jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Co-incidentally, I recently read the book referenced in the article:

http://www.amazon.com/Love-Limerence-Experience-Being/dp/081...

While it's short on prescriptions for actually overcoming limerence, I found it helpful in at least understanding the mechanisms driving my limerent feelings. If you want help coping with limerence, the tribes.com forum may be of some help (though a fair amount of it is simply people broadcasting their neuroses). I have found some nuggets of good advice however:

http://tribes.tribe.net/limerence

It's hard to say whether limerence is in and of itself a problem. Tennov takes a NPOV. Certainly, if you're supposed to be working and instead you're daydreaming about someone it's a problem. Like a lot of things, it lies on a spectrum from pleasurable to pathological or dangerous. Still, I would agree with the author's point that understanding the distinction between limerance and love can be helpful.
Bear in mind that the link lists averages across the entire US. Its giving salaries everywhere form Akron, OH to San Diego, CA.

Clearly they aren't necessarily top-end Silicon Valley salaries, but people working with security clearances can still make respectable salaries.
Some people choose their jobs based what they find interesting, not on how much the job pays. So, depending on your background, the cutting edge research at Lockheed may be far more interesting to you than the cutting edge research at BofA.
It's not at all that hard to find a market to yourself, if you think small enough-- and 'small enough' can still be plenty big. The first company I started was aimed at large networks of salmon farmers; worldwide, there were only about 20 customers worth considering, and there were already two software vendors serving the market (but not offering products similar to what we created.) From that base, we got enough traction to compete head-to-head with the existing products, and expand into other markets (chicken, pigs, dairy farmers, etc.) and the company had about 30 employees when I cashed out.

My point is that there is doubtless some niche of Shopify customers (or prospects) that are under-served by Shopify's offering, and that if you identify this niche, truly understand their needs, and make them deliriously happy, you can be set for life.

Often the way to get a market all to yourself is to re-invent an existing market. There were plenty of search engines before Google, but they changed the game, and AltaVista is now mostly forgotten.
Speak for your part of the third world. ;-)

If you rely on legacy hardware, it's a given you will prefer to rely on legacy software too for the whole stack.

It's not like someone will run air-traffic or medical equipment on an OS different from the one the machine was certified for.
I wish they should have listened to everyone who told them how annoying the flash was in the first place, years ago.

All's well though. Here's to hoping this sparks an even bigger movement to be rid of adobe on the web.
you summed up exceptionally well some of the reasons why I'm leaving. Having said that, gov't can allow you to work on some extremely interesting problems and data sets that you just won't find anywer else.

Still astounds me how you can have such an eclectic mix of brilliant and less than mediocre people working on the same projects. I guess that's everywhere though.
Is this really unexpected given all the other places life has been found?
>I don't think I've ever even heard of a language that is designed to only be used in an auxiliary role along side another general purpose programming language!

Embeddedable scripting languages come to mind. E.g.:

"Lua is a lightweight, high-level, multi-paradigm programming language designed primarily for embedded use in applications."
One thing I would like to point out, is that there is a bug currently in Chromium 39 which causes a new memory leak each time the popup UI of an extension is opened:

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441500

This affects all extensions.

Just so people are informed memory figures won't be too reliable as soon as you opened even only once the popup UI of an extension. (In all my benchmarks I of course avoided to do this).
It is fiction. You can tell it is fiction because no one cares enough about an advertising company to argue for hours over how code should be implemented. That's why the author never specifies the controversial statement. There's no such statement that could make 5 people do that.
I wrote a set of PPTX to induct new hires into our core concepts, values, specific language uses. It helped a lot with a bunch of recent "what do you guys mean"

I talk them. It hadn't occurred to me, to video the talk that goes with them, but that actually makes sense
I don't disagree. The problem of standards is that sometimes they help and sometimes they hurt. They always seem like a great solution, but rarely are.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all spoke the same language?

So much less conflict, so much more efficient.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all had the same cultural background?

So much less conflict, so much more efficient.

Wouldn't it be nice if we all looked and acted exactly the same?

So much less conflict, so much more efficient.

Wouldn't the world be a nicer place without all this pesky diversity?

So much less conflict, so much more efficient.

In the end, there's not one correct answer. The point of documentation is communication. Communication is a very malleable thing. It is negotiated on demand and the form of it varies a lot. The real beauty of many of our underlying systems is their ability to negotiate a protocol, not the pervasive standard use of a single protocol.

