jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The average income (including stimulus checks) in the US went up, while at the same time lots of people losing their jobs. People who didn't lose their jobs (or have their hours curtailed), are doing significantly better because they aren't spending as much money and got stimulus checks.

Meanwhile those who did lose their jobs are screwed. These people were probably also poorer before COVID hit, so fewer of them would have bought a new car absent COVID anyways.

This is also why the stock market can't seem to crash; bond yields are super low, and there is more money being saved (and thus looking for investments) than ever.

That's been the problem in the US for the past 45 years or so. We have a lot of wealth, it's just not particularly evenly distributed. Every single financial shock in my lifetime has made the problem worse.
Laptop is stolen by a foreign intelligence agency who can do things like "pour liquid nitrogen on the ram and swap it to another computer to recover encryption keys" or whatever (I've been told that's a real attack... but it always seemed like an intelligence agency ought to just make a device to read the ram without pulling it at all... just hijack the wires communicating to the ram or something...)
Plotting the overthrow of the government isn't political speech
Can this import my friends as well?
Because I wasn't aware of tlp :) Thank you for sharing. By the way I'm very happy by the feedback generated by this thread, thank you guys!
Is there an actively maintained fork of Perl 4 (or earlier) somewhere? Sounds like there should be.
>We, understandably, don't quite appreciate the work other people have done, where we consider their tradeoffs as mistakes.

Part of this is because it's hard to differentiate between crap and something that was well-designed without putting the time into researching it. This leads developers to just assume most things are crap unfortunately.
If you're that into math, I'm going to second the recommendation of the guy who recommended Haskell. Haskell is VERY math-y, in a way that most programming languages... aren't. ;)

> the whole enterprise - just seems so stupid & futile

Why do you think that? I'm a programmer (who enjoys the challenges of learning new languages (currently Elixir, which is sweeeeeet), coding maintainable code, as well as debugging) and don't think that. Sure, most if not all of my code "out there" is going to get thrown out before another decade passes, but what other job lets you create vast information machines using just your mind and fingertips?
+1, you own the experience and the data that way. Even if you don't use PHP in your projects, almost everywhere has PHP so it's not hard to host it.
This article is very poorly researched. UpCounsel isn't shut down - it got acquired by a PE shop and the marketplace is still fully operational.
I pay for GitHub
“Sacrifice” is common scientific parlance for the killing of experimental animals.
>find the closest fiber plant Comcast has for the HFC node that services the general area and make them give me a L3 drop to this bridge.

How did you manage to convince them to do that? Where did you mount the radio? How did you power the radio? Every time I've needed something unconventional from the local cable company, if it isn't some pre-existing procedure, they won't do it.
I personally wouldn't feel comfortable putting up a profile for a service such as Uber or Lyft. I especially wouldn't feel comfortable for my SO to have a profile - she already feels uncomfortable using these services by herself (though safer than a taxi, sexual assault incidents do happen). I'm not sure if this is a step in the right direction. The drivers in my area aren't people I would want to connect with or share personal info...

Instead of sharing personal info, why can't we know when the driver started driving for Uber or Lyft? Some have just started and have 5.0 ratings even though they may have only completed a handful of rides...
You can install nix side by side to your distro package manager and only install some packages using nix. You could also use something like lorri and direnv and let nix only manage your code projects and when entering the project directory, drop you into a shell with only the dependencies you need for this specific project installed.
I have the feeling that you can criticize most of things from the point of emissions.
Except for recent and pointless wars (mostly US here) you mention things that are more than 100 years old...

China does all those things today. Your point makes no sense whatsoever.
- You need an extra click on another window before you can interact with it

- No focus-follows-mouse (there used to be 3rd party plugins but those seem to be gone now)

- While basic split screen tiling works and you can set up a global kb shortcut to move windows to left/right of the screen, Firefox seems to completely ignore those

- If you're running multiple displays macos for some reason always picks the most awkward display to open new windows in

- I really miss being able to grab and resize windows using a modifier key like in XFCE

All of these things can be done with yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
As much as I hate DRM, it isn't something most consumers care about. The real selling points like the iPod's storage, case, materials, and branding were mainly unmatched for a long time.
The user can feedback the algorithm with "show less like this" or block the author accounts.
> And much of the documentation about Chromium and V8 is not public.

Nearly all the documentation is public... Private stuff is mostly accidentally created google docs where the engineer has selected "anyone within google.com with the link" instead of "anyone with the link". Anytime I request one of those documents be opened up, it has been done within a matter of hours.
I had one of the first Nvidia Optimus laptops. It was a nightmare on Linux for a while even just trying to get the Nvidia card off (no BIOS option) so it wouldn't drain the battery was difficult let alone using it. I don't even think it was officially supported by Nvidia when they added support because the gen after they changed how Optimus worked?

