jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would be curious to get the opinion of someone Dutch on the below:

I was once chatting with a co-worker about why English is so prevalent in the Netherlands and, particularly, why Dutch people tend to speak English with American accents.

My co-workers theory: it's because American English was heavily influenced by Dutch speakers in colonial times. e.g. New York was once New Amsterdam

My theory: in the Netherlands (at least in the 1990s), American TV shows were not dubbed but had subtitles instead. This allowed teenagers who watched American shows to learn English but with an American accent.

Open to other thoughts and suggestions.
I would guess that it's mainly a question of experience. When you have smart kids fresh out of school, they are going to be eager to use every tool in their toolbox. Eventually (hopefully) they will develop the wisdom to know when to deploy what.
Especially when coupled with the excessive fiscal stimulus.

We should absolutely help those most impacted by the pandemic, but the amount of money being injected amounts to gross negligence.

Why were people who made 6 figures and still employed being given checks, for example? The stock market is on fire, and many businesses are smashing earnings expectations, yet we inject another $2 trillion?

I've got a sizable portfolio, but the government response frankly saddens me. The green we see every day just represents inflation (of assets). Big gains in stonks, but now we have to pay 2 million dollars for a house in a nice part of town.

Really unfortunate for those without significant assets that ever hoped to own a home.
Correct things, no matter you claim them politically correct or not, are correct, for the entire human being, like math.

The gift program, boiling to the bottom, is selecting elites for the interest of the country, or entire human being.

The mindset of these educators is that education is a benefit, not a journey, granted to some people.
> For a salary of $0, someone who's already uber successful, doesn't need the money and is into it for the challenge.

Yeah, so who is not running? If it paid $0, that creates a definite class of people who cannot run. Furthermore I suspect that any income deficit would be gained by using the position's power for personal gain.

If it paid $0, we probably wouldn't see AOC in office. Many politicians travel between DC and their home. If money is insufficient for that, it could create worse representation. These politicians employ assistants and advisors, lower salary theoretically creates poor incentives (corruption) or getting candidates that are less valuable (industry might be able to out compete).

Just about everyone wants money, and $5M is a lot. It excludes virtually no one, and is enough money that you don't really need any other sources of income. $10mil is enough to live a middle class life without working for the rest of your life. I would expect that type of compensation to breed more fierce competition.

I don't think it's in any way obvious that politicians should not be paid well, nor do I think it's at all obvious what the result of low or high compensations for politicians would be.
That's cool. I wonder if there's some parallel between various Emacs distributions and Linux distributions. Does vi world have something similar?

In a roundabout way, do the various distributions (of linux and emacs) indicate that they are more flexible pieces of software than single-version software projects?
Yeah, that's probably a major factor here - we moved to google cloud specifically for GKE and it's been pretty great. Have had a couple of issues (mostly with kube-dns autoscaling not keeping up, node-local dns helped a lot), but ultimately it's saved far more work than it's created.
You have just described why I laugh anytime someone complains that government is inefficient. ANY organization of sufficient size is "inefficient" because what a large organization optimizes for (for reasons I cannot explain) cannot align with what that organization's customers want optimized.
Could you please stop this? It's not what HN is for.
Cookie banners were invented for this purpose but as we can see this is not the best solution. How would anyway anyone opt-in to any kind of tracking after all the privacy issues in the last years? But some kind of standard would be really important for sure. I'm working on the implementation of tracking solutions with the respect of user consent and privacy but even simple website analytics gets really complicated because there are no industry standards currently, every 3rd party handles user consent differently. And we did not even got to the point of gathering the user consent..
It's interesting that the community praising multiculturalism favors hegemony of only a few computer architecture. Portability used to be paramount of design...
I had a lot more patience with repeatedly hunting the same thing in DR than I do now. I discovered it through Microsoft Gaming Zone back in the day.
It's like Volume I of Knuth, modernized and without as much theory.
If people regret what they eat for breakfast in the morning, you can bet they will regret taking on investments.

Maybe a more specific question would be appropriate?
Great tech journalism as always. We have this article speculating. Their source is another article speculating. It's source is a comment in a Chinese news paper that says Apple has agreed to China's 'security check' policy. Ok now we've got to the bottom of it what are these checks?

"What would “security checks” entail? Apple hasn’t provided any information on the matter and did not respond to requests for comment."

