jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of a quote by Erick Golnik, something that's often visible in successful people:

Win as if you were used to it,
lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
Not to belittle any individuals work and not to say that it isn't important for government to step and and fund important things, but I find comparing public sector expense and private sector expense to be somewhat like comparing apples to oranges. Government spending compared to private sector spending has a habit of being much looser.

The genome sequenced by the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium (actually a composite from several individuals) took 13 years and cost $3 billion. Now, using the latest sequencers from Illumina, of San Diego, California, a human genome can be read in eight days at a cost of about $10,000.

That being said, I remember I was in high school when this was completed. Definitely recall it being exciting news in my molecular bio class.
This is all part of Google's strategy of getting the major news organizations to sign up with Google TV by prodding them onto the path by using "citizen videographers".
oh my. has anyone thought about connecting this to

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d-ratz moj nt spprtd. here are the unicodes. lrn mor: https://xn--7bi.hns.to/
Step 1: Build a time machine and go back to 2006
Location: Munich, Germany

Remote: yes, but it doesn't always work with hardware

Willing to relocate: not sure yet, maybe Switzerland

Technologies: I am FPGA designer with almost decade experience. I started with Altera Quartus, but now work with Xilinx Vivado. I use VHDL and Verilog for design, SystemVerilog for testbenches. Python, embedded C and C++ are used on daily basis. I also write firmware for normal microprocessors and design printed circuit board using KiCad. Notable projects: complete GigE Vision camera and code for cryptomining ASIC.

Résumé/CV: www.linkedin.com/in/linasr

Email: contact me over linkedin please.
> COBOL is still in demand and highly paid.

Being in demand means close to nothing. Once I was contacted to work on a tool that was developed in Delphi and I would hardly suggest anyone should pivot from their career to jump on that gravy train.

You should build up the skills required for your next job, not your current offers.
The WHO continually and explicitly encouraged countries to leave borders open at a time when all cases (outside of Hubei) were imported from abroad. Since almost all cases at the time were Chinese, I don’t see any reason for this advice other than appeasing the PRC.

Even today the vast majority of new cases in my country (Canada) are directly related to international travel. It seems obvious that all of this could have been avoided with earlier border closures.

I blame the WHO for mishandling this pandemic because they were the only international agency that could have coordinated multilateral border closures in a diplomatic way but chose not to in order to make China happy.
I'm looking to ride through west china this summer.
Would I be able to send you an email / IM to ask a few logistical questions? :)
Link to article or blog post?
A bit funny that this is announced on Facebook given that Facebook is blocked in China.
They got astronaut wings for Shuttle/Apollo/Skylab/Gemini(?) missions though, not specifically for their X-15 flights right?
I'm a little disappointed they didn't mention "computer." In the original sense of that word:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer

The computer put the computer out of work.
Higher quality version of this same talk (given at a different event): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Yp3j_jk8Q
It looks like if there is any company that can pull off a service like "magic", it will be Amazon instead.
Thanks for shedding real data on the issue. I was skeptical myself. I checked out Poettering's Google+ profile and see no mention of this yet, and I was kind of surprised.
So I guess that Python JIT compiler (https://tech.dropbox.com/2014/04/introducing-pyston-an-upcom...) isn't working out so well then?
It's common to put people who are already employed through these things when their skills are out of date. You'd much prefer a JS developer than a Fortran or Pascal developer today, right? But many huge corporations have only the later.
Can you elaborate? Any resources on getting started with this kind of thing?
Agreed, windows 8.1 isn't that bad. I hated it to death when I migrated to it due to the dreadful metro shit, but thankfully you don't have to deal with that if you spent some time making sure it's out of your way so booting to desktop and a quicklaunch bar is in place. the rest you get used to. I moved from XP to windows 8 and I missed the start menu a week or so, as I already used a quicklaunch bar for ages in XP.

Now, windows server 2012 R2 on the other hand... aargg...
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How much profit does this generate, if I may ask? And how much do you have invested as capital for it to trade on?
why is it written in angular?
Link to the actual study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.24247
On Brownfield software, your LOC counts probably average out to nearly zero. It wouldn't be uncommon to spend four or five hours diagnosing, tracing, reproducing, then fixing and verifying a bug, and the end result would be two lines of code changed when you were all done, with maybe twenty or thirty more in tests.
That sounds like a strawman
Absolutely. Go with the date/time/interval functions that your database or language libraries provide. Do not try to reinvent this, you will get it wrong 10 times before you get it right.
Thank you! This was hilarious!

