jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This reads more or less like a press release - (edit: actually, it reads exactly like a press release) - is there a more substantive article on the topic?
Well that was political...:)

Look it's obvious that you have some kind of grudge against designers. For your own good at least see the enemy you respect...
If you really want to decode the comment, it looks like it's from the Disney Show "Good Luck Charlie" [1] and the actress in the clip is Mia Talerico. You could watch every episode to try and find out what she was saying.

I know this because I have a nine year old daughter (but to be fair, it's not the worst show Disney make).
Due to autocompletion and likelihood of accidentally accepting the wrong one of either of these I renamed my wipe alias to clean.

clean=!git add -A && git commit -m "TMP: Save before clean reset" && git reset HEAD~1 --hard
My own experience with PhDs was an aborted one around '97 in Melbourne. I fully own the end of it - I just was not interested in the topic I had (BIG mistake), plus the more I saw of academia, the less I wanted to deal with it's politics.

But what was startling was how the PhD students were treated like cattle by our department. Shoved into the shittiest room in the building, where the airconditioning ducts were in backwards so it was freezing all the time, I watched number-crunching computers destined for PhDs get redirected to admin temps, amongst other general shake-your-head day-to-day stories.

The kicker story for me was that the dean had managed to poach some prestigious astrophysicist ("Astrophysicist? But this is Biophysical Sciences...") from another university, and in the afternoon of the last faculty day of the year, three days before christmas, one of the supervisors came and said we might want to talk to the dean as there were rumblings. Our office was receiving the astrophysicist and his staff on the next day the faculty was open and naturally they wouldn't be expecting a room full of people. The dean didn't even bother to proactively inform us that we had to move out! Did we have another office tagged for us to go to? Not really, no. So the dying hours of that afternoon were spent shuffling our stuff out and into some storage/office somewhere.

My supervisor hated the way we were treated. Basically we were a head count. Dean gets funding, then fuck 'em after that. My supervisor said that when he did his PhD back in the early 70s, a doctoral student was handled like gold. They were effectively considered another member of faculty. In only two decades we'd become 'room meat'...
Do you have anything to back that up? I'd be interested in reading about it.

Edit: I can see there's an article here that sounds like the root of this sort of statement but I can't read any details because I'm in a really remote place with very little internet. Over the last couple of days I've discovered that the wired world no longer cares for those with 7kbs connections :-)

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/08/hamas-kills...
off topic but: that sidebar is huge. Can I resize it?
Are you going to complain that fishing boats have Raytheon radars?

Oshkosh makes tons of industry specific truck bodies. That's one of their business lines. Same for Grumman before them.

Despite what the internet commenters seeking validation for their decision to purchase a 3yo Tacoma at 2k over MSRP will have you believe, the edge between vehicle manufacturers is quite small to the point where USPS contracting somebody, anybody to build them a bunch of purpose built vehicles will likely be cheaper in the long run than slapping a bunch of shelves in a RHD Transit Connect.

And this is coming from someone who thinks most commercial fleets are over-equipped for regulatory compliance reasons and that the broader economy would be better off if that didn't happen.
Building off an existing platform makes some sense, but modern SUVs are a set of design trade offs that probably aren't great for much other than their target market: suburban homes doing school runs, work commutes and occasional grocery runs on good roads, while maintaining occasional use functionality to pick up heavier/bulkier objects.

They don't make much sense as a commercial vehicle designed to get in and out of all day and load and unload. So your car manufacture would make a bunch of modifications, and at that point you are right back where you started.

Now if you were suggesting buy a bunch of whatever some other country had developed for the same purpose, you might be onto something.
Last I checked GCP has a minimum one month billing for support. Then again, we're talking about $100/mo here, saving half of that pays for how many minutes of engineer time?
Truly, we live in fascinating times. One amazing thing is that if you had the exact same politics and policies as a Zionist but for any other cause, the same elite Americans who support Zionism would lambaste you as a maniac.
Yeah rural mail carriers have cars due to the longer distances they have to go.
Many people are having trouble buying property is most prosperous parts of the US.

