jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Please take a look at the antecedents in this thread. The person had a Surface Pro 3 (a thousand dollar item) he was buying insurance for.

If I had to buy such on credit, I'd opt instead for a $150 machine from a pawn shop I could pay in full.
At least in the video game industry (or my section), that is a typical stretch. I crunched in a similar capacity for about three years straight. The burnout level is pretty significant.
The only thing I'm "standing on" is data that the system doesn't work. Just doing more of something that doesn't work isn't a great way to land on a functioning system.
That’s by design though. It’s best if you have the largest pool of payroll applicants available by way of using the most universally-known payroll system. Larger applicant pool = better eventual employees.
Otherwise known as a community Q/A site.
The problem is that the text editor ignored the extension of the txt file. That's what lead to unsafe behaviour - the user thought the file was fine to open because the extension was txt, and improving users is not practical.

The exact same thing would happen with metadata - indeed file extensions are just a form of metadata - if the metadata says this is a text file but the application ignores it, we would have the exact same issue.
All of those fit me. In Russia as a kid I was diagnosed with "sit down, shut up, and read books like everyone else in your class, or else..."
These demos tend to make heavy use of raymarching, which is an alternative way of representing geometry that doesn't rely on polygons. This is why these demos are often so small; they generate 3D scenes using what are known as 'distance field' equations, rather than loading in the polygon data from some external file (like a gltf).

Basically, you'll need to learn to write shader code if you want to replicate this. A good place for beginners to start is The Book of Shaders[0]. It doesn't mention raymarching specifically, but it will give you the building blocks to understand it later.

Once you have a basic understanding of shaders, check out the site of Inigo Quilez[1] to learn more about raymarching and distance fields.

[0]: https://thebookofshaders.com/
[1]: https://www.iquilezles.org/www/index.htm
Philly has lots of good tech jobs, but they don't have a very large software based startup ecosystem. They do have some venture funds floating around ( https://technical.ly/philly/2020/02/19/pact-report-philadelp... ) but almost all of that is not in tech companies ( https://philadelphiapact.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2019... )

The biggest problem in Philadelphia is that its a really cost effective city to live in, so you aren't going to get the sky high paying tech jobs that you find in other cities, because there is a big pool of workers from the larger employers that are always around for modest wage increases. That depresses wages, and makes really talented engineers look at moving towards NYC or DC where they can get a _much_ better paying job. Specifically NYC where you can still live in the suburbs and make NYC level wages by only moving a half hour north of Philadelphia.
Woke culture is an abhorrent movement that combines the coercive dynamics of Marxism with the racism of national socialism. It's not about removing racism, it's about consolidating power by forcing everyone into compliance. Actual racial segregation is already happening in the US because of it and worse things are bound to happen. Everyone will be worse off if this is given free reign.
Yeah, he had a hair transplant. Numerous (most?) male actors have them as well. It's a routine operation and it works pretty well. I know a few guys who had transplants and you can't tell they aren't natural as the surgeons are good at creating age-appropriate hairlines. The hair comes from the back of the head, out of range of the androgen-sensitive follicles in the classic male pattern baldness zone.
No. As previously mentioned, I don't know enough about traditional foods there to make a judgment one way on the other. I am actually arguing that what my kids eat is an "upgrade" over McD and I assumed that if you think McD is no worse than diet of Bangladeshis then it is either the same or better since, possibly wrongly, I assume that parents universally want to improve their kids life.

Just to make more interesting. In the old country, the diet is heavy in fats of all kinds ( partially due to history of the location and, well, cold weather ). Despite its flaws, I would argue its still better than McD on most days.
> Folks moved into a single family home region/city for a reason

(To get away from Black people.)
Oh yeah, I lived by the Fry's "temple" around eBay for about 5 years.

Running up and down the bouncy, moving sidewalk was fun. It was long and at a gentle angle since the store was elevated off the ground at a second floor level. The stairs were less fun.

I recall droves of people lining-up for many hours prior to opening for holiday loss-leaders.
Some medical conditions are psychiatric in nature, so there is definitely a space for stereotypes to emerge ("X are depressive, Y are manic").
So what, you're admitting it's not a race issue but an education issue?
Furries? No thanks.
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Kind of, they only work if they fit into Android Java's view of the world, meaning a Java 8 subset with cherry picked features from OpenJDK.
Today's playlist was:

- Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

- Captain Marvel (w/ Stan Getz)

- Chick Corea Plays (a live album released last September)

