jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You can avoid the downvotes by (1) not predicting downvotes, and (2) expanding on how this will rescue the web.
My comment was not to defend the racist, patronizing, and jingoistic proclivities of 19th-century American politicians, but to explain how the U.S. approach to empire differed in both outcome and intent from its European and Asian counterparts.
I don't understand, are you advocating for hobbyists to make their own 5G cells, or carriers?

Why not use Wi-Fi at this point?
> there's no competition to Search on the horizon

This is bunk, and it's time for this myth to die. DDG/Bing/Yandex will list the exact same pages that Google gives as a search result most of the time, and sometimes better ones. If you find that the pointless endless-scroll listing of millions of search results (in 0.333ms!) that Google and also DDG gives you isn't helpful, you can also try Startpage.com.

What are you searching for? Programming-related questions? Then go to stackoverflow.com directly (where you'll end up in 99% of cases when you search with DDG or Google anyway on these topics). Tip: to search SO, I've found it works best to create (but not submit) a new question with as much info in the headline as possible; the results that SO brings up to check for duplicate questions are excellent search results (btw have they changed it recently? I don't remember working it as good as it's now). Requires a StackExchange account though.

Are your searching for review of tech gadgets or christmas gifts? Then many people on HN admit to include "reddit" in their search terms. Then why not go directly to reddit.com for your search.

Are you searching on YouTube? Then indeed Google (YouTube itself) works best, but the real solution is to quit your media consumption habbit of spending your waking hours on monopolists video streaming sites that don't benefit creators. For just music without pointless and data-intensive video and ad noise, there are several alternatives.

Maybe it's time for new topic-related meta search engines and link aggregation sites.

In the end there isn't much new content worth searching for, thanks to Google and Facebook extracting almost all (70% in 2018) ad revenue, and the demise of the federated web in favour of 2010's portals such as github. I can assure you that the modest amount of new content worth reading can be easily summarized and searched by basic, non-personalized search algorithms; no ML required.

Going to Google to search things is really asking for the site with the most ads and trackers on them, is something that no self-respecting "Hacker" should be doing, and is a habbit you can quit at the turn of the decade if you haven't already. Because it's literally equivalent to asking "Ok Google, fill my feeble mind with shit".
I’d reiterate that my sources are trained professionals who already work with the most vulnerable people who society has already failed — those who sleep rough and who have turned to or are thinking of turning to sex work. I accept your point though, that “sex worker” is a wide bracket that encompasses a range of personal situations though. Thanks for the link.
> > “ American children are too stupid to memorize poetry, so they were jealous that you could do it.”

> Anyone else surprised that the child had no concept of cheating, and grew up writing articles asking if plagiarism is wrong?

Yeah, yikes.

Aside from growing up with a mother who will readily defend cheating, it must also be easier to cheat and plagiarize if you're taught to view others with such contempt.
Yeah this feels quite right with what I'm experiencing. Surely it must risk creating an opening for competitors to show up with far fewer ads.
Lots of parrots love music.
Hypothetically, Trumps administration could be biased and target deportation of dark skinned Mexicans only while Obamas administration was competent and neutral in its enforcement for the law.

This would lead to a case where the racist policy resulted in less deportations but a more humiliating and unfair treatment of deportees.

Remember the goal is not to deport fewer people, but rather to be fair minded.

A similar comparison can be made to racist cops who arrest black criminals. The issue isn't that they arrest criminals, but that they choose their targets by race alone.
> Can someone explain what these “speaking fees” Wall Street pays are really about?

Status, connections (implied or otherwise), exclusivity and, sometimes, education.

However I've also seen speakers (in the pharma industry) who just turned up and gave a mediocre speech on topics we were already cognisant and then return to their job as Key Selection Maker at Hospital X with a fatter wallet then they arrived, and having spent a few days in a sunny location with some very drunk sales reps.
ps: you should consider automating the process.

a bot that:
1. scraps all pateron links
2. check if they are dead to claim them
3. of a famous channel
4. profit $$$
Yes, I live a mile outside of Boston and I grew up here. I don't think I've ever met anyone from here that really fits the stereotype. My local friends don't smile any less than my Californian friends.

> People often told me they knew I wasn’t from around there because I smiled so much.

