jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel that the most useful information in this area isn't undisputed fact - but the opinion of experienced people. Opinions are the crystallization of experience.

Wikis don't do opinion well.

So I think the right solution is a series of lessons owned entirely by each contributor, and then a wiki-like index that organizes and contextualizes the lessons. And of course you can just RSS to all lessons, or to a specific contributor.

I think I can hack that up in drupal.
Did you read the article?

It was more about how Baidu beat other Chinese-companies than how it beat Google. The other Chinese companies were (a) playing ball on censorship and (b) homegrown, too.
Yes, definitely. It's a 2 step process that probably has way too much friction right now (and at some point soon I'll be asking HN for feedback, but that's not for right now). (1) Create for an account ( http://www.mychances.net/signup.php ). Once you confirm, it takes you into step (2) automatically, creating your profile and then letting you add the colleges that you got decisions from.
Let's remove all martial arts groups as well (for inciting violence) while we're at it.

Where and how do we draw the line!?
Yes, that also plays a part in the effectiveness of the message.
good question. why should you lose the right to do something because someone has filed a piece of paper?
I mean companies who create the same exact solution.
Sometimes execs really do have a good grasp on what customers what. Any good ceo is a salesperson for their company, and spends a great deal of time talking to the most important ($, strategic, etc) customers.

Finally, even if the feature ends up being entirely useless, it gives PMs ammunition for the future to push back against ceo requests. And hopefully the ceo is reflective enough to internalize the lesson.
Me three. When Dropbox hit me with the three-device limit, I decided to just move my stuff to OneDrive. Granted, my OneDrive account has 40 GB free space (through various grandfathered deals), but if it didn’t, I’d probably prefer to pay Microsoft (or Google) $19.99/year for 100 GB rather than paying Dropbox $120 for 2000 GB (the majority of which would go unused).
Surprised they didn't mention IronMQ: http://www.iron.io/mq

It's not perfect but pretty damn close. And it run on AWS et al.
With a decent Threadripper and 3090, there might be enough heat to cook a small chicken. If not that, enough to reheat leftovers.

They might have to redesign the case a bit, however.
I'd love to find out how to delete a bitstamp account, there's no links on their site.
I'm still willing to be convinced that Google has some kind of special, voluntary co-operation policy with the NSA but this article doesn't seem to offer much proof of such a thing. It seems to consist mostly of accusations of guilt by association and the questionable inference that Google having a large lobbying budget is indicative of being in government's pocket somehow.
Looks like it. What a bunch of morons. Wordfence, pretty lofty name.
I'm not going to give up hope. I still believe.
One way to test the claim: use promises to code his example http://swannodette.github.io/2013/08/17/comparative/ . Is it necessarily hellish? I might get around to looking into this tomorrow if nobody else does.
"Muscle memory will allow people to gain significant amounts of muscle in short periods of time, if that muscle has been trained before."

Then the book isn't telling how to "gain 35 pounds of muscle". It's telling how to restore 35 pounds of muscle you recently had.

Which is significantly different from "add 35 new pounds of muscle".
It's mighty cold in Chicago right now and my girlfriend noticed recently for the first time that her brand new Android phone's touchscreen doesn't work while wearing gloves... Is there a potential market for this or is someone already doing it?

Edit: Found one http://www.gloves-online.com/proddetail.php?prod=FH-1120B

And a DIY guide: http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-A-Glove-Work-With-A-T...
I'm still a heavy mutt user. But I have to acknowledge, that being able to use Google Search and Google Contacts is a nice to have.

Though I can live without search - mutt is awesome here, too. Having contacts in sync, though - is really nice. I will take the high road and write a sync script here, soon.

Anyone interested in collaborating in a soon to come github repo for it?
Dave has some reasonable points, and frankly I think MS is going where he'd like them to go.

But he does miss the boat on a few things.

One thing that I do think he discounts too much is the surprising effectiveness of small focused teams. In the same way a small startup is more effective than a lumbering machine, a small team of devs is often more effective than 1000 loosely organized volunteers. The classic example is GCC which has probably 10x more people working on it than any commercial compiler, yet the Intel and MS C/C++ compilers generally kill it. Not to mention other less popular compilers like IBM xlc and DEC's Alpha compiler.

The contribution list to RoR is impressive, but the quality of the product doesn't scale with the number of contributors.

I think the question MS has to ask is "do we forego control to possibly get an incremental increase in product quality?" What I've found interesting is the speed at which Silverlight and ASP.NET MVC have improved over the past few years. With relatively small developer teams, they've increased in quality as fast as any open source projects I know of.

