jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
the portrayal of men is just as dumb and unrealistic. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy comics quite a bit (Infinity Guantlet anyone? Planet Hulk? World War Hulk???)

I think hyper sexualization of any gender is stupid and serves more as softcore porn than anything.

It is just slightly more offensive to women who spent a long time in our history being told "Well maybe you shouldn't have worn that dress and he wouldn't have hit on you the way he did."

BUT HEY before this gets out of hand, it is equally as degrading as putting down a man for "Well if your wife hits you and you just take it, your a little b()."

There has to be some give and take on this issue, it is not so clearly black and white.

I'm a big enough adult to recognize it's just stupid to think I can change comics and how they are drawn. Maybe if there were a bit more selection for my daughter so she could ease her way into it though? That would be pretty cool.

We're talking about creating a business out of an existing business.

Not getting rid of what we have, at some point you have to accept the reality of the world we live in. I don't want to strike down comic books, but it would be cool if they had a bigger selection for my kids (who would love to enjoy what daddy is reading, but they can wait until they're more mentally/emotionally/physically developed before being exposed).
Dear sir: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RwjpG4Xh60
At this point how does the 5th not play into this?
I don’t think it’s a good idea to introduce complexity to the definition of simplicity and I think this is what the author is trying to do.

It’s completely backwards. The whole point of calling for simplicity is to make you think about whether there is a simpler way to express yourself that still solves the problem at hand. This might be a hard task, but it’s not a complex one.
> protection on a hostile local network, such as a hotel or a restaurant.

Or an American ISP.
I hate this answer so much. The US has 300 million people with diverse interests. About 40% of the countries GDP is spend by the government and the rest is regulated.

With that money the government does A LOT of different things, from creating special interest groups to increase salad prices for farmers in <random state> to fighting a long term geopolitical battle with China.

You can vote a couple of times, meaning you can make like 4 choices a year to effect those things. Meaning your opinion about ALL of these has to be condensed to like 4 choices, and those choices are incredibly restricted by a party system.

And with almost none of the 300 million people car safety regulation is in the Top 100 of issues they care about means that the democratic process has almost zero direct impact on a particular topic.
As a pickup it looks worthless, as a futuristic military transport that checks off a bunch of my childhood fantasies I wish I could afford one but at more than a year's gross income... sigh.
I'm a child of the 80s. I remember StarFox and the F-117 stealth plane being the neatest stuff ever. The old lambo countache with the faceted shape that was almost starwars-y and was the coolest thing on wheels.

I'm nostalgic about those things.

So this polygonal look is targeting my demo.

...

That is the goddamned ugliest vehicle I've ever seen.
After reading the article on Gumroad's way of working, I was really impressed that this kind of model functions so well at this scale. [1]

The first question I had was are there more companies that work in this way? After searching, I discovered that I'm not the only one. [2]

That's why I've just launched Creator Jobs which has a goal to collect different companies that support Gumroad's model. [3]

If anyone knows other companies that work in a similar way, please feel free to comment or reach me at contact@creatorjobs.co.

[1] https://sahillavingia.com/work
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25686678
[3] https://creatorjobs.co/
Telegram is more popular for free movies, tv series download that otherwise can only be accessed by having a subscription plan on platforms like Netflix, amazon prime etc
Tell that to the victims of looting
For those looking for something similar to breadfruit, jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is pretty easy to get in many ethnic shops in the UK. It can be eaten as a (sweet and rather odorous) fruit, but when not quite ripe it's used for all sorts of Asian curries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackfruit#Culinary_uses_for_unr...

Here's an NPR article about it: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/01/308708000/heres-...
This completely misses the point of what I wrote. I didn't complain about how slow Rails is. The original post does. I'm saying that we could all use some help in improving Rails performance so why not release Goliath as open-source? Sounds like that is in the pipeline though based on other comments in this thread.
Sweet. Checking this out now.
They get releases from (and probably pay, though that is conjecture) all those people before the video is broadcast. Ever notice that some faces are obscured? Those folks wouldn't sign the release.
Are we looking at different RFC 5054's? I got mine off Trevor Perrin's site, and it specifies SRP, not SHA1. My point is SRP; it's not the specific RFC number.

SRP is not "SHA1, no less".
I suspect the main reason is the obvious one: such startups are extremely rare, and there have been only a few hundred or few thousand seed-funded startups. If you compulsively read Techcrunch or HN you'll get a skewed view of the startup world and conclude that such exits are much, much more common than they really are. The vast majority get acquired for $10M or less.
I think they had a competition to see how many buzzwords they could fit in to a single, run-on sentence: http://hint.io/about
"amazing lack of runtime optimization"? Do you have anything to back that up?

