jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's not the billionaire's beach. He has no legal right to the beach front which is guaranteed as public by California law. I don't think your second point is reflective of this situation and I think your first is only somewhat reflective of the formerly public road.
This is why I don't carry a debit card tied to my main bank account. Just a "ATM only" account that I keep low.
What is this, an article for ants?
It's interesting how social convention itself causes some social media problems to not arise. Despite its infamy for being a spammy place of careerist self-promotion, LinkedIn doesn't suffer from any of the problems of these other social networks, simply because it isn't designed for that context. I've seen some terrible low quality content posts on LI, but even at its worst, they are simply asinine life/career inspirational thinkpieces intended for a professional audiene. Not dissimilar to low quality on Quora. Yet both places host material that have a general higher standard than on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter.
And you can take this question further. What about artificial mind that far exceeds human mind? Copyright is about incentives. I.e. it gives the author incentive to create, at the cost for society, that limited monopoly is granted to the author (for a moment, let's disregard the absurd length it got stretched to today, and take it at what it's supposed to be).

If that artificial mind doesn't need such incentive and can create a lot more than normal human would very easily, I'd say in such case copyright shouldn't apply as well.
I don't use Pylons or Pyramid (a child of/successor to Pylons) because I hate SQLAlchemy with a fiery passion.
if pki alone is at the core of their infrastructure problems, and the key is in the chip, this may well be what they have to do. however i don't know that this is entirely because their public key infrastructure.
It also says it might have been, which is much more worrying to me than the lack of evidence; because before this sony had no evidence that their network was compromised.

This whole thing seems like a great example of incompetence.
The function of HR in a business is to keep employee costs down.

I imagine that a lot of HR do think this, but I think it's an oversimplification of their duty that compromises the interests of the company. I wouldn't go so far as to say that HR's overall mission is fiduciary.
Sure, you raise good points!

I'm also in doubt whether to put more work on it or leave it as it is.
They sued Barnes and Noble over their "Express Checkout" option right after they got the 1-Click patent. Settled privately, though.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1017-854105.html
Not that I don't agree with some of the points raised, but the article's purpose is to be a refutation to this claim:

There are genius programmers who write Lisp,
and Lisp may suit them well. But these same folks
would also be able to accomplish amazing things in
other languages.

Languages and tools are not created equal, but the author assumes he's one of those geniuses, which may not be the case.

Extraordinary developers do extraordinary things, regardless of the tools used. Here's an example, using as reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)#Early_history

The development of Git began on April 3, 2005. The project was announced on April 6, and became self-hosting as of April 7. The first merge of multiple branches was done on April 18. Torvalds achieved his performance goals; on April 29, the nascent Git was benchmarked recording patches to the Linux kernel tree at the rate of 6.7 per second.

And here's the kicker: Linus would probably be more productive in LISP, but would he bring more value to the world? Probably not, as churning out code is not Linus' strength -- he outcompetes everyone by superior design, by pragmatism and by being a good team-leader.

That's the type of developer I admire -- people that kick-ass in bringing value and making sacrifices is part of that. Sometimes you have the luxury of picking up a new language (Ruby) and invent a new web framework with it (Rails), sometimes you don't. Either way, code talks bullshit walks (so to speak).
You buy insurance mostly to protect against costs that are expensive and unlikely to happen. The article points out that in New York, which has a lot of Zipcar customers, 3 percent of bodily injury liability insurane claims are over $300,000. So although no Zipcar rental has yet resulted in such a claim, it still seems like something worth insuring against.
Correction, this is how an engineer does pizza:

http://www.robotfoodtech.com/content/pizza/en
My user number is 64275[1] (I think) and yet when I put that in the text box I still do not see my (pathetic) 271 reputation.

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[edit]: scratch that -- it's working now. Thanks so much.
Your argument seems backwards. The reason Wikileaks and Assange have been plastered all over everything is that there is a huge demand for information about them. There is no doubt that Time could have created a lot more interest and controversy and by extension sold more issues (thereby pleasing advertisers more) if they had been honest and ethical and put Assange on their cover, but evidently they have other priorities.
Something that I think a lot of people don't realize about YC is that it's not very fun. Don't get me wrong, I have a lot of great YC memories, but the pressure was enormous. We had yet to raise and so we were operating on shoestring. My co-founder and I fought more during YC than any other time, before or after (and often over nonsensical and petty stuff).

That being said, you don't go through YC because it's fun. You go through it because it's good for your company. It gave us exposure to investors who probably wouldn't have given two first-time-entrepreneur yokels from Minnesota the time of day. We met a lot of people who had been through the pain of building a company before.

