jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If I had a green card I would not be asking. I am fluent in English and probably am not exactly average, but just wanted to get a feel for it. So no company is gonna bring you in and sponsor you for a green card unless you're one of those 'rockstar' developers, is that it? I am happy where I am now, but knowing there's places I cannot move to kinda sucks.
It doesn't hold for loads of things. 1 heap + 1 heap = 1 heap. 1 bunny + 1 bunny = 12 bunnies, depending on how fast you are with your observing. 1 dl of ethanol + 10 dl of water < 11 dl of diluted alcohol.
I clearly stated in my bug post that I have javascript enabled.
They take their licks though. I was there when the LTCM fund collapsed and they lost $600M. Also when the Russian economy collapsed and they lost another $600M. Layoffs? Nah - business as usual.

The finance industry doesn't need as many layoffs as other industries because they solved the stick wage problem.
How are you defining "startup"? "Startup" for most people has technology connotations. To quote PG:

"Startups are a comparatively new phenomenon. Fairchild Semiconductor is considered the first VC-backed startup, and they were founded in 1959, less than fifty years ago."

Clearly, he's referring to tech startups specifically. If you consider any small company that becomes big a startup, then Rockefeller and Carnegie made their wealth in startups.
You should try having "a few" ideas and "whipping them up". It's changed my whole perspective.
I'm not sure if I understand what you're getting at. Are you insinuating that he has a lot of spare time, or that I do, or what?
because you're annoyed, you want everyone to stop using the word?
Not sure why you need such a title, very sensationalist and trolly. It will attract unwanted negative opinions.

Would have been better off just to say "The next big thing will be...."

People are smart to figure out it's not from the US once they go to the product page. Let your product speak for itself. You want your product to be globally accepted and liked, you dont need to throw in nationality.
I believe that it was Mahatma Ghandi who said "A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members."
Can some words even be expressed in 'pure Chinese'? I see in foreign (primarily spanish-speaking) papers all the time that they have loan-words or just straight up use many of the technical words that English developed.

"Internet"
"World Wide Web"
"iPhone"
"HDMI cable"
"Digital SLR"

Are all pretty much exactly the same in Spanish as English. To remove the 'English' there... well you need to make up totally new words then. Seems a difficult problem.

Note: I'm not even great at English some days, and know little about Chinese.
I was in a similar position a year ago: was a web/UI designer at a locally-reputable company, but left after three years due to frustration and the cabal games being played between my department and Marketing + VPs.

I worked at a startup before and have now left Corporate Canada, so what was next for me? I didn’t have the the discipline to start a business like you want to. But I spent past year working on my own projects and working with an indie game startup, mostly to experiment and clear my mind of my last job.

If you got enough money in the bank I’d say spend the next several months or year on creating your own business. Do consulting on the side + creating your business if you don’t. If the potential there starts to plateau after that timeframe then look for a startup to join if you’ve never tried it yet (but don’t give up on your business cold turkey unless there are conflicts).

TL;DR: let 2011 be your year of experimentation and create an online business.
Wow, that sucks. I hope the next big thing gets here soon.
Indeed. The USA has a huge divide between poor and rich for a developed country. Their poor can hardly come by, their healthcare system is a mess, and even basic infrastructure is underdeveloped in a lot of areas.

And the funny thing is, even though many people agree with that, everyone is coming up with excuses. No one is addressing the problem on how to narrow the poor-rich divide instead of further widen it in any meaningful way. They all are caught up in discussions about details such as 'should we increase tax this year' which will probably have zero influence in the big picture.

But the most disgusting thing to me is that they are still trying to push their system of corporate plutocracy on the rest of the world, as if it is the best thing since sliced bread.
I was looking for some related just yesterday and, apart from Py2EXE, found these two interesting projects:

ShedSkin: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com/ - A restricted Python-to-C++ compiler.

Cython: http://cython.org/ - A super-set of Python language for writing C extensions.
I haven't read the bill, but the one being referred to is S.3480

It got sent to committee, and will most likely never come out. Just like the last three bills that do almost the same thing.

If you want to follow it, here:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:s.03480:
I've had sites on linode and slicehost, and have found Slicehost to have less downtime, packet loss, network problems (unreachable), and so on. I'm satisfied with both, overall.
It will also have problems because the real problem with health care costs is what hospitals charge. Health care is expensive because hospitals rip you off. They can do this because most people don't even consider the costs and will pay whatever it takes (its not their problem - its their health insurance's problem).

I had a doctor take a cotton ball out of my ear in the hallway. It took about 10 seconds. I got charged $700.
Though other comments appear to have found the true, Lisa-derived history, I remember a great explanation from "Macworld Mac Secrets" (quite the noble tome; it certainly fed me full of tidbits about lesser-known features)

Their explanation was that it looked like a finger pressing on a key in the way people do when pressing modifier keys, searching with their other hand for the correct normal key to press.
The way they have things set up, it's going to be hard for them to keep their generous deal with AT&T intact while opening the iPhone up to other carriers. The second the iPhone is available elsewhere, Apple loses a lot of the leverage that got AT&T to pay the iPhone's huge subsidy.

