jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I disagree. These are things everyone can apply to their jobs.

Being a programmer involves understanding how computers work, what makes them interop, how networks work, perhaps some basic understanding of electronic engineering concepts, the ability to keep mental maps of insanely complex callgraphs in their head, etc.

This is not something "everyone" can just pick up and do. To reduce programming to a set of soft-skills is what got us into this mess in the first place.
Taking the biggest individiual things for both colliders and blockchains, the energy draw of the LHC is absolutely miniscule when compared to Bitcoin (even if we take the most conservative estimates for the latter). I would consider that energy cost justified given the chance of discovering new knowledge about physics that could help in the process of space exploration. The chance that Bitcoin would help with that is really small in comparison, especially when contrasted with its ludicrous energy usage.
The problem with the ports isn't (in in my experience) with spring-loaded components wearing out: rather, like ceejayoz said, I've seen a number of cases where the port just...moves around inside the device, so that you can't plug the cable in properly. Either it gets offset, so that the port is simply inaccessible through the slot in the case, or pushing in on it just makes the port itself push further into the case. (In that case, one can generally force it in a few times before things start to really break within the case.)

I know of no specific reason why this should be more common with micro-USB than with other connectors, but I've only seen it happen with micro-USB in person.
Estonia has a pretty good legal/law enforcement system.
What?! Why. why. why would anyone ever need this, and why would it ever be made available? I'm just completely dumbfounded by this.
... back to the books for you.
I can tell you my experience. I was placed in a gifted program in the 4th grade, iirc. From day to day we would skip a different class and attend the gifted program instead. One day I failed to turn in an assignment for a one if my "regular" classes. I didn't know about the assignment because I wasn't in class the previous day. The teacher told me that I should have been able to keep up because I was in the gifted program. I hated every minuted of it and ended up dropping out in fairly short order. Although I'll admit in retrospect that the program certainly could have been run better.
But think of the blowback on the discipline of Robotics when the first human/robot conflicts result in significant human casualties. It might be a net loss to the profession.
Whether or not it has been dropped by mainstream (source?) - you paint dissociative identity disorder in such a poor light - choosing only to focus on characteristics that make it controversial. I think you'll find that in fact there is simply a lack of consensis amongst psychologists for its basis - which happens to be the case for many 'disorders' in this arena.
Yes, that question was an easy one.
where? that thumbnail?
No, and I speak more than a handful of languages. It's often easier to tell me about a similar sound, even if in another language.

IPA is the other Unicode.
I remember reading and article/post/whatever a while back that said that some natives/tribes somewhere didn't see optical illusions. The implication was that it might be a product of more industrialized living.

( I may be confusing this a bit here. The first part may have been an article, and the second part may have been part of an HN discussion on it. )
My answer was serious. I've tried computer "to do lists" many times. None are as fast, convenient, accessible, or inexpensive as a simple notebook and a pen. Sometimes the best solution does not involve a computer.

I rewrite my tasks each day. This tends to have the side effect of making me complete those nagging little ones that sometimes seem stay forever.

To prioritize, I just put a little star next to the important tasks. I tried using different color inks and annotating with categories in the past but found this to be a waste of time.

It is a permanent record that I don't have to worry about backing up. I've got notebooks going back over 20 years now.

I guess one down side is that one cannot data mine it, I question the actual usefulness of such an activity.
yes exactly! this is something that I discussed a lot with my mentor at Manara and this is what we agreed on. I’ve never been on an airplane before, I think being in Europe will be life-changing for my career and also for my personal experience. Gaza is tiny, it’s 30km x 6km. I want to see some new things. :)
This is an example of how you can change the meaning completely by dropping the right words.

The part that you quoted as “Kuroda [...] didn’t find any correlation” is actually “Kuroda […] saw that previous research […] didn’t find any correlation” (and that's what she couldn't agree with), specifically:

> Kuroda began looking into the physiological effects of carrying infants when she saw that previous research, which used parental diaries rather than real-time physiological measurements, didn’t find any correlation between the amount of time babies were carried and the amount they cried. "I couldn’t agree with that," she says. Her research found that carrying a baby reduced their heart rate and movement as well as how much they cried.

and so on.
The media's helped with that, and the meme-ifcation and the 'mic drop' one-liner culture of social media. If someone's trying to lay out a nuanced argument, or even discussion point (even if they show no preference towards one side), a magic word will cause many readers to make drastic assumptions about the speaker/writer's state of mind and intentions.

There's this embedded pseudo-psychoanalytic aspect in people I never saw before the last few years. We know it well with people we KNOW, our family or friends, and in arguments, but the fact that it happens with complete strangers is ..really weird!

