jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This looks like simply naive thinking. Without evidence to backup your statement about Apple, everything about it breaks the cardinal rule of the ads business.
Agreed, but it's also quite unfortunately few companies are willing to try anyways.

> Like, lemme get this straight: you expect a six figure salary, full autonomy to solve problems as you see fit, and _also_ bite-sized, well-scoped bug reports/features.

If someone else is setting up all the problems, it's not really autonomy at all. I can pick some other quibbles with this tweet, & the tweetstorm, but this illusion being presented that there is autonomy is just not true.

Almost all organizations will tell you they are product driven. That means that, you, the engineer, are a resource, for someone else's goals.

I fully think most engineers are bad with autonomy. But also the whole system has been set up to be combatative against engineers. To assume we are bad. To assume we don't have design mentalities. To assume our priorities are not aligned with the business.

I started my career doing development with small web shacks, doing early web application development for small & medium businesses. We've had designers on staff or that we've contracted with every place I've worked, but really the functional design was extremely liberally done, very ad-hoc, and it was wonderful. So creative, so exploratory, so collaborative. Mostly just developers running the show, a pleasant but somewhat out of site boss nominally running the things. Low ego, low titles, high collaboration, highly exploratory, highly creative. The maturation of industrial computing, has, in my view, separated out the responsibilities in a harmful way. Articles like this, to me, embody the prevailing attitude of the world towards techies: not to be trusted, incapable of aligning to & finding value, needy.

What I have yet to see is companies that actively grow & support the amazing creative anarchy of their radically technically empowered work-force. Sure, absolutely: bad match for some. There's good lessons about inflexibility, wanting too much structure provided to you, while asking for autonomy. But real autonomy is not just freedom to do a good technical job. Real autonomy encompasses a lot more, way more. And I just keep thinking- somehow, some day, someone is going to start trying to tap the endless reserves of techie ass kicking, start trying to systemitize ways to let us be the radical, out there, wildly creative, imaginative, explorative systems thinkers that we are, to bring that 101% out, into the world. Today though, there's endless euphemisms put forth for how impractical everyone thinks techies would be, how important it is that non- & semi- technicals hold the reigns. Most organizations are unprepared (& do not want) to generate real autonomy or freedom.
Right, but they've sold a ton of stock at highly inflated prices, used that to pay off debt, and are probably going to survive on continuing profits for at least a few years even if they're not going to exhibit much growth. They're now in a very solid position -- it's possible they're worth their valuation.
I get a lot of shit for those sites -- some fellow HN'ers even told me not to admit to authoring them.

But screw 'em, I spent a lot of time on each one, and as crappy as some of them are, they're my crap, thank you very much. :)

Hackers have a very finely-tuned bullshit detector. I find I can set it off by accident very easily (which is another good argument about just being as honest as I can about these things) I try to explain everything I'm doing and why in blog entries, so no surprises.

You should have seen the post where I tried to explain that scientific research showed that pictures of non-threatening buxom women could double or more click-through response rates across all demographics. I thought they were going to shoot me for that one.
JSoup (http://jsoup.org) gives Java similiar capabilities :)
The Little Schemer. Plus it must be one of the canonical examples of how to teach by breaking things into the smallest steps you can imagine.
This doesn't solve anything. The "problem" is that it's very difficult to match people up with apps they will like. Apple gives you two options: 1)search box 2)look at the Top lists

The search box is horrendous, and makes it difficult to find an app even if you already know the name. The top lists contain a few gems, but are mostly filled with crap I would never use (especially the free).

The companies "gaming" the top free list were trying to work within this framework to get their apps out there and noticed. Some apps do well and stay on the list organically after the install campaigns, and others drop like a rock. I don't think these install campaigns are a great option, but there isn't a better marketing tool at this time. The best thing Apple can do to combat this is improve their search interface.
[I am the author]

Last year I put out this book as a free open text, and posted about it on HackerNews. I was asked, often when the book would be out in physical form.

Now that it's available on Amazon officially (and also Lulu), I guess I can announce it. Thanks to everyone for all your feedback, corrections, and updates so far.

In case you're wondering what a metaheuristic is: it's the buzzword for stochastic optimization methods such as genetic algorithms, ant colony optimization, simulated annealing, and so on.
> If everyone starts becoming remote, then what's the point of having an office? If enough companies come to the same conclusion, what's the point in owning a building (from the eyes of a real estate guy). And ultimately, what's the point of having big office parks and so on and on. That's a lot of land and lot of capital at stake if this ever actually took off.

