jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Office space+additional overhead could be reduced by remote workers. That would involve transforming management culture though, which is long overdue for it. And I'm not talking about some new crappy book about moving cheese or others of its ilk.
I wonder if this is true for china
We had a big discussion of this not too long ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8890170

But that was based on something on the EFF website. The good news here is that the NY Times has picked it up, not just on the web but also in their print edition.

I pay Verizon over $200 per month for cellphones for me and my family. Verizon shouldn't be allowed to double dip. If they want to make money tracking me, then they can give me the phones for free. I'd probably accept that deal.

I agree with those in the article who say we should reclassify broadband providers as common carriers. Otherwise it's never ending "whack a mole" as these greedy oligopolists try to think of new ways of monetizing us.
> What you describe is doing everything you can in order to try to avoid a situation in which you might be required to flex your rights.

I like to think of it as maintaining a preemptive strategy. I don't like this, but the world we live in is unfair and full of assholes who don't play by their own rules.

> How can you describe it as a strategy for "making sure your rights are respected"?

A man who faces no wars carries no battle scars.

> It is on its face an attempt to make the question of whether you have rights or not a no-impact detail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWiBt-pqp0E#t=256
People keep saying that as a defence, and I agree 2.2 isn't made for tablets. But it makes me wonder: why did Samsung even ship it then?
Some bubbles aren't echo chambers. If you only follow people who agree with you that math is cool, or that the majestic octopus is the best animal, maybe that's a bubble where you'll learn tons of new stuff.

Maybe google+ was right all along. Publish this to the octopus circle, publish that to the math circle, and this other thing to the politics circle.
Is this site full of fatties? Why does every diet article shoot to the top?

Gotta be careful if that's the case. Wouldn't want to catch the fat virus here or anything.
Maybe, but they still raise a vaild point. If i want to read about windows 7 on my mac apple can't stop but i'm also not just going to sell the mac because I read an article.

This is a pretty epic display of insecurity on Apple's part.
"The DPR of Korea (North Korea) will become in the next years the most important hub for trading in North-East Asia."
Talking about 'winning' or 'losing' is STILL foolish, even from the broader viewpoint.

No one product will win. Some products will fail. This is as true for smartphones as it is for games consoles, cars, and soft drinks.

People do this all the time, and it's so needlessly divisive and tribalist. When the current generation of games consoles came out (as with every generation before) there was raging debates over which one would 'win' - and look, they're all selling, all have games, and all are popular. Sometimes an individual product or company will fail (Sega, in the games console market), but you very rarely really see a single dominant 'winner'.
The ICE confirmed:

“ICE office of Homeland Security Investigations executed court-ordered seizure warrants against a number of domain names,” said Cori W. Bassett, a spokeswoman for ICE, in a statement. “As this is an ongoing investigation, there are no additional details available at this time.”

From the NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/technology/27torrent.html?...
I would be very interested to hear whether stereotype threat responds to the prompt: "Write something about fish. You have 15 minutes."
In my above comment I worked out that there MUST be genetic differences.

Even if you start from a point of complete genetic equality in aptitude, all it takes is any kind of cultural or social bias to create a selection pressure which will lead to genetic difference.

Given the historically different roles of men and women, it would be vanishingly unlikely for there not to be genetic differences.

If being very good at a task leads to more reproductive success, and only one gender performs that task, then only one gender receives the benefits of that selection pressure (to the extent of sex-chromosome-specific loci).

On the flip side, there is evidence that being TOO much of an outlier is negative. The smartest people tend to be more socially marginalized, both voluntarily and involuntarily. So it's possible that the top people are essentially evolutionary mistakes (as they are LESS likely to reproduce), and as evolution seems to roll the dice more with males than females, more males will turn out like this.

In a post-Darwinian society, this all goes out the window. It's just a historical relic of not being able to tinker with our genome directly, and having to rely on sexual reproduction.
Yes I was in that class. Thank you for responding.