The other thing he gets wrong is he conflates framework developers with application developers. And I think this causes him to see a skewed world-view that developers are "waiting" for Microsoft. In general, app developers, are not waiting for MS to do anything. You have tight deadlines and are trying to find the best solution today. You take a snapshot of the world right now and pick the best solution (or starting point). You don't have the time to ponder what might be available in eight months.

Most ppl on the MS stack are app developers. Always has been the case.
To make it even more obvious, it's to prevent this (I haven't done SQL in a long while so this may be broken):

SELECT username FROM users WHERE password=HASH('secret');

I've seen systems where that statement will give a list of all usernames with the password "secret".
Anyone want to start a pool? I'm definitely a "no".
This comment reminds me of 'Fooled by Randomness' and 'Black swan' by Taleb.Logic rules.
I don't know if it's the best marketing strategy to name your product after something with a negative connotation like a virus.

That said, there was a while where floppy disks were too small for most things yet there wasn't an easy replacement for them, I remember burning a lot of CDs during that period and hating it. Then the USB drive became prominent... and there was great rejoicing. This is one smart guy, if he makes a great product that I find useful I don't really care what it's called.
Compared to anything except rails, ASP.NET is pretty good.

Yes, the viewstate / gridview bs is annoying and should not be used. The problem is primarily that corporate dev departments want interchangeable parts. They want to be able to hire a developer and him to know the API that everyone is using. They don't want magic. They want everything spelled out so that the code looks identical to the UML and identical to the Use case document as signed off in triplicate by a committee of managers. In corporate dev you get promoted for doing everything to the letter not something new and exciting.
I've seen pages with more than 100 checkboxes on them and arranged in a grid, it was like someone when mental with excel putting a checkbox in every cell.

To be honest, if rails were adopted by corporate dev you'd see things like not being allowed to use haml / sass, etc. You'd have a corporate list of approved gems in specific versions that were 3 years old (probably whatever comes with a default install of RedHat)

I'd bet if you look at what Atwood and Spolsky are doing over at StackOverflow on ASP.NET it's probably a reasonable choice of defaults and open source. There are a lot of stupid decisions you can make with .NET and I agree that the community is definitely lacking, but largely it's a mindset issue that stems from the socio-political environment they program in.

At my last job you should have seen the shit show that ensued when someone in management found out the DLLs I was handing off to other teams were written in F#, even though it was the .NET team and not the C# team. Apparently, unbeknownst to me, the largest cause of developers leaving a company is due to being hit by buses, and a dependency on FSharp.Core.dll is just unacceptable and could never be part of the automated build process.
If someone gets a hold of your email, they could easily request another login token anyway. I think it's fine if it doesn't expire.
They're building a large office in Hudson Yards, just not as large of one.
Rich Hickey nails this hilarious in his (amazing) "simple made easy" talk from 2011 where he calls this mentality guard rail driven development: we don't drive down the highway careening back and forth off the guard rails as we drive down the road, thinking "thank goodness these rails are here or i wouldn't be able to drive down this highway"-- why do we think this about our unit tests?

im hardly doing the bit justice because it's truly an all-timer-- highly recommend the whole thing, beyond just that bit of it (which i think comes early on iirc): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGlVcSMgtV4
Stallman said he didn't have most of the characteristics of Asperger's. Rhythm was just an example.
> fixing the password security would've required breaking everyone's ability to commit to the PHP codebase

The parameterized queries could have been fixed, though, right? And you can progressively update people's passwords to a different algorithm as they log back in, and warn them that in six months their password will need to be reset if they haven't logged in.
And who lobbies said politicians with huge power and influence? Isn't that part of the design as well?
they pay little tax because they re-invest into their growth.

This is a desired behavior which we want - it fosters innovation and job creation.
Doesn't matter what Yanis calls himself. The Economist used that quote out of context and is a cheap shot for a magazine that wants to keep "high standards". You either give accurate descriptions of both parties you're referring to or you don't.

On a deeper level, there's no apolitical journal. Consciously or unconsciously authors, magazines, etc. are pushing specific agendas. If the magazine wants to play fair, needs to avoid cheap shots.

Beppe Grillo did not govern but for a long time was a kind of opposition leader in Italy. The econ referred to him as a "comedian-turned-politician" at all times. I find this deeply unethical. I never read the "mediocre-actor-turn-politician" about Ronal Reagan. The "actor" or "comedian" capacity doesn't matter when you talk public policy.

Since you seem to like dictionary definitions, here:

context | ˈkɒntɛkst |
noun
the circumstances that form the setting for an event,
statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully
understood.
I was not claiming that, just that also big companies use it. It may not be used for the core of the business but I'm convinced the services that are build with Clojure are reliable, because the language is solid.
In terms of overall adoption, PostgreSQL doesn't need to catch Oracle or MySQL. The people that enjoy legacy platforms are not going to change (necessarily).

