jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Vacations are a thing in the past indeed... =)
So, I just put together my task list for this week, distributed it and now this.

This. This day I've been waiting for.

There goes my task list. :\
For the UK you can get a Tier-1 visa which operates on a points based system (if you google you can figure out for yourself if you get enough points to qualify), unfortunately they've introduced a quota system this year which makes it slightly trickier. Still you have a decent chance of getting one.

The advantage of the tier-1 visa is that it doesn't tie you to a particular employer, your free to work for whoever you want as long as your salary meets a minimum level. It also means you can apply to any tech company without having to worry about if they'd be willing to sponsor you, etc.

The financial sector in London is a huge employer of developers and if your looking for hardcore CS stuff might be a good place to look, and most banks are happy to sort out visa stuff on your behalf because they have whole teams dedicated to that stuff.

Most of the UK tech job boards are dominated by recruiters, so your best bet might just be finding some tech company you're interested in and looking at their homepage for job opportunities.

I'm currently in the process of launching a developer job board for the UK (http://www.coderstack.co.uk), but it's still very early days so I don't have very many job listings at the moment.
Punctuation that I have to remove from a tweet doesn't have feelings that get hurt.
All handmade boats show that type of craftsmanship... this story was more about an interesting artificial constraint to engineer against.
>> Perhaps the WSJ, where the full text of everything is available from Google News?

Why not link to the Google News page instead, then?
cool graphics - would prefer all keyboard controls
Right, my point is that is less dependent on "everything is an expression" and more that "everything is a list." Right?
> Why should companies have the right to tell employees what they can and cannot do in their own time

Well that's the thing. If you work with an SO, doesn't personal time and issues inevitably bleed into working hours? I talk to my SO during work hours about non-work related stuff all the time (i.e. what to eat, vacation, "I love you", ...), though we don't work for the same organization.

Also I'm not sure why I'm being downvoted for asking a question.
pure democracy via capitalism... interesting. Are the masses smarter than the 1% is generous?
If the jury doesn't understand the rules properly, it's pretty common for the judge to send them back to figure it out.
But not getting their hands dirty is exactly what the author is recommending.
Looks amazing, but why CoffeeScript?
Yay, the original Holy War!

(vi, for the record)
This is getting somewhat off-topic, but Mailman warns you during the sign-up process that this password will be sent in cleartext, so do not use a valuable password. In fact, if you leave the password field blank mailman will kindly generate a random password and send you that. If your subscription status on a mailing list is valuable enough to care about compromise, then I recommend you not use an email list at all.
That's so 80's. The cool kids now use Tor over dragonfly UAV's.
Seriously thought this was a joke at first. I guess it's not.

Installation instruction:
1. sudo gem install sneakernet
2. put your movie on a flashdrive and give it to your friend
True, that number of responses is unlikely to have come from a 'proper' polling company, where samples of only a few thousand are used. So it's most likely an online or activist-driven poll, which is hardly a representative or random sample.

Edit: Re-read the section which noted it was an online poll for one of the larger newspapers (SMH). Hardly reliable as representative of the population.
... just use "placeholder" in HTML5. Problem solved.
Tag: The Power of Paint. https://www.digipen.edu/studentprojects/tag/ It's from DigiPen, the same place that the original Narbacular Drop team was hired out of to do Portal!

Edit: The Tag team has also been hired by Valve. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/62689
So no one working at a for-profit YC startup (all of them?) is a hacker?

PS Full time long term jobs is the establishment...
This frequently bites me when using archive.org's wayback machine. I usually use it to retrieve a page that I found a link to that now appears to be down, so I almost exclusively copy/paste there, and almost always get as my first result something like, 0 pages found for http://http:/www.archive.org/index.php*

At the very least, if you are going to have that as your UI, it'd be nice if the server would notice and strip the doubled http prefix.
Yes true, but also a submission, see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hvidevold :)
You could make an Angry Birds or Candy Crush saga add-on with an Internet security theme.
Are you sure the class, as a whole, is overvalued? If, in 1999, you had invested $1000 each in Google and 49 flops, you'd still have come out ahead.
You're right - line-item veto could be very dangerous, especially if it's exercised by the person you voted against.
Bug fixes and performance improvements, probably.