My laptop after that at least had a BIOS option to disable the Nvidia graphics. I only bought an Nvidia model again because the OEM made a mistake and sold it for hundreds less than the Intel one on their website. Every distro needed me to do something to get the screen brightness keys to work.

WiFi chipsets could also be a hassle though they have gotten much better.

My current laptop, a 2018 MacBook Pro, is basically near unusable as a Linux laptop. By default the trackpad and keyboard don't work and you need someone's kernel patch to use them. You can't currently have both sleep and sound. A bunch of little other gremlins.
Off-topic: How do you schedule your (yearly) posts that you do each day, every year? Is that a feature of HN for people with enough submission karma? Or do you do it manually? Or...?
James Burke does a great job of contrasting holistic and reductionist thinking. At a Microsoft offsite a few years ago he was a guest speaker, and talked about the importance of exposing yourself to different kinds of thinking and different specialization rather than being narrowly focused all of the time on specific tasks. Afterwards I ran into him by the elevator and asked whether he saw this as part of the value of Google's 20% time. He said yes, very much so, although he hadn't wanted to make a big deal of it for the Microsoft audience.

Of course he also points out that reductionist thinking has values despite it's limitations. "It did, after all, give us the scientific revolution." Indeed.
Groovy on Grails (http://www.grails.org)
Clickable

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1013531
Difference being that police don't make their livelihood from the people they go after; rather, the people the "parasites" prey on. There are a few exceptions, like seizures from drug dealers to augment taxpayer funding.
> Just because progress or achievement necessarily occurs in some social context does not mean it comes about as a result of it.

But it is fair to say that progress and achievement depend on a certain level of social support, right? How many tech entrepeneurs come from abusive homes with no food?
When Scvngr CEO Seth Priebatsch presented the concept of the layer I was so elated at the clarity of the idea. Everything in life is a game, and when business embraces it properly it's a win for everyone. A game creates group think, competition and a rare unarticulated desire for success.

What's sexy for business is the idea that by presenting a gaming layer on their product line is that it allow you're product to become a platform. You're not selling me a iPhone, you're selling me Angry Bird, Scrabble, Plants Vs Zombies.
Cool, I didn't post in that thread, so I can now make all sorts of claims about what my goals really were. :-)

all joking aside, I did not achieve everything I wanted in 2010, but I made some solid progress, and I'm looking forward to 2011. My "real" goal was to have a product shipping that I could try to sell, in 2010. I got distracted and lost some time around the middle of the year, and fell short of that goal. But I at least have some demoable stuff, and I now realize that that's fine, since I want to apply Blank's Customer Development Methodology before I go any further.

So my goal for 2011, is to get started doing Customer Development, and both find "product / market fit" and finish a product.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superconductor#Applications

No offense intended but it definitely is a more complete list than what I could come up with off the top of my head. There's a wide variety of very practical applications, if a practical one can be found.

It should also be noted that while "room temperature" is the holy grail, there's a gradient of practicality that ranges along the necessary refrigeration technology. Even a superconductor that only require conventional refrigeration (ie, no liquid nitrogen or helium involved) could be put to good use, if it can be made practical in all necessary ways.
It is on sale, or are you talking about the website?
Nissan has done a fantastic job with the leaf experience from beginning to end. Good website, good product, excellent marketing and now efficiency "achievements". It's something us HNer's could really learn from.

Also the leaf website is fantastic (http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car) and won a ton of awards for "best flash website" even though the intro video is the only flash, and the rest is HTML & SVG.
Its surely reasonable to argue that btc isn't practical, but not real? That's a bit schizophrenic.
If you can't tell by the shape of the can, you should probably go to hospital, you might be having a mini-stroke.
https://www.paperkarma.com/
Clojure -- it's fun for me. I'm new to it.

In languages that aren't recreational:
Python. Reads like pseudocode, whitespace-delimited is something I like, libraries when I need them.
>I don't know if this helps the argument for free will, but physics still has randomness.

It doesn't help at all with Free Will. How can you have free will if you're a victim of random events out of 'your' control?
This is actually a relatively silly use case for this. A lot of the actual difficult things that a mechanic can do for you usually involve more strength than you have. Or just experience in actually working with things that they can't see.

Now, a mechanic using this to "see" things that are actually in control of a remote robot? Pretty cool. Showing you the thing that is right in front of you? Cute, but ultimately silly.
You say 25 years (a generation) and you could be 100% right. But then half right is 12.5 years, and I would consider that within a near horizon. I totally agree highway driving, especially tractor trailers, will come much sooner. I like the idea of dedicated lanes.
Nope. Those lenses are above the camera's main lenses. Whatever those circles do, they are not generating the images for the video. Plus, only one would be needed for that - the camera has only one "eye".
Sorry, I was answering the second question, "what about Gamergate, why is it taboo to discuss it?"
>But if you tell me it is beaf and it isn't, I WILL notice, and I won't be happy.

