jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Location: Florida
Remote: yes
Willing to relocate : Yes - Within US but prefer Remote or flexible
Technologies: Python, ML(NLP,CV), DS, Pytorch, TensorFlow, AWS, SQL
Resume: linkedin.com/in/asardar
Email: ahmad.sardar@zoho.com
Pretty interesting idea... and they even have an online playground: http://www.gopherjs.org/playground/
I believe he's saying that accessing Reddit using Tor with HTTP is sometimes problematic but using HTTPS can fix the problems. (It's been a while but I think that might mirror my own experience.)
Like companies outlawing growing your own garlic and onions because someone somewhere found that you can make a moderately effective mace with those ingredients, or because they can be abused (war on drugs), or because terrorists.

You might raise issue with the idea of a corporation outlawing something. I say look at the way the justice system currently works and tell me they couldnt buy the result they wanted.
I think it's more nuanced; certain technologies afford certain designs. There really are differences in languages, and those differences expose users to different misbehaviors -- or the dual, to different optimizations.
Startup idea? No it's miiiiiiiinneeee
This one is a loose reimplementation of Euphoria language with long enough history of its own. Sadly, the development of the successor to original RapidEuphoria interpreter called OpenEuphoria somewhat stalled after 2014.
Re: google app engine. Is it possible to set a cap on how much resources are used?
This leak is putting people's lives at risk.

What is truly damaging about this breach is that it allows for bidirectional mapping of phone
⭤ name (and often location, since the data can include town/employer).

The risk is much bigger than "I'm going to get more phone spam."

Examples:

- An abusive ex/stalker type can now search by name and find his ex's phone number and maybe even city/town.

- Have you ever dealt with an irate person via phone? (craigslist deal gone wrong/creepy, for example). This person can now know your name and even photo since the leak includes your fb id.

I am certain that both of these things will happen in the next few months or years. If privacy changes are to happen at the legislative/personal responsibility level, it would behoove an organization like the EFF to find one such case and use it to sue the living daylights out of FB. I think it's also worth mentioning these sorts of risks instead of focusing on "spam".

Unfortunately, even if that were to happen, we'd end up with a moral panic, which almost always ends up punishing the wrong people. What we really need is a change in the kinds of data that are allowed to be kept, and a change in data/identification infrastructure.

Things like:

- The creation of a standardized & subsidized token/OTP platform. In the US for example, you should be able to go to the post office and get a NIST approved token generator, which should be mandated to be used by all banks and replace SMS and SSN as authentication.

- A pseudonimity middle-layer (ie, Stripe for Privacy). For example, when I buy a t-shirt online, I should be able to simply give the merchant my pseudonym, and they shouldn't store my actual name & address. If they want to store that there should be much much higher data protection requirements.

This infrastructure should be free market but with a "public option" in order to prevent oligopolization of these services.
Absolutely not. A Challenger like even would be catastrophic with a payload like that even if the size and weight of the payload would not make it impossible for a liftoff with current technology.

The other part is that there are safe ways of getting rid of the contaminated water on Earth.
You're correct, I intended to refer to Amazon's proprietary format instead of the ePub standard.
Leathermen [Leathermans?] are correctly worn in a holster on the belt like a Batterang.
I think that there are a lot fewer people using that feature than you'd assume. Even lots of developer coworkers don't know about that ability, even fewer use it. So I can't imagine there are a lot of non-techie people out there doing john+adobe@gmail.com.
The question was "name a generation over the last few centuries which hasn't seen the birth of a dozen groundbreaking technologies."

Notice the part about "last few centuries"?

12 is more than a few. If you're going to bend the rules then so will I. :)

The development of adobe building technology is both literally and metaphorically groundbreaking. These are still known as the pueblo dwellers because of that technology.

A new writing system and a new banking system are also technological developments.

My thesis is that social impact of the technological developments in the 50 years around 1900 was more than the development of the last 50 years. As supporting evidence, I propose that return0's statement "how often can one live through the birth of a groundbreaking technology" reveals that there are not that many new groundbreaking technologies these days. Someone from 100 years ago could name a dozen such changes.
I think the fear is the mixture. So you take impressionable youth and force them under legal obligation to spend more time with elders of their socioeconomic group who selected a life of crime often than time spent with their own parents. What could possibly go wrong? Optimistically they'll be scared straight, but ...
I'm not sure why OP thinks this is going to be a good idea. The kind of projects he'll get to work on will almost always be the usual Odesk "clone XYZ in $X" tripe. Also, the sort of company he's talking about is unlikely to have senior developers experienced enough to mentor him (from what I know about these companies.) Working on an open source project instead would be much more constructive and would get him engaged with experienced developers who could teach him a thing or two. If he's still a student (and it looks like he is) GSoC might be a great way to get started with this.

