jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American.

The whole argument hinges on this unverified anecdote.

Sorry, but your personal experience isn't universal.
This is why the term "habitable zone" can be a bit laughable.
React less to people and circumstances (as in don't get annoyed, upset, angry).

Finish some side project and try and get some freelance work once when I can show people the sort of things I do.
Improve myself and enjoy life as much as possible.
A list of changes: http://hydra.nixos.org/build/18399157/download/2/nixos/sec-r...
Session hijacking only works on webpages with sessions. Most of these urls are static informational pages without sessions, from the several I looked at.
No, because a framework tells you where to put your code. It will say "put a handlebars file in application.hbs, this is the default, or you can override the default and load it manually" or something to this effect.

So a framework has that "convention over configuration" flavor, while libraries are explicit. You actually have to load the application.hbs file manually with a handlebars parser. Then you use another library for the router, etc.
Is it the ads? Most malware is distributed through ads. I don't think there's a risk in AdWords text based ads, but the display ads frequently include malicious software. That and download.com. I'm glad I use the ad blocker.
And of course, the logical reaction is not to have and not to use any social media account. Erase it if you have one and if you can. You may also reset to a public password (1234), and be free like MIT hackers on ITS!
The launch of boutiques.com and now this (if true) would suggest that Google are moving into the commodity-based affiliate marketing space. Rather than relying so heavily on selling ad-space in their products, perhaps they are looking to further diversify their revenue streams by acting as a 'portal' through which a significant proportion of internet users find and purchase commodities from online retailers. It would certainly be very profitable.
This actually just gave me an idea. A little rear mounted camera matched with some software that detects tailgaters, records them, automatically uploads the video to Youtube and lists their license plate on a searchable public shaming site.
Dan Brown's writing, at the sentence level, is infantile, and the dialogue is didactic and patronising. I will never read another of his books.

Pacing is what Brown is good at. He knows how to end chapters with cliff-hangers that make you want to keep on reading.
That's quite a hypothetical investment to make on the back of a project that might not exist in half a decade, or will have shifted resources from supporting M1 Macs to supporting the new Apple hardware that gets released every year.

If you want actual mainline Linux support, buy hardware you can boot any generic Linux ISO on, which precludes all most every ARM SoC, including M1 Macs. Recent ARM servers implement SBSA[1], which means they can run ARM Linux ISOs just as well as x86 machines can. With ARM SoCs like the M1, you're married to whoever is generous enough to donate time and resources into rolling out bespoke Linux images for your specific SoC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Base_System_Architectur...
state funded companies help each other, nothing new, and then people wonder how american companies become so big

it's just like china

capitalism? only on the surface, but behind the scenes it is worse than comunism, think only a very few profit from it
Really? My earliest memories of Excel are from third grade and long before I started programming. Calculations for electronics and min-maxing video games are perfect applications of spreadsheets.

Spreadsheets are a great visual way of programming up to a certain point.
Do people there still say Saigon?

I thought HCMC was the common nomenclature and saying Saigon would be like saying Ceylon rather than Sri Lanka.
the link is from 2015.
This is extremely impressive.

I wonder if this will lead to a resurgence of "moon man" style videos with well-known characters rapping extremely offensive lyrics.
Curious, why'd you pick 6 seconds? (As opposed to 4, 5, 7, 8, etc)
For vim, it's under the listchars setting, in case anyone wanted to know! (":help listchars")

This has been crucial in debugging really strange issues students manage to create.
Also:

- those letters were in jan/2009

- there is now a project called qTip

- Nick is in the Netherlands, Craig is in the USA <- hard to sue someone in another country

- ProTip is still at version 2, apparently Nick never got around to doing v3
They need to create some more paid plans. More variety would be wonderful!
Thanks for this info. Last time I looked into this it appeared to be a Nautilus thing only.

This is quite slick.
There was a lot of discussion about converting these to PNG, so I just went and did it. I included source code, so you can get them in whatever size you want. Earlier discussion of the icons here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416677
To take a concrete example, we don't exactly enjoy maintaining justin.tv in many different languages. As a matter of fact the whole translations system adds a lot of complexity to the codebase. But we'd be bloody idiots to have the website exist only in English. Many other settings are similarly important.
Why do they have offices in UK and Singapore? Also the Enterprise division sounds like a poor strategic fit.
1. Make a new post quoting the old post with whatever new findings you have.

2. On the old post, add links to the newer posts with a short note like "27/11/2019: I've since found a better way of doing this, check it out"
I don’t really understand your question. I do spend, invest, and gift the money I make and I wouldn’t bother making it if didn’t need and want to do those things.

And you’ve already spent the money on your RAM. Why do you want it to sit idle when it could be being used to, for example, decrease sync time in Dropbox?

