jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My first job was in IT and would have been an internship if the company regularly hired people (it didn't, this was a special case because of family connections). It was during the summer in high school and paid $10/hour.

In college I had a part-time job doing computer repair/maintenance for a small office at $12.50 an hour, and later had a formal internship at a Fortune 500 company that paid $19.50 an hour

All this took place in the greater Seattle area.

Unless there is a compelling reason to work for free (e.g., difficult industry to break in to, extreme desire to work for said company) I would advocate never working for free if you can get paid. Everyone I've known who worked free as an intern (3 people, perhaps not a large enough sample) were treated unacceptably relative to the atmosphere of a professional office. One basically became 12 people's gopher, filling out uninteresting paperwork and rarely learning anything that added value to their ability to work.

In addition, being paid to work puts one in a position to learn to manage their own finances, if only in part. For me this was easily more important than all the technical skills I picked up.
Honestly, if it was up to me (and I didn't have any kids) I would probably just skip Christmas entirely, save the part about eating a bunch of nice food. Spending a bunch of money on family that I only see at Christmas (purposely) and chopping down a perfectly good tree, dancing around it singing songs in honor of a nonexistent diety whose supports have murdered people I respect by burning them on the stake is just not my idea of a great time.
My situation is a bit different. I'm in Australia. It differs as follows:

I chose Fremont in the past because it's the lowest latency to me.

Now, however, I have a website that I want to place in a separate data center from Fremont. All the other data centers in North America are about the same latency to me. So latency doesn't really enter into the equation _for_my_this_particular_case_. I figured I'd just choose a data center based on perceived reliability, and perhaps proximity to the 'center of gravity' of the Internet (whereever that is).

But ...

I wanted to make the poll general so it's more useful for future readers. Hence the resultant wording.
Exactly my sentiments. I'm currently in a PhD program, but not because I intend to be in academia. I love the field I'm studying, and I just felt like doing it instead of joining the workforce. I'll probably learn a cool thing or two. Why not?

There are a decent number of ding dongs in PhD programs too. The level of ding dong-ery doesn't seem to change wherever you go.
Netbook.

I have an iPad, and it's great for most of the things you mention, but extended typing on it can get a little tiring.

The iPad isn't quite a "mobile computer", IMO. It is limited in that regard to what you can easily install/run on it. And I don't mean that as any kind of anti-appstore comment. I just mean than if you want to download, unzip, and hack around with with template or script you can't do that directly on the iPad. Not sure how you operate, but I've been using linux and now OS X laptops for the last ~10 years. I like being able to test some things locally on my development machine.
This is a very good point.

We keep reading stories with business porn in the titles. Kickstarter is totally awesome, don't get me wrong. And this is a cool idea.

But the critical question is: how the heck did one random idea get so much movement? Because it's not just random, and it's not just generated by quality. If there's one thing I've learned on the web, is that social sites are somewhat deterministic.

So -- wonder what they did? Cross-promote? Blog a lot? Get some good press? That's the kind of stuff that is truly interesting and valuable, not the one mil in funding or even the coolness of the idea or the site.
The best choice is the one that provides you and your users the lowest latency: http://www.linode.com/speedtest/

On a side note, all facilities (and not just Linode's) will experience issues from time to time. You want to evaluate the manner in which it was resolved and the frequency. Don't move because of one outage in the last several years and degrade the experience for your customers. If an outage is going to damage your business then you should investigate high availability and/or quick deployment strategies.

All of that being said, if your users are mostly US based you probably won't notice the latency between any of the US based locations.
People still buy over a decade old thinkpads.
That's surprising to me, one time my card got blocked because I used it at (I guess?) a sketchy ATM. I called them but they had zero customer service outside of business hours. Opened up a Chase account after that.
When I had limited plans I burned through it every month and had to live at the dialup level speeds the phone companies gave you once you used up all your LTE data. Usually it was because I had to do more driving that month than normal so I'd eat up more data streaming podcasts/music. Always kept an eye on how much data I had left, but used it all anyway.

At least now I have unlimited data via a prepaid plan so I can freely tether when cable internet goes down weekly.
Pretty similar to what I did given the weather issues (right down to the Schiwnn IC4 purchase). However, I'm more of a road biker and so definitely haven't felt great about the lack of dynamic resistance but better than not biking at all.

We even had the Peloton subscription for a little while but opted for other classes in the end.
Alright. Then any company that participates in share buyback obviously shouldn't get any stimulus money, then right? Because if they have that much cash on hand, they should give it to shareholders instead of investing in the company or saving it for lean times.
Of course it is satire. The top comment is only talking about 'losses' of Americans.