Do you have any recommendations on how to find more content in this genre (dysfunctional humor / best of dumbest internet content)? It's hard to come up with search terms that would lead me to find this kind of video.
Most vegetarians are well aware that vegetarianism is made possible by civilization.
My go-to for everything is WWPD - "What would Postgres do?"
It may not be possible to eradicate it completely, but it's absolutely feasible to dramatically reduce its availability until there's no practical difference.

Maybe a thousand people downloaded it and added it to personal collections/datahoards. The vast majority of that thousand would never consider uploading to a public site (possibly as a response to a request). Of the remainder, most probably wouldn't bother unless the video in question is an outstanding example of that particular kink (in the story sex with someone unconscious).

The first step is undoubtedly getting and keeping it off public sites. Once that's done, even the few places it may remain effectively disappear in a vast sea of other content.
I had no idea there were even 2 wiring standards. Only found out last year when trying to connect via an older cat5 cable that was going from my garage to the office at my house.

And after reading your comment also realized it is probablhy not up to code as well...
Why not use a recruiter? That's a great question. Lets take a fictional recruiter named Joe.

To begin with, Joe isn't working for you; you're Joe's product. That answer would be enough to turn me away.

Where are Joe's Interests aligned? With yours? No, Joe wants to place you in a job, at any salary. Joe's company gets 30% of your first year's income from the employer, and Joe himself gets a much smaller slice. Joe's slice of $120k is similar enough to his slice of 130k that he beneifts most from placing you at any salary he can get you to accept, and then moving on to the next position.

Ah. So Joe's interests must be aligned with the hiring company, right? Only to the extent that Joe needs them to hire you (or someone like you) and he needs you to last at least X months so he doesn't get a claw back. His interests are more closely aligned with the company than yours, but ultimately its about filling seats for Joe. He wants to convince the company that each candidate is THE candidate.

Does this sound like a guy you want to help you find employment?

And finally, in the form of purely anecdotal personal experience, I've had recruiters flat out lie about aspects of the position. At the time I was too naive to verify facts with the employer.
I really like the concept but since these things attract so many newcomers I just want to say: be careful. Buying a project from a developer who has lost interest in is a huge risk. Micro web/app acquisitions can be very lucrative but most likely you're just throwing your money away because you won't be able to keep up the SDLC.

As an example, I purchased theriftlist.com last year for a few grand (pretty decent deal IMO) - Although modifying it is trivially easy, making time to do it right is tough - so it just sits there unchanged.

Learn to code instead - don't worry, you're not missing out on anything by passing on someone else's project that ran out of steam.
This is a really hard problem.

In my opinion, us, all, should not let China do whatever they want.

The Chinese developer, who care so much for github, should also step in.

My own rights cannot be taken away by a foreign country and I am ready to fight to get that back.

If github need anything from a backend developer my email is in my profile.
One of the big pieces in React Native was reimplementing flexbox positioning (they did it using randomly generated test cases in a TDD-based process; described in the "diving deeper" video iirc). So as long as you use flexbox to position your html, it should be pretty portable to react native.
Check out IQ Services out of Minneapolis, Minnesota provides a 100% service model with no hardware or software to purchase or the need to train your employees. This service comes with 24/7 notifications and a online portal where you can listen to all monitoring and notification calls that have been placed.

The best thing, this is done remotely like a real customer calling in taking into account outside influences you cannot test from the inside only.

1 to hundreds of calls are placed that exercise the system as many times per hour that is needed, and each call is being checked for and reported back on call quality, availability, times at each step, proper greeting and what the customer feels is important to know.

They offer a trial as well if interested.
http://www.iq-services.com/heartbeat.asp
You don't have to hire engineers with N years of experience in Erlang, rather hire great engineers who are programming language polyglots, and even if they don't already know Erlang they'll get up to speed on it fast, as well as any other new and useful language that comes along.
security and fancy crypto on the server don't mean much if your frontend interface submits passwords in plain text over the wire. a secure service shouldn't even serve up content on non-https URLs.
Why not? You can still observe how people behave differently if they have higher or lower taxes.
I understand and of course I was being sarcastic with my comment.

How many photo sharing apps does a world need? I'm certainly covered.
"Open-source/free software"

This isn't true freedom. I am not allowed to copy open source software into my commercial application without releasing my revisions.

