jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've heard this before, but I disagree with it.

I used to run my own application company and sold windows apps. I could directly correlate piracy with sales. If my latest version had a key generator+crack on the various torrent sites, my sales would go down by as much as 30%. This was mostly because the torrent sites can easily get good keywords on Google and even get results above my own. I essentially had to complete with myself.

It would also waste my time with customer service. A user would have a cracked version installed, get malware, and then expect me to come to the rescue (and of course blame my software for their poor choices). The nerve of some people!!

Large companies like Adobe and Microsoft can take the hit, small shops can't.

But, these days are over now. I created a SaaS out of all of my apps and now have more sales than ever (and guaranteed monthly income). I can see more companies doing this to combat the environment that piracy has created. It's why Stallman is getting so ornery about it lately.
> they're losing power as a result

Ah yes, the old Conservative trope: eventually they'll go too far, and then you'll see.

How's that working out? Conservatives have lost on every issue since I was born.

But yeah, don't fight back. Power-hungry people will "defeat themselves"…eventually. Trust me.

Trust the plan.
Yep, that was a joke. Should have had <sarcasm> tags around it.
ask them to cover your travel costs at the very least (flight/car/hotel/food). ask them afterwards what they might have paid, or what they might typically pay for a speaker on this subject or of your (limited) fame. Given that you've not done it before, and you've done it for free, you must like the talk/topic, so ease in to this with travel costs covered. They may see fit to give you a small honorarium of a few hundred dollars on top of that.
Sounds like Farouk found the perfect job for him. What an amazing and empowering thing to do. Being successful is often the reward for finding the perfect match like this.
You could try Reshma Sohoni, get the CEO of Seedcamp and has a VC background. I don''t know her directly, but she seems pretty approachable. Plus she'll probably do it to get publicity for Seedcamp.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/reshma-sohoni

Also check out The Next Women (it's a female tech startup site), they have a database of female entrepreneurs:

http://thenextwomen.com/female-internet-heroes-female-entrep...
I'll talk to you...we are on the path of being a big business success :-)

Cynthia Typaldos
Founder, Kachingle
www.kachingle.com
cynthia AT kachingle DOT come
Given that Rand tries to make universal claims your attempt to make exceptions are rather ironic.

Basically your argument about kids are not any different than the religious people trying to explain how a child that haven't been baptized can go to heaven if they die early.

What about the victims that meet the an enemy with overwhelming power. Are they heroic when they flee because that is the rational thing to do? Or are they irrational because they take the risk and attack the enemy?

What about the retarded? Are they not humans because they aren't rational?

You simply skip over all the problematic part with Rands philosophy. That's fine with me, just don't call it careful thinking.

The point about no man is an island is that the idea of the individual is not just naive it's flat out wrong.

With regards to your easily observable biological functions. Let me remind you that the body is a colony of cells that all work together to ultimately maintain the idea of you as an individual.

To claim that the individual is somehow a well defined thing is simply showing the same kind of ignorance that the religious people have towards science.

The survival instinct is hardwired into you only to the extent that it's not being suppressed by a severe depression. The brain is not a mechanical thing it's moldable.

Obviously being young and immortal Rand makes some sense. This explains why she is so popular to young people who lack any fidelity and experience outside the campus.

If anything Rands thinking is that of a immature human being who lack any desire to really understand the world around them because it is to occupied with themselves.

Existence exist, but the question is what is existence. Rand goes from description to prescription but forget to do the check and balances of her premise.
Why focus just on global warming? Water shortage is a far far far larger problem. I know it's not you, but this obsession with global warming is horrible. There are far worse problems.

And landfill space is infinite. The earth is enormous. There are just political objections to landfills so they keep them in short supply. For example you could fill old coal mines with landfill and never run out of space. You could undo mountaintop removal by filling it with dilute garbage, then a deep layer of topsoil.

There really is an infinite amount of space - we can't make more garbage than there is matter on the earth. So whatever material we make, we automatically have room to bury it.
If you happen to end up in New York, check out Freelancers Union: http://freelancersunion.com/

I'm paying around $300/month for a decent basic PPO and dental (for just myself)
My question is why do feel people should ask you questions as 'Engineers' when you are posing anonymously with no qualifications or specific engineering credentials?

This leads me to the conclusion that this project should be renamed as "Ask a Female". Clearly this is the intention no?

My second question then is why do you think "Ask a Female questions" is an appropriate service for an audience that is concerned with Computing, Technology and related business ventures?

This seems like rather blatant stereotyping on your part. You are making the assumption that your audience are Men that have no Woman around to ask questions.

