jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When appeling to authority, could you provide any sources that have not been written by yourself?
If you feel this way, you must be young. I really encourage you to keep a brief chronology of names and events that are important to you. You will forget them decades from now and wish you’d written them somewhere.
Government doesn't have some magic basket of their own money. It all comes from the people.
Want to watch, without an unskippable commercial or two in front, and without commercials in the middle interrupting the video?

yt-dl.
Physical get togethers in a remote-first company means I have to travel for that get together. I live in a rural area with no direct flights to anywhere other then major airline hubs, so now I have a layover somewhere and it’s basically an entire day of traveling to go anywhere. That’s 2 days travel for the round trip.

Since it’s so much work to get everyone together, might as well make a week out of it. So that’s 3 working days plus the 2 travel days. It’s not unlikely one of those working days is going to be a ‘fun’ event day to make it all ‘worth it’ for people to travel- meaning just 2 productive working days.

So a week of working 24 hour days (if I’m not at home with my family then it’s work), for perhaps 2 or 3 productive days. Considering I’m not traveling an entire day, I’m looking at at 96 hour week for maybe 16-24 hours worth of productive time.

I get that we are not robots and being on a team is a very social activity- but I am entirely against traveling. We’ve had some really fun remote game-days during work hours and setting aside time to chat with team members is fun too. Please don’t make me travel and waste all the time away from my family and loved ones.
> there are other creative ways to compensate (stock, etc.)

People need to eat, lol.
Sport managers, model managers, music managers, film star managers... There are few job titles that has such a rich history of abuse. It almost seems that in every case we hear about a manager it is how they are abusing someone. Maybe this is a job that governments should start to regulate more heavily in order to prevent abuse.
If you're not limited to a bike, Concept 2 rowing machines are great.
Re typo: You're welcome.

Re the other: I think they feel it's contradictory for you to say that you're uncommitted to any particular language while at the same time specifically saying that you'd like a job programming in Haskell. I can see how someone might feel that there's a tension between those two assertions, but I don't see it as contradictory, nor as implying that the "About" needs modification.

It was probably just a throw-away comment, and not really worth close analysis.

<shrug>
Have you tried getting up earlier (and going to sleep earlier) to save your best hours in the morning for your own work? It's easier said than done, especially if you have family to take care of, but it's the go-to solution recommended by past HN users for getting personal work done when the workplace is exhausting.
Python is AMAZING and Awesome TILL You want to spread what you are doing to more then one computer. Though I have to say I love domain specific languages and personal enjoy Racket as my most fun language to use. It is sad that this has gotten so much worse over the years.
Okay, which ex-Yahoo employee was it?
I took one of these offers and am glad I did. I took an hourly pay cut of like 36% assuming 40 hour weeks which is about accurate, though I generally go slightly over.

However, I wasn't/am not a well known hot shot. I didn't graduate college (dropped out of a comp sci program 7 years prior), and all my 'experience' was a hand full of projects for local businesses and organizations. I was not even close to being able to simply pick my work or expect to bill 30+ hours a week regularly.

Now, 6 months into working full time in an understaffed department and taking on unexpected responsibilities I feel an order of magnitude more able to potentially sell myself or an idea to a business as I had always thought in terms of people before.

I've learned a ton, I make more money, and I don't think about work 120+days a year. There are definite downsides too..
Using KeePass + Dropbox + local copies of the passwords db makes it so that even if Dropbox goes out of business, you'll still have your database. Dropbox and KeePass (well at least variants thereof) all run on Linux, OSX, Windows, and Android. On the issue of computers not owned by you, you shouldn't be entering your passwords on untrusted computers to begin with, but if you must, KeePass works right off a USB drive.

> Many accounts I couldn't care less if they got compromised; they get the same password as each other, which is still complex.

Sign up on mywebsite.example. I now have the password to (depending on what accounts you couldn't care less about) your Facebook, Twitter, Hacker News, etc. accounts and can ruin your reputation by spreading false information.
a binary driver blob can do a better job at backdooring. or even dare to say, the hardware, network card, may have already had one built into it at the factory. i vote for a mostly fudd value of this info.
Nope, his ability to fight _was_ superior. He used every advantage possible while staying within the rules of the game. That's how competitive games are played.
More importantly, why? If governments are doing their jobs and serving whom they are meant to serve, people as a collective group are well cared for and have no reason to do such harm to themselves. The few who would threaten it are the odd pathogen, quickly and easily dealt with.