Then add partisan politics and it's a giant weird nightmare to have conversations with people who are over-excited with lower attention spans.
I posted this above but then saw you have direct experience and thought I’d ask: am I correct in understanding that transplanted hair is done in random patterns but not at random angles, and so the hair tends to look “stiff” and unnatural, like it has hair spray in it?
My wife and I are in the unexplained fertility category and are currently doing IVF (so far, so good).

I knew immune issues were a thing but I didn’t know it was easily treated. We were told by multiple doctors we could do more tests to see what was wrong but it wouldn’t change our treatment plan.

Just wanted to air my annoyance. We’re both healthy and at least were relatively young when we started trying to conceive.
Much better writeup of the a11y concerns here:

https://github.blog/2016-02-22-delivering-octicons-with-svg/
Maybe they mean layer 8 ;)
By reality, do you mean how the Earth was already warming, as evidenced by the fact that North America is no longer under miles of ice? Or is there a different reality where that warming magically stopped?
To be fair, it was a trick question
I understand what you mean now. Your original statement was:

They even admitted to subjecting him to additional security because
of his "background".

This is ambiguous and can be interpreted in more than one way. How I interpreted what you said:

1. He sets off the chemical detector
2. He is pulled aside for "additional security"

You can see why I disagreed as anybody ought to be pulled aside for additional security if they set off an explosives detector. Upon reading your reply, the interpretation you were going for was:

1. He sets off the chemical detector
2. He is pulled aside for "additional security"
3. They probe into his background to build a profile
4. This profile yields further rounds of "additional security"
that people not matching that profile wouldn't be subject to

I lack knowledge on whether or not making security-related decisions based on a profile is useful or irrelevant, so I'll bow out of this aspect of the conversation.
@anonwarnings, are you comfortable speaking offline? Would be interested to hear more about your experience.
Would you quote the bits here, so I can clarify with the product side of the house?

We have not and never will let anything jeopardize the continued security of any SDC deployments.

SDC having update channels is under active development:

'As of sdcadm version 1.5.5 and the release-20150319, SmartDataCenter has preliminary support for update "channels". A "channel" is separate stream of built SDC components with different stability characteristics.'

https://github.com/joyent/sdc/blob/master/docs/operator-guid...

I image that the support channel will be the most conservative.
If a persuasion blocker removed reviews from sites nothing of value would be lost, at least to first order.

For any book on Amazon, for example, 90%+ of the reviews are zero-information, because they either are entirely about the reviewer ("I thought this book was great/sucked/whatever" in various long-winded guises), are paid shills, compare the book unfavourably to another one by the same author (will will also have reviews comparing it unfavourably to another one by the same author) or are incoherent.

I've long thought that a review-sanitizer wouldn't be that hard to build that filtered out large numbers of reviews using what amount to anti-span techniques. Con-artists like you suggest that a more general counter-measures approach would be worthwhile.

You may object to being characterized as a con-artist, but you are precisely using algorithmic techniques to gain the mark's confidence so you can manipulate them to your own ends. That is the definition of a con-artist, and it's quite different from ethical salespeople do, based on my own experience in sales.

So here's a question: how would you deploy your algorithmic knowledge in a way that focused on qualifying rather than closing? The goal of an ethical sales-person is to qualify people in the channel, because a fully qualified lead is a closed sale. It may be a quite similar process, but you're asking a fundamentally different question. Not "how can I manipulate the lead to close" but "how can I identify the lead's needs and ability/willingness to pay?" Maybe it's not possible, but if websites focused on this rather than confidence tricks (which is what you are using) people would probably be much more willing to part with their money (the book "Getting Into Your Customer's Head", which is probably somewhat dated now, gives a fair idea of the approach I'm talking about.)
Bad analogy, Formula 1 drivers use selectable-gear, automatic transmissions. It's more efficient to have a computer run the clutch.
FWIW, I have a friend with a form of skin cancer who got orders from his doctor to go to a tanning salon.
There is evidence for and debate surrouding hormesis, a positive biological response to a little bit of something deadly at higher doses e.g. low-dose radiation. [1] [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_hormesis
Perhaps many would buy chewing gum to be rebellious.
So put two layers of this wunderstoff, each conducting inwards. Should be an absorber then.
I think the biggest problem with graphene has been manufacturing it at big enough sizes for practical applications. Coating the LED seems to be pretty ideal because it doesn't need a lot of surface area and can potentially be mass manufactured.
Another possibility is that they're not expecting you to live long enough to justify the investment. Google has developed very statistically accurate methods for determining how much longer an individual will live, but it's very computationally intensive to compute and so defer that filter to the very end of the interview process.
Perhaps if people in mass stopped using web browsers for their content and relied strictly on mobile apps. Already this is happening via the iPad, iTouch, iPhone - and now Apple is gearing for the desktop via OSX 10.7 app store. I know many developers that are building mobile apps only, and have given up development for web browsers.

