jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Really, it's not that hard. Conservative estimates:

Wages: 35k

Taxes: 10.5k

Rent: 1000/mo = 12k

Utilities: 200/mo = 2.4k

Transportation (car): 200/mo+200/mo = 4.8k

Food: 400/mo = 4.8k

Total: 34.5k

Get a roommate, use public transportation, get rid of TV, make your own meals, and you could probably put 5-8k in the bank each year. Even if you're living in NYC, it should be pretty easy to "survive" on 35k a year.
And it's fanless, so there are no vents, and it's not blowing potential infectious agents or allergens around.
Banned from your country on copyright grounds... ffs... channel 4 is from my country ... arg !
Build a project and put it online. That's the best path, imho. Good luck, go for it, and make it a priority. Just get something working up and online, no matter how simple or embarassing. ;)
I have a pretty uncommon name. Google reveals a total of about six people online with the same first & last names. For the most part, I don't care if people know who I am, but I occasionally make statements that I may not want my employer knowing about and I really don't want to have to watch everything I say.

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As an aside: I'm not big on meta posts, but would you guys stop downvoting jasonlotito, please!!! Whether or not you agree with him, he is asking intelligent questions and is furthering the discussion. Your downvotes are actually inhibiting the process.
That's great. But with new Apple laptops, there's no way to remove the hard drive, let alone replace the battery :(
Ayn Rand was very successful at running a religious cult, I have to give her that, at least. However, despite all her love for the "productive people", I just can't think of her as one of the heroes her cult so worshipped. More to the point, has Ayn Rand ever worked? All she did was write poor novels of enormous length, and socialize (and have sex) with her cult followers.

Rand created no new knowledge, no new art. All she did was write pseudo-philosophical treatises on why it's OK to behave badly and selfishly, and a bunch of self-important wankers decided to deify her for creating a moral code that legitimized their assholery. Compare Rand to the philosophers of the Enlightenment. She's less than a lightweight, she's nothing.
There's a good chance you might find something on http://www.airbnb.com
This would make for an epic onion article ;p
What is your scalable method of attracting links to BCC (and AR)?
In a browser, what framework do you use to handle file dependencies? As in I have foo.js which will only run if bar.js is loaded, I don't want to specify in my page: 1) load bar.js, 2) load foo.js 3) order matters... rather I want to say load foo.js (and implicitly it loads bar.js first)
Have you tried CoffeeScript and what are your thoughts on it? It's clearly not 'done' yet but I found it really helps clean up my scripts, reduce the amount of typing and avoid a lot of tricky JavaScript mistakes.
Python is generally considered to be the stronger language and certainly the one I would recommend.
The archiving (caching of html+stylesheets+images) is what really makes this service. I've had Delicious bookmarks disappear when people migrated blog platforms, when Yahoo closed Geocities, and countless other occasions.

The only thing that can make it better is the ability to export the full caches. It does let you export 25 bookmarks (and their caches) for offline access.

I've been a member at the $25 level since regular membership was $6 :>
Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1442547
Perhaps you should move on to someone else or get up the courage to ask her out. Either she will reject you and you can move on or she will take you up on the offer.

There are a lot of fish in the sea... people are often just too afraid to take the plunge.

"Don't make someone a priority if they only make you an option"
Define better. Is better defined in terms of who makes more money. It is true that apples done a phenomenal job of creating an ecosystem where developers get paid for creating applications. The OSS world lacks such an ecosystem, which is why OSS apps have not been able to "change" the world. btw included as debian apps - gcc, apache , virtually every compiler and programming language known to man. Lastly debian comes with the dignity of allowing you to program in a language that you want to. Much of this applies to all other free operating systems too.
I'm not talking about "most people". I'm talking about some significant subset of smart people who would love hacking, but don't know what it is yet because they weren't given a proper opportunity. "Most people" will follow when programming literacy becomes the new math literacy.
Try agin spatel @ iorad.com
Or my username at gmail
>> I don't see a lot of debian apps doing better than facebook..

