jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It may have been them looking for someone specific - it was the middle of the night, and the Garda aren't exactly the most talkative of government agencies.
More like US court ordered Google to remove anti-Islamic film from YouTube...

"By a 2-1 vote, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Google's assertion that the removal of the film "Innocence of Muslims" amounted to a prior restraint of speech that violated the U.S. Constitution."
Yeah, you're right. But "luxurious" has connotations that go beyond "good conditions". It's not a luxury to be treated with dignity and respect, paid decently and allowed to make time for your family. That should be normal, and the real problem is that it isn't normal for enough people.
That is not how "class" is defined. Social class is based on socioeconomic power, influence, and security. Generally, the upper class is the top 1% or 2% of incomes or net worths, and the lower/working class is far larger than the lower 33%.

Additionally, tying class tightly to income is nonsense, because it ignores people with significant wealth but little income and ignores the different socioeconomic climates across the US.
I am not sure we can reliably measure productivity, either. GDP is supposed to be such a measure, but it has its own share of problems.

Anyway, I argued from a moral perspective, not a practical one. It's a complicated problem, and everybody has a different perspective (and they should have).

To answer your question - what should be discouraging is your incompetence in the field. In other words, you either shouldn't get that job or become frustrated with it enough to try something else. And on the other hand, if you are good at something, you are probably already plenty motivated to do it. Think about it - if all the jobs would be payed equally for the same effort, why would you want to waste your life on something that you cannot do well?

The difference is that I see usefulness as a binary thing. To me, if there is enough good people doing the stuff already, therefore we don't need you even if you like the job, and you shouldn't get it (your work in that field is not useful). Instead of, having market system to depress the wages for all the people in that field, just because everybody is capable of doing that job. Or because there are differences in productivity between jobs.

Also, I agree that other people have to decide somehow whether or not your work is useful for society, it cannot be just your decision. But I don't agree the weight of this decision to be tied with productivity (I think it should be decided democratically, in fact), because that's prone to positive feedback loops.
Let's leave politics to a different thread on a different site.
I'm not trolling.

I'm saying that software developer lifestyles only look good because of the terribly poor conditions many other people work in, both in developed economies and in more obviously poverty-stricken places. We're lucky not to be those people, but to me "luxury" implies either greed or wastefulness - that as software developers we're getting some kind of unreasonably good deal from the world. I don't think we are. I think more people should get the kind of deal that software developers do.

Sure, in relative terms you can say that developers are lucky. But I'm not sure it makes much sense to say "you're lucky that you don't live in poverty", because we should consider modestly affluent lifestyles to be the norm and poverty to be the aberration that needs to be explained.
Yeah, they say the algorithm erroneously sees an Amarillo. But wait, I actually see an Amarillo and I actually see a centipede.
Fellow Canadian, definitely cool we have some bleeding edge stuff, just scares the hell out of me. Trying to convince fellow non-technical friends of what this means with C-51.
I work in the data analytics space, so I'll focus there since many of the other answers give a good, broad set of companies to consider.

* Trifacta (http://www.trifacta.com/) are dealing with the very grungy problem of data transformation. Their approach is heavily UX-centric, with built-in predictive capabilities that learn what you are doing as you try to transform disparate data sets to meet your needs.

* Segment (http://www.segment.com) acts as a data router, allowing you to implement significantly less data plumbing in your application while allowing you to deliver your data to many different analytics tools.

* Jut (http://www.jut.io) is a full-stack approach to building a hub for streaming data. They take any operations data (logs, metrics, alerts, events) as inputs, manage storage and analysis, and have creating a framework for streaming visualizations as well. Technologies include an in-browser, retargetable compiler, a streaming analytics layer, storage (elastic search and cassandra), A d3-based visualization framework designed for 3rd party add-ons, and a simpler way to manage large-scale data called hybrid SaaS. (disclosure: I work here.)

* Databricks (http://www.databricks.com) has implemented apache Spark as a service.
I wonder who got the Amazon job, and what he's worth today. It says meaningful equity, so let's say they gave him 1.5% equity. With dilution and stock splits, let's say that equity got divided 20 times. So that guy now owns .075% of Amazon. At $170 billion market cap, his stake would be worth $127 million
Resources to discover books they are interested in ... a good bookstore, library, amazon, etc. I was a "reader," and while I had the ability to read above my grade level, I didn't want to. I would have been bored to death by most of these recommendations. Enjoying and appreciating reading is important. Their interests will evolve and grow from there.
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There's plenty to criticize about both the modern media landscape and modern "wokeness", but this piece seems more cultural grievance than productive critique.

