jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
One big thing that this does is mentioned in the problem: warming up.

When you're under pressure, you don't want to just step off the street and start talking about some super-hard problem. But if you don't warm up at all, this is exactly what happens. And that's just the candidate! This also lets the interviewer get into interviewing mode.

An interview is basically a type of performance. And what performer steps on stage without warming up?
I always thought the point was that he spots a ... tattoo? Of a snake? That reminds him of the club? Or the dancer... I'm going to have to watch it again aren't I?
I had these on my roof until recently

http://www.certainteedshinglesettlement.com/

I would imagine the failure modes are similar. They are marketed and guaranteed for 30 years, you actually get like 5 years, whoops.
Also, depending on the language you work in, a function call may be quite expensive, compared to a straight loop.
If you care one wit about saving the web, then you will recognize that both the best and the worst of humanity will continue to coexist on the web so long as they continue to exist within humanity.

That does not mean that from a policy or prosecutorial perspective we should not continue to investigate and prosecute crimes as they occur, but crime will occur, and the best we can do is work to protect ourselves and others. That means security and privacy and cryptography.

Now there is the question, does the web need to be saved? I’m open to discussing whether it does, but the problem with this assertion is that it has never been easier to build and host a website containing all that you can legally host. If there are problems, they are legal, not technical. You can host webshit or family photos or pornography or your blog or a list of links to your favorite websites or a collection of selfies or a review site or a private reddit clone or your class notes or some personal research or any number of other things, because I could sit here all night typing out examples and probably find out of Hacker News has a character limit in the process.

You can serve JavaScript or ads or well designed style sheets or really really bad style sheets they make the blink tag look positively understated, or you can serve plain Jane HTML or even plainer text files, or even PDFs or DOCs or DOCX files or videos or sounds or any number of other binaries.

I’m not sure entirely what we’ve lost besides the websites that the owners have chosen not to host any longer. People have made bad choices about where to host the only copies of something they loved and built and hosted on someone else’s server, only to see those sites shut down, and will probably continue to make such choices. This is fine, an integral part of liberty is to have the ability to source enough rope to hang yourself with.

Enjoy the things you have now, for nothing lasts forever. Make that which you would like to see more of to seed the world and inspire others.
Please, please, please, people, don't impose your personal choice of font and background color on the rest of us. Faded beige background with light colored font makes this hard enough for me to read that I simply gave up. Yes, I have a particular issue since I'm partly red-green colorblind--but a substantial percentage of people have color perception issues of one sort or another. There's a reason why black text on a white background is so common.
You mention that you send your newsletter out at 6 AM on Sundays. How did you arrive at that time? I usually shoot for mid-day some time Tuesday–Thursday; I wonder if I'm sending at the best times, though.
The question about WhatsApp is not whether or not it was worth $19B, the question is whether or not it was worth 8% of Facebook. The bulk of that purchase was in FB shares, not cash. It just so happens Facebook is worth $235 billion dollars itself.

I can see an argument where the worlds most used mobile messaging app is worth at least 8% as much as the world's most used social network.
I'm a big fan. I've bought & gone through several of their videos, especially his Ruby, Rails, & iOS stuff.

Pretty light on content but great for getting started & running in a given area. Geoffrey is a great teacher.

I'm an experienced programmer who already knows a large variety of languages, so this is only my perspective.
I (and shareme I was responding to) wasn't talking about storing the numbers. I was talking about transmitting them. You can't transmit hashes of credit card numbers and then expect to do anything useful with them.

This is, for example, the md5-hash of my credit card number with "salt" prepended: 8cc8f5b89ae1ce45a8efce26c88b69e7.

Now good luck doing anything useful with this.

My point was just that it's totally fine to rely on SSL for securely transmitting the credit card number. There's no need to encrypt twice and salting isn't possible.

Storing the numbers (or, as you say, authorizations) is something else I a) know nothing about, b) wouldn't want to have to do (see a) and c) didn't comment about.
They practically have a stranglehold on the corporate market in a lot of places...most of these people would rather stay with what they have if it comparable feature wise.

As for developers....if the development environment is good, they will come to RIM for the money. Big corporations wouldn't think twice about paying $100 to $500 for certain apps for a large chunk of employees.
Please remind me not to ask you to write any scripts for me.
Note: Methylphenidate is not actually an amphetamine derivative, although it's similar in structure and function.
"Interchangeably weird": that is a great description of extreme individualism!
Multiple lines indented for me!
We realized that our startup had two probems: A really long sales cycle (on the order of years for some clients), and a lack of the necessary sales skills on the founding team. We weren't able to address the former. But while trying to address the latter, I found the following articles useful.

In Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank has some great advice on hiring sales staff before product-market fit:

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...

