jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We use a lot of Java at media6degrees, entirely for performance/integration reasons. There's a reason Cassandra, Hadoop, HBase, etc are all written in Java. I'm still trying to figure out what that reason is but my guess is that Java's the least bad language for what they're accomplishing, maybe that'll be Go in the future.

Of course, we aren't doing content management or anything, the front-facing stuff is a tiny minority of what we do, so that makes Java an even better choice. If I was writing a CMS or an app that was primarily webby in nature, I'd take a look at a more dynamic language (possibly still on the JVM).
did you research the differences between the s1300 and s1500? if so, can you let us know?
even if that is correct, the problem comes when you tie it into gender roles. societal factors tend to deny families the ability to choose which partner will play which roles.
> They have potentially hit on a way to create energy from a previously unknown or ignored phenomenon, but just like you can't patent gravity, you can't patent this.

Not so fast. While you can't patent gravity, you can patent using gravity to do things (subject to novelty and obviousness).

That's how Feynmann ended up with a patent on nuclear submarines. You can't patent radioactivity or heating things with radioactivity, but you can patent using heat from radioactivity to do specific things.
I voted you up. This was an obvious advertisement with a few paragraphs of fluff formatted to have the appearance of an "inspirational" piece of text (I'm not saying they aren't passionate or honest about it - it just doesn't contain any nugget of insight, or artistic spark).

And it's fair enough - there's obviously a market for that, but I don't think it should be allowed to get by riding on the coat tails of truly inspirational, thought-provoking pieces.

"Random inspiration quote" - famous person.
> Do you make $3-6K from writing to other blogs or from your blogs?

My own blogs.

> Compete tell me that you aren't far from my little Qr Code generator (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/math-blog.com+programmingze...) that doesn't generate even $50/month.

Compete statistics for my sites appears to be completely off. And I don't mean off by a factor of x. Randomly off, even when comparing my own sites to each others. That said, having a good amount of traffic definitely helps, but it's only one part of the equation. Monetizing that traffic is an art in itself.

> think $6K, coupled with some freelancing in the side can make the cut in Toronto, no?

OK, technically I guess I could live off that extra income even in Toronto, but the high cost of living would definitely grant me a lifestyle that pales in comparison to cheaper places, particularly overseas. Of course, one could argue that dedicating myself full time to this I could probably double or more my revenue. But it's not something I'm pursuing at this moment, as I love my job.
If you really think about it, @nickfrost is probably gaining early adopters by posting this.
Nearly everyone that reads this post will be interested in http://startupli.st

Plus, no one has all the answers and I am glad that @nickfrost is welcoming other ideas.
I don't disagree with you: the building blocks of Drupal are fine for what they are until you want to think in richer abstractions.

When I talk to people who want to create a content-driven site, I walk them through the three types of web sites I see: those simple enough to be comfortably implemented using WordPress, those that are more complicated by still simple enough to play to Drupal's strengths, and those that are more complicated or are expected to be more complicated over in the near to mid term and thus call for a Django (my choice) or Rails or whatever application.
But they rarely are able to tell if I'm slacking off in the office either. They can't tell the difference between me working on their code or my own fun side projects.
> I'm almost sure that $12k would be enough to cover all legal expenses of going through the visa sponsoring process, and it would benefit everyone in the battle for talent.

Money isn't the only cost associated with sponsoring an H1B - there's a time component as well. Since they're trying to spend money to save time....
Slippery Slope is not necessarily a fallacy because it's a very real phenomenon. My test is examining the "slippery slope" by asking if it instead "establishes a precedent". And then I see how easy it might be to justify going further down such a path based on past justifications.
Randall, are you stalking me? I posted about this a few days ago: http://ferkeltongs.livejournal.com/36976.html
You know if you set up research based institutes that actively encourage spin offs based upon the knowledge generated and gained inside their walls. Then, this problem won't exist.

For example, if I start a company/business the school will help me out with resources and in return take some amount of equity. Thus, what happens is that you have a VC-esque institution that remains true to the objectives of a university; learning.
Basically to provide 100% pixel perfect on IE(6,7,8,9) suupport:

IE versions can't be installed side-by-side (and the un/install process on Windows is very inefficient). So you have to have to have at least 4 VMs/boot partitions (at least 1 of which must be running XP), each loaded with a different version of IE. Each with a different version of debug tools.

And unless you force (strict mode) on IE8(& 9?), test IE8 in IE7 mode, IE8 Compatibility mode, and IE8 Strict mode....

Fortunately my employer dropped IE6 support 2 years ago. Plus, I find that usually just testing for IE7 in IE8's IE7 mode, and forcing IE8 to render pages in IE8 strict mode, is generally sufficient 95% of the time.
Thanks pw, I've read his update on the situation and I've offered to help guide him through the decision of whether to incorporate his website as a business or as a non-profit as well as help actually incorporate his website.