More than anything YC forced us to take a hard look at our company and a hard look at ourselves and decide that we could do this thing even when it wasn't always fun.
I second that.

You really have a flair of explaining such complex issues in understandable prose.
gmail actually will attempt to unsubscribe you automatically when you mark a newsletter as spam, sometimes.

screenshot: http://imgur.com/HqbVm

so it seems they are trying to solve this problem in a more complete way then filtering the mail thru personal mail filters.
Wow. I hadn't seen OpenResty before, but I don't think I could bear to fight through that website to get to information.
The elections were certified. Not just by the media, also by the courts. Many of them, including the supreme court, have heavy republican representation. If there was any credible reason to doubt the results these Republican officials - many of them outspoken Trump supporters - would have considered it. This isn't about wanting people to feel secure about the election, it's about yelling and screaming until they get the results they want.
Based on the article it doesn’t sound like you couldn’t make that much, as long as you convinced the boss it was a good investment, and then made sure it was.

And on 1099 you can have as many clients as you want.

I can understand why someone would pass, but within its own context it doesn’t sound like a bad deal to me, particularly for people who for whatever reason don’t need to bill that high.
The ANTIFA CEO is sitting in his fortified command center underneath the Appalachian Mountains as we speak, cackling and torturing a Trump supporter to death for not calling xir by the proper pronouns. Our joke of a liberal government is doing nothing to eliminate this dangerous threat to our guns and precious, precious strip malls.
It’s a very high deductible plan ($13.6K) but otherwise had no problems with provider coverage. I’m in WA and the insurer is Molina. Found it through the ACA marketplace.
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>Less start-ups overall would increase the amount of great programmers available

Sure, kill the innovation. Don't start many startups.
Hilarious.
As the comments point out, the tablet has a windows logo at the bottom... so it runs ubuntu (like any rooted tablet, I guess), but it probably isn't an "ubuntu tablet" per se...
The quality of the output is quite good, considering the intermediate representation. Also, I am totally blown away that there are Lua and CPython demos.
1. I stop working on them when they aren't fun, interesting or rewarding.

2. I structure them in sprints.

3. I have a clear life cycle for them (plan, implement, promote, evaluate) that feeds into 1 and 2 .

This means that it always feels possible and rewarding to work on projects. Hack your limbic system! ;-)
I'm not a lawyer but I know if you rent an apartment, there are cases when your landlord can let the police into your apartment without a warrant.
Try this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niaGh5Jx_Oo
I'd say 45, assuming the side length is an integer.
NJ Transit too. Likewise, really hope they don't shut down until Apple integrates their functionality.

I mean, they don't need constant connections to servers or anything, but they do need to update their schedules every so often. I don't know if they download from Embark servers, or if it's directly from transportation sites, but I would suspect the former.
Just about any store in the USA can ban customers for non-discriminatory reasons. For example, if you go to a restaurant, start swearing at the servers, throwing your food, and misbehaving, you'll quickly find yourself banned from the location.

I think it varies by state, but as long as the banning isn't because you're part of a protected class[1], a private establishment can refuse service for any reason it sees fit, including none at all.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_class
Your proof seems to only prove that a finite number of programs (described by you) which can produce a finite number of irrational numbers, while there are infinite number of irrational numbers.

But we're surely not talking about a finite number of programs.

I'm not even sure what the Kolmogorov complexity of a "complex irrational number" means. If you need the sequence of digits and you cannot use an algorithm to produce the digits, then the complexity is infinite?
icc does this, as an example. It got Intel into trouble because they changed the compiler at one point to use the slowest path on AMD processors.
I carried a pager for a short while, pager, remember those? On-call weeks were hell, even when nothing happened. It's the expectation of getting the call, and the expectation that a system outside your primary domain of expertise will be down. I wasn't paid enough to weather the stress, and I don't think there's a hard number to suit every one. If I ever had input to how an on-call rotation should be handled, I'd make it a pair of on-call persons. They'd switch off as they please, but there will always be 2 persons coordinating the response. One person could come in, with the other person on the phone, or both.

It's the loneliness. Somewhere in this vast organization connected with pipes that no one single person has put together, some element would break. Mercifully the impact ripples and you kinda know about the subsystems to track down the leak and patch it up and alert the domain owners for the next working day. You're the person they're going to call, there's no cavalry, it's you looking at incomprehensible gibberish while the rest of the world is asleep. Even the desk who has called you doesn't get involved, they're done. For me, the idea that it's just me until it's fixed (or degrades further), was the hardest thing to cope with.

I'd pair up my ideal on-call team. It'll cost more, but I'll pay it.

Incidentally pagers are still being carried in SCIFs, where there are no mobiles and sometimes no outside line.
> to believe that we can come up with something better in a short time span is naive at best

We do already have carbon capture systems that are more effective per unit area than plants at capturing carbon.