It’s because wages haven’t grown in line with investment returns over time.

This is not controversial, and is nothing to do with Prop 13 or whether Cupertino has a higher average income than other US cities.
Don't forget things like the Panama Papers and how companies/super-rich figured out how to create thousands of shell companies to hide wealth, and that the journalist who revealed all of this was then murdered.
Look at USA spending on education the money isn't the issue at all.
Can you link to some specifics?

Generally people criticize Apple for the opposite - that they don’t respond to takedown requests.

It would help a lot to see what exact kind of thing you are dealing with.
I don't know about non religious, but this part:

> This means, against Hägglund, that the person best positioned to love and enjoy life is precisely the one who has made peace with its loss. In the language of Fear and Trembling, Abraham can’t really love Isaac until he is prepared to give him up.

reminds me a lot of the concept of impermanence in Buddhism.
I was tentative because the direction that two centuries of case law has taken the bill of rights often surprises me.

Thanks for the link. I googled for a bit to see if there had been a decision by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, but it doesn't appear so.

I watched a bit of the oral argument [1] from last November, and the state's argument was that since they were only asking for an order for the defendant to decrypt the data (not hand over the decryption key), the the defendant's 5th amendment rights would not be violated.

[1] http://www2.suffolk.edu/sjc/archive/2013/SJC_11358.html
I think this would be a big nail in any coffin that Bitcoin may or may not have.
No ponies? ;)
You can't tolerate glutin and you've never tried buckwheat pancakes? I find them superior to normal wheat pancakes in every way.
It's python_select on Mac OS X, installed with macports like this : sudo port install python_select.

I'm not sure if it's a Mac or port thing. BTW, there's a gcc_select too. For the more hardcore amongst us :)
I've read most of the comments here and I think people are missing the point. Forget the noise, that's just an inconvenience. More importantly:

The "reliable" data storage device I bought corrupted and lost my data once, and right now is showing the symptoms of corrupting the filesystem again.

I doesn't get any simpler and more objective than that.

And to those people whose Drobos have been working fine so far: I wish you the best of luck and I hope you won't hit the same problems I did. But I would be worried, beause if I'm hitting them, it means they are there, and eventually you might as well.
This list of questions is great. I would say that some of these are a bit invasive as you pointed out, but a good sign that the applicant is really considering the company. I think casting aside someone who is genuinely interested in the future of the company would be a silly move: Even if you're not transparent about your financial situation, you should at least be honest about their chances of having a job in 6 months.
Why does he have to be in it for altruistic purposes if what he does accomplishes an altruistic outcome?
I also don't understand why things like homosexuality are orders of magnitude more important than all the other sins named in the Bible -- and often far more clearly and unambiguously.

You don't see Christians protesting outside credit card companies because they engage in usury, or against companies that make their employees work on Sundays, or for policies to help the poor, or anything else like that.

Ultimately what it comes down to is that ideology/religion is the cart, not the horse. People have prejudices and preconceived notions, then they cherry pick from their ideology of choice to rationalize them. People think gays are icky and weird, so they cherry pick from the Bible to support discrimination against them. But usury is profitable so they ignore those parts.
Used cufon font for rendering. I checked in most of the browsers. Will check it
Target audience matters a lot.