I've yet to hear back from him, so I haven't had anything to update. I'm guessing that he feels comfortable with the information he learned from the tax attorney and is satisfied with the help he's received.

In regards to the "reasonable salary" issue that's a difficult topic to explain because its a subjective test. The word reasonable is going to be very different for the IRS compared to the average taxpayer.

In my experience, a "reasonable salary" is going to depend a number of factors. The best way to prove that you're getting a reasonable salary is to have "comps" or comparable positions with the same functions and them take the average of their salary.

Ex: Your job description is an entry level developer. Average salary is in the range of 55k to 75k but the mean is 60k. In this situation you could argue for any salary between 55k and 75k, but the clearest answer would've been 60k. Subjectivity please a big role in this area.

Also, experience has given me a "gut feeling" on what is reasonable so often times I go by just guessing based on what I've seen on the past.

Lastly, thanks for the props! I'm honestly surprised that anyone even bothers to read my posts about boring tax loll but I'm glad to have been of help =D.
Recently my local bank (Kiwibank in NZ) launched a free online financial management service that I've been very impressed with. It automatically categories all my expenses and makes it easy to see where my money is going and set a budget. It also has an intuitive interface which is rare for a bank.

This page gives an overview of its features: http://www.heaps.co.nz

Aside from that banks should be aiming to make as many of their services as possible available online. Little things like setting up a new account should not require me go in to the bank just to fill out a form when the same process could be done online in only a few simple steps.
I'd be willing to donate some money to help get this recorded
While I hate the heavy-handedness that the DMCA operates with and I think it's ridiculous that LL's video was banned it's worth remembering back to pre-YouTube to recall how we got here.

Before YouTube there wasn't any consumer-accessible dissemination of AV media online. You had to have serious equipment, there was no social distribution and copyrighted material couldn't get used anywhere.

YouTube came along and simply overpowered the copyright holders with both sheer volume and variety of copyright infringements and followed through with the financial and legal muscle of Google behind it. There was a long time when it wasn't clear whether YouTube would actually survive its legal battle and I assume that the instant-take-downs were a compromise that was reached to allow them to continue.

I'm glad that Lawrence Lessig is fighting this case and it's a good time for it to happen. However it's also worth keeping in mind why these instant take-downs were instituted in the first place - it was (I presume) because it was the only way to placate copyright holders into allowing the whole thing to continue.
Not in green tea! It really depends on the variety.

Vanilla sugar can be nice, though, as is caramelizing sugar in a pot and then whisking hot milk into it, then mixing that with flavored/spiced black teas (masala chai, etc.).
A "meta-myth": the myth is that knowledgable people believed in a flat earth, not the flat earth belief itself.
"You're not even using calculus!"
My Linode slice is in Atlanta, not Freemont, and it went down once today and once earlier this week.
The ScanSnap Organizer that comes with the ScanSnap is actually pretty good. Other than that, Windows 7 will index OCR'ed PDFs so you could do the same sort of thing as the article without needing "extra" software.
I bet a lot of people go in there to jerk off or have sex in public.
I still think it's a very bad word to pick. "Belief" is widely accepted to mean holding a proposition regardless of evidence, which isn't something you could call "scientific".
It certainly does seem that HN has become increasingly more political in recent days. Yes, I can understand a post on body-scanner technology and it's applications to travel security, but do we really need to see blog posts about how person n opted out, or how person x experienced an unusual pat-down? Yes, for Americans (and non-Americans alike), these are important issues, but HN does not need to become an aggregate site for stories such as these.

There is a strong commitment by the community to prevent the site becoming like digg, reddit, or slashdot. Losing focus on the topics that brought us here in the first place (technology, startup culture, and programming) is the first step on that path in my opinion.

All I can ask is please, try not to submit/vote up stories which are not particularly related to tech. It's not what I'm interested in discussing in this particular venue.

Or maybe I'm just in the minority. I guess time will tell.

P.S. Just because you put the word "Hacker" in your article/title, doesn't mean it belongs here.
My current job hired me roughly the same way - short, informal with a very basic coding test just to make sure I wasn't bullshitting. Then I was given a couple of weeks to recreate a game they'd recently finished - didn't have to be perfect, just a prototype and an example of the kind of code style I write. Got paid to do it, spent a couple of hours at home a night working on it, came back in to present it, and voila, job offer. So far it's worked out great!
Yes, pretty much so, and it is not a recent development.