To reduce memory consumption of Dropbox costs money. Either via development time at Dropbox (so an increase in your subscription fee), via power drawn at your socket, or perhaps somewhere else.

Why are people here so utterly convinced that reducing memory consumption is the right place to spend money to get the best value? What do they know that I don’t?
If you compress the json first, it isn't quite so bad.

Example #1 (short string):

input: 103 bytes
gzip(input): 87 bytes
base64(gzip(input)): 117 bytes

Example #2 (long string):

input: 3122 bytes
gzip(input): 840 bytes
base64(gzip(input)): 1121 bytes
So how much of the faang do you own when you work there? none. the "everyone is an owner" is hr pr talk.

The political cloud is not something that will take off. If I have to worry about google employees protesting me I wont host my data with google, etc.

Bring your whole self to work, tell your customers to stay home.
This is what happens when companies don't understand security.

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3410278/the-biggest-data-b...

You think a million a year is expensive? It's not - not if it's saving you a $200m fine, and possible class action damages.
I prefer good logging to debuggers.

Often, you can't attach a debugger to the production system, but you can get logs. Also, you are often interested in the whole sequence of events leading up to the problem, not just the current state.
And, to find where to look in the first place, you need to get an idea of what's wrong - a debugger doesn't help with that.

https://henrikwarne.com/2014/01/01/finding-bugs-debugger-ver...
Golf match should not be defined as a consecutive failures before a potential success, but more of a set of strategic actions before a potential success.

But yes, it is not defined what they took into account. e.g. Calling the same potential client hundred times in a row, can get you a restraining order only.

If qualitative input and output of an attempt would be taken in account, quantity of an attempt would not really be that significant.
Hmm yes of course :) So in the videos we are seeing the "back" of the windmills.
Gaming on MAC is awful so they do have a point.
Some pointers from someone that deals with large and small organizations.

- Expect to be audited both security wise and financially.
- The larger the organization, the longer the process. (Although smaller clients can be just as dysfunctional.)
- Track everything; email, phone call, meeting, etc. It will save your ass in a dispute and may provide valuable metrics.
- The customer isn't always right, but they still are the customer.
- You will have to fire customers or crank prices up so the pain isn't so bad.
By that logic, we should never stick [2010] or [pdf] in the submission title either.

The same words suggest different things, depending on whether they appear under a commentary heading next to the columnist's headshot, or by themselves on the front page of Hacker News.
> Even if there are measurable statistical differences in competence at various activities between the sexes (which is far from proven), the average variation between two individuals is far, far more than the average variation between the sexes at large.

This is has no bearing on the issue. Yes, two individuals are probably measurably more different than the average woman vs the average man, but the qualities of the individual tend to balance out to a middle point in the larger picture. While variation is high, there is a single locus.

With gender, the average woman compared to the average men may be less different than any two random individuals, but there are nonetheless two loci for gender.

> But this is probably because it is both harder and less necessary for them to jump into the workforce straight out of high school, not because they're any better or more prone to academia. I have no hard data to back this up, but I strongly suspect that your average woman in her 20s is FAR more likely to be at least partially dependent on a husband or parents than a man of the same age.

And maybe Unicorns are making all the girls smarter, and flying spaghetti monsters are distracting all the men from studying and doing homework. I have no hard data to back that up. I'm just saying.

Seriously though, if you don't have at least some kind of evidence to back up what you're saying, you're better off just not saying it.

(p.s. the data says you're wrong.)
Thank you for your detailed, informative, and interesting observations on this post and others. You're a credit to this community.
very cool. from a personal standpoint, I guess I can understand how doing startups and climbing can fit together.
Most likely the "hacker" broke into the FTP server because the admin of that server used the word "password" as his password. So natural selection took them both out. Two less idiots to deal with.
> and switch sshd to a different port

Big ups for this -- since moving SSH to port 8022 I get zero bruteforce attacks. Even blacklisting tools like fail2ban can't get that kind of result. Of course it can't be the only defense, but I've always configured my SSH daemons to be key login only (no passwords). Moving SSH just cuts down on the CPU cycles burned at rejecting drone scans.

Every time I come across posts like this I consider maybe setting up a honeypot but I'm not sure what I'd do with the results other than look over them every few months for my own amusement. Are there any honeypots that can automatically forward information about the attacks to a central location?
if I'm in regular communication with someone, I'll skip the hi or inline it. the hello comes in handy when I'm getting in touch with someone I might only talk to once every couple weeks. then I like to just kind of break the ice, make friendly conversation so we both can feel at ease and friendly with each other.

