jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it may well be, or just that you're a systems person that has other things to do when your bored than to buy things (or perhaps have less time or inclination to try to find a deal on something you don't have an opportunity to get, at least at that price) .... but you make me think of an important aspect of this, is that I believe this sort of group buying (albeit independently organized) I remember hearing about as a prominent, and even mostly rural phenomenon in China. Can anyone speak to this or compare and contrast?
I'm coming to dislike the citing of "correlation does not equal causation" when there's no way to determine causation at all

This is perfectly understandable, however this particular discussion is one where the difference between correlation and causation is appropriate. We are talking specifically about paying programmers by their "productivity." If you want to say that "productivity" is defined as the correlation between a person and project success regardless of whether there is a causal relationship or not, and regardless of whether they engage in programming activities, project management activities, picking good project activities, discussion activities, or even just making everyone else espresso so they can produce working code, that's fine.

But what we're saying in that case is that we can't measure the productivity of a programmer, we can't establish a relationship between programming activities on the scale of a single person. I agree that the correlations you can observe are perfectly useful for management and that one can deliver great (or working, or valuable) software without an objective metric of programmer productivity. I agree that this elusive metric may not be necessary. It may not even be useful, as I tried to demonstrate elsewhere when I discussed Ned, Fred, Ed, and Jed.

But that really underscores my point: We can't tie compensation to programmer productivity because we can't measure it. Your point seems to be that we don't have to tie compensation to programmer productivity, that we can tie it to correlation with project success, for example.

Fine with me, I'd say we're in violent agreement and that our stances are compatible.
I'm sure many people will feel that their culture is being threatened if English becomes even more dominant.
This seems like a perfect opportunity for someone to come in and undercut them.

The app-generation part is easy and the subscription part is reasonably easy. The tricky part is figuring out what an effective magazine layout looks like on a tablet (which I don't think anyone has nailed yet) and figuring out how to make it accessible for authoring by "print people" (which is where Adobe might well have the upper hand).
Has anyone found the easter egg?
Unpopular opinions more often than not are valid and uncomfortable truths, so they're likely to attract trolls and personal attacks. It's best to keep them down there, for those who are interested enough to browse all the threads.
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I was saying "okay-ish" till I reached the last three points. Sounds amazing for Single Page applications.
This is the broken window fallacy [1]. If the company didn't have to pay developers to maintain bad code, they could invest that money in something more economically useful, like new products.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
Possible explanation: the highway subsidies led to the middle and upper-middle classes leaving the cities, leaving only those too poor to afford a move (because they can't afford the added transportation costs, etc.).
You can easily press "cancel order" when the push notification comes through to your phone.
What kind of companies are you trying to work at? I totally feel your pain. In fact many ATS's (Applicant Tracking Systems) often bounce 50% of applications without a human even looking at the app.

Hiring is hard on both sides. Many companies (understandably) need some way of filtering. That's why you shouldn't apply online or through job portals =)

The CTO of Stripe talks here about how he built a great eng team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Zoq085zVhA

you can see that most are referrals vs. in-bound leads, with other channels in between.

What I'm getting at is that regardless of industry, you should do some of the following:

- contribute to the field you're applying to in other ways. Write articles, do side projects, etc. This will build up your reputation and experience in ways that a company can substitute a degree for.

- find people in the field and talk to them about what they're doing and what they'd find most helpful to study up on.

- take an internship or research position

- find people at LinkedIn who work at the company and meet up for coffee. Companies are definitely more amenable these days to hiring non-degree candidates but HR might be a bit behind the times. If you can demonstrate to hiring managers directly in-person that you're qualified, you can bypass a lot of these issues

- apply to startups / smaller companies. it's more of a meritocracy for sure and HR tends to be more hands-on.

good luck!
That's why everyone wears hoodies and tshirts: to show that they're different from MBAs and the suits and the bankers.

That's a really weird conclusion to come to. I wear hoodies and tee shirts because 1) my job doesn't require more, 2) my hoodie and tee are comfortable and easily adaptable to changing temperature, and 3) clothing shopping is a chore, an extreme annoyance.

Well-fitting "slob" clothing looks better than poorly-fitting mid-range "nice" clothing, particularly when one doesn't fit the body type of the target audience for the latter.
And even then, it doesn't matter because it's still simply convention. The internet won't break for anyone if I serve something other than mysql on port 3306. There's only a few port numbers where the public edifice around them is so huge that they really can't be that mobile - web (two ports), mail (six or so), dns (one port) and so forth.
I briefly attended Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, this article brought back many "fond" memories of attending college in a corn field where barbed wire was a source of pride.
That was the most amount of words I've ever seen anyone use to call someone else a hipster.
Really? Isn't speed limited by the amount of light that can be received in a small lens like on a phone?
Yes, of course things could be improved upon. What happens is people say "overconsumption" as if not consuming would somehow solve things. It would not. All things being equal, it would make things worse (except perhaps improve ecology, but it's debatable, since we might miss develping some superior technologies).