I have plenty of Woman around to ask questions without your service. And also plenty of engineers who I know the credentials of and trust there judgement whom I can ask technical questions. The thought that I would need some anonymous Woman to answer my random questions about no defined topic in particular is a little creepy.
I think this is actually a pretty good model. I still dream of that perfect federated network that allows as complete autonomy as possible and finally kills both email and facebook messenger, but until then at least some people can have some joy in life.
Yep, AFAIK.

Personally I use a good, ol' simple browser (QTweb) with javascript disabled to browse/read HN, then I try opening the linked articles with it.

If it works, it works, if it doesn't (not only because of paywalls or similar but often because the site has been overcomplicated/overengineered and/or uses some new features that QTweb doesn't support) I may try with a more "recent" browser.

Of course with javascript disabled a number of things (like dinamically loading images) won't work and you won't be experiencing the full design of the site, but as long as the article text is readable, that does it for me most of the times.
You don't actually know she's dead. "Disappeared" can mean a lot of different things, depending a lot on how hard people looked and the assumptions they made.
Maybe you guys are getting lost in multiple logins? I've had Youtube Red/Premium almost as long as it's been available, and I never see ads of any kind. I love it.
Yes, but if they invested/offered 20m and not just 200k I'm sure there would have been some Blockchain guys with not so strong morals around
> ... establishes the existence of evidence ...

This phrase doesn't sit well with me. They cannot establish the existence of evidence without having found it. They can't find it without a proper search. They can't execute a proper search with a warrant or reasonable suspicion.

The existence of evidence is established once it's found and documented.

Edited to add: if they can arbitrarily establish the existence of evidence, and then don't find it, then "obviously" the suspect is a no good dirty rotten evidence destroyer.
Upload your resume to the job boards. I've had almost no success applying through the standard process, but when companies or recruiters reach out to me, it's been ~ 75% offer rate with jobs I followed through on.

> I can't figure out what the problem is

Companies don't know what they want and are incapable of hiring the best talent.

My advise is to find the tech you want to work on, and apply to those jobs. If you're short on skills in those areas, github and personal projects with go a long way if you already have general programming experience.

> feel increasingly insecure about my ability to build a career

This is a real problem for the industry. If you're focused on the front end, you're disposable I think. That area is completely commoditized and easily done by outsourcing. Focus on the infrastructure and the backend if you want to be in high demand.
The issue is that TLS handshakes are actually quite expensive. Assume a limit at about 3MHz of a modern non-hyperhtreaded core for each rps you want to do tls handshakes for. This is <40kbit/s in each direction. That's a measly 2.5 Gbit/s symmetric on one of AMD's 64 core flagship processors. They can normally push out ~1Tbit/s http unencrypted if the SSDs keep up, or about 20~50% of that if they have to encrypt it.

These numbers are all rough, but they are all for the absolute core/unflexible C-code that barely complies with the RFCs.
Obsession with work that matters won't leave you starving, but it will leave you starved for time; anything that's a priority will draw away time and attention from other priorities e.g. relationships and family.
Well Chrome had this feature for a long time. Personally I don't find it much useful. But to me the killer feature of firebug is that when you open an XHR entry in new tab it opens the tab with all POST variables. Super handy when debugging REST api.
Hmm, well my point was more that her music is technically very good. From a sort of academic perspective the music is very clever and carefully designed. It hacks for popular listening.

Although I realise such a point of view is probably the by-product of having a brother who's finishing up a music degree and so I get bored to death with lectures about this stuff :)
Why stop at new laws? Existing laws should be relentlessly reviewed for relevance.

One issue I see with random sample law experimentation is blindness to effects which only crop up when everyone is subject to a law. Take for example gun control. If a small sample of folks aren't allowed to have guns there may be little negative fall out. But taken to the extreme if gun ownership is illegal than by definition only law breakers would have guns making the random burglary or home invasion far less dangerous for criminals and far more dangerous for law abiding citizens.
Yes - It is all business decisions.
As someone said already an instance on AWS can cost up to 7X a machine you own on co-location.
here is how outbrain manages it's multi datacenter architecture while saving on Disaster recovery headroom.
http://techblog.outbrain.com/2011/04/lego-bricks-our-data-ce...
.38 introduced lot's of new stuff [1], so regressions can occur I guess.
But I know that it'll get fixed. By the time this news got to HN there's probably someone working on it.

[1] http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38
That's probably going to have to be the way forward for me, I concur.

Edit; My mistake: Apparently there's TenFourFox, which I had missed. I'll stop my whining now..

(http://www.floodgap.com:80/software/tenfourfox/)
Yes, Go lets me do this. Though I don't like passing anonymous functions too much as the codes becomes hard to read rather soon.
There's a great talk on parallelism, by guy steele: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Thinking-Parallel-Program...