Most "old" RBDMSes (i.e., not MySQL) are actually ok to quite good at optimizing queries. Sure, you will always find things that are not optimized properly, but having worked on a query optimizer myself, this is actually much harder than you might think it is. Not only coming up with optimizations, but also making sure they are legal, and don't degrade certain queries. There's nothing worse than optimizing a legit query to pieces...
Not really, all this seems to be doing is programmatically adding spans with classes around letters/words/lines. The layout is still being specified in the CSS.

I don't think it's really violating any 'rules' as much as just providing a bit of convenience.
Yes, you're right. The more I've thought about it over time the more I realize that your point is right, but the problem isn't the rational cost over here; it is the perceived cost of the good.

People pirate things, because to them in their minds, emotionally, it isn't like stealing. After all, who are they stealing from? It's extremely hard to put a face on an entity like a record corporation and it's just that psychologically people can't relate to or grasp the concept at work over here.

Our sense of morality is closely tied with our sense of empathy, but when there is nothing to empathize with what happens then? The central problem with the systems we now create is that our brains still look at it emotionally, while being unable to grasp at the true consequences of them intellectually. Think about the stock market; it operates on rational principles and belief, but now do you think anyone truly understands it? All that's left is messy human belief in a system no one truly understands. In shorter terms, we've created a recipe for disaster.

I think that all of the problems we see today is a symptom of our short comings as a species. I really wish I knew how to solve this, but then again I have faith that someone else will. ;)
I love DDG. I will point out one thing, though: Searching for LaTeX stuff works better in The Google atm.

For example, compare these results for something I looked into recently:

http://duckduckgo.com/?q=latex+flipbook

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&site=...

(Oh, if only I wanted fetish gear...)
I missed the part where I said that the site was destroyed.

They ARE a news organization, however. And they get it right more often than not. Which is why people read them. Do those people (who honestly suffered more due to this hack than Gawker ever will) deserve this? No.

They aren't frauds; they're provocative. There's a difference. They weren't claiming to be tech gods. And to trash them as "frauds" for their weak security is like trashing an athlete for not being a good writer. There are two different standards here.

And do you know how many newspapers make stupid mistakes? A lot of them. Gawker has a staff the tenth of the size of your average national newspaper yet pulls in a similar number of viewers. Making stupid mistakes comes with the territory with journalism. Even the big boys screw up.

Dislike Gawker because they're arrogant. Don't read them if you think they are. Don't suggest they're "frauds" though.
Hi!

The point of the post was to start a discussion, which it did. It was aimed at PHP developers, not Drupal developers and my goal was to present a scenario that they could ponder. What IF one of the major projects got to the point where they felt it was in their best interest to fork PHP.

I don't think PHP is bad. As a member of the PHP community, I do everything I can to promote PHP and it's usage, best practices, etc. There are however, lessons we as a community can learn from the projects that have been built on PHP.

I agree with the previous commenter that more PHP developers should give back. Since I'm not a C programmer, I give back through writing, pointing people to tutorials and blog posts around the web, and speaking at user groups around my region. I encourage every PHP developer to get involved in their local PUG and be an active member.

Thank you for taking the time to read the post and comment on it. :)

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Apart from all the other considerations and problems with various types of package management, consider this:

"Update January 6th, 2021 A reader alerted me to a bug with the current groundhog (version 1.1.0) where you cannot set the groundhog library to be a folder containing spaces in the name."

So we are talking about software here that somehow made it to version 1.1 *without anyone ever using a directory with spaces in it with it". This can be interpreted in two ways: either very few people have spaces in their paths, or very few people have actually ever even tried (not even really used, I'm only talking about the most basic trial use) this package. I'm not a betting man, but if I were, I know where I'd put my money...
As someone whose mobile data plan is faster than home wi-fi and who does not pay for receiving calls and SMSes, the "fixed landline data first" approach in Android really pisses me off.
What happened to Telegram?
If it makes you feel any better the same thing it's happening across the Atlantic, with the Yellow Vests movement which is being made fun of in France, the Brexiters which are derided in UK and people in my country (Romania) laughing at the people who didn't want to wear masks at some point because "their mouths smell" (yeah, not anyone can afford dental work).
"Democrats want to destroy this country"

"Democrats stole the election"

"They are the enemy of the people"

etc. etc.

These are all things Trump actually says, ad verbatim, and has been repeating this for the better part of a year. If these things were true then violence would be a logical, reasonable, justified, and appropriate response to stop a hostile anti-democratic takeover of the country.

Of course, nothing of Trump's claims are true. Not even remotely. Not even a tiny kernel of truth in it.

But you just can't expect people who actually hold this worldview to quietly stay at home. I wouldn't, if this would actually be happening.

