jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Now that it is becoming easier to run linux on windows and maybe macos, linux dev should make an effort to guarantee linux apps run REALLY fine on window and mac. That way instead of creating 3 native apps (win, mac and linux), you could simply target linux.
> you don't have 30+ years of reliability data

Flash memory was invented in the 1980s, so yeah: we do.
Exactly. Now, what would be really cool is if you could build a questionnaire, similar to a personality test, that would match you up with the right color/sound scheme. So at the end of the questionnaire, you can verify the results by listening to the Kandinsky piece and see if we got your associations right.
I'm more self-conscious about posting to LinkedIn than any other network. I know will cross post content from Twitter, but even that needs to be re-written to be more "professional". It's strange.
Is this a public business? Would you mind sharing, if so?
> And it ended last November, when Apple announced Macs would switch to ARM.

This is revisionism. It ended with the smartphone and netbook era, both of which put more ARM devices in homes than Macs ever will.
If your taxes are easy in Sweden / Australia they would be easy in the US.
Insanity. 90% of linear algebra can be understood from graphically examining affine transforms. Doing visuals last is what leads people to conceive of matrix-vector multiplication as a set of meaningless dot products as opposed to just multiplying the basis vectors by the matching coordinate and adding them all up.
If this car insists that pedestrians go first, to the extent of stopping and projecting a sidewalk in front of them, it'll never go anywhere very fast. People will just step out into traffic trusting that the car will stop for them - and in areas of any significant pedestrian density that'll mean that you're constantly stopped or going at a couple of miles an hour.

Without the prospect of getting run down and squished if you behave like a total moron, that's what people will do.
It can also eat down your shrubbery.
They are illegal in Germany.
I loose systematically 2 to 3 kg each Ramadan. People usually exaggerate on food (esp. sweets) during iftaar.
after death, to nurse: did you check if it's plugged in?
The answer is: Grooveshark routinely has to take down (unlicenced, non-fair-use) copyrighted content, just like the others. That's the cost of DMCA safe harbour compliance.
This. I was born in the UK, and I still have family there. They all have private insurance for this very reason.
The blog has a comments section, why do we need to see every single report here? Are Android developers who make money really rare or something?
It's still draconian error handling, all the spec says is that you have to stop parsing and notify the user.

> Meh.

There were many circumstances that prevented the adoption of XHTML-as-XHTML. One of them was the fact that your users would get a cryptic error page, with no context, if something went wrong.

What Webkit does is much less threatening.
While I appreciate the thanks, I am only the messenger!
To dupe the key they would need access to your system, though. At which point they would also have access to all your files anyway.

Now, if you fix your system to no longer be vulnerable the duped key will allow them to keep snooping your files, but personally I think this risk is marginal.
Severance would be a nice way to get started...
My roommate works for two sigma and he actually likes it a lot. He has a CS degree from CMU and used to work for GS, and like its much more than GS.

I don't think he works in the deep level programming group but rather product development, but he says he finds it stimulating and interesting - and is paid very decently for the level he is at. In fact, he won't leave the security of the job and pay for any startup no matter how I try to convince him ;).

He has also stated that the people who work there come from a diverse range of backgrounds and it's just a very chill and laid back environment unlike most finance shops.
I love this part of the machine translation: "Yes, it works in RTP HD but only after the 3rd Tuesday of next week"