A couple personal stories:

Once, I was in Switzerland, and went to a Chinese restaurant. The waitress spoken Cantonese (1st), Swiss (2nd), and Mandarin (2nd). I spoke English (1st), German (2nd), and Mandarin (2nd). We quickly figured out that we could communicate most effectively in Mandarin, and so we did.

Later on in that trip, I went to an Italian restaurant. The owner spoke Italian and some very limited Swiss, but no English. I couldn't speak Italian or Swiss enough to communicate with him. Instead, we used gestures, body language, and pictures. It worked out, and I got one of the best plates of lasagna I've ever had.

The message here is that language is not standardized, and will never be, so calling English a standard is just a failure of reason. It's a sub-par medium for communication for the majority of the world.

You never know who is going to walk in the door of your restaurant to order food. Do your best to communicate with them, without too many assumptions, and you'll find that communication can be negotiated easily.

That said, in more practical terms, I actually encourage the use of less text, but more pictures, examples, and tactile learning approaches in documentation. When text is required, it should be "High Fidelity" and that means, written in the native language of the person writing it. Then, you have the ability to degrade fidelity later, by translating it to whatever language you've negotiated for when the native language doesn't match.
I find the arguments of Alexander Hamilton and his central bank supporters to be self-serving and destructive to the ends of the people. And in my biased and prejudiced opinion, central banking in the US has been an unmitigated disaster every time it has been tried. I don't believe JM Keynes can be used as a foundation for a sound economy, and I don't think monetary inflation is good for anybody except the person doing the inflating.

There is good reason for the Constitution to override the status quo of the Articles of Confederation on the subject of minting coinage, but I'm not certain a debate left unresolved regarding paper money is indicative of anything when they did actually agree that a person could be owned, and that was worth 3/5 of a vote. It was either less important than slavery, or more difficult to resolve. I'm inclined to believe the latter.

Before descending into full-on libertarded ranting, let's just say that leaving the matter as ambiguous effectively grants the government license to do whatever it pleases and interpret the ambiguity in favor of that.

Failing to bind the hands of a future Congress is what allowed them to pick up that grenade and pull the pin.
I think the fundamental question here is: what is the natural state, equality or inequality? If inequality is the natural state (which I think it is), it can't be a "purpose", it just exists.
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Some of these statements are very misleading too.

> Cosmopolitan makes C a build-once run-anywhere language, similar to Java, except it doesn't require interpreters or virtual machines be installed beforehand. Cosmo provides the same portability benefits as high-level languages like Go and Rust

That is simply not true. Java, Go and Rust can run programs at native speeds on non-x86-64 architectures, e.g. ARM, but Cosmopolitan cannot, not now and not ever because x86-64 is a terrible IR.
They can stop selling to them.
we measure innovation by the number of patents given, so gotta keep up the statistics
> It’s almost getting to the point that I’m rooting for rust to fail and for C++ to just continue to get better, just so that these people who claim to take memory safety so seriously might shut the fuck up about it.

lol idk kiiiinda sounds like you might be the one taking things too seriously?
- do not implement your own JSON parser (I mean, really?).

- if you do write a parser, do not use scanf (which is complex and subtle) for parsing, write a plain loop that dispatches on characters in a switch. But really, don't.
> Dokku, Deis, Rancher, and finally Flynn. Another one falls.

Isn't Dokku alive and well? I don't use it but I read about it in some related research recently, and some people on this thread report to be happy users.
> most of these countries did better under communism

Communists killed local population by millions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_the_Baltic_state...
Perhaps it still makes sense not to assume everyone on a car has internet access?
The preferred app to answer your question: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
"I'd be more excited about a really good self-publishing platform for non-interactive e-books."

Check out eBookBurn.com (https://ebookburn.com/), which is one of my projects.
Well, then it's down for everybody!!!
Did you read through the FB Terms of Service back when you signed up?

When I last read through that (and which was admittedly a few years back), the ToS indicated that whatever you uploaded became available to FB in perpetuity, and for whatever purpose FB wanted to make of it.

Put another way, if you didn't pay for something, then there's a good change it's you that's what's being sold.
Vital context: The Underground History of American Education, free online: http://mhkeehn.tripod.com/ughoae.pdf
that's a little high I heard the average was around the £50k mark.

if its is so it's time to dust of my interesting bits of my job using ML to optimise ppc acountmanageent
Yeah when I read the post, I kept thinking about the fact that there are a number of areas in which the just plain interested individual could focus their efforts to achieve the same general feeling of depth the author had back then. And this can also transfer across technical domains in unexpected ways. For example, in-depth knowledge of how the Linux Kernel's network stack works could transfer to a large eventual cost savings when some BGP implementation is improved based on that knowledge. And maybe that improvement turns out to be mostly 'algorithmic' and maybe that algorithm was devised by someone working in JavaScript.

