jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You could not pay me enough to invest in Russia as she is situated today. I would need to see irrefutable, verifiable proof that things are changing for the better before I would consider sending even one of my hard earned dollars there.

As far as I'm concerned, when it comes to Russia: The King is dead. Long live the King.
I am aware of, and have commented myself, on the priorities that professors have at a research University. That, however, is orthogonal to the issue of: are teachers themselves unnecessary?
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1409288
Beyond money, there are a few opportunities here. For example, maybe the author would see about letting you post his guide to your software on your site. This would be advertising for his book and a learning tool for your users.

Second, you could offer to take a look at the material before he publishes it, make suggestions, etc. This would benefit him because you are a superuser, and it would benefit you because you can make suggestions and help make it the best advertising tool.

Additionally, if you have a new software release coming up, you should offer to give him a beta version and at least let him know about the latest features, since books become outdated very quickly. This may even motivate you to get stuff done!
Here is how: Get a job where 11 am is an okay time to go to bed. Don't do anything but sleep and have sex in your bed. Make your room very very dark when you sleep. See sunlight within 10 minutes of waking up (or very bright florescent lights). Stop drinking caffeine within 16 hours of when you'd like to wake up.
They are working for free writing a book that essentially boils down to helping give your app additional mindshare on the off chance that the book gives them a decent return on their time.

If there was a bunch of money in writing the book, you probably would have already written the book... and your book would be infinitely if not markedly better since you wrote the app/software.

Nothing wrong with not wanting to document your free software to the point where the book is useless, but asking money from someone that wants to do this for you for free isn't something I would personally recommend.
I would be surprised if you said otherwise, considering you're a Twilio employee.
as he goes by Moxie socially as well, doesn't want his true name to be revealed is a bit sensational
Isn't the moral of Hacker News that the ideas don't matter that much, only the execution?
In my experience a lot of Python programmers move on to learning the functional Python features and libraries and then after they get that down, the eventually jump ship to a mainly-functional language (a lot of people seem to move to Haskell, I personally moved to Clojure).

This is based on my own personal experience, that of Python Ireland members and from things I've read or seen (here on HN and elsewhere).
Thanks for the reply. I agree with shanonm on this one in that while it looks like the "main" difference between the two emails was having the button there were actually a ton of changes made. Because the one thing that can easily be measured is how many times the button is clicked, that is the first place to start.

That said, it also looked like that was the only way to see if the changes worked. So the button itself could have made your percentage change down, but the rest of the ad make it change dramatically up, so overall the effect is up. But, if the lesson you learned was button = less CTR and didn't test the rest of the changes, it might hurt you in the long run.
And when they do, they're demonized. See pretty much any protest coverage ever.

I know I personally don't do anything, because I feel pretty much powerless to effect any kind of meaningful change.
Enter the URL with two spaces before it please, to place it in a code box.

It's changing the layout.
Just keep in mind something that another pointed out: startups are chaotic. You may have to wait a bit longer from them. My suggestion of 1-2 weeks is largely assuming a traditional work environment and HR department.

That doesn't mean you cannot contact them after 2 weeks, but do not expect an answer.
I'm only on my 2nd programming job. I was at my last job for right around 4 years and had about 8 months of unemployment before I took the current one.

The last (1st) programming job was at a market reasearch company doing ASP, SQL Server 2000 and some MsAccess. I hadn't touched any of those technologies. I had/have no college degree or any college credits for that matter. I didn't even take programming courses in High School.

What I did have, however, was a small handful of personal websites I had done in PHP and MySql, most using E107 (a PHP CMS). I couldn't code a PHP site from scratch, nor properly setup a MySql install. Heck, I could barely write queries. But I was fortunate enough that the company didn't have a proper CTO, so I interview with the IT/IS team directly. A couple of those guys had gotten there start the same way, so they gave me a go and things worked out really well. I came in severaly under qualified, on a probabtionary 90 day $10/hr wage. I left, after 4 years, as the Director of IT. I don't think I was necessarily qualified for that position either, but attained it more through attrition and ability to work well with the rest of the department and company.

I guess the point is, there is always someone who will give you a shot regardless of qualifications. If you show that you have a technical mind, are motivtated and a quick learner, you have the base you need and some people will looking past the inexperience. The tricky part is finding them. Until then, just keep working at it.
There are a lot of posts on Parler calling for violence, which violate Parler's terms of service. Parler itself doesn't appear to have strategy for moderating these posts.