It's also funny that you mention open source, because it's eventually going to bring down the wages of developers. This is because the difficult parts (IE: the software that needs to be engineered) is given out for free and businesses only need the mechanics to make changes (lower education, skillm and pay requirements).
That is some serious reverse engineering
Why do you find it hard to believe?

You should adjust your belief to fit the available data, don't adjust the data to fit your belief.
Off-topic:

Does anyone here work in one of these "development labs" who's able/willing to talk about it?
TJ Maxx data theft involved 45 million confirmed credit card/debit card numbers stolen, which I believe was more serious then this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17853440/

Fact is people put most of that other information on Facebook anyway, so for 500 million people, you can quite easily find someone's age, birthday, pets, and much more just from their FB account.
Its interesting because Android was outselling the iphone when the iphone was the most desired platform. It wouldn't be surprising if android took an even greater market share lead in future.
You could call YC PG's personal development lab ;)
Here's the primary source (WSJ): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2487310

Off-topic, but it's always interesting to me to see how the big tech blogs (mashable, techcrunch, et al) can rewrite a story like this and grab the upvotes away from the original source, whether that be the publication that did the actual reporting or even a primary source like a company's blog.

I wonder if some HN users tend to reflexively upvote the mashable and techcrunch stories based on their domain?
this is really interesting. will definitely look into this. i always want to work on something realtime.
Counterpoint: AT&T is running a huge campaign right now that you can buy an iPhone 3GS for $49- in fact it is the lead on the iphone page on their site:

http://www.att.com/wireless/iphone/

Another thing you didn't mention is that none of the iPhones to date are 4G, and many of the new Android devices are
I find it hard to believe that 30% of potential mobile phone purchasers even know what Android is.

I would love to know how they performed this survey.
If you read the article, he actually tries to improve on McDonalds fries. He says they get soggy too quickly, and tinkers with the recipe to achieve longer crispness.
I think 'Let the cobbler stick to his last' is more appropriate. He's not suggesting the dealer or webapp creator wasn't excellent at what he did: just that he shouldn't expect to be any good at what he does now (or intends to do).
I had a lot of similar feelings with Mass Effect series. In this game all the decisions you make permanently reshape the game world, which carries through the first game to second and third. Major and minor characters in the last game may be missing or doing different things based on your actions in the first game. While playing I felt the impact of my steps in even tiny details.

This, + general storyline and execution of the product made it the first game I found myself to be really involved emotionally with. Say, when I picked up the second game and met an important NPC from the first, I literally felt like I've just rejoined with an old friend. By the third game I actually printed out a photo of my character and her entire team. It's crazy how deep a good video game can touch you.

Oh, and I spent 10-15 minutes thinking heavily about morality and consequences just to choose the right ending...
There is nothing wrong with the model PG puts forward, as a start, but it is a simple model and it needs explanation. At the least, you should make some attempt to explain why things change over time. Consider radio in the USA, up until the mid 1950s. It was eventually replaced by TV, but in the 30s, 40s and 50s it was the main medium of mass communication. The nation lived by its radio. The potential audience for a radio star was greater then than it is now. So why do top stars, like Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern earn such large fees now, when the market is so fragmented?

Changes in the tax code are important to consider. As a thought experiment, imagine if the top income tax rate was still 91%. (During the 30s, 40s, 50s and early 60s, it was 91% on income over $100,000, about a $1 million in today's money.) How many stars would ask for income in excess of $1 million if they knew it would be taxed at 91%? They would probably instead ask for various perks, which was the trend in the US during the mid-20th century. Asking for perks instead of cash remains the trend in those nations with strongly progressive tax rates, for instance, Sweden.
Since this is HN a better question would be: How can I communicate with my laptop if when and if it goes online again? Can I SSH into it? Is there some program running at startup that would allow me to control it remotely?

Best of luck with getting it back.
I agree. Incumbents are doing their best to rig the system resulting in further concentration of wealth.
This is a gratifying idea to think about. It implies that the "underoptimized software" woes are not really a problem of increased hardware causing laziness - they're a result of combined hardware and algorithm developments making problems _possible_ to solve that previously would have been too hard. That they could be solved with tighter code is ultimately less important.
Whenever I hear a developer pounding away frenetically at the keyboard, 9 times out of 10 they are pounding away at an email.
That's really, tremendously depressing. There's a huge list of reasons to follow rules exactly to the letter. Enforcing this one, which should be entirely about potential and not at all about an arbitrary date of birth, is inane.
An Erlang process is arguably more the object that Alan Kay had in mind when he first conceptualized Object Orientation than what we today call objects. Message passing as a paradigm is in my somewhat-experienced opinion really neutered when there's still only one thread of control.