It'll be put to other uses. That's how capitalism works my friend. What do you think happened to all those old factories and warehouses in big cities? People live in them now.
They're certainly not equivalent in any human sense, but technologically they are quite similar. Good attempt at sidestepping the issue though.
What sort of profile / knowledge / experience are you looking for? Heck, I'm up for it if you'll go for an extremely entry level candidate. No CS background.
DRMed content are usually restrictied to certain regions. The USA usually gets it first, other countries later, if at all. A DRMed system is not in the interest of consumers of non-USA countries, since it will limit their choice and make them second class citizens.

Piracy has done wonders for consumers in non-USA countries. We no longer have to wait 1 or 2 years after films come out in the USA before they are shown in European cinemas.
Yup. But they do mention it when installing. You can also disable it.

If you are not firewalled or NATd you are a supernode automatically - on the plus side you get better sound quality for voice calls.

Normally the bandwidth used is pretty low since you are mostly forwarding text messages.

When they said mega-supernodes they meant machines controlled by them that do nothing else, and are on high bandwidth connections. (My bet is lots of amazon instances.)
This talk at TED http://www.ted.com/talks/david_blaine_how_i_held_my_breath_f... is interesting. Like the moment when he talk that his ex-gf used time that he spent underwater to read SMSes on his phone.
I totally support Heroku's right to charge whatever they want, of course. They're expensive, but they provide good value for the money.

Historically, I have a bunch of personal free-tier apps which sleep most of the time, and a couple which are up most of the time. My consulting clients, on the other hand, have paid Heroku thousands of dollars per month at various points. I also maintain a buildpack.

But at this point, it's time I get off my backside, set up a docker host on EC2, and containerize the stuff I care about. I can probably pack everything onto a pretty small instance, and I've been meaning to deploy some non-HTTP services. Besides, it's closer to what I'm using in production.

Thank you, Heroku, for some very enjoyable years, for top-notch paid service, and for the free hosting!
Good. My fondest wish is that no computer science or math graduate ever chooses to go to work for the NSA again, ever. Screw those assholes. I don't care how much they cry "oooh, sigint is needed for national security" - I'm more scared of our government than I am of any foreign (or domestic, as far as that goes) "terrorist" group.

The way I see it, these guys have created and are fighting an undeclared war on the American people... they've decided that "if you're not one of us, you're a bad guy". Fuck that.
for "respect" read "respent"
It's especially bad because Apple devices are so common among creatives. I bought a Wacom Cintiq so I can draw on my Mac with a screen with a decent pen (it's easier to work with than having to look at the computer screen). But then I tried the Surface at the stores and Apple lost me as a customer. I don't need a gold watch or a ultra-thin battery pack that happens to include a computer. I want a device from creatives for creatives. Funny that it'll come from MS!
Assuming it's similar to the rest of the Surface line (which seems a safe bet), the answer would be no but you can expand the storage with an SD card.
Hello from the UK. Average house price here is now around 380,000 US dollars, compared to around 190,000 dollars in the USA. And we have the smallest house sizes by floor space in Europe.
Is it important in this context? I understand that the other possible meaning is an unmanned vehicle controlled remotely by a human, and since speed of light delay makes that impossible on Mars, only the one possibility remains for this particular use.
That sounds like an awesome idea. You might want to start off with something simple and not too expensive so that everyone can play along at home.

Maybe some day it could actually turn into some sort of online course or series where there is purpose-built hardware that are designed as "hacking tests", sort of like a real-life version of this reverse-engineering game: http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/ruckingenur-ii/
As a disclaimer, I should first say that I haven't read any of these papers in detail and that I therefore can't comment on their validity. I also don't wish to take a pro- or anti-environmentalist stance. I'm strictly neutral. I'm just talking about the nature of research publications.

Many of us in acadaemia are aware of a perceived phenomenon whereby "fashionable" (for want of a better word) topics get published and/or attract research. From a cynical (yet often accurate) perspective, researchers have become adept at framing their research proposals in the context of the topic du jour. I'm not saying the research is bad, just that funding is easier if you mention buzzwords.

My point is that acadaemia goes through cycles of particular interest in certain topics. The funding gets allocated to it and the journals are more likely to publish research relevant to the "fashionable" topic than other research. Now, I'm not saying the research is flawed; just that if you fund research into environmental change, you're probably going to find a lot of environmental change. If tomorrow you decide to massively fund research into extraterrestrial life, you will see a surge of papers in high-impact journals about that very subject. The environmental change hasn't gone away, it's just that fewer people are trying to publish data about it.

Perhaps for that reason we shouldn't be impressed by the sheer volume of research or the perceived quality of the publishing journals. We shouldn't panic because the number of papers on the subject has increased by several orders of magnitude in recent years. We should get a clear picture of what is going on, ignoring the funding bias, and once we have analysed the data from a balanced perspective and we see that it spells certain doom for all of us, then we can panic. ;)
That company would make an awesome case study. Where did they go wrong, exactly? My take: they tried to move (unsuccessfully) into social networking etc., and pretty much abandoned the blogging space into the hands of WP.