As I've said many times before, if the current path continues it's only a matter of time before there is actual real bloodshed, and Trump and his bootlickers can't just wash their hands with "but I said I they had to remain calm!"

And if you look at the cause for all of this ... it's not even a political disagreement really, it's just Trump not being mature enough to accept that a universe exists where he could lose an election. Good heavens all this ruckus for something so petty. Future historians will look back to Trump not too dissimilar to how we look back to Caligula.
The tricky question is whether twitter is in essence a public square. Arguably they've made a new space - governed by nothing but their own corporate policies.

I mean, if conversations on twitter are akin to conversations in a public park in the USA, then you would expect the same social / legal conventions to hold on twitter as in public spaces. If I incited violence in the local park, there are norms and laws that come into play. Arguably the same laws should hold on twitter. From that perspective, its weird that a tech company acts as the judge and jury - rather than the police and the courts. And complaints about censorship make total sense.

But if you think of twitter, google, facebook etc as corporate serfdoms, then there's no problem with twitter's enforcement. Twitter is a space owned and ruled by a tech company. You rent your twitter account, but own nothing. Twitter can set any rules they like, or set no rules and act entirely capriciously. The interesting question is whether or not we want the internet to work like a weird echo of the middle ages. And what (if anything) we should do about it.
It's not an attack, it's what's happening to the public discourse right now. There are areas of the internet that are right wing. Left wing people go to those areas to debate ideas, but when they see the comments sections aren't on their side, they claim harassment. This harassment may or may not come with requests for the moderators to make the comments a "safe space".
One trip to Russia would have solved all their problems. Just saying
Not sure why you don't think the missing radix is a "real" bug, there are plenty of real use cases where a leading zero is proper formatting, for example, in spreadsheets that keep the same number of digits in each cell. Not to mention that since this is all web code there is a good chance this is all user input so anything goes.
We should really encourage eachother to put the date in the title when submitting old articles to HN. It's a total brainf*k to read through the entire article, and not realize the context it was in.. or to just glance at the title and assume the topic is a current one. Just saying.

[Edit] Not that I have a problem with older posts, btw.. I actually really like them most of the time. But the date would give everyone a better opportunity to evaluate whether they want to read the article, and would be reading it with reasonable context.
The military loves using open source software.
Feel free to push the Evaluate button to see the actual output.
I really enjoyed the writing style of this post.
A cell. phone is not going to prevent friendly fire. The military already has extensive technology for this (Google "Identification Friend or Foe"). More to the point if you've ever been in a live fire situation you realize fairly quickly it isn't a situation where you could hear a cell. phone (or the guy next to you unless he's screaming)
Yes. I am a huge CLI nerd, yet, I cannot be dishonest with myself - GUI is faster in a lot of things.

When copying files from one directory to the other - CLI vs GUI is debatable in terms of speed (I'd still say GUI is faster, but let's assume its debatable). But what if I want 1, 2, 5, 7 and 10th file; not all files? It is remarkably faster in GUI: Ctrl + click files I need and drag+drop. Done. Good luck fumbling around with CLI.

CLI nerds are the most annoying people I've encountered. They're myopically obsessed with their tmux + cli workspace and are not open minded.
The big issue is latency, as time from wafer entering a fab to chip coming out the other end can be in the order of months depending on complexity.
There's plenty of middle ground. Any good scientist is able to explain what they do to various different audiences:

1. A six-year-old

2. An uneducated layman

3. A layman with the general gist of what sciencey things are about

4. A scientist in a completely different field

5. A scientist in a similar field

6. A scientist in your own subfield

7. The three other people in the world who actually understand what you're doing.

From a blogging point of view, though, there's an issue. If you're blogging about your own work then there's actually not all that much to write except on level 7, because the details of what you're doing on a day-to-day basis don't change on the higher levels. And if you're going to be blogging about science in general... well, it takes an awful long time to do that kind of thing.
"SNAP stands for Sony's Networked Application Platform and is the early stage of a new ecosystem for making downloadable 3rd party applications available to networked devices like TVs, Blu-ray Disk players, etc."
I do not get the context of two hours here. AFAIK, ACM Programming contest consist of ~5 hours.

FWIW, I am also participating this year. My team was ranked #11 in prelims and we are competing for qualifying world finals at IITK, India. ( http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/acm/ )
This book requires you to do something for 3 time everyday for a year. That time is probably wroth a lot more than $8. So, I'd say some proof wouldn't be asked too much.
I never did it, but the joke between my friends and I was always that we should put the spammers we were getting on our site to good use. We always wanted a way to make them contribute to folding@home while spamming the site, but we settled for putting them into an endless loop of recaptcha instead.
Still, I don't see how the photons would be travelling at different velocities in the same medium.
Sigh, it's this hard even being a citizen and resident of the country. As a former international student, and now just living here and working (and soon to be booted because...immigration laws), this experience is so commonplace whenever interacting with the government it's not even funny. These topics on HN are commonly discussions about curbed American freedom under the government.