Apple's ultimatum demands Parler implement a plan for enforcing its own terms of service, and reduce the probability that Parler is used to incite violence.
We already know from history what happens when large groups are disenfranchised from the public sphere. Violence. Lots of it. And once it starts, it's not easily stopped. Some welcome this because they think it can be managed for their own purposes. But once civil order breaks down, things simply accelerate with no possibility of talk being able to stop it anymore. It takes on a life of its own. Those who dream of the power they can seize once the violence starts are completely delusional. The winners and losers cannot be predicted ahead of time. There's no good path through it but this does appear to be the path that some have decided to force society down. Doubt most of them are even aware that this is what they're doing.
Today, Twitter. Tomorrow, FiOS.
This looks great! Too bad it's not open source, I probably have all the components already and could 3D-print the TV set in a few minutes.
Yup and it might backfire in twitter's face because now apparently there is a mass exodus of conservatives going to platforms like parler. It is very likely that Trump will switch platforms and that will bring pressure on the stock price.

I sold my TWTR shares and advise others to do the same.
"In Green Bank, you can’t make a call on your cell phone, and you can’t text on it, either. Wireless internet is outlawed, as is Bluetooth. It’s a premodern place by design, devoid of the gadgets and technologies that define life today. And thanks to Uncle Sam, it will stay that way: The town is part of a federally mandated zone where a government high-tech facility’s needs come first. Wireless signals are verboten."
Correct. Storage is just the easiest way to define a service that's sold as a usage based utility. The price includes all the hardware resources, our support staff, DBA tools, etc.
It is even scarier. It occurs if the number of lines of code someone produced spans across several lines. And if you want nightmares, extrapolate LoC and LoLoC into LoLoLoC. shivers
This reminds me of some paypal horror stories... not good. The approach patio11 suggests is the best one i guess.
I think it is a misinformed customer support person.
Write a detailed blog post and submit it to Reddit with a catchy headline. Google will fix it before the end of the week.
We had problems with PayPal as well but at least they called us on the phone and after some hair pulling we were able to come to a reasonable resolution. Google Checkout just stone walls you.
I think we overestimate the dichotomy between those two things. It's pretty common to see people react to ideas with "that's either obviously true or heretically stupid, but it's definitely not accurate and groundbreaking."

Galileo got in trouble over insulting his patron, but heliocentric theory more broadly was peacefully ignored, except when it became too visible and was persecuted. And the Catholic Church has maintained the same position ever since: into the 1800s, it was alternately publishing and banning works which accepted heliocentric theory. Even in the 1990s, we saw Cardinal Ratzinger rationalizing the Church's position as more rational than Galileo's at the time, while John Paul II was talking about "the error of the theologians of the time", as though the matter had consisted of a standard disagreement between scholars, rather than a heresy trial and a formal ban on Galilean ideas. One view says he was a foolish heretic who got lucky, the other an accepted part of the academy; neither concedes that his work was both controversial and correct.

We see the same thing all over. Darwin was hesitant to publish because he knew the conflict he'd attract, but the Linnean society declared his work unremarkable even as sparked outrage in other quarters. Soviet science suppression is recent enough to be well-documented; we see for instance that cybernetics was a "bourgeois pseudo-science" until it was rehabilitated, at which point Kolman wrote a history in which suppressed thinkers like Glushkov were credited with inventing the science ahead of Westerners.

Taleb's historical point is interesting, but I think he's wrong to portray those as conflicting reactions. Jumping straight from mockery to acceptance is a common approach for an establishment that doesn't want to lose face.
I had the same issue with LibreOffice choking with big datasets so I've started using SoftMaker PlanMaker for loading anything with more than a few hundred records. It's works just fine with documents with tens of thousands of rows and it allows me to do the - admittedly very simple - calculations and charting I need.

The whole SoftMaker Office suite is pretty nice. Not sure where it's on feature parity with Microsoft Office, but the price isn't terrible (something like $20 a year for the paid version, or free if you don't care about the paid features) and it does a great job of reading Office files.
> Saudi Barbaria

What do you hope to achieve with petty quips like this?
> ..But I wonder if there will be any smart people worth hanging around in a rubbish college

Well, there might be people like you too.. surprise them and get surprised yourself
There used to be a saying in a11y circles, "Google is a blind user".[1]

Now Google are manifestly anti-blind-user.

Shouldn't be anything a major ADA lawsuit couldn't fix.

Meantime, DDG is actually pretty damned good. For console users: https://duckduckgo.com/lite

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Notes:

1. https://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/06-08-steven-web40/
Yeah, jwz.
So what is a dislike for another race called?
> Sites aren't persons and don't develop awareness

Sites do have culture, both organically grown and cultivated. You can't say HN does not have collective viewpoints and attitudes while at the same time chastising someone for transgressing them.
I thought the parent was referring to the developers/business choice as being immoral, not the customers.

