jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I really think they have found a really good, niche market, but they don't recognize it. They seem, BBRY, to have it backwards.
They seem to be chasing enterprise, but enterprise, doesn't understand the value proposition of the product. BBRY is not a handset only anymore, it's a software service which allows you to manage your mobile devices with a single unified view on all operating systems. Explain that to enterprise is near impossible.

What BBRY needs to do is focus on the consultants/contractors, get them to run their own/hosted BES service, with work/personal separation. Let me have as many numbers, with different work spaces and personal spaces.
Here are my personal standard for a JSON api:

1. The format should pass a basic JSON linter.

2. (where applicable) The document should represent the logical object type that you'd expect from the endpoint.

Anything beyond this is getting too close to XML for my tastes.
> even if you only accomplish a small portion of it, you're still really successful.

And I imagine he quotes Wayne Gretzky.

The thing is, making the wildly ambitious attempt isn't free. You amplify your risk: both the probability of failure (due to an impossible goal, or skipping intermediate steps) and the cost of failure (all or nothing! death or glory!).

Wayne Gretzky missed 100% of shots he didn't take. But each such shot was cheap. He took thousands of shots at goal in his time ... none of which was a single gamble that could cost him his house, mental health or career prospects.
>The success the U.S. has had in being innovating in STEM fields is due to our cultural tradition of comprehensive education rooted in the liberal arts.

There is no evidence for this.

>A focus only on STEM is what gets you modern-day China, Korea, and Japan, where there are many technically skilled workers but a lower inclination to be innovative.

More stereotyping with no evidence. As someone who was worked with many Chinese, Koreans and Japanese as a scientist this statement is just outright ridiculous. Guess what, many of the top creative scientists in America are educated in the very countries you deride.
I originally read: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-rosen/the-truth-hurts-th...

Quote: "People in STEM jobs benefit from being in such high demand. Study[1] after study[2] confirms that STEM professionals get paid more than non-STEM professionals -- often much more -- even when you control for their education and other factors. Contrary to Charette's claim that STEM wages have stagnated, reports from Georgetown, the Commerce Department[3], and the Information Technology Innovation Foundation[4] show that they have risen faster than non-STEM wages, even in recent years. That is a sign that employers are feeling the pinch."

The Studies linked:
[1] http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/stem-good-jobs-now-and-future

[2] https://cew.georgetown.edu/report/stem/

[3]http://www.esa.doc.gov/Reports/stem-good-jobs-now-and-future

[4] http://www.itif.org/publications/real-story-guestworkers-hig...
Here's the address if someone wants to try:
https://www.google.ch/maps/place/Vaucher+Sport+Specialist+AG...
Did you make the $100 entirely through book sales?
The problems with the F-35 feel analogous to problems we face in the software industry.

At the implementation level, we tend to underestimate the cost of making a system extensible and "future-proof", and underestimate the value of implementing a narrowly focused system from scratch.

At the specification level, product managers too often are willing to add every feature that big customers request.
> Revenue (per year)

>2014 $420 million

>2015 $420 million

>2016 $520 million

>2017 $562 million

>2018 $436 million

I'm sorry, it's just laughable that you need $500 million a year to create an 'open source' web browser.

Pathetic
> I wonder if you (or anyone) ever managed to convince "boss" that the poor quality was due to these deficiencies, and that maybe cost was not the most important thing to optimize for.

In my experience, cheapskate employers are almost always pathologically cheap, so there is no amount of convincing or rationalization that will change their minds.
> Experienced engineers who perform better than a recent graduate are usually not interviewing. They have jobs that pay them extremely well.

Doubtful. There is constant churn in tech, as the best way to get a raise is to switch jobs. It's well documented that junior/senior engineers (and beyond) switch jobs, on average, every 2-3 years. Longer tenures are generally favored due to vesting schedules (though I've had several friends ditch Amazon before the [iirc] 4-year cliff).
I don't disagree in essence with what you're saying.

But if they can get an ARM server that checks those boxes the game may change.

> involves extra costs for your expensive developers

Which expensive developers? Web technologies run the same on ARM as on x86 (may I say it's even easier than developing for mobile - Node/Java/PHP/Python/etc run the same in ARM, Node might even benefit from optimizations done for ARM Chromium)
The difference is important on the level of individual users, but it's not important for this discussion. As TFA demonstrates, it's possible for diligent researchers to reveal unpublicized policies through their research. Users can assist researchers by pointing out what content they've had banned.

I haven't seen a reason to suspect that TikTok have been any more open about their moderation policies than Facebook or indeed any other social media platform have been.
Nope. This was a confirmed defective GPUs by Nvidia themselves.

All companies that used these
GPUs were affected. They even sued Nvidia.

Here is example: https://blog.dell.com/en-us/nvidia-gpu-update-nvidia-class-a...
Well I don’t think it’s quite so black and white. There are some neat things you can get on this but it’s not revolutionary.