You can bet that if Apple could negotiate terms with a second carrier that would increase their profits, they would be all over that. I suspect they're having a hard time finding a generous enough offer to compensate for a weakened deal with AT&T.
With all the hype around retina displays, will we see this type of thing reappear?
also, The Atlantic has a much more evenhanded take: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/06/homeland...
If they are, I wouldn't want to be the Friday janitorial crew...
Yow. C# defines something it calls "double.Epsilon" but it isn't the machine epsilon as generally understood (i.e., the smallest thing you can add to 1 and get something bigger than 1), it's the smallest representable (denormalized!) positive double. In other words, something like 10^-324 rather than about 10^-16.

[EDITED to add: this isn't the only gotcha he describes, but it's the scary one because if all you know is that C# has a thing called double.Epsilon, it likely won't even occur to you that it might be anything other than the machine epsilon. It's as if they'd defined something called "CPUClockRate" but it was the number of scheduler ticks per second instead of the clock speed, or something.]
Would they enforce the indie-game developer's trademark if it were against an app that was: 1) not a game at all; and 2) came out a year before the indie game of the same name? That seems to be the case here--- Apple is claiming a trademark case against an app in a different genre than its own "Facetime" application, and which came out a year earlier.
Who says this? I've never heard it except in debates where it is levelled as the reason why boys prefer mathematically biased subjects ("hard sciences").

My wife's AP Physics teacher told her that (1) "women are incapable of doing a good job in engineering and the hard sciences" and (2) "the only way you'll get a girl as captain of the science/engineering-technology team is over my dead body". The wonderful thing about (2) is that for many years, captaincy of said team was based on who got the highest scores on a technical exam. That year, my wife got the highest score. After she beat everyone else, said teacher explained that the captain would be selected based on a combination of technical proficiency (which my wife aced) and "leadership" (whatever the hell that means). This was not at some podunk school in the middle of nowhere; it was at a very well funded school which performed extremely well in national academic competitions.

Now, I'm not saying this guy is representative of people in general. What I am saying is that you can't claim this bullshit never happens. It does. Within the last few years even. And if you've made it this far in life without ever observing it yourself or hearing any first hand accounts, maybe that has more to do with your own biases and the way you treat women than anything else.
> It may also scare away those who do not like lameness.

This is precisely the point ekanes was trying to make. It's not lameness, but perceived lameness. If you perceive the company as lame, you would not be a good fit anyway.

But rest assured that, if I were the interviewer, your recognition of a known list of interview questions would not cost you the position.

And my interviews are neither lame, nor only about coding skills.
Selling feedreaders is not ok?
Reading the comments, I noticed that Cherokee was added after the poll started. I wonder how many Cherokee users voted "Other". I, for one, am a Cherokee user and a big fan. The admin interface is easy to use and I love that its written in Python. As a Pylons developer, I also love that uWSGI is built right into the system.
More likely they will just start putting ads in the article content itself.
> "He likes things to work smoothly and look good. He is very happy with his iPhone and is excited to upgrade. My other friend is like me, he loves to hack and is a fan of Google's services."

Can we not have both? I don't buy the dichotomy that a hacker-friendly device must be jerky and ugly. IMHO what Android lacks is integration - the odd fusion of hardware and software that Apple seems uniquely able to pull off. With the exception of the Nexus One (for probably obvious reasons), every Android phone I've used feels very discretely disconnected between software and hardware.
This is a distressingly common sentiment these days. I can't think of any good reason to prefer opinionated screeds to well-balanced factual analysis. Very often it boils down to "I don't have confidence in news stories to have a 100% optimal distribution and analysis of the facts, so I've decided it's not even worth pursuing the truth."
If you want to learn more about cracking, the woodmann pages are probably amongst the best (the guy being interviewed is involved in woodman)[1].

If you want to learn more about reversing in general (which in many respects is a lot more wholesome and for some, interesting than cracking) try BIW[2] as the woodmann library is easy to get lost in.

[1] - http://www.woodmann.com/forum/index.php

[2] - http://www.reversing.be/
You seem to be assuming that because you can doing something easily on your home network it would be easy to do it on a production network.

Where was your testing and from all locations used by your corporate clients? Where was the part where you had to predict the impact on end users with incorrectly set up dual stack trying to access the IPv6 site first and get buy in from the people affected? When did you produce the change request documentation and have it approved?

