jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Then perhaps I'm missing something. Clarify for me, were you ever an employee there? The reason I ask is because it's on a website for employees to review their own company -- which is how most people interpret those reviews. Moreover, the review says it's from a Netflix employee -- specifically a Netflix Manager. I guess it's fine if you have an opinion and want to post it, but if none of the above is true, why not be honest in your review that it isn't based on experience?
As Linus Torvalds would say: "Talk is cheap. Show me the code.".
When you say "this particular exercise", are you referring to the "put the pointer in the box" exercise at the beginning? The Pong part toward the end was pretty cool. I wonder how complex of games the monkey can play :)
Yep:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8914756
subdomain + email is a good thing, setup a invite only "not so" closed beta staging, see if it works. Write a user agreement understanding that this is a test enviroment and making them aknowledge that all their data hosted on that email can be erased.

So you are safe, and can see if it at least work it out.
So if the orbital period is about an hour and a half to two hours, does that mean that you can expect to hold on to a single satellite's signal for about 40-50 minutes? Longer? I wonder how much power a cell phone will have to use to track a satellite that's moving through the sky - if the tracking will dominate power usage, or sending and receiving the signal will and we won't see much change.

I wonder how this will be different (if at all) from GEO satellites when it's cloudy. Could you presumably find a satellite near the horizon to use to bypass the clouds?
Collision avoidance mostly.
In case anyone missed it, Candy Crush is a copy someone else's game in the first place. They tried to buy and when that didn't work out, they cloned it.
http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/24/candy-crush-maker-accused-of-s...
It's not incredible at all.

Humans are conflicted creatures. The bias and irrational thought we see in religious people are weaknesses inherent in all of us.

Bias by it's nature and definition means that we will never be able to understand our own prejudices by observing ourselves. We can only seek to understand it by observing it in other people.
To double the lack of point, the average male height in the Netherlands, Denmark, and Norway is 6', so presumably the beds in a "European hostel" in those countries will be able to accommodate them.
It is almost impossible to argue with the individuals who espouse these beliefs as they expect you to prove a negative i.e. prove a higher power doesn't exist. As the article describes, the argument also quickly devolves into extreme defensiveness.

What makes this so bogus is the enormous weight of peer-reviewed primary research and scientific evidence of evolutionary basis for life.

Thankfully, in the UK, a much smaller minority hold these views. I heard a Mitt Romney speech in London once and he was asked about his view on creationism vs evolution - he couldn't answer, but if we were to support evolution he just lost any chances of future election. If a UK prime minister espoused creationism, the reverse would be true.
Depends on how you define "cycle" though. It's quite possible to use Roundup on the ground to first kill the weeds, then wait some time for the glyphosate to disintegrate, then plant the crop. Or just use weedkiller on areas outside the planted crop, in order to stop weeds from spreading from outside.
What a coincide, a guy that knows how to make money online, teaching how to make money online (for money).
Very cool project. Out of curiosity, how do you test the validity of the addresses?
It's more like a real mood ring if there is no way to verify its accuracy.
You are free to waste your money as you wish. Just remember that less that 5% of your donation will go to hosting, and even less will go the people who actually created the content. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/08/wikipedia_foundation...

That said, you do not seem to have a good understanding of the word "clickbait" and seem to be using it as an insult against content you do not like. A primary feature of clickbait is that the headline does not directly say what the article is about. Example: "You won't believe what this huge website is doing with your donations!" or "These do-nothing programmers get paid with this one weird trick!" The objective is to incite the reader's curiosity so that they will click on something they normally wouldn't. As you can plainly see, the link to my article tells readers exactly what to expect before clicking.

FYI there are quite a few other recent articles about this topic on the web: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/01/penniless_and_desper...
That's right, I do remember the Sprint store -- but then I wasn't on sprint and it was still completely optional. I'm not sure it was ever much of a success.
I suspect it's because people feel better about themselves and have a happier outlook when they receive compliments. These warm fuzzies are associated with the product / setting, positively affecting people's opinion of the service.

I'm not sure why you're confused -- is it because things aren't the way that you think they should be? To me, the explanation above is pretty concise and fits the situation neatly.
Not just Bitcoin. Traditional banking, SSL, everything.
Also the crypto used in the above will be upgraded to quantum proof algorithms before then. The math is already known.
Non sequitur. Choosing your words to best be heard is not about avoiding controversy.

Do you want to spend your time talking about the controversy or constantly arguing about definitions to people who have already decided you’re right or wrong based on an assumed position you don’t even hold?
I'm in the U.S.

