jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree :) I'm just trying to push back on the narrative that there's a cap on how much value an individual can bring to a profitable company.
I worked at OkCupid 8 years ago

You started before they were bought out by Match?
"Nobody ever got fired for buying Atlassian."

Well, sure, but that doesn't mean it's too late to start doing that now?

I really try to like the Atlassian tools that we have, but they just make it so damn hard. I often wonder if the people at Atlassian use those tools themselves, because if so, why don't they fix the obvious issues. Just today, maybe not the most obvious issue, perhaps, Bitbucket decided to execute the "master" pipeline for a build that clearly wasn't off the "master" branch, thus pushing unmerged code into the Staging environment. Nice trick, Atlassian!
> I think radio is a lot like landline telephones: it's "dying", but it's taking a long time because there's a bunch of dinosaurs who still use it and won't quit until they're dead.

I would consider actively switching if there were an alternative that was strictly better. Something with the quality of at least HD radio and the reliability and accessibility of FM radio, for instance.
carbon monoxide can be found in trace amounts within septic tank gas accumulations.

http://medcraveonline.com/JACCOA/JACCOA-06-00228.php
Always love seeing stories from my formative years on the Internet. All of these little private, intimate moments on IRC and freenets and talkers and muds forever lost but in the minds of those that were there. Thanks for sharing.
I remember the first time I discovered this principle. There was a web project I really didn't feel like doing. A big demanding client wanted a project done in a very short amount of time. I quoted at 3x our price, and it was immediately accepted by the client. The project was successful and we did a great job.

It made me realize one important, no, crucial! thing: If you're mad at your client for any reason, it only means you're not charging him enough. It's very hard to be mad at a client who's paying you a ridiculous amount of money for something you're fabulous at.
I used to worship institutions such as Bell Labs. But I guess when you learn how the sausage is made, it takes the luster off of things.

The book, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, talks about why he left Bell Labs to be a quant on wall street.

I remember after graduating college. I was unsure what to do next. My profs wanted me to do PhD. My fiancee, a PhD candidate, was against it. The company I worked at was willing to pay for my masters in electrical engineering but again my fiancee made the argument since I was repulsed by large organizations that I would resent it. I would most likely end up working for those companies. He was right. This is what happened to my friends.

5 years ago, I was reconsidering a PhD, I thought comp sci or stats. So I dipped my toe and got a masters in stats - it was fun. Do a PhD? No. What for. Economically it would not make sense for me.

I would only do it if I found a fun topic such as modeling detection of prostate cancer (my masters project) but so far the idea of working for the immoral pharma industry including the unis and rest of them makes me ill.

I wish I learnt Marie Curie's secret on how to focus on the work and forget the rest. But I haven't.

My husband works as a computer science researcher (AI) - I KNOW I never want to do this. Pittance for ground breaking work done at excruciating slow pace with so many failures. The shit he puts up so he can work on the stuff that interests him - boggles the mind. I almost want to scream - get a bloody commercial job (effectively 2x salary) and use your own money to run your own tests. But he has seen what the prospects and the environment through the eyes of friends smarter than him and knows the true cost of politics. Smart man.

I would never advise anyone to do a PhD unless you are in love with the topic.
While we're at it, let's remove the Nobel Prize in Economics. It was not part of Alfred Nobel's original will and is also a dubious category to include with the other sciences.
Chess isn't a bad thing. Neither is devoting yourself to mastering a subject. But like the article says, there are other equally good or better pursuits we can teach from an early age. So choose chess, go, piano, painting, math, programming, writing, golf, tennis, or any number of things. Just do something and do it well.
and this code should be projected on the hacker's face somehow
I think smugmug's cloud/colo hybrid is more likely to become the norm than the all-cloud dream of not having to deal with hardware anymore. When it comes to the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" aws wins. s3 for bulk storage, ec2 for asynchronous computing, cdn's for edge/delivery. But when it comes to your core data (meta data? the 64bit picture_id as opposed to the 2megabyte jpg) you just cannot beat raid10 ssd type colo'd setups right now.

Essentially I think we're going to be in an 80/20-ish cloud/colo sweet spot situation for years to come.
I've heard a story of Stallman being given a lift by person A, while person B sat in the back seat. Upon discovering that person A wrote proprietary software for a living, Stallman instantly pivoted around, talked only to person B, and pointedly ignored the driver for the rest of the journey. Childish and rude.