If people stopped using web browsers and funneled everything through a mobile app store, which Apple controls, then yes we are giving up freedom for convenience. I would say this is the next logical step in the evolution of information, and Apple appears to be ahead of the game.

I'm curious to hear HN comments on the matter. Speak up!
Ah, but you're missing one small detail.

For many under the age of 20, email has already gone away. They think of it like we think of our (physical) mailbox. It's slow, it's filled with junk, it's something you check once per day but it's not where the bulk of daily activity happens. And it's quaint when grandma sends you one there.

Email will stay like the physical mailbox will stay. (Much more important for business than pleasure.)
Thanks, i'll give this a read.
Ahhh, the Rails inflector. An entire library dedicated solely to making things less explicit, more magical and more confusing.
It's pretty clear HP tried to distance themselves from the Slate starting the day they bought Palm. They showed it at CES and then sat on it for months, then released apparently the same thing they had shown at CES.

I think that's a big mistake. While I love WebOS, I have even less desire to buy it on a Slate than I do iOS. I don't want my phone but bigger, I want my computer but smaller. My guess is the first real competitor to the iPad will be the one that lets you run actual Windows and somehow programmatically makes everything touch-friendly.
Then you must be new here.
How would that occur?
What is the incentive for utilities and public providers? Just the fact that they can spend whatever they want and pass the bill on to the end user because they have no choice in the matter?
It seems to me that investing in REITs and TIPS, and taking out huge fixed-rate loans now (where possible) on necessary capital assets or borrowing cash to invest would be a wise investment strategy.
Take it from the rich people who have primarily hoarded all that money, and give it to poor people who are on the brink of death.
> has since deleted the posts and apologised, saying that he and Proctorio “take privacy very seriously”.

There's an inherent irony in this that presumably he didn't realise at the time he made those posts...

Actions speak louder than corporate mouthpiece words. Companies that care about privacy don't do this sort of thing, and don't build privacy infringing products.
I think I recall reading that study and seeing it compared people who took zinc with HCQ with people in the hospital and concluded that people in the hospital died more often than mostly healthy people. Hardly what I would call useful information.
As soon as they turn 2, getting them dressed does indeed require extensive improvisation :)
That might not be an option. The North Korean people are portrayed in the media as victims of the regime rather than a horde of blood-thirsty, war-mongerers so laying waste to swathes of the country with nuclear weapons is not going to go down well domestically or in the court of world opinion. The options for retaliation might well be very limited and the regime knows this well.
Apps in the background may have their resources reclaimed, or be shut down, if foreground apps need the RAM.

Also consider that many apps are using the same (system) libraries, which are only loaded once.
I'm no fan of Spring, but I do want to echo your sentiment. There are a lot of really good Java libraries and frameworks that are often lumped together in people's view with the more verbose "enterprisey" concepts.

There are two things I really like about Java in the broad sense: the excellent Eclipse environment, and the multitude of quality open source libraries.
I read this on my RSS reader and was shaken when opening the original page. Why would anyone do this?
I believe that Veera means java as a language but not jvm as a platform because a lot of startups use jruby and closure for their applications.
That would be a sad waste of the trust that users have built up for Google.
This article should be of interest to you (it's about rewriting from scratch) : http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
That is... a fairly optimistic opinion.

And presupposes that North Korea choses the least self-destructive action.

Feeling lucky?
Thanks, it's been something I have been meaning to do more once I get some more time to collect my thoughts on certain subjects.
The penalty for riding the TriMet MAX light rail without a ticket is a $170.00 citation.

I ride without paying all the time. I just dress respectably. Like today I'm wearing a dress shirt and silk necktie.

I've never been cited. I got caught red-handed once by a cop; when I told him I was on my way to see my doctor, he pulled a transit pass out of his pocket, popped it in the validation machine, handed it to me then requested I pay for my future train rides.

The main reason I do ride around the trains without paying, is that I am more effective at looking for a job when I take the train to downtown Portland. Most of the places I've lived around here haven't been so conducive to my work productivity.
I like how this phone includes that it's built to be durable as one of its major features. Phones should be tough. Waterproofing them should be standard. They should not break when dropped from 10+ feet. Their screens should not crack. On top of this, either optional or built-in warranty should include coverage for accidental damage. A phone like that would be worth quite a bit of money.

Another thing about the current generation of smartphones: unlike this Nokia offering, they are not yet "good enough". Chances are, you will replace your phone in 1-2 years, or at least you'll want to. Their speed is still growing very fast, and the demand on the CPU/GPU/RAM is growing very fast too. I can see buying this phone and keeping it for 5+ years: nothing in what it can do will see substantial improvements over that time period. Contrast this with the top of the line smartphones where simple things in 2017 will take 2x the processing power that they do now, because of the improved UI, etc.