I wonder how many Tuesdays a typical week has in Portugal?
What if the actual cost ends up ballooning past $20bn? perhaps there was a backroom agreement to cap the liability costs?
Old people give up their mobility way too fast, often because of depression, isolation, or sheer lack of anything to do. A device like this will only accelerate the process. Young or old, we all tend to perceive a certain level of exertion as unpleasant, even dangerous, and that level is well below the level of exertion required to keep us fit and healthy. Obviously we are very poorly adapted to living in an environment where physical exertion is optional. The more we make exertion optional, the faster our bodies will degenerate.
Without having read this or the referenced PG essay beforehand, my thought was that the Segway did not take off because it makes you look like a dork. Similar to a unicycle in that regard. Some people don't care about that; most do and that's the big problem with the device.
If you're willing to cook from mainly fairly simple ingredients, you can do it without much coupon clipping. Lentils, beans, and potatoes are dirt cheap, eggs are pretty cheap (a two-egg omelette is about $0.25 of ingredients), and, depending on where you live, there's usually some variety of fruit or vegetable in season and very cheap. Bread is also nearly free if you bake it yourself from flour instead of buying it. It'll still take some effort to keep it at $1/day, but if you're willing to do $2/day, it's easy.
It's not a good situation either way, but it's not real fair of the retirees to take dividends from a company that just destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people. BP is obligated to take care of its mess and that should come before paying shareholders. It sucks, but that's business.

Stocks aren't risk free, even big dividend paying ones.
The claim "largest single commercial launch deal" is somehow a bit marketing. A launch deal often includes multiple launches of satellite for a multiple years contract. Looking at Arianespace yearly turnover (more than 1000 MEUR in 2009) or ILS, the deal is high but still inline with existing launch deal. Arianespace made 6 launches in 2009 including ESA/research satellite... for a turnover of 1 Billion EUR. We could assume the price of a launch is around 100-200 MEUR... The SpaceX launch will include multiple satellite in one launch. So we are still at a comparable cost for the launch (especially knowing the insurance cost too...).
By that same logic, humanity is a virus.

Some people do bad things. Some of them don't even realize what they've done is bad.

Learn to protect yourself.
Six months from now. Just wait
> This is called competition. It's what you get with net neutrality.

You are stating that "Net Neutrality" will magically create competing ISPs in places where only a duopoly of <Cable Company> and <DSL Company> currently exist. Please explain to me how net neutrality will somehow affect things like local municipalities granting ISPs local monopolies. Or how "net neutrality" will allow new-comers to overcome the initial regulatory and capital investment hurdles to setting up a new ISP.

What you're missing is the "unbundling" is talking about forcing (e.g.) Comcast to lease it's "last-mile" lines out to competing ISPs. This means that competing ISPs don't need to invest in "last-mile" infrastructure. (If you don't understand what "last-mile" means, it would behoove you to look it up).

Net neutrality does play a part here in that if Comcast partners with Netflix, they could provide a better Netflix experience than a smaller ISP without bargaining power, but the lack of ISP competition is arguably a bigger problem and calling out "Net Neutrality" as the solution to all Internet connectivity woes doesn't help.
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You've never been unable to make a compelling offer to a candidate you've attracted to apply in the first place.

What about those you haven't?
So the thing is, I share your general opinion -- there is a legit shortage of talented developers, and it's hard to find them.

BUT: I guarantee you that there is in fact a wage and benefits package you can offer that would get you more good applicants. Maybe it's more money (sure, "above market" is nice, but I'm not going to leave a job for $5K more than my "market" rate -- but for $50K more, well, let's talk). Maybe it's perks and benefits (the Google package, for instance).

Whatever it is, there is absolutely money you can spend that would end up getting you noticeably more applicants one way or the other. That the company doesn't WANT to spend that money is exactly what bothers people.

And yes, yes, it's all well and good to say that developers are paid and treated well -- they are -- but if their talent and skill is really that rare and that in-demand, maybe they should be paid and treated even better.
Training is a big problem in tech. When I graduated college two years ago I couldn't find an entry level job anywhere. Every company wanted at least 1 year of experience. I finally found a place that would give me a shot but also massively underpaid me. Two years later and I am a dev lead on a major project and they are begging me to stay (although they refuse to give me more money). I'm actually getting calls from big valley companies that turned down my new grad app like nothing.