So we have one piece of FUD based on another piece of FUD created based on a comment in a Chinese newspaper and the speculation of some 'analysts'. Almost zero facts.
Hasn't the existence of Echelon been common knowledge for years? The concept was popularised in Enemy of the State in 1998. Before that you had Clinton and the Clipper chip which could easily lead the poorly technically informed to assume all their internet traffic was already capable of being monitored.
Do we have a CVE for the regulator vulnerability yet?
Electric Machinery Fundamentals
Stephen J. Chapman

This was the book we used in undergraduate, It was quite readable as I remember.
Learning how to build a product business alongside my consulting via [the latest version of] Amy Hoy's 30x500 course.
> Most articles I've read say he had epilepsy. If that's the case, he could have had a fatal seizure in the shower on any given day, regardless of work schedule.

Uhh no.

> Sleep deprivation is the second most common trigger of [epileptic] seizures. In some cases, it has been responsible for the only seizure a person ever suffers
"reduce your cracking time greatly"

More characters is always numerically better... but better, as they say, is the enemy of good enough.

And "more ornerous" is the enemy of a paying casual userbase and doesn't help you at all vs the most common attack vectors (keyloggers and social).

Because of blizzard server limits you're not going to brute force login to my battlenet account even if I tell you my username and half of my password.

If you steal the hashes you're probably not going to be able to do anything with it because of work factor key lengthening and the fact that you have to attack each account one at a time.

Even then let's say you've managed to steal blizzards user/salt/hash databases and put a small country's GDP worth of GPU resources into breaking all the passwords. Now you come up against the fact that the vast majority of the accounts, including prohibitively all of the best ones, have 2 factor authentication.

Get past those 3 mission impossibles and you run into even more server side limits on IP logins. And logging in and doing anything on accounts takes time and blizzard's going to quickly figure out something is going on and put the whole thing on lockdown.

So yeah, not a huge deal imho.

...

"bits of entropy" is just the binary log of the character space, 81 bits -> 2^81.
The smartest hacker I know was approached by Google, apparently they found that he was working on some interesting stuff on LinkedIn. They asked him if he'd come in for an interivew and he told them "I'm not going to do an interview for you guys. You can either hire me based on my previous experience and sample work, or I'm not interested."

A week or two goes by, and they hired him without doing an interview.

On a separate note, I've always had the test anxiety problem so I could understand how an interview is more of an acquired skill and less of an indication of your coding ability. I can code, and I have no problem with understanding the material, but when it comes to taking a timed test and using a pencil and paper for something that I usually use a completely different input for (a keyboard and a monitor), I struggle with it. Some people dismiss it and say "well you obviously didn't know the material if you couldn't get it on a test," but I never agreed with that.
Password-less authentication is available, see LaunchKey (https://launchkey.com). Start implementing and demand alternatives! The password manager User Experience is horrible, and LastPass just had a major security issue. Protecting passwords with passwords isn't the solution. Disclosure: I am a co-founder of LaunchKey
If you follow Google's strategy, you'll see that they really are not interested in the "stream-view war" with Facebook that everyone seems so intent on their playing. Instead, Google+ is a social backbone that connects all Google products (present and future) and gives you a single Google identity across the internet.
It would be a good start though I believe.
Oh I take great pleasure in telling you then that I force all my fonts to Century Schoolbook.

Seriously, where do web "designers" get off these days? The web is not paper.
We’re still exploring ways to let people use public properties instead, but that’s one of the things that is hard to do without copying (and paying the huge performance price associated with it).
Have a similar experience and still looking at how to deal with it. I`m working from home for 6+ years already and started noticing that I have problems with time management (different tips (https://ivypanda.com/essays/time-management-theories-and-app...) help me, but still), social life (I`m single, without pets, kids or family, so maybe that`s part of the reason) and so on. Maybe I`m just burnout, I don`t really know, so it`s nice to hear that I`m not the only one :)
Our first architecture was indeed peer-to-peer where all components discovered each other. It is difficult to isolate failures on this kind of architecture. A reliable queue makes a big difference in zooming in on the root cause of the problem (a queue producer or a queue consumer problem).
Regarding latency - we are aiming for a few ms tops. preferably less. So bulk events using S3 was not considered
You may be right, but the projects both started around the same time (mid-late 2011) and I think two projects in different languages that do separate things sharing the same base name isn't a big deal, at least not as bad as having a language called "go" ...which seems to do just fine anyway =].
Didn't realize that. Thank you.
As an aside, s/nurture/neutralize/ eh? I'm seeing more and more malapropisms in online text. Has some common auto-correct thing gotten aggressive in guessing, badly, at misspelled words? (Auto-incorrect.)
There can absolutely be a service around customer service. I'm a little wary about whether there can be a business around customer service or not. Note http://gethuman.com. It doesn't incorporate the Twitter / Facebook component of what you're talking about, but it does show how to get ahold of a company by phone. I'm not sure what, if any, business model they have in place. On the other hand, http://getsatisfaction.com is focused on customer service, and I believe they have a business model in place.