Personally, when it comes to political journalism, one of my favorite pieces is Jay Rosen's "Why Political Coverage is Broken"[1]. I think it covers specific problems with media coverage in more detail, and provides a better path to restoring trust in news than "be more objective".

[1] https://pressthink.org/2011/08/why-political-coverage-is-bro...
On the other hand, the :! and ! commands are Vi compatible (though, as you say, you wouldn't get the additional features of :sort). So you get to pick who you're going to be compatible with: vi or Windows?
In this arms race, these companies might start shipping with their own resolver.
Imagine blasting this sequence down to huge numbers of consumers, and letting independent nodes coordinate on intervals in the sequence in order to establish secure one time communications.

The bit rate is so high it would be impossible to reproduce the pad despite having access to the full random bit stream, because you couldn't possibly store the historic stream for future analysis even if you could eventually determine the past communication's interval.
The arguments the author made make no sense without some sort of a baseline though. 'The majority always play online' for instance points to a fairly tight definition, and may even be tautological (No True fighting game is designed for offline play).
We're just meat bags with terrible sensory perception and reasoning skills. This is the reason I am more open to claims of "no reality" and the like. Plato's cave but no one sees the whole picture
tl;dr: If this CEO's security systems were so weak that a single password leak by an intern can compromise his entire company, the entire US Govt and many others, and much of the Fortune500, then his security systems suck - all the way up to insane values of suckage.

The fact that he is blaming the intern shows that he knows his systems suck and is attempting to divert.

The entire management chain from CEO down to the intern's manager is at best too incompetent to work in the industry, and more accurately, a major threat to national security.

Anyone who trusts these people to do so much as run out for a pizza is a fool.
Because the Brazilian government does not care, so they effectively own the land.
Unpopular take: whether your LinkedIn experience is good or bad is a pretty strong indicator of how much you "get" online networking.

- If you see it as a place to mostly transact with recruiters, Yes, your feed is absolutely going to be crap. If you see it as a place to have conversations with your professional community, your feed is going to look like a constant streamed event with the best content.

- If you see online networking as shouting-from-rooftops self promotion, of course you'll notice the worst of the worst shouters. If you realize anyone you'll ever need to engage with professionally is basically a click away, you start looking at what on these people's mind. You don't care about Mark Cuban or whatever, because it's a whole lot more interesting to hear your real target audience talk about their pain points.

- "Performing professionalism" is the best. Of all the social networks, LinkedIn has the greatest built-in policing mechanism: its users' fear for their own reputation. Being an ass might end up costing real dollars, so maybe best avoided, the logic goes. You don't see trolling; you don't see fighting; no one will give you points for being shitty to others. There's a lot to like in that.

Plus, LinkedIn is nerdy. Text posts actually perform better than links. Attention is fairly aligned with follower count. (I've collected data for a year, and some pretty clear trends emerge)

So yeah, it's good that we have this variant of a social network, if anything I wish there were more like it.
I imagine the quantity is small but there is some percentage of buyers, such as myself, that make sure there is an root exploit available before I buy a phone.
I know this is not the forum for it, but here's what helped for me:

1) Write every horrible event down in excruciating detail. For me that gave my mind the permission to forget/heal/move-in.

2) Explore the possibility that the abuser was abused themselves and that while that is not an excuse, it does make it more comprehensible. If you do find the a chain of abuse, then recognize that you have the wonderful opertunity to break the chain. It won't be easy.

3) Recognize the problem of over compensating - I was abused, but I over-compensated by smothering my children with love. I needed to give them a bit of space.

4) Talk about it to people that love you. A hug is nice. For me, I internalized the abuse and thought that I was unlovable. I am weird, but people do love me - that's a surprise.

Good luck with your healing!
>Without Prop 13, home owners tax rates rise just because nearby businesses are successful, which is absurdly regressive.

Because the value of the asset they own has increased.

Prop 13 discourages people from moving and unfairly shifts the tax burden on new residents
Fn keys are disaster. They are second grade plastics, small and extremely bad. The Fn switch is something that deserves letting the designer go.

Coupling of dongle with keyboard and mouse is another design issue that deserves changing the entire team - if dongle goes out (and I have 2 that did) you can basically throw away working mouse and keyboard. WTF man ?! Its enough that your laptop goes hot for a month or so to make dongle unusable by melting its electronics.

I have 3 sculpt keyboards and never had one go to sleep on different Windows 10 systems over 2 years ?

One other thing that goes to my nerve is how hand pads look unclean after only month or two of usage, I am basically ashamed when people look at it. Its not possible to keep it clean.