Also, I would avoid Odesk like the plague. Build up a portfolio (open source works as well) and connect with people on HN.
How does Umano make its money? Do they charge for the app or play ads? Sell data?

I've always felt it questionable ethical territory to take somebody else's work, slap ads on it, and pocket the money. "Aggregators" have been doing that forever, though.
Not if you have the capital.
Which was itself a copy of an older game called SFCave, which was a copy of some much older game I can't remember...

I once wrote a similar game featuring a penguin swimming through an underwater cave (http://reggaeperxics.com/cave.html), and I recall I managed to discover the story of the original game, but for the life of me I can't seem to find it anywhere on the Internet now!
I finally took the time yesterday to read whatever I could
about this problem. Like most Americans, I've watched the
daily developments and nervously believed a solution was
imminent. Maybe not optimal, but close at hand.

Multinational comglomerates the size of BP have such a
large quiver of resources at their disposal that it seemed
all it would take was the desire to act and it would get done.

So I believed.

Here's one fact that has convinced me the Gulf of Mexico
is lost and that only the riskiest and most extreme measures
(a nuclear device or other such detonation) will seal the
leak:

The oil is rushing into the Gulf at between 20,000 and
70,000 psi.

Nobody's certain of the actual value, but that's the range
usually cited. This is a very different problem than capping
the wellheads in Kuwait after Sadaam retreated.

Anyone familiar with a waterjet cutter knows they run at
55,000+ psi and are so powerful they can cut 6" steel like
butter.

Imagine raw oil with sediment and impurities (similiar to
the garnet abrasive) streaming upward into the Gulf the
same way the cutting nozzle projects downward into the
water basin. All at one (1) mile below the surface.

There is no conventional solution that is going to stop
the flow at those psi's.

None.

If you factor hurricanes and tropical storms into the mix
it quickly becomes apparent that this is an international
crisis without parallel in our time.

The lack of leadership from both the private and public
sectors and the overall lack of accurate information on
the potential long term ramifications is stunning.

Screw the talk about alternative fuels or who's to blame. We need action now. Right now.
Yes. Definitely.
If I wasn't liking it, I would have quit the job.

There's no point doing that you don't like, cursing your job every morning and wait for Friday to come.
Already discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=998734
Hi,

I have a Master in Human Resource Management (on top of a IT degree and an MBA). For me, your case is a clear case of tacit abuse.

If the product you are working on is now selling, then it means you MUST have some good skills somewhere. Fact is, you are the one who has the power, but it seems to me (and I don't mean to be rude) that you don't have the guts to use it.

If I were you, I would start searching for other positions offering a much better salary for your skills. Then, come back to your company and ask for a decent raise. If you don't get it, move to the next job and don't feel guilty about it. They are not treating you decently.

You have a kid and a family to take care of.

I understand the need for sacrifice in start-up and the need for long-term commitment, but it still does not add up to me. It does not seem like you have shares in this company. If it becomes very successful, will you have a piece of the pie, I mean FOR SURE? Or are there just mere promises?

Take care of yourself and push back on this crappy situation.

That is my advise.
Validating with headers is like securing a webpage by keeping the URL a secret or browser user agent and ip address. It gives a false sense of security and is very vulnerable to cracks.

If you're going to validate with headers then feel free to call it usable but don't call it security.
Over 50% of the variability in cholesterol levels is attributable to genetic factors. The root cause of high cholesterol will typically be an unlucky genetic profile.

Hundreds of genes participate in cholesterol metabolism, and since cholesterol is a complex trait, most people will have various polymorphisms in multiple lipid genes, each of which confers only a modest effect. Consequently, while the root cause(s) will ultimately become known in the next few years, it seems unlikely to change the standard of care: statins. Sure, this knowledge will help us develop new cholesterol lowering drugs, but the fact remains that it will be impossible and, in general, pointless to target a specific therapy to a specific genetic profile (at least for LDL).

I don't think that patient behaviors are a good example of medicine's failures. A rational actor may decide to value many things over their own personal health. It's like saying that intravenous drug use and unprotected sex are the root causes of AIDS. That's more a public health viewpoint. I see HIV as the root cause of AIDS, and I find treatments or cures as a far more interesting medical problem. Likewise, the public health perspective on bacterial infection is to avoid it (clean clothes thoroughly to reduce staph transmission between wrestlers). From a medical perspective, the interesting question is, once you have staph, can we cure it? Killing the causal bacterium is basically the definition of a treatment aimed at the root cause. I don't think that redefinition of "root cause" makes the problem more interesting; it just makes it less medical.
Cool project, but why saddle it with a search engine penalty for a name? It's like "Mail" redux.
First load is where it counts! This is when users first see your site: their first impression. This is an important time that should be kept as fast as possible. Subsequent loads, for most sites, are likely not as important speed wise.

