serving individuals.

I was surprised to find this is the "alternate" theory:

> Under certain circumstances, groups of cooperators can out-compete groups of non-cooperators, thereby ensuring that their genes — including the ones that predispose them to cooperation — are handed down to future generations.

Surely others have thought of this idea before, as it seems to me much simpler than kin selection. Why was it not until the 21st century that this idea has gained even a modicum of traction?
There is freedom of choice. You don't have to use it.
atom! to the moon!
Privacy being breached, is not a binary choice.
Every time I see something like this, I become more sure: The empire will have stormtroopers.
It seems to me that using a bitboard instead of the struct is the biggest gain. I like your version, very elegant and terse.
People have empathy. Non-tech people can understand the issues when they're presented like this. And an article like this makes me think seriously about the ethics of my job. Not that it carries real weight, but see: http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics

Maybe empathy alone will be enough to effect change?
Why would you say that running is damaging?
Travelling in China right now. No Google services work but Gmail via SMTP on my iPhone seems fine. I'm not confident all emails go through though. Heading to Hong Kong tonight so not sure if that will be different.
Using VPN does open everything but obviously becomes slower. It's not only Google though, all social media.

Speaking to locals they don't care. There is an alternative for everything and they are better suited to Chinese culture too.
The people that had slaves lost money because of the new law. They would have rioted and possible reverted the law if they got no compensation.

Law change is forever, compensation is short-term - of course it's worth it (that's one thing that paradox grand-strategy games taught me - never grant priviledges to provinces for gold ;) ).

BTW there's a lesson there - it shows how we should deal with the CO2 problem and global warming. Countries that industrialized recently won't stop becoming rich just because it's bad for someone else. We can try to make everybody pay, or we can compensate these that need coal industry the most (i.e. developing countries) to make them switch to better (and more expansive) alternatives.
Oops. That's "tall tales", not "tall tails", of course, but too late for me to edit.
While this is undoubtably an aggressive move by China I can't help but doubt that the impact will be very large. By now most Chinese users of googles services are using VPNs so this really only affects the lowest common denominator of Chinese users
Business:

Linode

Github

Hoovers

Google Apps

Mixergy

Safari

Amazon AWS
They should implement one-way streets, where you have to obey the direction but ghosts don’t, to make Pacman even more interesting.
Reading comments in this thread, it feels like people still can't believe that in some case neural networks can be faster on CPU instead of GPU.

In fact, there is already real world use for neural networks that only optimized for CPU: an chess engine. More specifically, chess engine that use NNUE (Efficiently Updated Neural Networks) [1] like Stockfish 12 [2]. It run much faster while consuming less watts compared to GPU, can be run on average CPU, and managed to beat GPU based neural networks! [3]

This model (NNUE) already exist far earlier than the model discussed in this thread, yet there is almost no discussion about it on HN nor Reddit's r/MachineLearning

[1] https://www.chessprogramming.org/NNUE

[2] https://www.chessprogramming.org/Stockfish_NNUE

[3] https://www.chess.com/blog/the_real_greco/evolution-of-a-che...
>Computer science peaked in the 80s-90s. There arent bold new ideas to add, just incremental progress.

Any time I see a statement like this around here it never seems to include a suggestion. That's not to say there isn't something to be done, but when I think about my computer or phone there's no new idea I'm wishing they had.

>I can't think of a new mode of communication invented in the last decades.

Human communication is confined to the human senses. So again, what are we missing? What should be developed?
Yea the front end is kinda an open question. I've been slowly relearning OpenGL (or maybe Vulkan) for building a little 3D scatter plot like map. 2D projections could come as a feature on top of that I guess.

Mostly I just want textual
information at the moment, viz is just "cool". Like, the primary question is simply, from star A to star Z how many FSD high wake jumps will I need to perform, and how much fuel will it cost. Then the pathfinding is modified to know about star class, and find valid routes with fuel scoopable stars, then the algorithm could be modified again to account for range boosting white dwarf stars, finally, it would be really cool to incorporate the game's market data, since while other third party tools already do all these things, they do not generate good trade loops.

I've been very disappointed with what little open source 3D mapping software I've seen. Everything seems highly centered around 2D projected maps. So personally, I've just been using matplotlib and it's various plotting tool with a jupyter notenook with readonly access to my database, allowing me to write %sql ... and get a python object for the resulting rows.
> how a random person overpacked

This particular investigative journalist is over-preparing for interacting with sources. That is a literary device to color his avoidance of the services named in the headline.
No. They appropriate the employment taxes that they themselves are paying. Most folks aren't aware that employees in the US only pay half of the income tax for their employment. The company pays the other half. And those taxes usually aren't counted in these dramatic "blah company paid zero taxes" headlines. They also usually don't include real property taxes, sales taxes, etc.

Also to note, the US (now) has somewhat competitive corporate tax rates compared to its peer countries. However, most countries have a lower (or much lower) corporate tax rate than the US has. We shouldn't be comparing corporate tax rates with personal income tax rates... we should be comparing corporate tax rates amongst similar countries.

The lack of understanding of the tax rules by folks writing these dramatic headlines is really irritating.
This is a good point. Where the Economist is aligned with, say, the Tories, it's because they both support the same ideas, not because my-party-is-right. (Nowadays the Tories have shifted pretty damn far from those ideas, so it's more apparent that it's ideology that the Economist has, not a partisan affiliation.)
yes and most of the api is similar or copied from programming languages that came before java.
The camera. It was shockingly bad. Otherwise, I agree. It was a pleasure flashing custom ROMs on to it, as you didn't need to go through the rigmarole required to get an an alternative bootloader running. There was a ton of development happening on XDA-developers then as well, so every week the distros would get better and more stable.
How strong your antipathy! Many people think pull quotes look good and serve a purpose, print or digital. I agree with them.
Thanks for the article.

There's a typo. Search for "interator" to find it.
I'd go further: many people will happily agree to buy something for $x when they think it's all hypothetical, but would never actually buy it. Hence the oft-repeated advice "don't ask people if they would buy, ask them to buy".
strong cultural norms that are education and success oriented along with high IQ's.

edit: before I get people bitching at me
http://www.halfsigma.com/2006/06/high_iq_does_no.html
a dating site that treats men and women differently.
I'd already noted Neil Fraser as an open source star
http://www.pixelbeat.org/misc/google_stars.html
but now see he's an all around great guy
I suppose they're targeting the non-sissy segment of the consumer ;)
Go forth and improve that article.
Very interesting. At my work, we use Selenium for writing automated functional tests. I'm wondering how this will stack up against that... Is there a way to capture a screen shot when an assert fails? Often, that has been very useful in error resolution.
> I feel pretty confident that 20 years ago, there would have been some proprietary compilers derived from GCC if they could emit the AST in an unrestricted sort of way.

Your confidence is 100% justified, because Open64 exists. It always has been possible to emit AST from GCC by simply modifying GCC yourself to do so. GCC is a free software after all. Open64 did that, and AMD used to sell a compiler using GCC frontend together with highly optimizing proprietary backend. More on http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2004/Apr-18.html

What has not been possible is not to emit AST from GCC, but to emit AST from GCC and continue to benefit from GCC changes after that.
Never sell your self short. Your time is valuable.
Woah, I have a huge number of flagged articles that I don’t even remember seeing.

My guess is that I must have flagged these while scrolling (on my phone). When scrolling, my thumb lands right on “flag | hide”.

@dang, maybe the flag links should only be on the discussion page and not on the list view.