jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This doesn't say anything about whether to take this guy's money. They can still get money from banks, friends, other angel's or get this guy to reduce his terms. Right now, this guy wants to know what are his options.
Like I said, No Disrespect, we all have different examples of how this post relates to us in business. I'm mainly stating that ethics weigh heavily in terms of how I do business, and if you take shortcuts or fake moves in terms of building business, your ethics become questionable...
I think we all agree that it can be very useful to filter applicants by making them solve some puzzle, and there's nothing wrong with that.

What bothered me was that it sounded like you were mocking people for trying but failing to solve your puzzle, and relishing in the fact that you didn't have to consider their application. Trying is a good thing, even if it ends in failure, and it should be encouraged.

It might even turn out that the sort of person who spends an afternoon trying to solve a challenging puzzle makes a great employee after a bit of training.
>A $200 air purifier

Minimum wage is $7.25 in many states. Over 27 hours of gross income to buy that purifier.

The median income in the U.S. was $31,133 in 2019, putting that air purifier at over 13 hours of gross income.

I've been at my job 15 years, in the rare event that overtime is available a $200 air purifier would cost me approximately the net income of 10 hours of overtime.
>The Juke, while smaller in length than those cars, is wider than both the Prius (by a longshot)

No, it's 50 mm wider. If you're going to call that a longshot, just wait till you see a Ford Explorer.

The Juke is 4 mm wider than the B-class and 200 mm shorter. Tell me again how huge it is.

EDIT: In fact, only one car you mentioned is appreciably narrower than a Nissan Juke, and even then it's only by 200 mm

https://cararac.com/dimensions/mercedes-benz/b-class.html

https://cararac.com/dimensions/nissan/juke.html
Okay, so SMS gets used as 2FA for all those things, not somehow a primary method of creating transactions, correct?

Unfortunately, quickly looking, [1] suggests at least one of the listed services for sending arbitrarily forged SMS messages explicitly works in India, so it seems like this is still true for you. :(

[1] - https://www.usethistip.com/5-websites-to-send-anonymous-or-f...
> So they preempted them by staging a coup supported by People's Militias (a completely illegal armed militia of the party) on February 25, 1948

On February 21st, 1948, the non-communist ministers handed in resignations, without any pressure from the communist party. You left that part out. On February 25th the resignations were accepted. This was not a "coup" - they lost the elections in 1946 and decided to abandon the government in a failed power play. Also, as you note, the president of Czechoslovakia in the 1930s, Benes, a non-communist, presided over this.

The militias committed no violence, took over no buildings or the like and were not involved in the cabinet. The majority of Czechs did not find factory workers being armed to defend themselves to be as threatening as you apparently do.

If you really want to see elections being fixed, look at the fixing of the elections in Italy in the same year against the communist/socialist coalition.
Such a poorly researched article. The author doesn't know much about Russian or Ukrainian culture or history. But spares no opportunity to throw in the word 'Ukrainian'.

Gogol's letters to his parents, relatives and friends are published and well-known, you can go and read them here:

http://gogol-lit.ru/gogol/pisma-gogolya/index.htm

They are written in perfectly understandable if slightly archaic Russian. Zero Ukrainian influence can be seen, unlike in his Dikanka/Mirgorod collection of short stories. This makes me think that Gogol wasn't 100% fluent in his supposedly native Malorossian dialect.

Not sure about Gogol's contemporaries, but there is almost no linguistic distance between modern Russian and Gogol's prose. The reason is simple -(in the later half of 20th century) every single Russian had to read Gogol in middle/high school.

His influence on later Russian prose was also immense. Basically, the Russian of Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Gorky was built on foundations laid down by Gogol, with Pushkin thrown in for a good measure.

If that defines Gogol as a Ukrainian for you, you are welcome. Why not call him a Polish writer then?

[To clarify: My opinion is that he was born, was citizen of and lived in Russian Empire. He was thinking and writing in Russian language. Thus he was a Russian of Polish/Ukrainian descent, not a Ukrainian.]
https://imgur.com/a/vb6h0IF - complete with the "legitimate interest" checks that basically say "we see you'd rather not be stalked, we'd like to stalk you anyway". Never click "reject all" if you actually want to opt out of all tracking, always go to the options screen or what-ever they call it because "reject all" usually means "reject all except for those that claim legitimate interest" (i.e. not even remotely rejecting all).

If you are not in the EU, you just get all the tracking without even being asked (instead of being asked but any negative response somehow worked around).