Why don't tech companies (or any company really) invest in their workers and help them attain new skills and career advancement?
Why? what people do not understand about automation is that it doesn't need to be perfect - just good enough.
Doctors make mistakes all the time, if say you replace doctors diagnostic duties with say IBM Watson MD then as long as he's just as bad as your average doctor it won't matter.
The big open question in automation whether it's in transportation or medicine is liability, but that something that insurance companies can solve easily between them selves :)
> don't bother looking around, the source code of this was never released

But the video like has a comment(1 week old) from Tavis Rudd linking github repository of his code : https://github.com/dictation-toolbox.

And about your setup, please do post it! :)
The only country that has ever used nuclear arms and that currently holds one of the largest stockpiles of nuclear weapons is not engaging in this diplomatic effort to further the interest of those that would like to see nuclear weapons disappear, they do so because they would like to maintain their edge.

One nuclear weapon is indeed almost as bad as all of them, imagine a nuke on Islamabad or New Delhi. In those places a single nuclear weapon could kill millions, and it would take a very large effort to add to the scale of devastation. 10 nuclear weapons on either the Pakistani or the Indian side used against the other could cause hundreds of millions of people to eventually die of the direct or indirect causes of the use of these weapons.

The US is like the parent that tells its children not to smoke because smoking is bad for your health but can not give up smoking themselves.

Pakistan already has all the nuclear weapons it needs, and so does India, and neither of those countries will give them up because of pressure from the US, they will only give them up because they themselves, together will decide that a nuclear stand-off is to nobodies benefit.
I'll be starting a monthly networking event for creative professionals shortly. I'll post a link here. if you add your email to profile I'll email you when it starts.
Hmm, not for me. I think things like paren-free function calls are awful for readability and

array.select &:even?

is far, far less clear to me than

filter(even, array)

Ruby just seems to have tons of unnecessary syntax, I guess.
When you comment that these cables are mundane in nature, you are assuming that you yourself are indicative of the audience as a whole. If you do not believe that millions upon millions of people will read this, you are mistaken. And many, if not the vast majority, of these readers will have previously been in the dark as to the information contained therein. So to them, this is not mundane; it's extraordinary.

Furthermore, all that we are reading right now are redacted and cherry picked summaries and analyses. Please wait for more data to be released before passing a quick, premature, unframed sigh against what is happening here.

We're at the beginning of this, not the end.
Assange has claimed he is about to release information that targets the Russian government and Russian businessmen (reported 10/26).
The thing is, even if he does release it, most Russian citizens won't hear about it or won't care. Anything even remotely incriminating published about Russian businessmen and I can tell you he will probably want to find a good hiding place.
What is interesting about this is not the damage it does, which will likely be minimal as it's really just embarrassing.

What's interesting is the look into the hidden minds of countries. I didn't know, for instance, that so many Arab countries urged US intervention in Iran, or that Israel has been monitoring Iran's nuclear program so closely--as indicated by their pressing warning that 2010 specifically is a key year.

Of course, everyone here knew or suspected China's dirty hands, but it's nice that this calls them out for it.

And it's funny to know exactly how little most countries seem to think of Europe's importance.
Why is a Harrier or a helicopter not a full aircraft? They certainly look and behave like aircraft.
Easy: GNU/Linux system are vastly less vulnerable than Windows systems, for at least 2 reasons. (1) Their users tend to actually know how computers work. Therefore they are far less vulnerable to mind attacks (such as hot_chick.jpg.exe). (2) They are more up to date. This is partly a consequence of 1 (users care about security patches), and of "piracy" (illegitimates copies of Windows tend to not be updated frequently).

Also, there are many GNU/Linux distributions out there. So, a security breach on one system may not be there on another. Plus, the virus has to be portable.