There's no possible scale of values that you could use to evaluate this comparison. It's not even apples to oranges. It's like saying Facebook is doing better than beagles. The things don't fit into the same category at all.

Here's a random example: one of the Debian apps is aptitude. It manages packages on the command-line. If you are a Debian sys-admin, it very likely enormously important to you. Nevertheless, it makes zero sense to say it's "doing better than Facebook." That sentence is just meaningless.
Violence is permissible only when you have no other option: no votes no representatives, no reliable elections, no fair courts etc. When America (or any other country) lacks those then the people can and should take to the streets. But we're not there. We have people inciting violence because they lost a fair election (by a wide margin). They had their chance in the battle of minds, at the poll booth, in the courts and even in the senate. They've lost fair and square.
Germany is hovering around 41% renewable electricity, but its primary energy supply is still 78% fossil fuels.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/renewables/germanys-energie...
All that money, all those guns, all that harassing of random citizens, and this happened. One has to ask “what are we actually paying for?”
A quick search shows that many states have changed their stances either through precedent or legislation over the past 20 years or so, so my information may be out of date.

The California court's website states that cohabiting spouses is a conclusive presumption[1] and the exceptions to overturning are very limited, even with genetic testing. I'm not a lawyer and can't easily research precedent, but the law seems pretty clear that if you don't challenge before the 2nd birthday of the child, it can't be overturned. There may be other restrictions as well.

It seems like recent anecdotes I can find relate to the 2 year deadline. The father didn't challenge paternity at the time of divorce, found out he was not biological father (or that he could challenge) later, but it was too late.

Hopefully we can all agree it would be shitty to disown a kid you've been raising for years because you found out you weren't the biological father, but I can certainly have empathy for someone who has limited (or no) visitation and is stuck shelling out money for someone else's kid.

[edit]

It looks like the law was revised recently as well, so amybe the court website is out of date on some of this? AB2684 mentions "rebuttable presumptions" and was passed in 2018, going into effect in 2019. IANAL and don't have time to follow up on this.

1: https://www.courts.ca.gov/1202.htm
Digital gold is the kill app. That is enough to justify its market cap.

For example, Chinese can use bit coin to exchange large amount of funds to other currency, although this can only be done in private because the official ban.
> Perhaps, but that wasn't a coup. Hitler actually won a democratic election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933

His election to chancellor was arguably democratic. Everything that created the Third Reich was para/extra-legal machinations (c.f. the Reichstag fire!) of exactly the form that we saw attempted on Tuesday.

Trump and his mob weren't nearly as talented, so they failed. I still remain horrified that you won't take seriously what happened.
This was a case about hacking, rather than surveillance. That's not authorised by RIPA, but under earlier 1994 legislation, and needs a specific warrant from the Secretary of State.
"We can guarantee freedom of speech, but not freedom after speech." Idi Amin.

This year I have barely spoken more than 30 minutes to someone in real life, per day. If my interactions over the internet were to be as they say curated, I would effectively be silenced.

I was a frequent reader of r/dt a few years back, as the top poster was. There was nothing in particular there, no trend, that was any more terrible than what I could find in my bookshelf. Deal with it.
Do you take photos and keep those around or you just don’t use cameras? If you do preserve photos, why? Before cameras were invented, most people (who couldn’t paint or pay a painter) had experiences and events only in their memories. You could follow that for photos and videos too. Or get a camera that shows the photo you took for a few seconds and then erase it permanently.

I’m not trolling either. The point is not whether you value something to look back on in the future or not. It’s that a lot of people value that and would use a service that aligns with those needs. Chats can also have photos and videos that someone else shared. It’s not easy or clear to many people that they should save or offload those from an (unreliable) chat app if they want to look back at those later.
a great reminder. i'm keen on keeping it simple... and focused. i don't need to be the next microsoft word... i'd rather not actually.

i think one of the most important things any developer or business does is decide who their customer is... and who their customer isn't.
haha! Thanks. edited it
We want people to learn computational thinking, and then complain when their amateur creations aren't up to our standard? Let it be a gateway.
Obama is from Kenye, right?

