jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
...and also you want to make sure that you have a fair bit of domestic food production in case war or some other geopolitical event causes imports to become expensive or unavailable. It's potentially a life-and-death question. You Americans don't have a lot of history with this, but Europeans have.
My GF is German, and a member of Mensa, and was involved in Germany.

When she moved to the UK and signed up with the local branch here, however, she was horrified by what she saw: self-important pretentious people lazily philosophizing about things they knew nothing about, with little intellectual rigour. The magazine still comes every month, but she wants no more part of it.
Agreed, it's not about the nudity, it's about the nonconsent. Just like there are unconscionable contracts, there are certain rights that shouldn't be subject to forfeiture solely so I can travel. My right to choose who sees/touches my body falls under that.
[from the video] "come up with some sort of game with the child"

Isn't that what most child molesters do?
Jeff Bezos is a trained engineer and analyst that has built one the most successful and beloved companies ever, and made thousands of employees wealthy.

There are plenty of employees who should rightly hate their jobs, but they work in shipping, not corporate.

How did you get through the first two decades of your career without a 4k monitor?
I'd rather see Signal have text messaging enabled first ;)
I think that it's disingenuous to point out the many ways to call a function across half a dozen languages while completely ignoring how many ways there can be to say something just in English.

Think of playing a text-based adventure game and how frustrating it can be trying to work out the exact phrase the designers had in mind. To make this work you'd essentially need a machine that could converse with you to build the program - the way that an engineer talks to a client to draw up a specification - which would be very cool.

I like your idea for an editor add-on. Snippets taken one step further.
The unfortunate side effect of reclaiming seems to be dilution. Any programmer nowadays is a "hacker".
http://imgur.com/5KaU2.png
I've written emails during emotional turmoil before, usually related to relationships. I scour those, looking for any instance where what I said could be misinterpreted.
I expect the ability to use APIs like this will be hindered once remote attestation becomes the norm.
self assessment is worth plenty.
This trend is incredibly frustrating. I've been looking for a new laptop to replace a ~3 year old ultrabook and I'm actually finding that anything in a similar or smaller form factor actually has worse performance than my current laptop. It's hard to convince yourself to spend $1000 on something which brings no tangible improvement over what you already have (if my current laptop wasn't physically wearing out I'd almost certainly not replace it).
Try: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184705-who-builds-a-hou...
Looks like only people in the 3rd quartile are any good at estimating performance, and so perhaps they should immediately all become project managers?! :)
It's important for resource-constrained devices. Think netbooks and smartphones.
I'm not an MRI tech but I work on MRI image analysis academically, so I know a bit more than usual by hearsay and I see them used all the time. Why are there "MRI magnet is always on" signs in the medical imaging areas of the med school here? Are you sure they don't use titanium stretchers near the field? Why do they perpetually supply the MRI with liquid helium?

My understanding is that even when they are not used there is a field of between 1 and 3 teslas, depending on the scanner. (A quick google search for things like "mri magnet is always on" and "mri safety" and such seems to confirm this.)

Edit: Also, you can get closish to the scanner with a ferromagnetic object without a problem. The field doesn't encompass the whole room or anything. 10 or 15 feet away will be fine.
>If we continuously make it increasingly harder for NSA, MOSAD, GCHQ and the rest of them to spy on us, we can achieve good enough privacy

Good enough privacy is no privacy.

Anyway, this is completely the wrong mindset. This is a legal problem which requires, not pretty good tech, but clear, strict laws, with whistle-blower protection. We have to stop ceding that this is legal or should be legal.

Otherwise, we've already lost.
Its past tense now-- used to work on odesk. The work was mostly updating terrible PHP from abroad and minor website updates. The occasional shopify task etc.

Slowly but surely I would bid for and receive more lead development work. At minimum wage people would clamor for my attention and time, interest really dropped off around $30-40 an hour and people started to get pushy about productivity and "how long is this going to take?" .
>couldn't it make more sense to tie tax rates to real mean wages?

How would that work in practice?
I think he means that they can send their kids to Ivy League or equivalent.
And yet I'm the one backing up my position, meanwhile you stick to hurling insults.

We're already at a point where healthcare costs as a % of GDP will begin declining. With the expansion of the ACA, the US Government has begun doing what every country in Europe does: squeezing unnecessary costs out of healthcare any way they can.

You claimed healthcare costs would bankrupt the US without reforms. Now let's see you prove what you said, instead of relying on ad hominem attacks in place of actual data points.

Per capita healthcare expenditure growth has been falling for about 12 years now, and is down to low single digits: http://i.imgur.com/5ARcJ1s.jpg

"Medical Costs Register First Decline Since 1970s"
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/06/18/medical-costs-regi...

"CBO: Declining Health Care Costs Will Lower US Budget Deficit"
http://www.voanews.com/content/us-cbo-estimates-slightly-low...

