jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You could stick them in an average motel room and the result would be the same.

I guess this thread of discussion is getting moot and semantic, but I do find it curious that someone would say "that person deserves to be in a motel room", without that motel room indicating some kind of punishment (revenge). "deserves" indicates that he should suffer somehow, i maintain.

> Just as an example, Christianity is pretty big on the concept of retribution. While it does say that it's God's job rather than man's, that doesn't change that it declares bad people deserve punishment independent of the deterrence factor.

Excellent point! You are speaking in strictly logical terms though, which is why i referenced dialectics earlier. It is very hard to discuss this subject meaningfully if you're ignoring all the intricacies of real life. I.e. we do not send people to prison to do gods job of retribution.
For the record, the machine is running the mTCP web server: http://www.brutman.com/mTCP/mTCP_HTTPServ.html

I wrote it back in 2014 and I've hosted brutman.com on it at times. My usual machine to run it on for torture testing is a PCjr with a hard drive and Ethernet. This 386 would be so much happier with an Ethernet card; the serial port connection is really hurting the performance.

A new version of mTCP is in the works; look for it in the next two months.
Do you go outside when it's raining? Blizzard? Hailing? Cat 4 winds? Probably not. Treat it the same. Go out for when you need to.

Idk why we treat smoke so differently than a blizzard or other such natural phenomena. I'm guessing it's because your home isn't airtight and so it actually affects you a lot more than when it's just raining - cause - surprise - homes are built to be watertight.
Citizens United says that $1 = 1 vote, right?

Isn't that the same across the entire world?

/s
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Developing web-applications since ~2007. Experience ranges from small, internal tooling and small business sites to large "enterprise" applications such as Quay.io.

Comfortable with all aspects of building web-apps but backend development and systems/architecture are my strengths. Python is my primary language. I have used many tools over the years and can quickly adapt as needed.

I am actively leaving a corporate role and transitioning back to independent development. I do not have a portfolio to share. Feel free to check out my LinkedIn[0] profile.

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Found on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eo29l/minecraft...
I had to look up "zero-day attack", but it really meant what I thought it did, i.e. a previously unreported ("fresh") exploit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-day_attack).

I don't understand this usage, which makes it sound as if zero-day attacks are a technical term, a category of attacks. Can anyone clarify?
The funny (well not for them) is that Flipagram falls afoul of Instagram's new naming policy. So it looks like without the identification with Instagram the app/startup could well die.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/19/instagram-cracks-down-on-co...
Hm, might be your framework of choice then ? Symfony2 for example shows complete Stack Traces of Exceptions and has a very detailed debug panel
People pulling 14 hour days with regularity are not that productive.
Plus there is PHP's aesthetics. I can't help but see all PHP code visually unpleasing. Programming isn't just a technical task. It's also an art like writing novels. I'm not satisfied when the code I produce doesn't look pretty, independently from the algorithm. In the article here, the Ruby code looks much cleaner to me than the PHP version, even though it's technically the same. Aesthetics is the main reason why I switched from PHP (that I learned in class) to C# (that I learned on my own).
You can also drag and drop
Of course marginal land which is left untouched has no monetary or food value. What is the value of the difference between grazed and ungrazed? Is it enough to justify paying people to leave it fallow?
"but, a font I created in 2004 for side messages in a MUD client is smaller"

No it's not, his font requires a 320x240 box to display all the text, the original font fits in a 302x220 box and that even includes ~8-10 pixels of padding. http://techhammers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Worlds-sma...
These XML vs JSON talks are tiring. They solve entirely different problem domains. XML is for documents and JSON is for data. It is not the fault of the XML spec that programmers go nutso on its usage outside of its problem domain.
I wonder how he devised (or found) the list of potential passwords (cracksome.c.txt)
Several friends got job interviews (and eventual offers) through it. Some facebook-less users connected with former colleagues and old friends.
Why was I voted down? I wasn't being rude or sarcastic.

I'm not bothered by the vote, just curious what caused the person to do it.
The best way to design a personal site is go minimal - bare minimum.

But problem is you need a designer to handle white space well. Non-designers fear it (yes the blank canvas is white space)

So just go with one column layout.
Use Georgia, seif; typeface stack.
Use variations of size and italics to differentiate high-lites.
Use shades of gray.
Don't make it wider than 1000px.

Bonus Tip: Keep line height of text (css propery: line-height: 1.5em;) to 1.5em and text size to 14px.

If you can pull this one off. You will have a side that even designer will envy.

Inspiration:
http://netspencer.com/
http://www.kingsidharth.com
Meta point: I have Flash disabled on my Mac. The picture of the iPhone 4 with the text "Flash Player 10+ Required" superimposed on top of it is hilarious to me.