I understand the the need for early adopters and feedback. I have nothing against your project in principle, and I wish you the best. And I appreciate all the effort you've put into improving the product.

Honestly, I would have no problem with putting up with many of the problems we ran into, just that we paid for it. Part of the problem was that it wasn't explicitly made clear that it was 'beta' software until most of the class had purchased their licenses. Seriously, it completely coloured the way we saw any short comings in Top Hat. A lot of us felt that we were tricked/cheated out and generated a lot of unnecessary ill will. You probably heard through the grapevines some of the rumblings from the class regarding possible financial transactions between your company and our professor.

It wasn't pretty.

On the side, one of the implementation problems that we ran into a lot in tutorials when we ran quizzes was that since we all had laptops, we all had msn open. Which meant that for ~60% of the class, it was just a matter of getting added to an msn convo, and grabbing the answer. I don't really believe there's much of a technical solution that you can implement. In fact, for my class, more than half of the class who actually showed up to tutorial had their laptops there (part of this had to do with our class schedules).

I personally was too lazy, and just texted from my phone, and kept thinking that a confirmation msg would be great (I lost a couple of questions from dropped texts no biggie). I'm glad to see that its in place.

And much appreciation for the voucher. After reading this, I'll definitely try to look at Top Hat with fresh eyes (and enjoying demos that load on time!). Thanks!
That seems like a poor rule. As a dev and systems engineer those shortcuts are codified in my head, but I've noticed other devs won't even know simple ones. I've taken months off and not forgotten them. GUIs change, get deprecated, can vary by medium etc... so the same can be said for them.

Generally, whether I'm making a CLI or a GUI, I establish contracts for display, input, and output. This at least allows for some albeit veritable consistency.
I think there is a more direct comparison; Amdahl Trilogy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy_Systems

A great case of half of the industry riding into a concrete wall following the trendsetter.
The saying from the movie Field of Dreams, wherein a mentally ill man hallucinates a voice telling him to build a baseball field for ghosts.

The quote is only applicable to people who are building baseball fields for ghosts.
And they often have an obligation to seek to maximize profits above all other concerns.

Only if the people who form that association demand it. There's no legal obligation - that's a common myth.
"It would be far easier to talk about and praise the successes, but I find mistakes an interesting topic nonetheless, mainly because they are very useful in bettering the learning process."
> That doesn't pass Occam's Razor let alone any kind of smell test.

Really? So North Korea launching a cyber attack in order to prevent the release of a stupid movie seems like a plausible story to you? Of course the story is a moving target, as they are now hedging with the whole foreign contracted hacker angle... Do you think they conducted a "professional job of investigation" before blaming North Korea? Do you think that they'd change their position on the matter even after discovering evidence that they were wrong? Keep in mind, Obama quickly restated their claims and threatened retaliation.
I remember a friend who owned a MS phone (winphone?) around the time that iphone began. He was really happy that he could integrate exchange, use excel and word and do lots of other things with windows. After a month of living with the phone, he told me, "you won't believe how much I hate this thing." It kept crashing, freezing, and locking up on him and he returned it 3 times already. He said that if he had to return it again, he was going to get something else. Now he uses an Android phone and loves it.
“I’ve got Covid-19, and I self-quarantine”… That was the exact message I send just a few months ago to my family’s chat on Facebook.
You might like Zig's attitude towards this question. Async/sync decision is a single compile-time decision there. The jury's still out whether that's a good idea though.
Hi, I like this idea, but I'm not seeing any examples of the artwork you're talking about. Are there any photos or examples of the kind of artwork that get sent out? Wish you the best!
The only reason you wanted to use “async” was because of micro-optimization on thread context switches?
This is exactly what AWS does with something like Aurora:
https://awsmedia.awsstatic-china.com/blog/2017/aurora-design...

