jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
More than anything, I think that its the word "culture" that makes this all screwed up. If you have a good "culture" (in the article's sense), people will want to work there, which is a good thing. If you dont, you will have talent troubles. Therefore, culture is important.

However, culture may be the wrong term, and I am always weary about a company that trumpets their culture.

At the end of the day, I want to work someplace awesome. Call it culture or attitude, it matters.
Pretty much the plan (as I understand it) behind starting Fog Creek, right? Rather than starting a business to get rich, create yourself a place to pursue your own interests and get paid while doing it.
Which Series wasn't specified, but Peter Thiel said[1] $100k - $125k.

If the CEO only needs $40k/year to live comfortably that should be his salary.

If the CEO left a job making $200k/year, or has a family/mortgage/other responsibility, he might need more.

I think paying whatever-the-CEO needs to live comfortably with a maximum cap of around $100k seems pretty reasonable.

1. http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/08/peter-thiel-best-predictor-...
The calc() function is part of the CSS3 /Values & Units/ module[1] which is currently in Last Call status[2]. Here[3] are the status definitions that apply to CSS3. It doesn't make sense to remove the moz prefix until the standard is (probably) done changing.

In addition, mozilla's implementation of it is still in flux (since it's not done) and using the non-extension terminology for an in-development feature is a great way to convince people to use it and then screw them over when you change it.

Also, I found out about all this because you asked. So thanks for causing me to learn something new today :)

1) http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-values/#calc

2) http://www.css3.info/modules/

3) http://www.css3.info/css3-development-status-an-explanation-...
"Of the 24 empirical papers subject to in-house replication review since September 2012, [1] only 4 packages required no modifications. Of the remaining 20 papers, 13 had code that would not execute without errors, 8 failed to include code for results that appeared in the paper, [2] and 7 failed to include installation directions for software dependencies. Most troubling, however, 13 (54 percent) had results in the paper that differed from those generated by the author’s own code."
> Overreliance on notebooks causes big issues (no version control, tests, deployment process, dependency management)

The last three of those things might be valid issues, but since when are notebooks not just as subject as any other source code format to version control (I get that the difference between the UI and the on-site structure may make typical diff tools less-than-ideal, but VC itself is unaffected.)
Even more fun: there is no "The MLS" the "MLS" is a loose associate of regional databases. every state has one, if not more MLSes.

There is literally no single API/service that will tell you about every listing in every MLS.

People like Zillow have to aggregate data across multiple MLS.
Yes it is, and if they get their way I believe it will be a disaster for both equality and long term growth here. They are aiming to move education and health to more of a user pays model (which makes no sense given the evidence worldwide) and continue their party's privatisation-by-stealth in both areas.

Fortunately they are not very competent and do not have full control of the parliament, so most of their bills have been blocked by minor parties.
Attracting and retaining users, on mobile especially, is extremely tough, no matter how good your "cake" tastes, even if it is free.
those swans are beautiful, but they are definitely white & gold
There's a 50 user limit in a WhatsApp group.
+1

Siblings in England, USA and Australia and we all use the group chat.
To be clear, we're not collecting credit card data / swipes. Just anonymous movement. There's been some discussion about eventually using in-store payment systems with open API's to marry purchasing behavior to foot traffic >> but this wouldn't be tied to the individual.

The goal is not individual (person) tracking. The goal is identifying and operationalizing trends at an location-specific and network level.

We encourage users worried about privacy to opt out. But realistically, they're not individuals to the system. They're part of a trend.

As long as we get a statistically relevant percentage of movement (15-20%) we believe we can still be useful to the business. Worst case: a lot of people opt out, we drop from our current 60-70% capture to 20-30% capture and we simply extrapolate the remainder.

It's an inexact science but, we believe, very useful.
It is conceivable, with the right tradeoffs, that computing individual discrete logs over a few popular 1024-bit moduli could be made cheap. However, none of the available evidence suggests this practice.

There is a lot of inconsistent thinking behind the advice given in the article:

- Hard-to-implement NIST curves suck, whereas GCM and Poly1305 are recommended.

- NIST apparently sucks, but NSA-designed SHA-2 is recommended.

- MACs need 256-bit tags, so UMAC and not-NSA-designed RIPEMD160 is apparently not fine, but GCM/Poly1305's 128-bit tags are recommended. On this note, 256-bit tags are pointless when the rest of the crypto infrastructure is sitting on 128-bit security.

- 3DES is not recommended because DES is 'broken', not realizing that this break is due to small key length of the original DES; 3DES is deemed to be quite secure (but slow).

- 64-bit block size is enforced, but for no good reason: SSH's 32-bit sequence number, along with counter mode, renders block size worries moot.
To your point about email, wouldn't it be easy enough to install a browser add-on that handles the end-user PGP for you? Even people who don't understand all this encryption stuff could do it. "For safer surfing, install the SafeSurf extension and then no one can spy on what you write!"