OTOH I can see people as a collective group deciding they don't need large corporations like Bayer killing their bees, Monsanto poisoning their food, Visa and MC ripping them off and suppressing speech of those they don't like, etc. But are any of those essential and vital? Perhaps these are more like a cancer that should be removed from the body politic.

TL;DR Anonymous doesn't shit where Anonymous eats.
In this context (key derivation), repeatedly applying a computationally expensive function is apropriate and standard practice. It's called "key stretching".

See the PBKDF2 algorithm for a standardised example.
The reasons why these languages are created is because they are meant to solve your problem the correct way.

Java is a scalable language, for example, and using it correctly makes a good programmer. This goes for every language, whether it's C, Python, Javascript, ect. Good programmers know a wide variety of languages and when it comes to 'Omega' I think it's the combination of the languages used what they are meant for.
Where are the solutions? That's the fun thing about Perl golf is seeing how people did it in X characters. Without solutions...well, I don't see the point.
The animations subtract value because they waste the only thing that matters in life: time. I don't have an iPhone, but I assume most of the animations are mandatory, and that is completely aweful.
It just got approved! Yay!
Some more details: http://nypost.com/2015/01/20/why-take-a-taxi-to-the-airport-...

> Gotham’s going rates are higher than the initial $99. After the introductory flight, prices will range from $199 to $219, depending on the time of day and the airport, Hayes said, adding that the choppers will depart from three Gotham Air terminals in Manhattan.
Except when I clear my cookies (rare), or use a different browser or computer (often). Also, I'll forget the password unless I reuse one I type more often, but password reuse is bad. Better for NYTimes to "get over it" and stop with the registration wall.
People can disagree on the precise definition of terminology, which is why, in any serious discourse, you have to define things before you begin discussion. The great thing about Haskell (or any programing language) is that you really have to define things. Jargon doesn't compile.

Nevermind the "real" definition of this or that esoteric concept. If you ask N category theorists you'll get N answers. Just import one that works for you and you're off.

What seems to have gotten this fellow is that either the definitions in the Prelude/libraries didn't match his expectation, or (more likely) he was surprised by the inconsistencies between GHC and GHCi (which I also find annoying.)
Every time I see that thing, I want to take a huge chunk of prime numbers and write code to visualize them in different ways as quickly as possible. How do they look if you put them in, say, a hexagonal grid instead of a square one? Do patterns emerge if you draw them on a Hilbert curve? A 3D Hilbert curve? 4D? Has anyone tried these? Am I crazy for wanting to? Why are the ducks watching me?
They clearly stated that Lamo's recent allegations were included in the chat logs, and that the NYT piece that Glenn quoted got that wrong.
Yes, I think that there are significant cultural and economic differences and it is quite complex, and of course dollars spent on eduction doesn't equal dollars spent on teachers.

A hypothesis: In a social democracy like Finland, you will probably join the large middle class. So when you choose your desired vocation before university you may be more likely to apply your excellent skillset to teaching rather than something else, as that's what you want to do and are suited for, and you'll probably earn close to everyone else anyway.

In some other countries, you may try to get in to law/medicine/business first, and use teaching as a fallback as it is much lower paid. The net result is that teaching can be seen as a second choice profession and not valued as highly socially. Saying "I'm a teacher" at the barbeque sends a signal that you maybe didn't do so well at school as you wanted, and got your second choice at uni.

I know of a couple of data points where this is true in Aus (and also where it is not), but I don't know if it is really widespread. Just a thought.
I'm not sure what to think of these articles from Salon and Wired. Greenwald did have one question, that remains unanswered as far as I know. Why did Manning contact Lamo?
Confidence may come gradually but it can vanish very suddenly.

If a number of investors have enough invested in the system that their investment become worth more to them than maintaining the bitcoin system and some event decreases the confidence in the system, then those investors will attempt to "liquidate" their holdings. Whether they succeed or fail, the impact on the system will likely be terminal since there wouldn't be any entity ready to step in and buy unwanted bitcoins.
Currently, TLS/SSL consumes an IP address for every secure web site. Does anybody think we will see virtual hosting of HTTPS using the UPGRADE method? Or will IPv6 win out before this becomes necessary?
> Also any financial/credit problems in history will probably ruin your chances (more susceptible to blackmail I was told).

