jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Animator" could have lots of interpretations/types of jobs, and many people that have pursued careers in the arts may have spent money on special purpose art colleges that cost a lot, but definitely don't always translate to high paying jobs.

Also, anecdotal evidence from friends in the digital animation field (think Pixar, Dreamworks, etc) is that even those jobs can be relatively low paying for years because they are dream jobs, hence high supply of workers.

Without knowing socio-economic background and life history, I could easily see a creative type in LA choosing a short jail term over the financial hit.
I like how they tried to come up with answers to most peoples criticisms.

Why on earth would you have Wordpress hosted in the same network as the one with access to your critical infrastructure?

That wouldn't fly in any finance shop, and they at least they have insurance.
I like to imagine that domains are the modern equivalent to land. It certainly seems to fit the criteria of enduring for many years with people buying and building upon them.
Remember when gay and lesbian bars were a thing; back when straight people steered clear of them because of the stigma?

Not having the stigma is good overall, but in many places there's no longer queer-exclusive spaces. That whole segment of culture is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
Back in 2011 myself and a few mates built our startup over 1 year.
Mainly on weekends and sometimes after work, it was a long hard slog - but it ultimately got is into a startup accelerator.. which for me back then was one of my big goals.

We all quit our jobs when we got into the accelerator. I was young, and felt that had to be the way. In retrospect one (or two) of us could have continued working part time even at that point.
The company slowly fizzled out over the following year. We failed to secure adequate funding, individually ran out of runway, with a splash of co-founder misalignment.

In retrospect we could have done a lot less, and figured all of it out sooner.
Not sure if that was a helpful answer :)
Right, because social media points can’t be gamed.
This is sort of like saying people are okay with cancer because they buy certain plastics in mass. The reality is people are ignorant of what is good for them in a ton of applications, including this one.

Only a handful really grasp the context of what is happening with their data and most importantly how their data could affect them.

People routinely do things against their own interest. It's up to the other people that care about this issue to make competing products that don't harm. There's simply no way to get everyone to really care about an issue with nuance and/or niche knowledge.
A global passive adversary is anyone who can execute a Sybil attack, basically. So the required size scales with the size of the network. A global passive adversary for a network with only ten nodes would only have to have five nodes itself.

The "global" adjective is just used, I think, because cryptographers presume a production deployment of the cryptosystems they discuss would be something like the Web: large enough (millions of nodes) to require globe-spanning resources (millions of other nodes owned by a single group) to execute the attack successfully.

Seen under that lens, neither Tor nor Bitcoin nor any other modern cryptosystem needs a "global" passive adversary to break it. Just a regular "passive adversary."
"Silk Road 2 wasn't vulnerable to the same CAPTCHA attack that gave away location of the first Silk Road's servers"

In case I'm not the only one who hadn't read about how the first Silk Road got caught, it's simple but interesting:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/dread-pirate-sunk-by-leak...
My grocery store has a liquid detergent bulk refill. The down side is only one brand offers this, but it works fine so that's what I use.

I drive about 15 minutes out of my way to go to this place, but it's worth it to me for many reasons. Plan ahead and you can do all your shopping for weeks in one trip.

Another cool thing this place does is put out used boxes by the checkout, so their own waste gets recycled directly. If you forget your re-usable bag you can just grab a box and feel good about it.
As long as there's still fossil fuel powered transportation, it would make more sense to use that excess power to charge batteries, since that converts electricity into motion more efficiently than taking the detour through synthetic burnable fuel.
I reject the tyranny of OR.
might the racial make up of googles staff have something to do with it?
Eilenberg & Mac Lane needed a word like 'set', 'group', 'class', etc, except of course those were all taken. They claim to have gotten the word 'category' from Kant, although they didn't intend an actual semantic relation.
I would be interested to know (1) what the legal and regulatory implications of such a deal would be, and (2) what the implications would be with respect to the deals the founder would have signed with regard to the equity they were holding.

My suspicion is this couldn't be done without causing problems in one or both domains, but I don't base that on anything solid.
Why would anybody want to live there.
Children would be a strange choice of vocabulary to describe teenagers in the renaissance, but it's not now.
The TechTalks had a few purposes. First, it was to spread knowledge within the company about what other groups were working on and how they were doing it. Second, it was for recruiting new developers. (If the talk went well internally, then we were often asked to do it again for local developer groups or meetups at area colleges.) Third, it was part of the career development they tried to do - trying to create good Architects that knew the business and the problems that needed to be solved.

The talks were incentivized as part of the bonus structure. If the company did well, and you completed your goals, then you could get up to X% of your salary as a bonus. (Also, they usually included free lunch)

The technology and the people at that company were really great to work with - I probably got more experience in one year there than five years at any other company. Unfortunately it was in the advertising business, so many of the business practices were slimy and cutthroat. (It seemed like every month we had a crisis where either Google, Microsoft, or Apple didn't like what we were doing and wanted to shut it down.)
Yeah but Maya is you know, production quality software. There's a reason people use $4000+ software suites.