I suspect that eventually, and to the chagrin of the spies, most of us will have this type of extension installed, and share public keys with our correspondents or whatever. Then the next big market will be databases of public keys, but luckily those can be altered easily enough. In fact, make the extension automatically prompt you for a new one every 4 weeks.
> Use free software: As in speech. You want to use code that’s actually reviewed or that you can review yourself. There is no way to achieve that without source code. Someone may have reviewed proprietary crap but who knows.

Maybe this person forgot about Heartbleed? Or that Debian bug that was around for years? Or Shellshock, dating back to 1989?

Stop pretending and assuming that just because software is open source that it is automatically reviewed.
No, I was being ironic
Thanks. I'm not entirely sure how information can be leaked in that case - just timing attacks, or something else?
Actually, TPB completely ignored DMCA requests, so that's not really a good comparison at all. The same goes for other torrent sites, really - their abuse handling policies really aren't anything like that of IA, and they attract a distinctly different audience.

As for the legal point of view, I doubt anybody in this thread will be more qualified to discuss that than the legal team of the Internet Archive. They've been at it for a long time, and have had a number of legal cases about this already, including https://archive.org/about/dmca.php

As for the moral point of view, I see absolutely no problem with IA doing what they do.
> Written in 1931, wow.

Indeed. I always assumed that people did not have sophisticated thoughts until at least 1960!
The median anesthesiologist in the US earns a little under $400,000/yr. $10,000 is probably not enough to get one risk their career to carry out an execution.
Thank you for your reply-- you got me to reread Seila Law v. CFPB and I now agree with you. The fact that the CFPB had a single officer was clearly important to the outcome of the case.

I agree with the outcome of that case, but don't think it goes far enough. Scalia's dissent in Morrison v Olson seems like the best understanding of the Constitution's requirement that "the executive Power shall be vested in a President" and that "he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." To Scalia, the President cannot be deprived of control anywhere a "purely executive power" is exercised.
Yes, a "general" system can be designed. In fact, they already exist (see, for example Avalara, which does exactly what you aim to do). It took hundreds of developers and hundreds of accountants and lawyers to make these systems work, and the companies that run these systems make thousands of dollars a year from each business customer. And businesses that sell to multiple states/countries gladly pay, because it would cost even more to try and build such a system in-house.

I think a general system could be designed such that most of the classifying work is done up front

The classifying work of products and services already exists. In fact, there are standardized classification systems in the U.S. and the EU. That is not the problem.

shop owners could opt-in or add additional rules to the algorithm.

No, they can't. Because there is no one algorithm to calculating the tax applicable to a transaction. There are thousands of different algorithms, many of which get changed on a yearly basis (and in some cases, even within a year due to special events like disasters). Each tax jurisdiction has its own rates and components. Within a single county, you can have different cities levying their own separate sets of factors and rates when determining sales tax. (See, for example, LA vs Santa Monica for examples of different rates on the same components, or any city in Colorado vs any other city in Colorado for examples of cities within the same county using different components and different rates.)

I think the 20% could be squeezed and solved a number of different ways especially in the name of the public.

Quite frankly, the storefront component is the 20%. You would need to devote 80% of your time to the tax component.

Note: in the "name of the public" the EU has introduced the VATMOSS system to simplify filing VAT reports throughout the EU, and the Streamlined Sales Tax program in the U.S. aims to do the same for filing US sales tax returns. However, filing sales tax/VAT returns was always the easy part of all of this; the hard part has always been figuring out the appropriate sales tax to apply to a transaction.
Good summary :-)

A resolution uniform proof procedure had the problem that once

all the propositions had been flattened in to clauses, the

proof procedure did not have a good idea where to focus its efforts.
> ...It seems increasingly that scientists are trying to replace theoretical models of the say, the mind or the city with purely data driven approaches that don't necessarily produce any insight, or even accurate forecasts.

It may seem like a logical desire to integrate the existing massive data feeds about various aspects of the planet into a progression of coherent states of it. With the hope to gain insights for the dynamics and trends.

The first challenge is to figure out if such feeds are indeed integratable and at all could lead to any sort of coherency.

The next challenge is to understand what should be considered a "state". It is a complex system, yet one needs to choose the parameters.

It is nice to have such a global view of the observations. But I'm sure the goal stretches further and means to produce projections and forecasts. This may have some political impact, but practically may just be as good as a speculation, given the vast scale.
> These are contracts with enforceable terms and are upheld.

Stop and think this through for just a second.

Try this thought experiment:

If I want dogs in the office and my colleague wants dogs banned, you’re telling me you think the union will simultaneously negotiate for both our positions with our employer?

Does not compute. It is not possible for them to be on everyone's side.
Well, if you're counting suborbital vehicles, Blue also had the Goddard research prototype.

