jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I currently work with people across the world, Indians, Chinese, French and people from various other nationalities. This open office thing makes it just worst. The most annoying thing I have come to face until now is the part where people from the same country start aggregating in groups over the floor talking in their own native languages. Constant chatter over simplest and silliest of the issues, previous night's dinner, pranks they played with their room mates and what not.

Over a period of I've noticed the best way to handle has been to just tune out. I mean just be completely irresponsive to anything happening around you. Unfortunately I've been told many times by my manager that certain cultures can consider as being rude.

Its almost like the office is now a community center for people to just gather around and chat.
If this acquisition was in any way related to Apple wanting to use this product in-house -- call me massively confused. It really would be a mental sickness if Apple were so insistent on using closed-source tech across the organization, even while that is a very obscure line of thinking amongst it's competitors in the cloud space. On the other hand, if Apple is acqui-hiring these guys -- then why kill the download links instantly? So yeah, either way, seems like a poorly handled situation
Games like Kerbal Space Programm and factorio exhibit a lot of the concepts from the original research agenda[^1] because they are "Dynamic Environments-To-Think-In"

[^1]: http://worrydream.com/cdg/ResearchAgenda-v0.19-poster.pdf
I think the barrier to entry in the problem domain for C++ is much higher than something like nodejs. Installing dependencies is the least of one’s worries there.

Also, how many dependencies are we talking about? Node apps have a million dependencies for, I think, stupid simple stuff that should just be reinvented in a given codebase. In a C++ app too many dependencies invites incompatible stylistic choices which I think will turn to a Frankenstein codebase.

In Go this isn’t a problem because of “go fmt” plus a simple language at its core.
Only 4.2 sigmas. ;)

That is really a lot. It's less than the official arbitrary threshold of 5 sigmas to proclaim a discovery, but it's a lot.

In the past, experiments with 2 or 3 sigmas were later classified as flukes, but AFAIK no experiment with 4 sigmas has "disappeared" later.
It’s not the mining that is bad, it is the processing that is terrible.
Try being a product manager of a web service at a big corporation. I stopped and went back to programming because of how little there was to do. You said you don't want to manage people, but in my experience all I had to do was:

- E-mail calendar invites for a meeting

- Show up to said meeting

- State the topic, point to an engineer at random and say, "What do you think?"

- Zone out for the rest of the meeting, zoning back in only if it sounds like the conversation is starting to get off track

- 5 minutes before time is up, say, "OK, it sounds like we're agreed that we're going to do X?"

- Go back to coding side-projects

It's a funny job, because even though it's very easy to coast, it's also fairly high-visibility and in my opinion very necessary. Without a dedicated person to spend 30 minutes a day watching over meetings, things seem to very quickly go off the rails.
Senior developer on a smaller team.
No, it wasn't. It wasn't sandboxed and the libraries were not restricted enough to ensure a reliable target. Java applets were essentially running on the desktop, not in a website.
"ECB is hiding or misrepresenting the real rate of inflation."
ECB has no role on that, which as I said was in favour of including house prices in the HICP. It is the European Commission deciding on that: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/hicp/faq

Please note that "H" stands for "harmonized", and that is one of the issues. If you change how the HICP is defined, then all the countries should produce the new indexes that should be included, with the same methodology. That is a challenge and a national political issue too in some cases.
If the person came up with the solution on his own, wouldn't he patent it in full including the missing piece that the author checked in only later? Without that piece, the solution does not work.
Don't bacteria die, reproduce, and mutate? How is it possible to store anything long term in room temperature conditions?
Saturday and Sunday are good. I think it's good to have a web page to introduce this hack space in beijing, it will be interesting to many people.
Because the people who "get" Lisp are almost always theoreticians who know what they want to code before they code it. They use Lisp as a write-only language. Meanwhile, working programmers avoid it, because it's very hard to step into someone else's Lisp codebase and understand it (and not just because of the fact that anything could mean anything due to macros—code is already visually indistinguishable from data without them.)

Languages, just like any other computer software, have a User Experience: the experience of programming in them. For example, the usual justification people give for why they like Ruby is that it has a good UX. There's no theoretical purity there, they just say it's "fun to code in."

Lisp, meanwhile, does not obey any of the principles of HCI that have been discovered in the last 30 years (how could it? It was invented before them!) There's a large gulf of evaluation stopping a programmer new to a Lisp codebase from understanding what their changes will do to it. UI design is about human psychology, not theoretical purity; solving this problem might seem like "papering over" the purity of the language from a theoretical perspective, but when doing actual comparative usability studies[1], it would be clear that the "papered-over" version would have something going for it that the theoretically-pure version does not.