"Republicans Hurt By Slowing Costs in Health Care
In the 2014 election, Democrats seize on opportunity to talk about Medicare."
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/26/republicans-h...
>If he can’t earn close to $150,000/year he won’t be able to pay this order, in which case he will join the roughly 1 in 7 child support payors who are imprisoned at some point for nonpayment (for not paying the court-ordered amount, Massachusetts offers the pilot a felony conviction, which means he won’t have an ATP certificate anymore and therefore won’t be able to work again, plus up to 10 years in prison).

It doesn't help that the United States still has such medieval instruments as debtor's jail.

While more civilized countries have programs in place to help debtor's with counselling, restructuring and suicide prevention, the United States debtor's jail system makes sure you'll never get out of debt, and that you'll die in debt. Never mind that the creditor won't get what they are owed under this system. Never mind whether the creditor even exists: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2014/02/15/woman-jailed-l...
Can you really trust Instagram for skincare advice?
"...having my first soul crushing job and realizing I couldn't rely on work to produce income in the same "easy" way I had when I was younger. The emotional cost had become too high."

I feel exactly like this.

My wife has basically changed what she wants (or stopped hiding it) now that we are married. She wants a big fancy house and she wants to live in an suburbanized and expensive area. She originally told me she wants to live in the country and own land. This area isn't the country and we can't afford land around here.

She doesn't care about her spending. She has never been required to support herself or even live alone. She would rather spend a lot on a her expensive horse hobby than contribute to our kid's college or our shared bills. By expensive I mean she spends as much or more each month than I do on the mortgage. One month of her hobby expenses equals what I spend in an entire year on hobbies, and many of my hobbies have a return on investment (like foraging/cultivating mushrooms, growing a garden, etc).

I've come to accept that I will be stuck here and miserable. I don't see myself living past 50 in this condition, so I just have to endure this until then. I don't really see much reason to try extending that either.
I believe GCC has supported this for a while now, even before it was added to the list of features for C++20.
Interesting, which is why the blog post above went on about the careers side of things.

I'm sure $40 million would help to push out their Q&A side of things, but looks like they want to spend it on the careers side of things?

I hope they get back those 100,000+ job postings :P.
> maybe specific policy prescriptions would be a more productive thing to discuss.

If people are going to take the political route with this, I believe a better argument against pervasive (passive) surveillance is how it by design promotes weakening of security. By design the only defense in place is that a societal knowledge gap exists - at this moment only a small group would know how to exploit those weaknesses. But that knowledge gap will shrink as other nation states catch up and private industry starting training large amounts of people in 'cybersecurity' as is happening now.

I'd bet the average congressman will care more about threats against security than the average citizens privacy.

So people who are looking for policy change might benefit by refining their arguments in this context, instead of assuming people operating in secret will eventually start caring about privacy rights - which I find unlikely. Especially if the people in question are foreigners to the west.
This is the textbook way to empower yourself using a moral panic.

It worked in the Salem witch trials, where vast satanic conspiracies were uncovered as individuals were forced to implicate others. It worked in the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s, which uncovered a vast communist infiltration through society. Each time, the victims admit their guilt, and our savior and protector gets to show just how crucial their actions were, and how the ends clearly justified the means.
They are all moving at the same speed, yes. They are moving in different directions, meaning they have different velocities, but the components of that vector will add up to c.
I think Prefinery is what you're looking for? http://www.prefinery.com
I've really been thinking about this a lot, and maybe if they had something called "wofin" and pitch it then we can sit back and enjoy the margin.
The Starter Plan is only being through the duration of this deal, and is available once you log in.

There are quite a few features in the menu on the left hand side in addition to the page you mention (though I do need to make the screenshots zoomable - thanks for the reminder).

> I'm not very much into SEO, but... am I supposed to pay for this?

There is an assumption that signing up for an SEO service would be proceeded by some interest in SEO. ;-)

EDIT: changed the first sentence for clarification.
I wonder what would happen to creativity and innovation if you got rid of schizophrenia and bipolar by killing this virus as it attacks an infant. Two of the people mentioned, John Nash and Jack Kerouac, were brilliant I think in part because of their illness. I don't know the answer to the question, but it's an interesting thing to consider.
I was a Beanstalk customer for over a year. Never had a problem with their product or their service. But over time, I started wondering why I maintained a github and a Beanstalk account and there was only one which I could cancel.