All while ~350 people died. I find it a disgusting comment.
I don’t think you can hit a consumer price point with a vehicle with sufficient sensors. A taxi, though, can amortize the cost of a richer sensor suite.
How do you know the number of people that want this, and how large is the number of 'enough', and what other numbers come in to play? (Number of incidents, number of happy users, number of systems to support, number of binaries to consider during upgrades, number of sales... and is 'enough' a percentage? An absolute number? And how high does it need to be? And to what degree does it need to align with the goals of the product teams?)

My gut feeling would say: a bunch of hackers would be happy if they can hack on their code on Apple hardware but run plain FreeBSD or Linux while doing it. But that is not something you run a multi-billion business on...
>Examples are the concepts of business sustainability and the different levels of maturity organisations can occupy within that, and the 'triple bottom line' (taking into account impact on society and the environment, as well as economic impact).

If someone doesn't pick these things growing up, a course in grad school isn't going to change their motivations.
I need $20-$40k to purchase a product curation social network. ~500k page views p/m, ~3k p/m revenue :)
Yeah and many hackers types that have worked around WMDs knew how they could do such and such, but that's why there's the PRP (Personnel Reliability Program) program, psychological interviews, polygraphs (yeah yeah, not scientific), and security clearances and background checks.

Not to be dismissive, it's a hole certainly.
I see. However, when your users like your service so much that they volunteer their time building browser extensions and integrating it into their services, I don't think it's "too stubborn" to follow through...

EDIT: I realise that's not the point you were making, I am just commenting with my thoughts on the matter.
They learn that lesson periodically. At one point nearly 50% of the money they spent to have systems built by my people was spent on documentation no one ever read. ever.[1]

If it only cost $70M to develop a process and replace them that is a bargain compared to the wasted documentation on the 9999[2] contemporary items that were never needed again.

To be more concrete, the guys building the bigger sister system to ours probably blew through that $70M on write-only documentation every 12 months for years.

[1] It piled up under desks until they asked us to "only" submit one paper copy because they didn't have enough desks at the program management office. We did eventually talk them down to a reasonable level of documentation, but it took years and the program level staff had to fight hard to get there.

[2] I made this number up.
According to my radiobiology text (Hall), "mammalian cells on average experience over 100,000 DNA lesions per day as a result of replication errors, chemical decay of their bases, attack by reactive oxygen species, or exposure to ionizing radiation. However, the mutation rate in mammalian cells is quite low owing to the development of DNA repair pathways that handle each type of damage."

Basically the threshold hypothesis assumes that the body can successfully repair up to a point, beyond which the risk of cancer increases with the increasing number DNA lesions.

Alphas (and other charged particles heavier than electrons) act in a slightly different way. They can do more direct DNA damage. They can also occur externally, from cosmic rays or accelerator beams. I only addressed photons because we were talking about the body scanners.
Traditionally, banks required so-called "down payments" of 20% of the purchase price of the house (i.e. they were willing to finance up to 80% of the purchase price of the house, no more). At the height of the bubble, it was not uncommon to get mortgages with "no money down", i.e. with no down-payment (and 100% -- or more! -- of the purchase price of the house lent by the bank).

These days norms are in a bit of flux: many banks will accept a nominal down payment (at, say, 5% of price) and charge an extra fee for private mortgage insurance (PMI) until your equity in the property exceeds 20% of the purchase price (that will take a number of years, typically, if you pay mortgages on the agreed-upon schedules). This insurance protects the bank in the event of your default.

This is all negotiable (though some banks are more willing to negotiate than others).
I guess one might also want to take into account the probability of capturing 5 tanks with all odd serial numbers (3.125%) vs the probability that the Germans had numbered their tanks in increments of 2
This is similar to the argument against allowing steroid use in various professional sports. If you can't compete unless you compete dishonestly (I'm not taking a side here on the question of whether steroids are actually bad, but if they're banned then their use is certainly cheating), eventually everyone cheats.

The obvious difference is that in the case of steroids in sports, it's an arbitrary system designed primarily to entertain people and make money; the outcomes are completely irrelevant to the success of the enterprise as such. In the case of child education, if everyone cheats, no one learns, and we've just raised a generation of dishonest, ignorant children.
Sorry to reply to my own post. The edit window seemed to have expired, the last paragraph should say "...but everyone else should NOT automatically side..." .
How can I be free with no money with which to purchase food/shelter/education/materials?

Even Milton Friedman was in favor of redistributing wealth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax
Obviously a given class is only a random sample from the population of a given school. So if you want to evaluate a teacher, all you need to do is compare his/her class to other classes from the same geographic region.

Or even better, you can compute a statistical predictor of his student's expected performance, and measure the deviation between predicted and actual performance.