Otherwise, awesome keyboard :)
"Guys, we are going to start quantum exploiting your blockchain for profit in a couple of months, please fork before that XOXO" - No criminal ever

More likely: "We'll skim from dormant wallets that won't be immediately noticed, and when it becomes too obvious, we move all of Satoshi's bitcoins to force an emergency fork that launders our profits".
"qualified welfare" doesn't reach people who can't navigate the bureaucracy.
Not OP, but we used a competing product, which is

https://owletcare.com/

It is a foot attachment that basically watches heart rate and oxygen level all night, and freaks out if something is wrong.

Only a very few accidental freakouts (like kicked off foot), but gave a lot of peace of mind. Not cheap but seems pretty solid engineering wise.
>>Nothing against people owning a 1 acre lot if they want

Sounds like you do, you more or less accused anyone that desires a 1 acre plot of classism or wanting to "keep the poor people out", and of wanting to destroy the environment.

In reality most people that want that simply desire privacy, I for example desire that because i do not want to "walk to the corner store" or have a park at all in my neighborhood. I do not want to have "neighborhood" events, or be able to talk to my neighbor from my porch.

I want privacy, I want to be able to enjoy my hobbies which are solitary pursuits not group activities.
> The reality is that people have a day to day life and right now we are talking about that.

Asking what role Google has as one of the most atrocious in privacy violators, is something that is relevant to the day to day of Gaza.

The fact that you so quickly dismiss their plight the way you do is why this can never be more than a walled garden, and why I honestly think she should see what working in Silicon Valley minded corps is like before she goes any deeper: you want your narrative to be the only one, even while building tools that keep people in that position in their very business model.

Sidenote: I donated to send food via Flotilla that got raided by Isreali forces in 2010, so don't tell me what I think of the situation much less belittle my experiences in such a condescending way.
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Classy name for an invasive surveillance company.

Personally I think the root of the problem is how much value is placed on the outcome of exams. Apparently the deal is that companies, in addition to their own invasive and broken interview methodologies, want proof from extremely expensive external institutions that you can cram a lot of information and retain it for at least one day.

Maybe we should switch to the old Chinese system where you had to write a nice poem and then were automatically qualified to do pretty much anything.
I've had the same experience with GCP account reps. They always go missing and someone new emails us about how they are taking over 6 months later. Every call we have had with them has not resulted in anything meaningful. Our biggest issue is how their "highly available" Cloud SQL goes down every couple months for maintenance, not how we can use BigQuery.
Erm, vaguely the same amount that are visible in taskmgr/services.msc in Windows 7. I'm running the 10 Preview now and the "RT" part (Metro, I presume) is much less intrusive.
This is an awesome idea!

The problem is that it only covers half of what you need to know in linear algebra. What about the Spectral Theorem? What about positive definite matrices?
Our thinking was that the galleries people create anonymously are different than the galleries people want to associate their user with, so we make sure to make those two histories completely separate. Any ideas on how we can make this more clear from a UX design perspective?
Sam Walton's autobiography mentions that his father-in-law provided the initial capital (that was about it), and his brother played an insignificant role (like buying things from suppliers). His brother, who was younger, was more of a helper while Walton built his first store (a Ben Franklin store that he later sold and started Walmart on his own based largely on his Ben Franklin stores).
Unfortunately, the individual failures were bad enough to bring down the whole system.
Photos came out in 2005, I think. Plenty of schools were on Facebook at that point.
I have been curious about Clojure for a while. I have the Manning MEAP for his book and I have watched Rick Hickey's introduction videos. My first impression is that is a very well thought out language; my biggest concern is the performance benchmarks : http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Clojure seems to be consuming more memory and is generally slower by significant margins compared to Scala ( or java). I would be interested in hearing from anyone using this in a high performance mission critical application like in a bank or in financial services ? What was your response time like under heavy load ? How did you justify this to your management?
Now, start a business that lets you rent these per minute. You get to set the way points and receive all the photos/video via your browser or smartphone.

It may not be this exact device, but I predict such a service within 3 years.
--- If you accept divorce rate as an indicator for a failed family.

For instance, what if families with two hard-working parents spend less time together but still find a level of contact that's need-filling. They grow neither happy nor unhappy enough to divorce. It's a stable but weak and unnurturing family and perhaps isn't the best place to bring up a young child.

Failure of a family is multifaceted and the op puts forth a theory too strong to be knocked down merely by decreased divorce rates.

(Edited: In light that the statistics the author quoted might be wrong, I'm should disclaim that I don't personally think that the polar-opposites parental style we're talking about here is best. I just want to advocate caution judging family-style health by divorce.)
What sounds better to a potential customer: "This technology eliminates the need for dealing with printer drivers" or "This technology standardizes printer drivers?" If I'm the salesman, I'm going to go with the former. It's not even really a falsehood from the perspective of someone who would have to install the drivers.
True, ymacs is probably not the right solution for a touch device. You'd have to have a keyboard visible almost all the time.