Seconding that. Also, I'm allergic to legumes but not real beef. So you could be putting me in danger by calling a legume patty a "burger" or "beaf".
Yeah modern version of IE have certainly caused me numerous headaches over the years. Mark as avoid and run away (with the help of polyfills).
Making the browser less tied to the OS would actually make it "heavier" by pulling technology out of the OS and into the browser.

The obvious example is Direct2D/DirectWrite, the very reason why IE10 doesn't work on Windows XP.

Firefox "solved" this problem by having tons of pluggable OS-specific pieces, resulting in a whole morass of confusion and inconsistency which Microsoft are probably trying to avoid. As an example, many Linux users from 2009 will recall disabling Pango to try to make their Firefox run faster.
Nobody will use xxxx by accident, so it's not 'affected' by any problem/confusion, it's just there doing what the developer intended.
It's the agency problem. Illiquid founders are motivated to act against the interests of shareholders. I saw this happen bigtime at a company I once worked for.
I usually stir-fry them, though granted often with things that tend to have strong-ish flavors of their own (green onion, garlic, asparagus, miso paste, and cayenne are regulars in my Beyond Meat stir-fry). I think they got the flavor less right than they did the texture, but texture seems to be the bigger source of complaint meat eaters have regarding meat substitutes (and rightly so, IMO).
There are a few sites that deal with single-board computer news like:
http://armdevices.net
http://liliputing.com
http://linuxgizmos.com

Quickly, you might take a look at the ODROID boards, they nicely cover the lower price and performance spectrum and do a nice job supporting them:
http://www.hardkernel.com/main/main.php
>> to see how you think about problems ..
That is the noble goal. Then it goes horribly wrong along the way because many (very many by this river of comments) don't think the same way during interviews as they did while doing amazing work just the very day before. It's gone too far and it's presently HR "conventional wisdom".

>> getting it correct isn't even that important ..
Perfectly proving the point. Coding the day before, you're aggressively focused on getting it right and shipping a quality product. Suddenly you're in an interview and you're doing the opposite, coding just so much irrelevant nonsense that doesn't really matter and being judged out of context. Wasted time, effort, angst, in short a potentially bad start to what might be a great relationship.
The false negative rate of the TSA is nonzero, ergo it is not low enough to start assuming someone is guilty.
You're quoting a bunch of year or more old stats... there's been a flurry of recent news coverage because recent measurements have either exceeded past limits, or past measurements are now considered to have been underestimates, with respect to ocean release.

Example:

http://japandailypress.com/fukushima-bay-radiation-levels-hi...

>Reports from Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, say that measurements of radioactive tritium in seawater – seeping out of the nuclear complex via groundwater into the sea – show levels at 4700 becquerels per liter, the highest tritium level in the measurement history. The highest tritium levels have come in the past 15 days, the same reports show.

It is very very strange to be seeing such Tritium levels this late, it dilutes so quickly. It's so strange it's to even figure out probably causes.
Usually, apple tries to improve firmware speed after they add features. I found that staying updated is the best policy.
I always hear about these applications but I've never actually seen one.
If you ignore the new UI.
I'm really curious about where Django helps with this? Is it really that hard to use 3rd party libs with webapp?
One thing that came out in this blog post -- it seems there may be a policy that the TSA employees are specifically forbidden to wear radiation dosimetry badges.

What!? How in the world is this a sane policy? Who is this policy meant to protect?
I think Google sort of deserves some negative press after the major datastore problems of late (now fixed), but it's not reasonable to criticize the app engine platform itself. The so-called limitations are just reasonable trade-offs, and frankly they are less annoying than many that teams end up self-imposing in order to work around unexpected bottlenecks in their app.
Ah – he’s gotten the Miranda talk. I hide my smile.

Anyone know what this is?

Edit: Thanks, live in Australia so don't get all the lingo.
Yes, I definitely agree that this clause seems a little bit arbitrary. Currently the requirements for the position are...

1) be at least 35 years old

2) natural-born US citizen

3) have lived in the US for at least 14 years

One possible alternative would be to get rid of the 1st requirement, but to add another requirement of having to have lived in the US for a certain number of years as a child (under the age of 18), since we could agree that experience from growing up in the US is very important. Something along the lines of this...

1) be at least 35 years old

2) have lived in the US for at least 6 years as a child

3) have lived in the US for a total of 14 years
I personally have had some luck with Joel's stackoverflow career postings when it first started out. I'm not sure what it's like anymore.