That said, while Blue will probably have something called New Armstrong if they last long enough, even they may have no clear idea what would bear that name right now. "New Armstrong" is a name that Bezos dropped for a successor at the New Glenn announcement; even if there was some concrete plan attached to it, it may still not be much more substantial than the "Falcon X/Falcon XX" plan that SpaceX presented at a conference in 2010, and ditched fairly soon after.

https://spaceflight101.com/spacex-launch-vehicle-concepts-de...
Don't use abp. You should read this trough Google Translate maybe: http://www.mobilegeeks.de/adblock-plus-undercover-einblicke-...
This is just the first semester course. In my experience teaching it at GT, it is mostly taken by freshman, and I'm not sure how many majors require it but my students have come from a huge variety of majors. I'm not sure that abstract vector spaces is that useful for, say, psychology majors. There is a second semester course that usually uses Axler.
The webcam image used to be available at http://jennicam.simplenet.com/livecam/cam.jpg

This would likely be 1996, perhaps before jennicam.org.

I wrote a web scraper in C to archive it when modified. I still have the scraper code, but I think any images are long gone.
Something I wish I knew 10 years ago:

"To minimise injury risk, practitioners should aim to maintain the acute:chronic workload ratio within a range of approximately 0.8–1.3."

Figure 6, https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/5/273
I am glad someone is keeping up with Darwin and making a version one does not need to compile to be able to use.

I wonder if it can run OSX command line programs?
I love this thread. Every important question for privacy-conscious power users is raised in here: are automatic updates safe, how should software obtain consent to act on your behalf, how can power users keep up with the arms race of privacy settings, is phone-home inherently sleazy.

This user is running a firewall / connection observer (little snitch) -- as more people adopt tools like that + ad blockers, and as businesses figure out whether and how to serve those users, the norms for this stuff will get worked out.

For now, businesses benefit tremendously from surveillance for both sleazy and non-sleazy reasons and are totally incentivized to understate the potential harms and the ways in which they use what they collect.
RISC and RISC-V are different things.
Track.com gets 33% IE, only 13% of which is 6.0 (so about 4% total), 22% 7.0, 64% 8.0, and just under 1% 9.0. And most of our customers are financial institutions, who I wouldn't expect to be on the cutting edge.

We actually get more people using Opera Mini (presumably Blackberry users) than we do IE6 users.
Emacs has git integration, have a look on emacs wiki
I wrote a parser generator, so I'm using that.

It's BNF-like.
My biggest terror fear is the TSA.
I agree, feels more of a financial responsibility/risk ...will you prefer the money now or later which depends on the situation
> Besides the teacher (minor fist injuries) and the shooter nobody else was injured and the shooter was arrested.

Is there a term for the opposite of damning with faint praise? Because "minor fist injuries" reads like massive praise and respect, subtly stated.
What about mathematics?

A finite field appears to be commutative.
Or
A finite field is commutative.
?
When I started with computers back in 1992, Eastern Europe, noone around me had the slightest idea what computers can do. I sort of imagined (and hoped) they will (magically) solve math problems for me so I won't need to actually make the hard effort to understand.

27 years later, not just 99.99% of the humans in general but of my "fellow" programmers, if I can call them so, are still stuck at this petty ignorance level.
A bacteria dangerous to people with weakened immune systems is more prevalent in warm summer months.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/12/10/669624957/as...
> proven to be at least as powerful as any possible algorithm

I'd be careful with that, you need to formalize "any possible algorithm" first, and that's the content of Church-Turing I believe.

Edit: Also, don't forget recursive functions (dating from I don't know when, actually)
Isn't this what they call the Chilling Effect?
One such guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalik_Buterin
The best way to get rich in a gold rush is to sell the shovels.
Is it an IPO if they’ve already previously been public?
> I find that the things they make tend to be much smaller than many of the things I built when I was a kid.

Could this be that the constructions are the same scale but you have gotten bigger?
I have landed on the TALL stack for building my homespun apps with minimum faffing around.

Especially with the components feature offered by Laravel’s Blade it usually takes a while before I really start reaching for JS.
And back in 1996, programmers were much more familiar with bit-twiddling than today.
Equating Joe Rogan using racism and anti science to the impact of a "generation" of American humanity is nonsense.
People can lose the ability to form new memories without losing consciousness, but arguably without any memory at all you won't have any continuity of experience, which seems essential.
Sure she can. She can still set ContentID to automatically take down her work when it's uploaded to YouTube.
Anyone with supernatural powers that takes that offer is a fool - their life would be effectively over. A person that could, say, see the future, is better off predicting the winning lottery numbers and sidestepping the almost certain involvement with government agents, or worse.

(Not that winning the lottery is statistically a good thing for one's quality of life either, which is a plausible reason that "psychic wins lottery" has never been a headline...)
The ranking has little to do with how effective the school is at producing startups.
Egypt is also ranked above India on the list but they can also be classed as "developing".