Notice that you need different data structures.
I've never had a problem with why. It's how that's devilish.
This is a key point that I think lots of GC proponents gloss over. Memory is not the only resource that needs to be managed. Open file handles, sockets, user sessions, whatever... they all need to be managed in much the same way as memory.
"Joel unfortunately completely misses the point of why C and Java suck at this stuff: you can define anonymous functions in them (anonymous inner classes in Java) but they aren't closures."

You can't define anonymous functions in C.

And I wouldn't "attack" Joel for "stuffing the article full of lies". It's more like "abstracting away the details". When people talk of the benefits of some practice or programming paradigm, they don't always mention all the work going into it - they just explain the concept. That's what a good teacher does, IMO. He takes complex concepts and explains the important parts.
I initially tried scala when getting back to using a language on the jvm. While scala boasts less verbosity than java I felt like the syntax became more complex than what I was accustomed to and slowed my progress if you can believe that. Java was the first real OO language I learned and then moved onto ruby. Currently working with C. I think in pursuing functional programming I'll probably go with something pure like haskell, ML, or lisp.
This is a false dilemma. There are plenty of publicly listed companies that also engage in moral behaviors. Pretending it's an either/or situation only serves to excuse the behavior and derail the discussion.
I'm trying to understand this.

If I sell you something does that count as part of GDP? If I sell my labor to a company does my selling of it become part of the GDP? Then the company sells the product I produced for it, is that added to the GDP as well?

Or is it only when a company sells something that it is counted as part of the GDP?
Teach them that they live in a society, and so they have certain responsibilities, limits, and roles, as opposed to being mere individuals that can do whatever they please, others be damned?

Sorry, but the Chinese have camps for ethnic (or religious) targeted detention and/or brainwashing.

This is nothing like "what we do" in education, American or otherwise, and the similarities (the students having a specific desk, queues to eat, etc) are irrelevant and superficial...
I can’t upvote this enough. It’s deeply spammy.
You're right. The goal of Legra is to provide all basic drawing primitives not just image rendering. So one can create dynamic charts, animations etc.
> show some estimate of the daily energy cost

There’s a massive programme in the UK to fit homes with meters that do this.

https://www.smartenergygb.org/en
Less about stopping analytics and more about stopping privacy-malicious analytics (which google analytics could arguably be defined as). Install a privacy friendly analytics package and I suspect it won’t be much blocked.
First of all, the typical person does not fill a car with gas nearly as often as you use electricity. Secondly, if I had to choose to use one of those gas stations exclusively, I might choose the one with a fixed rate, because:

1. It would make it easier to predict how much I would need to pay for gas each month, and simplify budgeting.

2. I don't need to worry about keeping track of the current price of gas

3. Depending on how my driving schedule matches the variance in prices, it may actually be cheaper for me.
Ah, yes. That would indeed still be a chunk list, albeit one backed by mmap.

I can of course be totally wrong, but I think the OP was wondering why you couldn't simply mmap the entire file in place without managing any lists, trees, or any data structure except for a flat array representing the whole file.
Im my journey through data analytics, what helped me most is to fight with real datasets. Lectures are fine, but you don't really grasp the little details needed to do a proper job until you have messy datasets, very large datasets, have to deal with text in a non-english language, etc.

That's the most useful stuff in my opinion. Courses and lectures include sample data that don't really put you in the position to having no option than optimize your workflow because your box can't deal with it in a reasonable time.

Or when you go crazy because you can't perform some analysis because something somewhere is wrong and your debugger can't help you, and you just want to punch someone in the face.

That's how I discovered that cleaning and preparing data is about 90% of the job, avoid CSV for non-numeric data and use SQLite instead, when possible, the god-send of Knime, etc.
Would that building have gotten built anyway, absent the contribution and naming? If so, the university still got a subsidy from that donor.
Asking for their time.
Looks interesting, but doesn't work in Firefox on Linux. Had to fire up Chrome to take a look.
Sometimes I end up teaching friends a bit about programming. I should really stop starting them on vim...
> Also in those rural areas it is somewhat common for someone with the right away to have a reason to drive much slower than the speed limit

Why does living in a rural area make someone more likely to have a reason to drive below the speed limit?
It is actually too obtuse, to be honest.

It would be better to be explicit: if it were not for the Apple 800 lb gorilla holding the Facebook 800 lb gorilla's feet to the fire here due to its self-appointed role as gatekeeper of the iOS App Store then this information would remain hidden from general consumers.
Proving IP address ownership is done via HTTP challenge, nothing too problematic.
It would be very easy to accidentally kill this whole thing by messing with the economics. Rationalize the price too much and the price might become rational.

Being an asset class depends on people treating it like one, that is, as a way to make money. Getting "market" price for the shoes in-store comes at the expense of middlemen, 3rd party auctioneers, investor-collectors, arbitrageurs, etc. Those people are what make Yeezys "an asset class."