That, and just plain bad tech choices, like generating static pages which meant that your entire site had to be rebuilt after each blog post. And bad licensing choices.
I agree, I don't find politics-and-science to be good bunk-buddies. They selected 10 out of a huge list, all good articles but are they a true representation of the progress in climate science or are they the top-10 list for Climategate potentials from biased over-estimated distortions of evidence.

All the climategate research, at least what I could tell, pointed to global warming. Just not as much as the authors wanted though.
You are not liable for card-not-present fraud (without 3D-Secure) so feel free to dispute the transaction and get your money back.
Have you been hacked? Mind sharing some more details? I might be in a honeymoon period with my VPS right now, sure. But Google has shut down Gmail accounts for no reason, too. There are always going to be risks on both sides.
My understanding is that the copyrightability of binaries was something of a gray area for a time even after the copyrightability of source code was established. Apple v. Franklin is probably the most relevant court case.
Black out whole finger :D
I strongly agree with the outcome but the cost in the other direction is good API design is a creative process. If you sit down and design a kick-ass API for a year, another person who re-implements is inheriting that design, and its benefits, for free. I do wonder if another case will wind its way up one day where the defendant lifted the API not for interoperability but because it was a clean or clever interface. (Seems a bit far fetched but would round out fair use further I think.)
He probably owns a bunch of Oracle stock
In the 80's and 90's I used Tornado Notes for DOS both at work and at home:

https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue76/ibm_writing_t...
Haha yeah good point. My bad
What a stupid argument to be honest. Arguments such as this always get a laughter out of me.

Why does it have to be one way or the other? It is quite understandable that FB has a leaning for the young as much of FB feeds off of young folks. I canâ€™t imagine too many 50+ guys brainstorming next generation of FB features. At the same time I canâ€™t imagine too many grades in early 20s coming up with next set of Lotus features.

May be the whole thing was missing a big disclaimer: USE WHAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU:)

-Zaid
Windows 8(.1) is great and I've used it since it was released. Going back to Windows 7 is seriously slows down my productivity in almost every way and I find it fairly inhibiting. I can see how from an administration standpoint it becomes difficult, but as an independent user there is absolutely very little wrong with it and it is miles ahead of Windows 7.

Talking specifically about live tiles: I love that I am able to hit the Super/Windows key and immediately see an overview of all of the information I care about. This includes notes, emails, weather, calender and stocks. I don't see how it failed at all-- it's wonderful.

I think this "Windows 8 sucks" meme should die in a fire, because it's grossly inaccurate at best. And this is coming from someone who primarily uses an OS X-inspired GNU/Linux distro (Elementary OS) as a daily operating system.
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In the 3rd question, if the fee were 6%, would the right answer be 7075 or 7076? I don't know the high school rules of rounding. Are you allowed to round to a number that doesn't satisfy the question? Fortunately they picked values where it is not ambiguous, but that question could be really nasty.
Stop using IPS or TN monitors.

Buy monitors with VA panels and lower brightness. Your eye strain will go away.
Probably just more sensitive to vibration in long term use. 40% AFR in normal conditions would be insane, and I doubt we'd need Backblaze to point it out.

I have six ST3000DM001's and seven ST31500341AS's, all with about 2 years on the clock (~20,000 power-on hours). With 40% and 25% AFR's respectively, the odds of all thirteen surviving are:

1 / ((0.6 12) * (0.75 14)) = 1 in 25,782.

I doubt I'm that lucky.
Aren't we massively premature in our estimation of Windows 10?
Ethereum and EVM compatible chains are at least 4 years ahead in terms of smart contract activity. Cardano just enabled smart contracts in September of last year, and there's been very little success in terms of usability so far; network scaling upgrades are slated to roll out over the next few years, and the dapps that have deployed don't really work without them. For context, Sundaeswap, a long-awaited DEX just deployed roughly 1 week ago, but people trying to make swaps may have to wait days for their swap to execute, which isn't very ergonomic.

The increased activity from people trying to make transactions with Sundaeswap has resulted in sluggishness all-around on the chain as well, because Cardano doesn't have the concept of gas bidding for priority
I am completely in love with how this article introduces itself.
"There are bold X, and old X, but no old, bold X."

Replace X with any practitioners subject to sufficient risk as a result of their practice.

I first heard it in the context of mushroom foraging.
Not exactly. If you've done it 50 days without an accident, your current chances of the accident happening in the remainder of the year are NOW less than 87%.

If you've made it Jan 1 to July 1 months without an accident, the chances of you making it to Dec 31 are now better than they were on Jan 1 -- because now they are just the chances of you making it six months, not a year.