I'm sure Clara is lovely for people trying to whet their appetite for 3D modelling but it's unfair to present it as equivalent to a real 3D software suite. It makes me sad when people only ever have access to shitty tools and they don't realize what they could do with a bigger lever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6725792 <--- relevant comment
The purpose of the protest was not to breach congress and stop the processing of the Electoral College votes. A small minority of protestors decided to do that. If we are going to do that and say the entire protest is bad if contained a few bad actors, then in order to not be hypocritical we need to condemn any BLM protest that had bad actors, including the one that resulted in CHAZ.

Or, you can recognize the right to assemble and protest while condemning non-peaceful protesting. I personally unequivocally condemn the violence that occurred in both BLM and Trump protests. I also support the right to gather and peacefully protest, for both BLM and Pro-Trump supporters.
x86_64Ubuntu forgot to add "or they'll change the topic".
My experience with buying quarters was 'so-so' enough that I stopped. Even when the meat was good enough, I found that I felt like I was being ripped off. There is just so much opportunity between the farmer and butcher to cheat you, and you don't have any insight. Maybe it's just me.

I can really only imagining this working out consistently if you really developed those relationships, and for a purchase I'd make a few times a year at most, it didn't seem worth it.
it was somebody else's account. Also, see @foone's thread here:

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1346924327996772354

tl;dr: the government has appropriate computer security in place to prevent this sort of thing, and it's not clear what the deal was with that particular computer.
Incorrect. Capitol police is a 2300 officer department with a huge annual budget. The puppets in place were complicit in letting this happen.
Are these things so important that we should give up the easier maintainability (and potentially, security) that comes from centralization and the standardization of user clients? I absolutely think projects like Matrix are worthwhile, but it seems foolish to me to argue that there are no benefits that come from doing things the way Signal does. Besides, as sexy as decentralization is, in the wild it is not really practiced. Mastodon is decentralized, but last I heard ~50% of users were on 3 nodes [0]. I'm assuming it's a similar situation for Matrix.

[0]: https://rosenzweig.io/blog/the-federation-fallacy.html
I agree but there are 300 million in the US. The actual insurrectionists are like... 200 people? Maybe 2,000?

Shutting down anyone talking pro trump in the whole country will have downsides, and just make them more angry. Prohibition isn't an answer that will work.

Hopefully sending all of the insurrectionists to jail will help.
Not Ruby's default REPL, but Pry Stack Explorer provides this functionality to Ruby
Logo looks like a teen designed it for the smartphone app he was working on in his garage 7 years ago.

If I ever buy a GM, I still expect to get a rebate by showing my tax returns at the dealership, considering the amount of bail out money they received.
Just wanted to say my friends and I had a fantastic time using Popflash 4-5 years ago to organize our ten mans. Thank you!
My reaction to this is that it's not so much "unconscionable" as mind-numbingly stupid. Yeah, I agree that it's unfair to those of us who are looking for work (I was myself most recently) but from the perspective of those doing the hiring this seems like a weird sort of overcautiousness. Some of the most intelligent, accomplished, and qualified people I know have found themselves unemployed at some point in the last two years. Heck, I just got employed again three months ago after five months of unemployment.

I understand that companies get a lot of resumes these days, but the fact is that there are many, many much better ways of culling than to reject the unemployed. In point of fact, by stating up-front that you won't take resumes from those who aren't currently employed, you're cutting out what might be your best hiring pool. My experience is that people (myself included) who've been unemployed, especially for a little while, often have clearer heads going into a job, and tend to want it a whole lot more. Like I said, I was off the job recently for five months. You can take a guess as to how I attacked the work when I finally hit the job again: it was like I was living again. If I'd moved from my old job directly into the new, there would've been a longer adjustment period, I would've been more disoriented, and most importantly it would've taken longer to realign my motivation and ambition.

Being unemployed - being unable to provide for myself - focused me pretty sharply, I can tell you. And it made me eager to get back to work and dive into it. I think other people are the same; the until-recently unemployed can be some of the most motivated people on earth.

This is just to say, to anyone in a hiring position who's considering trying this to cut back on an abundance of resumes: increase the qualifications, streamline your resume review process, and even accept that you might have to pick a handful of resumes to work from at random - but don't throw away what might be the most motivated and willing pool of applicants available to you by asking for resumes only from people that are currently employed.
> Some people can imitate accents which they don't speak natively, but many people can't do this well at all. E.g., how many Americans can do a good impression of a British accent?

You're confusing "can't" with "not willing to commit the time."