I think your best bet would be to do some early-stage customer development / validation (which it looks like you're doing?) on it, and see if you can develop a minimum viable product that people would pay for.
Because you haven't done it yet.

Do it, prove that it works, get a political or corporate sponsor for your product to roll it out, and help to solve this growing war between personal liberty and government security.
People just need to know the techniques of pressure management. When I was raised, my parents taught me always to be humble. There are always people better, smarter than you. I got my PhD from UCLA and happened to know this guy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
He was a full professor at 24 and teaching people much older than him and he was the winner of fields medal.
So, if u have too much pressure, think twice that somewhere, someone is more intelligent. And I am sure just like all other records, someday, someone will break it.
And for those people who feel their dancing skills are inadequate, one of the best dance instructors in the country (Richard Powers) gives two hours of introductory lessons before the dance. The atmosphere is very friendly and welcoming.
Apparently it's based on the CSS history leak.
Ooh, that's a good one too. Now I'm torn.

Whatever we land on culturally with these things, it's important to codify their idiocy right in their common name. Language has power.
Even if this anonymous post is completely fictional, I am certain this exact scenario plays out every single day at various US airports. Why would it not?

A simple improvement would be to have separate scanning machines for males and females with a same sex screener.

Also, a collection of x-ray scanner pictures of passengers of all ages and genders should be posted by the security line so everyone in line can make up their own mind if they want to be scanned or would prefer to opt out for manual screening.
It doesn't stop us, no.. but for those of us who use it to collaboratively develop, and who's fabric and hudson scripts for deploying to test and production servers are pointed at it, this is a major pain in the arse.
You mean prefer to have their balls touched?
On weekends on the peninsula there is still plenty to do. Catch up with folks at their houses, go to bars/restaurants like Town and The Refuge. Go to Rooster T Feathers in Mountain View for a comedy show. Pampas in downtown Palo Alto has a great Friday night happy hour.

Other times I'll drive up to the city. When I lived in Mountain View I used to occasionally get a hotel room in the financial district - $70 on Priceline for a 4* hotel. Now I'm in San Carlos it's only a 20 minute drive to SOMA which is great, or otherwise 40 min by train.
On the provider site of the equation, I wrote an "identity provider as a service" app that you can just drop in to your existing domain by adding a single file:

https://persowna.net/

It allows all your users to log in to Persona-supporting sites with their @yourdomain.com address, bypassing the bridge, and supports various nifty features like catch-alls, two-factor auth, etc.
This article reminds me of some videos I've watched on YouTube about paranormal "investigations". It's kind of funny how prone the "investigators" are to interprete random events as paranormal manifestations. Background noises are generally seen as EVPs[1] and they manage to match them to something they were expecting to hear; [2] provides a reasonable explanation for that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_voice_phenomenon
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
To those making the argument that if companies can't find talent they are not paying enough (which I don't disagree with), I can't help but wonder isn't there a price point past which it's more cost effective and sensible for companies to open an office in a country which allows to hire from a pool of 7B people vs 300M?
As someone who voted for Joe Biden, I'm not surprised at all by the current response from the right, even those who aren't hell bent on supporting Trump. Silencing people doesn't make them go away or give up,it makes them double down on their beliefs (whether based on conspiracy theories or not) and continue to escalate. Good faith arguments and honest media are how we solve this problem, not by banning people we disagree with just to feel good on the inside.
We should understand Facabook was the best platform to advertise mobile game apps and etc, for almost 10 years. Apple took 30% of all that revenue without any objection.

Now Apple has its own ad infrastructure, and this is a perfect strategic move by Apple.
I'm complete confused about the economy in the United States. You look at the news and all you hear about is the enormous amount of financial pain families are going through at this time. But then you hear about cars and trucks flying off of dealership lots.

I guess I'll be holding onto my 2011 Honda Odyssey until it catches fire on the road.
That's fine, some people are of course. But when you look at what people mean when they provide no jurisdiction, it always seems to mean the US. That's all I meant by de facto US based, because if it weren't, wouldn't people state the jurisdiction as "US"? They don't, so it must mean that the US is what is assumed.
>Teaching programming with imperative constructs first encourages imperative thinking. Teaching programming with computational concepts encourages computational thinking

Imperative thinking is computational. All forms of thinking are computational by definition.

> Expressions are fundamentally easier to reason about, and there’s no reason they would be more difficult to a beginner.

What does expressions have to do with anything. Recursion can be both defined in an expression and as an imperative jump instruction. The concept is orthogonal to expressions.

>I’d even say that people usually have a good grasp on recursion even if they don’t know that’s what it’s called. Multiplication is just recursive addition. Exponents are just recursive multiplication. And so on.

But people don't think of multiplication this way. The teacher doesn't teach multiplication to you in terms of recursion she literally teaches you it with the "times" keyword. What's 5 * 6? Add 5 to 5, 6 times.

