jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, I was mostly piling my own complaints on top of what you said. I also agree that Emacs is wonderful, and I agree that it's great how much power it gives us to reconfigure everything. However, that doesn't make it perfect. It's completely legitimate to point out flaws, whether they're actual bugs, subjective annoyances or hand-wavey project-wide things.

For example, I think that the Emacs community should embrace starter kits more when encouraging others to get started. Of course there's some truth to the "thrown in at the deep end" and "get to grips with the real, inner-workings" approaches, but at the same time the line has to be drawn somewhere; I doubt many would recommend new starters to compile Emacs themselves.

Still, Emacs is certainly not as scary as many make it out to be. This week I was helping out a Haskell programming class of CS students, where the instructions included setting up Emacs and installing haskell-mode (in Emacs 23, so they had to install the package manager first!). Out of a group of 60, only one struggled to do this, and it turned out to be because the sysadmin hadn't installed Emacs on the machine he was using ;)
This is awesome and has opened my eyes to features of emacs I didn't know about. But I still have use for tmux because it lets me attach to the same long-running session on a remote host from multiple clients. I'll probably just start having emacs be the only window open in my tmux session.
"Organizations" includes businesses[1]. I'm making a distinction between for-profit (/for-power?) organizations, vs. not, in order to compare their baseline "moral ground".

[1] Source: me.
I very much second this comment.

Learning Emacs is a very interactive process (much as Emacs itself). It's best to introduce new extensions one by one as you need them, and spending some time using them.

I consider myself a noob Emacs user (having been using it exclusively for the last 4+ years), and here's a trick I use if I feel overwhelmed/annoyed by some extension: I decide to spend 30-60 minutes (to the clock; personally I measure it in pomodoros) practicing the mode itself. Such focused learning gives wonderful results. For instance, I spent 30 minutes on learning multiple-cursors.el and now I can't imagine living without it. Or I was always confused by Paredit, but it took about one hour of practicing it to become proficient in it. Again, I now can't imagine working in Lisp without Paredit.

Discovering interesting modes can be a task in itself; I suggest browsing through at least Emacs Rocks short videos[0], they introduce many a handy utility.

[0] - http://emacsrocks.com/
The title of the article is "Hard disk reliability examined once more: HGST rules, Seagate is alarming"
So then the only remaining desktop is KDE, which is now the 5.0 series and is being adopted reasonably and is not breaking the user experience while improving what it cans.

Does that mean it wins?
I guess my concern is how salaries grow with experience, in a place with cost of living comparable to or higher than Manhattan.

A software engineer, a management consultant, a white shoe lawyer, and a banker may all start out at a "modest" $100k-$125k salary. Maybe a bit lower, maybe a bit higher.

But in only one of those professions is there a fairly low ceiling for salary growth and a tacit belief that your value decreases with age and belief (or, at least, a tacit belief that younger workers can do "good enough" work with lower pay and longer hours). The consequences of this are why having engineers go all in on a startup with hopes of delayed compensation is a huge ask.

Again, people are happy to do it, so it's not Sam's problem. It's certainly not my problem. But this system has grown dependent on a continuous stream high-profile IPOs making the gamblers rich, drawing in new and optimistic workers to take their place. If that stream dries up, I won't want to be anywhere near SF/SV during the fallout.
...what bet ?
Hmm... That would rather seem to be the monitoring company's own fault. Admittedly I haven't used ec2 for about 3 years, but I seem to recall there being an explicit disclaimer about how it wasn't supposed to be used for this kind of uptime-critical application. I want to say it even specifically mentioned medical stuff.
LOL Can you believe that I searched this discussion I started just to see if somebody would change mind since then? :D
thanks, made me understand my error with the "share link". Fixed now. Thanks again.
You can't solve these equations (at least in the general case, maybe there's some clever way in this specific case I'm not getting), because the ring of 64-bit integers is not a factorial ring, meaning not every multiplication can be undone. That is, if xy = z, there might be multiple y's for a given x and z. (Edit--previously I had said it's because it's not a field, but that's a stronger condition than we need.) If the sum is 2 and the sum of squares is 0, then (1, -1) and (2^63 + 1, 2^63 - 1) are both solutions.