// really?
I only need to trust them more than my ISP.
All of the cyberpunk extras in the background during the presentation were super cringe too. The whole thing was just cringe on top of cringe.
really? I think it looks so awesome, like a car out of Halo!
> It has to be people

> Most companies are morally agnostic

What do you think makes companies do what they do? Companies consist of people. There are still people making these decisions. Many companies have taken ethical stances wrt China. Many more have not. Companies don't just get let of the hook because they're companies.
> India is similarly doing in Kashmir.

That line just proves how much of an echo chamber this place really is when it comes to international affairs.

I live in India. I just had lunch with my colleague who is a Kashmiri native. His parents recently arrived from that state, and his father has returned back to run his medical shop. Though the situation is not ideal, it is a far cry away from being a breach of democracy or humanitarian concerns. The government has evoked constitutional law to maintain peace and order, largely as preventive measures against extremist operations and organisation. This has certainly affected the lives of daily citizens, no doubt, but the way western media blows it out of proportion one can just wonder whether it is genuinely clueless journalism or ideologically motivated smear campaign.
Naturally. Even here in AU, the people that buy US-sized utes tend to be in the vast minority. I'm sure it's a negligable market that they can safely ignore, it was just an interesting thing to note as an outsider.
I fear Musk wants to recreate all those future visions he's seen in eighties movies and tv shows in his childhood. If his next product is the Airwolf helicopter I feel vindicated.
I'll assume your questions are not rhetorcal.

a) the same person who insures the online coins.

b) it may be expensive, but most likely cheaper on a pro-rata basis than the online coins. If it's "cost-prohibitive" offer it as a market driven "add-on" service. Two products, insured and noninsured.

Your arguments apply equally well to that which is insured, unless I Am misunderstanding something somehow.
Community repo is a different thing from AUR
These things are hard. If you can describe a simple programming task in non-ambiguous language, then that's your program right there.

It might be in pseudocode, but transcribing it into a "real" language is trivial compared to describing the problem in the first place. If it's not, there is probably a programming tool closer to your problem domain that makes it easier.

The biggest business opportunity here is probably helping out with office automation, because not all business minded people can code, not helping professional programmers with boring grunt work.
>The logistic curve looks exponential right up until it isn't.

Moot point if the logistic curve leads us well past the human-imaginable level of intelligence before reaching a zero with its cost/benefit differential.
I always get nervous of products like Hyperdock as I fear they will cause some instability.

How have you found it?
I doubt it solves all your problems, but for the issue with terminals I recommend Go2Shell[1] which just adds an icon you can click to open a terminal in that window.

[1] http://zipzapmac.com/go2shell
Looks indeed very interesting, thanks for the link!
Hey how do you do it?
You created an emulator/port from asm.js?

I tried to do this in the past in ActionScript, but we could not make it happen properly.
I'm a big fan. If it's something you've just heard about or don't know anything about, there's usually no better way to get up to speed than peepcode. For stuff you know a little about, it can be slow because they take the time to lay a good foundation.

If you put a dollar value on your time, PeepCode is a no-brainer.
The Play by plays are awesome. If you just look at a finished product, code looks so effortless. However, even experts struggle getting it right: only through understanding the problem, trial-and-error and a lot of refactoring does code become "effortless".

I recommend the PbP of Gary Bernhardt: great tips on VIM, Git and RSpec.
I've been told that RIM could improve their odds by making their corporate install system better, and that awkward aspects of this count against Blackberry adoption at the moment. Does anyone here have more knowledge about this?
Effective Perl Programming by brian d foy is also great, although a handful of the tips go a little into the dark side of Perl tricks.
"Oh and they should forget about consumers. That whole thing was just dumb."