Beanstalk - love the product and the service, but what's the plan to compete with github?
PlayStation 4. It's a Good Thing, but I've been overly optimistic about Sony adopting a policy of greater openness before. IIRC devices classed as computers incur lower import charges in the EU than devices classed as entertainment accessories (ie games/toys). Hence Linux on PS2, PS3, and...?PS4? So far, this has been something of a letdown after launch.
True. My intention was to elicit a "what do you desire right now" response (with both gadgets/cool products and interesting philosophical answers e.g. "Time" etc..) rather than any focus on a holiday. I should have said "holiday season" rather than Christmas. My apologies.
You only take as you've given, and now your hope is all but gone - though you lost your way (Now is not forever). But I know your pain. We all fall sometimes you're not the first !
But I know it hurts. In the end you'll find what you deserve, still I know it hurts.
Checking out an effort to extract a viable specification from an implementation which manages to be incompatible with itself every other release? Why?
The Republic of California, among others, I'm sure.

Nothing like extremely bright strobe lights flashing in the middle of an intersection at night to improve traffic safety.
Why make such a comment? Being so short you can hardly add to the discussion. Being so sarcastic you add no more than a negation. To make a contribution whose tone is negative is both easy and galling. Strive, instead, to find the things which are worth saying.
Their claim is that you will share the helicopter rides, however in bad weather you will get a private car without needing to share. Because cars are cheap enough that they can afford to do that (compared to helicopters).
Correctly.

1MB is one million bytes, and files do not intrinsically come in power-of-two sizes.

It may still make sense to use MiB for RAM though.
Its good from a security perspective, but also its a nightmare to know that the mothership knows everything you run on your machine.

This will also prevent distribution from outside of their appstore giving it will prevent updates.

So as anything Apple, the world security here is being used as code for personal machines remotely controlled by the mothership.

You trade privacy and freedoms for a little convenience.
Apparently you're meant to use kibibyte for 2^10 (1024) bytes, with the prefix kilo being the International System of Units' version of 1000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units
Not to pry too much, but I'd love to learn more about it. Is there a chance you have it on Git(ea/Lab/Hub/etc.) somewhere?
I personally have made no preparation at all. Should I?
What are you planning to spend those 10-15 years doing that these people are competition?
That's actually quite interesting! Thank you for linking it.
I completely agree. The way Google can differentiate is to offer ad packages or targeting services to businesses (mostly small) to incentivize the switch. Come stop by the site sometime, I'd love to keep up the dialogue. www.letschatbusiness.net
It's a strategy _I_don't_need_to_concern_with_ :-)
> This is a link-baiting article from a link-baiting site, submitted by the karma-baiting author.

Check the guidelines again: "When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3.""
Right, and garbage collection is just lazy memory manamgement--you go see it either way, so this whole point is rather pedantic.
Automated unit test, BDD and static code analysis
I've done quite a bit of initial patent work for startups that paid me with seed funding. Its important to get your patent applications filed early, so you can exclude your competitors from entering into your space.
My only problem with this article is it frames it in consumer terms which obscures the point. The military would never use iOS because the Military demands complete obedience from their contractors and Apple would never give them that.

What's interesting is they aren't using proprietary software from Microsoft. Microsoft has a history of bending over backwards for Military contracts and I have no doubt they did everything in their power to get Windows Embedded on these phones. So the fact that Android won out shows proprietary software can't count on guaranteed government contracts like it used to.
It's nearly impossible to do in any timeframe. I can think of perhaps two examples in human history where I think it's been done: qmail and seL4. And there may still be bugs in qmail. There may be a few other non-public projects that have achieved less than one bug per 7000 lines of C, but probably not more than one or two.
I've been too broke to do anything Christmas-wise for the past nearly 4 years, so I'm gonna be getting awesome gifts for family and friends, and finally getting myself a toy as well: a chapman stick ( http://stick.com/ ). Been wanting one for years, and finally decided I'm just gonna splurge and get it.
No one has mentioned my current favorite, iDrive. I didn't want to spend more than $5-10/month on online backups, and found that Tarsnap, Dropbox, JungleDisk, etc all got expensive too quickly to back up 100GB+.

I wanted to like Mozy but the mac client crashed on me and the uploads were slow.

iDrive gives you 150gb for $5/month. Plus the mac client is reliable, the uploads are quick, and they let multiple computers share space if you want.
Well, it looks like the server you happen to be on is having a maintenance issue, but not all of Linode. I actually find it comforting that they're a bit proactive in keeping an eye on your server to know when to do some maintenance, rather than having to contact them after you've noticed the problem.
Blaming Google sounds like a pathetic dodge. This fellow is a criminal who is being ignored by the police.

That he gets Google hits or publicizes his scams otherwise is rather secondary.
Although not strictly a programming book, Coders At Work was amazing and taught me a lot about programming.
I love tarsnap. I have some custom scripts to manage backups easily. I've been thinking of cleaning them up and turning them into a rsnapshot style system.
Mm, when it comes to "minimal UI" I just want as much screen space for the page as possible. At the moment Firefox's tabs don't overlap with the title bar and I was surprised how much this annoys me - Chrome has spoiled me.