You could do this solution using the field of bitfields modulo a 64-bit irreducible polynomial, but I expect that's over the heads of most interviewers :P

(edit: just realized that you can do the neccesary field multiplication and addition very quickly in constant time and space. It's even linear in the number of bits you have to process. This looks very close to an ideal solution, so I posted a link on the blog. There may be a clever solution that is better.)

(edit #2: the clever solution is just to use bigints. The sum of squares is guaranteed to fit in 192 bits. This might be what the parent poster meant all along. This works because integers are a factorial ring, so the equations are guaranteed to have a unique solution.)
thanks. even if the warm feeling I'm feeling right now will last no more than a day, it was still worthwhile creating it.
Would be cool to play Angry Birds on that!
I took a look at that thread, but it doesn't look to be about OwnCloud (it's about alternatives to Evernote in general), and I only saw one subthread where anything negative was said about OwnCloud.

Only two people said anything specific. One was about LDAP issues, and the other was about "files missing", which I Googled and it appears to just be a UI issue (the files dont' appear to be actually missing, just not indexed after a rename+sync).

Is there a different thread that you meant to link to that had actual horror stories about OwnCloud?
Plenty of data here on fluoridation in the UK here:

http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Fluoride/Pages/Introduction.asp...

Of course the NHS is socialist so the purity of their essences may already have been compromised.
I'm also looking into learning Haskell and I know a very little about functional programming (I'm still in university but I think no one will ever introduce me to that), any advice on where to start?
I gave a presentation at FOWA in London recently on this exact topic - you can see my slides at http://www.slideshare.net/bandrew/fowa-2010-fighting-and-thr...

Hope you find the content useful.
Misleading headlines can make you a profitable blogger.

The headline implies that configuring your Outlook can land you in trouble. But in this case, it's configuring your boss's Outlook.
"$1 a song is still too much"

too much??! really? $1 is hardly a lot of money for a good song.

I also forgot to mention that we now have the ability to preview almost any song before buying with services like Grooveshark.
Corporations are not "made of people". Legally, corporations have individual free speech rights like people (in the U.S.). People individually deciding to give money to politicians is different from the corporation giving money to politicians, but both acts are considered free speech in the U.S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Elec...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

kb
Not to mention their stance on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing .
Clarification: It wasn't anticipated by anyone other than the tech startup community insiders.

Two types of hype seem to exist in this industry -- hype generated from an awesome new product/service, or hype generated because some already successful people threw money at it. This happens to be the latter.

If some big names weren't attached, no one would be talking about it at all because the basic gist (at least so far) is, "It's like Twitter for photos but less powerful".
Part of there problem is these programs incentivize financial bad behavior and punish those who are financially responsible with higher taxes to pay for it.
Ok I searched patents using 'compression dictionary' and came up with a boatload. Folks have been using dictionaries since 2005 at least, to replace common words e.g. XML tags with tokens. E.g. patent 20050027731: Daniel Revel
Nir,

I have a similar background to you.

Since you single out Americans, tell me where people have more realistic and worldview? Our home country?
What SSL cert are you seeing? The site seems fine to me, and the SSLLabs check looks fine.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=savedotorg.or...
Sorry, you're not allowed to leave.

Earlier today I was trying to Google a website I found on my PC a while back. (Backing up its disk atm, and don't use Chrome sync.)

Clicked on an unrelated link, and was already in the process of reaching for the Back button when I realized I was looking at a cert failure (wrong domain in certificate). Heh. Idly curious I hit Continue... And was presented with my first

> Content Denied

> Access to this website has been disabled by an order of the Federal Court of Australia because it infringes or facilitates the infringement of copyright.