Not sure why you're so fearful. Bare metal machines can crash in weird ways and K8s containers can be just as reliable as the underlying host.
It was a bad life strategy. I've met other kids like this. While they are super-smart in their field, they are terribly "unrounded" in anything else, including basic life skills like social interactions.
Would you have preferred they tell you to leave it alone for a couple of months and maybe it would work again?
Why are you being so uncharitable with your responses? All of that is exceedingly obvious. But you know what else is obvious? A product needs to be used for something. That "something" was originally intended to be games, and that's the reason the Oculus fundraiser was so wildly successful. You can go watch the Kickstarter video right now, and it will bear that out. It's simply crazy how quickly history is apparently rewritten.

Now, go ahead and name some non-gaming uses of CV1. I bet you can't come up with anything compelling, like something that an average person might want to spend hundreds of dollars to get.

It sounds like you're handwaving that away as not a big deal. But if it isn't intended solely for games, then what is it intended for? What will people do with it? Movies are a social experience, and anyone who has ever cuddled while watching a love story will attest. Nobody in that situation will put on a cyborg headset to watch the movie. That's both a gimmick and a dangerous distraction from delivering on Oculus's real potential.

Hilariously, the Oculus might be the ultimate way to watch porn. That's one of the few non-gaming activities I could imagine someone being willing to drop $hundreds for. But if it's a glorified porn box, then that's an unfortunate outcome compared to what it could have been: a revitalization of the gaming industry at large.
That's unfortunately something you can say about any language.
IANAS/D but it seems that it is, in fact, effectively harmless (in people without severe pre-existing mental disorders, which is to say most people).

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysergic_acid_diethylamide#Pote...
is the quality of HN commenters going down, perhaps?

1.) It's about strategy. re-read Sun Tze, Art of Strategy (and avoiding
war). The title is amistranslation cleverly designed to fool non-native
LANGUAGE cunning linguists. - english joke - cunn ing lin gui st - end
joek.

2.) those who armed welll with the RIGHT language, did not need to
fight or program well. that's why Haskell or Ocaml is at the 2nd stage.

3.) But it AINT COQ or provable...LANGUAGE.

4.) what's the second point U missed?
Yes, the weak spot is "inter-team dependency" - ref: mathattack post.
Yes, the ??? is true and necessary.

BUT THE CONDIITION is NOT SUFFICIENT for AI or artificial intelligence.

8.) so what is the closest to ai. Seems to me prolog, but darn... most
of the obscure conferences are in japanese....language barrier.

9.) We conclude the 'lesson of the day" by
quote: nbardy: "client wants their project done on time and on budget along with the ability to change direction"

So, THE CLIENT wants it FREE, Yesterday (get the time machine
working) and High quality and CHANGEABLE - agilie.

Yes, of course, as long as you pay up front, I THE VENDOR
guarantees ALL FOUR ASPECTS in the 'game.'

No wonder, the track record of software is so BAD compared to
engineering, building of the Pyramids in Egypt, farming using
bio-dynamic techniques, other human endeavor - spacecraft.

addendum: fun note: just simply download basic OPEN SOURCE
that includes libressl, openssl, gettext GNU, etc.

SOME OF IT DONT WORK, at least on basic systems.
I've had a very hard time finding a new job given that my current job doesn't use any kind of "tooling" or outside libraries to get things done, other than rather obscure and domain specific ones (e.g. libgps). Ideally I'd like to pivot to web development given that I have some hobbyist experience with it, but I'm not very good at "specific frameworks".

If someone were to ask me to sit down and write something in React/Vue.js/whatever on the first interview, I don't think I could without the docs or a tutorial available. I can write JS just fine, I can't write any specific framework, even though I have the mental model and concepts behind how they work and how to use them. So when I see a job that specifically asks for e.g. React, I just don't apply. Same story with companies that ask for Django rather than the more generic "Python web development experience". I could pick up Django within two weeks if you hired me. I know what it is and what MV(C) is. Isn't that enough?
Some programming languages are more conductive for some types of applications.
Loads of F# jobs advertise as “.NET” or “C# with an interest in functional programming” since they want to encourage strong C# developers to apply.

