jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'll tweak this a bit because the following worked for me:

"Give your first client a ridiculously low price."

The keyword in that sentence is "first" because you don't want to get into the habit of low-balling all of the time but it's not a bad idea when you're getting your start.

My freelance career started when I was offered to bid on a job by a friend who was working for a large sports organization in Ohio. I came in really, really low compared to the other vendors who were bidding (although, at the time, I didn't know HOW low). That one job, which I did very well for a low price, resulted in a client and work I still have to this day. And that client then turned into referrals that got me involved in an entire industry.
In short: Do stuff just at the edge of your capability.
Reminds me of this short film: https://youtu.be/O-2tpwW0kmU

Just like this, it's scary because it is believable.

FWIW, here's the real military using Boston Dynamics:
https://youtu.be/OYs0Rq66-U4
And here's a remote controlled sniper rifle:
https://youtu.be/md_q3pKoyEI

So I would be very surprised if nobody had combined them yet. In that sense, I think it is very good that MSCHF is bringing more attention to it. The sooner we start talking about laws to govern this tech, the lower the chance of it ending up in the wrong hands.
In 2015 I would like to make something useful with what I've learnt so far. I also want to try my hands on scientific programming languages but I will have to find a mock scientific problem first :)
So would you say that comparatively low attrition combined with high self-reported satisfaction indicates that a company is a good place to work?
Corporations now have strict salary bands for almost all roles. Good and bad. Good because it keeps everything equal. Bad because super high performers find it harder to get outsized rewards.
It was about asthma and hbp, not some stronger muscles.
The woman in this video has issues with privacy in her Zoom conference call:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xqLjc2y6O4

Okay not the same issue this article is talking about, but do pay attention to if your camera is on and where it is pointing :)
I like how socialism's used to save capitalism, yet you'll still have people claiming capitalism its the only system that "works".

Yes, it "works" because it has to, i.e. there's no defined scenario of it not working, apparently nor the Great Depression, nor 2008, nor measures like these still don't mean anything as far as it not working, so it works because it apparently never does not work, no matter what.

P.S. I don't mean to claim capitalism 100% does not work and socialism does, merely that maybe we need a healthy mix of both?
For me, keeping all those things even closer together (react with hooks and some inline event handlers + css-in-js or tailwind) is so much better that I have no interest in single file components.
Yes, characterizing any anti-racist efforts as being "told for decades that said national culture is hateful" and "must be destroyed without any decent replacement" is a dogwhistle.

This sort of cherry picking and sliding definition of terms while pretending to be "just asking some questions", however, is known as sealioning: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Sealioning
The use of "server" to mean "instance" is very old. For efficiency's sake, multiple separate instances of old FPS games can be run in a single process, but I doubt you would object to the vernacular of "Quake server" as short-hand for "server-side Quake game instance".

Also, Discord internally calls them guilds.
Could something like this (two ISP connections) be combined to use the speed of both links at once (i.e. speed up a single connection). Perhaps with the aide of a remote VPS?
Saw the headline and wondered about his landing. Glad to know he's headed to another interesting project.
They could have setup their 'mega-supernodes' running the new client in a production environment, so that if it crashed horribly, it wasn't a client machine that failed (or their entire network).

Upgrading (relatively) untested software network-wide on what is essentially their critical infrastructure is bad news. If this didn't happen now, it would happen sometime. It was just a question of when.
By "you", I think you may mean "I". If ssp is hacking the test suite to bypass a failing test, ssp has the problem, not the test suite. jerf does not have much trouble with that, jerf has experienced "the one failing test that turns out to reveal a major underlying problem followed by a real fix that it would have taken him multiple customer-losing hard-to-reproduce bugs in field to learn about" multiple times.

Not that this is perfect, I've got just such a bug out there right now that simply refuses to be reproduced by anyone once a developer is looking at it, but I sure have far fewer of those than I would without the tests.
The thing this article drives home, to me, is that in "impoverished" circumstances -- i.e. an environment where there is not a surfeit of resources -- the external environment serves to regulate the body, health, and longevity. In Western(ized) cultures, cultures of plenty, we shift from being regulated (and controlled) primarily by our environment, to having to regulate ourselves. Learning that self-discipline, as a culture and a species, is an arduous process, and as we've seen, the affluent and educated tend to have a leg up in doing so.