Corea has so many great albums, both as leader and as sideman, that it's entirely unfair to name only those three. But... that's where inspiration and available time took me.
Monty Python: Holy Grail :)
The red stapler that won a bronze medal.
All the good points that social networks have, as noted in this thread, forums also have. You get to know people, you recognize them even if never seen in person, you may hire or be hired from there and you may discuss interesting or hot topic without being a pretender. I’ve seen it many times on local tech forums. These have less reach, but more meaning. ‘Social network’ thing that puts a profile first and topics second is what brings this madness: self-presentation, fake friends/connections, viral idiocy, etc. We as a species are not ready to go full-public and stay ourselves. I think that the reason is in our deep history, when a leader or a current speaker that climbs up a rock has to behave and speak differently (publicly) than when we hunt or fight together. When everyone climbs their own rock, a tribe becomes a silly circus.
I’d happily take an async-by-default world over a world where some APIs only exist through blocking calls. A classically threaded program can easily block on a future, but wrapping a blocking call in an otherwise asynchronous program is complicated, expensive and error prone work.
Waow! Nice job there!
Once i saw the title I had an immediate answer. Quite simple:

a) NOISE. You need noise. So much that it is not too loud but becomes background and ignorable. Practice on the NYC subway.

b) Head Rest. Something to keep your head in place and no pressure on the neck. Do that and you can sleep sitting or standing (yes I can)

c) Nobody touching you. anyone around you can do what they want, but as long as body-contact does not CHANGE all is well. You can be touching their hand or shoulder to shoulder, but as long as there is no change you are fine. Sleeping in weird non-super-restful positions = you are more alert so small things will wake you.

Again, practice on NYC subway and you will be an expert in no time.
A lot of consulting companies got hit pretty hard when their revolving credit accounts got crunched. It is a fact of life when you are talking 30, 60, and 90 day net.
Aware of the "Why" section issue, however don't have time for a fix right now, I'm about to head off to a final exam.

I will be trying to get a "real world" and practical example that is a little more in depth out soon, but my first goal was total API documentation coverage.

Thanks for the interest,

Nick
You probably already know about it, but there is a place in the chicago area called "hot doug's" that makes duck fat french fries on fridays and saturdays. They also have wonderful sausages.
A "little" slow on my android as well ;)
Curious to know, has anyone here got any gigs via the spreadsheet ?
I have a 3GS and an N1 running froyo. The iphone is still faster/smoother by a wide margin. In fact, the much touted speed improvements in froyo are hardly noticeable IMO. As a full-time Android dev, I wish they were.
Ok, now that is very neat.
I have similar opinions on Scala, lots of theory that it makes things better, but the only measurable difference is that its a nightmare to hire for, more expensive and we often have to invest time training people ... who then leave to become contractors.

I'm not anti functional or Scala, but I'm yet to see any reports etc that actually indicate there is a pay off.
Yes, it's changed recently as Alt was interfering with too many applications (e.g.: Inkscape use it). Using the Super (Windows) key is less problematic. So it depends on your KDE version. Or you own settings: I have an "old" (Debian stable) KDE version with Alt by default, but changed it to use the Super key as the new default, for the same reason.
Selfishly I'd like to do the same for Otosclerosis, a hearing disease that manifests in early 20s and 30s.
You're looking at simple, static pages. Unless something is horribly wrong with their infrastructure, these should take milliseconds to generate, if even that.
It was never "TOR", it's; Tor: https://matt.traudt.xyz/posts/2021-02-22-tor-spelling.

The DNS checking service is rate limited and adds latency, but there is a bulk exit list available here; https://check.torproject.org/torbulkexitlist (please don't use 3rd party blocklists, as those often contain middles and guards, even though traffic cannot leave those kind of relays).

But, before you block Tor, please consider that doing so will most likely block a number of legitimate users who you haven't noticed before - just to stop one jerk. Instead, you could restrict access to certain parts of your site for Tor visitors for example.

Bot traffic from Tor is usually of the easily detectable variety (as the attacker didn't have enough skill to build/acquire a botnet and get "clean" IP's),
microsoft does.
Hosts files. Given that storing megabyte-sized data is no problem, it can work even for individual users. Update your hosts off your peers in a web'o'trust fashion.

But DNS is the easiest thing to circumvent and hence, there will be pressure to create stronger control methods.
Its a cool idea, but ultimately it won't help, because sites like these are only worth something if a lot of people know they are there.

A better solution is to create a de-centralized DNS system.
The Internet is ARPANET.

Actually it's not. The Internet that we know today is really NSFNet that was created because the DoD was sick of freeloaders riding on ARPANET. The DoD had very little input on the creation of NSFNet. What was ARPANET is now NIPRNet.

This is one of the many things that I learned by reading Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet. It's a fascinating look at how the Internet was created and focuses mainly on the financial and management side of the creation from about 1965-85.
Yahoo and Google are your best bets for historical prices. Just use the adjusted closing price (not the open or unadjusted prices).