The chances of flipping 6 heads in a row are 1/64. But if I've already flipped 3 in a row... the chances of flipping three _more_ heads in a row is 1/8, the same as always for flipping 3 heads in a row. The ones that already happened don't effect your future chances.
Send me the links to the replies you think are bad.
> If Trump hosts a website on GoDaddy or any other hosting service, it will be removed immediately.

He has websites. They have not been removed. There are decentralized streaming tools that do not depend on any monolithic platforms. You are describing a non-reality.
I’ve always seen this as a primary function of the postal service. The government should defend and maintain it as the essential medium of communication that it is. It’s not as fast as most forms of modern communication, but it handles a lot of essential tasks efficiently.

On a somewhat related note, never underestimate the bandwidth of a sneakernet.
I'm not claiming NPR is biased, I'm saying it's amusing that it was the three-letter U.S. public news service that got embroiled in scandal in the last administration. Not that the scandal was actually substantiative.
Parler is mostly spam anyway.
No, it is not deep. It is one thing to defend the interests of your country and another - of your boss. At least, there must be difference for americans, everyone else is on the sideline and eating popcorn.
What you're saying is probably true. But I don't think the media should refrain from reporting true, relevant information just because they don't think it will do any good if it's known.
The fact remains that 4 unarmed protestors were killed, at least 2 were directly killed by capitol police. There were no deaths directly caused by the protestors. Sicknick died from a blood clot.

So when you say that the protestors caused a truly harmful action to take place, what exactly are you referring to?
I hate to do this to you, but are either of those places in the Capitol building?
It sounds like he's suggesting OP should leverage his professional network, especially since he's not looking for his first job. He's got a decent chunk of industry experience, and should've built enough connections to get a couple referrals to different places.

From my own personal experience, I got incredibly lucky finding my first job, with a bunch of extraordinary people, through what was essentially a cold call. Since that job, I haven't had a job that wasn't through some kind of referral or secondary connection.
Mermaid seems to be way too good, thanks for sharing, adopting it now for my blogs :)
You're right that my answer is incomplete. In these matters the devil is truly in the details. And my answer to your point is: yes, but it depends. And you have to look up the local tax laws to see if the company could be said to have a presence in your country of habitation. And whether that presence comes with any taxes.

In Sweden there are specific criteria that have to be met in order for the company's income to be taxable in Sweden. So if you don't meet those criteria you shouldn't have a problem. Those criteria are quite narrow, so this setup would not work in Sweden.
My system for failing is currently pretty one-dimensional; i.e. fall back on considerable savings. Good advice about spotting slavedriver management.
> which make it in practice harder to access the database for anything but trivial queries.

I did my time. I understand normalization. I've got a vague understanding of the various normal forms (except 6NF which nobody seems to understand ;-)

I can use a query profiler and I've occasionally read up on the different index types and their performance profiles.

But I still prefer to use an ORM. SQL syntax just never fitted my brain.

And the ORM I use can handle aggregation, annotation and a bunch of stuff that you couldn't really describe as "trivial queries"
I am specifically speaking about the USA as I am a libertarian from the USA, but the libertarian ideology is universal. It has a rich history of thinkers and writers if you want to explore more. Basically libertarians begin with the idea that the rights of the individual are the most important, and government should be restricted from infringing on individuals.

In the USA we have the Bill of Rights that protects each person from government overreach, such as the 1st amendment which protects freedom of speech, and the 5th amendment against testifying against yourself.

The government however often passes laws that violate these rights, and then the courts have to overturn laws that are unconstitutional because they violate our rights.

I am of the opinion that the government is a very dangerous entity with unlimited power and ability to harm citizens, so we should always be skeptical of all laws passed and work as much as possible to limit the power of government.
It's because the complexity of those sites is low. My understanding is a large portion of that 75% is Wordpress sites. A very, very small portion of Wordpress sites do much development past a theme (many CSS/HTML) and installing some plugins.

If you have extensive Wordpress work, it's likely better to use a different starting point (and a different language).
17 times the rate of increase, not 17 times the current value. So new_school_cost/old_school_cost = 17*new_median_income/old_median_income.
It would be up to the Australian government. If they want to prevent Google from doing all business and not just search then that is completely on them. I trust my government that they wouldn't make such a shitty law so I don't worry about one aspect of the business ruining the other.
One small nitpick

>"Nor did it explain why, a week later, most of Southern Canada (a predominantly English-speaking region) also shipped without POIs"

is followed by a snapshot of Quebec City (the french-speaking capitol of the french province) as evidence.
Is this actually faster than seeding the PRNG with co.xy? Or xxhash({co.xy,time})?
I am from The Netherlands and I don't recognize any of these problems. I hacked together some website for a non-profit organization when I was 15, had my first paid IT job when I was 16 and I never felt excluded or discriminated against between fellow geeks. Maybe it's a cultural thing.