[1] A comparative usability study on a language is very simple to perform: you basically print out some code samples, let people with no experience in the language (but general programming experience) read them for a set time period, and then evaluate their comprehension.
I don't need 1:1, but I'd love some large format 4:3 sizes.

I have a 30" 16:10 Apple Cinema display as my main monitor and a rotated 4:3 20" HP LCD on my right. While I like the 30" monitor, I'll admit the sides of the screen go to waste. But I love the height, and I like being able to compartmentalize onto the second monitor.

In my mind, a great setup would be two 4:3 equivalents of the 30" display side by side. So instead of 2560 x 1600, it would be 2133x1600. Same height, less width. And I like having two because of the organization issue.
Downvoters - care to give any reasons?
AFAIR : Truecrypt is designed so that changed plain blocks map to changed secure blocks : i.e. the whole secure image doesn't change if one plain file does. (Makes sense from a speed perspective too).
All the "HUNOZ" etc. variables make me smile, too.
What 27" 4:3 do you have? I looked for large format 4:3's a while back with little success.
yeah, I agree. I thought about this today and realized some of the worst advice we got was from our middle school principal telling us to be well-rounded and develop real-world skills. It's the opposite of forcing yourself to focus on things that make you be "special".

And it made me more concerned about fitting into little social groups than focusing on what I want to do.
IIRC, you're limited to 256 colors total (including those with an alpha channel)... it works pretty well, but it really depends on the picture in question. I use pngquant all the time myself... :-)
> Shoving the "it must enrich you or it's not art" is the most heinous elitist gatekeeping there is.

I'm not sure he said that it must enrich you or it isn't art. His point was whether or not the effort one puts into a particular thing saps or uses up intellectual intelligence of a person. Is the task a hamster wheel where no benefits are experienced by anyone other than the hamster or is the hamster wheel connected to a capacitor and providing electricity to the other hamsters. I don't see a reason to get into the elitist arguments. All of these activities fall somewhere on the spectrum of the amount of good provided to humanity. Closed loop activities that only recharge one's battery provide less benefit to humanity and can be said to sap or use up our intellectual intelligence. There is no elitism about this argument, it's just a 30k foot view of us hamsters and which ones use more or less intelligence that benefits the rest of the hamsters.
Have you looked at Quora any time in the past 6 years? The answers may be grammatically correct, but the content is not much better than Yahoo Answers, and at least Yahoo Answers was funny.
For those of you with a big portfolio of apps, how do you handle framework updates? Scheduled housekeeping once a quarter? Ad hoc? Ignore them until a disaster happens then panic?
the money went somewhere. unless you hold CS shares it may well have gone into your retirement fund's allocation indirectly. who knows, but you're probably no worse off.
The claim is "learned the basics of international politics". It is not "was inspired to learn about politics".

The latter is not scary. The former is.
If you want to make a case that it's a persistent and pervasive problem, you'd do best by not starting with an exceptional case. Not only is it too recent to really make a case for it being common, but the straightforward reply will always be that it was an emergency situation during a pandemic and therefore subject to factors other than the claimed political bias.

Making a case for a pervasive bias is going to require a lot of data, because any kind of intuitive "But they're against me!" claim is going to be subject to all lot of well-known cognitive biases. All numbers involving social media are large, so simply claiming that "the numbers are huge" doesn't make for a very compelling case, either.

So if you want to get people interested in your argument, you should start gathering those numbers so you can make a more informative case than the one that leaps to the forefront of your mind.
This seems better done at the storage layer. Doing it in the database layer is a good idea if you're monetizing your database by CPU core, of course.
Completely new to React, your introduction was spot on. Many thanks.
Has anyone made a "March Madness pool" style game for YC demo day?
If you'd make it from scratch today, what technique would you use? html {font-size:62.5% } with REM?
You obviously have never gone out and looked at concrete. How can you not be amazed.

That and it's common usage would probably make it a great linkbait story...
> I'm wondering if they are partnering with XMission.

Very unlikely, as Pete Ashdown (founder/owner) was recently discussing XMission investigating rolling their own fiber until wind of Google Fiber came up:

http://www.reddit.com/r/SaltLakeCity/comments/2yl51u/does_xm...
But you're our idiot!
> From around 1920-1970, we had progress on issues of representation, race, and gender, but otherwise, political behavior gradually drifted towards the Nash equilibrium.
1970-2020, progress mostly stopped,

Um if nothing else a LOT in the US happened with regards to women’s rights and feminism between 1970 and today. And LGBTQ rights.

Oh yeah - Obama! First black President. Kind of a big deal when it comes to race and social justice.

Also it’s just a hugely broad statement you are making. I’m not gonna speculate about the sweep of hisiory.

Also your point doesn’t really address the specific points I mentioned - real, actual differences between the parties.

