jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In general, people get extremely defensive when it comes to entertainment, shown in its mildest forms with arguments about which movie is better, which band has the AOTY, to how well these things intertwine with politics (like adding fire to fire), and its more extreme forms on the debate about whether video games cause violence or porn causes sexist attitudes. Part of this is likely the fact that it feels really good to play video games and watch porn (and I say this as someone who does both) - perhaps more than food. People just don't want to hear criticism, because it sets their mind into cognitive dissonance mode.

A question worth asking is what a 'better use' is to that person and to what extent (and why) that differs from your idea of a 'better use'. For example, I personally don't think chess is much better than a game like Starcraft or Factorio. I don't think billiards is any better than chess. I don't think English literature is better than philosophy. I don't think science is as good as maths.

Not everyone wants to be an intellectual; many people (due to other factors in life) can barely find the time to care enough (with either depression or work sapping thir creative energies). "Reexamining patterns" is good. Saying that someone is a bad person (in a moral sense, as some have done) is not. It doesn't take into account individual situations. Philosophers have argued we 'should' reexamine all kinds of things, from our political conceptions to who we decide to date.
Not that I disagree with what you said, but maybe you can think about it this way (again, contrived oversimplification):

- Google are the experts/masters of knowing "what you want", expressed via your search intents

- Facebook are the experts/masters of knowing "who you are" (including demographics, as well as family/friends/connections, interests/hobbies/personality, etc.)

Google can guess at the same type of "who" information that Facebook owns (e.g. gender inference), and vice versa Facebook can guess at the type of info that Google owns (e.g. search/purchase intent), but both have distinct relative advantages over the other, which is why there is still competition in this space (the GP comment was questioning, why hasn't Google just "won", why is FB even in the picture, etc.).
If you're too sick to work, then don't work. That should be simple. When you have a bad flu or tonsillitis or something, there is no choice. You are in bed.

This is about those times when you can still work. Most people come into work whenever they can, even if they are carrying an infectious virus. That needs to stop. If you are sick but can still work, you should work from home.
> On the one hand, it is ridiculous that one of the main metrics used in admissions is a glorified IQ test. On the other hand, it is ridiculous that we don't have a single commonly used standardized-exam that evaluates proficiency and expertise in the core curriculum.

You don't like the use of an IQ test in school admissions, and you want to establish an IQ test instead?
Oh no, I'm very much aware of it. What I'm saying is that your insinuation – that socialism only failed because the CIA murdered socialists – doesn't make sense, because socialism has been tried several times in different countries. It would only make sense if the CIA had exclusively murdered the competent socialist leaders, while leaving the incompetent socialist leaders alive to try out socialism in their countries. This would also require the CIA to have the foresight to know beforehand which leaders will turn out to be incompetent.
Not if they disclose their theory for why the salaries of those engineers should be going to general R&D rather than rideshare.
This is why you want a lawyer present in any discussions such as this, false pretenses, FBI questioning you... yeah... "lawyer"
Issue at JetBrains: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2074
> Most high schools in the US don't have graduation exams.

So how do people fail to graduate high-school?
I cringed too, but then I realized this is probably the best way to start out. It's only a 'problem' because it's a bit more glue code (but less 'figuring things out' time).

The only truly cringey part is not knowing about CSV!
Brings up old memories reading this. I remember my first job about 20 years ago at NEC as a data entry operator. It was 8 hours each day of taking a bunch of mal-formatted CSV files from some reports the previous day and importing it into excel and drawing graphs. I was just getting into learning C at the time and ended up writing an importer (parsing and formatting in C and ODBC to write back to excel along with excel macros to draw graphs). Very hacky and ugly but got the job done. It got the 8 hour job done in about 30 minutes - most of which was detecting patterns in the input and adding rules for those, which was fun in itself.
11) Don't be a snob:

"I don’t mean to sound condescending here, but the sad fact of the matter is that compared to you, most people are pretty dumb (look at how many people vote Republican ;-) and they care about dumb things. (I just heard about a new clothing store in Pasadena that has lines around the block. A clothing store!) If you cater only to people who care about the things that you care about then your customer base will be pretty small."
I donated because I like makers who don't take things too seriously.

EDIT: @StavrosK, consider making the "From" set in your hello email to something prettier than "hello"
Yeah, our responses have grown sufficiently voluminous as to be a substantial investment of time. I've mostly got a reply put together, but want to read it over when I'm a bit better rested before posting.
> The smug emissions

Did you mean smog emissions? Believe me, I don't feel smug in my 25 year old car, even if it does still pass emissions. :)
Bar does only shuffle the problem around to make it "someones else" problem. Maybe having a bench not be a cool option is an answer to those problems?
It doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, RFC 7230 (current version of HTTP/1.1) is missing from the index.
> They produced a great stable OS, worked hard, then it was making billions of dollars. Ok, what next? Institute 4 day weeks? (maybe not a bad idea, but I am being hyperbolic here a bit).