Maybe using a hardware keyboard would be a requirement. Without a keyboard the iPad would still make a good code viewer.
Seriously. I have needed folders for months now.
This is such a great idea. It can be used in so many places where it currently is not available, due to culture or other reasons. It can also be a meet the ____ that is scheduled for whoever and whenever.

I imagine that a lot of opportunities, connections, and collaboration is lost due to no sense of being welcome or fear of wasting time. It reminds me a bit of the comments that Nobel prize winners often kept their office door open to welcome all.

While the idea does not appear to be new, it is definitely underused.
That's not the worst method you could choose, but just be warned:

CIELAB space was designed with the goal that any pair of colors separated by about 1 unit (i.e. ΔE = 1) would have a similar degree of apparent difference. However, apparent color differences are a highly non-linear property, and so by the point ΔE gets past 5 or 10, a specific color difference in one direction or one part of the color space will be substantially different than a same-distance color difference in another part of the space.

Often, the reason you want to carefully pick a color scheme is to make sure that two areas of a graphic are easily visually distinguishable along an edge. Because human vision mainly uses a monochromatic color signal for distinguishing shape, texture, and the finest details, the most important difference to make between a pair or set of colors is to separate them in the lightness (in CIELAB, that's L) dimension. If you have sufficient lightness contrast, then any particular choices of a and b (or hue and chroma) will work fine. If you don’t have sufficient lightness contrast, changing the other color components won’t help much: even if you maximally separate them in the color space, they’ll just appear to mush together in a clashing way along edges.

[edit: removed asterisks from L*, etc. because HN thinks they should be for italicizing]
I am with you. This seems like them running validation against the content they are monetizing for people.
I'm a Hack Reactor alum. I got hired at above the listed HR average starting salary by a well respected tech company a couple of weeks after graduating. By the time I accepted, I had four offers in total - two from Hack Reactor hiring partners, two from companies that didn't even know what Hack Reactor was - and was in late stage process with several others. A lot of my classmates had similar experiences to my own. I'd wager that I was somewhere in the middle of the class in terms of talent/knowledge.

I can't speak for other programs, but due to the rather steep admissions requirements, there's not a single student who arrives on their first day of Hack Reactor without having invested many, many hours into learning and coding. This included becoming proficient (at least to a functional novice level) with Git. I, myself, had a couple of years professional experience - but that experience was at a small eComm company in a small town, utilizing technology lightyears away from the bleeding edge. I went to Hack Reactor because I wanted to make a real go of my career. I don't have a CS degree, but HR got us up to speed on CS fundamentals to the point where I didn't encounter problems when I went to tech interviews.
Well history is great, not repeating the same mistakes and all, but some events are more relevant than others :)
Ugh, stripe is a royal pain to use, horrible direction for kickstarter
I know some people who went to App Academy and did really well for themselves. My guess is that a bootcamp is the same hours equivalent of a person a bare-basics CS degree without the internships.

Here is my reasoning:

* 2 years of college is just to finish core curriculum/elective stuff (history, foreign language, writing, philosophy, etc)

* 2 years of college is used to finish computer science major

* Each year, students study for 40 weeks. So in total he studies for 80 weeks.

* Each week, he takes an avg around 3.5 courses a week.

* Each course takes him an avg 4 hours a course (remember college kids waste a lot of time...a lot of time).

Total= 2 years * 40 weeks/year * 3.5 courses/week *4 hrs/course = 1120 hours

Conclusion: If you put in bootcamp hours, which is 80-100 hours a week, it's only 11-14 weeks. That's the avg length of a bootcamp. Bootcamp = college degree in CS (from a mediocre program) minus the core curriculum and minus the 2-3 internships you would do in college.

Many people here are saying that bootcamp alums aren't as good as college grads. I don't have enough data, but I would agree with that statement. While bootcamp grads aren't as good as CS grads, I wouldn't say the bootcamp education is worse than a poor/mediocre CS program, because of some unaccounted for variables:

1) Internships are still vitally important! 2-3 internships is basically a full year of programming on a very diverse set of problems!

2) Selection bias: Better programmers tend to start earlier in their career, hence they don't have to go to bootcamps.

3) Confidence issues: It takes years for people to be comfortable with engineering. I would not be surprised if people don't have confidence issues going into interviews + work after a 12 week bootcamp.
Your analogy is still flawed, but I think you know that and you're just being specious.
You're right. I was referring specifically to the fact that in this replication study, they've actually bunched together many different studies into a single questionnaire that tests them all. So it's not a straight-up replication, but then, in the social sciences replications almost never are.
That's impressive, thanks for sharing.