For example:
http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/
They've removed Yandex and are now at the mercy of Bing's censorship.
And yt-dlp uses an 'Android API' to stop throttling
Good comedians don’t need to explain their jokes. Good jokes don’t need to be explained. Yet here we are.
It's the one you put the tux or beastie sticker on.
servicestack is no longer free as far as I can tell,
https://servicestack.net/pricing
The 'ours' filter (I guess it's the one from MS) is mind-blowing.
Like the idea, but how do you get it to call you back if you drop off or if you miss the call? Is there a dial-in also provided for those situations?
Occam's Razor: it is geeky because the company behind it loves geeky things and, indeed, is pretty much based on them.

http://www.kayac.com/

(Broadly, on the intersection of tech and geeky, for any value of "geeky" be it anime subcultures or D&D, it is an inevitable consequence of "scratch your own itch" that tech overallocates resources to the fields of interest techy people are likely to have versus those they are not likely to have, which will tend to reproduce similarly lopsided distribution in the future. This is profitably exploitable. Exploit it.)
In other news, snow is white.
Performance and improved introspection. Once they're first-class they get included in that class's list of methods, which is helpful sometimes. Mostly I just like to avoid m_m when I can.

AR is actually an okay example - it's as good an illustration as any of a place that employs these kinds of techniques, and the source of a lot of complexity in Rails.
I expect it wouldn't be difficult for the right people. There would be three problems though:

1. Getting enough "right" people who have enough time on there hands and care enough together to work on it

2. Lots and lots and lots and lots of testing in many different environments to make sure the replacement code is at least as stable and correct as the closed stuff

3. The possibility of patent and other IP related problems

3 may not be an issue (other virtualisation options like KVM and Xen have not been attacked this way (yet)). 1 is an issue right now but would probably stop being so if Oracle starting being a problem in this area (in which case the right people would be affected and either want to work on this for their own needs or would just jump ship to another solution). 2 would be the biggie though. Given how core the code is it would take quite some effort to prove to its potential users (including the people working on it!) that it is at least as safe as that which it replaces.
Apparently you like re-flamewars, too. Can't we leave this kind of stuff for meta posts?
Human scale cities imply human scale commerce.

I assume that by "hustles and bustle of commerce" you mean those monstrous gigantic malls. It doesn't have to be that way.
It definitely gave me Clippy vibes, and suddenly thrust me into a Black Mirror type of situation where a current day Clippy would literally forward all of your work (keystrokes, open programs, files) to sales and ad representatives so they can sell you more stuff. Every day I'm more and more paranoid of big companies now!
copy pasta because the server is dead (completely dead) ;)

J2EE 1.4 or officially: "JSR 151: JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 (J2EE 1.4) Specification" was released at 24 Nov, 2003 and was designed to be used with JDK 1.4, J2EE 1.3 was released at 24 September 2001 and is more than 9 years old now.
In JDK 1.4 there were no annotations available, so you had to configure everything with XML. J2EE 1.4 is more Configuration Over Convention, than the current - more reasonable opposite principle of Configuration by Exception or Convention over Configuration.
If I read or hear "J2EE" I always have to think about xdoclet with about 50 lines of XML, a Home Interface, Remote Interface and an unrelated Bean class just to implement a helloWorld() method. ...with Java EE 6 a helloWorld() takes exactly one line of code - as it should be.

Even JDK 1.5 is End of Service Life and so officially dead for greenfield projects as well. Most of the J2EE 1.4 application servers were not even officially supported on JDK 1.5, so it is truly ancient technology.
However: there is more interests in Java EE 6 - measured in number of session attendees at conferences, blog statistics, number of sold books :-) and project requests, than ever. What also amazed me was the result of my informal surveys after talks at various conferences (JAX, W-JAX, JavaOne and Devoxx). The majority of attendees do use Java EE 5. The minority is using J2EE 1.4. Even the number of Java EE 6 projects seems to be slightly higher, than J2EE. ...and Java EE 6 is only one year young...
So J2EE is dead, but Java EE 6 rocks.
Looks like they're grabbing up talent for a future Office suite competitor of sorts. Makes sense if they want to differentiate themselves as a cloud storage platform, but I do wonder how that would play into their current partnership with Microsoft as the sole "external provider" for the Office iOS apps.
Transifex is free for OSS:

https://www.transifex.com/signup/
SWE in MTV: I get up early (~6am) and try to get to the office by 6:30am, as the time before 9am is the only time my severely over-crowded open office is quiet enough to code. Most days I have 1-2 meetings. I generally leave around 4pm, pick my son up from school, make dinner & then catch up on email after 8:30, when my son goes to bed.

