jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Neither eBay nor PayPal care enough to even have a human review the disputes most of the time. A valid tracking number (even if the package is empty) is often enough to lose a dispute. If you’re lucky, you’re going to get a monkey reviewing it which isn’t paid enough nor is competent enough to evaluate the quality of the item received based on the pictures.

Your bank will indeed care more but most people don’t bother or value access to PayPal more than the scam money (since PayPal will often close your account if you file a chargeback with the bank).
"Pepsi" as a brands is basically non-existent in East Africa, "Coke" is as ubiquitous as asking for a glass of water.
> If typing speed is the bottleneck in your programming, you are doing way too easy and trivial stuff.

That's just your assumption. I'd say typing is probably the sill that's easiest to optimize. Even if you just type 10% of your time, cutting it down by half is a significant improvement. Also, proper typing will boost your confidence and free your mind for more relevant things.

To draw parallels with Jiro: Cooks learn how to properly use a knife before they're even allowed to cook. They do so by exercising preperation over and over.
Agreed. The author obviously didn't do research, 10 seconds will show it's Vim.
Yes, it's a bit sad and Apollo was an incredible set of engineering but let's keep something in mind: the massive budgets of the "space race" were fueled by Cold War tensions. A not-so-subtle implication of the space program was you'd better spend ridiculous levels of resources on rocket research or risk being dominated from above and by the way look how precisely we can land things back on earth.

I'm not going to complain about the result, but neither do I miss all aspects of it.
Because it never hz.
I wrote an early Java ORM (1996-2000) and I've come to the conclusion that ORMs are a bad idea. ORMs make the easy even easier, and the difficult impossible. The basic problem is that writing good, high-performing SQL is hard enough as it is. You have to understand indexes, clustering, execution plans, and query optimization to get good performance. Add an ORM to the picture and then you have to figure out how to say what you want in this brand new language, through a mapping layer.

I don't want to give up either objects or relational databases, (the choice that some other comments have suggested). What I am willing to give up is an ORM generating SQL. Writing SQL doesn't bother me. What bothers me is dealing with Java PreparedStatements, Connections, and ResultSets. This is all trivial boilerplate stuff, that an automated approach can do easily. I want to preserve my brain and fingers for the hard stuff, writing clean, fast Java and SQL.

I have heard that iBatis takes this approach, but I haven't tried it myself.
Was there a more fundamental problem in the assumptions of the code?

The state of the operation is "success" (err==zero) until some step changes the state to "failure" (non-zero).

The state should be assumed to be "failure" until the last step changes it to "success".
If you jailbreak your phone you can put in any sim you want. I did that when I went to Australia.
I agree with Steve. The people with the extra cash will just park on it which will drive up the price they will charge you to buy it. There is no clear cut solution to this problem, it will be around as long as the domain model is what it is (but then again how would it change?).

The closest thing I can come up with would be to in-act some kind of domain activity monitor (use it or loose it) type pattern, but I don't seriously think this would ever happen either.
To be clear here, it fetches two cache lines but it doesn’t put the second in exclusive state until it’s written to; the unit of granularity is still 64b. In a scanning read mode you will see the benefit but you won’t see the contention on writes. (The contention will come from subsequent reads on that cache line though)
Could you describe what your own solution was?
Revolutions aren't typically driven by the starving populace who worry about their next meal --it's more people already in power or higher classes who use the masses to effect their change. Change usually has champions at the top. In other words it's a power struggle at the top manifested at the bottom.
>Perhaps you could start by defining 'civilized' according to your preferred meaning.

People that don't allow other people to die when there's wealth available.
Keith, 150$/hr sounds great. I wonder where these rates are common?
I've started on oDesk and doing pretty good in oDesk's standards I think, but it's still only third of your rate.
I would strongly urge you to purchase Gary Bernhardt's screencasts at http://destroyallsoftware.com. It has been extremely influential for me. I've realized that Unix should be looked at as a tool when programming. He also has strong opinions on how to test properly, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdNnN5yTIeM
It's different for different people.

As a general practice, reparative therapy has historically been very harmful, and is usually what people are advocating for when they say that being transgender is something you "can choose".

There exist some people for whom transition is optimal for mental health and some people for which it is not.

"Transition" can also be deconstructed into different things:

- hormone therapy (which itself involves a lot of different possibilities)

- changes in gendered behavior (voice, body language, etc.)

- changes in gendered apparel

- changes in gendered self-perception

- asking to go by different pronouns

- becoming a part of trans-aware/queer communities where gender is perceived as more fluid

- various surgical options
You'll buy anything you think Amazon is losing money on.
Try http://www.robozzle.com for a game in similar vein with a bit more depth.
I think you guys just created a tool that's gonna be used by actual buzzfeed authors
I've seen a few good stories. A friend's old (ok, antique) Jaguar broke down in the middle of a Jag rally up the country. He called the AA, and the guy they sent out was a collector and fellow specialist, who re-wired the loom then and there, at the side of the road. It wasn't a great fix obviously (he couldn't get into top gear, or something like that), but it meant he could keep going with the rally and get it done properly later. Absolutely amazing.