Also, are you a programmer yourself? If so it's much easier because you can just reach back to classmates and friends.

Otherwise, you probably have a much harder time. There's an entire article here about how it's hard to hire a good programmer if you're not good yourself: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html
You're assuming that air port security exists in its current form to protect human life. Maybe it's more about protecting the aircraft. AQAP recently stated that their primary goal in attacking aviation targets is to inflict financial damage. Their reasoning is a relatively cheap attack has the potential to destroy a $300M+ aircraft. Like most other things in American politics you have to follow the money. A few hundred dead people is sad but a politically connected insurance company paying off a big claim for a blown up 747 is more likely to drive policy in this country. People die from preventable causes all the time. That's not really the issue here I suspect.
The miranda talk is the formal speech an officer makes before they move on you so that you know your rights.
I see. I look at StackOverflow, but have never engaged in posting, so I didn't know that the site worked that way.

Look at that! Learned something new today!
Wow...I never knew about the part "as a business with less than $10M in revenues or $10M VC funding". Now it sounds like the contest is only a PR exercise. Not that it is surprising though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Shield_Project
Is there a link between the WHO classification and California food labels, as claimed by http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/03/2... ?

Indeed, the IARC’s classification of glyphosate as a probable carcinogen is more significant than you may realize. IARC is one of the five research agencies from which the OEHHA—which is the California agency of environmental hazards—gets its reports to declare carcinogens under Prop 65. What this means is that in a few years’ time, foods containing glyphosate will have to have a Prop 65 Warning label to be sold in California. While it will take time, that process is now in motion with the IARC classifying glyphosate as a Class 2 carcinogen.
Attribute names are opaque to the base spec. Dasherization is only a recommendation (see http://jsonapi.org/recommendations/#naming) and not by any means required.
I must have misread a headline at some point because the number of finance billionaires is smaller than I thought. Having said that, of the 268 listed by forbes, 15 were in finance.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexmorrell/2014/03/06/worlds-bi...

Anyway, I'd certainly agree that "hard work and competence" is an understatement but one of the luxuries of being in finance is that your entire career is built around making money from money. This affords a much more systematic approach to being a billionaire than you might find in other industries.
Your post is a bit silly in that you're talking about bourgeois truth, when revolutionary truth is what governs the part of "society" you're referring to. Important person makes bad ethnic or medical condition jokes? No problem, he's advancing the causes of the "revolution". Desire to trash an adversary, or just revel in your SJW power to damage or destroy at a whim? Take something innocent like this and make a felony jaywalking case of it.
I guess it's debatable. You could consider a single experimental design, administered by many different labs across many different countries, to be "many replications", or you could argue that by using the exact same questionnaire and keeping other conditions as comparable as possible, it's just one big geographically dispersed replication.

(If you look at http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/ma... you see that the results for the 3 "failed" experiments did see some effect at some labs. It's only when tallying up all the results that they had to conclude that replication had failed for these three.)

This isn't just semantics, though. For example, if one question on the questionnaire influences how survey takers answered subsequent questions, then we might well fail to replicate the results of an older study. You might then conclude that the older study isn't as generalizable as you thought it would be and that you need more research to figure out when exactly the effect occurs or not. You might even say that it's likely that the original study was just a fluke. But it doesn't mean the original hypothesis has been definitely and unequivocally refuted.
> How do we answer "How does Haskell, a FP language where composition is a very important concept, compose IO actions?".

You can answer "By using the combinators provided for composing IO actions".

The fact that the structure encoded (some of) these operations happens to correspond to a monad is something that can be left unmentioned until later.
It's not science, it's engineering.
Programmers, if they have a choice, like remote or at least some remote.

Managers + VCs, if they have a choice, prefer all in the office so they can keep power but this actually makes them less competitive and more susceptible to physical disruptions: moving an office, an employee moving, time, office politics, commute, distractions, over meeting and more.

The PG essay on this was glaringly overlooking that you can be a US based programmer and be good or great even if you aren't in SF. Tech companies have a responsibility to not be so monoculture and they currently have a single point of failure in Silicon Valley, which from an engineering perspective is poor distributed design and very little redundancy.

There are benefits of being in one place, the ability to meet physically and be on the same page but we all know the real work gets done back at our desks in our solitary focused modes when it comes to programming and making products. Then we open up for feedback and iteration, then again back to work.

The work part should be setup so programmers perform their best. Just like some of the best scientists, writers, etc, they need their lab/office where they can get somewhere with the problem at hand, not an open office in SF.

Glad Ma.tt mentioned this as he is a leader in the right kind of tech leadership we need: spread it around, live better, work hard, deliver solid products, from anywhere...