I like to be friends with my co-workers - and there are times where if you are hitting them up for an ask, and ignoring them otherwise, thet might feel like you don't value them as a person ... A greeting, a little gossip or "HR" repart ée can make two people trust each other - which in the end can foster its own kind of efficiency!
why does it just have to be books - I can see a usecase for classnotes.
Have a scanner in the hallway of your school or college - at the end of the day, scan all your notes and drop the paper in the shredder to be recycled.
This would take barely 30 seconds.
> It wasn't exactly an attack

It was exactly an attack

> it was a bunch of protesters, trespassing into the building during a very important session.

No, it was a large armed mob targeting legislators; as well as many of them stating that legislators were their targets (some saying that they would be back for them), this is clearly shown in the video of the context around Ashli Babbitt getting shot, where the violence of mob at the barricades entrance to the Speakers office escalates with shouts of “They're leaving” as the legislators and staffers visible through the windows depart through another exit, shortly before the officers being threatened on the same side of the barricades as the mob withdraw toward the tactical team advancing up the nearby stairs and the crowd begins breaking through the barricades.

> Not good that they shot an unarmed woman, though.

She was part of an armed, violent mob breaking through the last physical barrier keeping them from a large group of high government officials with only small number of armed security forces who could not possibly protect the officials from the mob in the event of a general breakthrough; even so, the security forces waited as long as they could before shooting to prevent a breakthrough (and if they'd had only a few more seconds it's likely that the arriving tactical team would have turned back that particular arm of the mob.)
This isn’t possible without government control of the underlying components of the web, such as domain system. Otherwise private persons and companies can always create their own domain providers.

Yet you seem to advocate more government control. You see the dichotomy in your thoughts?
At some point you might be willing to consider you're the indoctrinated/brainwashed one. You said it yourself, you see everything around you repeat what you believe is false 24/7.

Reality is hard. It's easier out here in europe, we've been lucky enough not to suffer too much from the awful american media diet. We've mostly seen this happen to you all from the outside.

There's a lot of propaganda in your country. I sympathize with you, truly; it's difficult to tell what's real and what isn't when you've been gaslit for years. It's especially more difficult when you think that accepting reality means giving up your ideas and opinions on eg. personal freedom (it doesn't). But getting out of there is going to be your fight.

Saw this thread this morning; if there's hope for that guy, maybe there's hope for you. https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/kt9ues/update_my_husb...
No one is forcing you to listen to Parler.
Such APIs already exist. You can't install Signal on iOS in China. I've been preaching this to oblivious ears here for a long time, yet, most say 'i like apple appstore monopoly'.
Trump has done quite enough to demonize himself while inciting insurrection and calling for violence.

Not that's anything new - Trump has long called for his supporters to be violent towards those he disagrees with, even going so far as to offer to pay their legal fees.
Overnight I remembered more details, cant edit my last post so another reply.

TF had a racist (nationalistic?) tirade on YT around end of May 2020 about Poles making money off of him and charging exorbitant prices. All the while talking about overpriced Super Agnus chips and those damn Polish price gougers. When I pointed out the _only_ place selling Super Agnus at the time was in Germany and charged ~100 Euro/chip he only got angrier .. at Poles.
This is my view. These sites aren't censoring anybody- they're choosing not to amplify.
There is some innocent beauty in the twistedness of printf - especially with GNU extensions.
I, for one, do think designers need to be held back. Especially the ones that value attractivity and modernity above everything else to the detriment of accessibility and user interaction. I remember well the frustration with Flash-only webs.
> women seem to me subtly more susceptible to peer pressure for most things

Isn't the basic assumption behind this entire movement that women are NOT different from men?

In any case, if what you need is "token women", then why not highlight the presumably very competent women that already work in finance (my co-founder is one), rather than forcing quotas?

If your assumption is correct then it's not about the percentage that are women, it's about having a few well known role-models.
Apple P/E is around 30, not 3.

You would do well to take the time to understand why MSTR did what they did.

Hint: https://www.lynalden.com/money-printing/.
The keyword is "compared". Read again.
Has bitcoin changed lives for the better? I'm not sure what this has in relevance to the prior comment on PE ratios?
> New problem: Your partitions need to be < 300 MB or cassandra falls over dead.

people work around that by storing the data in something like S3 and then keeping the handle in cassandra. Yet another hack on top of another hack.
It's advertising
While I share the sentiment about microstrategy, I don't follow your point on Apple. It's trading at something like 29x earnings, a market cap of $2100 billion. It's not exactly cheap.
In this case a PR firm would be mostly about getting articles like this written, so maybe they already started.

It's either that or they naturally grow their own Neil deGrasse Tyson, or Bill Nye to popularize their cause.

The bottom line is they're essentially living off the government, so they need to compete with everyone else looking for tax money.
There are a few "flaws" to this solution actually, although the flaws are in assumptions + bayesian vs. frequentist philosophy differences.