Seriously, F# is used a lot more than you might think in the financial world!
He does somewhat address his own premise. He is basically saying that figuring out who to exclude is simply not worth it. Maintaining a system for deciding "who is worthy of help" is more costy than just giving everybody help.
Thanks for including my advice. Happy to answer any questions/remarks. (I'm Marc Köhlbrugge from BetaList)
Not to worry! Yes, we will end up with many different streaming services, each a walled garden of content. However, what if some provider were to just "bundle" all of them together for the modicum price of $100/month!? Then everyone wins! They could also throw in some ads... those content licenses sure are expensive! But hey, at least is not cable!
This seems interesting. Does it support user-defined algorithms? Or does it have to be a combination of the exsiting algorithms that Seldon provides? I don't seem to able to get a definite answer from this page: http://docs.seldon.io/configuration.html
The prescribed solution does not solve for all use cases though.

Imagine if the meeting included a conference call to someone in Australia. A day before the meeting, the bureaucrats change the DST rule. The meeting invite for the Australian now has incorrect time. Storing as local time will work against events applicable across timezones.

The problem isn't with UTC, it is unexpected rule changes that the converting agent (software) did not predict. That logic will have to be coded in.
Deep nets are only loosely inspired by neurobiology. That's why LeCun calls them "convolutional nets" and not "convolutional neural nets" and prefers "nodes" over "neurons".

It is, however, possible to have a deep net produce 3D models/images: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCSW4isBDL0 "Learning to Generate Chairs with Convolutional Neural Networks".

I also suspect a different part of cognition is used when humans are asked to recreate a "fire truck" than when humans are asked to classify a "fire truck" from a "car". The former seems closer to using memory ("what did the last five fire trucks I saw look like?"). A fairly recent addition to deep nets is making use of memory: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.5401.pdf "Neural Turing Machines". So the difference may quickly become less significant.
What about the traditional marketplaces like sologig, elance, o-desk, etc.? Losing favor among quality talent?
My experience was the opposite. Campus police were generally on the students' side. It probably had something to do with the school being in a fairly high crime rate area.
Why store the UTC offset too, then? Couldn't you get that with the timezone? Then you've got the wall time for the meeting saved, and if you need to convert it to UTC for some reason, you could do it with the most current rules for the timezone.

If the offset becomes meaningless in the event of a rule change anyway, why save it when the most current rules will help you get the offset?
localStorage doesn't work in many browsers' private modes, so no... it's not
https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/new_muon_g2_results...
My town painted a few lanes. Bike deaths didn't change. Bike ridership didn't increase.

Paint doesn't do squat for making car lanes safe for bikes.
That looks like really nice concept for very quick game prototypes.

Is there something similar?
That’s interesting. As side-projects I just created two sibling games using JavaScript:

https://www.gameofpainting.com

https://www.paintingpuzzles.com

I optimized for the “fasted path to ship”, so I used React only, as it is what I know. The games reflect the limitations of the tools of course. They are just tapping games with simple game logic.

It would be nice to have something more powerful but still in a language that I know (I have no intention of going full game-developer). I’ll take a look at it.
@slmjkdbtl works at Replit and he designed and lead this project :)
Which is why you use domain scoping, httpOnly and Secure cookie flags so they can only be read by matching hosts (with greater granularity than same-origin policy) over HTTPS and can’t be read by JavaScript. The Web Storage API does not offer these protections.
> Switched power supplies are notorious for causing EMI; why didn't he test for it?

The necessary equipment - anechoic chamber, proper antenna and scope - goes into the six figures. Way out of reach for hobbyists and most if not all maker associations.
I'm not sure it was profitable, but Orkut, at its peak, had 300 million users, and that purely a result of an experiment by an engineer.
I think guile at least got prompt and abort functionality which makes it mostly doable?

