jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I received some fun electric stimulation when my hand was touching both my aluminium Apple keyboard and my MacBook Pro when it was plugged in.
I was of the impression Jetbrains are preparing some remote coding feature but now I found only Code with Me and an unresolved feature request at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-226455 so I guess I misremembered (but maybe the Code with Me will evolve).
Advertising should not be a valid reason to collect my data. Collecting the data should be illegal in the first place.
> No. The question isn't "is a cop allowed be annoyed with a youtuber?" or "is this youtuber causing net harm to the public good?". The question is: "can a cop interfere with a youtuber's ability to record and publish their actions?".

This doesn't interfere with the youtubers ability to record and publish the cop's actions. It only prevents them from profiting from it.
Guns don't magically make people homicidal, they just make it magically easy and efficient to kill people in the heat of the moment, or by mistake, or because they fear if they don't pull the trigger first the other person might, or when too mentally ill to know what is going on.

The actual difficulty for a sufficiently motivated person to obtain a gun (legal or otherwise) under gun control in the UK is not that high, but the incentives to do so are reduced, the disincentives increased, and the average person with the potential to carry out non-premeditated shootings never considers buying one. The ability to learn all about how to 3D print a gun instead of learning how to license and modify a shotgun or how to find black markets that will sell you illegal firearms does not change that calculus very much.
I'm looking through the meeting notes[1] linked from the archive PR[2] and it looks like there hasn't been much activity on the project recently. Can anyone with more insight provide an explanation on what happened?

[1] - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Fm56p5rV1t2Euh6WLtBFKGqI...

[2] - https://github.com/tensorflow/swift/commit/1b1381ccb89a342ba...
Considering that it was Christian nations that enslaved more people in recent history, and the longest, you might want to rethink your last sentence.

And you might read up on serfdom, a hallmark in European feudalism.
No offense but that doesn't sound fun at all. Imagine walking into your friend's place and he says to you, "Oh yeah, no googling. Thanks."
Nearly all packages are ported to python3.
There are still some bigger projects missing, but these are exceptions and not the norm.

Python3 simplifies many aspects of the language, for example handling of bytes and handling different encodings.
In my day to day use I don't want to miss these features.

Many interesting features where added in 3, like yield from, more powerful generator syntax and the libraries multiprocessing and pathlib.
But I never commented on India doing science. I commented on them spending on specific high-cost projects that are unlikely to have a positive economic impact.
The shell is more fun than a word processor. Very few kids are going to be as motivated to learn how to produce complicated documents as are going to want to learn how to make their computer obey their every wish.
Just like there's no difference between saying, "Could you pass the butter, please?" and pointing at it and grunting. :-)

Using a command line encourages a person to explore what they can tell the computer to do, rather than accept what a GUI allows them to do. It encourages learning that you can put a list of regularly used commands in a "script" and then re-run them. And then exploring what else can be done with a script.

When you're used to typing instructions and telling the computer what to do, the idea of writing a computer program is a natural progression.
I built a RESTful API without installing 3rd party code in Django, don't know why you think this can't be done.
Close, but not entirely. Those still have some kind of library or runtime you have to be aware of, and require you to use a specific language. This is more like Parrot or the JVM, but designed with a browser in mind instead of an OS.
Don't forget AJAX, which first appeared on IE5. Microsoft more or less revolutionized the Web with AJAX.

Everyone seems to forget the most important examples...
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>Using Breivik as an example does not further the discussion though, as it is such an extreme case.

I was supporting the grandparent post's suggestion that maybe some people to deserve to be in prison. The argument against this is implicitly an argument that no-one deserves to be imprisoned, and such an argument may be refuted by showing a single instance of someone who deserves imprisonment.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were sort of similar to my high school, as for the most part it was the basic model of regimented desks, rote learning, streamed classrooms and strict delineation of time into subjects with little crossover.

As far as I can tell, this model was initially developed for training the middle ranks of the aristocracy in how to be officers in the army, and it only ever really works if you are allowed to beat or drug the children as otherwise it is almost impossible to get them to pay attention while sitting still in rows for an entire day. Which is probably why our classrooms got smashed up by bored pupils fairly regularly.

On the other hand, I have a mate who went to a Steiner school, which he describes as 'the first school he didn't burn down' and there it is an entirely different model that is centered around development rather than training. If I had any kids I would be looking for a school for them that was more in line with that kind of environment. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldorf_education
Or they believe (possibly correctly) that you don't have as strong a negotiating position because there are fewer options for you based on location.
Of course, one can pass the test by reading a DMV booklet. That's not the issue. Lets take a DMV test paper, and remove questions that deal with numbers (speed limits, alcohol contents, etc), and just give a subset of questions that are focussed on safety. Any experienced driver can answer these questions correctly, not because these drivers memorize by rote learning, but because they would have figured the reasons behind rules (similar to ratio legis in law).