Anyway, this focus on viruses is probably misleading: GNU/Linux systems are attacked. Regularly. For instance, any new machine with an ssh login will log more than 500 login attempts a day before the end of the first week. Those attacks may just not attempt to install a virus. They do some other "interesting" stuff, though, like adding a web page at www.yoursite.com/secret-loc/gimme-credit-card-number.html, or sending spam.
If a rogue nuke goes off in Manhattan, you probably won't die (though fallout patterns are no one's friend), but your life will get measurably worse, guaranteed. The damage isn't just physical, it's psychological and economic, and the ripple effects will reach you, and they will be serious.

As far as making non-proliferation more difficult, this official documentation removes plausible deniability for several governments in condemning Iran's move towards nuclear weapons in private while remaining necessarily neutral in public. The effect isn't massive, but it is real, and it does matter.
The game design makes that much easier to do. WoW has 4 continents with no loading screen (except for moving into instanced dungeons or battlegrounds) on each continent. By contrast, EVE is split into several thousand star systems. So while WoW has to put each continent on its own server, EVE can be as granular as to put each star system on its own server (though they usually use virtualization to run dozens of systems on one machine).

That's why WoW has to be sharded - each shard can only be split into 4 servers, whereas EVE naturally splits up by solar system.
In your example, you've just paid for 3 unnecessary months of use between when you "decided it wasn't for you" and "changed your mind." In a subscription model, you'd just resubscribe.

I can understand your unease given how subscriptions have been abused by unscrupulous parties in the past, but there's much less friction in cancellation these days. Ultimately I'm just finding it hard to understand why you'd deliberately create a fixed cost for yourself. I'd rather have the ability to consume a product when I need, and pay for that and no more.
As per this link https://code.facebook.com/posts/1014532261909640/react-nativ..., wait can be longer.
Here is a talk by David Nolen comparing Scheme and Clojure (and my summary of it):

http://www.wedesoft.de/clojure-for-schemers.html
can we use Babel over the top of it?
I believe Rackjure [0] gives some of the particular conveniences of Clojure back to Racket.

[0] http://www.greghendershott.com/rackjure/
I don't think Go's developers are aware of "most" research in PL design. But that's true of most languages, really, there are a billion papers to read. I think people are frustrated by what research they chose to ignore, though... anyway, saying that OCaml and C++ are the only major languages to support structural typing is a bit silly, since a lot of other languages that are probably more popular than OCaml have it (like F# and Scala). And Go's variant of structural typing is pretty limited.
Thought experiment: if Lyft had a fleet of autonomous cabs called Lyftbot that was 10% cheaper, but not social, would anyone pay more for the "social experience" of a human cabby?

This feels like a feature from 2010 when every interaction was destined to become social. Social shopping, social search, social everything... until it wasn't.

I love Lyft and use it all the time. But it's there to get me to a destination. I enjoy chatting with the driver, but that's incidental. I hope they don't mess it up by forcing it to be more social than it need be -- let's call it "pulling a Google+."
Super! Hopefully React Native + Parse will become my "one ring to rule them all" for app development.
We gather around 20 nations under one roof - english is the main language.

We also offer german-courses for employees. And english for the germans ;)
> Uhh, if you base your SMS arguments from the U.S. outlook alone, you have clearly missed the point. The rest of the world has adapted to SMS much better than the U.S (well, the stupid charges here are to blame) and facebook clearly has a global outlook.

This is very true, I don't know if it is common knowledge inside the US but the rest of the world doesn't generally pay to recieve messages.
I am in India. And was not looking for tech support but you take on what to make of this. I never ask for tech support from a community which is not meant for this.
Huh. I thought it might end up being a link to my list here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...

I agree; it would be very useful to understand where that came from. Though it looks like someone may have taken my original data above and gone through to look up articles/information to flesh everything out? (Because they kept my placeholders, where I knew how many YC companies were in a class though some hadn't launched.)
No. It makes no sense to us. Regardless of how good one is, the amount of time & effort until he or she is productive is a waste IMHO. And working with SCRUM makes it even harder, as there are no idling side-projects one can place a student on and then look at occasionally. All devlopers need to be real team members.
My first thought was "maybe Ping needs Mark Zuckerberg"...
"Minority Report" interfaces look really cool when demoed, but I have yet to see a solution to gorilla arm syndrome. No matter how good the technology gets, nobody is going to want to wave their arms around in front of them for anything even close to "an extended amount of time".