May I recommend you offer an H.264 video file as well?
Anyone know what that's based off? A "full sized" drone of maybe 3-4X this size, but with exactly this profile flew directly overhead at low altitude about 18 months back.
What do you think of software like Bromium, Qubes, etc. which creates enclaves within endpoints?
Please, let us know when you push the update.
It's terrible requiring so much permissions..
"There is no hatred of women" is like saying "There is no hatred of [insert other group here]"

If you want to find them, look for the individuals who repeatedly post derogatory comments and hateful comments under any post made by a female.
I agree that a lot of Apple criticism is poorly backed or even unfounded, but I also believe that it's far easier to dismiss criticism for not being well backed than it is to dismiss praise for the same reason. While much of the Apple criticisms that get repeated don't have a ton of substance to them, you could easily say the same thing for the commonly repeated pro-Apple soundbytes.
Please tone down your post, or you won't be taken seriously.

We are lucky to have Paul Graham sharing his incredible experience and expertise. Of course he can't speak for each and every startup of the world, but anecdotal evidence suggests that 2 (up to 4) founders make for a more effective company.

If you're interested, I highly suggest you to read the Founders at Work series.

"Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence.

What's wrong with having one founder? To start with, it's a vote of no confidence. It probably means the founder couldn't talk any of his friends into starting the company with him. That's pretty alarming, because his friends are the ones who know him best.

But even if the founder's friends were all wrong and the company is a good bet, he's still at a disadvantage. Starting a startup is too hard for one person. Even if you could do all the work yourself, you need colleagues to brainstorm with, to talk you out of stupid decisions, and to cheer you up when things go wrong.

The last one might be the most important. The low points in a startup are so low that few could bear them alone. When you have multiple founders, esprit de corps binds them together in a way that seems to violate conservation laws. Each thinks "I can't let my friends down." This is one of the most powerful forces in human nature, and it's missing when there's just one founder." – Paul Graham http://goo.gl/HPja
Why do you have this impression?

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing, but curious where this idea came from.
The tools are bespoke, and right now I don't plan on open sourcing them. I can't say what the future holds though, so watch this space.
At least put some basic protection in place. There was a time when you could have launched this website without a problem, say 1995 or so. Today this is no longer possible.

To the dumbass downvoting me: I just took a look with wget and the current homepage will set you in a loop that starts up endless mailer windows until your machine crashes. Good luck.
I mean, companies in Europe hire less. If you can't fire people easily, you think thrice about anyone you hire.
Would you mind sharing the reason why YouTube shut you down or a list of rules that are easy to break?

My boss is adamant to move some of our video (days of footage per project, multiple projects per year) to YouTube and I couldn't find a hard reason not to do it.
Supposedly YouTube won't display ads if the videos are unlisted or private.
Beagle 2 had a very different weight budget.
>The majority of data has no need for encryption. Some of it does.

No. Wrong. Absolutely, incontrovertibly wrong. Everything that doesn't absolutely need to be plaintext should be encrypted; everything that can be authenticated should be.

Don't believe me? The IETF and IAB can't really be much stronger than this:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7258
https://www.iab.org/2014/11/14/iab-statement-on-internet-con...
The real problem in this case has far less to do with the reactor design than the horribly mismanaged cleanup efforts.
I'm really pleased that I was able to read all of the README despite not having read French for probably a year or more. I guess it was written in a very easy/academic style.
> License savings. Great.

That and other related admin such as keeping all installations in check to make sure you are within your license terms. Have you budgeted properly for the time of experienced people to fill out paper work and the potential disruption of everyone else if a full audit is requested (the license agreement says that can call one of those when-ever they like IIRC).

Sometimes using Office most definitely is the right answer (the "compatibility with our suppliers/clients" issue often can't not be ignored for a start) but when it isn't the correct answer pure licensing costs are not always the only reason.

> What was the cost of: Re-imaging those 120,000 desktops?

The costs of this change per desktop will be similar to an upgrade of Office.

If they are upgrading from an older version of office that is no longer supported and the choice is between newer office and OO/LO then this is moot. There may be a bit of extra time at the start of the project as those running it get familiar with OO/LO's installation foibles, but considered per desktop this is not going to be high.

In fact installing OO as a new package may be more risk free as it can co-exist with their current version of Office, so they have an easy fallback/rollback or slow transition option.

> Re-training the (I assume) 100,000+ users?

The differences are not that significant. If they are moving from a relatively old version of office then the retraining for the newest Office variant could easily be more significant due to the UI changes over recent years.

If they have any custom training materials then there will be a cost for updating these, but then there will be for Office too.