(The actual answer is that the release notes are only available in the US version of the support page: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211896 )
Pre-90s dial-up MUDs sound fascinating to me. Do you know of any others?
I didn't say to hurt the dog. This is a communication, not a stressor. It is recommended by Caeser Milan.
I wonder if it wouldn't have been possible to do this on Perseverance too. After Ingenuitys mission is done they could have lugged it arround for extra processing power for as long as it survives. I doubt the extra weight causes that much extra energy consumption.

The software stack is probably not ready for that since the plan is to abandon it after its mission. And the Zigbee protocol is rather limmited.
FZ is awesome. I think few people are aware of it.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzone...
Even comparing recent versions of Word to the older ones is facepalm-inducing. I still don't understand what the designer was thinking with the ribbon.

Compare to the DOS days where every major program (wordperfect, lotus 1-2-3, etc) had a function key template. It was annoying to learn at first, but easily discoverable, and eventually you get muscle memory. Modern apps have lost that, in many ways.
This apparently also introduces some serious control issues - with propellers that long and massive, there's substantial lag between control inputs and flight changes. In ground tests in pressure chambers, it was difficult-to-impossible to manually pilot the thing, and even under computer control it's very clearly shakier than Earth-atmosphere drones.
> Also, no-one buys 330ml of beer except Americans.

In Greece, they are staples in the supermarkets!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8223732 ?
Let's be honest, nobody knows the best way to raise their children. It is entirely possible that someday his daughter will participate in similar discussion whether it is worth homeschooling kids and will say that she'd been home schooled and turned out very successful.

However, while reading the post, I felt annoyed with the author's attitude toward public education and especially the spiteful comment about history. Partially perhaps because I liked history lessons at school and still do like the subject and partially because I think that a person must have a well-rounded education.

Also, I believe that that it doesn't make such a huge difference when one starts programming and maybe pushing the child towards it too early might do more harm than good. I have discovered programming completely by myself in the last school year when I was 17 or 18. Many guys who studied together at university had started programming several years earlier and they definitely knew more at the time, however the differences mostly disappeared in a couple years. And those who still were better, they either were much smarter or worked harder and the coding experience or lack thereof that everybody brought from teenage years didn't really matter that much.
Which is part of the reason why bootcamps are so valuable. Like you said, universities aren't interested in teaching you the skills that you need. So people have to go elsewhere to get them.
How do you scale customer acquisition? That seems very risky the moment you move outside of friend-of-a-friend networks.
Actually I am thinking of changing this. Someone brought the issue on GitHub: https://github.com/HugoGiraudel/sass-guidelines/issues/32. It is currently being discussed.
There are significant numbers of people who have seen it without physically leaving the bubble. But in this, the Internet is critical, as is a healthy reservoir of skepticism, paranoia, and introspection.

From an engineering perspective, the media bubble is beautiful. The control over the message is elegant and masterfully done. Generally speaking, it is like equal parts stage magic and martial arts.

Any attack against the power structure is simply deflected away from the center line and bounces off. When necessary, a burst of flame from some unsleeved flash paper distracts the attention of the audience just long enough for the real targets to be lost.

As someone who has seen it, living inside it feels almost oppressive. Almost. You have to continually remind yourself that it's there, and it's there to control your behavior.
> There are NOT noticeable differences between a $30k diamond and a $3k moissanite stone

My wife and I felt the same way too, until we actually compared them. The sparkle and brilliance in the diamond was dramatically better than any other stone we compared it to. We went into ring shopping pretty determined to not get a diamond, and yet still bought one.
You're right; there is tremendous pressure from both district attorneys and judges to cop a plea. Trials piss everyone off because they are "such a waste of time." Criminal defense attorneys have to contend not just with the facts of the case and legal precedents, but also the extent to which demanding a jury trial turns the court against your client -- and your other clients, by association.