This technology has a lot of potential, but this particular application is a dead end.
This is a terminology issue. It's true that NPR isn't "leftist" in the eyes of many people on the left who endorse socialism. However, NPR is definitely liberal, which leans left on cultural issues, and often centrist or slightly to the right on economic issues. The sterotypical upper-middle class, urban, liberal professional is always an NPR listener.

So I understand your disagreement: NPR is not generally going to criticize our system of capitalism. After all, many liberals - particularly the opinion-making elite - are thriving in this system.

But they will always approach cultural issues from the left liberal point-of-view. Recently, NPR Opinion has swung even more to the left: just listen to their afternoon talk shows. All Things Considered and Morning Edition have not gone as far, and are more center or center-left. Allsides, the media bias organization, agrees and rates NPR opinion as "Left" and NPR News as "Centrist":

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/
Keep it mind that without Covid there will be more death than in previous years. Baby boomers are dying.
It is already happening in Mexico (in GDL where I live at least): The city has been a "tech hub" for a good 10 to 15 years with growing presence of technology firms (Oracle, IBM, HP, Tata, HCL, Cognizant, Intel, plus several small startups), paying roughly 1/3rd of the price per talent. In the last year, we have seen an increasing number of employees moving to remote jobs for American companies that decide to pay 1/2 the price per talent. This is a lot of money for locals and still a 50% saving for US companies.

The bad thing is that, the start-up culture that was being formed here is starting to disappear. I know several CTO or CEOs friends who lost developers because they cannot compete with those salaries (paying in USD) when they are charging in MXN.
Can you or someone else recommend any resources on the knowledge engine/"Wolfram alpha" architecture and how it differs from a traditional inverted index style search engine?
> I'm doing everything with shaders... upporting a wide range of hardware (especially old one that nobody has anymore), is not easy.

What about adding just an option (e.g. `re3 --no-shaders`) for may it possible run re3 even on older hardware by disabling most of decorative shaders?
>> binding issues, in code, when you modify or add columns.

This is very common IME, and it is a very bad code smell. It tends to break things very low in the architecture, so even capturing the error makes the application essentially not work in a fundamental way.
Understandable to disagree, you're not gonna learn to drive a car or do calculus or speak another language from the head of a pin. Nevertheless, I think there's a valuable philosophical perspective in it.
> So sounds like something you can do with ARM, which you can't with x86.

There's not reason why Intel couldn't, but they don't have the incentive to hyper-optimize frequently used Apple workloads like Final Cut Pro.
Firefox has hundreds of developers. I don’t understand why performance isn’t on par with Chrome. I try my best to use Firefox to bring support, but sometimes I just have to switch back when things get too laggy.

I’m sorry, but I only have 8 hours a day, and I’m not going to let my productivity flow get ruined.
Apple has its own ad network, not collecting and using as much user data, but it does see to retarget and have conversion tracking.

Will they put the consent pop up on App Store and News?
Yeah, that's why I tried to pick the closest Greek has to a y sound, which I think (I only know a bit of GCSE ancient greek from 30 years ago) is upsilon. If I'd read it as the letter that looks most like a y it would have been "actmallg" (gamma).
My Windows 10, fresh install, did not.
The poster you're replying to did not say that AMZN/GOOG/AAPL wouldn't spy on you, they simply stated that evidence should be considered to justify claims, especially if you're trying to spread those claims to other people. Your argument "we should sound alarms without evidence because tomorrow we'll have evidence" is classic conspiracy theory reasoning, which is why people will classify you as one. In essence, we shouldn't throw people in jail for crimes they haven't committed yet.