Things that are trivial for home and development environments are not trivial once you have a production site that need to stay up.
The author is not saying "write C in Python," he's saying "Aim for C-style abstractions in Python." i.e. build the codebase around the bread-and-butter: function calls, iteration, reference-passing and mutability, and not around abuse of the numerous higher-level abstractions available(meta-programming, yield, exec()...). It's a lesson learned regularly by programmers as they gain experience and move towards conservativism, after having seen all their silver bullet attempts go up in flames.

A similar tenet holds for the opposite direction - the performance junkies; the tendency with experience to move away from locking in specs early and doing heavy micro-optimization, towards writing the initial code in a way that tries intentionally to make it easy to modify.
I agree with your first point, however:

> 2) rms is a practical guy. stop acting like he's a mad man who knows nothing. He started GNU, wrote emacs, glibc, gcc and probably others. He created the concept of free software and wrote a license as good as GPL to defend it.

He created the concept of 'Free' (note the capital F) software as his definition of free. People were sharing source code beforehand. The source to Unix was available under licence, there were plenty of tools available (ISTR TECO, EMACS' predecessor being open source for example) with source. I can create a definition of something that distorts other peoples' views of the truth and misappropriate it as my own.

Secondly, he wrote all of those things as part of his GNU OS, which he never finished. As someone who's written hobby OSes before I can understand that GNU was a massive undertaking, but he's not the only guy ever to write an OS and deserves no more kudos for it than the BSD guys or any other OS developers. He is not some magical wizard of software freedom.

> 3) rms doesnt want people only to use free software.

This[1] article by a certain Richard Stallman on gnu.org begs to differ. Maybe it's a different Richard Stallman?

[1] - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html
It's still to early to tell but Color (www.color.com) which gathered $41 milion may be the first to fit the bubble profile.
You can still say type systems are obviously a good thing (I do too!). But you, sadly, can't say this is supported by scientific studies. It's an opinion based on your own personal experience.

The good news is that this opinion doesn't contradict evidence either! The research just isn't there yet. Some of research I've seen so far is pretty bad.
I doubt it's an exact science given that in some countries the advice is 2 metres and in the US I suspect it's a round number of feet...
Typically attacks against the populace do not cause governments to fall. In retrospect the strategic bombing campaigns against the UK, Germany, and Japan did not cause a change of regime. And this has been borne out in smaller wars (e.g. Serbia, Chechnya) since then. I don’t understand the psychology of it but regardless that appears to be the case.
>The base in-home usage per day has pretty much doubled.

And the base work, day care, and restaurant usage has plummeted. That's the thing about logistics and supply, a person can only use so much toilet paper for example. Once you've delivered 4 or 5 times the supply necessary for the population of a city, you're wasting effort. There is a distribution problem in that supply node, not really a logistics problem with the system.

We have distribution inefficiencies in many of our "supply nodes", no question. But these are not inefficiencies that airlines, or even traditional freight companies, can solve.
Nationality and current location?
Location: San Diego, CA

Remote: Yes

Relocate: Yes

Technologies:

- Python, JS, Vue, React, GraphQL, HTML, CSS, K8, Django

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email: me at jamesclick.net
Behaviour dramatically depends on droplet size. Fog can last many hours and blow many miles before dissipating.
Amazingly, the cleansing system is triggered in bees via interaction with mushrooms. (Cytochrome P450). Here's an interesting article with Paul Stamets explaining:
https://modernfarmer.com/2016/04/can-mushrooms-save-honeybee...
So you're making the opposite prediction to the person I originally replied to? Investments will gain value faster than the cost of living?
You can. You just can't justify it as "But the WHO told me to!"

(That's not just snark. I have a compromised immune system. I have been enjoying giving people withering looks and having them walk the hell away and stop breathing on me and what not. That's never really worked before.)
"Yeah, not really enjoying this new job, my coworkers are total douche-canoes. Actually, could you hang on a second? -- Steve, can you keep your typing down? I'm on the phone with a recruiter. Thanks. -- So yeah, hate this job..."
"I don't even know what my work phone number is, but recruiters call the front desk and asked to be put through to me (presumably)"

I've had this happen to me in the past and my jaw almost dropped. Like, REALLY?

Goes to show that these recruiters are all about spray and play, and have no real logical strategies.
Amazing image zoom algorithm, t creates a hires version of a low res image. I would love to see this image zoom feature implemented the in ImageMagick.
Right, exactly. There are not bad guys running around and shooting at you. You don't have to watch your health bar or manage an inventory. You can save whenever you want. It's easy to play for a short time and come back to it when you feel like it.
I have had this exact conversation at various past employers, usually when they started talking about "big data" and hadoop/friends:

"How much data do you expect to have?"

"We don't know, but we want it to scale up to be able to cover the whole market."

"Okay, so let's make some massive overestimates about the size of the market and scope of the problem... and that works out to about 100Mb/sec. That's about the speed at which you can write data to two hard drives. This is small data even in the most absurdly extreme scaling that I can think of. Use postgres."