Best experience I've had was in Turkey. Broke down on a Sunday evening, tow truck saw us at the side of the road and gave us a lift to a garage. An official Toyota garage. Shit. The manager of the garage comes out, calls the chief engineer, so now we have four people's time on a Sunday evening to pay for. Turns out we need a new, Toyota-specific part, or we can't drive away, and they have it. At this point they can just name a price, we do not have a choice. It was 100 USD, all-in, parts, labour, and the tow. That price that would be reasonable on a weekday! They must have known that they could charge however much they liked, and they didn't. Much appreciated.
Dudes in buffalo costumes are pretty harmless.

And the senate floor isn't a particularly important piece of ground to hold (when the Senators are not there at least).

Expending lots of resources and good will smashing what was essentially theatre-- wouldn't have been a good move.

If only we treated more protests like that: Stood back and people show their anger, then move on with our lives -- message heard-- with minimal injury and damage.

[I'm aware that a protester was shot and killed inside the capitol building -- but relative the scope of the event, I think it's still fair to characterize it as that way]

FWIW, the Capitol building is normally substantially open to the public.
Those people were heard at the election, this is the temper tantrum because other people got to be heard as well.

> The internet is nearly entirely private and controls the vast majority of communication.

Yes it's private, that doesn't mean they can't own it, they can setup their own private servers and be free of restriction.
WiFi has been using beamforming (explicit beamforming) since 11ac.

Not sure what do you mean by "few privileged companies". This has nothing to do with beamforming.
I don't disagree with this, but sadly, a prerequisite for that is a position of privilege where you're able to push back against non-valuable work. I've seen many, many very good software developers that have this quality, but get overruled, and their true value goes unrealized as a result.
This is changing rapidly. Many
people I know are moving Signal. Also, don’t delete WhatsApp right away. Do a “silent” move: whenever people send you a WhatsApp answer on iMessage if they’re Apple users and actively push the Android friends over to signal. Works well in my case.
I agree with you, but I made points A and B in my original comment that you replied to.
Hello telegram!
You mean a courthouse in Portland being burned down during the summer didn’t already shake your faith in the security of our federal buildings?

And I’m not sure if people are aware but the capitol is a public building. Meaning, on a normal day anyone can just go in there. There wouldn’t have been the physical intrusion everyone is catching the vapors over if they hadn’t put up barriers and shut down the whole city in the first place. You know, I’m actually starting to understand that whole argument about how preemptive shows of force by the police can actually escalate a situation...
[An article I read said] There was an additional bomb also found on the Capitol grounds.

Obviously this is a developing situation. And the details don’t actually matter to my point. Clear and present evidence to commit acts of domestic terrorism was available, and people were still allowed to loiter and vandalize as they pleased.
Is there more information available than just that quick statement on the front page? The about page calls openNI a consortium and lists 5 founding companies [1].

[1] http://www.openni.org/organization/
Looks like I'm gonna buy a Steam game for the first time.
> I had never heard of canola oil.

It is called different things in different places. Canola is actually a specific cultivar of Rapeseed. Canola actually stands for "Canada Oil" and the term probably isn't well known out of North America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
Actually if you look at the orbital mechanics, it would offset the center of mass for the earth in relative proportion to its mass. That said, the Earth has a lot of mass and so that effect would certainly be imperceptible and probably unmeasurable (although things I used to think we'd never measure directly we seem to do so now). It would do any "damage" in the sense you are using the concept.
Texas rocks!
It’s annoying because now they expect me to pay 49€ rather than 29€ for the same service, namely for them to ship stuff to me at costs competitive with going out to buy said stuff directly.

I don’t know of any company competing with Amazon in that space, sadly.
Smart, every time I see one of these I worry that someone malicious will attempt to delete the server's Windows folder.
I agree with the multiple methods, but I believe that certain things in math are considered to be basic building blocks (such as single digits add/sub/mul/div) that should be memorized similar to in sports how certain movements are considered basic and are practiced until it becomes muscle memory.

As for the difference in outcome of white vs non-white in poor neighborhoods, I feel there are more at play than institutionalized racism, but it is incredibly difficult to have a nuance discussion on the topic.
The reason why doing-well-financially people are stressed/complaining is because they live beyond their means. It doesn’t matter how much you make if your lifestyle is more expensive than your income. That’s why you have crazy situations where people making $500k are complaining about how expensive things are and how badly they need to make more money. The key problem is a lack of financial literacy.
Gun violence vs gun homicide is really just two sides of the same coin. Either way I don't want to be somewhere that chances of being shot go up appreciably, let alone just having a gun pulled on me w/ no shots fired.
I see a practical use of this when you are offline and without a chessboard or someone else.