Accents are like learning a language -- if you want to rid yourself of an accent, you can. But most people don't.

> You can express your opinion if you want, but it's rude and insulting to do so.

Look, I'm sorry that you're personally offended by my comment that I can't tell if her speech is due to an accent or a speech impediment, but that's your own problem. There was no value judgment in my initial statement whatsoever, you projected it.
because you can't establish a credible offer of that much money

Of course you can; that is pretty easy to do. (also you might note we tried a lot more credible monetary amounts as well).

Can you describe a situation that you could actually set up in which a woman would think she was more likely to get a million pounds than to get dragged into a basement, tortured, raped, and murdered?

This is something of a strawman... because clearly it all depends on the individual and how they perceive a situation. But it seems reasonable to suppose you can ask the person (as I did) to visualise a situation where they were receiving a serious offer (a lot of phsyc testing uses this premise).

"What's the safest way to deal with this situation?"

When I said bartering I should point out it wasn't actively bartering over the idea of sex; it was a discussion about the ideas and this concept of a "price". Or in opther words it was explained what the point was. Most said it was an interesting thought experiment.

So where your seeing this as the individuals thinking "oh crap, this crazy person is saying really weird/scary things" that was not the situation. We used the opening line as a gambit to provoke this idea of a "price".

I'm actually most interested in your currently undefended assertion that people have thought about their "price". It's the most interesting part of this for me.

EDIT: it's worth pointing out this is less about establishing what cash amount people want for having sex with you than about getting people to discuss a social idea that is almost certainly frowned upon, but which could make them rich via minimum effort/skill. We could have tried something like.. would you kill for £1 Million - but there were strong reasons against that (sex itself is not frowned on (just paid-for), where murder is. Sex is more interesting because there is a divide between how men and women react to it).
In Australia (well, NSW and the ACT at least) you're not allowed to U-turn at a traffic light unless a sign specifically allows it. You can, however, make U-turns (or U-eys, as we call 'em :) outside of traffic light areas. A lot of people get around this by making a right-turn, then doing a U-turn in the street they turned into :)

Making a metaphor out of it for Singaporean culture is drawing quite a long, generalising bow, IMO.
My dedicated server is overloaded because I'm running a number of medium/high traffic sites on it, not really much optimization I can do there.

I definitely need to move the app to the cloud or its own server. In a few days the app could easily be getting 50 requests a second. It's fairly light, in that there is no database interaction (there will probably be a DB soon, but it will only be 1 or 2 simple queries per page load). It's really just a simple html page and a JS file which I'll be moving to S3.
Exactly. Chess is another example.
I've never had a McDonald's refuse me barbecue sauce, mcchicken sauce, etc. whenever I ask for it, regardless of what my order was.
That's a story for some other time. :)
Look at RequireJS, http://requirejs.org/
With multiple universes, where every possibility is explored, there will always be one where you don't die. Your consciousness might be navigating you into that universe. So even when you're 104 and have only 50% of making it to your next birthday . . somehow you will. Everlasting life, that would be a true horror.
And how does that negate people's ability to choose the products they will buy or keep companies from catering to specific portions of the market and thus caring very much how people vote with their dollars?
The United States wasn't really setup to have these sort of decrees from the top.
Those are interesting examples because you didn't lose the passwords, those websites did. So stuffing your password in your wallet, or making sure they were 12 characters long wouldn't do any good.
then I am at it.. :) thank you.
"If I could prove to you a fact that disagreed with the big bang, would you then abandon the theory"

Sure I would! What are some of your facts?
Oh, there are new homebrew games being made for a lot of the major 8-bit machines, still today. Myself, I've been enjoying the revival immensely, especially since the 8-bit machine of my youth rarely got much attention at all from the major industry developers (Oric-1/Atmos), yet today - in the 21st Century - its getting a regular stream of releases from the die-hard holdouts .. and some of them are absolutely amazing products which would have been huge hits back in the day.

(See http://www.oric.org/index.php?page=software&fille=top150game...)

We got Space:1999, 1337 (Elite clone), SchoolDaze, Impossible Mission, Oricium, 4K Kong .. a lot of really awesome titles .. in the last few years. Also, new techniques have been discovered and continually refined by the core die-hards, meaning we're seeing things on the platform that we in the 80's could only ever have dreamed of seeing .. new color modes, new ways of handling animation, etc. It really is astounding to return to these platforms, 30 years later, and see new titles being pushed out by the ever-eager hackers who are keeping the platforms alive. Heck, we even got new hardware for the Oric-1/Atmos platform in the form of a dedicated disk emulation system, whose microcontroller alone, itself, is more powerful than the Oric ever was, but which nevertheless is being pressed into the disk-emulating duties that makes the Oric-1, at last complete. ;)

So if you've got an old 8-bit machine in your closet, get it out, wire it up, dust if off, and get out there on the 'net to find the elite groups keeping these systems alive. And remember: old computers never die - their users do!
You mean, the subset of the linux kernel module set that was used in these projects has been tested. Presumably they didn't, say, test every hardware driver; that would require a lot of hardware :)
"A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."