The point is that individual variation in students is irrelevant. It is extremely unlikely that a teacher will get a class full of dumb kids.
Often times the person shown the door leaves with far more equity than they should. That's unfortunately the last concern the board has.

And if it's early enough in the process, the board, if required for the success of the company, can recapitalize the entire structure of the company and wash out any previous employees. You have to be careful not to single out any individual when you do this, but if you do it and have good reason, it can solve these issues too.

Anyways, people are not forced out because they own too much, they are forced out because they become an immovable impediment to success.

Jack Dorsey at Twitter is a good example. And he got more equity when he quit. And he quit in a nice fashion, allowing the company to start fixing their issues and scale much faster with more experienced leadership.
The point seems to be that when bootstrapping, the only thing you can build is a me-too business.

And BitTorrent is amazing technology, but I wouldn't celebrate it as a business. In fact, how are they still in business?
I had trouble getting to sleep when I was younger and I was facing a test or something in the morning. Besides the usual no caffeine/moderate exercise/moderate eating etc good advice I came up with a "mind hack" inspired by Richard Feynman.

Summarizing: try to re-play or think about dreams that you had before. If you don't remember any, think of a story that looks like a dream (with impossible things happening etc).

The trick is that when we transition between awake and asleep we have a train of thought and suddenly there are dream-like things like surprising jumps in the thoughts, impossible occurrences etc (this is what Feynman remarked and I observed too), so I try to recreate that state.

It worked for me.
I wish this would stop being referred to as some kind of iPad breach in every headline.

This is basically what happened: "FBI investigating breach in AT&T web site that led to exposure of AT&T customer information". Period.
I absolutely could not be the world's first programmer generation gap, because we have had so many before :-)
>On or about January 6, 2021, within the District of Columbia, CHRISTOPHER ALBERTS, did carry and have readily accessible, a firearm, that is, a Taurus G2C semi-automatic handgun, on the United States Capitol Grounds and in any of the Capitol Buildings.

In the same sentence you quoted
If you count New Orleans, Blockpad (https://blockpad.net) has certainly tried it. I had a friend though who was a PM for a summer thing for Data Science for Social Good in Chicago at some point for physicists transitioning to data scientists and she complained about how none of them took her seriously when she said she lived and worked there.
Putting people's privacy in danger with fake privacy coins is a devastating error. Mobilecoin is a scam. The only private cryptocurrency that works is Monero. I now can only believe Signal has sick motives or is a honeypot. Extremely sad since I even convinced my family to use it but now I will turn away.
> The first is a video that was removed from YouTube by the uploader,

Only a part of this can be confirmed. Rossman hasn't made a statement yet about why that video was removed but for instance he still links to it from other places. If a video is flagged by YouTube for what ever reason one of the available options is for the publisher to voluntarily remove it to avoid something like a channel strike.

Rossman is potentially a victim here but it doesn't mater because the nature of the removal is irrelevant for the system from a technical standpoint.

> The second is Twitter blocking a link to a YouTube video that's still up.

You didn't look in very much detail. The post I could not make had a link to the same video in BitChute. When it's on BitChute it's harmful but when it's on YouTube it's not. It's the same video content with a different URL! I suspect what happened is BitChute is blacklisted from Twitter completely but I haven't tested it yet.

I suppose some how the exact same video is only harmful when it's on BitChute. That makes sense, right? This is the video by the way: https://www.bitchute.com/video/25cQBXfjgpLo/

> YouTube doesn't owe you or anyone else a platform.

Are you sure that argument makes sense when you are discussing a thing that is intended to drive people away from YouTube? Does it sound like I think YouTube owes anyone anything? It sounds more like I'm saying 'Watch Less YouTube' which would, at least in my head, be the opposite of thinking YouTube owed anyone anything.

> And even so, in no way is their "censorship" hitting a "level of absurdity that is hard to believe".

Yeah, it is. https://odysee.com/@MLChristiansen:d/susan-wicky-wicky-brags...
This is incorrect. Private phone numbers not publicly shown on your profile via the UI are included.

Mark Zuckerberg's own phone number was included, and you can bet he would never intentionally release that nor is he likely to misconfigure his privacy settings and leak it due to user error
I'm really curious how the hiring for jobs on legacy mainframes works.