I personally know a non-trivial number of women who have gone through absolutely intense (real, diagnosed) anxiety and depression because of having to feed formula to their child instead of breast milk. If you ever get to peek into these "mommy groups" on social media or in person, you can see how much shaming goes on in there. And the breast milk one is one of the biggest issues people get shamed for. Sometimes it's passive aggressive and indirect, and sometimes it's quite direct. They trot out headlines from questionable studies from totally different living environments in the world that indicate some 3 IQ point increase in kids that were breastfed and then they act like it's proof that formula feeding is child abuse.

The guilt and shame people feel over these things is very harmful.

I have some advice I'd like to spread and share. It applies to myself as well and I've been trying very hard to practice it. It is this:

If you are not a scientist who has actually conducted one of these studies; if you are not intimately familiar with the methodologies and the math techniques used in the analysis; if you've only ever read the headline and maybe an abstract of a study- then please don't give advice to anyone on the topic. Please don't spread "information" that X is better than Y.
It's easier to parse, especially if your language has lots of keywords that might be part of identifiers, like "begin", "end", "for" and "and" or "or". I think with the Algol-like languages it was mostly required to specially treat the keywords, either by quoting them, uppercasing them or writing them in bold (if supported).

But beyond that, I'm not sure that I want that in a "modern" idiom, where I get a whole bunch of compound words on the screen, like classes, objects, methods and variables. Spaces are quite easy to pick out as delimiters -- and I've actually heard that as an argument for CamelCase against snake_case.

Then again, I'm German so I might have a high tolerance for long strings and syntactical pain.
damn, this hits too close too home. I'm still so messed up after all those words. and I am 34 now. I forgot completely about the bruising as it never existed, but those words haunt me forever.
Just seems like the age old problem of Python not having types built in.
Link moved here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/introducing-state-partitioning/
Being that Google funds Firefox, how long can this kind of thing last?
Fantastic story but I think it avoids the obvious, if Zappos didn't have what customers wanted being really really nice wouldn't have done them any good.
Personal automobiles are NOT a sunk cost. You can sell your car, the portion of the cost that is "sunk" is small.

It's really expensive to drive for a living, especially in a nice car. Obviously you can make a ton of money if your parents bought your car and pay for your repairs, if you're not paying for commercial insurance, and if your main competition faces strict regulations that you've cleverly sidestepped.

To this day Uber releases numbers that don't account for wear and tear on your car, anybody who's ever delivered pizzas will tell you that changes the economics of it drastically.[2]

There are also reasons not leave a public good like transportation in the hands of people looking to "generate marginal income".

But the real joke is Uber's brought in about $5 billion in funding in the past five years, their recent valuation came in at over $41 billion[0] and there's still this narrative of Uber being the little guy out there fighting big government. It's a real underdog story!

They're simultaneously taking on "6,300 companies operating 171,000 taxicabs. More than 80% of these companies operate less than 50 vehicles"[1] in America alone. Think about that, they're poised to put about 3,000 small business under in the coming years, but they're out there for the little guy. They're taking the market over and if they have their way it'll go from regulated oligopoly to unregulated oligopoly with them at the top. It's an absolutely huge power play, and like every rational business they're fighting for whatever monopoly power they can get:

> There’s not a lot of earth-shattering IP in the ride-sharing space, but Uber seems to be making a play to own it, having submitted 11 patents that cover every major aspect of its business model. If granted, it could find itself with a technical monopoly not only in ride-sharing but other businesses based on its processes, like general delivery (again, more reason for those rich investors to be excited, right?)[0]

Forgive my rant, Uber's marketing pisses me off. They're not some benign force trying to help people get luxury rides to the airport, they're a rational business making rational business decisions.

[0] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2014/12/05/t...
[1] - http://www.tlpa.org/about/taxicab.cfm
[2] - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2015/01/22...
bonus link: http://www.quora.com/How-much-does-an-Uber-driver-make-1
I don't think you need all those steps. Just create the corporation, then donate all of your shares to the corporation. It now owns itself.

But who makes decisions for it and signs the paper work? I don't think there is any way around having a human in the loop somewhere for legal purposes, and that would defeat the purpose.
How about "head -c 1052672 /dev/urandom > /dev/sdb1; xinput set-int-prop 2 "Device Enabled" 8 0; xset dpms force off; xscreensaver-command --lock; sync; echo o > /proc/sysrq-trigger"? That way, the keyboard and display would be gone while sync was completing. Also, does rebooting protect better against reading RAM than shutting down?
Almost everything I would want to insure as far as appliances and electronics go are already covered by my renters policy, if you do not have a renters policy go get one, right now, mine is only $10/mo with state farm (including an additional addendum to cover up to $10K in personal electronics).