Don't over take vehicles at turns. That's illegal, says the booklet. Why this rule is there? You can't see the oncoming traffic. Similarly, don't over take vehicles on uphill. Same reason: you can't see vehicles coming from the other direction. Every Indian driver in India violates this basic rule. One such driver went to visit a national park in Alaska, thereby killing four people in his vehicle and paralyzing a couple of guys in the oncoming vehicle.
> Facebook, one of many giants to be shifting permanently to a more remote-friendly culture, has announced that those who move to lower-priced locales will have their salaries reduced accordingly.

There it is. The cost savings of giving workers a haircut because they moved to a place with low cost living is the TRUE driver from WFH-forever initiative.
If it were 20 seconds for every plot, this would be a major problem for me, as I tend to make lots of plots. But it's only the first plot where this is an issue. Surely you're not in 'the zone' that soon?

Seems to me like people are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Penny stocks are companies building perpetual motion machines and magic derivative technology with no trade-offs?
Can you recommend a specific book?
8 weeks according to him. Try it and get back to me.

You aren't going to go from a 5k to a 50k in 12 weeks and remain injury-free, sorry.
Is this opt-in or are they randomly giving these to gmail account holders? Oh, is this from the same ticket for those who got a CR-48?
The prohibiting factor is the licensing restriction (assuming Harry Potter branding). You would have to create a generic 'wizard' game.
Your claim is that all meaningful communication is arguing?

I can and do recommend therapy to everyone.
I don't even recall a time when Quora wasn't basically Yahoo Answers.
Bitcoin is the world's most transparent ponzi scheme.
Doesn't seem to be needed in recent webkit builds (for example, an up to date Chrome/Chromium works fine with plain old border-radius). Can anybody comment on if it's still a good idea to include that rule or not, perhaps for older webkit versions?
If you're in NYC and an early start-up freelancers union can be useful.
Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I have always wondered when Americans talk about working 9-5 for 8 hour days. Does that mean you get paid for lunch time? Or do you not eat lunch?

Swedish also work 8 hours days (or slightly less), but lunch hour is not included. Programmers, even at big companies, generally get to choose which 8 hours. 7-4, 8-5, 9-6, 10-7, either is fine.
Mmm. Your job doesn't have to be what you love. Those jobs don't tend to pay very well, and may stress you out by making you compromise your creative vision (or just leave you sick and tired of the thing you once loved). But it should at least be a job that you're okay with and doesn't leave you miserable.
Of course, this would require repeal of the wage-and-hour laws that today proscribe any such thing.

I can only imagine the fight that unions would put up to any change of this kind, justified or not.
Land is ultimately a bounded resource, and staking out property is a zero-sum game. the web is, for all intents and purposes, unbounded.
Agreed. But I am talking from a "Wealth of Nations" perspective rather than a per-capita basis. The brand, "China" is not poor and is only getting richer, not saying anything else than that. There are certainly poor people in China and will be for some time to come.
Ok, Colbert (and smart MSFT product-placers) - I'll bite. Today is officially "Bing for a Day" here. I just set my Chrome default engine to Bing for the first time. Should be fun -- wondering if I'll miss the Goog in the next 24 hours.
Well, didn't Jews invent Christianity?
Why should DC residents pay federal income tax?
3 heads are better than 2?

haha at this point, that's not something we can change... so let's hope for 3x the revenue ;)
right now, our 3rd member acts as the decision making party if co-ceos can't agree on a decision. This hasn't come up very often though.

We feel president does not really hold the same sort of title and impact as the CEO.
I mean... theoretically, we could lock ourselves in a room and keep discussing and have a final vote to see who is CEO and that would solve our problem.

The issue is that I'm afraid how the person who didn't become CEO would feel, especially if they were equally as deserving. From a founder's standpoint, it's hard to say that one person is better than the other when both people have been there from the beginning and contributed equally as much to the venture.
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The best tools for The Cleaner.
An organization of PhDs writing software that solves captchas.
Yea, the category of derivatives is actually quite broad. Options, futures, forwards, etc. are all derivatives - in that they derive their value indirectly from the underlying assets, but they're traded so broadly that the specific names make more since.

I believe these are derivative because they aren't buying the stock directly, but purchasing rights to them.