I'd have put his beardy ass out on the street for that one, no lie. "Sorry dude, this is CLOSED SOURCE petrol, out you go".
We should be above this level of incendiary, hyperbolic, un-nuanced discussion.
I'm sorry, I'm not taking any sort of advice from the ADL, a lobbying group for Israel posing as an anti-racist organisation.
I would encourage every single person who sees this headline to take the time to watch this speech. Its incredibly well done. Many of the commentators here demonstrate that they only read the headline, which in itself is disturbing.
The ADL is a Zionist organization. It's hard to take their opinions on ethnonationalism seriously at all when you consider their goals for Israel.
When I’m hauling around a 10,000 pound airstream trailer on highways that 500 miles becomes 250 and 250 becomes 125 on flat land. Now consider going uphill on mountains and the range drops even more. There’s a real possibility of being stranded with no place left to charge in the middle of nowhere where I could be easily killed without anyone even knowing.
The site was built from day 1 with SEO as the primary user acquisition channel. So most of the engineering effort has been to ensure that the images are saved, all of the text is preserved, and all links are crawled to their final landing page. The last one has been especially challenging, with all kinds of tracking links, blocked crawlers, and bad HTML -- all while trying to avoid click on any unsubscribe link.

I use Skimlinks for monetization. I could rewrite the links, but for now I am just using their drop-in JS script that rewrites any monetizable links automatically. Very easy (though they take a decent cut).
Chappelle was grandfathered in, imo.
Probably depends on what software you would like to develop and what languages you already know and enjoy.
I don't have experience with start-ups, so the question "How much money is left in the bank?" was interesting to me. I understand that it's important for potential employees to know the start-up can afford to pay their salary for more than a few months, but on the other hand I can imagine founders being reluctant to divulge too much financial information. Does anyone have experience with asking/answering a question like this? What kind of answer can you expect? Are there better ways to ask this, such as "How long can you guarantee that you can pay my salary?"?
ZFS doesn't have a repairing fsck because it doesn't need one. The on-disk format uses a transactional design such that its always consistent, even if it fails in the middle of a write.

AFIAK the only way to damage a zpool is if some snafu (one more serious than a mere write failure) wiped out a bunch of metadata together with the backup metadata all at the same time, but such an event would do very serious damage to any filesystem, which is why all important data should have an off-site backup.
By that logic, why shouldn't a larger corporation have to pay 15% of its entire gross income as payroll tax? Why shouldn't someone who is a W2 employee earning $500K per year?
I think the more pressing concern is why, in the US system, the government has the right to execute a person at all.
It's still all under review at our agency. This is a little out of my area of expertise, but it seems like offloading all processing to a gateway doesn't cut it anymore, which is kind of a big deal.
Not as topical, but the ass reference was the best sarcastic comment to date about the proliferation of rounded corners since people really started complaining about them 7 years ago.
Does The Mythical Man Month by Brooks

http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin...

qualify as a programming book for this thread (maybe not)? It has no information on how to write "Hello, World" in any language, and little how-to information about coding, but a lot of information about effective programming, and it is a very interesting, readable book.
that book is full of errors =/ I'm not a regular python user, but I've also heard that the code contained within the book is not very "pythonic" and is really meant as a pseudocode. still no excuse for it to be incorrect.

when a book has typos, it makes me want to throw it in the fire.
It does have a stereo 1/8th inch jack on it, and neither set of speakers is really any good for music, so if you really care about audio quality, I would use external speakers. Stereo doesn't do that much when the speakers are 4" apart.
The use of 'void *' is sloppy? Since when?
Normal people don't care about the Apple logo, and the vast majority of Apple's customers are normal people — not fanbois.

The engraving makes the gift special, intimate and remarkable.
I bought an engraved iPad yesterday via Apple... Your point?
as anyone considered product personalization as a way to mitigate the durable goods problem? Are there other examples of firms doing this?

Scion pushes the idea of customizing a new car: spoilers, rims, paint jobs, removing the logo, whatever else.
I don't resell, just reuse. Reselling is stupid.
Not sure I want to meet the human genetic incarnation of Windows Vista ;-)
I don't really buy this argument. The price of taking things to orbit is reflected in the reliability of the launcher. If you have a launcher that fails unreliably, your cost of launching is going to be rather uncertain. No company is going to risk putting their cargo into space at this early stage of development. The only entity that has the cash to burn is the government, which is why NASA is footing the bill [1]. Oh, and by the way, NASA doesn't like failures all that much and they are going to send out their team of inspectors and demand a bunch of revisions be made to the launcher in the event that it fails. Guess what happens to the cost of launching? Yup, goes up. Pretty soon you're going to end up with another company just like all the other ones operating at exactly the same cost. Then NASA will find a new "SpaceX" in 10 years that satisfies their "entrepreneurship" specifications in their contracts and the whole process begins anew.