But there's a significant topic of interest for people all around the world when the (arguably) most powerful nation decided to stop playing Mr. Nice Guy with even its own citizens, and what that could mean for the rest of us.

I have pretty much stopped traveling except out of necessity (I cut down from 12 flights a year till 2011 to 1 flight in 2 years since) because of the huge hassle and strain security can become. Imagine what it was like when my (Indian) passport had Arabic stamps on it because it was issued in Oman (where I lived before I came here). I'm not even religious, but I was so often picked for "random checking" the booth probably knew me by name.

What bothers me more than the inconvenience and trauma this causes for people like me and the OP (although that bothers me a lot), is the massive waste of resources this form of civilian harassment is -- at least 7 officers were involved shuttling documents of some guy going on vacation for 4+ hours. All because of their (grossly incorrect, at that) racial profiling, lack of cultural knowledge, and general fear of people who don't look like themselves. Geez.
Thank you!

I've been playing around with the soil data map, looks like a huge undertaking. About two minutes in I started to realize just how shallow my geological knowledge really is. It's really cool though, reminded me a little bit of my Geotech days.

Thanks again for checking the program out, feel free to request features or bug-fixes if anything occurs to you.
Longest streak for contributions to public repos. Private ones don't show up unless you have access to them.
so who owns npm?
This is pretty amazing of a demo.
There's a Chrome extension called Unpinterested! [1] that automatically adds this to all Google Image search queries.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unpinterested/gefa...
Have you considered adding a "sort by amount of change" option? It would be very interesting to see why larger changes happen compared to smaller ones.
When I interview candidates who mention github contributions or courses they've created/taught or talks they've given I never have time to look at it. I'm literally told we're bringing someone on site maybe a day or two in advance, mostly it's day of. I don't have much time to personally comb over their resume sadly.

If you can bring this up during the interview I'd greatly appreciate it otherwise don't assume these things (open source contributions, blog posts, talks) will help you get interviews. What they may give you is the ability to network with people who are hiring which gets you an onsite.
Lammy, you're doing the lord's work
I recently switched from frontend to a backend/ml role at a large tech company.

At a high level the work is pretty similar. Instead of working with design/product you work with data science/product. The conversations do tend to skew more technical. I remember we talked a lot of about user experience on my old team whereas now it's more about the stability of our services/pipelines and the maths behind the models and features.

One thing I'd call out is that, as an engineer, you're largely responsible for productionising what the data scientists come up with. There can be varying degrees of collaboration on the modelling depending on the team/project but at the end of the day you're there to make the thing work in the real world.

Compared to other engineering jobs, I think the work tends to be more experimental, i.e. can you quickly write code to test an idea.

If you're interested in trying it out, go for it. There's a tendency to silo engineers (backend, web, mobile, etc) but code is code and you can ramp on the concepts in a few months :)

On the other hand, if you're loving frontend there's nothing wrong with staying there. The depth is definitely there but you might need to change teams/companies to keep growing.
Yes it was. That's why IBM, Microsoft etc rushed to adopt or sponsor Node.js. IBM acquired strongloop a NodeJs based enterprise framework. Microsoft extended their Chakra engine to support NodeJs but its still work in progress shows it lost steam..

Enterprises do not work with a brilliant language runtime, they need large ecosystem support from large vendors (read enteripse tools) and large availability of workforce, both of which are lacking in NodeJs esp. compared to Java. It's unfortunate as Typescript have now elevated NodeJs to a mature package and should have made stronger in roads into enterprises.
Sorry, this is in German: https://m.faz.net/aktuell/karriere-hochschule/buero-co/merhe...

71% of study participants don’t like their jobs. I will not write my opinion about ADHD, but most of the jobs are boring soul sucking time waste. Think about school - there were some good teachers, that liked what they did and the majority that just did their job. HN crowd obviously had good math and computer science and maybe physics or chemistry teachers.

I am your age and probably with ADHD too. But at this age you should know yourself and the tricks to overcome the deficits. My job is tragical. I am writing stupid shift registers in VHDL (that’s 2nd year homework at the university), but would like to design FPGA accelerators for high performance computing or day trading or machine learning. But the life isn’t pony yard. I can very well imagine HR making fun about the psychopaths they hired for their neurodiversity program. I know, it’s harsh and not pleasant, but I have heard a lot at this age already.

My advice: take some time, learn to know yourself better, especially how to overcome roadblocks and try act normal. Even if it means to play together with bored unhappy crowd.