It's really a business problem. Once you have a successful high margin product, investors expect you to continue making those numbers. If you sit on your duff then competitors will catch up and you find yourself in a low margin commodity market.

But is it isn't always obvious what to develop, especially once the low hanging fruit is gone. Sometimes there isn't a right answer and the market is simply mature enough that it's destined to become a commodity market.

And if you can't find something good to do, people have an aversion to doing nothing. So instead they do something bad.
I agree, Stripe is one of the most advanced, easy to plugin platform with just a completely wrong old school, bank-a-like business model.
It started just now, the list is slowly increasing.
It was a question about React Native.
If we really want to help the people of Gaza we need first to put the people that killed children, women and innocent men of Gaza, in front of an international trial. And stop voting to them. Is as simple as that.

We need also to stop tolerating to be labelled as "anti-semitic behaviour" to bona fide criticizing Israel for breaking repeatedly a lot of international laws about human rights, each three years, and for treating palestinian people as human cockroaches.

In the last years USA and Europe were repeatedly urged to pay with trucks full of money the last "Gaza reconstruction". We paid for rebuilding exactly the same UN schools and hospitals that Israel bombed meticulously the last year, in some cases even with UN workers inside.

Is reasonable to asume that if we pay again, the new schools and hospitales will be bombed again in the next two or three years, with the silliest excuses.

There is also the problem that Israel controls the economy of Gaza, so there is not any guarantee that the money for palestinians will not be used instead in buying new bombs to replace that were dropped.

I'm aware that I'm being sour and harsh, but in my opinion, and is just an opinion, the sort of Warsaw Ghetto that became Gaza, need a little more that well-meant investors and little kisses at this moment.
>Modern web has very little to do with providing value to the end-user

I disagree strongly with this. The web has moved a lot in the direction of developer experience (ES6, modules) and new capabilities (WebSockets, WebRTC, WebAudio, SVG, canvas...). Yes, most of this happened because it's a side-effect of big surveillance capitalism companies wanting make that sweet sweet digital pollen to be even sweeter, but that doesn't make it any less sweet just because it was made in bad faith.
> you'd clearly see that I don't believe every local firm does this

Yes. I clearly see the original comment seems to infer that most of the (or almost every!?) local firms in India does that.

> Do you claim I'm wrong on this point?

To an extent, yes. India and Indian industry/economy is not just IT and not just big cities. There's a lot more to it. I would be most honored if I get a chance to show some of it first hand, if at all our paths cross in life and we get to meet in the real world, outside of these digital confines.

> I'm not asserting some sort of vague cultural/moral/racial superiority.

Pardon me, but the original comment indeed seems to mention that the "western style management and work culture" is morally superior to the local one.

> I'm claiming that certain modern business practices are not widely used here, but are common in the west[1]. And I'm claiming India will be a better (i.e. richer, happier) place when it adopts them more widely.

Yes, agreed. But one can rest assured that better practices are being adopted at a much better pace here, because developing economies are already resource constrained and thus they are forced to come up with best practices to maximize value extraction from a given set of resources. ISRO and recent Mars mission was big news already. I believe business practices always have locality as a dimensional factor associated with them for their applicability and relevance. (HSBC ad about local knowledge comes to my mind)
"They take privacy incredibly seriously"

What does that even mean? They're tracking not only the number of people in a location, but where they go ... then sharing that with their customers. From their own website:

Understand your business in the context of others:

1. Who you share customers with.

2. Where else your loyal customers love to go.

3. Where foot traffic in the city is trending.

How is that respecting my privacy?
For extensive coverage of OneCoin scam since 2015, see https://behindmlm.com/companies/onecoin/

Also, US lawyer Mark Scott was convicted earlier this week of money laundering for OneCoin: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50509299
My pet theory is that a musical capacity provides a pleasure/reward for the imitation of intentional motor activity. I believe this enjoyment of rhythmic entrainment predated language by roughly a million years and launched cultural transmission of skill knowledge in prehumans.

Humans are (largely) the only animals with cultural transmission of skills. Making stone tools or cutting trees or scraping hides or making fire would have involved much rhythmic motor activity.
As a consumer I vastly prefer targeted ads. I don't like badly targetted ads much though.