Also, what you call a key area is referred to as a "sector" in investing. There are many ETF managers that try to track the various sectors, though your easiest bet might be the Sector SPDRs. Their webpage already has a correlation tool if you just want to use theirs:

http://www.sectorspdr.com/correlation/

Simply enter one of their ETFs (eg. "XLF") and look at the correlation of the other Sector SPDRs.
Gamification for me, is like the Wall St of the internet.

A lot of hype, little real value.

Big difference between the gaming industry (PS3, Nintendo, Zynga... which are awesome) and attempts at trying to make the world a game.
This is a little late...

But yeah in that case I agree 100%. Different case if you're shipping some scientific equipment worth 1500 dollars now and then.

And if that equipment is 50,000 bucks, maybe you start looking at a private courier.

I have a friend who used to work as a registrar for a museum, shipping stuff that was worth millions, or even arguably priceless. She'd ride on the planes and ride in the backs of the trucks that transported this stuff. She'd have to document every scratch, every discoloration, etc, and sign off on it, before shipping began so they could compare at the end of the trip.

But I was suggesting a hedge. Come up with your own numbers, but if item is worth greater than 2000, insure for 200, costing 70 cents for UPS. That way it gets UPS internal stickers saying it's insured, probably beeps or something every time someone scans it, and provokes an entirely different attitude than marking it "FRAGILE", according to antecdotal evidence.
Having to assume a timeframe, I do not think you have actually learned the languages. It usually takes years to be really good with one. That is not to say you have learned nothing (exposure to many paradigms is good), but that it takes a lot of effort, may be confusing and that you would probably be better-served by concentrating on one or two and working on actually programming first. The dual nature of languages is that they are nontrivial (at the "mastery" level) and they can profoundly affect how you program but that at the same the specific one you end up using is kind of immaterial to programming which is to say composing logic into a functioning program.

All of that is a long-winded way of introducing the suggestion that you learn to program by programming. The second-best is understanding others' programs (select well-respected, progressively larger codebases). Books, suggestions of which I hope others will provide, may give you some good ideas and thought patterns. "Software design" is a vast field with tons of completely obsolete advice, and terrible amounts of overengineering. Perhaps something like an agile workflow book, "The Pragmatic Programmer" once you can construct programs.
old macbook :) I've never had a mac before and I'd figure its time to try one out.
Surely, Snowden's revelation point to much darker trends.
> people like Richard Stallman think Java is an oppressive island

I was surprised to hear this claim, so I looked into it. The only thing it's turning up in this vein is the description of it being "shackled", or comparable adjectives, all before the JDK was GPLed a decade ago. Do you have a specific source on this?
Benefits are many.

Also: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=999678.0

"Technologically CoinAwesome is a censorship-free, time-stamped, cryptographically-secure, decentralized and pseudonymous identity, transaction and reputation system based on nested blockchain technology with a fully featured Bitcoin-like digital currency and hierarchical-deterministic tipping-addresses for every website. It comes with a button, in-browser wallet and JSON-API. All Open-Source."

Post your address in case you want to receive some coins.

And let me know what can be improved please! Reading HN for a long time now... And CoinAwesome is really inspired by HN.
But ever since Lion was released, I would rather use Windows Vista on a Core Solo machine than OS X on any Mac

Huh? And I am not saying that they don't have problems.
The fallback repos is used as often as its name suggest :)

We do not use github only for issues and PRs, though, but also with repos hooks : pushing to a branch trigger a build on our CI, which then deploy our staging env if successful.

Of course, we could do as well with git hooks and writing code to do the web push. I just can't see any reason to migrate to that.
It is very start-up-focused and US focused.

I have never worked at a company in 13 years that has done a pivot. There are companies out their doing the boring (but still profitable) stuff y'know!

Also I have never worked at a company that expects me to do routine unpaid overtime over the contracted hours. But I have worked in UK/Australia with different culture. UK is best 25 days annual leave + public holidays, and often no expectation to work more than the hours you agreed when you signed up (which is fair enough!).

Ahem yet people leave their cushy programming jobs in the UK!

Main reasons for me are substandard coding practices, low pay, not interesting enough work, major life changes (e.g. moving to another country), company going downhill.

Pro tip: Don't tell the potential employer or recruiter your current salary. Or if you do lie and add 20-30%.
Looks deceive, those are no ordinary LEDs and that's not an ordinary switch. I have a good idea of how this was done but I may be off on the details. The switch contains a coil which is shorted using the switch itself which allows you to detect its presence or absence. That can be used to switch power to an RF oscillator which is connected to another coil, setting up a field over the green paper, relatively close to it. The LEDs contain a flip-flop + some rectification and a cap, each LED can be triggered 'on' or 'off' by completing the circuit between the legs (which otherwise function as antennae, that's why they are bent the way they are, that way they function as a dipole).

It's a really neat hack, the guy must have amazing skills if he really has that much hardware tucked away inside the guts of an LED, you'd basically have to hollow out the whole thing, then put an SMD LED at the tip of the housing and use the remainder of the space for the circuitry.