The wording actually results in "under penalty of purjury" to modify the succeeding part of the sentence, not the preceding part. As a result, the penalties only apply if you act on behalf of another party without authorization.

Penalties would apply for mislabelling content as copyright infringing as well as acting without authorization if the requirement was this along the lines of "a statement, under penalty of perjury, that the information in the notification is accurate and that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed."
Which ones? They all work for me...
To steal a bit from Jack Black and make it my own:

Those who can't do, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym. Those who can't teach gym go into politics.
Yes, but the difference is here that the police obviously let the protestors inside the building. Once that happened, the police and protestors were mixed and there was no real power struggle. Police looks like they were keeping an eye, but no one was fighting. This guy who shot turned a situation that could have been handled with a baton into a deadly situation. He could have created a worse situation, imagine if a protestor had a gun behind this woman and a gunfight erupted.

Completely unnecessary.
Your argument is that "You haven't seen any evidence" while purporting to respond to someone whose posts are deleted _automatically_ by the machine. Saying "I haven't seen any evidence, so we're just going to keep this autodeletion machine running..." is an exercise in sanctimonous stupidity. I'm sure everyone who ran the censorship machine in East Germany or Russia (or programs the Great Firewall in China today) says the same damn thing.
I wasn't suggesting do it without the law - Presumably the House and Congress are the employers and could pass the relevant motion/law very quickly

And collective punishment of employees is perfectly valid in law.
Yes, it's amazing. And this also works on the default Android/iOS keyboards too.
Telegram, because it more widespread and because it runs in parallel on multiple devices. That's the major flaw of WhatsApp even if it's dictated by strong encryption etc.

However everybody around me use WhatsApp, including the people using Telegram. I use Telegram with 3 or 4 friends, WhatsApp with everybody else even if I see a constant flow of contacts installing Telegram (the app sends a notification.) The only viable migration path is that enough people start using both until a tipping point when most of their conversations happen on Telegram. Same for any other platform. An abrupt switch is impossible unless WhatsApp start charging money or is banned by law.
Not true at all - you have no ads looking at your screen, neither chatting privately. Group/channel owners may choose to add ads, but you can always run your own client made to ignore them - telegram is open source.
On iOS hold down the space bar and it becomes a mouse cursor.
Impressive. I have a lot more on telegram but have yet to have a group chat on either platform.
yeah I agree, but these concepts form the basis for our modern communication systems so it worths learning them.
The author went from this:

int Dice::total() const {
int total = 0;
for(const_iterator current = dice.begin();
current != dice.end();
++current)
total += (*current)->faceValue();
return total;
}

to this:

int Dice::total() const {
return std::accumulate(
dice.begin(),
dice.end(),
0,
bind(std::plus<int>(), _1, bind(&Die::faceValue, _2))
);
}

and shows his intermediate steps. I took his last variant and converted it to the following, using Intel Threading Building Blocks to perform a parallel reduce:

class Sum {
const std::vector<Face*>& v;
public:
int sum;
void operator()( const tbb::blocked_range<size_t>& r ) {
const std::vector<Face*>& a = v;
for( size_t i = r.begin(); i != r.end(); ++i )
sum += a[i]->faceValue();
}
Sum( Sum& x, tbb::split ) : v(x.v), sum(0) {}
void join( const Sum& y ) {sum += y.sum;}
Sum(const std::vector<Face*>& a ) : v(a), sum(0) {}
};

int Dice::parallel_total () const {
Sum s(dice);
tbb::parallel_reduce(tbb::blocked_range<size_t>(0, dice.size()),
s,
tbb::auto_partitioner());
return s.sum;
}

I had to guess what his Dice implementation contained and if I wrote in from scratch, I may have done it differently (eg, I'd handle that vector in Sum differently). Also, it doesn't really seem worth it performance-wise ;-) but still interesting to see it in action.
Ironically, your PC is probably safer without McAfee on your computer. McAfee has a reputation for being slow to get signatures out for new viruses, and for not playing well with Windows OS. With good, free alternatives available, I wouldn't recommend anyone use McAfee products.
We should do that!! ...
Lets start a revolution! ;)
Have you considered hostels? I just Googled and it looks like there are some: http://www.google.com/search?q=mountain+view+ca+hostel
I recommend http://www.couchsurfing.org/, a great way to sleep for free and meet people at the same time.

Edit: did a quick search and found at least 12 people with a couch to offer. Give it a shot, I travelled eastern europe with this, it was great.