Remember, we have to design our sites as if the user is poised over the back button.
> where they draw the line?

Where the king of the article hill would decide.
As a bit of a tape connoisseur, I want to point out that gaffer's tape is very different from duct tape. People often confuse the two. Unlike duct tape, gaffer's tape is easily removed, doesn't leave a sticky residue, and is light proof (very useful for light proofing edges of blinds or curtains if you like to sleep in total darkness). Duct tape and gaffer's tape are about equally thick and strong, and both tear easily crosswise using just your fingers. Gaffer's tape is very difficult to find in any retail store; you have to order it online, and of course it is much more expensive than duct tape.
No, WP specifically doesn't want birth certificates or military ID cards, which are a form of primary source. WP wants you to cite other published works (ideally a URL to another reputable source) that document the facts in question.

For military or government officials, their office or command often will have a web page noting the names of their current/former executives, COs, XOs, etc. They might also have issued a press release when a notable person joins their organization, or which quotes the person in question.

If there are zero public sources documenting where your relatives are employed or assigned, then it's arguable that these relatives are not actually notable enough to warrant mention in the WP article.

WP ia not intended to be a directory of all facts or people.
> lending as an item in an in-game economy...

That's never going to happen in a real game because no game developer is going to spend time supporting some "item" bought somewhere else. There's no incentive for them. They can much more readily just sell their own in-game items and make all the money from the sale. This has the positive side effect for the developer that the in game item can't be taken to some other game.
> And even the dog is gifted with attention; look at its fur!

I'm willing to bet that dog looks way more interesting in the painting than it did in real life. I've never seen a real dog that looked like a wookie about town.

Nice touch: title tooltip for its closeup is "The doggo"
So... that leads into another conceptual objection to "metaverse".

NPC characters are almost always a handful of specific text lines, triggers, and flags cobbled together into something that's "interactable" only within the limited confines of that specific game. The NPC will not work outside of that specific game scenario, and often can be broken within that context.

Furthermore, a huge chunk of the effort to make a good single-player game is specifically the scenario and NPC design, which as mentioned above only works in the context of the other. None of this cost is being accounted for in any of the plans people have for "the metaverse". At best, there's handwaving about running a platform where players sell each other paid mods for an existing game. This is not an adequate system for funding the creation of worlds and items, IMO.

The people pushing for metaverse want something that isn't a videogame, but is wearing the skin of a videogame.
By the way, Hashicorp is working on a version of the CDK that outputs Terraform.

https://www.terraform.io/cdktf
In our case this hasn't caused any issues for us, and it has worked great as a general purpose converter
I think you might be misattributing their reason for existing.
OCaml's been around for 30 years, and will be around for many decades more. It's not this year's fad.
I would be very surprised if a simple bag-of-words approach works in this case. Intuitively, it's not the presence of certain groups of words that's important, it's something much more subtle and structural. Something that might be promising (and I'm being very handwavy here) is to discover 'template' sentence structures, as well as the particular words that populate those templates that result in TWSS.
This isn't about trusting delicious or not. Simply backup your damn data.
I can use pinboard (and similar) on any browser and any platform, including a simple API to do custom stuff, if I want. Much more portable.
Broccoli crowns are on sale this week at Lucky (in the Bay Area) for $0.57 / lb. This should allow the OP to shave at least $0.50 per day from his food budget. :-)

http://www.anyleaf.com/product/broccoli-crowns

As the co-founder of AnyLeaf, I talk to lots of people about saving on food and groceries. Some people "trade down" to save money, e.g., by replacing meat with beans. My personal strategy is to determine the diet I'd like to eat and that I consider healthy (the Paleo Diet, in my case) and then plan my shopping around the weekly sales offered by grocery stores. The variation in the price of a given item at a given store throughout the year is huge. Almost everything goes on sale for at least 50% off at one time or another. Also, every week there's almost always a good sale being offered on some product in every category (meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, etc). A typical meal for me is meat or seafood with some vegetable and some fruit for dessert. If there's a great sale on chicken breast, I'll have chicken breast. If the sale is on ground turkey, I'll have ground turkey. Likewise with fruit and vegetable choices. Shopping this way is a low-effort (if you use AnyLeaf) way to save substantially without trading down and compromising your nutritional goals.
Cooking: Yet another skill made obsolete by technology.
On the other side of the continent, my own observations are remarkably similar. The same pattern has been happening here in Portland (Oregon) for at least the last 30 years.

Wherever artists congregate, whichever quarter of the region, pretty soon the affluent declare it a "cool" place to live, real estate prices skyrocket and artists can't afford it. Obviously this affects most living there, few can afford to stay.

So yes, I've said it many times. Why is the city so determined to turn itself into the suburb we city dwellers wanted to avoid?