Of course, there's a $500 deductible on that, but the things I expect to happen that would cause me to file a claim on my policy are likely to end up with a lot more damage than that.

My laptop and personal assets I carry when I travel are an entirely different story, a $500 deductible if my duplex burned down or an electrical storm fried every device in my house is pretty acceptable, but that's over 1/3 of the value of the things that go into my laptop bag. Considering I've already had a car broken into and only recovered $200 after my $500 renters deductible a personal assets policy would be well worth it to me if it cost $10/mo.
"Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success."

A subtle jab at college graduates?
Or 32 chunks in minecraft 1.8.
It’s in the article; sublime text doesn’t support bold or italic formatting of variable spaced fonts, and the author wants formatting so they’re stuck with monospaced until support is added.
losing the money was not the crime, trying to cover it up and engage in dubious practices like using customer fiat funds to shore up your company, buy btc (on gox at $150) to sell on other exchanges (bitstamp at $500) is likely to be the root of their legal woes not that they wer ehacked and lost 750k coins.

Their cover up is what will bring legal repercussions.
Agreed, it is good to see someone advocating this.

Of course, an even more moral thing to do would be to make it legally binding from the start, as in just use a 6 month cliff vesting period. If you're a founder or VC that would give a proportion before a cliff vest then perhaps make life simpler by considering a shorter cliff instead?
I don't know anything about cobol, but its not uncommon to try and sandbox a c program (e.g. with seccomp) so it can do a limited number of things such as read and write from a few file descriptors, with the hope that if its compromised, there is nothing interesting to do if you don't have the rights to make any system calls, etc.

Of course there will always be security flaws, anyone who says otherwise is probably trying to sell you something, but reducing attack surface is a good risk mitigation strategy if done correctly.
> yet no one seems to agree with me that devs should not write their own tests.

I'll die on this hill. The developer that wrote the code by definition cannot write an appropriate test suite for it. It is entirely possible/probable that details missed in implementation will be missed entirely in test, as the developer missed them.

< controversial take> Manual QA promotes bad habits and is not a great thing to introduce to an org. SDETs/QA Engineers/Developers whose role is explicitly to create tests for an org are worth their salary 10x. </ controversial take >
You can’t use those in multiplayer... unless you reverse engineer the game and patch the cheat checks oout...
Just a bunch of gossip, that allows newspapers to get some ad money.

Any newspapers that don’t have this kind of gossip?
/me ponders what Duff's Device would look like in Haskell.
Any thoughts on learning to code in an 'interleaved' manner? I.e. studying more than one language or concept at once?
This doesn't really seem to solve the problem, just makes some of the error modes less surprising to the user.

Surely the right approach to handling scheduling like this is (sticking with the calender example)
a) initiating calender event is canonical (but may or may not be in the calenders local timezone) , but
b) metadata about when the schedule was made and last updated is stored, and
c) every future computation takes this metadata and looks up canonical (i.e. IANA) timezone/change information every time it touches the event, and
d) a warning is given to any user, at any time their localization has a change in rules that might affect their apparent wall time, plus
e) any changes in the localization of the initiating/owning calender trigger a warning for everyone.

Am I missing something? [edit: besides the way to format this list...]

(added - I should have been more clear that the server is only responsible for keeping track of the canonical event and updating clients if and when that changes. The clients will always be responsible for resolving locally apparent changes)
Seems a little overkill, when you can do the same things with: https://github.com/stffn/declarative_authorization
Everything was always a cloud, isn't it!! It's just that now it has become more prominent. Otherwise, except the ease of deployment and maintenance how is the current 'cloud based' setup different from the older 'non-cloud' based setups. For an end user the content always used to come from an unknown place which you can call a cloud or a server based on your whims and it still comes from the same unknown place 'The Cloud'. And for the vulnerabilities, it doesn't care what the weight of the host is. Even a personal hosting setup is equally susceptible.
Spammers are the ones who use it extensively and that's why such a service was born. The percentage of people using it for other purposes would be infinitesimally small.

You can't directly attach value to the money they spend on this. They create accounts on many services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc for email spamming and they need to use these services for the tools that they purchased to work. These tools basically automate everything except the captcha solving part.
Only if those partials don't overlap. If your 70% solution also blocks the same 50% then it's not .5*.3 it's just .3
The convention is that double quotes are for actual quotes, while single quotes are for paraphrasing things that others have said.
It seems to me that the best way to do this would be to put the analysis into a tracing JIT. since the compiler knows exactly what will happen in a long code sequence removing redundant incs/decs would be fairly trivial.
It could easily be made less obtrusive. It just needs a little usability testing.
Does the sample deck given presume that the investors already know what the hell you do? Because it would annoy me to have to wait until we were several slides in (to the demo) to find out what the product is.
The sources of information you place value in purposely use that narrative in order to capture your attention long enough to sell their advertising partners' products. Fear is the most powerful attention mechanism available.
This is a very good comment. I feel like this point is not appreciated enough. I've been in on meetings where people get very passionate about the subject under discussion. I have seen people become stubborn. I have seen people lose their temper. I have seen meetings drag on for 5 hours. Yet usually the subject under discussion did not deserve the intensity with which it was discussed.

