jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As an administrator in my sixth year now, I thought I'd weigh in on one of the issues you brought up.

It is a widely held (and enforced) belief that, when wanting to state that something was said in a book, only a secondary source can be cited. So they would prefer a newspaper's review to the actual book itself, for example. This is, for most cases, simply absurd.

I think you're right, and I think that type of behavior is a misinterpretation. There's obviously no need to cite a secondary source about what a book literally says. In fact, in this case, rather than citing the primary source and paraphrasing, the best thing would be to directly quote the book.

The problem arises when "stat[ing] that something was said in a book" involves an implicit judgment, synthesis, interpretation, or analysis of the book. In this case, although you are trying your best to neutrally paraphrase a book's content, you are in some way introducing your own judgment into the process.

In most cases if the editor is acting in good faith then there is no big problem here. But on controversial subjects or articles working for featured status, it is better to avoid the possibility of "original research" (for those unfamiliar with this Wikipedia policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OR). Putting an editor's judgment about a book is original research, but putting a verifiable and attributed judgment from a secondary source isn't—secondary sources represent the 'state of the debate' about an article's topic. It's the job of tertiary sources (i.e. encyclopedias) to represent the state of the debate, not to write original assessments of the topic.

I agree with you that too strict an enforcement of this rule ends in an absurd, frustrating, and dispiriting situation for all involved. But on controversial articles there is often a good reason to insist on verifiable secondary sources.
This does not include Clojure, nor Leningen (the Clojure build tool), nor does it work on Windows or any environment that does not have apt-get. No doubt, you will end up with a perfectly suitable environment for playing around with SBCL.

edit to add: How does one even know to install SBCL and hit M-x and type slime to get started? You and I might already know these things, but it doesn't really help a stone-cold newbie, they still need a more concrete starting point.
You want to ask yourself: is this the kind of person I wouldn't mind being stuck in a foxhole with? (metaphorically, of course)

At the end of the day, you need to figure out if they are self-motivated, can take the initiative, and most importantly, can get shit done.

Unfortunately, there aren't really good substitutes for figuring those things out other than experience working together.

A "trial period" where both of you collaborate on a project has worked well for me in the past.
I'm always surprised at how productive I am in the plane when I'm not distracted by the net. I read better, absorb info better, program faster, etc. And my thought process goes much deeper into problems when I've just got a pen and paper.

Hm, I should try airplane mode for my computer when I'm not on the airplane.
Yep. The team from appspark.us are here. You can reach me at nc at appspark.us
From their help page: http://help.twitter.com/entries/109623

> "All links included in Direct Message notification emails currently pass through our link service and are converted to a http://t.co link. We've also begun testing this service for links in Tweets"

I'm curious whether they're going to outright put a blanket ban on "alternative" URL shorteners like they did with Twitter-based Ad services.
Hosts file solves this : http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
If it's a 'blatant' smear, what would be it's agenda? The main thing anyone could take from this is that the NSA's systems are broken or that they're incompetent and can't be trusted to know who's stealing their data. Also that Edward Snowden isn't stupid.

I mean, it could be a smear from an agency who are hostile to the NSA for some reason (that stuff happens; like Valerie Plame, or the notion that Watergate was the result of the FBI leaking against the CIA and the White House). It's hardly likely to be from the NSA or the Whitehouse, who are currently in damage limitation mode; contrasting their own incompetence with that of the guy they're up against doesn't seem like a smart move...
"Snowden's hacking prowess"

So we're back to this. First the "Snowden had a Hacker Certification" nonsense (ignoring that CEHs are required by DoD for OPS jobs and aren't exactly high-quality to begin with) and now deleting log files equaling "hacking". I guess it is easier to make him seem like some super skilled hacker than admit that oversight and access controls were probably non existent.

Selfishly, I really don't even care about Snowden at this point but I do fear that the trend developing is to paint him as a "Hacker" putting security researchers as the next major "threat".
Former Ku Klux Klan leader Johnny Lee Clary on Enough Rope with Andrew Denton
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqV-egZOS1E

Just as a counter point..
I'll confess, I don't understand YAGNI.

I think I've been tainted by too many counter-examples: seeing a piece of code that was specially written for a very narrow and specific use case, and needing to extend it to some scenario that the original author did not envision. If the author hadn't been thinking in terms of re-use and extensibility ("because they ain't gonna need it"), it gets frustrating and regression-prone.

