jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit with only 27 full-time employees[1] (data for 2009) which runs, among others, the 7th most popular site on the web[2], and provides the world with an amazing source of knowledge. Of course the contents is provided by volunteers, but logistics of running a site and community of this size are far from trivial. I think that they spend the money wisely, so I donated myself and encourage you to do the same.

When it comes to the photo that you linked, what does it prove? That they work in an actual office, not a bike shed or a tent? Do you claim that it's a luxury for them to have an office?

I personally admire their spine and dedication to reject corporate money, and I'm surprised that even HN readers complain so loudly about the appeal. I guess Wikipedia already became a commodity that we got used to taking for granted. For better or worse.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

[2] http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wikipedia.org
So true. I got an e-mail yesterday with an invite to Crowdbooster. I don't even remember signing up for an invite, let alone what Crowdbooster is, and the e-mail didn't offer any clues at all.
It's called the Elo Rating System (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system).

From the article, it's used to rank the relative skill of two players. It was created for chess, but I believe underpins most competitive ranking today including Xbox LIVE.
On underpay: this varies highly by country. I am a PhD candidate in The Netherlands, and am employed by the university for four years (as most PhD candidates here). This gives around modal income, a 13th month of salary, holiday allowance, and about two months of holidays per year.

This is a bit less than one would earn going into business immediately, but it buys you a lot of freedom. The education/research split is 0.2/0.8 FTE. There are specific goals with respect to the research project, but other than that there is plenty of time to pursue your interests.

Our university tried to implement a scholarship/bursary system, which was not welcomed by potential Dutch PhD candidates. Foreign candidates do not seem to mind as much, since such scholarships are common in other countries. In my opinion, the scholarship system was a bad move, since pursuing a PhD becomes less attractive to the best of students, due to higher wages in the industry. In the end the scholarship system was shot down by the court (they see a PhD as a normal employment), and seems to have vanished for the time being.

Conclusion: you get what you pay for. Higher PhD candidate wages equals less PhDs, but more high-quality PhDs. With lower wages or scholarships universities can have more PhD candidates, but you will probably lose out on talent who'd rather go to the industry, and the PhD population has a miserable life (low income, long working hours).
> I've evaluated for use at my company

Well this might be the problem. In corporate environment you can't afford to be too adventurous.

Personally I solve the "lack of libraries" problem by using more than one language, then connect them via child process call or some persistent storage like database or plain text files.

But it's entirely a different matter when the code need to be used by a lot of people.
Came to say the same. Free and quality mobile apps without ads are sorely lacking.

Obviously there are some stark philosophical differences between GNU and the walled gardens of mobile devices. But users don't care about that, they just want good software.
It's interesting that the same questions apply to both a mid-level + senior-level technical interviews, but the answers+prep can be quite different:

* Mid-level: Mostly topics you can learn in your 2nd/3rd year of college + having worked on 1-2 web data projects. Basically performing recall on textbooks and architecture powerpoints.

* Senior-level: You can always go crazy on the same technical topics, such as by replacing "recite a paragraph from your old CLRS textbook" with "... and here's how that'd look on a multi-gpu/asics cluster". I didn't see anything directly on technical leadership, so maybe rethink the architecture questions from team/HR + product design + company/LOB perspectives. Weirdly, prepping at the CLRS-level seems like you're aiming for a more junior technical role / org, and I'd think more about 'revisit track record' and 'networking' than 'prep'.

Curious how FB folks see that -- I'm probably misunderstanding something as there's a wide spectrum between 'Mostly knows how a production system works' and 'Ready to lead tech for a new team/LOB'.
>While I agree that these interviews can be a bit much but what's the alternative?

So somehow literally every other industry on earth has figured out ways to interview people that don't involve whiteboard hazing but you think there is absolutely no alternative? Have you actually thought about what you are saying at all?

Might want to check linkedin because I can guarantee most of your bosses are from Ivys/Stanford/MIT/etc

>I also hate the new trend of "take home" tests. That just seems disrespectful of the candidate's time.

But doing leetcode for 2 months is somehow better? Are you high?
> But I don't think that that video supports his contention that police just let these people into the capitol building.

Especially since it's a tweet with a quote from the guy who shot the video explaining that it's not a video of the police "just letting them in"
Thats not possible because we have the same capacity to produce product so there will always be a top % who use most of those resources. I think the real take away is that most gains can be made by fixing the processes of rich countries.

Countries like Australia have massive amounts of underutilized renewable energy that are not being used to their fullest extent combined with an American like obsession with cars.

We should be focusing on areas where easy wins can be made rather than looking at countries with the highest level of emissions which is a pointless statistic when they all have different population counts.
> Nigeria isn't going to wait decades to build a solar plant when they can build several coal power plants right now.