This is done to Fortune 500 CEOs option/stock pools to sell off their rights to purchase others' rights to their stock for the sake of diversification without selling publicly and causing a scare - to the board or investors.
As a counter-point, I had Mozy for several years and eventually dropped it because they throttled the upload and it took forever to get my data onto their servers. If you are aiming to backup a lot of data then I would suggest you find the cheapest all-you-can-eat service to use as a backup to your real backup process and keep a mirror drive that you archive to every week and take offsite. An online backup service will save your ass if you get lazy or forgetful, but it may have a hard time keeping up and will be a PITA if you ever do suffer a catastrophic event and need your data back quickly. Think belt and suspenders, with the regular practice of mirroring your important drive being the primary backup plan.
No Bucket Shops are where an entity says trades are going to take place and then doesn't execute them.

This is just a pretty standard private investment setup, that just happens to own a single stock.

Even if owning the single stock was a problem - and I don't think it is - working around it would be trivial. They could invest small amounts in a number of very low value stocks or in very stable stocks. Both those strategies would meet any hypothetical "diversification requirement" (which I don't think exists) without materially changing their exposure to Facebook.
Arithmetic is a relatively self-contained part of a language. The problem isn't that JavaScript's arithmetic is lame, it's that they didn't leave any way for the programmer to fix it—even if you make rational bignums out of arrays of doubles (or whatever), you can't make them drop-in replacements by overloading operators. It's a strange oversight for a language which lets instances override methods.
Thanks for the response! My question actually stems from your blog post on zero-day Diaspora exploits and I appreciate the input. Guess I'll start with the obvious stuff and learn from mistakes as I go along.
Anyone who has seen outlook revocation requests knows to look in their inbox for an embarrassing e-mail. Yet, this doesn't mean that distributed revocation is an impossible problem: on the contrary, I think it's getting more important as people realize how much online information is out there. In a sense it's the "real" online privacy (instead of group access control that Facebook and Diaspora want you to think is privacy).
It is not lack of wood. Check the population, both at country level and at city levels. Take a look at China in Google Map or Google Earth. If you would like to do research a little further, check the areas covered by forrest. Then you might get an answer.

A little historical perspective would help as well. Check how many houses are made of wood in New York City. A reminder: a large number of cities in China have a longer history than New York City.
This is exactly what Angel investors should be doing. It's a relatively small amount of money, delivered with extreme speed and a willingness to take a punt.
Angels may want to step up the the VC plate, but the risk is that the documents and deals are get thicker and slower. Isn't it better to give smaller amounts and more often?
Perhaps you're right, but in some sense that data belongs, collectively, to all of us.

In my mind, delicious represents everything that was great and everything awful about 'Web 2.0'. Yes, it did something that everybody assumed was impossible because bookmarking sites failed so consistently in 'Web 1.0'. Although delicious provided a useful current awareness service, it never did any of the interesting things with the data that would have made it possible to move onto 'Web 3.0'. And it probably never will -- but maybe that's fine because it opens up an opportunity for the rest of us.
Oh! Totes fair. It's https://www.brian.bot/ and also all the help kiosks in https://topia.io/
Yup, distinctly remember we had programming lessons in second grade on one of those, right before the regime fell. I am not sure if that was the reason I ended up writing software for a living but it sure did not hurt. Emphasis on science, technology and proper education was one of the very few positives of an otherwise deeply corrupt and nepotistic regime.
https://capx.co/the-enduring-fantasy-of-secret-nhs-privatisa...
That's only 120 bits of entropy, which means that you'll get a collision after generating ~ 2^60 IDs.

Ok, maybe you're not worried about that scale; but I normally recommend 256-bit IDs in order to make sure that you don't need to worry about that possibility.
Good thing he wrote a book on leadership while making this decision!
Of course they would give your IP if there is a warrant. It is not their duty to ensure that you can say anything here.

But there are plenty of places left, where you can literaly say anything.

Just like in the beginning. Btw. some IRC clients or forums from the old days still run today.
Maybe you'll have more luck than I did?

Originally you could get out phone numbers and e-mail addresses that way. The last 1 or 2 times I used it, I didn't actually get the contact info back out for most of my contacts.
You can also just buy pure caffeine powder and mix it with your favorite drink, or buy capsules seperately and make your own pills. Probably much more cost-effective.

And yes, from personal experience, I can attest to the fact that pure caffeine has an extremely bitter taste.