In other words, you ain't gonna need it, until you eventually do. Lazy programmers shouldn't be excused for dismissing maintainability with a simple catch phrase.
Really? They didn't consider the notion that someone might delete logs (or disable logging)? Maybe they should be using a better logging daemon...
Are we differentiating between IT and Engineering and Operations?

I think OP was referring to Engineers and Operations at software companies, not IT at an accounting firm.
another angle: How much would the company loose if they had to recruit another person exactly like you? The headhunters get 20% of your salary the first year, than it's cost time and working hours to find new employee, bring them up to speed, the insecurity that the new guy is not the right person, etc..
Who knew Clash of the Titans would be a real thing 30 years later
I don't know why you are down voted but this is exactly why pihole and adguard have no effect on many devices.
You might like SerenityOS. It's a hobbyist OS with a similar aesthetic and the authors seem to have a lot of fun making it.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity
I'm not opposed to using a standard that's somewhat different, but I need an enter/return key.
We could prepare better for similar occurrences. Such as funding better the astronomers and the labs so that we have instruments able to at least detect and take pictures of such objects, if not probe them.

Not to mention the possibility of one hitting the earth, for which we are completely unprepared. Even if it’s just a rock and not an UFO.

The main reason for having this debate is that we weren’t even capable of taking a good picture of it. The best thing we have is a white dot with varying brightness over time. We have no clue what it was and we probably will never know.

The state of the tech we have would be understandable if it was 1990, but in 2021 it’s starting to look pathetic.
I will boldly predict that this won't work.

There are two types of homeless. The temporary homeless who have been caught out by circumstance and work mightily to avoid remaining homeless. These people tend to be homeless only for very short periods of time (days).

Then there are the chronically homeless, who are generally unable to live within societal norms. Many of these people are mentally ill. And for many of these people giving them a home and money will not solve their problems.
My experience with "just in case" things I take on trips is that they become a distraction. The best trip I ever had was one in October where we went to a hotel on a remote island without any internet and absolutely no phone reception.

It's called relaxation apparently. I liked it.
A couple of companies regularly sent me spam disguised as a newsletter. I'm completely sure I didn't subscribe to anything from them. Their unsubscribe systems and polite requests didn't work. The worst was that GMail didn't learn to mark them as spam.

I found a nice GMail feature: I could create a filter that killed their spam from my inbox and then sent a copy of the message to the addresses that I chose, that were the abuse, postmaster, etc. that previously had ignored me. I also added addresses from DNS database and the staff of the spammers.

Unfortunately this feature seems to be disabled for some time now. The filters I created are still there, but I can't create more of their kind.
It does sound like it may have gotten you to your table sooner than would otherwise have been the case, though. Just something to consider.
Obligatory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langua...

Full text: http://orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit

"It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."

One of the most insightful sentences I've ever read. IMHO, non-European languages only have rough equivalents for Renaissance concepts like equality, democracy, scientific inquiry etc (yeah yeah, I know Greece had a so-called democracy; I'm talking about our modern-day understanding of these concepts). Blocking the precise word from being used in Chinese may be a mind-control trick.
Gmail can take a "report spam" as unsubscribe request, for some mailing lists.
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/unsubscribing-made-eas...
The article mentions other companies frequently rolling out new features. In that context, the product wasn't moving forward because no new features were added during the YC phase. While scaling and bugfixing probably count as moving the product forward, the rest is arguably moving the company forward.
* Jailbreak your ipad (be careful with iOS4), install OpenSSH through Cydia and connect to localhost with iSSH. There are for example apache, vi, ruby, python, grep and awk. Can that scratch your itch?
* Not really hacking but you can install Frotz for text adventuring in interactive fiction.
* Buy an apple bluetooth keyboard and connect it to Android or the iPad for easier typing.
Ha, good question. In my first year, I learned an absolute ton. A huge portion of the work I'd be doing was mindless, but there was some really interesting stuff interwoven. I now know how to build complex financial models. I have a deep understanding of corporate finance. I know how the sausage is made for both public and private financing (including IPO) and M&A transactions. I got to have conversations with CEOs and CFOs of major companies about their businesses.