I don't think I'd seen an article from Erasmatazz for like 20-25 years. At that time, Crawford was making a lot of grandiose statements about "Erasmatron", his interactive storytelling system that would be the first actual expression of art on computers. And when it was released, it turned out to be just laughably crude and mechanistic compared to what the interactive fiction community (all of them hobbyists at the time) was producing at the time. He clearly had no idea of what the state of the art was in that domain, nor any interest in understanding it.
There's something intoxicating about the idea of building worlds out of systems, feeling like you've captured infinite permutations of some phenomenon in a simple set of rules. This idea of writing worlds into existence with the flick of a wrist is the thing that first got me into computers. In some sense it's the dream that still keeps me going.

My perspective has been sobered quite a bit over the years - these things are rarely as simple as we might imagine they could be - but it remains heady stuff. I can see how it might give the right kind of person delusions of grandeur.

The egoism on display here is pretty offputting, but I feel kinship with the "dreamer" mentality underneath. This guy had a vision, and he was uncompromising in his pursuit of it, and even if the end result wasn't worth much to anyone else, some part of me has to respect that.

I'm reminded of The Room (movie)'s Tommy Wiseau. Another creative who thought he was a genius and poured his blood, sweat, and tears into his life's passion project, and it turned out to be pretty objectively bad. But it was meaningful to him, and there's something to that. There were no ulterior motives; he wanted to put this piece of himself out into the world. There's a purity of spirit. I think what's missing for these individuals is the self-awareness to know that this thing is mostly just for them, and to be okay with that idea and embrace it. That way lies happiness, I think.
Fair point, and good journalism is hard. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to put things into the appropriate context. As much as I like Hunter S Thompson's writing, I don't think the answer is to throw all that out the window and just rant about your own personal viewpoints.
It probably has to do with mixed content. I bet many radio streams are offered as HTTP only, making this site break if it’s on TLS.
Don't think of popular news sources as sources of news, and instead of communication channels large numbers watch.

"decentralized" doesn't seem so different to what we have now through that lens.
Some tier-A mathematicians working on some pretty fucking cool problems in online decision making and machine learning, or someone who writes shit like:

"Young people these days, I am told, are illiterate and cannot understand the written word. They can learn only from video. So should I speak to them in the language they understand?

Yes, I probably am a genius—but the issue is meaningless."
Also Lexbase. See anyone that has been subject of a criminal trial, on a map.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexbase
Geizhals is amazing!
I started using it for price comparison almost 15 years ago, but nowadays I use it mainly as a database to filter for products which fit my needs and are available.
I suspect the answer will be that nothing will replace it, at least for awhile, and that will cause society a great deal of pain in the short term. That there is a lesson in it doesn’t make it easier to stomach, but people should at least get the lesson out of it.

Media isn’t alone here, though they are the cannery in the coal mine. In the legal field, there has been growing pressure to harass and blacklist attorneys who represented Trump and his associates (beyond the ordinary universally applicable ethical rules for making misrepresentations in court or filing frivolous suits). Now the legal profession has a long-standing set of ethical codes, in which helping a murderer get off in a technicality is deemed virtuous. There is pressure to draw a line and say “well but Trump is different.” I’ve been watching these efforts with horror because, while attorneys don’t exactly have tons of trust and credibility, there isn’t a widespread belief that the profession is using its institutional power as a fulcrum to advance the political viewpoints of its members. The way to shred whatever credibility attorneys have is to “draw a line” and put the former President of the United States, who secured the second highest vote total in American history, on the “untouchable” side, while putting Exxon, Philip Morris, etc. on the “will happily represent so long as they pay their bills” side.

Doctors and public health professionals similarly shredded their credibility in the past year by taking nakedly political stances on protests in the middle of a pandemic.

There are professions which form the “social and political infrastructure” of our country. The political debates of the day are often played out through them—factions sue each other in court, bring to bear medical knowledge and science to support their positions, and leverage the media to cover it all. But there has to be a modicum of trust amongst the political factions that this infrastructure itself isn’t trying to stack the deck in favor of one side or the other. And I think historically there has at least been this baseline level of trust that this was true.

In reality, of course, even Walter Cronkite had his biases. And lawyers and doctors have used their professions to advance their political interests in various ways. But there was at least the pretense of objectivity, and for most people it was a sincerely held end-goal even if it was imperfectly achieved in practice. These old belief systems are being abandoned today. The media is at the forefront, but it’s happening throughout the educated professions. And I fear that we’re going down a dangerous road. If people begin to perceive the system and our institutions as being overtly tilted against them, they’ll simply lose trust. And society simply can’t work if the various political factions don’t have institutions that they all trust.
Take the cost of your house, divide by the amount of time you enter your house through the door. You get the price each time you get into your house. For a 300k$ house and entering the house twice a day for 20 years that's about 20$ each time you enter your house.