My Dad was the consultant IBM hired to fix issues in system/32/34/36 and AS\400 software for customers in Australia. He had a title related to RPG, but I don't know what it was. Growing up we had a (functioning) system/36 and later an AS\400 in the shed. He's never stopped developing, still works as a .Net developer, but hasn't been able to get through the recruiter filter for RPG and cobol jobs, possibly because he hasn't worked with recent generations of these tools, even as he is getting hired for .Net jobs on major systems.
FairTax's motto: "because the rich don't have enough advantages already"

edit: Downvotes? Seriously? FairTax shifts the burden dramatically onto the middle class. A rich person pays no capital gains, and as long as they don't go buying billion dollar yachts, they'll pay next to nothing percentage-wise.
Cool! Since you have the infrastructure already, it would be neat to track URL changes as well. Probably less frequent, but I bet they happen at least daily (e.g. if a submission is flagged as blogspam.)
Oysters spawn as the water warms. In the northern hemisphere this would be the months (in English) without an "r" in it. Spawning requires a lot of energy and the oysters lose weight, texture and flavor. Warm water oysters such as those in the Gulf of Mexico may spawn continuously, albeit at a more leisurely rate. Their flavor tends to be fairly constant year-round although never reaches the peak of a cold water species in the "r" months...
My first real programming job I had was working for a guy who hired lots of contractors. And he was frequently angry with the programmer that loved to say "no I can't do that" only to have the same programmer come back a week later with a possible solution.

Since this experience I almost always answer "yes" to all client requests but with a list of compromises required to get something built. It keeps everyone involved happy, even me.
You're referencing allegations that haven't been proven.
> Quite nightmarish, if you think about it.

Your comment assumes a positive change is impossible.

I almost killed myself when I was in high school but decided not to because I didn't want to hurt my family. That bought me enough time to get things straightened out and now I am very thankful to be here.
I think people are looking at the facts when they say it’s unlikely he killed himself. Remember no one had committed suicide in that prison for over 21 years.

Nearly every official and media outlet saying it was suicide is directly implicated in the scandal. Including Barr who’s father gave Epstein his first teaching job.
I have deep knowledge of the underlying technologies, mostly deep knowledge of the languages. But my experience is that most interviewers do not care about this. They want to hear about your last project using their laundry list of libraries. Everyone wants me to assure them that I am a "React expert" or that I have "used AWS" and no one cares about the papers I've read recently or the first-principles, ground-up projects I've done. The only time anything approaching specialized knowledge comes up is when people ask trivia questions.
It seems like websites do this much better. We're no longer in the era that you can just harvest data from a phone, both Android and iOS clamp down on this.
Nope, done right the cost is a layer of 2:1 muxes and some control logic to pass data between decoders, and 16 flops to hold a partially decoded instruction between fetch bundles
Nicely done! It would be fantastic to see this embedded between post and comments on every piece here!
I think it has to do with how primitive or instinctive the emotion is. I'd bet that fear is one of the oldest emotions, after all every animal experiences fear as far as I know.

Many of the other emotions are restricted to apes, specially humans. I'd say a dog can't be happy or sad, just excited or not excited. If those human emotions evolved thousands of years apart there is a good chance that they are at different parts of the brain.
So, what's the over-under for the percentage change in the quantity of spam Canadians see due to this act of politicians? I'd wager about 0%.
Maybe these are the next things they're killing.

We should remember that "Yahoo is a content company".
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-is-focused-were-a-conte...
Exactly. By reversing the equation and actually paying people to leave school and found startups Peter Thiel is likely going to get some people who are too risk averse to do it without a guaranteed reward. I'm not sure this is a preferable outcome, but surely he's thought of it and decided it was worth a try.
Well there's money everywhere - groceries is a 100 billion dollar industry too, I don't think it's the "epitome of zealotry" for MS to ignore groceries.

Mobile wasn't exactly a hot industry 10 years ago. It's the job of a hundred billion dollar company like MS to make big investments in billion dollar markets, sure, but I don't think there's any denying Xbox was a miscalculation on MS's part.

See the market caps of Apple and MS now for lessons learned.
The long-term utility of this Tesla truck will be interesting to see. Even though new trucks are insanely priced right now, they do have very good longer-term value compared to cars.

I like having a truck but would never drop $75k for one. I currently own a 1999 Chevy 2500. It has 150,000 miles on it, which is essentially nothing for a truck that old. A lot of people who buy trucks expect them to last 15+ years and most of them do. Hell, as long as the frame is in good shape, you won't have any trouble finding someone who would buy the truck and drop a new engine in it, considering a crate 350 will set you back less than $3,000.
That thing looks like it would do a lot of damage if it hit a pedestrian. Aren't there regulations that are supposed to enforce designs that increase the survival chances of people hit by cars?
I wonder how much concrete a 10 trillion dollar levy solution will use, and how much that concrete will increase global warming.
'Populist jerks' meaning people who are democratic?
Not quiet. The last 25%, i.e. ports 49152-65535, are by design excluded from registration. See RFC 6335 §6.
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