The second year was very different. I stopped learning new things. I started thinking about what I wanted to do next, but all of the traditional exit ops seemed like more of the same bullshit to me. I started thinking about doing venture capital, then realized I'd rather just start a startup myself. This all took several months to figure out, and I needed income (I have massive student debt), so I stayed in the job in the meantime. I also didn't want to prematurely cut ties with the people I was working with (leaving before your two years are up is highly frowned upon). I spent any downtime I could find reading about startups. In late winter/early spring, I convinced a couple friends to work on a startup with me, and we used applying to YC as a means to focus our work. We actually got invited to interview, but didn't get funded. At that point, it was May, so I only had two more months to go to finish out my two years and get my bonus, so I trudged on and closed it out.
"But they are ugly and now everyone is teasing me about them. I want a refund"
Griddy is obviously insolvent since its members are, so far with you. But many other providers are also defaulting. Why are they forcing only Griddy to shut down? Conspiracy theory: putting them into bankruptcy with no hope of recovery has a good chance of making all those huge bills you have read about in the press go away.

This strikes to me as a typical American solution to peoples crass financial ignorance: socialize the debts. Here is what happens next:

> If buyers are not able to cover their bills, Ercot will pay the generator and the charges will ultimately be spread out to other market participants, including other generators and traders, as permitted by regulations.
Yes, I think something like this could be done. Feel free to file a feature request
Couldn’t have said it better. This was the same experience I had. Unfortunately a lot of the bad press came from examples of people who signed up and agreed to Griddy’s terms (which were super straightforward) and then acted as if they were on a fixed rate plan.

Griddy was a tiny portion of the market and the focus on them only benefits those who couldn’t keep the grid reliable and profited immensely.
AFAIK because electricity is so essential, you can't cut off people's power without going through a lengthy process. You also can't cut off people's power during the winter, either.
Buffalo is still suffering from the reputation it got in the 90s when it was a high crime city.
I had the service for 2 years. Most months I saved $50-100.

Until this month wiped out my savings the entire time (I was able to jump ship soon enough to "only" rack up $1300 of electric bills with them lol)
Man, I appreciate you explaining all this in such a plain and emotional terms; you have one green energy convert right now.
I haven't actually checked more on PureScript and about the UI libraries and so, I'll try to dig more.
It looks like you can get around this by adding Terminal.app as a "developer tool" (i.e. it can create processes without hitting Gatekeeper), maybe that works? (once I did that and relaunched terminal, I can run cosmopolitan binaries).

https://docwhat.org/upgrading-to-catalina
I made you a comparison:

Apple is using fingerprint evidence to allow or deny access to a phone.

Judiciary around the world is using fingerprint evidence to lock people up, deny them basic rights, and sometimes to kill them.
Ouch. Sorry - that is indeed a problem (not necessarily in this context - this page goes away on monday - but in general)! Strangely, we are reusing our objects, so I don't think it can be the javascript code itself. Could it somehow be Firefox's implementation of canvas?

I will investigate. Thanks!
The link to the document obtained by the PCJF in the article is broken.
Clearly, Yoda has 900 years of experience dealing with datetime bugs.
Can someone explain what he means at about 10:30:

[transcript] "So, what you should look for, if you are interested in this stuff is if the way it works is that you have to supply an HTML template and it injects that HTML template directly to page, that essentially means that there is not much that they can do to optimize that."

It seems like he's saying that using markup directly and creating a fast, stable javascript api at the same time isn't possible.
Most of the people on HN sell/create digital goods and to say that we have no rights over the things we create is very insulting.

I ran a business selling software to small business for years. When I was selling software I'd written, I never tried to restrict the rights of my customers to resell copies of what I sold them. To say that they didn't really own what they'd bought would have been very insulting.
I won't bother to look up the current number: 5,000 is scarry enough, but I stand corrected. On the other hand, do you have a reference to a list of similar menacing national symbols?
This is interesting, but the article and I differ greatly at this point: "Being non-standards-compliant in a way that privileges their flows relative to others seems more than a little hypocritical from a company that's making such a fuss about network neutrality."

No, no it's not. This has nothing to do with network neutrality; it's a purely server-side change/fix. Not only that, they're benefiting users without requiring anyone else to change while they wait for standards bodies to catch up. This is a similar scenario to HTML5 video, and distinctly more clear-cut than e.g. '802.11n draft' wireless routers in my opinion.
They do exist but it's a social thing, not a technical/skill thing. They get the big multiplier by making other team members more effective, not through their direct work efforts.
If he understands the Internet and how it works (I doubt it), he's chosen to pervert it. Read "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" to get a better history of the real geniuses behind the Internet.