All in all, it is very relaxing compared to my last job. I was full time remote, and probably worked 80 hours a week. I have a much better work/life balance now, as I generally leave my work at the office.
What someone in that situation really needs is the opsec equivalent of a trap door function. Does such a thing exist that is easy to defend and difficult to attack? Could be very useful for e.g. rights activists in remote places of the world.
Yes it is far fetched. Most equipment left behind was sabotaged, as is the nature of war.

The phrase jury rigged means "use what you have to make it work". It's a logical corruption that you jury rigged the jerries equipment. It makes no sense at all that you would even find it worth mentioning that the Germans repaired their own equipment.

The logical origin is that the uses were using Jerry Rigged to mean Jury Rigging German equipment. Not that the Germans would also Jury Rig their equipment, that's like inventing a word to say they also tied their fucking shoe laces.
If you click the link OP posted and read the previous thread you will see they can "easily" do ass. They already spent millions in engineering time to cut the app size as the company existence literally depended on it when Apple's bundle size limit was 150 MB.

If your app is serving hundreds of cities with specific per-city customizations and all code and assets are in a single binary, life gets tough.
Lucky you :) In my case the only thing I could to do was to change the README of my crate from saying that I plan to migrate from typenum to const generics "when they are supported by the Rust compiler" to now saying "when the Rust compiler support for them is powerful enough". (I need constraints on which ranges are allowed, and that is a little hairier than the MVP; though typenum is perfectly adequate.)
My all time 'favourite': http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/print_document.cfm?docum...

Instead of 'canary in the coal mine' dead crows near the oil plant.

edit: There isn't any heavy industry there, just cows, sheep, and grass, maybe some other agriculture, and peat. Has always been like that, and is almost unchanged now. Also no heavy traffic at all. Just the petrochemical plant. And a nuclear power plant. But that had no leaks.
What other browser hold 70/80% of the market?
Incognito is simply a poor name for this as it infers the identity is being concealed.
Should be something more along the lines of 'unaccounted' or 'unrecorded' even 'off-the-record'.

If I go incognito I expect my identity to be concealed, if I am unrecorded I expect my identity to be obvious but for a trail of my actions to be off-the-record.
And to be frank, most research isn't "good research" either. With that said, much of what he's doing is constructing a framework and then building into it. This is actually similar to what is done in a lot of social science research. And Gladwell, often does it much better, even from a purely academic perspective.

The main issue is that millions of people read and scrutinize Gladwell. No one reads "A Critique of 12th Century Eastern European Poetry and the Relationship to Subsurface Climate Volatility".
> maybe someone can explain why this would be a bad idea, but I'd really like to see a system where if you buy a stock you are not allowed to sell it for a fixed period of time that would be measured in months, and not seconds.

Um, sure. It would be a bad idea for me if I'm not allowed to sell the stock I want to sell as soon as I want it, and it would be a bad idea for somebody willing to buy from me, if they are not allowed to.

Oh, you're asking why it's a bad idea for you? I don't know, maybe it's not. Do you think I should be prohibited from the trades I like because you think it's a bad idea?
Twitter seems to experiment with a lot of stuff. A few years ago, there was buzz in the Groovy community because Twitter was experimenting with it. I thought that was cool until I talked to a friend in the Python community, who said Twitter was experimenting with it. A few months later, they announced they were using Scala.

It seems (admittedly, from that one example), that Twitter puts significant investment into exploring things before making a decision. Which seems like a great way to do things.
I know a guy that sells penis enlargers (1).

I can tell you that a significant fraction of the purchasers are people with high acquisitive power.