The solution mentioned in the link solves a different problem:

You get a sample of K ints uniform randomly from 1 to N, where N is unknown. Based on your sample, what is your best estimate of N, so that if we repeatedly continue to give you independent random samples, the average answer your algorithm gives will be the correct answer, and provides the minimum variance compared to other algorithms?

However, if we can put an upper bound on the number of tanks that could possibly exist, say definitely no more than 100 million tanks, and if we believe it is slightly more likely that older tanks will be on the front lines than newer tanks, or any other prior knowledge, then the proposed solution will be more incorrect.

One of my former co-workers proposed computing a posterior distribution for estimates of N based on equally-weighted priors for N = max-observation to N = maximum cap (100 million tanks). Then the estimate is the expected value of the posterior distribution.
Many of the arguments he gave are mostly just based on the fact that there aren't that much powerful tools around which can do what he requests (and what of course is something you want to have).

Like grepping for all usages of some function. Or getting some code snippet in a way that it comes with all necessary context. Or whatever.

Though, with recent development (particularly on clang), these things may become much more easier. Of course, you will not be able to do magic things (like checking at what places what particular virtual function implementation is called exactly) but it will be trivial to check for example all calls on std::string::size etc.

In the same way, you could also implement some small helper tool for sharing code snippets which will add some meta information about the context. So that when you share some code like 'a += "foo";' it will contain the meta information that a is an std::string.

LLVM/clang is anyway also kind of a disprove to his arguments about maintainability. I would say that one reason that working on/with the LLVM/clang code is so much nicer compared to working on/with the GCC code is because it is written in C++.
Yes, I think we all wept when we first learned that.
People who use Firefox and Chrome care about having a good browser. People who use IE are content to use what came default with their computer and might not even care about running automatic updates.
There are some points I need to make clearer.

Afaik Turkish government didn't make anything to block google services. But google carried some of its services to already banned IP block. That's why we have been having difficulties to access some services.

Secondly, it is google that is asked to pay taxes, not youtube. Government wants google to be a taxpayer and pay tax for its ad revenue.
http://www.wirelessweek.com/News/2010/05/Policy-and-Industry...
Do you have some suggestions for interviewing interns in particular? I read the blogs on "how to hire as a startup" but none of them really focus on interns.
It's free. When that's your starting point, "it doesn't suck" is pretty compelling.
Why are comments disabled on job postings?
That's an amazing story, almost unbelievable. Thanks for sharing.
A very similar, much longer exploration of the problems with high school (and, honestly, most undergraduate) math education:
http://www.maa.org/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf
This whole article is an academic's idea of an ad hominem attack.

"Brilliant", a "cosmic genius", yet "dumb", "emotionally incapable of understanding", and further a lame attempt at psychoanalysis; instead of actually appealing to Dyson's statements and trying to combat them with facts.
Well the irony of developing an NC-17 game for PC would be that the kind of budget you'd need to make a truly quality AO game would likely outstrip the amount PC games make. So trying to do an AO game on PC would really just result in a bad game that would further your own arguments.

It's a pretty nasty catch 22, really.
How early in Jan? I vote Jan 3 since most will be done traveling by that point.

Edit:
Is tomorrow (12/20) too early?
A friend's father was educated in Vedic Maths, and she and her sisters grew up having 'Beat the Calculator' competitions with him. Eg, they'd take turns giving him a series of random numbers to add/subtract/multiply/divide, and he'd do it in his head while they'd do it on the calculator. She said he almost always won.

She attributed that not only to the fact that he was very smart, but also that he had mastered the Vedic techniques that let him quickly organize, simplify, and compute long strings of numbers and operations in his head.
I believe you should absolutely disable pirated copies, and try to make sure the pirate users know they've been caught. Honesty compels me to mention that my motivation for this is not that I believe it will help your business; it is that I believe the major obstacle to widespread conscious adoption of free, open source software by end users is that piracy of proprietary software is widely tolerated. If proprietary software made more effort to prevent unauthorized copying and use, it would really drive adoption of FOSS.
> Google offers these services for free to the end-user and generates revenue from ads.

We pay them with our data. It’s an exchange of services.
The ways of HN are a mystery to me as well.
lovely.

I taught a class in 1996 using those human bean figures. A few slides into the class, people were stifling laughter. My take on Windows NT Server Administration might have been a joke, but I wasn't trying to be funny. Puzzled by this reaction, I stopped asked just asked the class: what was so funny? I wasn't angry at all, but I wanted to know.

"Um, those guys are pissing on your server."

Can't unsee.

Dang.
> but instead we have year after year where the memory lags behind the processor in speed improvements

That's what cache and tlb are for.