The other issue is police overcharging crimes. For example, suppose you, in a fit of pique, cut your roommate's arm with a knife. Not cool; that's aggravated assault. But the police then charges you with attempted second degree murder -- or even first degree (eg, premeditated). Now your defense attorney has to work hard just to get your charges down to a reasonable level; the agg assault you should have been charged with in the first place. This is what a huge majority of plea bargaining is about; not getting away with it, but getting the charge down to something that describes your actual offense.

(Source: longtime criminal defense nerd)
Thanks for your suggestion. I wound up contacting jsfiddle cloud provider DigitalOcean via a DMCA complaint contact on their website. https://www.digitalocean.com/company/contact/#tab_abusetrigg...

It was cleared up a couple of hours later.
> the amount of manual work must be enormous.

This is a feature, not a bug.

An "indicative count" is available on the night of an election, and final results take a few weeks.

A few weeks versus extremely high assurance of a legitimate count is an excellent tradeoff, in my view. Who is hurt by the delay? Nobody. It's already expected and accounted for.

As a profession we love benchmark porn -- latency! throughput! TPS! BPS! -- but optimisation is pointless if you undermine key guarantees. It's pointless to have an instant count if it can't be trusted. And the sheer unwieldiness of a paper ballot drastically amplifies the difficulty of subverting it.
Just because you have more than two parties doesn't mean you have more "freedom" or more "democracy." Most of those nations fall into a two party system with marginal 3rd, 4th, and 5th parties often on the very far extremist end. So we have politics like one of the larger parties courting white supremacists and fascists to get the votes they need, with some terrible concessions involved.

In a two party system, the small extremists can't win enough seats to be of note. That's a feature, not a bug. As we have seen many times before in the US's history, small movements move up through the party primary process. So you have the best of both worlds: a lack of easy access to government by extremists and a path to changing one of the larger parties via the very democratic primary system.

I don't think the US system is perfect, but its good; it solves a lot of problems of governing very nicely. The framers did their homework. The idea that Euro-style parliamentary systems are unequivocal better is a questionable premise, especially since it did nothing to stop the rise of Nazism in Germany (or even protect the lives of the Jewish minority) and other lesser but significant social failures (Greece's white supremacist Golden Dawn winning 22 seats in parliament recently for example.)

Not to mention, the States are fairly autonomous by Euro standards, so the state level legislature/courts/constitution are actually important and not just the bureaucratic/administrative arm of the national government. That gives a lot more local representation than the generally top-down decrees of Euro states - and that's on top of whatever the hell the EU is and all of its trans-national top-down decrees.
I find Product Hunt mostly interesting for the links and less the comments BUT.. the quality is very high and curated (unlike Delicious) which makes a big difference. Pure links can be a winning play, but only if there's some shape around the curation of them.
I should also ask... Ben, did you post this link because you agree or disagree with the article?

What phone do you have and what will you get next?
I wonder if I'm alone in thinking that the original `while` version is easier to read and understand than the ending `for` version.

I've never quite understood C programmers' love of the `for` loop. It's just a `while` loop with the different parts stuck in different places (`init; while (cond) { ...; inc; }` is the same as `for(init; cond; inc) { ...; }`) and it doesn't (at least for me) result in any greater clarity or ease in reasoning.
IBM's big new push is "Smarter Planet".. Think: sensors on everything - electric grids, roads, etc... lots of small embedded systems.