Also, bizarrely, http://p3rl.org/Worlogog::Incident exists.
"We are deeply sorry about this" => we don't care much and we will try to hire not the cheapest dev around
Wonder how that played out IRL

if the company made a bad hire and kept that person around does that count as mis-managin? What if they had to fire them to save the company?
maybe spend an hour ... every day!
It depends. First class mail needs probable cause and a warrant since it may be private correspondence [0]

[0] https://www.uspis.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/USPIS-FAQs....
And that is a useful set of information to add to the discussion.

I'm not sure how accurate size is as an indicator of species for feces, given that some dogs are quite large with large feces (and some many humans have small feces for dietary reasons), but it's not like the original commenter explained in much detail how they classified the feces either (other than indicating it was through images for many).

Edit: Regarding your second link, I have a pair of 65 pound dogs, and their poop is generally about 1/3 to 3/4 that size. I assume it could be a ~100 lb dog, but agree it's more likely from a person.
There are some cities that seem to have better salary/cost of living ratios. I'm thinking of places like Boulder, CO or Provo, UT.
> Hypothesis: the Bar Association is a cartel; limits supply, keeps prices high.

The mechanism is a little different than that. They don't limit the supply, they drive demand by causing attorneys to be risk-averse.

For example, there are questions an attorney might be able to answer off the top of their head and be correct about 99.9% of the time. A low income client may like those odds and be much happier to take them in exchange for getting charged for 15 minutes of time than to have the attorney take two hours to double check the answer. The attorney, however, would answer a thousand questions like that a year and then have even odds of getting one of them wrong and getting disbarred over it. That takes option one off the table. Multiplied by every question the client has, that means the client has to pay for eight times as much lawyer time. Even if it isn't worth paying your lawyer $5000 more to e.g. avoid a 1% probability of a $15,000 penalty.
> On a modern website, there can be dozens of iframes.

Let me fix that for you:

> On a shit website, there can be dozens of iframes.
It depends on several factors including the size of the down payment and market conditions. If the market declines it could be very bad for net worth.
At my first programming job, the company had an internal NNTP server which we used for public (within the company) discussions.

At that time, every decent mail client was also a newsreader, so people could easily flip back and forth between private correspondence and public discussion. News lets you write substantial, email-sized posts and replies, but it also plays perfectly well with quick one-liners. It allows threaded discussion, and newsreaders give you simple but effective tools to navigate it. It's fine if threads blow up and die out in a day, or if they live on for weeks. You can cross-post where a discussion touches different areas. You can post-and-mail if you want to attract a specific person's attention. It's easy to index (although i don't think we did that).

It was amazing.
A thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15786703
I think there should be a section on stock options, what happens to your options on subsequent rounds of funding. Similar to how the new law makes it illegal for employers to ask about salary history, it should be engrained in engineers to ask about equity options and how much percentage of the company they own and the associated risk.

A story like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21358531 could be a case study.
By that same logic, NAT provides internet connectivity. 99.9% of all NAT applications come with an internet uplink. Therefore, you need NAT for internet access. Not.
I'm talking about the gig economy ripping off their workers. I think you've misunderstood and been rude and sarcastic with it.
G is making progress though - automation / building of tools is 100x better on google sheets than in excel.

I can make a g form, output to a g sheet, automatically email if an entry contains certain text, etc. All that takes ~20 minutes, 1 add on, and 0 lines of code. Excel simply cannot compete with that.

Edit - I still use excel all the time for heavy lifting though. They fill different use cases for me.
If it is literally exactly the same thing, I would pay $50 one time for sure.
That's a good point. People are so used to thinking of Apple as the underdog that I don't think it's hit everyone yet that Apple is now the 800 pound Gorilla. They're the new Microsoft, but with more style and panache. :-)