I think it could be a more productive conversation if we treated "diseases of affluence" as ones that required different human responses than the diseases we've faced in the past -- the search for the pathway to instilling the requisite behaviors for healthy survival seems to me like a better expenditure of energy than simply bemoaning progress's ills.
Computer/algorithms cannot tell who is hot, if the input is photo of Marilyn Monroe versus Scarlett Johansson
I've blogged about co-routines before, and this post inspired me to write a little bit that contrasts RethinkDB with my own special-purpose DB that my startup uses.

http://formlis.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/co-routines/
If your startup fails, some investors lose money and you have to go get a job.

If your country fails, people will probably suffer and/or die.

Am I missing something?
I've always wanted to try TDD, but for the stuff that I am working on these days -- wireless kernel drivers -- it isn't clear to me exactly how to do this. Does anyone have experience doing TDD at the kernel level?
Well, the big question is not if Skype went down becase lots of supernodes crashed. The question is why they crashed, and if the trigger was external. There are messages on p2p-hackers list arguing just that:

I have evidence that suggests this is being done
by a ddos attack on the supernodes' object list
cmd parameter.
I suggest bootcamp/winxp native install, and just abandon the mac half of it.
It's definitely a bad thing for all the big banks holding oil that just got f#$@@d
As have I. I'm not saying it isn't possible, rather that the performance pales in comparison to (and is much more expensive than) real hardware.
Given that you're discussing inconsistency in what medical experts are saying it would benefit everyone if people like both of you just shut up and let people make their own decisions.
OK, this article explains deflationary spiral.

This depends on the assumption that people hold out on buying non-urgent goods in the belief that prices will continue to fall - leading prices to fall further. But in the current economic climate, almost nobody is buying non-urgent goods anyway. (Yet we have seen consistent inflation)

The current 'deflation' is primarily led by a sharp downtick in oil prices that won't be repeated - there's no immediate suggestion that prices will continue to fall.

With years of consistent inflation above wage increases compounding to give high prices, any deflation is just as likely to be seen by consumers as a relief from high prices - a good opportunity for people to spend the money they've been holding onto.
Normal customer support would explicitly tell that they don't want to spend money to have the broken item returned, and normal customers would ask for instructions (typically volunteering to return the item, to avoid suggesting a scam).
So, how could such a misunderstanding happen? Is it your fault?
Very nice article! :)

Storing types via traces could be another step for gathering types. As well as using the more advanced static type checking code that is around for python.

Now I have something to work through on the weekend. Looking forward to part 2!
Congratulations for confusing micro and macroeconomics.

What happens to the price of a single good over the lifetime of that good is not a useful lesson in what happens as a result of broad, economy-wide deflation.

Frankly, the issue with purchase postponement isn't the biggest problem (although it's certainly a concern, as is hoarding). In my mind the biggest problem is wages being inelastic downward. As all prices deflate, income for employers goes down (or thought of another way, the value of money goes up which makes each employee more expensive). That forces two options: fire employees, or cut salaries. The latter is very difficult. So instead you see the former.

So you get broad based increases in unemployment. That leads to reduced consumer spending, which forces prices down even further, and so on.

As for real life examples, perhaps the Great Depression qualifies?

http://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z/d#node-21529653

If you're looking for a more contemporary example, Japan experienced its own deflationary spiral:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesgruber/2014/04/27/japan-def...
Not sure that was proved at all - at least where I live, demand was almost certainly propped up by significant numbers of cashed up people in the prime of their working life selling up overseas and buying property when moving home. borders would need to be closed for longer to allow that affect to work out before you could truly see how it would be without immigration.
While Rust won't catch the use of subtraction in an arbitrary function named "add", it'll catch (in clippy) the use of subtraction in an implementation of the Add or AddAssign traits: https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/#suspicious_a...
> It went viral without any promotion on his part

How many youtube subscribers did he have at the point he posted it?

He subsequently turned it into an "edgy" comedy career, career in politics, and ~1m youtube subscribers across his various channels. Pretty good return on investment.

> spread a few Hitlery catch phrases for some reason

This not an argument in his favor.
Please post the actual URLs here, URL shorteners are bad.

http://www.billboard.com/news/lady-gaga-rebecca-black-is-a-g... in this case.
So, the Gross Margin, the EPS, and the Operating Income pretty well match their previous record _holiday_ quarter.

They're doing pretty well in the same way that google has a lot of servers.
Ugh.

Restrepo is an incredible film. My younger brother is a freshly-minted second lieutenant in the Marine Corps, so I'm very thankful that there are people like Tim in the world who can help people like me see what soldiers go through.
Cool idea, but I would appreciate notification that it posts to my facebook wall.
It took me a bit to figure out what exactly it was doing on your site, especially with it turning purple. Having a three step sample use-case guide on your homepage would be helpful.