Each of those chevrons when clicked lists the hundreds of partners that you are potentially being followed around by. They make it painful to opt out (impossible to permenantly opt out but of course easy to permanently opt in, accidentally or otherwise) though this design is not as egregious as many I've seen as it gives an opt-out-all click for "legitimate interest". Some sites ("powered by Admiral" - I'm looking at you, well actually I'm not as you are collecting in the list of sites blocked at the network DNS level here) make you click a separate option off for every. single. one. of. the. many. many. many. many. many. 3rd parties.
I've never even heard of pyproject.toml and I open github projects behind packages to vet them (to a minimal degree, but still, making sure it's not a typosquat and still maintained and often also reading a bit of source code) on at least a weekly basis. It's not always python of course, but often enough. Maybe it's just some freak coincidence that I somehow never saw it or just don't recall while really it's mostly everywhere, but this broad statement for something I've never even heard of makes me think of JavaScript and the 'standard framework' that changes every six months.
Gas from Russia is pretty much used across Europe, coming through pipelines, regardless of weather.
The quality of the sites where each letter was promoted is not the same. That was my point. They weren't all promoted to the same people and the type of signatories show: people who actually work on the software vs people who don't.

Not everything is the same to everything else. Nuance and distinction is possible.
Add to that AT&T providing free WiFi at all their hotspots to their data plans and the time windows keep increasing.
I agree with everything you wrote, except that I think it was not polite. It's not how I handle things.

And speaking of bug reports, I used to run a team and when I started they'd get customer reports and then say "Won't Fix" and delete the report. One of the first things I did was to make sure every customer got a reply. Sometimes it was just "Sorry, this bug isn't going to get fixed this release." The satisfaction from our enthusiast base shot through the ceiling.

Again, I agree with a lot of what you say. The OP didn't handle it well. But with that said, the engineer still wasn't being polite. I don't think he was a jerk. As you note, it is common for people in our field to simply not respond. But it's not how I do thing

Edit: This response is in reference to the post below me.
Yet they create value and solve problems, and thereby earn money.
> Apple's completely new, completely non-standard protocol.

It uses a standard Internet protocol (SIP+SRTP) as they said in the keynote.

Skype actually does use a proprietary codec (On2 VP7, which Google hasn't released) in their Skype<>Skype video chat. Does Fring use that, or does it support 3G too?

In any case I'd see not using 3G as a major advantage for FaceTime, since H.264+AAC is much better than low-bitrate H.263 used in 3G.
I know a few people here in Pittsburgh who work for Westinghouse doing exactly the stuff that poster is talking about.
Xerox is another example. I think these areas thrive on the surrounding incompetence and that you can't really have one without the other.
I really like this, "normal" web browsing makes it hard to be actually secure. Things like sslsniff (which basically do the exact opposite of this) make it really easy to MITM "normal" use of ssl (go to http site, get redirected to https).

I'm kinda an "all or nothing" person, so when I had previously thought about how to "solve" auto-encryption like this, I thought about requiring https across the board. Of course if you tried to browse like this, you'd have a pretty crappy experience. If you built in an auto fallback to http in case of failure, you'd have the same problem before, where any MITM can trick you to visiting unencrypted sites.

This is a good compromise of forcing encryption on the important sites (like banks), but still being practical for the real world.
I was literally two seconds away from clicking reply with the comment 'wow, you must have been the FIRST person to sign up to gmail to get that username', and then I felt a gear turn in my head.
The notion that views or presentations of material is a useful (and quite arguably the most appropriate) metric for abuse, and most especially contrasted with items posted, first surfaced that I'm aware from Facebook's VP Integrity, Guy Rosen, as "prevalence", in an 11 Dec 2020 tweet: https://nitter.cc/guyro/status/1337493574246535168?s=20 Rosen's tweet disclosed a content-violation prevalence of 0.10--0.11% of views, and falling as of 11 February to 0.07--0.08%, 7-8 views per 10,000 on the platform.

There are several other articles addressing YouTube's new "violative view rate" metric. Variety had the best mix of clear headline and minimal paywall, but other substantive coverage is at:

"Tracking Viral Misinformation" (NYTimes): https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/2020-election-misinformati...

"YouTube says it’s better at removing videos that violate its rules, but those rules are in flux" (recode/Vox): https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/4/6/22368809/youtube-violati...

"YouTube claims it’s getting better at enforcing its own moderation rules" (The Verge): https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/6/22368505/youtube-violative...

Whether you call it "prevalence", "views", or "violative view rate", the notion that you want to look at some function of items of content times reception of that content seems apt. Severity or risk metrics for both content and audience may also be useful --- this is starting to sound an awful lot like an advertising campaign, but one for which the aim is to mimimise impacts based on the material, exposures, and receiving audience.

Such a measure also, at least partially, side-steps some concerns over free speech, and resembles in part characteristics of other public-carriage / public-service functions, in which general access is permitted, but harmful or violative access remains constrained, regulated, and specifically discouraged. The notion that an entity might publish to a platform, but see limited prevalence (say, exposure to only direct or close followers), that identified clusters which are known to amplify disinformation have their capability to do so curtailed, or the like, address at least one line of current concerns with social media's socially-corrosive disruptive capabilities.