Does not make sense? Of course not because dividing the amount of electricity used to mine a block by the amount of transactions also doesn't make sense.
You are right I don't pretend to be an expert.
I think it’s naive to expect that American companies like Apple that outsource everything but design and software and reap enormous profits are going to be able to do this indefinitely. China is getting better fast at doing these things too and will have tremendous advantages when it owns the entire stack. If American companies want to stay competitive in the long run they’re going to have to break their addiction to the easy profits they’re enjoying now and do the hard work of bringing this manufacturing back on-shore.
I watched “Kelly’s Heroes” (1970) for the first time last weekend. Turns out the film was made in Yugoslavia (Croatia today) because the Yugoslav army still used WWII-era Sherman tanks, which were part of the plot so could be cheaply accessed.

(There were also some tax or funding reasons I believe.)

(Side note - holds up well for a 50 year old movie; and one of the best Donald Sutherland performances, in the same year he did MASH.)
The tone suggests OP is entitled to more and that housing policy should change to benefit them over other residents. Its a common sentiment I see on HN that seems to suggest California should continue to bend to support new residents.

I have no problem with the people that move to California but the back pressure is bound to happen and native Californians seem despised for it.
You poor soul, American living in Romania? How did this mishap happen? I'm guessing it was because of your (presumably Romanian) partner? :-)
It is interesting. The us and canada are split into a handful (8 iirc) NERC zones. Texas is almost entirely its own zone, and coördinates with noöne else. I believe Quebec is entirely/mostly seperate as well, but coördinates with/is part of the rest of the north east's NERC subsidiary. The zones or groups of zones only connect to other zones via a handful of DC connections, as part of the point of the zones are to coordinate AC frequency and to prevent national cascade outages. I think Texas has 2 to the eastern interconnect and one to Mexico.

(I'm no expert; I just did some research looking at data centers once.)
Why does determinism preclude free will? If I am the physical processes that occur in my brain, then my decisions are rooted in those processes. Even if those processes are deterministic and there was only ever one outcome for my decisions, I can still say that I have free will because it was the very unfolding of those deterministic processes which led me to me to expressing my free will. There is only a clash between free will and determinism when you imagine that your consciousness is in some vague sense separate from the physical world.
The android new bluetooth stack rust rewrite was discussed recently[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981
You will just have to take the FBI at their word that it's for your own good, then. It's not clear from that Wired article that they stopped anybody who actually abused children. What they have obviously accomplished, however, is a way to decloak at least some users of Tor and probably dissuaded many more people from using it for secure anonymous communication.
Fuck money. Hacking is about the novel manipulations of technological systems, and you're supposed to be poor while you do it.
> ENGAGE AUTOPILOT

Autopilot engaged.

Your autopilot has malfunctioned and has initiated a steep dive.
This has knocked the other pilot unconscious.

> DISENGAGE AUTOPILOT

You need another person to disengage the autopilot.
Autopilot remains engaged.

> DISENGAGE AUTOPILOT USING YOUR FOOT

The buttons are too far apart, you cannot reach both at the same time.
Autopilot remains engaged.

>

The plane hits the ground and disintegrates.
YOU HAVE DIED. Do you want your posessions identified (Y/n)?

> _
I don't know. You seem, like others in the thread, focused on "implement 'mult' as age times parameter value", but the goal of the exercise seems much more around: what's your process of going into a code base, asking the right questions, making some good observations by yourself, and not getting stuck. It'd be interesting to hear from the original interviewer if they even cared about how well the solution ended up working, or if the candidate's ability to demonstrate understanding about the (presumably unfamiliar) code base was more important to them.
They didn't necessarily crash, but dead passengers weren't uncommon in hijackings, typically either killed by the hijackers, killed by security services storming the airplane, or both:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings

Lots of those were resolved without death, or with just a few deaths, but many others got lots of people killed.
I'd be thinking "learn as much as you can about your customers, who have virtually infinite amounts of budget relative to your needs and lots of problems which you don't have because you can program around them in a day."
They would have to do hardware-based restriction of some kind. Otherwise, someone would just run Netflix on the Android emulator on their desktop.
Socks over your shoes also work well.
Criminals and marketers already know how rich you are based on where you live. Published tax forms will have no effect on your probability of being robbed.

It argue tax forms are private, but that's what's at issue here. Many societies think this should be public information. It goes a long way towards preventing graft.
I agree with squozzer, you should consider expanding your activities beyond folks who know you personally.

I really like my work and I work a lot. I have worked in early-mid stage startup and now am working with a pre-series A stage startup. I have never shied away from asking for more responsibilities or climbing up the management chain. I am generally known as the more assertive person in the organization. But when it comes to compensation, I cannot bring it up. Not sure if it has to do with being a female.

It would be ideal if there was a 'go to' person who can push me more in negotiating for better compensation.