Real work gets done with PostgreSQL. You can't buy something from Amazon.com without using PostgreSQL. The more Amazon talks about that in their ecosystem, the more PostgreSQL becomes the default choice for all new developers within that (very large) ecosystem.

When you combine that with the loud presence of another 800lb Gorilla promoting PostgreSQL (MSFT), the market has spoken.
I saw Chick Corea play a concert at Berkeley with Bella Fleck (a banjoist!) in like 2013. It was an utterly unique experience and I have had a soft spot for Chick Corea ever since. He will be missed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G3BSmEX4_w
Why is it OK for "Grocery Store" to see your data, but not "Boar's Head"? Corporations aren't people. The boundaries are imagianry?
The true mission of Elons brain interface. Save us from our thumbless future.
Germany is an example of where their monetary policy has allowed them to keep inflation at the rate it's at. Japan is an example of where they have failed. Both are still good examples.
I left the storage industry about 5 years ago, but at least as of then the big cloud providers were still buying lots of spinning rust and showed no signs of stopping. These companies store a lot of long tail data which needs to be available but doesn't need super low latency access. It's still much more economical to store such data on disks than in flash.
Just use img tags pointing to SVG's?
Would it be possible to replace the internal SSD? Possibly by setting some laxer security policy before the original one dies?
In Eastern Europe everyone interjects assertions that don’t follow from any part of the discussion? Because that is the article’s approach to connecting topics of late capitalism and gender/queer issues and structural inequality. They are disjointedly introduced in an unmotivated, ungrounded way that violates basic, universal conventions of successful writing and communication in all nationalities.

I really doubt what you are saying here. Eastern Europeans are just as capable of logical trains of thought supported by compelling writing and evidence as anyone else in the world - which is very different from this article.
We have consulted lawyers, I was just wondering how some companies are able to still hire from anywhere. I'm guessing that it's some combo of hiring non-US workers as contractors and simply biting the bullet on sales tax as needed in each US state.
Actually, the Netscape page is just a thin veneer over the CompuServe page. If you take the green gifs off, the page is filled with CompuServe colors. It's less a template and more Netscape wearing the skin of CompuServe turned green.
There are quite a lot of people working on better packaging (look at the Python discourse forum, for instance), but this is not really a topic that Guido has got involved in, at least in the time I've been paying attention.

But with or without a BDFL, one packaging tool to rule them all is a pretty tall order. The needs of a package like scipy, which incorporates C & Fortran code, are pretty different from something like requests. And different communities using Python have their own entrenched tools and techniques. It takes more than someone saying "Foo is officially blessed" to shift that, even if everyone respects the person saying that.
> I can just get girls out of their shoes, it’s a thing I can do.

absolutely incredible line
I didn't notice the contrast problem until seeing the GP comment, but I suspect that speckled backgrounds are worse than a solid #E8F7FA because they mess with people's ability to do edge detection when trying to see the shapes of the letters in the text.
I'd like to see a chemical lab without asbestos.

When used by professionals, it's an incredible heat shield.
> I use a text-only browser for reading HTML.

Is that getting more difficult with the prevelance of JavaScript driven websites?
Everywhere where daily amenities are too spread out and the streets are too dangerous for children and old people to cycle on them. That's most of the developed world outside of some very large cities.
How the world has changed that running something on a raspberry pi counts as "embedded".

I was expecting this to be on some microcontroller...
Pet Theory: The reason peanut allergies are more prevalent in the US as opposed to other countries that consume peanuts is a difference in the way the body processes peanut butter as opposed to regular peanuts.
All you have to do is follow the Worms.
Re 3 really seems over kill an unrealistic for an interview, and maybe some times you don't need optimal time complexity.

And TBH with a background in real technical computing I would probably look at buying in any required algos in from people like NAG.

Your not really testing for those that can think outside the box in this style of interview.
> The action of wearing a suit (or tie for that matter) to an interview should never be seen as a "cultural fit" problem

I would agree and would go as far to say that dress in general should never be a hiring criteria for a non-customer facing position. Unless there are hygiene issues or they are wearing something actively offensive.
My two cents. If you are successful you will eventually have a marketing team. WordPress (self-hosted) requires very little technical know-how to operate. I think that is important because the marketing team can own all things WordPress, keeping your engineering team focused on the product.