[EDIT: For example if the Republican Party suddenly endorsed the Green New Deal (or other climate legislation) I don’t see the Democrats who already support such legislation flip-flopping.

Same with gun control laws.

And with more federal pandemic relief funds to individuals and states and cities.

And the Affordable Care Act.

And abortion.

And so on.
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but aren't they trying to retire the java version?
No pro athlete retires from competing because they can make more money as a coach.
I need the "Never used WhatsApp; can't switch" option.
I wish Keybase had a good video/audio story. Considering their acquisition by Zoom, I doubt it will ever happen.
A colleague shared this (Apr 2020) link about Signal .vs. WhatsApp, which may be more important in light of this change.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/signal-vs-whatsapp
> shouldn't we be discussing instead how to completely remove them from the political sphere?

I don't think so. The analogy that comes to mind is the idea of letting kids play outside. People try to justify today's overprotective culture by bringing up things like cars (they existed back in the 70s too) or candy-wielding abductors (really?) or whatever, but the overall theme is this pervasive idea that we can't handle scary things (be it the outdoors or media megacorps) and therefore we should be artificially shielded from them.

Instead, wouldn't it be better to teach critical thinking in school such that when you're faced with the realities of the world, you have at least some preparation? The idea of imparting civic responsibility principles from a young age seems to work well for example with classroom cleaning duties in Japan.
What about snapchat? It seems to have much better call quality than WhatsApp..
> Well, I don't know where parent is located, but here in Brazil they are pretty much right. Everybody has WhatsApp...

In my circles WhatsApp usage was pervasive and I was one of those who really pushed for it.

Soon after it became obvious that Facebook was still Facebook even with WhatsApp on board we started pushing for Telegram (remember this was probably before Signal existed in its current form and long before Matrix became mainstream.)

It took two years or so calendar time, a few hours work I think - mostly advocacy - and included moving people from early teenage to late eighties, but was mostly painless and definitely worth it because of usability alone, even if the most important point was to keep our social graps out of the hands of future Cambridge Analyticas and whoever else Facebook wants to sell it to. (And I've hopefully learned not to underestimate grannies..!)

Today I'd probably pushed for Matrix, but as mentioned above that was not an option then.

Signal is also really nice despite one or a few big security problems (remotely exploit in the desktop client being the big one for me). Also it is US centric with all the problems that comes with it, it prioritizes security above everything and UX actually suffers from it and it isn¨t open, so as far as I can see we are locked in should they turn bad.
There's speculation that US will enter a "soft bankruptcy", and will not pay back all, or part of, the 27 trillion.
To be fair, I thought the point of an editorial was for the author to express their opinion. [1]

[1] From dictionary.com: 'Editorial definition, an article in a newspaper or other periodical or on a website presenting the opinion of the publisher, writer, or editor'
> How the hell does https://help.github.com/articles/dealing-with-non-fast-forwa.... relate to their movies?

It doesn't. This outfit, per Chilling Effect's search, pumps out notices by the hundreds. Most likely they use some script or tool to grab a bunch of URLs from various Google searches, then dump them into a form letter. I'm not sure if anyone was supposed to weed out the obviously bogus output, but I think we can all see that nothing of the sort happened.

They churn these out fast enough that nobody is actually paying any real attention to what they're doing from what I've seen.
Bluetooth mouse / keyboard
Anecdotally, most people just use glassdoor or similar sites. However, be sure to keep in mind that the way they group "similar" jobs may not be perfect.

For example, "software developers" in Philadelphia have an avg salary of $76,387, whereas "software engineers" have an avg salary of $71,476. The difference? I have no idea.
I would assume that he means that mathematicians worked with singularities, before we knew, or hypothesised, that singularities arises in the real world.
The broadcast and traditional news of News Corporation split into two different companies back in 2013. Murdoch still owns significant parts of both new companies however.
with a real OS this time around and quite a bit more than just a 'media player'.
Perhaps so, but since it's already made, releasing it shouldn't do any harm.
"Windows-the-operating-system" is, but "Windows-the-distro" is not. He's specifically mentioning Firefox, so his argument is not restricted to the core operating system.
I had a PowerMate. I really liked it, too—other than this teensy tiny little bug where if you hit the button while the computer was asleep, it instantly woke up and kernel panicked.