Solar is cheaper & quicker to build & run than coal plants. And it can be built incrementally and start generating power and profits very quickly, compared to traditional power plants, which are large construction projects that don't generate power or profit until after they're completed.
It's not just about a government building. Noone should care about that. If the building was empty, this would be trespass.

No, they were threatening and intimidating lawmakers that were in session to try to manipulate the election. This is an enormous difference.

Also pipe bombs shouldn't be ok. Not sure why this is being ignored.
I have both, and since adopting YNAB, my Simple budgets have been redundant and abandoned. Simple offered nothing that YNAB doesn;t, other than direct actions on your account (transfers, etc). That was far outweighed by YNAB's ability to manage multiple accounts, in particular their credit card balance & payment management.
Does that imply that you had doubt when a dozen or so cities were on fire as a result of protesters over the summer? If so, why?
> Also you're going to need one hell of an adaptor to connect Ethernet from 1980 to modern Ethernet.

There's actual quite a number of them (like [0]) around. They can be large, but considering you can go from parallel to modern ethernet _and_ you have a choice of adapter, it's not really as big a problem as you might be foreseeing.

[0] https://amiga68k.com/?product=plipbox-deluxe
When you voted for your representatives.
It could be because I’m Australian or perhaps I’m just unfamiliar with mortgages - how does tax affect the effective loan rate?
> now what?

Now comes 99.9% of the work.
Where is the data for the North? Is this service only for Imperial Romans?
Including the ones we haven't tried?
Reading the website with my startup founder hat on:

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— HAS YOUR BUSINESS AN EXCEL PROBLEM?

No. I'm good at Excel.

— DO YOU HAVE HUNDREDS OF UNMANAGED SHEETS RUNNING REPORTS?

Not really. I keep telling people to put files in the right Google Drive folders and one day very soon they definitely will, but we get by and so far it's not been a big problem.

— DO THEY TELL YOU IT WOULD TAKE TOO MUCH TIME TO REPLACE WITH PROPER APPS?

Excel is a proper app.

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I think a big part of your messaging comes across like you're assuming the people who need your app are a bit stupid. You seem to think people can't workaround the problem your app tries to solve. They can, obviously, because they're running their businesses day to day. You need to push the reason why your app is a better solution rather than why Excel is bad (which it clearly isn't considering how many businesses use it for reporting).

Also, "UNLIKE EXCEL, JIG FILES ARE AUDITABLE"... I'm not 100% sure what you mean by auditable there, but Excel has features for auditing formulae. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/display-the-relat...
Japan is a small country with a much smaller population. It's not the same situation at all.

China has 4x the population of the US. The US have 4x the population of the UK.

Did the UK manage to stop the rise of the US? No. The US is much larger than any European country and thus it was inevitable that they became the dominant power (Europe helped by self-destructing, but economically the US had already overtaken European countries).

The only way the US can remain dominant is by trying to keep 'third world' countries poor. Once massive countries are on a strong development path it's just a matter of time and this is what's happening with China.

India also has the potential to overtake the US. In the future Nigeria could as well. This is actually an optimistic view as it assumes that no country is bound to be poor forever.
> Quicksort is still a useful algorithm after nearly sixty years. Merge sort after almost eighty.

No one uses Quicksort as Hoare originally proposed (modern variants include 3-way quicksort and pattern-defeating quicksort), as much as merge sort as von Neumann originally proposed (modern variants include adaptive merge sort and Timsort). Both were tremendously updated to keep up with the ever-changing computer architecture and requirements.
Very cool product.

I'd probably take the mountain biking directions, until the proper backroads and then hema maps are the best so far.

https://graphhopper.com/maps/?point=Gisborne%2C%203437%2C%20...

Lets me know if you ever do 4x4 mapping, although I can't imagine there's a strong business case for it.
Marketplace Whiteboard does a great job explaining market concepts with analogies and simple whiteboard visuals (and is available as a podcast)

http://marketplace.publicradio.org/collections/coll_display....
I'm immediately skeptical of people who think modularity, inheretance, and polymorphism are a bad thing. Linus never comes out and says as much, but by indicating that he doesn't want to jump around to learn how a bit of code works he's implying it by desiring as few dependencies within code as possible.

I certainly apprecate Linus' genius and the revolution he brought to computing, but we live in a different world than when he first took up C programming. Computers are far more capable than they were decades ago and we've taken advantage of that by making code much more flexible than in years past. The result is far more code reuse than early OO programmers ever thought possible.