So true, and seeing them advertise to facebook users and the like drives me mad - I'm a single consumer from their point of view (my phone isn't picked or paid for by my company), but I chose Blackberry a long time ago for business reasons, and every time I see them trying to sell to 14 year olds I ask myself why they aren't spending more time making great phones for people like me.
Thanks for the replies. I'll have a look at some of the previews on offer.
camelCase vs. underscore_delimited is really a religious preference: use whatever the people you're working with are using..

as far as equal vs. equals: both make sense, but I would favor 'equal' exactly because of this. I don't feel there is a need to constantly add a frivolous character to all of your statements.
I'd argue that more complex ones (appear) beneficial to programmers more than anything else (users don't appear to benefit from complexity).
> Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Europe

MS needs to preinstall whatsapp , otherwise a lot of people will prefer a phone with whatsapp pre-installed, I know that most of us would laugh about it, but believe me, In my country people buy phones just because the box has these logos: whatsapp, FB, twitter.
I heard that a startup which I don't know hired Chinese when I was working in a startup in Tokyo. I also found some non-Japanese speaking people were working in OpenSource cafe.
http://www.osscafe.net/en/

I'm going to give you some links that would be useful.

Tokyo based Seed Accelerator: http://onlab.jp/

Social Hiring platform: https://www.wantedly.com/

Japanese AngelList-like service: http://creww.me/
Does not work in any browser except Safari and Chrome
Probably the main one is cost. ARM licenses are cheap, and the many manufacturers work on knife edge profit margins. Intel makes very large profits on high end chips that only it can fab.

On the other hand, Intel has better technology and could cannibalize itself. The future will be interesting.
Technically doesn't this imply they've already published it and put it in the public domain?
They've been supplying much of the intelligence data that we use to fly drones over Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen killing hundreds of innocent people in the process.
It would have had to been because:

"The Ubuntu Edge is an exclusive production run, available only through Indiegogo."

Unless they want to lose money or plan to monetize some other way.
For us Europeans knowing servers are hosted in an European country has got everything to do with latency and nothing to do with some sort of anti-americanism.
One school of thought: tons of text is reassuring to readers who notice the presence but ignore the contents
Damn you beat me to it.
What you call concurrency, I call concurrency control. But more often, I just call it synchronization. I am unaware of any widespread acceptance of your definition.
London: $50-100k USD for 40% (Gaming). Don't come here.
Yeah, well, 4x DDR4 DIMMs have 4x288 = 1152 pins. If you want to be two orders of magnitude faster than that, you're talking on the order of 100 000 pins, which is just absurd.
I'm not sure I agree. A visible logo/brand being itself an advertisement maybe a side-effect of the logo/brand being prominitantly displayed, but I would argue that it is more identification than advertising.

The difference becomes apparent when considering soda pop bottle versus a high-end dress shirt. The soda-pop bottle is a trivial purchase, and is generally available among many other brands offering the same thing. However, the shirt may be purchased with more effort and care, and is generally available among other clothing from the same brand.

The brand on the bottle offers identification of the individual item during purchase and later during selection for drinking. No matter if it is found in a bin among bottles from other brands, or within a section containing only bottles from one brand. Bottles are also discarded after use, so they are not identified individually, but merely as one of many copies. I have several bottles of soda pop, some Coke some Pepsi. The brand is still very relevant.

A shirt on the other hand is probably accompanied by an entire section of clothing for the same brand, and does not need individual identification. Even more so during selection for use, shirts are generally owned by a single person and cared for individually. I only have one pink broadcloth shirt, and it happens to be from Banana Republic. The brand is not as relevant.

No?
I consider it parallelism without concurrency, if tasks are executed at the same time, but do not interact / synchronize. A parallel map operation (without reduce) would an example.