I've always understood jokes like this to be a sort of ironic "it's funny because that's what people say about us even though it's not really true". I am now realizing I might be alone in this.
The thing about MobX's magic is that it is small, and simple, and easy to learn predictably. Once you understand it, it's only "magic" in the sense that it's automatic, not in the sense that it's inscrutable or unpredictable.
>The first official use of the term "Middle East" by the United States government was in the 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine, which pertained to the Suez Crisis. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles defined the Middle East as "the area lying between and including Libya on the west and Pakistan on the east, Syria and Iraq on the North and the Arabian peninsula to the south, plus the Sudan and Ethiopia."

Pakistan is on the edge, including or excluding it's more of an opinion thing.
This is very true. At that time, even 68K-based workstations ran circles around any x86-based design. x86 was, however, cheap, high-volume and with a lot of compatible hardware, so there was sufficient interest to pour resources into it.
This comes as a complete surprise to me. I had no idea it was coming out, and I've been generally excited about progress on the Surface.

I wonder if Mike Krahulik will be doing another write up, since his review of the Surface Pro 3 was immensely thorough.

Can't wait to see it at stores, I think I'll jump in on this one.

EDIT: I also hope they have a video showing Windows 10 on this Surface
> who could imagine it's dangerous

There are usually people who do, but they will be labelled anti-progress and anti-science because there is no scientific background for their worries (yet).
EU mandates only two years, http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:... Art. 5 (1)
A cranky old man who makes racist remarks shouldn't have his earlier works in biology questioned.

A mathematicians beliefs on God should have no bearings on the quality of her theorems.

A physics student in training unable to recognize (much less participating with and encouraging) a crackpot's physics theories which should be obvious to any undergrad, should not attain a degree in physics. It's not about persecuting beliefs, but a disturbing lack of basic understanding.
A little off topic, but there's nothing wrong with going to a community college. Just make sure you finish all your Transfer requirements--and get that rediculous four year
degree. If a CS degree, or STEM degree seems unattainable
get a BS, or BA in Anything. You will look back on the experience with a smile on your face. At most state colleges upper division courses are easier than lower division--I don't know why, but that was my experience.
I have to say though--I'm a little surprised how many people
on this board still value the four year degree? It seems
like every Programming employment offer goes out of their way to make sure the applicant is fully aware that
experience, and a portfolio of work is more important than
a degree. The only reason I got a four year degree is because in the US certain people still think it's a big deal? I learned more at my community college than I did
at state college. It was cheaper, I learned more, the Teachers care more, and the classes were small. I actually had a great time at my community college. I was completely
dissillusioned with graduate school, and a short stint in Chiropractic school though. Good luck--don't forget applying to to construction unions--if you don't mind hard
work. A union Electrician(local 6) makes over $100/hr. including benefits. The union entrance tests are basically 8th grade equilvancy exams. The trick to getting in is a high score.(Try to ace every question). I don't think I would work construction for a non-union company though. It
pays roughly the same as Retail. I went off as usual, but
try to take care of your mental health(I don't even have
any advise on how to), but I tried to do all the right things to succeed in life at an early age, and still had
an emotional breakdown in my twenties. It really affected my life. I sometimes think no advise is the best advise; everyone is different, along with their situation?
I found the most enlightening part being the module 'dis' which I was totally oblivious of, but will partake of often from hereon in.
If you are speaking about stands with fans at the bottom, in my experience they do next to nothing.

All they do is "cooling" the aluminum bottom case, which has no contact (or though holes) with the inside parts of the laptop generating heath.
Obviously. But some less popular laptop vendors have this 'next business day' warranty where they send a technician to fix your laptop in your office or at home. Much better idea than a baking owen imho, however there is something in a scent of freshly baked mainboard ;)
I agree entirely. It's just as fast to read and typing abbreviations is actually slower than typing full words most of the time because of keystroke muscle memory. Sure, it can make a screenful of code 'look' uglier but in the end it reads explicitly and that can only be a good thing.
One thing to keep in mind.

It's inherently dangerous to assume that NSA doesn't pay much of attention to the breaking of fundamental crypto math based on these documents.