Otherwise, you can play online quite easily. For a game I only wait for a few seconds on lichess.org
Nowhere in the article do they claim that it's THE factor, just a key factor in combination with "habitat loss, chemical pollution, invasive species, and climate change" (3rd paragraph).
The HN crowd gets the joke, they just don't laugh about it. :-)
(Actually - just read up my Codd again - I think it's 5NF that always had me stumped)
> is this legal

Consult a lawyer.
Yes, evolution is happening:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/moths-in-cities-d...
Nothing bad about KiCad (don’t know it), but the Linux foundation have recently been caught neck deep in what seems like a (needless) identity politics controversy.

TLDR: it kicked out white males trying to mostly have a reasonable conversation on Twitter from attending its events, while allowing an openly and viciously racist and sexist black woman to attend the same event, with her asking for “safe spaces” to top the irony.

Needless to say, my respect for the Linux foundation has plummeted. They’re clearly off my donation-lists now.
FTA:

> I’d seen examples of this on signs before, but it had always seemed to me that asterisks and such were not meant to be a solution, but rather a way to highlight the issue and start a discourse on something that’s deeply ingrained in our language. For our cyberpunk future, we wanted a solution that was more readable and pronounceable [...] Not a perfect solution, perhaps, but eminently plausible in a futuristic cyberpunk setting.
What data are you looking at for this? Is it just reddit, or other social media sites too?
>I would argue that the current economic system does not plan for maximum longevity of products.

Of course not. And you don't want that. If you want quality, you can get quality but you'll have to pay for it. Are you willing to pay $500 for a quality drill, when a cheapo $40 drill is all you need? What's wrong with that?
The OnePlus Travel Backpack. Comfortable padded straps, padded & firm back, enough internal & external pockets and pouches. Doesn't extend much outwards, so the weight stays in the right place, it looks good and fits easily in overhead compartments sideways or under a plane/train seat. If I pack light I can take enough for an overnight trip.
> tactical

tactical AND strategic.
Feel free to link then here so everyone’s eyes can be opened to the clear evidence of election fraud and definitely not some wakko randomer running their mouth on Facebook live.
What's with downvotes? I know some people don't mind, but it's a deal breaker to me, and it something I don't want to support.

I don't care how good their hardware is. Moreover, good luck sourcing parts if the device has trouble. Apple will not sell you the parts. Even if you wanted.

A walled garden does not make their hardware any better. If anything it makes it worse. I hope for Mac users apply does not clamp down further on Macs.
It's not a wake-up call until protestors storm the government buildings. Apparently.
In Florida, bars and restaurants are just about fully open and everything is just fine.
Because on one hand the government thinks it's OK for people to die alone in ICU and bury them without their friends of family[1]. But on the other hand said that it's OK to meet people to celebrate Xmas with[2].

Sources:

[1]https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52312653

[2]https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-55056375

Edit: Downvoted? It's not even my opinion. It's facts. Damn.

Or do you think that's not the reason? Timing-wise it matches pretty well.
I keep seeing "armed rioters" but have not seen any evidence. Could you point me to it?
Here is a video filmed in London this Christmas: https://youtu.be/Yz7wJZln6Kw

Plenty of people outside. In fact, I would call it lightly crowded, although less than other years. Many people don’t wear masks. It’s not a surprise that transmission has increased.

Nevertheless, London looked absolutely beautiful. Not sure if this was worth the risks though.
If Amazon's research is correct that 250 companies were targeted, that indicates just as a matter of a scale there had to be significant resources behind the effort.

I'd call that sophisticated even if just in terms of organizational efforts. Additionally, doing this and not getting caught for 6 months or whatever takes significant discipline from every single person involved. You don't see that level of size, discipline and organization outside a handful of top companies.
That was more of a general example rather than personal practice. I completely agree when you say using proven design patterns makes you more confident, just the other day I was implementing something I read from Design Patterns for Ruby. What I'm more curious about is whether I should stay the course to try to become an intermediate Ruby programmer or try to learn some basic computer science stuff, since everything I know about programming comes from Ruby related books. Not just half pay online tutorials, but "real" ones like "Meta-programming for Ruby" and "Ruby Way." At least from what I can tell, they are one of the most advanced Ruby books around.
To assess the backbone of a politician you need to look at their career choices, not just some random quote on some minor controversy.
The ones that believe the gov is protecting them? Probably none?
I'm not suggeting a bus that only goes to your friend's farm. It could be a (small) bus that passes very close, or that goes to a series of neighboring farms.

The point is not that this is available today, as we clearly live in a very car-centric culture and no one is planning this type of small scale public transit.