(I don't work in adtech, but I have sold technology to adtech companies.)
Call me crazy but I wonder if the windows breaking during the demo was actually on purpose, a Trumpian intentionality. There were a lot of headlines about the truck, such as: TESLA TRUCK'S 'UNBREAKABLE' WINDOWS SHATTER DURING DEMO, etc. And people think, Tesla has an unbreakable truck? Lemme check that out...

Trump does this consistently: he'll misspell a tweet or quote a fact slightly wrong and the media jumps on him, replaying his error over and over, meanwhile the substance of his message gets out.
> I hope to see a lot of things in my lifetime: life discovered outside our planet, human cloning, artificial organs and blood, AGI, humans on Mars, cures for a broad spectrum of cancers and Alzheimer's, human life extension / slowing aging, broad advances in chemistry and materials science, major advances in metabolomics, protein folding, drug discovery, gene therapies and repair...

The same list of things people were 'hoping for' in 1988. (From personal experience; probably a high estimate.) We're not a iota closer here in 2019.

Wishful thinking isn't enough; no matter how hard you hope and how much money you waste, you're not going to make a fundamentally better airliner or horse buggy.
My thoughts : Social networks as we understand it today will no longer exist. There would be cyclical phases of fragmentation into specialised services and localised networks with attempts to bridge them via a common ^standard^ but of course that won't work, because history.

The role of the web itself as the platform where social networks live would diminish further than it already has. Of course everything would still be connected and online on the Internet, but the web won't be the primary home for these networks. I am doubtful about AR and VR playing a big role. These technologies still are waiting for thier iPhone moment to occur. When it does, I doubt it would be related to social networks.
Thanks for taking the time to answer. Yeah, you arrived at the root of my question which was how do you share with your team, especially in a closely held startup.. I probably would have been better served directly asking the question. ;)
This is pretty tame and actually sounds pretty pragmatic and well-organized in a non-threatening manner, especially given the target audience (kids). Moderating for different countries’ rules is a requirement unless you want to get kicked out of lots of markets.

The real concern I have is in the fact that things below 50 views don’t get much moderation attention, which is the same across all platforms, and where we see the most risk for these platforms to be used to bully people within small social groups (such as at school).

Anyone who thinks Facebook doesn’t similarly optimize the content within Explore etc is delusional. It would be interesting to compare the information these companies offer national security organizations.
Interesting, just like Klaus Fuchs
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/20/atom-spy-klaus...
Lets you emit text format of WASM from a Clojure style variation of the WASM sexp syntax. So no, it's not compiling Clojure.
Putting in some self-leveling concrete in your apartment would only be a temporary solution, without correcting the foundation. And it has a tragedy-of-the-commons aspect to it as well. If all your neighbors also did it, the additional weight would tilt the building even faster.
You're right, and Prop 13 doesn't get nearly enough hate in these discussions. It's not just that people are sitting on investments like domain campers, though - it makes it impossible for many people to move, because if they did move to an equivalently valued home, they'd be paying many times their current property tax. This restricts the liquidity of the housing market and encourages hoarding, which leads to skyrocketing prices among the few houses that do go on the market.

If that was slowly phased out, prices would come down as more houses came on the market, and the houses that those people wouldn't represent such a huge jump in ongoing property taxes.
>Most C++ hard core game developers don't even use the STL that comes with the language ... Why do you think they will even consider linking the huge Boost library with their game ?

Boost has libraries that address specific efficiency concerns like the one the article discusses; the standard library containers don't. You also don't link with the entire Boost library. You link with the components you use, which in the case of a library like intrusive/list is whichever member functions you use from each container instantiation you use. That's a static link, too.

But no, I don't really expect anyone who considers themselves a "hard core" programmer to consider using a library like Boost.

>Also, the use of templates is usually a big no - no for most game dev studios.

Do you have a specific example?
I thought this was entertaining, don't get me wrong, but when he says:

porting all that great shit backwards to JavaScript

...I understand what he means, but 'cmon, that ship sailed a long time ago. JavaScript won on the web. It's far from perfect, and something better will replace it, but JavaScript successfully met the demands of rapid development.
It is worth noting that according to the Curry-Howard isomorphism[0], programs are equivalent to proofs and vice versa.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
The underlying asset in a bubble is usually inherently valuable until the bubble itself starts driving creation of assets that wouldn't have otherwise exists. The housing bubble drove the prive of homes up enormeously, but the houses were very useful to their owners and had real value. Then speculators came and made a lot of houses that were above and beyond what normally would be required, but because of the bubble made sense. I think most of the "WEB 2.x IS A BUBBLE!" crowd are seeing people jumping in to invest at dumb valuations and startups being created for no reason other than to chase the money, and that is what they are fearful of. That could inflate the arena and make it worse for genuine startups.
I have 2 questions for you. I'm following this incident as I am on the list as well. Like you I use different pwords for sites. But I also got the warning from my email account there had been suspicious activity when I logged in but, like you saw no evidence of outbound email, bouncebacks, or strange spam filter messages.
Q1: Are you thinking we got those messages b/c people were trying to get in using common words, etc, and they just locked the acct b/c of all the incorrect tries?
Q2: I don't recall ever signing up for a gawker account for comments. So how do you think my email was included? Was it another site in their portfolio owned by gawker?
If they do, the source of the cells aren't really important.
Even if VCs target at a 10x sale, they definitely take offers to sell at a much lesser multiple.

They target at 10x so that with their spread of total-failures/so-sos/big-exits they end up making a nice return.
Surely it's just my terminology obsession, but I prefer the term user acquisition because that is actually the goal of your marketing. For example, sending your app/game to review blogs is a standard marketing practice, but you can't rely on it to get users. You need more deterministic stuff like SEO, content marketing, etc.
No, you weren't being harsh at all. But there is a certain percentage of readers who are like Smokey from the Big Lebowski:

DUDE: Walter, you can't do that. These guys're like me, they're pacificists. Smokey was a conscientious objector.

WALTER: You know Dude, I myself dabbled with pacifism at one point. Not in Nam, of course--

DUDE: And you know Smokey has emotional problems!

WALTER: You mean--beyond pacifism?

DUDE: He's fragile, man! He's very fragile!

WALTER: Huh. I did not know that. Well, it's water under the bridge.

When you comment, remember, Smokey is here reading too, and he's fragile, man, he's very fragile.
I'm fairly sure that quote means workers can talk about the union while working, not stop working and stage a demonstration during work hours.

That said, I do wonder if the fired workers could argue that they were merely taking an unscheduled break (permitted under Google's flextime policy) when demonstrating.
Splitting hairs because it's closer to a common understanding, but bit.ly URLs aren't hashes they are just alphanumeric IDs.

The difference is that AFAIK there's no algorithm to take a URL (plus or minus a username) and give you a bit.ly ID, short of looking it up at bit.ly.
> In other words, you're making the assumption that might literally makes right--that the truth will always be on the same side as power and that there is no way that kooks will ever hijack your anti-kook system. Are you really willing to take that risk?

No I'm not, in fact my previous post explicitly acknowledged that some institutions suppress heresies precisely because they're insecure about the possibility their critics might be right.

What I am doing is criticising the equally crass argument that if someone wants to suppress something enough, it's probably an indication there's some merit to it...
Was there ever any attempt to trace the obviously malicious call ? Someone ought to do 20 years for that one (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/man-behind-fatal-swattin...)
>Tomas Petricek's "Real-world functional progamming" as well as "Expert F#" by Don Syme are excellent introductions to the language.

I found both books kind of lacking, the former has examples in C# which I found distracting and the latter was too dry.
If F# gets a book in the league of "joy of clojure" it would greatly help push F# into the mainstream.

Meanwhile, this is the best book if you like doing exercises as you learn( why wouldn't you? ). Not sure why the book is so underrated.

http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Using-Michael-H...
This is cool because it's not just a mod of minecraft, but actually teaches you how to mod minecraft.

Another cool minecraft mod is ComputerCraft which lets you make simple robots and computers in the game, which you can program in Lua. A lot of people have been exposed to programming through that, and it's really fun.
If that's a 2008 MacBook that you have, it should be able to (unofficially) take at least 6GB RAM. I have a 2007 MacBook with 6GB RAM and I've never had any problems with the RAM upgrade (running Lion & Mountain Lion, at least). Try looking up your model number in the small print here:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/
No it isn't, it's the way open source is supposed to work. There being 92 pages of routers doesn't stop anyone from picking the most popular and well-maintained one. Almost anyone who actually cares is going to pick one of the large frameworks (which probably use Symfony) or use nikic's FastRoute. If you're worried about small packages being maintained into the future, that's what forking is for. If you want to write your own, you can.

Also, to be fair to your argument, Composer will load packages from outside Packagist, and VCS systems other than git, so the actual universe of available routers is probably much, much bigger. I'd suggest this as another example of how not conforming to a standard (Packagist as the de facto PHP repository) is a benefit. You don't even have to care about Packagist and Composer still works just fine.