But air compressors are a 250 add on to any truck and 500-700 for a really good one that can handle serious work.

The bed is the equivalent to a short bed, but a little wider. It basically has a built in tonneau cover.

The outlet comes standard on a lot of trucks too. What’s behind it battery-wise is a lot bigger.

Frankly, it’s a cool design, but it does feel like folks are overdoing the “better than existing pickups by a wide margin” part.

Can you imagine picking up your co-workers at 3:30 to roll up to a job site in this at 4:30am to do concrete? It’s possible, but it’s going to take a cultural shift. The one thing I have heard from folks who buy trucks for work that I know is that thing has city slicker dna in the current market.

Some probably can see rolling up to the job site... that shift may be underway... like I said... not so black and white.
GNS from the GNUnet project is the most interesting alternative to DNS that I've come across, and is orthogonal to projects like IPFS and Scuttlebutt (although I don't know much about Dat). It's basically DNS with DHT and some very cool crypto.

https://gnunet.org/en/video.html
Giving out the code to a wall safe demonstrates my ownership of the safe contents in exactly the same way that giving out the password to a computer demonstrates my ownership of the contents of the computer.
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Our mission is to reshape the toolchain of the modern data team, building the most advanced tools across the analytics lifecycle.

We're a fully remote team and are looking to bring on Full-Stack engineers - our stack revolves around Node.js, TypeScript, and React.

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Another (incorrect, but hilariously so) interpretation of the output of traceroute: http://youtu.be/SXmv8quf_xM
Thanks, I thought so as well. I've just been busy working on getting the site up and haven't gotten around to changing the graphics from the original concept graphics.
>Big companies will still be there if you fail, why live with the regret?>>

Totally agree!
I thought it was "do no evil", not "don't be evil". Subtle difference, but not the same thing.
There's TextWrangler (free, http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/), Smultron (free, http://smultron.sourceforge.net/) and BBEdit ($125, http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html). They're all popular.

I'm a Textmate user though. I don't mind that there have been delays in releasing 2.0, because it doesn't make 1.5 any less useful — it does everything I want it to do and it's still supported.
I love TechCrunch. This article links to another article that's an hour old that says mail.facebook.com shows the Exchange webmail portal, and so the new Facebook mail thing is going to be Exchange. Nope guys, that's where the people that work at Facebook get their webmail.

Breaking news: Facebook's employees use email!
Xach: "*I really like getting together in space and time with other Lispers. An ideal future Lisp conference for me, personally, would … attract hundreds of cheerful and enthusiastic Lisp nerds…Navel-gazing and nostalgia would be at a minimum."

That's kinda what happened at the Clojure Conj last month. 200+ Lispers exchanging ideas, and unencumbered with baggage of the past.
Sure, but keep in mind people have busy schedules.

Recently a startup I was somewhat interested in required a 4-5 hour coding project that was similar to the labs I do in school. I'm already bogged down in work interviewing, doing normal classes, writing a senior thesis, and preparing my research for publication.

I decided to forget about the company and look elsewhere, for I already had offers from great places like Google and Facebook and could always fall back.

I'm not saying its bad to screen candidates with interesting puzzles. I'm saying that you risk filtering out the better candidates that just don't have time to deal with puzzles from a company they don't know.

Additionally, keep in mind that I come from a competitive university in the academic world (although I figure competition is pretty bad at most universities). Thus, with my current 100 hour work weeks, I would just rather not bother with solving tedious puzzles.
In general, categorizing someone's style preference as incorrect rarely leads to anything good.

And in this instance, considering how many people still use and prefer the style in question, if you're learning C there's a good chance you'll be working with others on existing code using that particular style.
That would be what is known as "open core": http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/06/open-cor...
Did yesterday's announcement by AA that they were pulling out of Orbitz affect Hipmunk and the other meta-search sites?

EDIT: I just noticed someone asked that question at the end of the video and Adam didn't have a very good answer. Also, boo on the patents answer.
Google is flush with cash, the real estate market is soft and it beats renting. Honestly I think more tech companies should look to own their real estate. Its a solid asset in the balance sheet. Most companies already have an in house facilities team who's job it is to maintain their property and you can always hire a property management firm to handle the rest.

My step dad owns a few faucet stores, granted totally different field, in the Bay Area, he owns the buildings of all his stores and the value of his real estate holdings are the equivalent of the value of his business.
In your experience, how often have you seen this happen?
I thought I remember reading somewhere that Hipmunk was pulling in close to $1mm in affiliate revenues from Orbitz, but I can't find the source to back it up. Otherwise, perhaps that's just how much in sales they're generating to Orbitz.
It seems like you just defined the words to suit you. Personally, I would use "dabbler" to mean "a generalist who is no good."
A tweet doing the rounds is "Julian Assange is trying to make a private phone call so they took down Skype."