Just one example. Everyone cooked at home. No restaurants. No cooks, chefs, sole proprietors, severs, etc. in the restaurant industry. There would be no restaurant industry. We could go on. Extending this, "getting rid of conspicuous consumption" might hide things, which, I understand, it makes us feel better, but solves nothing by itself.
This is an interesting extension of the ideas from this paper by the same author/s http://people.csail.mit.edu/mrub/vidmag/.
Great guide. Thanks a bunch. Glad you're feeling better! :-)
No. Why would it?

As most OO languages, Python has function overloading based on the type of the parameters. The fact that those operators do different things when operating on different types is evidence that Python has strict types, not loose.
Whenever I play people almost never want to trade with me, especially for a set.
Okay, with this definition of 'strongly typed', can anyone come up with an example language that _isn't_ strongly typed?

It seems to make 'strongly typed' pretty meaningless, and this definition is probably _not_ what anyone who says they want a "strongly typed" langauge is using, so it hardly counters them to say that python is "strongly typed" under another definition, it's just confusing them with semantics.

(Of course, the people who say they want 'strongly typed' may have no idea what they're actually talking about, but wouldn't it be better to educate them then to take advantage of their ignorance to push your pro-python agenda?)
You try to shoot yourself in the foot, but somebody has monkey-patched your gun so that instead of bullets, a little flag comes out that says "Bang!".
It wasn't, but it should have been.
Aren't these amounts rather tiny compared to what a politician needs to win? What kind of favor would such token donations bring? It would be more interesting to see a breakdown of where campaign funds come from.
And what's interesting is that Trump's Twitter account specifically was declared a "public square" when he was forced to unblock users in 2018. Since that's the case (as ruled), blocking EVERYONE from accessing that account seems like a larger violation.

The suit argued that Trump blocked the plaintiffs after they criticized the president, which constituted "viewpoint discrimination.” Being that the President’s Twitter, @RealDonaldTrump, is a public forum, that would be in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan agreed with the plaintiffs.

Ref: https://mashable.com/article/trump-unblocks-twitter-accounts...
Sure, but once a platform is read by billions of people and is influencing what they think, I believe it is reasonable that people discuss about the opportunity to regulate this kind of stuff.
Casey Reas solicited a big list of generative artists on Twitter, and I made it into a twitter List. https://twitter.com/i/lists/1304868411399315456

also my stuff is here: http://instagram.com/jodhus
Your tone is somewhat hostile.

As far as I can tell, we just don't know yet. Until we know, some preventative measures would be prudent.

So yes, the scenario you layout is possible. However, it is also possible that it does stop spread.
Or take the 1954 attack on the Capitol, in which Puerto Rican separatists opened fire from a balcony, wounding five members of Congress. That seems to me at least as bad as what happened yesterday.

Did this discredit the cause of Puerto Rican nationalism and drive its supporters from public life? It would appear not: you can still be a celebrity with a successful career while voicing your support and admiration.

I'm not asking you to say that what happened yesterday was good, because of course it wasn't. I'm asking you why you think that such events are so rare and universally condemned. In fact they seem to happen on a timescale of decades at most, probably less, and the public judgment of the perpetrators seems to correlate less with the objective severity of the act as with elite consensus opinion of the cause it promotes.
While this is indeed a new vaccine modality, it doesn't change the dynamics of vaccinology appreciably. Things that were challenging vaccine targets in the past will likely remain challenging.
You interact with a limited # of people. I don't think it matters if there are 100 million or 1 million (or fewer). You can follow people, monitor your feed, chat with friends. There are enough people on the fediverse that it doesn't feel like you're missing much from twitter besides corporate accounts.
lol sure hope so
That's the only reason I can see for Twitter, specifically; to be pursuing this strategy. If they become a utility; then no one ever has to know about the facts behind things like (alleged) ad fraud, click fraud, shadow bans, etc...

How many people would be shattered to learn their imaginary internet points were half? all? bot generated?
That looks like a very limited conversion. Did you do an electrical system at all or a powered water system?
The source is at http://github.com/emcien/parenting if anyone prefers to go straight there.
kickstarter takes a 5% cut, and indiegogo takes a 4% cut. the difference is $320,000, no small amount!

i don't think kickstarter would've brought in anymore investors than putting it on indiegogo -- atleast not 320k worth. the edge probably already saturated to the set of users that would have crowdfunded for it.
But licensing or suing isn't leveraging their current monopoly. They aren't blocking Android from syncing on Windows. They're not blocking the Nook client from working on Windows. They're not bundling WP with Windows.