Could this possibly be the worlds first programmer-generation gap?
I think the killer app in mobile are the devices themselves. They're all being sold as a package: web, e-mail, music, video, store, camera, etc. The apps are very important too but my guess is most people are mostly looking at the core functionality of the device. You don't really have to sell people with third party apps anymore though a lack of apps can still be a liability just because it weakens the package. It's not like the old days where hardware was somewhat useless to the average person without killer apps. SmartPhones come packed with a ton of functionality before you ever install a third party app.

To that extent I agree with the author of this article. Apple views third party apps as an accessory. They are going to do everything possible to protect what they think really matters: stability, reliability, good end user experience, easy OS upgrades, easy syncing/backup with iTunes, etc. I don't think there's much evidence to suggest Apple wants to play the Microsoft role and attempt to dominate the applications as well. After more than 3 years Apple has released very few paid applications for iOS and they haven't really undercut third party app makers by integrating a lot of additional features into the OS that would be better served as third party apps. They don't even bundle iBooks on their devices so it exists (more or less) on a level playing field with Kindle and the B&N reader.
I think it can be said a lot more simply: Apple doesn't want a cross-platform killer app that doesn't have a native interface.

example: no Adobe CS that ignores almost all Apple tech and implements sloppy custom interface widgets
Its all just header comments...
Auf Deutsch: http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,699086,00.html

Spiegel Online should really give a link to the original German articles from corresponding international edition articles. Had to go back through @Spiegel_alles to find it on twitter.

I'm spoiled by Wikipedia.
When I was a jr accountant and mis person for health care firms I completed a series 63 SEC license for mutual funds.

I have kept up with finance every since, I guess its part of my interests as my 2 year degree was double major, CS and Accounting/Finance,
The downside of the opacity is that 1) the contrast between the text & background in those areas is reduced, and 2) people won't necessarily know to hover over those areas to increase the contrast. I personally don't think the hover color is too bold, but the current opacity is really overdoing it. "Want to learn to Program" is particularly problematic, and should be about as dark as the text below it.

I'd also recommend playing around with the line-height and measure, see: http://webtypography.net/toc/
Finance is about as old as civilization,* the Babylonians did it. To take an amount of money from someone who does not, at the moment, need it and loaning it to whoever can pay the most for the privilegie (often another middleman in the huge network that is a modern financial market) is a type of work that is essential to our system of production. Without people doing this kind of work this page would not have existed (if memory serves me right viaweb, PGs company, got venture capital). The arrogance with wich people diss finance (and the amount of upvotes these kinds of comments get) show why learning finance 101 really should be part of a good undergraduate curriculum.

*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent_of_Money

edit: yes, some financial markets are indeed parasitic, this is often because someone got the public to guarantee for something. This has more to do with the political economy than financial markets per se.
Well, come on. You could at least go the the pages that offer the functionality you want. Hit "Manage Your Kindle" from the "Your account" dropdown and download Kindle books to your heart's content; they really couldn't make that any easier. You'd download your music through "Your Cloud Player", just like Amazon tells you to do when you buy it. Alternatively, your order history for any item will include the relevant link.
I agree with this comment.

While I have no idea about Law School applications and what will help you getting in, I do know that as the leader of the volunteering club in high school and spending four years helping in the community was a lot more interesting in college interviews than other things I had on there.

However the opportunity I took in college to go to Africa (North Western Zambia) to build a data entry system and the back end database to digitalize the records of a hospital tended to get a lot more attention when looking for jobs than any of my more relevant internships did.

When I read these articles like the main link I feel happier about what I did. I finished pretty quickly and then spent time training but the majority of the time after the database was built was doing whatever else was needed but my inability to do a lot of the things well they seemed to tolerate with such kindness since what I was good at was already completed.
Good advice. Although I do worry about how long that'll be true for given the empty shelves seem to expand to a new product every few days. Hopefully the supply chains will adjust or panic buying will slow down before it becomes an issue.
Does your roadmap include directly detecting against pg_stat_statements? Most of these tools go against the stats tables in the database directly ('SQL Doctor' from Idera comes to mind, that product is very solid)
This is such a nonsense being pandered by people who make money on it.

You, you can absolutely "time the market". You just can't do it exclusively based on the chart. The real world is still there, and it's important, you know? And Stock Market and savings accounts are not the only investment instruments available to people. And you don't have to be all in or all out.

Maybe if you don't have time and skills to think about it, etc. then this makes you feel better about your "investments" because "there was nothing you could have done better". But it's still load of rubbish.
I’m not sure anyone ever indicated that it was urgent... it’s taken a long time for them to take this step!