I say this as someone biased in the opposite direction, forest ecology is my career!
I think there are some strong reasons to want marketers to generally be less able to track our online activity and for fingerprinting of the style of Google Analytics or Facebook to not exist but Google is just one participant in this activity, it's particularly ironic that Google Analytics is working to actively counter the work of the Chrome team's incognito mode but I would only really be concerned if those two teams colluded to give Google Analytics a competitive advantage.

I do generally think it's quite fair to view Alphabet as an unreasonably large company that needs to be subjected to anti-trust laws - there are many companies with far too broad a breadth of market control in the modern world. So maybe that's the better tactic, actually dust off our anti-trust laws and break up some of these tech giants.
Er, you are saying that it should do something other than what it does, and then also be called something else. Incognito perfectly describes what it actually does today.
> shit on geniune development and call it crap.

That "genuine development" you talk about is over 140 years old. In fact the very first cars in mass use were electric and it was only later ICE cars became more popular due their advantages (back then).

It's not a new or even great development at all if nothing changes in the end - you still need to build these cars, old ICE cars won't just disappear either - they'll be shipped to poorer countries in turn increasing their air pollution and need for infrastructure.

So instead of viewing my point as "shitting on things", how about refuting it with counter facts instead? Like, how is it better to still rely on individual transport, huge wasted areas due to sealed natural ground for roads and parking spaces, the inefficiency of urban sprawl and ridiculous zoning laws which necessitates cars in the first place, deaths and injuries from car accidents, etc. etc.?

Electric cars are like treating symptoms instead of the cause and the treatment basically just trades one symptom (air- and noise pollution) for another (need for more infrastructure) while leaving others untouched (roads, parking spaces, cities built for cars not humans, etc.) and celebrating them as a solution to environmental problems is... very irritating, to say the least.
For machines that never leave their normal network, changing it to reduce the risk of detection is one step in many compromises.

We already use configuration management to do manage resolv.conf; any other method of modification is noncompliant. So this is just more at-best-wasteful cruft to strip out.

More generally, why make this a daemon? There is zero reason for it to be resident other than on network changes. Should we have dedicated daemons for /etc/hosts, ldap.conf, and nsswitch.conf, too? How about inittab?
For a normal exchange yes, but for a Bitcoin exchange the long term revenue is going to depend on future interest in Bitcoin which is highly correlated to current price
Yeah, that was a weird one that had no commentary about the sardines which most people would've been curious about. Instead they mention Jackie Chan multiple times and he needs no explanation!
"Unfortunately, that place needs to be immovable"

No, it merely needs to be of sufficient mass. As a practical strategy for moving the earth, this would clearly be infeasible, but, strictly speaking, I don't think that it is impossible.
Have you seen this? http://www.airbnb.com/groups/coworking
If Obama were the sort of guy who would even remotely consider messing with the oil industry, he would not be in the oval office right now.

Similarly if he were the sort of guy who would even remotely consider pulling out of Iraq he would not be in the oval office right now.

It's important to realize how much intrenched power the oil industry has and to what extent it is able to influence policy. Obama will dish out a lot of tough talk and fines to BP, but he won't mess with the industry as a whole by enacting meaningful reforms.
I was barely 19 when my oldest daughter was born. While her mom and I were never married, I made a decision early on that I was always going to be part of her life and try and provide for her. That meant I had to stop playing baseball. It meant I had to work full-time and only go to college part-time. When her mom moved to the mid-west, I had to spend every extra dollar flying to visit her or flying her back to CA to visit me.

She's almost 16 now and I couldn't be more proud of her. She's smart and we have a great relationship. My company has done well enough that I can fly to her or she can fly to me any time. My wife and her have a great relationship (they are almost like sisters) and my younger daughters adore her.

Even though we never lived together all the time, I feel we have a better relationship than many fathers/daughters do. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if I hadn't made the effort.

Good post.
What's the high-level reason for such a big discrepency between WebKit browsers? E.g. I'm confused why some would have :nth-child support and other wouldn't. Do all these companies have their own local forks? Are some using old versions of WebKit?
Be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.
What is such a theorem prover? I'm interested in it for trying to prove properties of my own programs...
iperf (on Windows, jperf)
To be honest, this is one of the results of accepted and encouraged copyright infringement over the past 15 years.

By taking away the rights of the copyright holders (IE: copying software freely without permission), they were forced to come up with something that can't be copied: software-as-a-service.
If you're a Rails developer, you probably have a config/initializers/backtrace_silencers.rb file in your app. Think of James the next time you see that file. He wrote the initial implementation:

http://jamesgolick.com/2007/12/1/noisy-backtraces-got-you-do...