I don't get that. Why blackmail? I would assume that they feel people with financial issues are more susceptible to bribes to make their financial woes go away. Blackmail is just odd though. I wouldn't necessarily broadcast my financial woes to the world, but "Steal some Top Secret documents or we'll tell the world that you're in massive debt" wouldn't have any leverage with me (and I assume this is the same for most people).

The world knowing that you're in debt is probably too small of a carrot to have someone take the risk of leaking documents/information.
The part about E.Coli in burger reminds me of a very unfortunate state of affair. I like my burgers rare, they just taste much better this way. I eat them that way because at my age (32) the risk isn't too great.

There is a way to make ground beef extremely safe for consumption, without cooking it to oblivion (a.k.a FDA guidelines). That technique is irradiation. Unfortunately, people are very squeamish about the idea of having their meat irradiated, and mandatory labeling laws mean that it's very hard to find irradiated meat.

As a result, people get into the habit of eating overcooked burgers, which further reduces the potential demand for irradiated meat, etc. Shame :(
Cross platform? I don't believe it but it would be a smart move by Microsoft. Firefox is my browser because I can use it on any of my devices (Android, Linux, and Windows) and sync them. Mozilla respecting my privacy and promoting an open Internet is also a biggie for me.

Sorry MS, I stopped using IE like during the XP years...
Rather than focus on 100% plant based burgers I think we could go a long way by replacing say 10% of the meat with plants and working your way up. The goal being a small enough change that you don't notice a difference.
The worst that could have happened was that you talked yourself out of automating it because there wasn't an 'easy way'
Will it need or run ActiveX controls?
Not sure about that being feasible to detect things of that nature with this system. For example you can build a mini quadcopter (size of a bird) weighing 5-800gms that can provide 2+KG of thrust. Back of the napkin math says a 400gm m67 grenade is easily within the payload capacity (Assuming 70% throttle to hover all up payload would be 1400+-gms). I would be very impressed if this could differentiate "bird sized flying objects" from birds. With that in mind I think we can be glad that complicated plots of that nature stay in the realm of James Bond rather then reality. Also I think the Boston bombings show that bad people don't need complicated technology to do bad things.
They actively sought it out, it's not like a foreign power spent years trying to convince them.
I only watched the first guy - the article author - and yes he asked about the drone program and the drug war, specifically how it targets and incarcerates minorities. I think he got the usual politically safe non-answers back, but don't try and claim they didn't ask.
It's worth noting that things like print and random are just as much side effects as mutability. To eliminate random is easy: realize that random generation is a function from a hidden random generator state to a "random" value and a new random generator state. Now use state-minimization techniques.

To eliminate print is much harder.
Agriculture may be wise in the short term, but as soon as the pathways are elucidated we will be able to produce synthetic opioids through recombinant DNA synthesis.
It's not yet a big success or a big failure (it's still seed- or angel-stage, I think), but my friend Seema is the cofounder and CEO of http://interbots.com/

My contact info is in my profile if you want an introduction.
I don't think anyone's going to pay me the salary I expect to wait tables.

I'd much rather live in Harlem than Omaha or Frankfurt. Culture and metropolitanism are far more important to me than the amount of pigment in my immediate neighborhood, and it's very safe these days.

Your definitions of civilized are an opinion. The citizens of Mecca think you're uncivilized for a number of reasons, and I think you're uncivilized for others.

Anyways, I'm just thankful that most people don't think like you do -- I certainly wouldn't want to be lumped into the same category as you for the crime of (presumably) sharing a pigment level. People might conclude it's the natural state of white people to be deliberately ignorant about everything except their own little suburban town in rural America.
Thanks for the tip about Phonebooth, just signed up. My favorite feature about GV is that I can see that the call is being fwd (I know its not a personal call to my cell) and then I can answer accordingly.

This feature is a must-have for me, as I would prefer not to answer every call with my business tag line :)
Reported attack page...
We have a very complex SQL database that we use to keep track of patient data (we are a healthcare company) but to access most of the data for reporting purposes we still have to use Excel and pivot tables.