I think the network hardware issue alone is a good example of where the complexity in the stack has probably increased exponentially since the 90s.
Now that I've thought about it a bit more, what I'd really love is a directory of sensibly ordered learning resources (free online stuff, videos, links to books on Amazon, whatever), headed by one or two mission-statement type papers (like Lockhart here) for the pedagogical strategy they generally follow, for a whole bunch of topics with several strategies per topic. That way you could pick a topic, read the statements for the various strategies, select one or more that you like and just start working down from the top.

... and I'd also like a pony :-)
Remove Public IP for DB server. Keep them in one private network. You don't need VPN. Servers in any data-center are already connected into one network.
You can use iptables to prevent external connections to your DB.
I love this effect so much, it's just so fun.
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I personally found it inspiring and beautifully written.
Buzzfeed is an outlet that performs real journalism. If you cannot see what their product is and what they are doing, perhaps you need to open your eyes.
One way to network is to go to job interviews. Be open about the fact that you're mostly interested in contracting and maybe you'll consider joining after a time (which is true in my case - there's a lot of overhead in contracting).
I freaking love everything about the story of Notch and Minecraft, including this. I want to live in a world where a geek can sit in his bedroom and create some cool shit, that enables him buy a $70 million mansion in Beverly Hills.
Yep, the 'M' means 'mille' as I understand it. 'MM' is 'mille mille', or 'thousand thousand.'
Not sure about the Jupyter-specific issues but macOS comes with Python 2 installed, so you have to install Python separately and use the `python3` binary, or alias `python` to the `python3` binary.

Then remember to run pip using `python3 -m pip <command>` and use virtual environments (venv)

I stumbled on this a couple weeks ago and documented the process here https://flaviocopes.com/python-installation-macos/

I found the same problem with Ruby (old version preinstalled on macOS)
So, we spy on them too in a weird, incestuous, mutually-distrustful, but politically-useful relationship.

"Stepped-up NSA eavesdropping revealed to the White House how Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers had leaked details of the U.S.-Iran negotiations—learned through Israeli spying operations—to undermine the talks; coordinated talking points with Jewish-American groups against the deal; and asked undecided lawmakers what it would take to win their votes, according to current and former officials familiar with the intercepts."

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-spy-net-on-israel-snares-co...

I think Israel just uses more HUMINT than SIGINT to do it, so we're occasionally able to snag one of their spies.
Is this website heavily brigarded or the data just made up? Germany at 85% does not reflect latest Forsa polling[1] (from the top, president, chancellor, government coalition). In fact throughout much of the last year confidence has gone up.

https://bilder2.n-tv.de/img/incoming/origs22268773/026253873...
On the other hand, hopefully the more contact Iranians have with the outside world, the more they will petition their government for peaceful relations with other countries. Obviously GitHub access isn't going to make the difference, but rather lots of these kinds of things in aggregate.
Apple's outright said it's a matter of Microsoft agreeing to license Windows on ARM for consumers. Right now putting Windows on an ARM Mac is about as legal as Hackintoshing.
> starving a generation of Iranians of information and experience is worth it if leads to civil unrest and regime change

I'm afraid you're mistaken, and that removing knowledge from people just makes the regime stronger.

Instead, providing the people in Iran with more knowledge and education would make even more people oppose the dictatorship, I'd think.

Not nuclear physics though, but GitHub yes sure.
Hmm I agree, this isn't really what I meant. I was concerned we had a business model that treated success stories as failures (folks feeling better unsubscribing) and failures as successes. While we had some early success with folks, the overall direction we were going was getting worse, not better. It felt naive to assume that the forces of the business model wouldn't drive future us (or potentially people we hired) towards doing more bad than good, even though that wasn't what we wanted to do then. And so while we still had absolute control of the company and weren't blinded by a survival instinct, we pivoted.
As an interviewer I find it easy to catch candidates who are regurgitating a memorized answer, but catching people who know the answer in-and-out is really hard. I've had the exact same experiences on the interviewing side of the table as well.

I think interviewers tend to overestimate their ability to catch people who have seen the question before and miss on tons of candidates who are good at answering seen questions.
> This boat is so old, not only has the civilization that created it come and gone, but the river is gone too.