Though I am an artist, I'm not poor. I have the means to continue living near the center of town, but I'm beginning to have doubts about the wisdom of staying here.
Ah, I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who thought this was a joke. I'll repost this on April 1st, I think.
Apparently their blog is crumpling, too. :) Here's an article in the Register on the matter:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/skype/
The word "exit" has totally changed its meaning over the last 6 months.
I'm less sure about that, 'cause he's setting up for a quote. That makes the colon correct by my understanding.
You have no idea how tempted I was to go all the way and replace it with Benny Hill...
Usually after release most of these extensions get updated pretty quickly. I'm currently using Firefox (same reasons) and I'm waiting for the final release. I'll probably update right away and live with a few broken extensions (or hack up their version numbers) until they all get updated.
"Just a decade or two ago, those same people would have let a landline on their desk go unanswered during a meeting, so different were the expectations for reachability."

It's true that with cellphones you can reach someone even if they aren't at their home or desk, but aren't people switching their phones to silent a lot more? Maybe this depends on where you are, but I can't immediately get through to a lot of people I know the first time I call their cellphone. Text messages also make it a lot easier to communicate asynchronously, if you'll pardon the metaphor. I have actually been wondering if the expectation of availability for realtime remote voice communication isn't going to slowly die over a period of decades.
The answer is in the first sentence

> If you manage a website like this

So it is and advice to whoever manages this kind of website, not just the webmaster of GPL-violations.org
> a striking rise in investor interest in electric vehicles, autonomous cars, AI, and software companies ranging from consumer-facing companies like Facebook and Google to complex enterprise products like Snowflake

... Or, a striking rise in investing in whatever the mob thinks will make money, even when it is not, from tesla to bitcoin. If they were investing in the future they 'd be investing in ModeRNA / Biontech
I wonder whether it is the best story that wins, or it is the most attention grabbing story, considering so many stories that don't make sense to me win. (got a lot of followers, crowd-funding, etc.) Sometimes the stories just don't have to make sense...
Those are really minor syntax details (except maybe the regex stuff, that’s more a library issue than a language one).

Swift is safe (no null pointer exception), has predictable garbage collection performance through ARC, has a familiar C-style syntax (easier to get on-board), has compile-time type checking, good-enough generic programming support, algebraic data types with pattern matching, and will very soon get actor support.

Plus, it has the potential to become a good cross-platform language since it’s using llvm, all it needs is a bit more love on tooling and libraries.

I don’t see many other languages with those characteristics..
You can also delete all apps that have personal information and clean cache. They cannot force you install a particular app.
I think you're making the same category of error of which you accuse the_duck, albeit in the opposite direction, when you say "that art has happened" or claiming that field recording is art, or reverently quoting Yan Jun drawing an equivalence between pushing a record button and Bach. You dropped the word "valid", but you're still making assertions about what is and is not art.

Collectively, humans don't always agree about what is art. One option is to simply always be agnostic about what is and is not art. Then there's no argument.

Another option is to claim that there does exist some dividing line. And if you want to come to an agreement with anyone about that dividing line, it's hilariously delusional to miss the fact that there does not exist a broad consensus about when it is appropriate to use that word, and you need to construct that agreement. And if you want to do that, the idea of "valid art" is essential; blithely saying "that art has happened" is disingenuous at best.

Me, I choose to be agnostic about what is art. I don't understand the value of agreeing about it (except, perhaps, for the purpose of bureaucratic allocation of grants and funding). But even having taken that position, Dutton's ideas about a 12-factor model seem pretty interesting, as a sociological investigation of what other criteria other humans seem to use.
Are there any resources out there that teach developers weak on scaling/architecture how to manage this themselves? What architectures are the "best practices" of today? What tools are proven? Any books/articles/papers to recommend?
The other reason for so much FUD is that the modern economy is entirely based on debt -- personal, corporate, and (especially) government. Therefore central banks needs to keep the bubble growing perpetually so that the debt can be serviced. But it can't continue forever...
A while ago a 15-20 line patch was committed, which added the methods Array#second, Array#third, etc. These methods were added as syntactic sugar, in order to complement the built-in Array#first. What followed was a huge uproar on Reddit; people called the patch "bloat", claimed that Rails is growing into an uncontrollably large monster, etc. The uproar was not unlike the recent uproar about Coffeescript in size. DHH made fun of that by adding Array#forty_two.
Comparing IE10 to Chrome 10 isn't exactly apples to apples. Chrome 11 or 12 should be compared to IE10 since those are the development versions.
Thanks for your thanks! :) That's why I wrote this - as I said, it's not a huge amount of money, but it's an enjoyable hobby, and great that it pays for a few meals out a month. The question on my mind is - can I do ten of these and make some real money? ;)
Probably under 150.
I read that book by Rob Walling earlier on this year, excellent advice and, like you, I recommend it as well :)