I'd love to find a better solution but excel so far is still the cheapest/easiest to train.
It's never going to happen, and you already know why: http://office.microsoft.com/access/
For application requirements, we (Braintree) work with Visa, MasterCard and the sponsoring banks to make sure that all our merchants are in compliance. There are other payment providers that will turn a blind eye to these requirements in addition to postponing proper due diligence and underwriting until it's a problem for a merchant. We regularly have merchants approach us that are in some sort of bind (e.g. violation of card association rules, account was frozen / shut down) because their previous payments provider didn't do things correctly. The payments industry is very complex with a lot of layers and nuances. We try our best to do things right even if it means more upfront effort.

An example: "With increased revenue, the merchant bank became concerned with the increase in liability. So, the bank closed the merchant account." And because they couldn't get their credit card data back, they had to ask all their customers to enter their payment information again. http://blog.recurly.com/2010/05/credit-card-portability/

Additional Info:

http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/...

http://whiteelephantmedia.com/

http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/paypal-reserve...
I put it at the bottom of the post and if I decided to do something with it, I'd do a more focused ask hn post. Here's a video of what my last startup built, but never released. Ironically I think it solves some of the problems defined in the post. Would this be useful? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl4cJNdizA
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How about the differences with Germany?
It's a https url. Check the source:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/app/pr...
Only on HN does one discuss quantum entanglement and self-identify as a “layperson”... at the same time :-)
I get the sense that a better solution would be to make home ownership as simple as renting. A few ideas:

- One page contract

- Ban loans for private home ownership (or socialize them but you would have to do that in a a very particular manner)

- No property taxes for up to two homes
Probably better end user tools. Better software, microphones, cameras, situational awareness.

I can do everything remote, but 30% is slower because the tools get in the way. In my team, things are arguably better. Crossing team boundaries sucks.
I was comparing the current situation with the state where everyone is forced to stay at home. Right now, everyone is not forced to stay at home. If you're saying that the current situation is closer to everyone staying at home than to business as usual, you're probably right.

However, where I live, a majority of the restaurants are open (just doing drive through). Tutoring is possibly something that can be done online. I've known many high quality tutors running business entirely from home. Theater techs, social workers, and other similar jobs probably make up a very small fraction of the workforce compared to restaurant, retail (I believe the majority of retail stores in my area are open), and grocery workers. So I still think the current situation can give us a decent idea of what driving volume and pollution levels will look like in a situation where people that can work from home do so. The current situation is definitely biased towards less driving though.
I’ve noticed the master software engineers around me tend to have a particular acute sense for naming things, as if after living with and mastering the universe of abstractions around their craft they’ve embraced the linguistic dimension of the work, minimizing cognitive load and aligning execution with intent.

There’s no sense in work cultures I’ve experienceD that engineers should take in documenting their work individually, but having code do what it says on a deep level promotes, ah, grok-ability. But maybe leaving at that leads us inevitably to flawed self-documentation.
Why don't you just walk around instead of all that driving?
I understand that Brave is supposed to show the affiliate disclaimer. Which they should.

But is etoro an illegal company?
It's a false choice. Allowing a pandemic to run rampant would wreck the economy for a lot longer than an effective lockdown. Especially now that a lot of younger people are showing up in ICUs.

China is already done with the hard part. Lock down, get the virus under control, make a lot of test kits, and before long you can rely on mass screening, contract tracing, and targeted isolation, and get people back to work.
That requires "just compensation".
How so? The vote differential from FL was clearly within the margin of error of the counting methods, but that only suggests the possibility of a counting error, not a steal.
From what I understand nobody signed the affidavits. Once there was a legal consequence to lying they all backed out. This might have changed later, but was true of the original 40some lawsuits that were filed.
>the shoulder of major highways

As was discussed a bit last time this story came up, one of the issues is that especially in the West a lot of the best passes through mountain ranges already have major roads and/or rail on them. You might have secondary forest roads/4WD roads and trails but those probably aren't great for any distance biking. So, for example, you do see cyclists on I think I-80 in California which goes over the Donner Pass.
Declaring things "treason and insurrection" and then proceeding to summary execution sounds more like a tyrannical dictatorship than a free Republic. The protesters shouldn't be doing this, but that doesn't mean our police forces should start slaughtering our citizens.
we aren't talking credit card gift cards (i.e. visa/master card brandedc cards, we are talking store branded cards, and while amazon cards are the closest to cash of all of them, due to the the number of products they sell, you can still buy them for face value from amazon, why pay more?)
That's the problem. With Chrome OS's verified boot, that's unlikely to happen on retail devices. It's trivial to get a real shell on the Cr-48.
And already account deletion is broken