They're suing over patents. Last I checked even monopolies could sue over patent infringement.

If BN asserted they were actually using their monopoly power then that would be one thing. But simply asserting that a monopoly in one space is being scrappy in another doesn't meet the bar.
Consulting is like a honey trap or golden handcuffs. The better you are at what you do, the harder it is to get out. Plus the more you earn the more you spend, and the more trapped you become.

All you'll learn at a big consulting firm (or any large corporate) is how to enjoy a high income and learn to accept getting bogged down by corporate bureaucracy. You'll pick up more useful skills faster elsewhere without learning the bad habits.

Get out there and make something people want instead.
> I don't really follow what in your example shows "gross mishandling of whitespace".

That truly speaks poorly of you.

OTOH, the problem can easily be fixed by requiring a statement to contain at least one token.
The indentation issue is annoying when you use separate editors to edit the code and they have different indentation standards (2 space-tabs, 4-space tabs, tabstop tabs, etc). Also when you copy/paste code from another source (a website lets say) or download some other library, start editing it with your editor not realizing the tabs are different while your editing and then when trying to run it run into an indentation error. "Fix tabs" doesn't always work and it's not always evident how bad it is.
Fully agreed +1
Keyboard / Mouse / Storage / etc are fully standardized protocols on top of USB (http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs#approved)

Another candy that you might not know about Apple:
- Any gadget that wants to communicate with an iPhones/iPods/etc via USB, needs to purchase a proprietary decoding chip. Yep !
- http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4272...
The Wikimedia Foundation collected similar data from their 2008-2009 campaign, where they also varied the appeal:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/wiki/Fundraising...

If you look at the 'Total Donation by Template' graph, you'll see that the "jimmy letter" appeals (templates) generated the most donations then as well.
What does your product do? There are many different kinds of advertising agencies.

Do you have any agencies using it yet? What do they tell you?
By that logic one can justify any form of plagiarism cant one ? I am more concerned about helping yourself to the brand without permission than about using the code as its on git.

It just reinforces the stereotype that Indian software scene is all about unauthorized copying of other people's ideas. I dont necessarily agree with the stereotype but things like this does not really help dispell it.
Would your article be based on research you did with the support of the Canadian government?
The struggle we’re having is the baby scratches himself nonstop. No matter how much we trim his nails, if we leave him alone at night he’ll be bleeding everywhere. Other than that he sleeps relatively well.
People have been calling the death of Silicon Valley or its replacement by other parts of the world since I arrived over 20 years ago.

Silicon Valley will never die. There are too many rich people here, and the culture is too strong.

Did Hollywood die because films were made globally? Nope. It’s even stronger.

Silicon Valley has had its ups and downs but it will always be the center of the universe for innovation. The closest it got to death was the dotcom bust, but all that really did was get rid of all the weak players. And when the next cycle crashes again, it will again drive away a lot of the weak players again. But the core innovators and people who love technology will never leave and that will always attract more talent.
I live in the US and go three times a week. We could go less often without any real inconvenience, but the store is right across the street from my daughter's day care, so it's an easy stop in our daily errands, and that way we don't need to worry about planning much in advance (and we always have fresh bread, fruit and veg, which is nice).
I find it distasteful that you would basically return to the Hays Code.
Yes, tinkering with existing program is really fun. I did this with his first ever project (which was a robot programmed in block language that is even simpler that Scratch) and made entire program for him, with him sitting by me and discussing how I am adding new steps to the program and what they are changing, each time running the program on the robot with another step implemented. Then he got his turn to have fun with the program.

We stopped with that robot after couple of sessions when he was able to program some functionality up to my specification. For example, there was no sensor that would say the arm was closed, so to preserve the worm drive I asked him to change all places in program where the arm is getting opened to instead close it first and then open for an exact amount of time so that it does not hit the limit, which he was able to do on the first try, which gave me confidence he more or less understands what the idea is.

Now, the games we do are getting a little bit complex (a lot of messages flying around), so what I do is basically write most of the code and shape the structure of the program and figure how do to some stuff so he doesn't get lost managing complexity. I make sure he understands what the things are doing and he modifies whatever he wants (and then we discuss what happened or how he can get what he wants).

I am now unsure whether I want to stick to some more complex projects or whether it is better to have more small but wide variety ones. For now what I plan to do is to throw a bunch of ideas and see which ones he is most excited about.
Most of the comments here are looking at this the wrong way

The big problem here is the spectrum, any spectrum, is being SOLD..