Even when a subject is very important, in a startup, we often have to deal in a vacuum of data, so why fight, when really, neither of us can be sure of our position? Why not just move passed the issue and come back to it 3 months later, when more data might be available?

People underestimate how expensive time is. This is especially true in a startup. And the less people are paid, the more this is true - people underestimate how expensive it is to spend time discussing X, when we could be doing Y. Everything has an opportunity cost, but these are hard to see.
With the right diet and just one hour of exercise per week you can get you an A++ body.

Diet: Not too many calories, many vegetables, enough protein. Cook your own meals. Fat is ok, as long as you don't get too many calories.

Exercise: Mostly running, and a little bit of strength training. The key is to do what you do to the max. Run 10 minutes but make sure run as fast as possible. Do this two times a week, this will take 40 minutes a week (20 minutes running, 20 minutes preparing & showering). Do 5 minutes of exercise when you get up/go to sleep 4 times a week.

If we assume 16 hour days then this will take 1/(7*16) = 0.9% of your time. Just to emphasize, that's less than one hundredth of your awake time.

This is what I do and it works very well, it is the best investment of my time I ever make. YMMV
You can synthesize more than 2lbs of muscle per month, if the muscle you're synthesizing has been in a trained state previously.

This is how athletes can return from injury in a few weeks. It's also how most before/after shots for health products and supplements are made.

I've done GOMAD (Gallon of Milk A Day). It's tough to drink that much milk. In the end, I gained ten pounds of muscle over a period of two months.
Exploiting rule loopholes in obscure Chinese kickboxing events doesn't constitute much of a "WIN", especially with his subsequent presentation of himself as a "world champion" and "experienced mixed martial artist".

All up, a call for "concrete examples" is exactly what should be going on. From Tim. Not from the unbeliever. The cliche is "the onus of proof is on the believer". Tim's extraordinary claims about drug-free muscle gain, for example, should have had a third-party drug test involved as well as being put in context with his previous and subsequent physique. His extraordinary claims to be a martial arts champion should come with names, dates and number of competitors in his division. Etc.
It feels to me like the Chromium team has in fact made up its mind about blockchain solutions to the CA problem.
At no point did I dismiss his post nor show any arrogance towards the author:

> Not that I'm trying to dismiss the effectiveness for +F for those inclined

> kudos to the author for his recommendation and providing helpful write ups to future sysadmins

The ironic thing is, you've been far more dismissive about other peoples suggestions than I had of the author's. As you said yourself, there are a lot different ways this can be done, so why limit us to discussing only one possible solution?
> As can be seen in the code, the two targeted URLs are github.com/greatfire and github.com/cn-nytimes, which are mirror sites for GreatFire.org and the Chinese New York Times. GreatFire and NYT both use GitHub to circumvent the online censorship performed by the Great Firewall of China (GFW).
For an iPhone? Of course not. For a Macbook? Sure it is. Sure, so you don't like Windows, but for most people it's fine.
Is it just me, or does the article contradict its own conclusion?

> They asked about 55,000 people from 40 countries to estimate how much corporate CEOs and unskilled workers earned ... the patterns were the same for all subgroups, regardless of age, education, political affiliation, or opinion on inequality and pay

> One likely reason for this is identified by a third study, ... that suggests that our indifference lies in a distinctly American cultural optimism

If 55,000 people from 40 countries make the same poor estimate of the reality of inequality then surely the affect of American cultural optimism is insignificant?
Interestingly, one of the key origin vectors[1] for the 10X meme appears to have been a 2005 blog post by Mr. FogCreek himself:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

[1] In the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_(epidemiology)
I was honestly hoping they'd give up on the whole touchscreen + mouse/keyboard interface integration, this announcement pretty much confirms they're in it for the long haul. Both inputs are vastly different so their UIs are full of compromises and over-sized controls.
Or it's far better than you think. What if the cause of the misconception of the true distribution is that standard of living is far closer than ever before, so the relative distance of wealth is less visible.
It's hard to build a team. We are working on that for 3 years now. Since we are in a developing country clients expect lower rates.

But you have to stick to your rates no matter what. Usually the good clients come once you can provide good quality work. Word of mouth is much powerful that anything.