(and IBM will try and sell you HW, analytics software, services, etc to run it)
His solution is so similar to mine that is scary. I also went thru the same optimization process. (e.g started with a while and changed that to a for later) I didn't go farther because I didn't want to loose readability.

void condense_by_removing(
char *z_terminated ,
char char_to_remove
) {
char *rptr = z_terminated; // read ptr
char *wptr = z_terminated; // write ptr
for(;*rptr; rptr++) {
if (*rptr != char_to_remove) {
*wptr++ = *rptr;
}
}
*wptr = 0;
}
Good read, although the comments about saturated fat may be questionable in light of the recent research (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332954).
Have you looked at Rackspace.com? It costs $11 a month for a cloud linux server:
http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/servers

Then, as your customers grow, you can crank up the specs (and cost) of your server. It also comes with root access, which is one of the main reasons people need a dedicated box.
Is it a big company? I think you can move a lot more on this field in small companies.

Mi tre ŝatus scii cetere ĉu vi aktivas en aliaj interretaj forumoj, kaj kiunome... Mi ne trovis ajnan kontaktinformon en via profilo...
Haha.

Aaron, how do you figure out these kinds of things (popular searches)? I know there's the Google search keyword tool.
"Mine is better, but I'm not gonna show you why or how"
I think I want to do life coaching but more often than not I work with relationships. Relationships are a strong part of life.

I’m a programmer but I don’t enjoy writing code. I enjoy helping people with themselves.

So I strongly advocate for anyone who wants a way in and I choos to use my coaching skills to be a cheerleader for new and existing talent.

But to answer your question, I’m a coach in training for coaching.
A technical question - how does your system work in the IRIS or other examples you have? It looks like it hides under the hood a few things compared to this implementation - type of the model (tensorflow) and the logic that fetches it from S3, right? Let's imagine we would want to make a DVC repo (just to store model versions to start) out of one of your examples instead of the DVC get started, how would we do that with the current implementation (through metadata + custom init)?
Can you tell us more about your experience using Twilio as your personal phone number? I was looking at alternatives to Google Voice and Twilio seemed like an interesting possibility but I have been looking for someone that has tried it to let me know if it's worth it.
Friends don't let friends create RaidZ pools.

Bite the bullet of the cost of N*2 mirrors.
The problems with the lexer hack are user-facing problems, not compiler-writer-facing problems. They include typename, order of declarations being significant, weird function pointer syntax, and the most vexing parse.
All the seasons are available free with Amazon Prime, fwiw.
"it compiles it to unsafe Rust with all the weaknesses of the C code"

Isn't that the idea?

Sure, it makes it into essentially a blob of uneditable code. But it allows you to integrate it with rust code and build the whole thing together.
The article does take storage cost into account (although it does kinda waive it away):

> If this impression is correct then the cost of capturing CO2 is likely to either dominate or in worst case be comparable to the cost of storage and utilization. Still, a more detailed analysis would be careful about this costing
In general if it is something you will query in a where clause it should be indexed.
If passphrases are easier to remember, then it may be possible for a human to be able to recall many such passphrases at the same time. If these passphrases are used for services with any sort of auth rate-limiting, and they aren't reused between services, then the difficulty of reversing their hashes isn't really a problem.
Thanks, credit to my wife.
Textmate freezes when I try to open any big file, like 50MB. Sucks. Otherwise great.
Why is the FitFu mascot the alien version of Tucan Sam?
somebody just watched The Social Network movie.
I suspect that BBEdit (http://barebones.com/products/bbedit/) wouldn't have a problem with a 500mb file.
That's cosmology for you! There certainly is a quasi-religious element to the debate. I graduated in physics and although the Big Bang theory fits the evidence quite well, so do some other theories. The Big Bang arguably fits the closest, but I would hardly call it proven. Thats why we call it a theory. But I've always been surprised by the ideological reactions to doubt in that field of physics.
kill it's own people than give up broken ideals

Broken ideals? Ideals? Tyranny usually rarely have anything to do with ideals.
On my 14" laptop display with Chrome maximised I still have a horizontal scrollbar with a bit of scrolling to see the right edge (cuts off the "New Bookmark" link). Still needs some CSS tweakage.
When I started working on https://trackif.com, I thought the premise was thin because prices couldn't fluctuate that much. I assumed everything gradually declined in price, and that it'd primarily be driven by store-A vs store-B price dropping.