Basically, he says, "Don't do it," with the possible expection of a single "sales closer" who loves working in the field, and who has been avoiding promotions to VP of Sales. As I understand it, you're not looking to build a sales organization yet, but you may need some sales skills to close your first 3 deals and prove that the model works. But even then, he has a checklist of customer discovery tasks to do first.

There's also some amusing advice from Eric Sink on hiring sales staff in a micro-ISV:

http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Closing_the_Gap_Part_1.html
http://www.ericsink.com/bos/Closing_the_Gap_Part_2.html
It's not just about solving problems. It's also about finding the inspiration or the right approach. coding an algorithm that is predefined and coming up with something like page rank or OOP paradigm are not problems in the same category. psychadelics can definitely help in the latter category.
Referring to Jewish settlement in Palestine as "immigration" doesn't really paint the complete picture, generally.

Sure, some Jews immigrated to Palestine/Israel as we think of immigration. But many did not.

For example: I had a great-great uncle who was originally from Poland. Fearing the Germans, he escape Poland (on foot, alone, as a young teenager) shortly after the German invasion to live with his family in Ukraine (my direct ancestors). They survived together in Evacuation [1]. After the war, he decided to go back to Poland. What happened to him there, in 1946, was that he was forcefully removed from the country by his neighbors [2], who were pleased that Jews had been removed from their society and did not want them to return. He ended up in a DP camp, and with nowhere else to go, went to Palestine.

Did he displace the local population there? I guess. Did he have other options? No. What was he supposed to do, drown himself? In his story I see a plight not very different from Syrian refugees in Europe or Guatemalan refugees in the United States. I think his story is hardly unique, and explains largely why Israel exists in the first place. If you view the presence of Jews in Palestine as European Colonialism, I think your perspective has a very limited and selective in scope.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evacuation_in_the_Soviet_Union

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom
Assuming people have a good relationship with their parents, they would want them to be involved in their children's lives.

The bigger issue, in my social circles at least, is that Americans don't live near the grandparents. The economic opportunities exist in a certain few areas, and either the parents aren't willing to take the economic/quality of life hit to leave near their grandparents, or the grandparents can't afford to come live near the grandkids. Especially in the "good school" district areas.

The best situation I've seen is from Everybody Loves Raymond, grandparents nearby, but still in a separate house. But few grandparents will be located in the same neighborhood as the kids. Typically, similar size/price houses are located near each other, and the more expensive homes in with access to better schools come with higher property taxes/maintenance, which older people might not want to pay.
Is it just me or do both of those look blurry? I want to poke my eyes out...
I like how the sibling comments all expect an abuser to reveal how to prevent their abuse.

To paraphrase Sinclair: It is difficult to get a man to divulge how to prevent something, when his salary depends on his not preventing it.
> I mean actual free speech would just be an endless collection of penis videos.

I disagree. There may be some such videos, but if anyone will write anything, then there will also be a lot of other stuff too, including other videos, and also stuff that isn't videos. There might also be worthless messages such as "kljsdljlaregj lkejgl ekjrg", but there will also be some good stuff too.
I've tried wayland around half a year ago, but switched back. Wayland was surprisingly usable, but a couple of features were missing that are essential for me for example color management.
With GitHub templates and npm’s init/create packages you already have options without having to use an editor.

Examples:

npm init esm
npm init react-app

https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/init
I find this vaguely derogatory. What the linked course looks like to me is old-school, mostly symbolic AI, that most experts would agree hit something of a brick wall decades ago.
This is a good reason to select different new hardware but insufficient to get rid of existing hardware.

If most people agree we can worry less in 5-10 years. Unless people work around it during this time frame in which case people can continue not caring.
How do you create something like this? I.e. what are the keywords I’d look for if I wanted to create my own graphics library from scratch like this?

Very cool btw
Of course, dynamic and compiled are not mutually exclusive. Go is not like Objective-C though and it doesn't support "Categories" or "extension methods" :)
Qik had Marc Benioff, Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz as early investors, before the latter two started their fund as I recall. They didn't have a big VC firm backing them, but they did have notable investors.
On the other hand, you're weakening your patient's body in a way that likely isn't good for their immune system.
They also coerced Google as a part of PRISM. The NSA likes redundancy.
Please don't take my reaction negatively in any way. As I said the product is looking great. My point is this. What makes content that is about Social Responsibility any different that other content? e.g. What about your product encourages companies and non-profits to talk about that particular aspect of their business/cause more that it does about any other aspect or topic?
Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7790
What he means with the sport being killed is what happened _after_ Group B was cancelled. Group B was replaced with Group A cars which at that time had much less power thus making the races much less exciting for spectators.
The Honker Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honker_Union and/or the Red Hacker Alliance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hacker_Alliance
Reminds me of saying that best way to kill HIV is with AK-47, now how do you kill while leaving carrier alive - that's another question.
I wonder if that has to do with the current "race to the bottom" for smartphone prices. Razer thin margins would force manufacturers to cut any parts they can, since most users won't pay a price premium for the keyboard.
Rather than getting defensive in response to this article let's actually try and understand what the author is trying to say.