> And what are the support costs?

Again, I doubt these will be significantly different. There might be a little more effort needed here due to people being familiar with Office due to the copy they run at home or used at a previous employer, but again there is the "which office version" difference which may make this a moot point. If people using something at home is one of your considerations and you are relying on it to reduce your support costs then OO/LO makes sense as everyone can have an install of OO/LO at home legally for no cost.
You probably should fix this in your code too. As noted in this thread, that's not a proper way to use pattern matching. Anyone reading your code will be confused by this usage and that's not a good thing. It probably would be best to use this:

match key.cmp(self.block_size) {
Equal => ..
Greater => ..
Less => ...
}

Which is much prettier (and more succinct) than both your original code and my example. You could also use a `cond!()` macro here, but that would mean you don't have an example for a blog post, so I think the above code is the best option. Thanks to kzrdude for posting.
What you call "costs" actually are salaries/jobs for people living there -- unlike fees paid to MS.
Actually, the math is wonderfully simple deriving a great deal of benefit from tensor theory and the power of coordinate invariant arguments. It's a non-trivial concept in full, the shape of space and time, but considering the wild opportunity for it to be complex, the formulae are exceedingly simple.
I wish you the best.
Since you already have a degree in CS and you like computing you could be a little bit more specific on the topics and courses that you relatively enjoyed.
This could possibly help the HNers to give you solid and useful advice.
Another way is probably to use a Linux Kernel-like list: http://isis.poly.edu/kulesh/stuff/src/klist/
Are you guys using Socket.io under the hood?
There's not enough detail and investigation in the article, but this appears to qualify as a third-party posting service, which is a no-no in Craigslistland. I don't see any other way they could offer one-click posting where the airbnb client didn't already have a Craiglist account (and not even then, either). If this is indeed what is happening, Airbnb should tread lightly lest they get the banhammer, and this is doubly true if the resulting Craiglist ads appear to be Airbnb ads, and/or the ads are posted out-of-area.
Did you have any access to Musk and/or family/friends or is it mainly compiled from already available sources? Either way, it looks like a good read.
> is your point that we shouldn't ever try to assess someone's emotion in decision making, whether it's a person or machine deciding?

isn't that a pretty sane and basic assumption ?
With few exceptions, the AI research community completely overlooks the "rest of the body" when it comes to thinking about intelligent systems and focuses too much on the brain.

The amount of computing going on in the peripheral nervous system is staggering - and when you look at HOW and WHERE this computing works with effectors and sensors you realize how much of intelligence is reliant on those systems being there.

Brains are interesting - but they actually don't do all that much when it comes to the majority of how people interact with the real world, and frankly you don't need that much (physical mass of) brain to be intelligent.
Yes exactly. Thank you. Generally people should just assume that others with lived experience are not total idiots about it.

One way to fix it is simply to let families use their SSN as the EIN for the employee, and remove that from your adjusted gross income.
This guy made a few hundred thousand by doing just that.

https://mobile.twitter.com/muratpak/status/13585748601721569...
As I understand it, rear-facing feats are generally accepted to be safer, but are far worse for airsickness.
I have a faraday bag I put my phone in when I am traveling and don’t need it. It blocks all RF. It’s meant for forensics and is of very high quality.
I hear this a lot, but is it really true? For shares of US companies (or foreign companies listed on US exchanges) held for > 60 days before the ex-dividend rate, dividends are taxed at the long-term capital gains rate.[1]

1. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/090415/dividend-inc...
That's a good point about previewing. So instead of "cgn", it looks like you can do "gns", which highlights the match, then enters into substitution mode, and you type the replacement, then hit <ESC>. Then you can hit "n." "n." "n." repeatedly, where the "n" goes to the next match so that you can preview, and the "." applies the replacement. Not quite as efficient as a single ".", but the "n." sequence is a familiar one.
> because they haven't treated the domain with the respect and experience it requires

This is exactly why I hoped Stadia would fail in the first place: I can think of few worse stewards to dominate the games industry than Google, and I was worried the tech would be so good that they'd win anyway. I take a lot of satisfaction in the knowledge that their ignorance and arrogance was the reason for their downfall.
I feel like these types of public feuds only result in a pissing match where the consumer ultimately loses not the companies involved.
Nah let's fight for structural change instead of timidly complying and listening to podcasts while we become traffic and lose 22 days a year.
I worked in Texas for a stint, and completely understand what you describe here. However, don't look to the PNW as a place it's any better.