I dont pay for skype so I cant really complain if its down. But what about those who pay? I would be really pissed if I had a ton of skype credit and couldn't call.
Alt title: Proof of how unimportant "SEO experts" are to the web.
I've been doing a similar kind of job for last six months or so. Except that I'm doing it for everything front-end related including UX and UI design.
05.12.13, do we really need year old news?
The more days that go on, the more of a seemingly inescapable truth appears to me that meditation is the Real Deal and a worthwhile investment, even if it's for only 5-20 minutes a day. A worthwhile New Year's Resolution to adopt, if people still do those sorts of things.
That anybody got it wrong is not the problem. That those same companies do not recognize the problems and just chalk it up to a failed experiment and restore offices is the real failure that is impacting workplaces.
If the states compete with subsidies, I cannot see how small countries with small populations and economies (such as new zealand) cannot also offer tax breaks. They would be laughed out of court. Not to mention all the farming and energy subsidies paid by the federal government at the detriment of other countries.

This is just a flimsy case for protectionism.
This is one of the best blog articles I've read. Thank you.
As a fellow Mac user: your apologism is showing.

There is no justification for this bug. It never should have shipped. It never should have gone unnoticed for so long. It never should have been announced prior to a patch being available.

No matter how you slice it, Apple failed miserably, and "iOS was probably being exploited" is not an excuse. Apple has how much money? How much money do you think it costs to put their entire Core OS engineering staff on SHIPPING AN UPDATE FOR BOTH OPERATING SYSTEMS?

They could have afforded it. They were simply too incompetent, after a chain of incompetence, to do so.
I'm not. Unless you also have a way to get the soundtrack and re-sync it with the reconstituted movie, it's kinda useless for anything but silent pictures (which tend to be old enough to be public domain anyway).
It's the opposite way:

Debug.Trace.trace :: String -> a -> a

and if you don't like debug.trace, you can make your own, via unsafePerformIO!

hackyDebugTrace s v = unsafePerformIO (putStrLn s >>= \_ -> return v)
> And in Science, the word "theory" is supposed to basically be the equivalent of a proven phenomenon.

No, that's a "theorem". A "theory" refers to a widely accepted idea, like gravity or evolution.
The push for 911 changed a lot of places by assigning street names, but the 911 folks are sometimes the only ones who know the names. UPS still delivers to some vague addresses on the reservation. Shipping to "House 311 behind the school" does tend to confuse a few Internet merchants.
The TypeScript compiler does indeed barf when it encounters JSX.
You're right about it not being a lagging indicator.

I fell asleep after writing that, and realized something when I woke up... the paper takes those living below $1.25/day and then estimates the consumption floor at 1/2 of that:

Both methods of quantifying the floor suggest a
consumption floor today that is about half of the international poverty line of $1.25 a day. This is
probably close to the consumption of essential foods for those living around $1.25 a day.

Then says, even though progress has been made in reducing the number of people living below that level, it has not increased the consumption floor -- which is from the table I mentioned before.

But why would you expect to see an increase in consumption if their income is still below $1.25/day? It capped the income, and then somehow expected increased consumption?

If I had to guess, the increase in the consumption floor is simply from those increasing their income but still below the $1.25/day (moving from say, $0.80/day to $1/day).

The paper acknowledges a decrease in the number of people living below $1.25.. so I think it would be wrong to say no progress has been made in reducing poverty.

As far as the paper's point about the consumption floor not increasing at the same rate as average consumption.. I think you could make that argument using income as well.. So I think the paper simply confuses the issue.
Not finding things in science is also progress.
tl;dr; free services are fine - just make sure you have backups of all your data

For most individual projects - they are probably good enough. However, the thing to keep in mind is that for free they usually limit features (I think bitbucket limits the number of developers) or remove features all together (google code removing downloads support, github did at one time but reintroduced it). I'm not saying that I think they should be offering everything for free and shouldn't take away features - they have to make money - but in my opinion always have backups and a plan B in case you need to jump ship.

I was a huge google code fan (the design isn't Web 2.0 with social integrations - but I prefer functional over design) until they pulled the plug on downloads support (which for most Linux people isn't a big problem - a make && make install and it's compiled AND installed - for Windows it's not that easy). Which forced me to self host - I do mirror many of my public projects on github but in the event github management decides to remove/reduce a feature I won't be struggling to find a new "home" for my ~100+ projects.

Also - if you look at the issue tracker for google code it's pretty obvious that Google is no longer supporting or even monitoring it (several spam issues have been appearing). I don't have a crystal ball - but my best guess is that Google will pull the plug on Google Code as well. And it would make sense - most people have already "fled" Google Code for github/bitbucket etc.