If I choose to offer predatory loans which I would never accept for my friends or family to a community that is not financially savvy, and someone calls me out on it, it doesn't fly to say "hey, what do you have against these people taking advantage of my easy to use service?".
There's a link on the page to this essay by Dijkstra: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1012...

It's overall badly (at least foggily) written, but I find this quote really on point:

>The moral of the story is clear: real programmers don't reason about their programs, for reasoning isn't macho. They rather get their substitute for intellectual satisfaction from not quite understanding what they are doing in their daring irresponsibility and from the subsequent excitement of chasing the bugs they should not have introduced in the first place.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I think people think C/C++ is an acceptable tool for anything besides drivers and kernels, for which they're only acceptable because there's no better alternative. Sure, pointer-pointers is a magnificent idea! I'll totally keep that under control!
If you said "PHP isn't aggressive enough in removing dangerous or objectively ugly language features" I'd be with you 100%. I was just pointing out that they do sometimes pull some, though I'd agree they could do better. I don't use PHP unless its a requirement and have declined nice paying job offers because PHP was involved (a 5.5/Laravel port from legacy code) so I no longer stay on top of things (don't really do Perl either anymore), but I was under the impression that they were killing a lot of deprecated legacy cruft in PHP 6/7.
A friend gave me an older Macbook Air (3,1) recently. I installed Linux Mint LTS on it, completely replacing MacOS (no dual-boot). Everything just works, you name it: wifi, webcam, sound, suspend. The only hard part was understanding that the nvidia driver is not compatible with EFI mode, and needs the legacy BIOS mode.
The company I work for now, is around 18-20 employees (high/low for the past year), and the 5 people working in IT account for more than half of payroll... so I'd say you are probably correct.

IT personnel typically pays well over $50k/year for an established (not tech support) role. And over $90K for a senior developer role (usually more). This is usually twice what an employee in other roles will make.

Rock star sales people in a sales driven company can make quite a bit more, but this tends to be commission based... there is a risk there, and the reward is higher pay. If you have a good idea, and want to take a risk, then you can reap larger rewards from that, though you have as much or more chance of falling on your face. I've now done that twice, and am happy to make a nice salary as a senior developer or software architect than deal with the risk/reward scenarios.
I sometimes upvote an article before I finished reading it and then I want to take it back when I realize it wasn't up to HN standard.
Reading your comments I realized that I made a mistake of using the word "language". Yes, it would be more interesting to see the same questions asked with a different context. You are right by saying that "problems they solve" is more correct than "languages they use". Thank you for the comments.
Wow. I love it. Never heard this one before. Would be better if it were:

Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you could be wrong. Including this.
yes, but even beyond that, I think think there were changes and/or clarifications to the semantics of releaxed atomics that made the straightforward no-barriers-at-all implementation on alpha non-conformant strictly speaking. But I might be misremembering.
> What's being tested is not 'how did your previous employer value you?', it's 'how good at negotiating were you when you started your last job?'

and "how little can we get away with paying you?"

I worked for a medium sized private software company and managements goal was to hire people as cheaply as possible, no exceptions regardless of experience or education. They routinely offered developers 30k to start, many were highly offended and some just laughed at it, but they would always get a few developers who were down and out to accept. Yes turnover was high and most people didn't last longer than a year or two, but they viewed developers as disposable assets due to the local economic climate. This was in a medium sized US city with high unemployment and few tech opportunities, managements attitude was ruthlessly honest "we're the only ones hiring in the area, what other choice do they have?"
From a practical standpoint, Bitcoin has other problems for using it in a real business -- mainly the fact that taxes are only payable in the coin of the realm.

If you are a real, legal business, do you want your entire personal and business future contingent on the ability to exchange bitcoin with dollars?
TUAW, a little biased as usual.
In Michigan you can form a LLC for $50. It's super simple.

EDIT: I am also an attorney, but have never practiced. In most cases a LLC is the best way to incorporate your startup. (Unless, you know you are getting funding ASAP)
Because movies show motion blur which makes things appear more smooth. Most games just show static snapshots of moments in time and it makes motion jerky as a result.
The author either knows basically nearly to nothing in computer security and password bruteforcing, or knows stuffs but miserably failed to properly communicate the hypotheses used (he did communicate some of his hypotheses, but not in an appropriate way that would have rightly prevented the general public from making password choices based on this article while under radically different conditions) and caveats to take into account when interpreting his examples.