(The fact that one person's terrorist is often another's freedom fighter remains, and is not easily resolved. But at least the overall problem is now reduced in size.)
It was just a joke, I didn't really mean anything.
Yes this is me, I am self taught and from a small and poor town. Other than freelance I was 27 when I got my first high paying, full time programming job (in the Bay Area.) While the other couple of self taught people from my home town work in factories (and the one I know who went to school for it works at Boeing.) It was definitely not easy and I’d be further ahead had I went to school, but I probably wouldn’t work in startups and I don’t think I’d be anywhere near as good (and the people I’ve interviewed with seem to concur.)
I don't think "percent of hospital admissions" tells you anything about the risk until you combine it with infection rates.
They still function as a better matchmaking service than what you'd accomplish by pretending to be a student, I bet. Unless you were really good at pretending to be a student.
Have you pitched any VC's or angels? What premoney are you giving them?

If you don't have a premoney, then cut him a fair salary for the time he worked in a convertible note. The convertible note will be the optimal way to have a nice looking cap table.

I just suggest that you deal with this matter quickly while everyone is in a good mood. Success in a business after someone leaves can be dangerous...
just like the thieves do to steal your photos and strip all of your metadata.

I stopped reading at this point. I normally use any possible opportunity to bash Apple... but this is called an API, not stealing. The only thing I hate more than Apple is bad programming and bad writing, and this one phrase captures both at the same time.

Yawn.
As I read through the article, I couldn't help but notice the parallels between making a good film and building a successful startup venture.

Both are highly creative and technical processes. Getting a motley crew of crazies together, (almost) irreverent belief in your vision, passionate director/founder(s), willingness to work long and hard, working creatively within budget, and zealously promoting your wares.

It matters not how many movies you watch, or how many business books, or blogs you read. Learning comes from doing.

Except, with a movie, you don't get a do-over. With startups, you can iterate, pivot, evolve, and march on.
Google. Find their blog, usually it'll have a contact email, send your elevator pitch. This method has been highly successful for when I'm doing PR for Phone Halo.
Why would you assume these people are government employees? Even if they are, what difference would that make?

On that note, I know a lot of people in the public health field and not one works for a government. Virtually all of them are indirectly paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, through one circuitous path or another.
> People are at least pretending to do work, you won't be able to access the network, you won't have common classes to complain about together, etc. etc. We're somewhat suspicious of non-students, too.

Those are social-status problems [and thus, I could answer snarkily, amenable to social engineering.]

A University is a clique of people who pay a lot of money to attend a University. If the only technical advantage everyone gets from paying the money is access to the lectures, and in the long run the lectures aren't what matter, then why is anyone paying the money?

"University", in that sense, seems to be a Prisoner's Dilemma set up by lecturers to rob students. No one individual can stop paying, because it excludes them, even though the group as a whole would be better off if they all just rented a few apartment buildings together instead of paying massive amounts of tuition.
I actually checked whether the site was meant to be satirical just based on the way the header looks.
I don't think anybody doing your project should discourage you. It's usually in the process of trying to do something that has been done before that you get an insight or think about a better way of doing it. Plus, doing things that have been done before is a very good way to learn. Thats how in the old days apprentices became masters.

As for the alg/ds. In my opinion, there are some fundamental things that you need to know about DS/alg that make you a better developer. What people usually get wrong is assuming that it is the applicability of the algorithms or datastructure that matters ( who cares if you know about a Red/Black Tree ! ) . I think its more about the patterns and the way they allow you to think.

Understanding how tree traversal is done may not be directly useful in your work but helps you understand recursive thinking which is super important. Knowing how QuickSort/MergeSort work doesn't have any application in real life but makes you think about problems with a divide/conquer approach in mind which is again super practical. You will never write a Hash/Dictionary but knowing what is the difference between one and an array has immense applicability on your work.

My advice to you: stay away from memorizing DS/Alg. Throw out your "cracking the coding interview" book if you have one and pick a algorithm and datastructure book and try to understand it. Then you can move on to solving problems yourself and you will realize that you are a better developer for it. Here is what I would suggest:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index...

Of course, you don't need to know all of the stuff here :)
Interestingly, with a bit of people skills and a bit of restraint, honey badger developers can make rather good PMs because of their often relentless and no-barrier-too-high drive to make things happen.
Well, we do know about evolution, and you can make some inferences about the utility of life and that of our species based on that. Would it be based on partial information? Maybe. The point is - you can give any meaning that you want to your life, but meaning isn't just something that you choose one day and stick to it. Every reason that you make will essentially be bound to this ultimate purpose that you assign yourself to. It takes years of conscious effort before your "choice" reflects your "life".
Seems really cool, it gets the great honour of being a pinned tab in my browser (ńext to HN).