Also, rather than specifically tell it what font to fallback to, I'd love to be able to just choose an operating system and have it show me what font would have been used by a user on a default installation of that OS.
Do you like music? [Let's say you said, "yes"] So, music makes you happy. [Again, let's say you said, "yes"] Having technology that allowed you to have all for your music with you all of the time would make for more happiness.
This is pretty much my experience of basing a business on another company in such a way. Besides having learned my lesson about that, it's left me leary of everything from using cloud-style servers to outsourcing features such as comments.

You can get a big boost up from leveraging another company's assets, but you're left in a very vulnerable position - at their mercy in several ways. I'm striving to make all future endeavors as independent as possible.
Tim Hetherington directed & produced the popular documentary 'Restrepo', which follows the deployment of a US Army platoon mostly in the Korengal Valley.

It was a pretty neutral, sobering glimpse into the war, whether you're for or against.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrepo_%28film%29
I thought the same thing as you at first, but perhaps Gaga might have taken issue with the short sound clip from Madonna's "Express Yourself" (at 1:58 in Weird Al's version). I think Gaga has been accused of copying "Express Yourself" and Weird Al is poking fun at that issue.

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2011/04/20/20...
>> Again, you strawman me. Where in my argument did I talk about making outrageous claims?

You appear to be annoyed that folks write take-downs on software like the one linked to by the article. This is the outrageous claim. If you feel this is not what you're saying then fine, I'm not sure we actually have an argument.

>> I would very much appreciate it if you separated "make outrageous claims" from "develop open source security software".

There's no reason not to develop OSS security software. There's every reason to put up big warnings saying you can't vouch for its security. There's every reason to ask people who know what they're talking about to take a look, and to be humble when they point out flaws, and to rework it if that's the case. There's every reason to take some of the excellent free courses.

But there's also no reason to go off-piste. Why develop this crazy new OTP scheme? There's existing crypto for exactly these use cases. Leave the devising and proving of new crypto constructs to the deeply-versed and the academics, who know how to prove this stuff (and disprove it).

It's like saying "I can't write my OSS networking project because people keep telling me not to rewrite the TCP stack without learning about TCP first". Do you need to rewrite the stack? If so, if you want to do a good job then it's going to take a hell of a lot of knowledge and training. Why not use the OS API?
Essentially I'm saying that the developers/distributors that make these kind of products will find a way to reach their customers some way or another. Just because microsoft makes this statement may indeed hinder the market from developing in the early beginnings. But it will not stop the perverts in the long run. Not that I'm against this product in any particular way - as I think people are to be free to explore their sexual fantasies. I am saying however, that the market will be (probably) too big to be ignored.
Additionally: http://gpl.ea.com/
Didn't you say upthread that the most lucrative market for games is 13 year olds? How much money do you think there is in AO games, anyways? (Serious question).
I'm not so sure, a bunch of my mainstream friends are freaking out about it. They didn't care about the previous seizures, but once you stop people from playing Internet poker at work everyone turns into a civil rights advocate.
yeah, that was a weird conclusion...it says right there in the linked blog post

"instead of automatically redirecting all our users, we have started taking a small percentage of them to a landing page on Google.cn that links to Google.com.hk—where users can conduct web search or continue to use Google.cn services like music and text translate, which we can provide locally without filtering. This approach ensures we stay true to our commitment not to censor our results on Google.cn and gives users access to all of our services from one page."
No, they are not currencies, they are payment methods for dollars. A note that you owe someone some amount of dollars is entirely different from saying, repeatedly, in advertisements, that you're an "alternative currency".
This law refers to race discrimination and isn't relevant to your argument.

Key part with lots of sub clauses removed for readability: "Whoever, under color of any law, willfully subjects any person in any State to the deprivation of any rights, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;"
> To me, it's like watching the movie Rocky—he's up, he's down, he's out, he wins!

Maybe next time actually watch Rocky instead of reading a 140 character synopsis...
You avoided the question: what if something goes wrong with your in-house process? Is there anything you can do vis-à-vis your employee that you can't do to Google? Is that worth the price of keeping that person on your payroll, drawing benefits, driving up your costs? Would you fire them? Worth the employment claims risk?