DHH later ported the work to Rails:

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f42c77f927eb49b00e84d3...

I knew James mostly online and a little in person from various programming conferences. He was smart, funny, and kind. He made a difference. He will be missed.
"... I am wondering if anyone has any good ideas for how to be productive in those short windows. ..."

Simple timer (loud). Set for 30 minutes. Work like hell.
Ruthlessly prioritize and learn to say no. As a PM, it's very easy to have your time eaten up by unimportant but seemingly urgent activities. Keep and prioritize a backlog not just for your team, but for yourself as well.
Yeah, in a very limited set of circumstances, and still with a pretty significant miss rate.

But the day will come when the machines are near-perfect.

And people already trust computers more than they did in the 70s. Perhaps not if you ask them directly, but the reality is that they do, with many areas of their lives, and without a second thought.
Hmm, been testing something similar, AIMSICD from the FDroid store, in Berlin, London and Dublin in the past month and no hits. I find this strange and not believable.
Thanks for the great info. That was the part I couldn't figure out from the article or the specs.
If $100M were on the line you'd get a mess that met your requirements.

If I wanted good code, I'd take guys who worked on a project for free.
Unfortunately, open source tends to be better at Battlestar and less bad at Gunsmoke.

Volunteers just aren't going to get excited about the task of updating a knowledge base every year for the new tax code; it's generally more exciting to do something that's new.

Now, you could say that Linux is more like Gunsmoke, in fact, it's more like Gunsmoke than Windows or Mac OS X is -- and because an operating system is something that you depend on day in and day out, an OS ~should~ be like Gunsmoke. Linux, however, is an unusual case. Today Linux development is dominated by a few big corporations that either sell Linux commercially (Red Hat) or that decided that, by contributing to Linux, they could have a better Unix than they could develop in house (IBM)
Bad illustration in the video, Sarkozy has never been Prime Minister of France (he is the President of the Republic, which is quite different).
If by "almost" you mean "over twice as big", sure. (I happen to have an HDMI connector sitting next to my MBP's Thunderbolt (nee Mini-DisplayPort) port.

Edit: They have "mini-HDMI" out, which is an entirely different beast than the mini-HDMI adapters included on many Android smartphones. A mini-HDMI port would require similar adapters to connect to anything useful.

A normal "type-A" HDMI port is a sizeable connector, larger than a USB port.
The amounts don't have to be equal. You just had to show that you were participating (with about $5/mo.) before they would send you strangers' money :)
Yes, that was for the people that would be interested.
As I said, I'm not talking about guilt, or blame (and I'm certainly not advocating for ritual suicide); I'm talking about what could be done to change the causal factors that lead to harmful events. All of your comments are basically pointing out particular facts that are relevant to assessing those causal factors.
Here is an interesting video describing a model of the spread of radiation from the Fukushima plant over the next 10 years. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it's an interesting watch nonetheless (and under 3 minutes):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAU00aL-_ic
As far as "does it EVER work" concerned: it does. It doesn't work well though. Most people can run, doesn't mean that most people can run as fast as Usain Bolt.

More at
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/502995/offshoring-does-it...

Amongst other things, writing killer software depends on two pre-conditions:

- Intimate knowledge of the domain, being at ease with the tools, identifying yourself as part of the group people (field) working in the domain. This is enabling factor.

- External pressure or demand on the domain to change. This is a motivating factor.

Outsourcing more often than not gets it exactly the other way round:

- Outsourced organisations are not exposed to the natural external pressure or demand exerted on the domain, they do not identify with the domain. Instead the motivation is extrinsic: KPI’s, money and formal contracts.In other worlds they don't feel the users' pain.

- External teams lack intimate state-of-art knowledge of the domain due to informational asymmetry; they don’t directly work in the domain but provide services to the domain. That is to say they are less able to push state-of-art forward, but would rather produce more of the same. Due to the lack of information they work in a permanent haze, not being sure what the valid thing is and this creates a lot of unease, reduces amount of positive risk taking, and cripples creativity. Real advantages that software brings to the table in any business is through gains in effectivness not efficacy.
While the entire media industry has been trying to figure out the secret sauce to getting users to pay for content, AT&T went ahead and did it ... other people's content.
Why all the down votes? If these ideas are flawed why not explain it? How are ideas for the application of magnetic fields not in the spirit of hn?
It's not only the funding; it's largely controlled by Congress as well. Congress dictates what routes it has to operate, on what terms it has to operate them, and virtually everything else that the supposed "company" does. It not being a government agency is a pretty thin fiction.
The use of facial expressions is also incredibly important in ASL.