(1)ok, that's a gross oversimplification - he runs a clinic
From the article:

> (In his work, 'verb' is a technical term, and does not exactly correspond with the conventional definition of the word.)
Communication is always an issue with larger companies. This is one of the awesome benefits of 0th/1st stage start-ups: the right hand always knows what the left hand is doing.
That's basically the problem - you don't understand. You don't understand that black men can't just go into the clubs that white people can, you don't understand that when white people meet black people, their faces are slightly less relaxed.

Take a trip as a white guy to Asia or Africa or somewhere. You are the pinnacle of society.

And we're not even talking Barack Obama mixed race, try being a real black person for a while. The systematic racism and discrimination is still there.

And when it comes to women - how many of your elected officials are women. That's democracy - the people choose the men.

If the world were equal, I would happily say all form of positive discimination should be abolished. But it's not equal - it's still a terribly unjust place.
Did Jobs say only professionals would buy them? No, he simply said there are more cars than trucks on the road, and that is true even in Texas (I lived 3 years in New Mexico).

Also, FWIW, Jobs lives in a bubble in California, but Texas is also a bubble, by choice even (eg. energy grid). It's obvious the guy understands consumers the world over, so it's sort of ridiculous to paint him as some sort of out-of-touch California elitist.
I'm coming to the end of a one-year working "vacation" here and would highly recommend a visit as well.

The public transportation is ample (and growing) and everywhere else is bike friendly. Good food is abundant and cheap if you hop between the many food carts. Plenty of unique bars which all serve some sort of food, too. The selection of beers brewed in and around here are endless.

It does rain a fair amount, but almost never more than a trickle during the day; I don't wear anything more than a sweatshirt most moist days. All the precipitation isn't without benefit and makes the city and surrounding areas absolutely beautiful in the spring, summer and fall. Real, dense forest and the coast are only an hour and a half's drive away and the city is littered with well maintained parks.

We don't get quite as many musicians coming through as Los Angeles or Seattle, but a fair amount (of the ones I'm interested in at least) do stop-in. I do find the local music scene lacking. I'm sure there are more events like these, but all of the art galleries have open houses (with free booze) the first Thursday of every month Downtown, and the last Thursday on Alberta.

We are heading back home to Los Angeles soon, but only to be closer to friends and family for a bit longer. Portland has definitely made the list of places to return to.
Broadband isn't that bad here.

For a traveller, you'd want wireless. If you want fast Telstra's prices are high but they give you the best datarate: http://www.telstra.com.au/bigpond-internet/prepaid-wireless/...

If you want cheap, you can get similar datacaps for about 50% of the price (but generally the speed & coverage isn't quite so good).
Not only are the 706 planets only potential candidates, but I believe they include all possible planets, not just the "earthlike" planets. The article is poorly written in that manner, and the headline here is magnifying the error.

That said, 306 of the 706 have already been confirm. No stats on the number or percentage of false positives in that first batch.
I don't know. I thought radiation to treat a possible brain tumor without knowing where it is was way off-base.
This is fun and all, but my question is: what happens when all the honeybees die out?
As mentioned in other suggestions, it's time to just try your hand on the job market. In my opinion, you are being too critical of yourself.

Perhaps you should be looking for jobs that isn't coding? Perhaps roles like project management is a better fit. You know enough code to push out eight projects to production. You have an understanding of the effort involved. You have dealt with management and translating requirements into code.

I've always recognized my strength is not in development but in gluing things together. In my day job, I get teased* for using Perl and the simple ways I get to solutions. But I point out I've pushed to production multiple projects within the corporate bureaucracy. I've seen many other projects just experience heat death as they get very complex with features. With the success I've had, I'm making my way to middle management as someone who is more useful at getting things done then squinting into a code editor.

In summary, I'm a poor developer. I can't create an algorithm to punch through a wet paper bag. But I can glue things together, my other brain is Google + Safari Books, and I have the stubbornness to push projects through to completion. Therefore I'm getting out of the developer role I never really was good at.

(*) The teasing is in good nature.