These things fall apart when you get too greedy. They already create a flamboyantly artificial scarcity. Trying for "market price" as well is probably too far.
Why does Dropbox expect casual users to understand concepts like symlinks in order to sync their desktops (or any existing folder outside of the dropbox directory for that matter)?

Are their plans to make this more intuitive, given this is how you yourself find dropbox most useful?
Go has all the required primitives, unsafe and assembler as part of the toolchain.
Imho there should be voting button (up/down) to see which app idea is the need of the hour.
I found social media to have helped me during the lockdowns of the past year. I was not a huge user before but over t past year I think I've spent a couple of hours a day staying in touch with people electronically, often mediated/enabled by FB ("Hey, why don't I call so-and-so?").
My SCM journey: RCS-PVCS-cvs-VSS-MKSSI-svn-Perforce-git

I hate all of them but learned to use them because what's the alternative?
Remo | Product Manager |Remo.co | Remote-First (Worldwide) | Full Time

Loom video of my pitch to you to join!
https://www.loom.com/share/ab45ad0f1cdd48c2a54afca8c216be6f

Remo is a world leading virtual event platform I started 2 years ago that facilitates meaningful connections in this new virtual world that we’re living in. We are a remote-first company from all corners of the world coming together to build an amazing product. We’re a profitable start-up that has seen huge growth (zero to eight figures annual revenue in 12 months).

I’m looking for our first Product Manager to come on board to drive innovation of our primary product.

You can find the full job description here: https://remo1.freshteam.com/jobs/D-Iu_QtKSaXy/product-manage...
Feel free to apply or email my recruiter directly at timothy@remo.co

Hoyin, CEO of Remo
This gave me an idea. What if they employed some of them in the garden departments. Essentially paid them to do gardening work in the parks. For example, a Japanese garden requires lots of maintenance.
But what could I do when I try to convert some big epubs (like dictionaries, over 6MB) to a PDF?

Calibre seems to use all the memory after some time and then it starts to use swap memory...
It's not OSS today but we could probably OSS if we spend a bit more time on it. Thanks for the idea!
Perhaps Coachella believes the parody is too close to the truth, and therefore no longer parody. Looks like the EFF response actually took that into account!

I don't always like the way EFF portrays a given cause in their website/blog postings: They often seem over-simplified and lacking the detail necessary to understand the specifics of the issue in the interest of soliciting donations. Their legal filings, on the other hand, are pretty universally fantastic & skewering of the opposition.
I'm not a physicist, I just pay some attention to these things.

The Higgs particle was expected, and so finding it within expected ranges was confirmation of the standard model.

The G-2 results are showing deviations from the expected ranges from the standard model.

In the former case, Higgs, the standard was further, strongly confirmed. In the latter case, G-2, there's a strong indication that the standard model is fundamentally missing something.

I think that's pretty exciting!
It's pretty much in line with my definition of hacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(hobbyist)
>Even though some of the people operating the government are criminals, the function of government is necessary

History disproves that a government (geographic monopoly on arbitration and security) is necessary for maintaining civil order. Of course, you aren't taught this history in state education.

I'm most familiar with the polycentric legal order of medieval Iceland, which lasted longer than the US has so far, so I will point there first.

https://mises.org/library/medieval-iceland-and-absence-gover...

Medieval Ireland is similar but there's less good info. See also the Law Merchant and Zomia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_mercatoria

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/14/the-undiscov...

>but it's still important for civilians to get involved in moving the government toward that goal.

Actually, I'm quite proud that I don't vote or otherwise trouble myself with electoral politics as a whole.

http://voluntaryist.com/nonvoting/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKANfuq_92U (Myth of the Rational Voter by Caplan)

I think it's important that more people start to recognize government for the evil that it is and build businesses that help keep money out of gov't coffers rather than keep heading down the blind alley you suggest.

If you are an honest person, you'd now would admit you are wrong that gov't is necessary. You just don't know the history yet. Who's really the black and white extremist here? It's okay, I'm familiar that the majority of statists like yourself are oblivious to their Stockholm syndrome and hardened indoctrination. (The rest may be able to see gov't for what it is but lack the creativity to start to work toward alternate solutions.)

You seem pretty set that this gov't thing is necessary. There's at least a few thousand abolitionists like myself ready to pioneer the land a state is willing to cede. Let's go grey baby. Are you even open to the idea you could be wrong?
TDD, or at least effective use of automated tests can make implementation much faster and code better.

Mappings + conversions are such a case.

For example if you're using an ORM being able to test the mappings in seconds will increase velocity. Or if you've written a function to convert type T0 to type T1, then automatically testing all combinations of T is very effective.