Even experienced people do not have meaningful intuitions about what things are big or small on modern hardware. Always work out the actual numbers. If you don't know what they are then work out an upper bound. Write all these numbers down and compare them to your measured growth rates. Make your plans based on data. Anything that you've read about in the news is rare or it wouldn't be news, so it is unlikely to be relevant to your problem space.
I prefer 8 minimum, 9 is normal. I'm able to get so much more out of the day with that extra sleep. <7 and it's going to be a very rough day.
That's a wrong conclusion to draw from the term "microframework." Unlike Django which defines in no uncertain terms what you get from it and what you can do with it, in Flask it's all up to you.

Yes, for some projects I want admin panels built for me; sometimes I don't. Sometimes my front end is SPA and all I need is a REST middleware talking to a database. If the database is supported through SQLAlchemy, even better -- there's a framework for that.

Some people will like Flask's approach and others won't; my only suggestion is to pick the right tool for the job and run with that. For my projects it's Flask because it's easy to reason about and most people can pick Flask up in a matter of days rather than weeks or months with monolithic frameworks.
Also a very active scalpers market in legos. Not as hot as shoes gfx cards and trading cards but like tier 2/3 scalping items
Whether they can run on hydrogen.
Not going to downvote you, but if you are downvoted it's probably because this isn't true. Take the video game market as an example; people are very much willing to pay for video games on Linux (via Humble Bundle, Itch, Steam, or GoG) even when the games are usually DRM-free and could trivially be pirated.

If there's not much of a market in other areas, then frankly I'd have to say it's because the open source ecosystem is simply too good on Linux. There's already an app that can do what you want for 99% of use cases, and it's open source and free. Hard to compete with that. You wouldn't criticize Windows because someone can't find anyone to buy their web browser; Linux is like that, just for most every application.
As someone who doesn't know much more about F1 than engine go vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr what's the issue with Helmut Marko?
I find the "medical uncertainty" part of this more interesting than the "antidepressant" part.

There are a number of medical problems, side effects, interactions, etc that only a very, very small number of people experience. Doctors, rightly, seem skeptical of anecdotes that haven't been borne out in large studies - they're likely to go with the most common explanation for something and usually be right.

But how do people who really are experiencing rare problems get the right care for them? Doing their own research, talking to doctor after doctor until someone believes them? Why should the medical community do research into problems that only affect a few people? Even if they do decide it's worth it, is it possible if the sample sizes are going to be small? Say I could volunteer to prove through experimentation that if you give me medication X, I get symptom Y, and when you give me a placebo, I don't get symptom Y, but no one else has ever experienced symptom Y from medication X, does anyone care?

All hard questions that I wish there were answers to.
Good point. Please note that I wrote: "There's nothing wrong with needing some special accomodations". I did not say you need to accomodate everything.

If someone is drunk enough that he's going to piss and throw up in the car, it might be a better idea to call an ambulance instead.

But to be honest, if you are in the transportation business, someone is going to fuck up your car sooner or later, and you really need to take potential cleaning costs into account. That's just part of the job.

Don't want your car to get dirty from driving people? Then don't offer to drive people.
Title corrected: eliminate superfluous words
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23900938

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19488275

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19483190
Side-bar: I sort of feel like a sitting duck walking around the city or subway at night with my white Apple ear-buds, especially the ones with the mic, screaming I have an iPhone in my pocket.
I was going to say the same thing. The price is already too high. At $60-$100 I think it is already too pricey if they are aiming for the same embedded market.
facebook, or do you mean something more involved like video conferencing?
It's very hard to find humanely slaughtered meat. To quote Foer, who in turn was citing a review of some audits of slaughterhouses (emphasis in the original):

>[Grandin's report found] deliberate acts of cruelty occuring on a regular basis at 32 percent of the plants [slaughterhouses] she surveyed during announced visits in the United States. It's such a shocking statistic I had to read it three times. Deliberate acts, occurring on a regular basis, witnessed by an auditor - witnessed during announced audits that gave the slaughterhouse time to clean up the worst problems. What about cruelties that weren't witnessed? And what about accidents, which must have been far more common?
Outcomes for employees are based on decisions well before the exit.

I suspect some founders just never really get around to the up-front tasks that are necessary to take care of employees. It takes significant effort to put together an employee option plan. You also have to go to the mat for employee equity in funding negotiations, for example to top up early employees. It's easy to slight these in favor of tasks that contribute more directly to company success.
You can also follow the comic on twitter.

https://twitter.com/calvinandhobbes For this it says born on November 18, 1985 :)

https://twitter.com/Calvinn_Hobbes
"What else could we want in a screensh... oh, my, god"
Try KSnip, I really recommend it since Shutter and Flames not have been buggy for me in the past.