For the same reason I think it makes a lot of sense to use WordPress if you are just starting out because it is simple and easy to use. You can just write and you won't burn cycles messing with non-writing tasks to make it work.
I'd never heard that term either, but it sounds like this is what they're referring to:

> "We were the first to isolate single-photon emitters in the most widespread material of the microelectronics industry: silicon," Dr.éau said. "Furthermore, these artificial atoms based on single fluorescent point defects have the great advantage of emitting single-photons directly at telecom wavelength, which is convenient for long-distance propagation inside optical fibers."
Vivaldi (also Chromium) is another option. I've used Brave for a while but I got annoyed by them modifying my settings through user experiments without any form of opt in.
At the end of the day it boils down to trust. It’s general because companies are not trustworthy in general.
You are probably right.

The one in FreeBSD is from NetBSD: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/usr.bin/units/units.c?v...

The NetBSD version is from Adrian Mariano: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/units/units....

The one in Plan9 is in yacc: http://9p.io/sources/plan9/sys/src/cmd/units.y

This GitHub repo claims to be V6: https://github.com/memnoth/unix-v6/blob/master/source/s2/uni...
It’s about Unix, and GNU’s Not happens to be the best implementation of it. Which is why macOS copies pieces of it, despite needing to use obsolete versions in order to comply with Apple’s hatred for end-user freedom.
Nothing, we don't replace it because we don't need it

It's a tremendous waste of money
30+ years of experience also read steve McConnell.
The downsides of mass immigration are have a tremendous downside, comparable to the upside of being physically co-located. For example, the skyrocketing living costs in US cities.

Trying to solve the problems that get in the way of making remote work as seamless as co-location seem to be technical, which are easier than the fundamental problems of economics.
I can't speak for the poster you're responding to, but if it's easy to make things that pretty in R, I suddenly want to learn it.
> Rice may be cheap, but it doesn't provide the protein, and almost everything else at the $2 limit is also going to lack the fiber and vitamins.

How about Feijoada? Mostly black beans and rice, which are both ridiculously cheap when bought in bulk. Years ago (don't know about currently) it was good enough to be the basic staple of Brazilian army conscripts. And one thing we know for sure is that soldiers burn a lot of calories.

Wikipedia claims[1]:

Rice is rich in starch, an excellent source of
energy. Rice also has iron, vitamin B and protein.
Beans also contain a good amount of iron and an
even greater amount of protein than rice. Together
they make up a complete protein, which provides
each of the amino acids the body cannot make for
itself.

To supplement that, wouldn't cheap vitamin pills be good enough to keep you alive?

I know it doesn't sound appetizing, but "beggars can't be choosers". It sounds a lot more appealing to me than trying to live on ramen. And it sounds a lot healthier to me than most of what McDonald's sells.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_and_beans
That's neat. I spend my work days simulating advanced nuclear reactors that have hexagonal fuel assemblies. In my codes I've used a lot of this info. This is an excellent resource that I'll be referring people who come from the more traditional square lattice world.
Those two points seem to me like fringe advice. I'm sure if I googled "gluten autoimmune" and "tabata intervals" I'd find a bunch of people agreeing with you, but no more than I'd find with any number of other fad diets or exercise regimes.

It'd take a helluva lot of evidence to persuade me that eating grains is bad, because... heck, grains are tasty, and the vast majority of humans who have lived over the last five thousand years have had grain-based diets with no obvious ill effects. Likewise, if you think long slow-distance cardio is pretty much useless, go watch long-distance runners for a while.

My advice to anyone who is unfit and wants to be fit is to ignore everybody who's trying to sell you some very specific idea of what you have to do, and just concentrate on doing the lowest-common-denominator stuff: eat less junk, do more exercise.
Optimizing for performance, sure. But I was trying to optimize for character count. :-)
I personally would count that against any candidate during an interview. I wouldn't necessarily reject them, but I would definitely count that against them. I work in Toronto, Ontario. English is not my native language, but I always do my best to ensure that my code or documentation is as close to crystal clear as possible. This starts with using correct spelling. Code is written first for humans to read, and to me misspelling in code is no different than poor variable naming. It is the kind of broken window that, when left unchecked or dismissed as "not important", instills a sense of negligence that over time can turn a code base from "decent" to "poor old crappy code".
I speak 9 languages by now, and it helps a lot to get to the customers to speak their language. English-only communication fails to sell out of the safe borders of the English speaking nations.

Esperanto is just used as a communication tool, just like we use better or worse programming languages to get things done.
Backward compatibility to what? They are in progress of creating the first version now.
Elijah doesn't work for Microsoft.

Contrast his article to what you get from MS employees writing about jQuery:
http://stephenwalther.com/blog/archive/2010/04/08/jquery-asp...