It has bearing on language. Nobody outside of programming/mathematics communicates concepts recursively. Our communication is a reflection of how we think naturally. Recursion takes training. Looping is just learning syntax for a concept we already know about: repetition.
Maybe there isn't actually a procedure for this situation? If the highest court in the land says even if the claims turn out to be true there is still no remedy to be had. In other words, even if the election was provably stolen, they won't overturn the result. So what procedure should have been followed?

You're accusing attorneys of not acting in good faith or sheer incompetence for not having a firm understanding of an entirely novel legal scenario. The Texas case was, according to reports, hotly debated in private by SCOTUS before they made their decision. Shame you weren't there to educate them on proper procedure.
Agreed. This news will probably make him want to do it more.
What is wrong with /r/sino?
The Pizza Hut isn't in the process of processing Electoral College votes for the next president of the United States. Disrupting the delivery of pizzas is not in the same category as disrupting the selection of the president.

This wasn't just a riot. It wasn't just a protest. Wasn't just an attack on a building. It wasn't just some vandalism. It was an attack on the last step of the presidential election process.
I give out every paper I've published for free. Well, actually every paper I've published is also available in essentially final form on the arxiv, so I'm not a necessary middleman.

But I read a lot of papers from a lot of people that don't make their papers freely available and who don't use the arxiv (or any other preprint server). This seems particularly common for people a bit older than me. And of course there is the set of papers published more than 20 years ago, say, but which are still paywalled (or worse, essentially impossible to find anywhere). For these, scihub is great.
I think reasons jobs feel like bullshit are because they don't give autonomy, mastery or agency.
Well, if AGI evolves from infrastructure that naturally fosters intelligence, then it is probable that most intelligence gains are actually a function of better infrastructure. This suggests that individual intelligences are actually dead ends: if a new, better infrastructure comes up, you can't just port an existing AGI to it because the whole of it is organized suboptimally: training a new AGI from scratch will always be faster than to try to improve the old one. It's similar to how new software projects can innovate more easily than existing ones because they don't have legacy burdens.
I did not know Elan Lee [1] before this KS but it never ceases to amaze me the level of influence/buy-in that Matthew Inman managed to amass.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elan_Lee
You misspelled 'disappoint' in the first sentence.
DigitalOcean is pretty solid so far. I've been monitoring uptime on my instances for a year and while a relatively new datacenter like Singapore was unstable for a while, I haven't gotten any alerts for the past few months.
They didn't needed to go these route. Telegram for example has clients for most platforms and a web client that works in every browser and doesn't require your phone to be connected to the internet for it to work.
Sure, but assuming he is such a person, you are implying that this minimal understanding of the software life cycle is better for engineers at his company than integrity and a desire to see engineers justly rewarded for their efforts. I doubt that.
The same reason Apple has consistently waged war against clones?
"They bought back a lot of shares, they added one of Icahn’s employees to
the board, they are cutting costs -- those are the things investors care
about more than the actual performance of the company," said Gil Luria, an
analyst at Wedbush Securities Inc., who has the equivalent of a hold rating
on the stock.

Seeing it explained that way is amazing. Meanwhile, ebay is losing ground in ecommerce. But don't worry, Donahoe (and Icahn) got paid.
I should write a nice long blog post on how to iterate in CL without using (full) LOOP. (I have no problem with the trivial CLtL1 form of LOOP.) There's DO, there's MAPCAR, there's REDUCE, there's REMOVE-IF-NOT and the like, and these days we often have the option of using tail recursion. I believe that different kinds of loops should be written with different constructs, as this gives the reader a clue up front about the nature of the loop. If you see a MAPCAR, for example, you can assume (well, you should be able to assume) that the iterations are independent; there is no data flow from one invocation of the mapped function to another, so the ordering of the input list(s) affects only the ordering of the result list, not its contents. Furthermore, any loop with that property should be written as a MAPCAR so the reader can tell that.

The point, of course, is that trying to create "one macro to rule them all" is already wrongheaded. There shouldn't be one universal iteration construct.
I feel that many people dislike the idea of him, without exactly knowing what he did during his time as CEO, because the Windows platforms are known as being notoriously buggy and unsecure. XP was a nightmare that caused SysAdmins to cry themselves to sleep until the expansion pack 3 came out, Windows Vista was an unmitigated disaster, Windows 7 was surprisingly decent, and Windows 8 has been hailed as a terrible idea that should have died in its crib.

In the last 13 years, we've all seen the rise of Microsoft, and are now seeing the beginning of it's fall. Ballmer was an extremely important figure in the tech world. I just wish the Operating Systems that came out during his time didn't suck so much.