These are not binary decisions. People vastly overestimate the value of doing things in-house. Most of the candidates for those "in-house" data management jobs couldn't cut it at Google. Why not leverage Google's HR and recruitment, training, and expertise in infrastructure operations to your benefit, esp. when you consider:

(1) that your own hires offer you no better protection; and

(2) backup solutions are necessarily imperfect.
With the number of expensive top-ranked schools giving out large need-based grants, the situation is far less dire than the graph would have you believe. At least right now they're pretty generous even to the middle class, although I will not deny the existence of some outliers who do get totally screwed.
Wow, I don't know why this surprises me so much - although I know plenty of people that play poker "illegally". A quote simply because I personally feel it's ridiculous.

I also recall the difference between the poker related .com and .net sites. So fulltiltpoker.net is still up as is pokerstars.net - that, if I recall correctly, was because the .net website was aimed a playing poker with "fake money" while the .coms were all aimed at playing poker with "real money"
This doesn't make any sense to me... is bartering illegal? Where does one draw the line between bartering with chips and paying with chips?
Laws can change. I think it's well time to start thinking about how to organize the internet so that it routes around governments even more easily.
My first exposure to Chick was also through Spain, playing bass in high school. My friend and I decided we wanted to start a jazz band and found some charts for Spain, however it was a watered down arrangement with the rhythms...let's just say not as interesting as the original. Imagine my surprise when I finally heard the original recording. That is where I trace the beginning of my love for jazz and 30+ years later, he is still my biggest musical influence. I count my blessings I was able to see him perform many times in many different settings.
I've seen this so much, and can empathize with them. When you have a product that took you years to master, the value that you bring to your employer is wrapped up in that product. So it isn't so much that someone is a DBA, they are an Oracle Database software specialist. You've learned all the quirks so that when something goes south, you "have the answer". So naturally you will have a number of reasons why another product isn't as good.

I feel the same way with Unix/Linux. At one point I was told that my organization may be migrating away from Linux, and redeploy everything under Windows. The management layer really couldn't understand that they would lose nearly every Linux admin on staff (that happened to also have deep understanding of their apps and infrastructure). "Why would someone have a problem with switching platforms -- we'll provide you the training" was their answer. Fortunately we were able to come up with a number of technical (and cost related) issues that the project was shot down.
A quick Google suggests the FAA uses some version of decision coverage (i.e. for each branch in your code, what percentage were taken during testing), not simple line coverage.
There is no such thing as an ex-spook.
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Their error messages are as good as their typography.
In "Income & Happiness" you're missing that there are two complementary definitions of happiness - "satisfaction" and "affect". Satisfaction, or how you feel about your life, is what is shown in your graphs. "Affect" is your direct emotional experience of your life. What you call "wrongness" is just a failure to distinguish between the two - more money makes increasingly smug, but (beyond a certain point) doesn't make your like any more fun
And as I said, our laws are enforced to a rather strict degree.
> You're wrong, it's not easy, the value is not in the code, it's in the network

What is that network, though? It's a few stores which accept many forms of payment and a bunch of people who use a little bitcoin but not for anything vital. Every party involved can switch to a new system in minutes and these days it's very fast to bootstrap networks using mobile devices and existing social networks. The reason the alt coins haven't seen rapid uptake is that most of the speculation is happening in Bitcoin while everyone waits to see whether the concept will get significant mainstream acceptance

If Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, PayPal, etc. launched a payment system it'd have more users than Bitcoin on the day it launched. If someone like Square did it, they'd have more stores accepting payment by multiple orders of magnitude and far more credibility in the business community with a proven track record on things like support and fraud prevention.

> Also, early investors always get rewarded disproportionately, that's compensation for taking the risk

Again, you're talking about Bitcoin like it's a stock — which is exactly the problem, because people have different requirements for currencies than stocks. In particular, holding a stock waiting for the value to go up is fine for a company but disastrous for a currency.
Right, but at least we can say you're a relatively old "living" creature where age is a more relevant number. (I'm getting up there in "relatively old" years too.)
Then nationalize them or make them a public and/or Government agency (in a fair market fashion, by petitioning the Government to make them an offer to buy them out). But as long as they're a private company they get the same protections and liberties as all the rest.
>Nobody killed a cop. A cop killed a protester.

Except they did[0].

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/08/capito...
Hmm, interesting - I stand corrected. So the first millennium was years 1 through 1000. First I've heard of it!
Another casualty of 1-based indexing I suppose. Perhaps the people setting the system up didn't have a concept of 'zero'?
Or give you my platform to shout from.

You missed this part.