It's nothing to do with "nobody thought that x would take off until it did!" AirBnB and Dropbox were solving big problems in innovative ways.

> For example, take one of the stars of the show, SpoonRocket, an organic food delivery service that charges only $6 a meal and was described exuberantly as "fast food 2.0" and the "the Uber of food." While it's a great idea -- the service cooks only one meat and vegetarian meal a day in bulk and delivers with heater-equipped trucks -- the presentation was an almost comical display of Valley startup priorities.

What the author is trying to say is that the startups that sell are the ones that can compare themselves to other, successful companies and talk about money rather than pointing out how great a product is and what good it's doing for people.

The startups he's praising are addressing problems which will not only make the founders some money but also are creating some social good.

> But what was once a springboard for major players in now-colossal markets like shared services and consumer cloud storage has of late been consumed by the mundane, overdone, or just outright indulgent. This year was no exception: there were not one, but two food delivery services; a laundry delivery company; a flower delivery company; another supposed email killer; and a company that hopes to replace physical restaurant menus with digital versions on your tablet. You can hold your applause.

Here, he's despairing at all the copycat companies which are taking models of existing businesses and modifying them slightly. These companies are adding value in places where, arguably, no value needs to added. They're not changing the world, they're just making the lives of people who already have fairly easy lives easier, because it's easy to replicate and is already tested.

He may not have put his point across very well but I can see why he's upset. What we expect from YC companies is game-changing innovation, really big thinking and super cool, new tech. What we often get is the same businesses copied-and-pasted a few times masquerading as an innovative, <whatever> 2.0 business. That doesn't mean they shouldn't exist or succeed; hopefully they will. It's just not very interesting or exciting.
What's stopping NSA from scanning http://git.edgebsd.org ?
`~` is just one pointer type; there's & and * also built-in to the language (and @, but that's moving to the standard lib); and Rust provides the control required for implementing arbitrary "smart-pointers" (e.g. reference counting is a library pointer).

~ is an owned pointer (like unique_ptr in C++); & is a "reference" or borrowed pointer (allowing access to data without taking ownership); * is a raw/unsafe pointer, and is identical to C's pointers.

Also, the * pointer doesn't conflict with multiplication because they can never occur in an ambiguous context:

foo * bar = NULL; // C

let bar: *Foo = std::ptr::null(); // Rust

let bar = std::ptr::null(); // Rust, using type inference
This applies to the whole query, so there's not really any analogue to "foo bar +baz".
Yes.

This is a case when a picture (well, a GIF animation) is worth lots of words.

Look at http://jimmahoney.net/pulse_acceleration_field_lines.gif .

(I made this from the "Moving Charge" java physics applet
at http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~phys1/java/phys1/MovingCharge/Mo... .
It's a demo of the physics of electric charges, not general relativity, but the essence
of the idea is the same even if the field equations are different. This follows directly from the central idea of relativity: the physics of uniform constant motion is the same as no motion, if you're moving along at the same speed.)

The point charge (mass for gravity) in the center is first moving slowly to the right, then suddenly changes direction to move slowly to the left. (The small red vector indicates velocity.)

The white lines represent the direction of the field, that is, the direction an object would be pulled.

Near the point source, the field lines point to where it is. Far away, the news hasn't arrived yet that it's motion has changed, and so they point to where it would have been. During the brief acceleration when the source changed direction, the field lines connecting these two regions are "kinked" strongly - that's the radiation, which propagates outward at the speed of light.

A second object would feel a sideways pulse as the wave (kink) passed by.
Regarding startup life in Tokyo, these are the guys to listen to (jason_tko and po). They are actually here and doing it and really hustle hard for it. Their success is truly deserved.

Also Jason briefly mentioned the HN Tokyo meetups they also organise. There is one next month ( http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/events/5489?utm_campaign=event_... ) on the 11th. If you are in any way tech inclined and in the area, it is a great event with lots of cool people.
No, they don't (15+ years in banking IT)
To this end, do you (or anyone else reading this) have suggestions on good books to learn negotiation strategy and tactics?

I've read Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss [0] and found it interesting but I'm curious as to other reads folks might recommend.

0 - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26156469-never-split-the...
Yep, rolling back to 5.4 saved me. :p

Just watch out for 5.10. Happily, 5.11 seems okay, but it's still experimental.