Eventually, I think smartphones will settle down. I remember when PC's were getting faster and faster in the late 1990's, early 2000's. It seemed that you could upgrade every year and still not keep up. Eventually they got "good enough" where you can keep the same PC for 5-10 years (except power-users such as programmers, gamers, etc.) I look forward to a day when iPhones and such are a commodity such as this Nokia.
I got the same thing in Chrome on OS X (however, I have all plug-ins disabled due to the current Flash vulnerability).

I can’t imagine this is anything more than an oversight that will soon enough be corrected. The copy on that page is a bit rough, too:

> Apple engineers designed the A4 chip to be a remarkably powerful yet remarkably power-efficient mobile processor. (emphasis mine)

I think the page was a rush job, somehow neglected and not up to the usual Apple marketing standard of quality.
To be honest, I think it's pretty short sighted to think that attending YC equates "scrounging for the YC chump change". This comes up every so often, and I think it's been essentially agreed upon that very few (if any) people attend YC for the money. They do it for the alumni/connections/mentoring/advice network.
I know this is WAY off subject, but as many people reading this thinking of getting into this field, I see so many options and have no idea which way to start, or more accurately to find out if I have the aptitude (Barely made it past college algebra 2nd year, diagnosed ADHD guessing is why I'm horrific at math) for programming. My thinking so far is I should probably take an online programming course like udemy,udacity,edx,etc and if that turns out well then look to switch my major (2nd year) and then possibly boot-camp after school? During school? NOW? Any input is greatly appreciated.
I went to a coding boot camp in Omaha, Nebraska of all places.

Less than a month out of the school I was offered a job paying $55,000 a year salary at a large insurance company.

They primarily use Java and Groovy. The bootcamp taught Ruby on Rails. Maybe I got lucky, but I've found that the ability to code is slightly less important than one's ability to speak about programming/code in general.

If you can read and understand documentation, understand fundamental concepts like OO or functional paradigm, and understand what a stack is, a closure, recursion, the difference between an integer and a float, or a character and a string, methods/functions, etcetera, you are more or less hireable.

Basically you have to understand how a computer works, and the fundamental concepts in programming, as well as how to apply them.

However, you do need to have some sort of experience to put on a resume. For instance, if you go to a coding bootcamp you should be able to develop a simple REST API which sends a blob of json from a DB to a URL. That's a relatively complex task, but with a tool set like Ruby on Rails can be done in < week.

Essentially what I am doing at my job is more complex list processing and analysis. Just taking a bunch of data from a db, performing some operations to it, and spitting it back out. Basic stuff.
I've created a GH issue for this. https://github.com/amjith/pgcli/issues/22

Would you mind adding a bit of description to the issue, perhaps an example sql statement?
Hah, yep. I remember giving that a whirl not long before I gave up on Pascal, and looking at my screen and being completely horrified by the result.
Until some other cool library you really want to use happens to also have a NSArray.

With proper namespaces/modules, such conflicts can be usually sorted out by renaming on import. With C and Objective-C, good luck.
So is Tox, "a free and open source replacement to the well used proprietary application Skype".

https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2014/tox
Too much sugar and processed seed oils (e.g. sunflower and soybean).
I find myself quite conflicted as I agree with everything you say, but I am also one of the unfortunate people who's career is suffering due to rampant off-shoring.
I can't remember if I heard it in a Jim Keller interview or somewhere else, but I think students also helped initially design the ISA for RISC-V also.
See a problem, realize it’s a graph, realize it’s traveling salesman, reduce it to 3SAT, and start grinding it out in MiniSAT before I can type “jupyter lab”.
ASL does have a large heritage from French Sign Language, but it also was influenced by Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%27s_Vineyard_Sign_Lan...
CEOs get fired all the time for not foreseeing unusual disastrous events.

There are plenty of mechanisms to handle rare disasters rationally. The insurance industry manages a lot of it.

But of course, Earth doesn't have a CEO. On balance I think that is a very good thing. Though it does cause some coordination problems.
It has the same functionality as putting a name in a game using a SNES controller.
I am very aware HD manufacturers pushed through the megabyte rebranding via SI back in late 1990s. There is no good technical reason to have inherently power of two quantities in power of ten measures.

The reason for re-standardization effort was deflection of legal responsibility for misleading marketing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Lawsuits_over_definition
Hex Fiend uses native Mac scrollbars, but manages its scroll position itself. In Cocoa speak it uses NSScroller but not NSScrollView.
I bought one cause my wife had bad allergies in our bedroom even after cleaning, most likely because of our dog.

I get itchy eyes with allergies, and I don’t think the purifier helped at all. Just my anecdote. An allergy pill helped me more haha.