Look to people like Alan Kay to remind you of how far we've moved from the potential that was inherent in the medium. A platform designed for decentralized robustness and rapid information exchange perverted into a delivery medium for ads, surveillance and centralized control.
One word: availability
The vector for the water/boat/plane is "medium".
100Gbps / 30Mpps - border router, on $5000 Linux server and decent SmartNIC. (Alternative to $20-200K Cisco ASR/Juniper MX routers)

Native integration with Kubernetes and Terraform, designed for modern cloud practitioners, DevOps, and NetOps folks.

Cloud-like, self-operating, functionality.
The numbers are no longer raised on my US Amazon card, but due to gray-on-gray the numbers are much harder to read. Smaller numbers give more white space for a very clean design. So I get to see much better modern UX as I squint to read my card.
There are also many cultures that are renowned for being “socially distant”, even if they’re very small, very compact, and very public transit-reliant.

This seems like globalizing a term that was originally very western- (and particularly English-speaking-) centric.
You mean I can no longer just ignore people around me?
fwiw, our experience has been lackluster and frustrating. My child is in public elementary school, in the inclusive class (special ed and non special ed in same class). So there are 2 teachers and they split the subjects Language arts/Social studies, Math/Science, and then he has a few specials like STEM, Technology, Music once a week that each have a different teacher.

The biggest problem that we had last week was that each teacher, and sometime each subject had a different system to log into. It made getting everything setup a bit of a challenge and there was always confusion about where to go next when we transitioned to a new subject. My spouse has a degree in education, and I make my living heading up product and technology team and we found it challenging. I imagine that folks without those backgrounds are really struggling.

This week seems to have gotten better, and all the love in the world to the teachers who had their plans upended by this, but I am frustrated with the school/county administration for not having this more nailed down and standardized for kids who were out sick and having to use the systems outside of this quarantine.
German here. When I look out of my window i see exactly 0% are wearing a mask. Saw one person in the supermarket the other day.
These videos are one of the rare occasions I prefer over reading in texts. Nicely done.
So, I don't think you're going to like this answer.

My assumption is corona lockdowns -- whether formal everyone stays at home nationally, devolving to the responsible states, or devolving even further to responsible employers -- is going to last at least 6 months. We'll see some data when China attempts to relax restrictions. I'd also assume that all the stuff folks normally do to for their kids for the summer period while they aren't in school -- ie all the camps -- are basically not going to happen, so you're going to be doing this until at least labor day.

As a cxx, we can / are definitely expecting some choppiness over the next couple weeks while everyone figures out how things work with us all working from home with the entire family home.

Given the economic guesses above, an inability to put in a reasonable workday is likely going to be a problem for you given the length of time I'm guessing we're going to be doing this. It also depends on how well capitalized your employer is.

Second, we (not saying my company, but definitely the US) are going to see layoffs. My company has already frozen hiring, to the obvious intent of not having layoffs and making cash last as long as possible. The US already has skyrocketing unemployment claims and an easily visible ongoing devastation of small business. The Republicans in the senate appear to have no interest in directly and immediately replacing the wages of everyone the government and/or corona are not allowing to work. This adds up to, most likely, a whopping recession. You're a family man, so you need to figure out how to keep yourself out of the line of fire, and my advice would be if that means working tired... you should work tired. NB: I'm not saying this is right or fair, just probably the best plan unless you have large cash savings.

At my company, we're figuring out how to support parents and, to be honest, we don't have a solid plan right now. A lot hinges on how deep the recession is going to be. We're already pricing in large sales falls. Again -- as mentioned above -- short term choppiness / reduction of work is fine, but if it is long term, and corona requires we work at home for an extended period of time, we're not in a financial position to weather a recession, pay full wages, and have a large falloff in work output.
Heh, in my days working in a pharmacy (hybrid service & product world), it was amusing whenever prescribers (service-oriented) felt we could work harder to create stock.

Sure, I’ll just work a few extra hours to grow the crop of plants we extract this drug from.

Or build some more vats that we brew this drug in.
I have experience with both Zoom and WebEx. Zoom (on Mac) has a lot of what I consider to be "bad behaviors" UI-wise, especially around window management. And it's ugly in the way mobile apps that get ported to the desktop are. But it gets the job done, and WebEx is definitely worse in these and other ways. So... /me shrugs