Sticking to the LTS is a great idea, though part of me wants to go "Well then why not just run Ubuntu?! ;w;", despite having some answers. (Funnily, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS actually updates from 5.4 to 5.8. Apparently, the Ubuntu LTS doesn't stick to the LTS kernel now! Unless it never really did.)
Just need some firm locking/pinning and I think you have nailed truly reproducible analytical workflows.
Why would you expect home prices to track inflation in an environment where mortgage rates went from 4.76% to 2.74%?

I'd expect home prices to be bid up by an incremental amount over inflation in such an environment, as the monthly principal and interest payment for $100K borrowed at 4.76% is the same as for $128K borrowed at 2.74%. That's an additional 2.5% of house price inflation per year.

[0] - http://www.freddiemac.com/pmms/pmms30.html
Kafka?
Airflow?
Javascript?

The list goes on.
Veteran Scala dev here. I'm not here to convince you to choose it over F# but I can tell you that it's a beautiful language. Scala is used heavily for backend web dev, in fact, it's all I use it for.

Don't worry about advanced concepts, you'll get to those when / if you need them. They have their uses but it depends on what you're working on. I think many people just succumb to the blub paradox too quickly with these sorts of languages. It's a real shame.

It's honestly overstated how hard it is. I started as a junior dev with Scala and was highly productive within months. I don't think there's anything special about me. I was highly motivated by my love for the language I guess.
A deterministic machine is still able to react based on external stimulus and able to reason about the world and itself.

And we don't even need to go the full determinism route to disprove free will. What can free will be other than an illusion? Am I really deciding to be hungry, to want companionship, and so on? Am I simply doing what needs to be done to fulfill my needs while my brain is inventing reasons? What am I other that environmental factor, genetics, and maybe random noise? Nothing.

Objective truth and reality exists independent of any person having a free will or not.
I think both you and OP have a point. The way it ties together is that "owner-occupied housing as a retirement plan" creates the political demand for NIMBY supply restrictions.

When people have 500% of their net worth tied up in a single piece of property, that created very strong incentives to lobby for policies that prop up the value of that asset. You take away the tax incentives, and the mortgage subsidies. People probably still wind up with similar monthly payments. But now as a percentage of their wealth, housing becomes much less important. A 10% decline in home prices no longer leads to a global financial crisis. That makes it a lot easier to build a political coalition to increase housing supply.
A few years back I was mining Monero on 4 pieced together computers in my little 400sqft apartment with electric wall heaters. It's a bad investment to do that in my house with a gas furnace.
Wikipedia has gone from being an encyclopedia to “here is generally what the media has said about this and if you say otherwise fuck you”

Most espouse the claim that they appreciate science, but I think really people appreciate James Bond gadgets and call that science.
> And what happens when there's no jos where you live

Then you start a small business, employing others and building up your community. How do you think the ‘places where jobs exist’ started?

> the only places where jobs exist have extreme housing shortages?

If it’s intolerable to enough people, they won’t be able to hire. They’ll have to move, or pay more to overcome the housing shortage.

The fact that it isn’t, and they aren’t, shows this isn’t actually a problem.
Sorry about that can you email me tim@realm.io so I can figure out why you are getting this? We just switched to using Wistia recently and we may have misconfigured something. Would be helpful to know what URL you are hitting, and maybe what country/browser you use, if you don’t mind sharing. Sorry about this again!
Same offer as CognitiveLens: my apologies for the bad experience, and would love to figure out what’s blocking you if you don’t mind emailing me the URL, country, browser you’re using to tim@realm.io so I can work that out with Wistia.
I find this comment interesting simply because it's the exact opposite of my FB feed. People there accuse leftists of calling for civility now that they have won, when they haven't been civil until this moment (their words, not mine)
Hmm that's weird, I measured by going to google maps, spreading my fingers between Amsterdam and Pakistan. I then scrolled to the U.S. while holding my fingers in that position, and the distance difference was like ~20%, according to your flightplan it's almost twice as far though. Not sure what went wrong there :)

edit: using http://www.freemaptools.com/how-far-is-it-between.htm I find 5600km for Amsterdam -> Islamabad, and 3900km from LA -> NY. So I was 40% off :P
In that case, keep your changes and improvements in your own branch, and don't submit a pull request for them. If you don't want to share it for "free," that's your call.
I wanted to give my location manually and there was no way to continue the flow without that. Not sure how tiny a minority I am, but thought you should know.
That breaks down as soon as you have something with attributes, and it breaks down even further once you have something like:

<p>Example <b>text</b></p>
No, actually this is neither open source nor free software. The Open Source Definition requires the ability to redistribute changes: http://opensource.org/osd

The closest match would be Microsoft's Shared Source licenses.

(Life advice: don't be condescending without also being correct. Actually, you should probably just not be condescending.)
email me and I can send you what I have if you are interested. eoin - at - sfdevlabs.com