Both Oregon and Washington are at-will states, and have the same laws with the same kind of work cultures -- you're a cog in a system, and if you start grinding or upsetting the status quo in some way, the candidate pool in this region is strong enough, they'll replace you. However, the expectation still remains that when you choose to exercise your same rights under at-will that you give two weeks notice. Can't say any employer is going to give an employee that same courtesy when letting them go. Not to mention if you're salaried, you might as well accept that your role is nothing more than indentured servitude branded as capitalism (to clarify, this may not be at all companies, but definitely is a strong cultural trait I've seen at the ones I've worked at).

All that being said, the PNW is much prettier than many areas of Texas, and while natives are hostile towards transplants, the quality of life is leaps and bounds better than that horrendous mass of land called the Lone Star State.
Switching from gas to electric is something I can do all on my own. Switching from gas car to cycling is something that would require major investments from my city and developers.

Both are noble goals, but let's not let perfect be the enemy of good. Switch to electric now, and also encourage new roads and new developments to be bike friendly, so that switching to a bike is something that will be viable in 20 or 30 years for most cities in America.

Edit: To clarify, the investment I'm referring to is rezoning entire cities and tearing down single family homes and replacing them with mixed use buildings to bring commercial spaces closer to residential spaces. Most American cities have commercial centers and are then surrounded by residential, with very little mixing of the two. For example the closest place for me to buy food is .75 mile away, but the closest supermarket is 1.5 miles and I have to cross two major roads and a Freeway to get there.
Platejoy sounded like what I want but they don't even list the price of their service on their site which seems sketch.
As they say, the power is in the marginal consumer. There are people who, given more bicycle infrastructure, will be helped over the threshold to riding a bicycle for more trips (I'm one of them; I will commute by bicycle, but the roads around me don't make riding home from a store with a trailer a safe decision).

Also, painting more lines on a road is usually more of a half-hearted municipal response to requests for bicycle infrastructure; the changes that are established to improve ridership are physically separated bicycle lanes, the network effect of more cyclists, and holding drivers responsible when their behaviors kill or maim more vulnerable road users.
The raw science is not what held back the response. The mRNA vaccines were designed within a week. Testing and approval were the bottlenecks.
What is Open Source about it? Could not find license or anything.
This is not a real issue, you can bike at any cold temperature if you dress accordingly.

What is a real issue is a lack of cycling infrastructure, if it's dangerous to commute to work by bike then a car is a better choice.
There's also an extension if you want just the hints: https://pghintplan.osdn.jp/pg_hint_plan.html
Or they would be more expensive. Or the same price and dividends lower. Or they would see a price per session, or a price per session tier (0-2 sessions per month, 3-5, then 5-15, then 15+).
> We have lambdas in C# land, and I don't find myself using factories or lambdas in my code.

I do some C# too, and I use lambdas regularly with .Select() (but not so much otherwise - though I can imagine it's an effect of the codebase). But you do need factories/providers if you want IoC and you use variables in different scopes...
ooo pay $45 to work on a project for their marketing stunt! What a deal!!!
Why not just start a naming-contest?

It should be pretty simple to make a webapp for this kind of thing.
I thought the back doors into our vaults were intentional, so that NSA could get in. Is the NSA willing to allow local companies have a completely secure network if it means they can't get into it also? Seems like they're comfortanle with the risk of hacks as long as they can get to go into the vault and look around too.
Yvtug zvtug or cerfrag ba Rhebcn'f bprna sybbe sebz ihypnavfz.
I was shocked reading the title thinking 'No way this isn't already on Apple devices'.
Did you notice that you framed your statement as a question and thereby made it more persuasive?
I love that the only lens we can see this story through is to take sides with the students or the professor. I expect any professor to write his own tests (or have his TA write them). I consider it cheating for a professor to contract out the work of writing a test.

If students knew that they were seeing the test early, then they cheated too.

I find it impossible to determine who has the high ground in this story because both the professor and the students are standing in the mud.
If the professor indeed claimed authorship of the test before giving it to the students, why shouldn't they use that test bank to study? If the professor didn't write it, the test bank is just similar questions which should be excellent practice for the test.

If he didn't this is just further lying from cheaters, but that sounds exactly like something many a professor would claim casually in a class.

If he did say he wrote the test, then all of this is a professor playing cover his ass after telling students he's writing a test when really he was just test bank spelunking.
If it's your impression that I'm saying there was anything reasonable about prosecuting people for witchcraft: no.

If it's your impression that I'm saying there was anything reasonable about prosecuting people for passing industrial, commercial, or military secrets to the Soviet Union: of course there was.

Were people unfairly prosecuted? Yes. Was the discretion to investigate people abused for political purposes? Yes. But don't be naive. There was actual, serious espionage. The Soviet Union was basically our sworn enemy for many decades. I know Internetland is one big happy family, but the real world isn't.