The important thing is: Concurrency introduces indeterminism, while parallelism does not.
I think this is like a wiki; many people can edit it. (This is also why it reads like a rambling bunch of thoughts jumbled together, rather than like something coherent.)
Yeah, I realized that this was probably the biggest difference!
These URLs kill me, I share a lot of links and these branches use full commit strings (instead of just "default" or "stable" human readable) and the links it creates to PRs includes the actual title (which I find I can delete manually, but this is the default behaviour).

stable: https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea/files/7f3515800bd8...

PR: https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea/pull-request -> https://kallithea-scm.org/repos/kallithea/pull-request/140/_...

(...which you can delete everything after /140/ and it works fine). Oy vey.
Something tells me that many people won't pay those 16 billion and will move to a different place instead. NYSE isn't the only stocks market in the USA.
> Empirical evidence shows

I imagine there is 'evidence' out there but the empirical claim is quite intriguing. Do you have any sources for this?
Obama squashed it.
Fascinating. Would you like a full-time Rust job? :)
Is it just me or does his blog post only reason is to reassure himself that he's above hacker news as a community. If you want to leave because you see no value in it, then by all means leave. What does it matter if the author thinks HN sucks? I understand the need for valuation of one's actions, but really this sort of statements are just boring.

This article belongs in a tweet: "I'm fed up with Hacker News and ergo, I'm leaving it!". That's the only thing that the author really said, but really, does it even matter?
They're not saying they're all superstars. Like racism, ageism doesn't just apply to superstars.

"We will achieve equality not when a female Einstein is made an assistant professor, but when a female schlemiel ears as much as a male schlemiel." Same deal with 16-year-olds.
Instead of using Myers-Briggs as a tool for understanding, you've just it to pigeonhole someone based on one negative characteristic (which lets you disregard his opinions) and then blamed his personality type for "a lot of the world's problems."

Tools like Myers-Briggs are great for looking at yourself, understanding your strengths and weaknesses and learning to be a better person. However, when you start using them as weapons, the focus becomes other people's problems. I guess the benefit is you don't have to worry about self-improvement anymore when a personality typing system makes it so convenient to place the blame somewhere else.
The quality of answers in Quora is ok. As good as all the Stacks that are not computer related for instance. We do need better but no one has worked out how yet.

So your point is it's a walled garden, but then so are many news sites, so would you block them as well?

I'm not also sure it's walled, I can access the articles fine atm. But I do know they did wall it many years ago so not sure if it's changed or something else.
Also knowing the names of them doesn't mean anything as far as I can tell. I've seen SOLID done well and SOLID done awfully. What counts is can you actually produce clean code that's not wasteful? Apparently knowing the acronym and being able to answer at least one question on it is a proxy for that. IMHO it's a pretty darn poor one, but it seems to be the one everyone goes with.
Did you miss the section about Hong Kong and the blanket ban on political/protest content?

The latter is very Brave New World-esque in that it both “keeps the app fun” and acts as a means to suppress dissent. If they have the capability to identify political/protest content, why not label and allow filtering instead of blanket removing all of it from the app?
Let me guess: the alternative is something to do with high taxes, mass immigration, and diversity, and ignoring that troublesome thing called democracy when the proles dare vote against the unquestionably superior and enlightened perspective of the elites (ahem Brexit). How dare the great unwashed vote in their own interests!
Search results consisting of links to inaccessible content aren't very useful.

HN posts of inaccessible and/or paywalled content also aren't very useful.
It won't. It requires you to use a custom editor.
I use DDG and rarely see pinterest or quora results.
My advice would be: rigorously eliminate everything from your life which doesn't fit inside your top X critical priorities.

Where X is as small as possible, and seek to cull it further by combining equivalents and trying to identify why some 'important' things might actually be utter wastes of time in the first place.

The world generally uses a ratchet approach to conquer your attention. Use a ratchet to take it back.