I think a little icon that indicates the source next to the title (on the left) would be really useful to quickly scan what media ranks where and maybe only select the top stuff from your most trusted source etc.
Are you claiming that if I hadn't corrected your false statements quickly, and instead I had waited a short while, that you would have made additional false statements that you wouldn't otherwise have made? So that I could have enjoyed correcting you even more?

If that's true then I wish you would have said that up front like the experimenter in the video. Unlike the subjects, I would have had no problem delaying that gratification. My prize would have beaten a marshmallow any day.
I don't think the I-would-support-Manning-if-he-had-selectively-released-info position is morally tenable. You're saying that some of his releases were vital and necessary (you'd support those). And then somehow, the perceived damage or liability of the other releases negates the "useful" ones? But I don't see how it's a zero sum game.

More importantly, Manning did give a bunch of unredacted content to people whom he trusted to release it appropriately. And they did for a while, redacting names in the cables. But then, "[t]he rest of the cables were published unredacted by WikiLeaks on 1 September 2011, after David Leigh and Luke Harding of The Guardian inadvertently published the passphrase for a file that was still online..." [1]

Also, who's to judge the quality of each release of info? Divulging the name of operatives would be a bad thing (Wikipedia[1] says the state department had to relocate some people after the Cablegate leak), but not to pacifists who believe the US shouldn't be conducting secret ops overseas.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning#Diplomatic_cabl...
How are you so sure they know as much (or the same info) as Snowden/Greenwald et al. will eventually release? If they don't, there is no value in getting kicked out of the committee, as they may get insights that we aren't going to get from whistleblowers.

How do you know they aren't playing Lincoln to your Thaddeus Stevens?
I had a roommate who worked in the banking industry and kept similar hours. Her "day off" was an 8 hour work day on Sunday. One (late) night we had a drink together and figured out that while she made twice my salary annually, I made three times her's hourly.
why is china a box of rice? :D
>> Can I offer you some advice? An interview is a negotiation.

Probably good advice but most programmers I know including me are terrible negotiators which is why at least I work for the man instead of being a rich entrepreneur with that house at 3000 Ft overlooking the ocean with an unobstructed view.
Thinkpads work great.
The concept of a black belt has been horribly twisted. It really just means some level of mastery of the basic techniques. It's meant to be a beginning, not an end.

It's like saying someone can take a class and earn some networking certificate, and from that point on they are an undeniable expert in networking. Of course that's ridiculous; that certificate is meant to certify a basic level of knowledge that is enhanced through experience, not complete mastery.
Is there any research which compares eye strain on reading from paper vs e-ink/LCD?
It wasn't as bad as it sounds; there were mailing lists and usenet groups. Before that, software development was much simpler and much closer to the metal. If I didn't understand how some system call worked I'd just drop into the low-level debugger and step through it to see what it did. You can reasonably expect to understand how your whole OS works when the whole thing is only a few megabytes of machine code.

You're right, though, I used to buy volumes of Inside Macintosh and read them, cover to cover, over a cup of tea. I learned C++ from a book, too. I actually miss that style of learning; I like to understand my tools comprehensively, and not to just skim whatever I need from the reference and leave the rest as a mystery. I know that there are lots of programmers who spend their whole careers glomming together bits of other people's libraries, but that just doesn't appeal to me.

It was basically impossible to get any information about CS fundamentals before I got access to the WWW. I guess people in universities must have had access to textbooks, but as a working professional I didn't know enough about what I didn't know to even know there was something to look for, much less have anywhere I could try to find it.
The author isn't rooting for T-Mobile to die. He's pointing out that playing this game is capital intensive, and not making a lot of money is a long term liability when it comes to having capital to invest in your network.

He's probably not wrong. T-Mobile got a huge boost in the short term from all the cash and spectrum they got as part of the breakup of the merger with ATT. It was a whole year of CapEx ($3-5bn). That let them build out a kind of competitive LTE network. But that's a one time thing. If they continue to lose money, they won't have the capital to play the LTE+1 game.
"Trolling is a metaphor taken from fishing."

It really isn't. Perhaps you're confusing it with trawling?
Debit cards are common, credit cards not so much.
I grew up as a Christian and was taught evolution at Christian schools. If you believe in the literal truth of the Bible then clearly you cannot believe in evolution. But most Christians, at least most with any sense, do not believe that. For example, you can be a Christian without literally believing the story of Adam and Eve.
Could anyone explain to me why the jsp shell is running as system user? Shouldn't it be the user of the webserver? (something like vsphere-ui?