There’s an element of carrot and stick here, the browser vendors sometimes have to push people in the right direction. I think they’ve made the right call both in pushing for deprecation and altering their plans when circumstances have changed.
My wife only coughed a lot for a week. I was semi bed ridden for about 3 days. It was definitely not the worst flu I've had. I did feel very tried for a week and slept a lot more than usual after those 3-4 days
https://www.friscoteca.com/

A place to share my and my wife's favorite music via youtube videos. It's typically house, dance, funk & disco old and modern.
And they still didn't invoke it, but instead asking for this https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/doj-susp...
Pigovian taxes have been a thing for a long time, we could do with a lot more of them.

They are positive in a free market economy because you can let the market find less damaging alternatives. Without them you rely on more legislation which tends to be ham-fisted and full of holes.
DNS was designed specifically as a replacement for /etc/hosts. It’s in the opening paragraphs of RFC 1034 about why a single file wasn’t viable anymore.

Even for TLDs I think the problems/issues tends to be more about operations of the TLD, because it’s generally a little more work than just a zone under a TLD.

But yes. Changing ownership of a TLD that’s operating under existing guidelines for all the domains that use it, is a bad thing. I’ll caveat that with, if it can no longer be operated by the group doing so it should change ownership, but the same protections for the zones inside it should be preserved in the sale.
The video seems to have been taken down from official Tesla spots, so here's a mirror.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw
I agree with this completely.
> the other side is never Snidely Whiplash,

Well put. But take it a step further - had you been raised in the antebellum South, or had you been Nixon's friend - would have arrived at the same moral conclusions? For the same reasons? It's easy to condemn "the alien other" - it's much harder to reflect on one's own beliefs and the peers that hold them.
Here you go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwvDOdBHYBw
I'm willing to bet this truck is going to outsell the Model 3 and Y combined. Tesla is getting even further and further from the restrictions of ICE vehicle design.
That is the low-end version.
I wonder what it will look like when it is actually produced, doubt it passes US standards in it's current form. Needs some mirrors at the very least, although maybe at the time of release cameras will be a legal replacement.
On the flip side the $100k cost for buying dedicated equipment is a first-year cost only, and the equipment can last up to 10 years, where at AWS $350k/year is every year.
That your cell phone reports on your location is old news -- you do have to connect to a geographically dispersed network of cell towers, after all.

Assuming Apple (and other vendors) aren't using the data for evil (if at all), might it be possible that they could use that info for QA purposes? i.e. to correlate complaints and return rates to signal-related "problem areas" that they could use as leverage with the phone companies.

Are we sure location info is all that is stored?
I still don't really get what Swagapolooza does...so you're a product launch platform in front of influencers?
HTML is the easy part, but maybe consider extending it like http://ideone.com/ an online compile service. Or maybe combine it though i am not sure if ideone.com offers an API.
Have you considered this one: http://www.geekdesk.com/default.asp?contentID=604 Just curious why you picked that one.
As much as I'd like to see companies busted for abusing the DMCA to take down things they object to, I would rather it had been one of the traditional Big Media Thugs who was on the wrong end of a lawsuit for fraudulent DMCA claims rather than Dropbox... who I otherwise like.
So much this.

You can think of a great passwords scheme for yourself, and then find yourself in a pool of shit where hotmail asks you to have maximum 12 characters in a password, facebook requires you use a number, but it can be up to 40 characters, amazon wants you to use a special character like an @ or a # and but has a max length of 15 so on and so on.

Passwords. Suck. Use a password manager that autogenerates and autostores it like lastpass.
The dynamic where white people feel scared to say what they think is right ultimately silences people of color. Because white people are the majority, what society at large understands about what people of color actually think and want is filtered through white people. In the current environment, white people are in an awkward position where it's socially acceptable to agree with far-out progressive views, but not moderate views that are closer to what people of color themselves actually think and believe.

I don't want a society where white people are told at work they need to "be less white," or are forced to admit they are "gatekeepers of white supremacy." It's morally wrong--it's racism. But it's also contrary to my self interest as a brown guy with a beard living in a majority-white society. My mom, an immigrant from a Muslim country, texted me Trump's ban on critical-race theory training when it came out, apropos nothing. She thought it was a good idea, because it was "evil." My dad, who almost became a professor, is a bit more blasé--he thinks "this is just a weird academic idea and it's fine as long as it stays in academia."

But at the end of the day, white progressives who control the newsrooms of places like the New York Times decide what people of color to platform and amplify, and they don't pick people like my parents to speak for people of color. They pick people like Ilhan Omar, who has extreme views. (My dad noted the other day, again apropos nothing, that he was upset the media had turned Omar into the "face of Muslims in America.")

If white people feel free to agree that we should tell white people to "be less white," but not to disagree, if they feel free to agree with Ilhan Omar, but not express views like my parents, then people of color who agree with the common-sense view are effectively silenced.
Yeah their rates are outrageous.