> 1800 086 346 for information.

https://i.imgur.com/fwXRlTN.png

After recovering from the shock - this sort of thing only happens in 3rd world repressive countries, right??? - I went back and tried the domain referenced in the cert.

Haha I've probably lit a billion lists up like Christmas trees now... I got this: https://i.imgur.com/w37jfFt.png

Here's the cert error, for reference: https://i.imgur.com/dZmEcnd.png
Photons don't carry entropy, creating more entropy is easy, and hotter doesn't mean more entropy. However, you're correct that you can't reach temperatures higher than the surface of the sun by concentrating sunlight (because that would destroy some entropy), and that you need millions of degrees for an appreciable rate of fusion.

Hope this helps.
I mean states which are ruled democratically rather than by elites. This means that the implicit bias in a democratic media is that of serving the people and exposing truth rather than covering for corpo-fascists and state-sponsered terrorism. There's such a thing as genuinely good reporting and integrity in journalism (even in authoritarian states)- it just needs to also be free of coercion and aware of the frame of reference that it exists in.
x.25 was my favorite
Forgot range. Which depends on weight. Which is saved by the battery enclosure being a structural member of the vehicle. I think to make a decent electric truck it will take more than strapping some batteries under the box and swapping ice for electric.
> Programming is a ridiculous career path.

You have blinders on. Programming is a far better, far less risky career, and pays far better than many very popular career paths (architecture, teaching, sports, arts, research (be it science, computer science, or humanities).

Context:

- sports and arts are obvious

- I did my stint in research, and programming (even at FAANGs) is far less stressful and far easier to find a good job in

- my wife worked in architecture / works as a teacher
maybe I missed the a, but I think he edited it after
Cool guidelines!
Can your heater push power into the grid?
From the page (All features of Nginx-1.2.9 are inherited, i.e. it is 100% compatible with Nginx.)

My guess would be if the scripts are compatible with Ngingx-1.2.9 it should work.
You can stab people with keys. I have a VW flick key. Sharpen it up, and its a great little weapon.
Yes, it's not about public/private. At a certain "screw-up" level, it doesn't matter anymore.

This is a Japanese problem, but it's close to becoming a worldwide problem

The containment has failed, as the leaks show, now what's the solution for that? Can we just pour tons and tons of sand on top so it melts and becomes a glass cocoon? (I don't know)

Or it has breached the soil?
I experienced such a fascinating wave of emotions reading this link and then this thread. Let me share so others' can compare:

"Ha! This is funny. It's poking fun at all these sites that try to reinvent a productivity tool. Wow...yup...they nailed it...yeah this looks hilariously over-complex. Ok, good parody!"

...goes to HN comments...

First comment...joke about the joke. Ha, funny's!

Second comment...yup people laughing at the joke...

10th comment...wait...um...someone said there was a different landing page. Ok, that's weird, this one seems less like satire.

15th comment...wait wait...I think this might be...a real product?

...Reads Medium post...goes back to HN comments....re-reads landing page.

"Ok..wait. This is actually a real product. They just spent 5 minutes making me think they were mocking other products with their fake over-complex screens...but....this...is....real?"

And now I just posted this. I think it's time for Thanksgiving vacation to start.
There are a number of people who'd been highly and publicly visible online during the 1990s who similarly largely dropped from view. I'm thinking of a Bay Area newspaper columnist, now doing the corporate life, or a fairly notable and outspoken hacktivist, who ... I find checking now died in 2013 of cancer (https://lancasteronline.com/obituaries/jonathan-b-stigelman/...).

This was before reality television (though there'd been precursors such as "An American Family", featuring the Louds of Santa Barbara, CA, in 1973: https://variety.com/2018/vintage/features/reality-tv-an-amer...), before Facebook, or MySpace (2004), or Friendster (2003), though Geocities (1994) did exist.