The only way to break this cycle and bring down costs is to 1) Not deal with the government and find a private company willing to take on the risk of development. 2) Change the model of the program entirely and operate like the Russians--i.e, Pick one launcher and make that one as efficient as possible.

[1]. http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20081223
America had just about caught up to the rest of the world for a second there, but this puts us back where we're comfortable, five years behind everybody else.

A couple months ago, I was in Colombia, where for $20/month you can get unlimited wireless broadband, pre-paid, without a contract. Colombia, fer cryin' out loud, where they still have insurgents attacking the army and pirates operating near major cities, but somehow they manage to figure out how to do mobile broadband better than the USA.

Needless to say, Europe and Asia left us in the dust years ago. It's incredible that I still can't walk into a store in LA and buy a USB stick with a month's worth of unlimited bandwidth on it.
The introductory blog post:
http://www.marco.org/666491230

If like me you didn't know that iTunes Store had an API, here's the documentation:

http://www.apple.com/itunesaffiliates/API/AffiliatesSearch2.... [PDF]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&v... [Google Reader]
Thanks, but it's not so much the correct answer to the question that concerns me, but why there needs to be a question at all.

If the key is labelled alt, call it alt, if it wants to be called steve, then have the documentation refer to it as steve.

It's a keyboard. It shouldn't be this complex.
like the iPad UI

Imagine a 60 inch iPad hanging on the wall of your kitchen. Imagine being able to point and gesture instead of touching. Want to watch a movie while cooking? Switch back to the cook-"book" app when it's time to add the next ingredient, then go back to your film.
For more clarification: Reg NMS is a regulation specifying that, if you want to buy a stock at price X, you must buy all shares available on all open markets (13 of them at the moment) at all prices better than X (and similarly for selling). The justification here is that if you are offering to sell at a price below X, you should have priority over anyone willing to sell at prices above or equal to X, allegedly to support price-time priority even across unconnected exchanges.

Reg NMS is enforced by either having to listen to all 13 exchanges through a direct access feed, or through the consolidated UQDF (in the case of tape C stocks) feed. While a single exchange may go down, the UQDF feed serves as a backup for both privileged market participants and the general public, alike. Although I don't believe there is any definite rule in such a case, the UQDF feed being down eliminates both the backup for some firms and the primary feed for others, so Reg NMS may not be complied with -- this is why trading was shut down.
Of course, most companies are interested in networking and raising capital, which makes the concentration of jobs higher in those areas that support it.

But honestly, if you want to live a life that involves kids, a car, and doesn't involve the community as heavily, SF isn't for you.
I have a couple of routers using dd-wrt. I have one of them set up on my roof, and another in my server room (a closet). The one on the roof acts as a wireless client to the main access point, and also as a wireless access point itself.

I have also set up a bunch of internal static ips for different machines and printers and such, and I seem to recall there was some ridiculously low number of slots to add them in default firmware on one of the routers I was using. (it has been a few years though).
Great suggestions. I'll actually talk about implementing this with some people.
However, you should wonder whether that is also the motivation of most other upvoters. I find the title so appallingly lacking in understanding and respect that I really couldn't care less about the contents when deciding whether to up- or downvote it. I don't doubt the same could hold for many others, only resulting in the reverse action.
Who in the world said anything about "military grade stuff"?

This site seems to be trying to be the next Digg.
API seems pretty responsive.. what is the technology stack?
I thought the public Netflix API was completely shut down now? Is this using scraping for its content?
What about setting up a WEP access point to impersonate the WPA one, then getting the password from that? Still seems more likely to work than what it's doing now.
Having a stolen physical object of mine means I don’t have it. You are literally continuing to deprive me of the property by merely having it.

I can imagine reading an rms essay on how coming into my yard and taking my ladder without permission, using it without damage, and returning it before I noticed it missing imposed no harm upon me, so the taking of my property was not wrong, though the ongoing possession would be.

To your later-added devil’s advocate paragraph: rms is fine with you selling a product that includes GPL code and as far as I can tell always has been. What he’s not fine with is you imposing restrictions that prevent someone that you do sell the code to from effectively modifying or further sharing that product.
Anybody who refers to USA as "democracy"? There is a lot of politicians and even ordinary people who say that.