This article is misleading in the sens the results it gives are only applicable for very narrow cases, and fast reading it can give the impression that "J4fS<2" is a "secure" password and that "this is fun" is even more secure. While this can be true under those very restrictive hypotheses he used, the fact that it was not prominently warned that those hypothesis should not be blindly used for basing password choice for random online web sites or other things makes this article dangerous.
How could someone use an API correctly without understanding it?
This is a fallacy of distributed systems. Never trust the network. Best case you get packets destined for somewhere else, worst case you your network segmented wasn't actually segmented.
My evopsych class in college touched on this.

Brains can track a number of discrete objects (from 3 to ~7, depending on species and maturity). Once we get past this number, brains tends to interpret it as 'many'. From the studies we looked at, it appears that the brain can innately count within this number, but reverts to 'many' representation after it.

Ex. crows can count three people going into an obscured area with food, and know that once three people have left, it's safe to get the food, as there aren't any people left.
Affirmative action programs like rounding up Uighur Muslims and making them more Han Chinese?

You’re right about China (and other communist countries) being first on gender equality at least in some respects, but... so what? In the West it’s good enough at a macro scale.

Saying China is bad on human rights in some respects is a gross understatement.
Trigger warnings are harmful for society as well. Grown adults at university get coddled with the stuff, then released out into the cold, cruel, uncaring world. Not a good turn for society.
Depending on the drug, not continuing to do it may be fatal (this includes alcohol with a sufficient level of addiction).

Knowing that there is a safe place to go and treatment for it might reduce some inhibitions about it, but I doubt that many, if any at all, would actually start doing such hard drugs because of places like this.

More likely, if someone is in a position where they would consider doing it in the first place, they would do it anyway.
"Politically Correct" penetrates software -- Support at your own peril -- you may be the next victim.
The websites are set up so that you would not make a profit if you tried to game the system.
Corrupt governments' greatest nightmare is transparency.

It's amazing that these documents were discarded so carelessly. That alone probably says a lot about the competency of the Yanukovych government at large.

Good luck and Godspeed! Here's hoping that some of the information found here can be used as evidence and will speed the transition to a better government. Stay safe out there.
It's cmd-v on a Mac, I'm afraid ;)
> It's quite amazing just how integrated they are into Japanese society

Only, they're not. I don't know why people keep repeating this. The Yakuza has been on the decline since the early 90s. The only place they're still integrated are in the shady areas of society (mainly, industries for vices. Porn, Pachinko Parlors, Soaplands, etc...) You're not going to find the Yakuza operating a franchise Burger King, clothing store or find them shaking down a mom & pop aquarium store.

Again, the Yakuza has been dying. All of the "real" powerful bosses went completely legit, only dabbling in white collar crimes (if at all). What's left are the scraps. Scraps without much power, pull or sway. They're basically just thugs who couldn't, wouldn't or didn't want to go legit. They're no longer the Yakuza we once knew.
Environmentalists say to conserve resources, bring my own grocery bags to the store, and stop wasting.

So why is encouraging everyone to mindlessly consume through continuous debasement of the currency a good thing? If saving money didn’t mean I would constantly lose my wealth, given interest on cash savings is vastly lower than inflation, I wouldn’t have to buy whatever asset I could get my grubby hands on. I could focus more on quality, and vendors would have to put more effort into convincing me to part with my savings.
System 76 has for years been known to be working on making their own laptop designs. They are going slow to create a quality product that they don't lost money on. This looks like another of the baby steps needed along the way.
I still don't see how that makes quite the right cut. For example, I live in London any my landlord is German. She lives in London too. I can't see any reason why she should be treated differently to a UK citizen in the same position.
One if the best guides/books on programming I've ever read. This taught me the foundations of network programming and the fact it's available for free is incredible. I just took a second and ordered the paperback right now because of how fantastic it is.

Aside from the book being really in-depth and understandable, Beej adds in quite a bit of humor and that is something I love in a good software book.
Rosetta 1 was disabled in a software update, it had nothing to do with hardware. Existing Macs instantly became less useful.
The moment old.reddit.com stops working is the moment I will stop using Reddit generally, the new design is just too slow for me to create a pleasant experience (and the UX of the redesign is overall very unpleasant). Ever since they began limiting viewing on mobile browsers I already stopped using Reddit with my mobile phone completely.

There are ways to circumvent that of course, but I just can't be bothered.
Given they seem to have a KYC requirement they basically can't use Bitcon or Ethereum as far as I can see.
TIL: Win-Shift-S. Very useful to know that Windows has a built-in tool for cropping screenshots before they even end up in the clipboard.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought the new AMC shares came from Silverlake exercising its convertibles, not AMC itself. Of course it still benefited AMC by reducing its debt load.
Unimpressed. Except for the keyboard. That is nice!