Internet access was via dialup. I recall trading in my 28.8k modem for a 56k during this period. Linux was pretty extreme fringe, Windows NT 4.0 hadn't been released yet, and getting a TCP/IP stack on Windows 3.11, or if you were advanced, Windows 95, required Winsock32.dll.

Apple was still Apple Computer, and its CEO was Gil Amelio. Mobile phones were a rarity. Digital cameras, as of 1999 - 2000, were extremely expensive and rare, and high-end professional equipment might boast 5-8 megapixels. Web search was Altavista, HotBot, AskJeves, or Yahoo. Google only emerged ~1998-1999.

Displays were still CRTs, chips were still Pentium or Pentium-Pro, unless you were using a Mac, in which case, PowerPC.

This was a quarter century ago. I am now old.

The times were, it shocks me to
I have designed a programming language that borrows an important part of its architecture from Lisp(s) (maybe mostly Scheme, but also Kernel: http://klisp.org). However, I have always opposed to the concrete syntax of S-expressions (being mostly unable to be productive with it).

My arguments are not on the familiarity side (with the infix notation), but on the psychological one:

1. S-expressions are not the most simple, natural, or uniform surface form (as they claim); they do have syntactic sugar (quote, even lists themselves!, etc.), so why not to add some more sugar (but sufficiently abstract of course)?

2. Humans' brain has limited "stack" space (especially when closing parentheses); infix forms may "cascade" and do not consume the stack (equally machine on human, due to possibility of "tail recursion")

3. Lack of diverse "visual clues" for humans (note how most natural languages have 40-60 phonemes, and none less than 15)

4. S-expressions and homoiconicity are related but orthogonal features (so the homoiconicity argument is often not valid)

Having that said, when I finally managed to write a working 50+-lines program in Scheme, with "proper" indentation, I was just proud of it, and I said, "Wow, it looks cool!". But I am still on the side of the above rational arguments! My point is that as my experiment demonstrates, it is probably too easy to get on an emotional side of computer-human interaction once you accomplished something a bit challenging (like speaking in classic S-expressions)?
Check out this: https://github.com/dmarmor/epichrome

It does exactly what you are talking about but with only one copy of Chrome.
Surely the smoking gun (or elephant in the room) is that medical care and medical insurance are very expensive in the USA, whilst other developed nations are adopting universal healthcare?
They've already started deleting old tweets for some reason.
I only tweeted 4 times and the 2 oldest tweets are gone :(
If you're looking at log files, a tool I've started to play with is http://lnav.org/

= In Your Terminal =
Many logging tools, like Splunk, provide great features but are optimized for large-scale deployments. They require installing and configuring servers before they can be effectively used. There is still a need for a robust log file analyzer for the terminal.

= Easy to Use =
Just point lnav to a directory and it will take care of the rest. File formats are automatically detected and compressed files are unpacked on the fly.

= Improved Presentation =
Log files are a wealth of information, lnav can help highlight the parts that are important and filter out the noise.
In a partnership dissolution, there's generally agreements about the assets. I would assume they'd each have rights to access those relationships and produce conferences in the future. In my mind, Calcanis came to the partnership as the "lesser" party (which is why it was named the TechCrunch50 and not the JasonNation50)... For TechCrunch to NOT be able to have ongoing relationships with folks who were working with the TechCrunch50 seems odd... But it all comes down to the partnership and dissolution agreements that were signed.
Nice hack on the session sharing. "2. Build a Django Session Engine using phpserialize to speak PHP's serialization format"
That's not more accurate. Tuition fees are fees introduced to supplement taxpayer support. If they are never introduced, it is bizarre to say that taxpayers are paying them.
Did the object exist 31 years ago? Sure it did.
How is accessing the networks' content through their websites and watching the networks' own ads is "getting the milk for free", if anything the networks here are limiting ad impressions by blocking potential viewers which is incredibly stupid.
Help > Acknowledgements
At my day job we mostly do penetration testing and incident response. Sometimes we need to crack passwords so we have these huge files called rainbow tables that can be used to look up a very high percentage of possible passwords for given algorithms, but aren't infallible and take time to search.