Is it? "Silted up" would usually imply that the river moved, not that it disappeared. A river that isn't there can't deposit silt.

The article kind of suggests that the river in question was the Euphrates:

> Archaeologists found the boat in an area that, 4,000 years ago, would have been the bustling hinterlands of the largest city in the world: Uruk. Founded in 5000 BCE from the merger of two smaller settlements on the bank of the Euphrates River, Uruk was one of the world’s first major cities

The Euphrates is still around.
Sounds something like a custom ringtone for the car to play when it’s driving itself to you.
Ok, fair enough. Human perception is subject to all kinds of bias. My perception is that store bought eggs are vastly inferior to home grown. Whether that is just perception or truth matters little to me.

Store bought eggs are older, have the protective mucus coating removed, are washed with chemicals and come from chickens inundated with medication and fed the cheapest feed possible. If you think that none of those things affect flavor or texture I dont know what to say.

A fair comparison would compare home grown with non-premium eggs that most people are eating and are cost comparable. The test must also not be funded by an egg producer or supporter of big egg, if you grant calling egg factories as such.
A lot of movie productions infamously do not have positive cash flow. They deduct profits by creating artificial expenses charged by other companies providing services.

If they did have profits they’d get double taxed (once on the company’s profits and then again in payroll taxes if they decide to disburse profits to employees). They’d also have to pay out royalties on profits in some cases.

It’s usually pointless to look at reported profits from growth oriented startups, because if they reported income it means they are not properly reinvesting into growth (hiring engineers, bonuses for engineers, marketing, etc).

It’s much better to look at unit economics. Frankly, if cab companies made it work there’s no reason Uber cannot, and no reason the unit economics for Uber would be negative. It’s not as if Uber et al invented something new. They’ve basically improved almost every aspect of the taxi system it replaced, and done so with software technology so the marginal cost of the improvements is almost $0.

Just because the product is labor driven and low margin doesn’t mean it cannot be profitable. Amazon is a fundamentally low margin business as well (retail). The margins don’t matter so long as it can scale well, and software almost always does.
> And an equivalent for phones, too.

Or to stop putting so much trust in them, go back to "using them for communication with other people directly," and assume they're being evil, because if they're not at the OS level, than some app on them is.

I know they're convenient, I've had a smartphone for years, and have in the past 6 months or so gone back to a flip phone, in which the most interesting thing on it is a halfway complete contacts list and some regularly pruned text message threads (regularly pruned because whatever KaiOS uses for a SMS database gets slow if you don't od that).
I'd be very interested in a city builder where there are meaningful social, cultural, and political dimensions. Games like SimCity and Cities: Skylines have robust, detailed models for aspects like traffic and power distribution, but the actual social modeling is relatively basic. At points they seem more like complex cellular automata than cities (see Magnasanti in SimCity 3k)
When you buy a game from Jason Rohrer, you get the source code too. (It's also on GitHub.) What you're actually buying is an account on the official multiplayer server (which is also open source).

I thought this was a really interesting model.

Maybe it wouldn't work so well with singleplayer games. However, there's a similar example with the sprite editor / animation software Aseprite, which is open source but you have to compile it yourself, so it's cheaper for most people (in terms of time and effort) to just buy it for $15.
> relative to what I've seen elsewhere in the past 4 years. If anything, it's a bit of a new ethical question caused by the structure of a government office. Certainly something to look into but if we want to look at ethical issues of money in politics, there are a lot of easier places to start IMO.

This is all whataboutism. Either there is a problem here or there isn’t. If you find yourself comparing something to other corruption, that means it’s pretty questionable ethically.
Me too Papa - I've never had a single entrepreneur miss a payment. It's really remarkable the drive these people have to succeed and honor their commitments. That's why I keep coming back and giving to microfinance.
The tradeoff is that allowing quirks like that means that either you need to make a massive specification to deal with each way someone might goof in their code (edit: which is what HTML5 tries to do), or you end up with each browser engine reacting differently.

The main push behind stricter document control is making it easier to make all the browsers render documents consistently.

Also, in the age of XHTML, manual document editing was seen as dead - tools like DreamWeaver were popular, and XSLT was touted as the answer to server-side templates. The web refuses to be anything but a pile of dirty hacks upon dirty hacks though, which while frustrating, may have a hand in it's popularity :)
Some said company main developer which build framework by himself.but new bies should use market framework rather then reinvent the wheel.i had to build code from scratch and it takes lot of time.