If they did find a practical weakness in RSA and such, I think it's safe to assume it would be assigned the highest level of secrecy and simply won't be in range of Snowden's document sweep.
I've had many 14 hours days that were awesome, many of them included work. I agree, just because you don't like your "work" doesn't mean you should judge me for enjoying my "work". LOL
The funny thing in this case is there was no reason for the CCP to cover this up. If they had just responded to the outbreak instead of trying to cover it up initially and been a little more open with the international community they would have been lauded for their handling of the situation.
What Red Hat cloud?
I mean, it's definitely very similar to HN in that way, at least. Watching people here talk about econ or finance makes me want to smash my head against a wall - because econ is just politics, right, and you're entitled to confidently shout your opinion even if you have very little background in the field, right? And then we look around and think that this is "enlightened conversation;" nah, it's just a bunch of techies who think they are much smarter and more informed than they actually are.
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The industry also incentivizes "efficiency" in terms of how engineering time is spent. Often times you're lauded for trimming scope and shipping faster by cutting corners (performance being one of the most easily cut ones).

Not saying that everyone who does this is wrong, just that this dynamic is real.
Above 16KB (one page) it's safer. Depends how much work you need to do to figure out what can be freed.

It's better to free things as you go rather than wait for warnings.
God made the ASR-33 teletype with 80 columns for a reason.
I'm confused - did you read the article? If so I think you misunderstood my reason for leaving. Yes I was unhappy with the FE/BE split of work but ultimately I left because I don't think I want to work in eCommerce anymore.

And yes, of course I think highly of myself, I'm a confident person, I've accomplished a lot and I intend to accomplish a lot more.
It is useful to remember that "almost never" is a synonym for "sometimes".
Agree -- I just don't understand why Teams would make someone so angry.

There's so much more in Windows to be angry about, lmao. You must adapt to this Windows world that has been made for us -- it SUCKS, but... you adapt and you evolve and you learn ways to make your workflow work for you.
Maybe the failed Yahoo acquisition wasn't a bad thing? Would Microsoft have really improved Yahoo? Would Yahoo give Microsoft growth? If anything not doing that deal was a good move.
I paid £1800 for the Lenovo X1 Carbon because I'd thought it was the best ultrabook at that time. Installing Ubuntu on it resulted in problems with: volume and brightness settings, trackpad, hibernation, fingerprint reader, mounting my NAS drive.

I don't have it anymore because I got robbed. Although I'm a Linux enthusiast, I ended up replacing it with the 2013 Macbook Air, because I don't want to pay a premium price for a product that I can't use 100%.
"Say" comes from PIE, meaning to utter - in other words, to speak out loud - not to write, or to type. One should simply use the word "type" if that's what one means to say...
A more scalable solution to this is pair interviews.

The first company I worked at for 4 years made use of this, in addition to meeting in person, at the end of the day, to make a decision.

Benefits of the pair interview: Two different opinions on the candidate for the same "experience". If either interviewer had poor tendencies, they'll be curtailed a bit because they know someone else is there to witness them.

If both interviewers are in agreement, that's a pretty strong data point.

When it came time for "review" at the end of the day, we started with an around the room "thumbs up/down". No hiding behind an anonymous email to the recruiter/manager. If it was unanimously up...offer. Unanimously down? Obvious no hire. If it was mixed, we'd go around to all of the thumbs down, and ask, "Are you on the fence, or are you 100% vehemently opposed to this candidate?" If they said, "NO WAY JOSE", we'd ask them to give their reasoning. Then, we'd ask if anyone had a positive enough experience to argue in favor of the candidate. If not? No hire. If yes, we'd then go around the room and ask all of the interviewers to give a full description of the interview. You'll note that this part gives the full data, but takes the most time, but could be avoided (an optimization) if it was going to be ultimately fruitless.

This was by far the best hiring decision making process I've been a part of. No process, is perfect, but I feel this was pretty fair.

Oh - lastly, if a candidate was particularly hard to decide on, and we went around the room, and some people were for them, and some were against, and it ended up in deadlock - we ended the meeting and it was up to the ranking members of the team to decide (i.e. managers.) This meant that after one round of debate, we wouldn't keep wasting the company's dime trying to force consensus, and instead moved the decision to the people who the company had already decided it wanted to make decisions. So, if democracy worked...great, but this was a business, and we had get shit done, so lacking clear consensus, the burden was reduced.