(Which begs the question, does it taste bitter because it is after all a neurotoxin and we have evolved to find those lacking in taste?)
Sometimes half of the fun of reading Brian's articles are the super weird comments he gets on his articles sometimes.
I think that a lot of companies forget that they are also being interviewed during their interviews. Were I to interview at your company, I would think that your employees spend most of their time performing code review. I would probably walk out, too.
Oh well, if you think that everybody who doesn't freeze up in a job interview is automatically overconfident this discussion can't go anywhere.
I find myself usually disappointed by the vast majority of what Congress and the White House say and do, so I'm still finding it difficult to be optimistic.

I was, however, pleasantly surprised by how close the vote to defund the NSA's operations came. I think that may have been the point where this issue because more serious.
Oh sorry, I didn't realize it would come across that way.
Counterpoint:

This is a recipe for only finding unemployed people, and in my opinion, the best people already have jobs.

I have been offered to interview with YC startups that wanted me to fly out, spend a week writing code with them, and _then_ they'd offer me a job. I'm already employed, by an employer that legally owns all my code. I can't take a week off, write your code, and then _possibly_ get an offer. I don't have time for that.

Technical interviews can go afoul, yes. But, IMHO, they are the best we've got. They show respect for the interviewees time, and decisions should be made quickly. Will you occasionally miss a good candidate, yes. Will a bad one get through, less likely. That's about the best one can hope for.
And people wondered why Jobs was so against anything pornographic on the AppStore.

The issue isn't that sex-based services are bad, it's that when they eclipse other uses of the product, the reputation is set.

Add to that the generally puritanical nature of most societies with regards to sex services, and the rampant potential of abuse with regards to sex workers, and you have a good incentive for companies to avoid/deny those usages.

Even though craigslist was a great boon for sex workers in the cities it operated in, it pissed off the establishment and now it's not nearly as discoverable as it used to be.
I think this is a false dichotomy. Individuals pay hundreds of dollars to get the season or half-season package up-front. Given a four-month season (playoff games are broadcast over regular networks), $20/month isn't even close to what DirectTV charges. On a monthly basis, the figure would be closer to $60-$70 so I'm not sure where the author gets his proposed figures from.

If you are a cord-cutter with no cable, having Google own the rights and stream games over the internet would help you if you didn't already have cable, but those that do already get about five games a week over their local networks. So really Google would have to charge a flat fee up-front to stream all games on Sunday Ticket.

But it's important to remember that a large percentage of Sunday Ticket revenue comes from bars that purchase large packages to broadcast it to their patrons. From what I'm told this cost depends on the capacity of the location and can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a single season. I'm not sure how this would play into Google or Netflix's strategy.
Yeah, I recently took a job with a language I don't really know and don't really like. I'm doing it because it's for a beneficial and positive product that I'm happy to improve for customers.
6000 years ago, one could have ownership over the right to buy a still unborn goat at a certain price in the future. It's amusing to see these modern philosophies of trying to go back to a noble savage past that never was.
How long until I can mug people via NFC and without the pesky mandatory minimums that come with weapons charges? Soon?
Actually, a Banach-Tarski-like result is impossible in 2D space, since there is a Banach measure (= volume definition to all subsets of the plane) that extends the usual volume definition (e.g. for circles).

The crucial idea that makes Banach-Tarski work in 3D is the insight that the set of rotations around an axis through the origin in 3-space has a free subgroup F on 2 generators (finite strings of A's, B's and their inverses). From this fact the proof is quite easy, but this comment is too small for it.
There are two flavors of Scala and only one of them is about cats/scalaz. I feel intellectually inferior to people who use the latter in production. But I don't think anymore it's a reasonable aspiration to become one of them. And maven builds Scala projects equally well (with half a screen of XML) and without any SBT complexity.

I have not seen Bay Area companies where previous Scala experience counts for more than inviting me to an interview. In my current team I know multiple developers who'd like to have more Scala and Java developers who don't know Scala or even Kotlin.
And thousands upon thousands of automated CI jobs and docker container builds fail. You're basically causing massive developer stress to anyone who automatically compiles your package. Most would consider that a bad tradeoff to help a tiny fraction of your users who'd be impacted and also refuse to follow your mailing list.
Thanks for reminding me of these wonderful illustrations. Your comment made my day!

They were an essential part of the book, for engaging your imagination. They were also a gateway to books like Heiserman's "How to build your own self-programming robot":

https://archive.org/details/howtobuildyourow01heis/page/n5/m...
I really enjoy MUDs and I have played them off and on for many years. I first got into Achaea when I was in my teens!

The thing that always ends up turning me off from them though is the roleplaying aspect. I know for some people that is the main draw, but I've never had any interest in it. Does anyone know of any active MUDs that don't have any roleplay requirement?