Nope. Retailers are just gaming us 24/7. I've become very aware of all the different timeframes retailers offer post-purchase price-matches (published at http://blog.trackif.com/trackif-smart-shopping-guide-store-p... since I felt like I was hoarding knowledge.)

Have retailers always played games like this? Or it just a side-effect of sales moving online?
Honest question: given the incredible variety of chemical compounds in nature, if one wants to describe specifically those that are directly harmful to health, or that trigger an immune response in some persons, what is the optimal umbrella term? ("Toxin" is every bit as overloaded and fuzzy as "chemical" in common parlance.)
Pricing the most-seen items lower is not quite as nefarious as "trick" would suggest, IMHO - and part of it is probably just driven by various advantages of selling a lot of some particular product.
> Who cares how long the file is?

Every software developer worth his (or her) salt.

> what matters is the formal structure of the code

Yes, and splitting code into well named files is a starting point for giving it proper structure.

The same goes for the size of your functions. Here some (like "ProcessEvent") consist of nearly 500 lines... that's roughly 10 screens. Textbook spaghetti code.

Overly long code files are difficult to maintain and introduce various practical problems, eg. greater likelihood of merge conflicts. That's why they're considered a red flag in software engineering. Professional literature on software development elaborates more on the subject if you don't want to take my word for it
From the README.

> This is a work in progress Go implementation of Conception.

> ...Conception is an experimental project.
Yes, Apple really needs a low latency protocol for both audio and also AirPlay video. Would essentially enable any device to be a game console.
There was a "commit and push" in the demo video somewhere, so I'm assuming this is source-control-compatible.
It may seem pedantic, but it's not actually a "photograph" since it was taken using an electron beam - from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph):

A photograph (often shortened to photo) is an image created by light falling on a light-sensitive surface

The clue is in the name - photo-graph, as in 'photon'. It's an important distinction, as electron microscopy offers much greater resolution than optical microscopy, due to the difference in wavelength between an electron and a photon of the same energy (http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/debrog2.h...).

It's generally better to stick with the headline when posting news articles ("Research team takes image of hydrogen atom" in this case).

Very interesting article though!
I bought my friend the (obviously useless!) title of Baron of Sealand for his 30th birthday.
Just as an aside, there is a word for "specifically male man", it's "wereman" (just as "wifman", the old version of "woman" meant "specifically female man" -- "man" was short for "human", from "humanous" -- earthling, which both women and men are, despite martian/venutian assertions to the contrary...)

I learn all my etymology from Dinosaur Comics, http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=551 :)
dupe 1 day ago, 2 comments):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1942400
I've just noticed that the Telegraph article linked elsewhere in this post has that exact headline, so I guess it's the staff at the Telegraph who need a physics lesson! Presumably the OP updated the link after the initial post.
Still strange how they don't systematically work to further their influence and improve community. There is place for non-violent restructuring of corrupt governments from the inside.
Nice! Have been waiting for that since the tragic loss of AppJet. Do you plan to provide some sort of paid hosting in order to prevent going broke due to hosting cost?
There is something to be said for a vehicle that works just as well for a trip to the grocery store as a trip across the U.S. The thinking is that I can have one car that does everything I need, rather than two cars or one car + renting. Two cars doubles your costs and renting, while possibly reasonable cost-wise, is hugely inconvenient compared to just getting in your car and going.

An electric car would be fine for me, even with a range of just 100 miles (in a Minnesota winter, with the heater on). The 265 miles that the Model S can get would be questionable for my parents, though, given the frequency of long trips they take. They would need charging stations in the same order of magnitude as gas stations to avoid range anxiety.