Spectrum use should come at a cost based on % of revenue or Profit paid back the people and used for common programs. Not a one time free where by then the private company owns it for all time
It's hard to avoid getting repeated recommendations to read Gene Wolfe if you hang out with the more old-fashioned fans of science fiction. One year I read both the New Sun novels and a "best of" collection of several dozen of Wolfe's short stories.

Wolfe had a long career and a big reputation, and he certainly was distinctive among his peers. But I found that many of his stories lean heavily into two tricks. They are occasionally effective, but encountering them in story after story in rapid succession wore me out.

The first is opening a scene with a "hook" sentence. "I was standing in line to buy a newspaper -- of course, this was before I divorced my own mother." If you've read the well-known "The Fifth Head of Cerberus," you know exactly what I mean. It can be an effective trick, but Wolfe's career is basically an exploration of how far it can take you by itself.

The second is nenuphars. It's a technique for alienation that Wolfe uses with gusto. I happened to know the trivial fact that a nenuphar is a kind of water lily, but Wolfe relies on the reader not knowing what the word means to produce the effect of alienation. So sometimes a word like "nenuphar" will be a term for a unique concept within the world of the story, and other times it will just mean "water lily, but, like alien water lily, you know?" Do not call a rabbit a smeerp.[1]

Wolfe was, of course, a Catholic and admired the writing of religious moralists like Chesterton. One short story that, to me, illustrates a lot of what Wolfe as a writer is all about is titled "The Detective of Dreams." Allow me to summarize it for you.

A wealthy client begs an old detective to stop a man from ruining his dreams. The client dreams of arriving at a vast, illustrious palace, but soon upon entering, he meets the thief, who puts an abrupt end to the pleasant vision. One by one, several more wealthy clients approach the detective, asking him to apprehend the thief. The detective goes about town in a vain attempt to find out the thief's identity. Tired, he takes a seat on a bench near a church. His weary gaze rests on a robed figure in the beautiful stained glass window. He has found the man who troubles the sleep of the wicked.

[1] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CallARabbitASmee...
Here are some resources:

https://github.com/klaussinani/awesome-prolog#resources

I recall going through the Adventure in Prolog one (free online resource) a while ago and enjoying it, helped direct a lot of exploration into the Prolog language and its capabilities for me. I have Clocksin & Mellish's Programming in Prolog (2003, 5th ed.) and liked it as a good introduction (or more expansion, I had dabbled in it previously and "knew" the language but not the full depth of it). I've read good things about The Art of Prolog by Sterling and Shapiro, but have not read it.
I think the "still going after 7 years" means "still hasn't been released after 7 years". It was supposed to be for sale in 2014 and still hasn't shipped yet (from what I can find in Google). The creators have been stringing along their backers for the better part of a decade.

As far as utility, it seems like more of a gimmick than something that would get regular use. I can't think of a time when I've been working on a project and wished I had a 1/2" drive ratchet, a short pry bar, and a hammer but only had space in the tool bag for one of them.
>It's uranium, you can't simply hide it in the matter of days.

The problem here is that Iran was allowed to not tell all on previous existing program. Lets pretend they cheat and IAEA finds out traces of Uranium. What happens when they argue that the Uranium signature is pre-2015 and not from a new installation? There's not enough time passed to prove either way.

> US absolutely shot themselves in the foot by withdrawing from the deal no matter how you look at it.

US had to look for improvements, even if Clinton had been elected, since the agreement was designed to be temporary. The tactics involved are a different matter. I guess Trump could have been more devious and unofficially sanction Iran while officially staying part of the deal. Would that have been better? Hmm.. difficult to say.
My Android's work profile has reasonable isolation. AFAIK my employer can't see or erase anything personal.
chess is actually not very easy to check.

chess is in exp, the class of problems requiring exponential time to solve and exponential time to check. unlike p vs np we do know that exp \neq p.
Is there a free hosted version?
I grew up with the one which didn't have the letter 'm' in it. The lisp/scheme concept could be seen as an alternative to vim/script for embedding/extending where the opt-in was meant for posix ex/regex programmers as an alternative to non vi modality with recursive expression via either McCarthy or Kleene closures and styles of programming with or without /term(cap|info)/ databases.
would love to see similar list for android as well !!
Pretty misleading to say "Any Device" when the service doesn't work with ebook readers, arguably the best devices for reading ebooks.
Correct: The use or non-use of stripe.js is irrelevant for whether a merchant needs SAQ A or SAQ A-EP.

SAQ A applies when using one's own server infrastructure, and SAQ A-EP applies when using a PAAS.