After using it for a few days I can't say I particularly like the menu system (although it's smaller than Firefox's in terms or items. Ad blocking doesn't seem to work particularly well either. Opera Link's useful but replicated by every other browser than IE (and Safari? but I'd never use that). My previous post was written on elation or something like it, I'm missing Chrome already.
What about scientists? - they are not the richest category of population (< 75k a person; usually 40-50k), but I am sure
they use Internet a lot more often than let's say businessmen.
True (btw, BEA is ORCL now).

What is definition of hacker in this context? Web 2.0 / javascript developer? Or self-learned developer?
From the comments that some people are making here you would have to think that the content of the Chrome binary was:

#!/bin/sh
exec webkit

Which is not the truth. If you're going to rail against Google's claims, then go ahead, but don't start making up crap and/or under-estimating the amount of work that they did just because you think that it makes your argument look more appealing.
I remember that! :) Justin always took the camera off to go to sleep, but still pointed it at himself. IIRC, he kept this protocol up with the date but darkened the room...or was it putting up a sheet? Hard to remember it was so long ago... So, yeah, a bit disappointing for the audience, but still pretty impressive IMO. Near the beginning of the date I posted in the chat "if he doesn't get a kiss I'm never watching again." Others concurred. Justin didn't disappoint. He walks back into his apartment/headquarters and the room explodes with cheers. Good times. :D
I can't be the only one who clicked trying to work out how a USB thermometer could be used in making a USB based distributed bookmarking service (i.e. Delicious). Facepalm for me!
Interesting. Surely, you don't need slides. But I understand that powerpoint has its limitations and you may need to use another "presentation" software.

What about Prezi (http://prezi.com/). You can make presentation in more flexible way because of "zooming" concept.
Its really ackward to fast forward slides in Powerpoint, but it seems very natural in Prezi where you can focus just on details you want to show your audience, by "zooming" to charts/lists/pictures you want to emphasize and eventually zoom-out to see the big picture.
Professionally speaking, that is one of my most important tests of the quality of a site. When I see an Ajaxed site on a resume, it's the first thing I check as it is a sign of a true craftsman taking care in their work.

Ajax should ALWAYS degrade gracefully. Sites that use Ajax just to use it with no real benefit to the end user perhaps for a slight bandwidth savings are a particular irritation. It's often just a strong degradation of the user experience to make up for the deficiencies of your back end, or worse yet for no real reason other than it being the flavor of the decade.
Take a look at https://www.meteor.com
Sure, I do not anticipate most home users will want this or should attempt it. You can see why Cloudflare wanted 1.1.1.1 but https://[2001:8b0:fbb0:1247:1b24:1c24:1d23:714]/ doesn't exactly trip off the tongue.
Interesting report, thanks for sharing it. I think there are other significant dangers in this area beyond those it covers, but promoting a better approach to privacy and to security updates after purchase would at least be two significant steps in the right direction.
People are surprised by the daily horoscope in the paper too, even when they’re shuffled and relabeled.

- Double Blind Test -
https://escholarship.org/content/qt0b40b045/qt0b40b045.pdf?t...

- Popular Horoscopes and the Barnum Effect - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00223980.1983.99...

- Using Daily Horoscopes to Demonstrate Expectancy Confirmation - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/S15328023TOP2702_08

”Prior expectations can lead a person to process information in a biased manner such that the expectations are confirmed. Despite its prevalence in everyday judgments, people lack insight into expectancy confirmation processes. The classroom demonstration we describe uses daily horoscopes to demonstrate the powerful effect that expectations can have on judgments. More students reported that the events of a recent day most closely matched the prediction for their particular astrological sign when the astrological signs were presented along with the predictions than when they were not.”
Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine.

Yes, the figures can show you that the observed death rate is low. But that doesn't 100% capture the intuition of what it means for a job to be safe.

Remember, a big reason it's so safe (in this sense) is that officers go through a lot of training that protects them from the occasional nutjob. If they slip up on those protocols, they can easily become another officer killed in the line of duty.

You'll notice that, by the same token, firebreathers and sword jugglers and trapeze artists don't make the top ten either. Does that mean they're safe jobs?

In a sense, yes, like policing.

But in another sense, no. It means the only people who do them are people who are super deft about doing them safely and can religiously follow the safety protocols. And the job can quickly become unsafe if the average person, like you and me, tried to do them and slipped up in following those protocols.

Either way, it absolutely doesn't follow that if they just "trained the cops not to prepare for any encounter being a nutjob with a gun", that the job would (directly from that) become safer.
I don’t need to be successful to have a platform to be outraged. It doesn’t matter that it’s Rockstar, if anything, the fact that they’re so successful and couldn’t be bothered to save so many people literal hours of their lives in loading time makes it worse.
> it’s commonly known that mostly men are into computer technology

Just curious, do you think this is accurate and if so why is that the case?