With that said - let me put on my tin foil hat and say that even if we ignore any potential future issues there could be potential privacy issues if you upload your code to a private repo hosted by someone else. I'm personally not the type to snoop, but that might not stop some lowly intern from getting curious. Or even some bug on their site that makes private repos public (for a short time anyways). Did you hear about the time that Dropbox made passwords optional for four hours [1]?

[1] - http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-p...
Reckless comparison. You can do better.
I just gotta start somewhere, and since I was at demo day this week, I started there!
Sure. And then imagine that you have to take over someone else's 100,000 LoC written with their own, unique, macros, some of which may invoke other macros, and interact with them in surprising ways, depending on what's passed into them. Now you have to be able to keep in your head what all those macros do (including to each other) while you're trying to read those 100,000 LoC.

At that point, you may not find the macros to be so much of an improvement on the boilerplate...
Given that Amazon managed to "disappear" Orwell e-books that people bought from Amazon, before backpedaling, in the face of outrage and the overwhelming irony, I'm not certain I'd view them as an exemplary actor. Regardless, bunches of people offering free storage allows for a pleasing redundancy.
Think about this:

What kind of code do you think people will be writing 10,000 years from now? What will they be able to do that you can't? What will they have that you don't?
45,000 per month in Saint Petersburg is a low paying job salary, this job however requires basic computer knowledge and from what I understand english knowledge as well to post comments on western websites.
For better or worse, sunsets are just a social bridge. The value is, apparently, in sharing a moment with others. Both are ephemeral.
"Running into a pole is a drag. But never being allowed to run into a pole is a disaster."

Wonderful quote.
I looks like alayne is using 'purely functional' to mean Pure + Functional, but you are using it to mean Everything is an Expression / First-class functions, etc.. The functional paradigm.

Lisp is definitely a functional language. It's just not as pure as Haskell, which is the poster child for Maximally Pure FP, if not for the functional style.
If it makes you feel any better out there is a really good issue tracking system that has a bolted on git repository system that actively is rejecting improvements for their repo stuff.

If GitHub didn't have issues people would still be there. If GitHub didn't have Git people would leave. Issues are a accessory to the main event like AppleTv is to the iphone/macbook
Since the New Madrid fault hasn't had a major quake since 1812 (or arguable 1895) and other places have quakes far more frequently (e.g. California) I imagine the risk would be considered lower than a lot of other places in the country.

According to Wikipedia, seismic monitoring in the area wasn't installed until 1974, so at the time of FedEx's creation in 1971 it probably wasn't on their radar.
Yes?

John Paulson, architect of the largest trade in Wall Street history, takes public transit to work every day.
Masters programs at universities across the U.S. are just used as money makers for the schools.
Somewhat off-topic but sshuttle is super super cool, thanks so much for writing it.
I appreciate the massive amount of work and the recent updates to tighten the spec.

One challenge with the churn is a lack of any high-level changelog (git commit history doesn't count). I have a team working off an earlier version of the spec, and I check back semi-frequently. But I haven't been able to find a document outlining "here are the major changes since the previous versions." I understand that would represent more work on top of work, but for such a large spec, the changes have been disorienting.
this is not a bug. author doesn't seem to understand how jvm or managed memory works.
he uses memory from parent object in child code without holding a reference to it in child object. If his code was in pure java this simply won't be possible. The only reason he is able to do this is via native code.

Even in native code, it is wrong to have a pointer to managed memory without using the Global/Local Ref() methods that the jvm provides.

In summary, the jvm is behaving correctly with respect to GC. Author doesn't know how to use JNI and has caused the crash.
Why use a fixed value and not a sliding % scale?

What about the family that makes 126,000 who pays tuition and is now in a much worse position that a 124,000 family.
Staten Island is the new Silicon Valley.
I disagree. If you live in, say Westmont or Downer's Grove and want to get to O'Hare or Midway by public transport, you might as well give up before you start. It's a minimum two hour train journey that involves going all the way to Union station and then to the airport.

It's not just the airports. My wife works at ANL. There are exactly two buses a day which go from our place to the lab. And this is after a ten minute walk. If you miss those, you either have to drive or take a taxi. There are no other options whatsoever.

Maybe public transport works well in the city, but good luck surviving in the suburbs without a car.
So they write (ok, configure) an app that just plays a single audio stream. What's the motivation here—are they working around a limitation of the iOS browser in bookmarking and playing audio, or is this an analytics anti-privacy thing?
I don’t get this argument. It’s fine to make poor investments as long as they’re better than our worst investments? I mean, the joint strike fighter proponent could make this argument as well. “Hey, we wasted over a trillion dollars destroying Iraq, at least the boondoggle I'm advocating won’t screw up the world and will fund some R&D that might become useful.”

Maybe we should be looking at the best ways we can spend our money, and not any way to spend our money that’s better than our biggest failures.
Thank you also, this sounds great too! I really like cold war stories.