After typing this out, I really, really whole heartedly respect this process - compared to much of what I've seen in the Valley.
Current rackspace employee - ime, we want you to apply through our system (here http://rackspace.jobs/). If you're getting no reply from us at all, then there's a good chance that no one here has got your CV.

(Or the US does thing entirely differently - I only work in the UK business unit, so you never know)
Simplest solution of all would be to just use js. I don't think that any syntactical or semantic niceties in Python matter much to an absolute beginner, and the extra layers of indirection you guys propose will just lead to more moving parts and frustration.
I think there are other components that are at least as important. You need to know what to learn and be able to organise your time properly. A teacher sets a roadmap and intermediary objectives.
Wow, a rare sane comment in this whole subthread. What are you still doing on this site?
I am with Stephen Fry on this one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7E-aoXLZGY

Language evolves over time, and I am no more confused by someone (mis)using "begs the question" than I am by someone using the modern definition of decimate.
No, XSLT is perfectly capable of generating plain text, which means it can also generate JSON, YAML or what have you. It's true that generating malformed XHTML would be rather hard, though.

As for fast: compared to any other templating engine for server side languages. It was very long ago when I tested this, but for rendering a simple blog page XSLT with lxml (so completely on the C side) was much faster than Jinja2. I suspect only things like Mustache would have a chance here, but then again: XSLT is Turing-complete (probably accidentally, but still).

And that's before taking into account that you don't have to do rendering server-side at all - you can just serve static files and rely on the browser to render them. I don't know if it would be faster than serving static files and rendering with JS, but it has one advantage: it works even for people who have JS disabled.

There are many problems with XSLT, though. XSLT 1.0 is almost unworkable and XSLT 2.0, while specified, is nonexistent: nobody bothered to implement it. Once you start using implementation specific ways of extending it, you lose the benefit of being able to render on a client. Turing completeness can be a trap, too: you can code infinite loop in XSLT, and good luck debugging it (or even recognizing where do you loop in the first place...).

Still, XML and XSLT are a very nice technology, which should be used much more often. The problem, I suspect, is that XML is "yuck" nowadays, which means no one wants to use it, learn it or improve it.
I have a directory on each machine that are to be kept in sync, then I just put everything in a git repo. Go to work, pull, done. Go home, pull, done. Anything not in that directory is private to the machine, all my work is in the repo.
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Really wish land value taxes were politically viable. Impossible to hide land and no matter how much you tax it the amount doesn't change.
I’ve had way more yellowcabs in nyc refuse to take me to the airport than ubers/lyfts.
Still, this left over money will be available to spend in other areas like R&D, marketing, etc. The government does not have a right to 30% of it or whatever the corporate tax rate is.
They are allowed to ask if the dog is trained to perform a specific task which would differentiate a guide dog or medical alert dog that can’t be refused entry from an emotional support animal that can.
Good question.

Two names of prominent people who did / do such work as you ask about, that I know of from earlier work in bigcos where it was used a lot (so I was trained on it, practiced it as a project manager and also personally read up on it a good amount), are Watts Humphrey and Capers Jones.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Humphrey

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capers_Jones
Key on the "not necessarily". It's not phrasing I would ever use, and if I saw it I'd recommend someone change it, but I don't think it necessarily implies anything; it's more like simple, dumb clickbait. I agree it'd probably still be generally considered offensive.

But it's also different because it's negative vs. positive attributes. Animals not getting lost is generally a positive trait. If you had a headline like:

>Why Indians do so well on exams

about them studying a lot or whatever (nothing to do with cheating or anything negative), then it's still probably clickbait-y, but not really offensive or unclear.

I think this is kind of a subtle grammar thing. "Why animals don't get lost" is a somewhat stylized phrasing (common among publications like The New Yorker), which if seen in that stylized context is likely intended to be interpreted as "Why [some/many] animals don't get lost".

Imagine a headline "Why people don't like chocolate". Most people probably like chocolate; some don't. The grammar isn't implying the group "people" does not like chocolate; the plural is referring to an arbitrary, floating bag or set wherein each person happens to not like chocolate. I think "Why animals don't get lost" is using that same kind of grammar.

They could've written "Why animals tend not to get lost", or "Why many animals don't get lost", but it doesn't look or sound as nice. But I'm sure the clickbaitiness was also a factor.