I would argue that even our defense spending is less questionable than many developed countries. We have two hostile neighbors with whom we've fought 5 wars (give or take) since 1947, none of which (from the history books I know) we initiated (well maybe 1). Not a justification, but the war-wariness (deliberately spelled that way) is understandable.

The point I wanted to make is "feed your hungry" is a lazy and uninformed position to take when you hear about India doing science. If you read about $1000 toilet seats, by all means, fire away.
Have you tried MyFitnessPal (an app for counting calories)? If not, is there a particular reason you haven't? If you have, why did it not work?
Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon not so much.
Except for the plantation owners. They got paid reparations for their "loss" of slaves who were freed. The rich get richer, fuck the poor; that's just how the world goes. Why in the world would anybody strive for better?
What percent do these monitors make? It seems like this is written as an “interesting job” type story, but if their percent is exhorbitant (maybe anything over 10%) or if these monitors also take part in human trafficking or drugs then this could be horrible.

The story doesn’t answer this question so I suspect that the answers aren’t good.
DDG has been de-listing a ton of stuff recently. They recently de-listed rdrama, a reddit-trolling website that came up on HN last year. What, exactly, do they think people use them for? If I wanted "result curation" or whatever euphemism for censorship, I would just use Google.
.. the privilege of a teenager with unlimited time and no responsibility.

I get your point but the personal development can only happen if the primal needs are covered.
If you found this interesting you’d probably enjoy “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker. Granted given how poor my sleep hygiene is, it was an absolutely terrifying book to read. In short, very bad things happen when you don’t get sufficient amounts & sufficient quality of sleep (and many things we do, like drinking in the evening, mess with things like memory because of their impact to sleep).
Yes, wsl2 afaict works like that and a bit improved. Instead of dual booting or a restricted dev env, I click my Linux terminal icon and jump into a full & fast Ubuntu, including UIs when helpful. Sharing with Windows is possible through a shared mount of C:, but I rarely encounter it, basically only for a web downloads folder or working around certs. Same thing for VS Code, have a Windows mode and a wsl2 mode, and it opens the right one for you.

Almost all our dev is generic, so that means Windows for Office/web/... and full Linux for dev (except no real OpenCL).
To help you stop worrying about things that don't matter.
Ooh, good article. As somebody who had a bunch of shitty jobs in my youth, I recognize a lot of this.

One thing he doesn't quite name here, though, is trauma and recovery. Decades of cushy software jobs has given me opportunities to heal. I have my shit much more together now, and wouldn't have happened without that healing. Sanity is a luxury good.

So it's this part that troubles me:

> on average low-skill workers are worse in a lot of ways than high-skilled people

I think this is partly correct, but it treats worse-ness as an intrinsic of the person, not a consequence of the circumstances. It's a good example of the fundamental attribution error. [1] It's also a good example of why playing around with E-Prime [2] can be such a useful cognitive tool; avoiding intrinsics can clarify thinking.

As he noted, shitty jobs caused physical illness. But they also break and stunt people in non-physical ways. Treating people like an underclass is a good way to create an underclass. Not just in the workers themselves, but in the children of the workers. The various ACE studies make clear the ongoing cost of childhood trauma, some of which is caused and all of which is worsened by poverty and economic instability.

And from the story in the footnote, that's quite clearly what some people want. That manager didn't regret fucking all those people over. She gloried in it. Managerialism [3] is the modern, socially acceptable form of feudalism. There are plenty of people who only feel good if they have it better than somebody else. We let that continue at our peril.

[1] https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/the-fundamental-attribution...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

[3] https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/confronting-managerialism-9781...
Since when does using the weasel word 'direct' entail any functional difference?
Chris Harris on the Sport Quattro https://youtu.be/LDCE4FjVHOU?t=8m1s
Because the Abu Dhabi government is picking up the tab.
If you can honestly say that you get always get everything done on time then that's huge. If you say that the design on these websites isn't your idea then I think potential employers would be understanding, but better would be to build something simple on your own that shows what a website looks like when you do it your way.
Can you please explain precisely why the President does not have the legal authority to compel internet providers to follow his instructions during a time of war right now? Please cite independent legal authorities.

Also, given the atrocious way in which Patriot Act powers have been abused, let alone the manner in which illegal telecom surveillance has been completely ignored (silly people, prosecution of criminals is only for citizens, not government agents!), why exactly should we given Lieberman the benefit of the doubt on these issues at all? Lieberman has failed to investigate any of those issues despite chairing the Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. What else does Lieberman have to do in order to convince us that he does not respect civil liberties at all?
+1 for Open Source

Since you have a php background I recommend looking into Drupal. It's in high demand right now & with Drupal 7 I see the demand for talent increasing even more.