Even I would refer to USA as democratic, but there is lot of evidence that the democratic component is pretty weak.
Both points you make are massively incorrect.

Humans do have massive genetic diversity, in physical characteristics as well as mental ones). In the last decade, GWAS analysis has now lead to the ability to identify the gene combinations responsible for intelligence (as well as height, various cancer predispositions etc), and predictive ability is high (i.e. predicting cohort differences in income, years of education etc just from genetic material).

It is also something both extremely useful and important to think about both how to avoid both nature and nurture components of intelligence. Preventing diseases detrimental to brain development (like using unleaded fuel and paints) are some of the best bang for the buck on a population level, and maximizing the genetic potential of your offspring by avoiding genetic faults and choosing positive traits while doing IVF will be an unavoidable consequence of current research.
Most people were not aware of it at that time.

It's comforting to know that devices like the Nokia 3310 had the serial port, called "F-Bus" or "M-Bus", located _below_ the battery. It made it impossible to connect a cable without entering the PIN again.
I love how the answer given to this problem is more funding. Such an indication of what's wrong with modern education. This entire article is exposing the TI monopoly on calculators, getting 85-90% profit margins, and our solution is to strike to get taxpayer money to keep paying for the things? We should encourage competition.

Consider - an app that replicates this functionality on the phone, but tracks if the user at any point closes the app. This then is reported to the teacher so the teacher knows if there was any cheating.
You know what’s interesting?

Aren’t hashes etc. done by some nonlinear functions?

Doesn’t ML kind of try to fit your model using linear functions all the way down? Or not only linear?

Point being — can ML techniques be used to reverse hashes or find collissions? Immovable object vs irresistible force?

Anyone got actual INFO on how this plays out?
I agree that this is a tragedy of the commons situation. But there is a tiny bit of hope. After all, we did fix the ozone hole, even while someone in China kept releasing massive amounts of CFCs. So at least when the problem is limited and the solution doesn't require overwhelming sacrifice we can and do sometimes work together. This problem is much less tractable though.

It's hard for people to work out what information is true, what information is denial, and what information is hyperbole. Unfortunately the warnings we are getting via the media are inconsistent, alarmist, and don't put things into useful human terms that you can use to make decisions by. There needs to be a concerted effort to do better on the messaging front. I don't have any hope that the news media will do better while Western society puts little value on honor and doing the right thing, and puts high value on making as much money as possible.

Given the inconsistent messaging, people cannot rationally work out the answer to the following question: Which is worse? Giving up meat, my SUV, and air travel... or dealing with a +1.5C temperature shift? Most people think the former is worse, and quite rationally keep living as they have been at carbon footprints well in excess of 10 mton-co2e/year. Alarmist messaging doesn't fix that situation because people aren't dumb and can tell what is alarmist and what is a statement of solid facts. In fact, I've yet to hear a statement of solid facts that lays out the case why I should give up my (meat + SUV + air travel) that isn't highly speculative. Personally I am giving up these things and planting trees, but only because I bothered to deeply research the situation. The messaging is still really bad.. especially in the US where people apparently have no will to listen to each other anymore.
Catalytic converter theft in the US is driven by drug-addicted homeless populations who sell them for scrap money, and don't care if they get arrested, because the big coastal cities are basically not prosecuting theft right now.

My neighbors (Seattle) have caught thieves working their way down the street jacking these out of cars, and the police didn't even bother to respond.

It's really not the same.
Hey! My brother used to write answers to maths questions on Yahoo Answers when he was 12 and they were quite good, I think :-)
If you ever get to... GET TO? You must love pain! Actually, I wonder what business you're coding for to have those be important criteria and wish you all the best of luck!

In general, however:

Don't fall victim to one of the classic dev blunders -- the most famous of which is "don't roll your own crypto" -- but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never write your own billing logic when business is on the line!"
Real name policies in this context have an obvious flaw when the host gets hacked and now the ostensibly private records fall into the hands of criminals who start blackmailing everyone to reveal to their bosses and families that they were involved in the creation of pornography.

The ability to remain pseudonymous is more important in this context than many others.

> Similarly, adding video fingerprinting should make it very easy to avoid someone uploading the same video again.

Those systems don't really work, because the uploaders can tell when it's rejected so they can keep messing with the file until it's accepted. Or they upload it to a different host each time, or to a file rather than video host who can't see the contents because it was encrypted and the key is distributed to the downloaders with the link but the host doesn't have it.