But it's not at all inherently impossible, it could well be achieved, especially where you're still near to a major city. In my country for example there is public transport for taking kids from small (and very poor) villages that don't have their own school to neighboring villages that do - and that's much more feasible and much more economical than expecting each family to buy and maintain their own car and gas, and to drive each child individually to school in the morning, then to drive back to school in the afternoon, pick them up, and drive back. And the kids are much more independent by having access to this than if they had to synchronize with their parents.
I think for the handcrafted markdown people, writing it is easier than GUIing it up. Keyboard-driven workflows that don't depend on bloated graphical environments and browsers are popular among power users for valid reasons.
Am I misreading, or are you saying you mix wine with soda/pop?
I didn't either but: http://i3.minus.com/i0tJucuLy5zPB.jpg
1) Check out Go, search for golang
2) Check out lua
FireTV was a much, much easier product to develop. It was pretty clear an Android STB was worth doing. In this case, Amazon wisely took the simplest path to get there: Google TV + better content deals and updated hardware and software.
RSpec does something along that vein with the documentation on https://relishapp.com/rspec. E.g., here's the documentation for predicate matchers: https://relishapp.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/v/3-1/docs/bu..., and here's the executable Cucumber file from which that page is generated: https://github.com/rspec/rspec-expectations/blob/master/feat....

Maybe an unnecessarily meta example, given that it's the executable documentation/test suite for a testing framework itself. But it's wicked cool!
That's a pretty fair criticism, and I have to agree with everything that you write here. But I don't see any way around that. I can't imagine a general interest site could possibly function like HN.
"TV sticks" of this form factor have been all the rage on AliExpress, DealExtreme, and the like, although their popularity seems to have waned somewhat compared set-top-boxes (I read somewhere that it was due to trouble managing heat while customers demanded more powerful processors, but I don't know). See http://www.google.com/cse?q=tv+stick&sa=&cx=partner-pub-8120... and http://liliputing.com/?s=tv+stick

They've mostly run on ARM and Android, with some hobbyists loading more traditional Linux distros on. Probably the most notable exception that I know of is the following: http://liliputing.com/2014/12/100-bay-trail-pc-stick-can-run...

If this is priced well it will be interesting to see how it impacts that landscape.
I can't be entirely sure what was meant but my sense from talking to people in this area is that statements like that are being made very literally. As in, if you do not sleep at all one night, its not like you can sleep an extra 8 hours the next day and be totally restored. The recovery process might involve a couple of days of sleeping an extra 3 hours, just for example.

I get the sense exercise and injury are good analogies. If you overexercise, cutting back by the amount you overdid it is too oversimplified; if you stop exercising for a month, you cant just expect to need or suffice with a month's worth later.
Thanks for mentioning the demoscene. While I was never really involved, I learnt about self modifying i386 assembly code from a 15 year old. I was roughly the same age back then. And we were both writing asm at that time, so actually employed the technique, not just knew what it was. Compare that to what gets done in school, and you see how far away from the real thing our education system is.
God that's a beautiful website. Loads fast. Not too many graphics. Nothing moves unless I tell it to.
Original article here (fuck paywalls) https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41593-020-00717-0
The Guardiola example is an unfortunate one as his play scheme lost effect not because it got corrupted, but because the other European teams adapted to it. Germany (mostly Bayern) vs Brazil in the Brazil worldcup was a great example on how the scheme was still effective against a unprepared team. Sadly for me, a Brazilian who was at the stadium.
Scrum, on the other hand, lose effectiveness when companies do not implement it correctly (Change the culture, empower the team, etc).
In Oracle it will fail, but only if uuid has characters that can't be parsed as numbers...
de-paywalled here: https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/s41593-020-00717-0
I think the quality of these bootcamps varies wildly. I'm at Hack Reactor right now and we're doing far more than learning syntax...

No doubt a "real degree" can open doors, but I think I'll be able to find better jobs than half the CS grads from my college when I finish here at HR. This may say more about my college than HR, to be fair...
I believe the US Mint operates one.
> strong culture at a company is something that that will be adopted by new employees

This is not true. The relationship is bi-directional. Yes, culture can influence new hires, but the reverse is also true. I've seen first hand that the addition of one toxic individual to a small to mid-size team can massively harm the culture of that team. Heck, this is just as true in our personal lives. We've all had that one person who brings down an otherwise healthy group text.
This is fascinating to see Apple and Facebook engineers politely yet publicly arguing over potential technical implementations of Apple's privacy policies.
That isn't a solution to the problem being discussed (a provider's server code being verifiable by end users). I'm quite confused by the suggestion that it could be/is.
Support.

Get a ticket, read some logs, respond. Avoid jobs with a lot of live interactions.

Enterprise software support jobs often have pretty easy expectations like 20 responses a week or 30 completed tickets a month.

Without beating around the bush - it's not that hard to do 10-20 hr work weeks and meet minimum requirements.