The following won't produce a perfect Erlang design, but it's a start:

1. Create your traditional OO design.

2. Anything that isn't obviously a collection or glorified struct, instantiate as a process and write them as gen_servers (or relevant other OTP process instead).

3. Anything that is obviously a collection, use one of the language's collections instead; if you really need typing on those, layer it on top with a tuple. Anything that is obviously a glorified struct is a record with a central module representing the "methods" as functions on the record.

Like I said, this won't out-of-the-box produce a great design, but the mapping will actually get someone used to OO but not used to Erlang at least started understanding how it works in practice. You've got several million-ish processes to play with, and in most programs you will not need to exceed that; that is the idea behind the comments I made about "collections" and "structs", because while it's easy to have millions or yet more of bits of data you can write a lot of programs with even "a few hundred" serves floating around.

You get polymorpismish by passing PIDs around as objects and implementing interfaces, only this time it's literal server interfaces instead of syntactic sugar. You get encapsulation by the fact that processes simply can not peek in on each other; this is actually even more rigid than most OO languages, no friends, no public, no sharing. Inheritance is pretty manual. So, two of the three usual OO characteristics are there.

I find my designs end up in a way that I'm not comfortable calling strictly OO, but if you used OO terminology and an OO diagramming language to show, everybody would understand what you meant. Given the way inheritance has been getting downplayed in the OO community anyhow, well, I wouldn't call Erlang an OO language by any means but I use a lot more of the "OO mental machinery" when I'm programming in Erlang than I do when I'm programming in Haskell. It's not as foreign as you might think at first, there's a lot of crossover there. Arguably it's a better OO language than the languages that wrote inheritance into their syntax and runtime too hard, and arguably it's not, but it's an interesting argument.
As one of the guys responsible for CUDA, this made my day :-)
Thanks for posting that link, I've spent a while reading those articles - quite a way to finish a Christmas day.

I've ordered a copy of his book "Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew" from Amazon.
The biggest flaw I see is his argument is that five years ago, there were basically no mobile app developers. So these folks (even the very successful ones) all had to start somewhere, likely with little to no mobile experience, and they learned along the way. When you're working in new markets with new tech which requires new skillets, sometimes that's what you need to do.
5. Create your own hardware for the dock connector, including a card reader and additional memory.
The established ethic of "cover people artificially warmly so they give you access" isn't necessarily something to be proud of.

It's fine if Apple wants to retaliate in a domain where they have control -- their own conferences. But it's not like Apple is defending the honor of all 'journalists' with this move.
but not known as "theft".
I'll try to summarize:

First, their traffic: http://trends.google.com/websites?q=megaupload.com,rapidshar... (compared with Digg & NYtimes.com)

You can upload files to these sites, there are limits, but generally are avoided by splitting large files with RAR and such. Although, premium/pro users get larger limits and can upload more content.

Then there are the people who download. Everytime you go you get a prompt similar to: are you a free or premium/pro user? if you are a paid user, you get to download files directly (with a cookie), but if you don't you get a interstitial with a countdown for several seconds (30-70 usually) and a lot of ads, and then, a link to direct download appears.

The pricing goes like this:

Megaupload (http://megaupload.com/?c=premium)
9.99€ for 1 month, 19.99€ for 3 months, 59.99€ for 1 year, 79.99€ for 2 years and 299.99€ for life.

Rapidshare (http://rapidshare.com/premium.html)
6.99€ for 30 days, 16.99€ for 90 days, 29.99€ for 180 days and 54.99 for 365 days.

Then, the use:

I don't know in the US, but in Spain, Latin America and France these services are HUGE, and there are a LOT of them, like mushrooms in autumn. There are forums where people interchange links with copyrighted material everywhere, with huge traffic stats.

In France the boom came when French Gov started pursuing P2P, almost instantly everyone I knew started paying for these kind of services to get direct download (and the service is quite fast) of movies, tvshows and whatnot.
I tend to define it more like andrewstuart2 above > "not virtualized" ...as far as I know it doesn't really mean dedicated though. (although maybe it should ?)

edit : why not dedicated ? ...because you can have containers running on "bare metal"