Ugh.
Oh, I would get that in a heartbeat. Looks like the ultimate Linux laptop!
The jobs are already being removed right now and wont come back. THAT is my argument.
I admire this whole chain of thought. - ADC
Despite these issues it's a wonderful place to live. I'm happy to answer any questions about the area as you make your decision to move here or not.
You do. That's akin to counterparty risk. Depending on the time scale, this risk can go from miniscule to certainty.
The lottery isn't a scam, it won't call you at bedtime threatening devastating legal action unless you take care of this very urgent business matter.
All big tech companies are the same. Cisco, for example, I think buys one every 6 weeks or so.
I know! I used to be a government contractor. I was rather pointing out that the failure mode in question only arises when budget is the deciding issue between proposals. A proper procurement process decides based on delivered value, however.
Plus, you forgot the initial 5%, so you are really exchanging 8% for $11M, right?
The distinction is that the other examples listed continue to exist in their original form with their original vision and use-case intact, without disrupting the user experience by being shutdown and reconstituted as part of an Apple exclusive product or service.
This is like a namecoin for digitally produced content. This doesn't seem like anything new.
As a Canadian, I would much prefer our government pays comparable private sector salaries.
Odds are that these people are way smarter than you and obviously have taken a course that allows them to not compromise their ethics, and hopefully serves to create a stronger workforce and a more secure world.
Are you saying to toggle the menu item “View” > “Enter Presentation Mode”? There is no such menu item in Firefox 35, and there hasn’t been for many versions. There is only “View” > “Enter Full Screen”, which enters full-screen, but with the top bar always showing.
For the benefit of anyone else who, like me, had no idea what this is, here are a few quotations from their website:

> The amnesic incognito live system

> Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.

> It is a complete operating system designed to be used from a DVD, USB stick, or SD card independently of the computer's original operating system. It is Free Software and based on Debian GNU/Linux.
Not nearly as much as it is for the passengers.

For all the uproar, as of the last time I went through TSA security (about a week before the new "sexual assault" procedures started), the screeners seemed to be perfectly happy in their roles.
As some one who's old enough to have lots of experience with the over-40 version of ageism and get stirred up every time there's a tech crunch article about someone 18 or whatever getting funded largely _because_ they're 18, I actually have some sympathy. There are numerous legal and regulatory roadblocks to dealing with people under 18 (in contract law, you're essentially not a person) but some efforts could be made to overcome them.

While at digg, I routinely complained about the fact that live diggnations were always held at 21 and over venues (I've been to enough all-ages concerts to know that there are plenty of places that will serve alcohol but still let underage people in). Half the diggnation audience was under 18! I was routinely ignored, thus demonstrating ageism against 2 different age groups at once.
It's down for me too. I think we crashed his server...

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.davidvanleeuwen.nl/
I would imagine that handling 100 people texting 911 would be significantly easier then handling 100 people calling it. That's probably good news for any large scale emergencies.
No wonder Perl is dead if all they have is such a piss poor Sinatra ripoff.
This kind of behaviour is an embarassment to the community. It's poison.

Move along. If you claim there's stealing of code, prove it and show it. Otherwise, save this crap. You like Mojolicious. Fine. Go do that. The Dancer crew will continue on it's way. It affects you not at all.

I had investigated Mojolicious but this kind of attitude from you and from it's creator have long kept me out of that community. Yes, the channel can have people who are helpful, but bile begets bile and if you're an example of the Mojolicious community, I want no part of it.
Just as well there are probably people who can not eat a meat diet and be healthy, for example if they are allergic to eggs, milk or some meat variants. In fact the percentage of people who can't deal with milk is very high. If you go into a normal supermarket, it is actually very difficult to find any foods that don't have milk in it (Lactose being used for lots of dirty tricks).

The symptoms she describes (bloated belly, increased heart rate after eating) sound to me more as if there were some other problems - maybe she couldn't deal with some parts of the food very well. I've just read a good book about those problems (it is not allergies, I don't know the proper translation), and for example up to 17% of humans in the western world have problems digesting fructose. So naturally stuffing themselves with vegetables might cause problems. In that book it is also explained that those problems can often be cured in a matter of weeks. Few doctors are knowledgeable about those, though.
Yes, but 1. more and more, mobile is becoming the product itself, and 2. even if it's not, it's still helpful (from a UX perspective) to do mobile first. For me it's been helpful to try mobile first, even when it's not the core product.
I ask this question for how it relates to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
..and how it would be possible for a universe, if wholly deterministic, to be practically and theoretically unpredictable.
Bananajour and the Git server also work just as well. Any git repository can also act as a remote, and if it is made accessible over network, then you have essentially duplicated a git server.
I consider verbosity and lack of closures to be shortcomings of Java. Apparently, so did the author of the article here.
Click the picture and you get this: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4159.en.h...
It's more complex than that in case of a failure, because ingesting an alpha or beta emitter - directly, or through the food chain - is going to be dangerous to health. Can't exactly line your intestines with lead.

And while giving RTGs to general population isn't the brightest idea, it's stupid to consider these issues as a wholesale dealbreaker for nuclear technologies.