Time will tell how much of this was right if and when he reveals how this trick was done.
Rust. It's been many years since I ran across a programming language whose innovations I'd call exciting. It's still early days, but it might be the language that finally overtakes C++.
Could bodge in a physical switch for write protect.
Good to hear there’s fact behind my opinion. I hadn’t researched it deep enough but just figured it out based on my own experience on their site. I don’t visit Reddit often for 2 years now unless I really need to. And when I do, I go to the old.Reddit subdomain.

Question: which subreddits does Reddit block from the browser? Genuinely curious. Are they also blocked from third party apps like Apollo?
Additionally, Darude:

https://youtu.be/mgfwwqwxdxY
I would have thought that Mark of all people would have complete faith in the privacy of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Very curious indeed.
We had the same myth of vacancies here in Vancouver, and so the Province instituted a 2% vacancy tax on foreign owners. As evidenced by the ongoing market climb, this wasn't the panacea that many hoped for.

We haven't designed or planned for the growth we're undergoing. It is a zoning and civic planning problem, first and foremost, and not a problem that can be solved by direct price manipulation.
i’ve been reading police reports for years. i’m only surprised by human decency and politeness, now.
Keeping properties empty is almost never more profitable than keeping them occupied. If rents are falling such that they're not sufficient to cover the mortgage payments, that's usually a sign than property prices are about to go down, not up.

The exception might be if someone is trying to sell the property in the coming months. Doesn't make sense to find tenants who are cool with being kicked out in a few months.
Savings accounts are only a tiny part of the equation, the impact on businesses of a wide spread collapse of investment banks would be much larger.

Other countries which offered guarantees on savings accounts still bailed out banks due to the wider economic issues.
Did you see Joel Spolsky's note about people spending all day on StackOverflow when they should be working? He suggests that they're underemployed, meaning they have not been given the appropriate balance of challenge and workload at their current job.

Imagine you have two applicants or roughly equal aptitude/suitability. When asked why they're looking for a job, both state that they are not being challenged in their current position.

One seems to have done a lot of posting on SO, HN, and so forth during business hours. You like their posts but not that they were made during business hours.

They other has no record of HN or SO posts. Do you assume that the other person was hard at work at the last job and hire them?

You might be right, but then again, it could be that they were watching the clock in ways you can't detect so easily. Maybe they read books about programming. Maybe they read all these sites but didn't contribute. Maybe they took a lot of smoke breaks.

You know that one of the two did a lot of non-job stuff while being underemployed, but you also know that you like their posts. I think it's reasonable to hire them anyways, and also reasonable to pass on them.

But what isn't reasonable, IMO, is to give the candiate with less information a "free pass" by hiring them without further investigation. I would ask:

"You say you weren't challenged in the last job. You must have had some free time. What did you do with it?"

If they tell you about all the extra value-add they created for their employer, great. If they tell you about surfing job boards or reading books about programming, great. If they stare blankly at you, dig deeper.

This is speculative, of course. YMMV.
I think serious poker is in a different category than slots or roulette.

You can call it gambling but there's a reason there exist top poker players who win with consistency. If it were really random chance, you wouldn't see players that make a living playing poker.
I've been running the betas on my iPad for awhile now and it is really pretty great having the multitasking support. Like the iPhone, it's mostly not "real" multitasking, so when it comes to interruptions and the like you shouldn't have to worry about that. The iPad also has considerably more RAM than the iPhone 3G had, so it can keep a lot of apps in memory at once and the switching becomes reasonably seamless and quick. During the betas, 4.2 was often very slow, but as soon as it went GM performance jumped significantly. As far as I can tell, it's just as fast as 3.2 was - only with all the added benefits of the new features.
Alternative version, submitted three hours ago, no comments, no up-votes:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1929511
It would be sad to see someone get a job solely on his/her Stack Overflow reputation, but I wouldn't object to it helping you get an edge over other candidates.

If I was an employer looking at a candidate, obviously I am more concern about the quality of each answer than the quantity of each answer.
Has anyone installed the update already? How was it?

The GM has been working fine for me for a couple of weeks now, though I admit I don't use the device that heavily. The only regression IMO is the orientation lock -> mute switch change, everything else is for the better.

There are some changes in how UIKit handles some rendering edge cases (literally - e.g. edges of images) which will probably affect some apps until they get fixed.
Fixed, thanks. My IDE even showed it as a misspelling, but I guess I was too high on the rush of getting the site up to notice.
I live in the Seattle area, and would be open to one or two in Europe during the year.
Those friends of yours imported their email address books into Facebook. Your email was in there, but you were not a user, and your friends did not invite you, until that last one did. When he decided to invite you, it was able to tell you about your three other friends.