We sometimes crack passwords to do a password strength audit. Sometimes dictionaries aren't really enough (as someone might have chosen an obvious word in another language) so it's easier to just crack the passwords, automate analysis of the obvious and then scan through anything left behind.

WPA-PSK cracking is particularly useful in the UK Local Government sector, where local government in most cases needs to have an annual penetration test, often including their wireless networks. A lot choose WPA-PSK because it doesn't mean spending money on a full-blown wifi network.

The other thing we use password cracking for is when we do incident response work. Sometimes people encrypt things like documents or use PGP containers. This isn't quite making PGP cracking feasible, but certainly the majority of encrypted word documents should be doable with this.
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-reader-...

First hit on Google for "Safari Readability"
Its for a undergraduate position, so I think its something much simpler.
Thank you very much for all the specific links and advice. The part I am trying to get over is how I think (and have thought for many years) that those guys just come across as pretentious dicks to me, and men who snap into a completely different personality as soon as a woman walks by fill me with some revulsion. I am very sensitive to bullshit myself and can't stand it in others and so maybe the main thing about Game that bothers me is how much it violates the golden rule for me. To impress me, just be who the fuck you are, you know?

That being said, I can't work around the fact that my sexual value isn't even just near zero right now, it's precisely zero. I'd probably settle down with any smart and nice woman who wasn't any worse than somewhat below average looking. Things that fall into place naturally for other men don't work for me. So it's basically a choice between never touching a girl in my life without paying for it or working my ass off for a few years to try and manipulate women enough that one or two will want to be close to me someday, and that's a much easier choice.
I think that kind of multi-stage deal is common in large corporate transactions.
I'd argue that some of Aphex Twin's best tracks were remixes he did for other artists, which later appeared on that career-spanning compilation. While it's arguable whether or not some of those remixes contained original source material from the tracks they are supposed to be remixes of, I think it's disingenuous to refer to that stuff as run of the mill.

I specifically pre-ordered that album not because it contained to chocolate Aphex Twin coins, but because it was way better than tracking down the dozens of singles that contained those remixes.
Getting a working visa is rather easy if you have a company sponsoring you - certainly much easier than for the US for a EU citizen, and much shorter. If the company has experience doing it, it can take less than 2 months between the very beginning and you getting the visa. You are almost guaranteed to get it if you have company sponsorship.

OTOH, anything permanent is a chore.
Thankfully, my major clients are using the Asia EC2 Instances!
I think they're actually quite different circumstances (though your point is valid, that a storage company should own their own storage solution). Yahoo never thought of themselves as a search company. I think they considered search to be a commodity... as long as it works thats all that matters, and thought the value of the advertising should be their focus.
Neither of those are technically servers, and both do NAT traversal on their own.
While Terrence was of Chinese origin, he certainly did not grow up imbued in the Chinese culture. He was more of an Australian. I not saying this to imply Chinese are not deep thinkers. I have worked with Chinese (China bred) engineers who are damn good thinkers. So it is just a matter of personal style and priority(influenced at times by the culture one grows in).
Agreed. Pausing to think about how it is that you are able to share a file that is stored as encrypted over the web with your friends will provide a clue.

Now, if only there was an cross-platform (mobile + desktop) solution that would allow me to store files I encrypted on Dropbox. That would be pretty killer.
on a tangential note, sometimes I use a slower methods for UI reasons. For example avoiding blocking the UI, or allowing for canceling the computation, or displaying partial results during the computation (that last one might completely trash the cache).
Could you expand on what's the scope of the 'record' intrinsic? Is it used for as many things as Python's `dict`? I sure hope not, otherwise I'm wondering how anyone could have gotten much done in this language before.