jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Curiously, mostly fan-subbers are very ethical about that.

Those subbers only translate and distribute stuff that isn't licensed outside of Japan, so the "would not buy it" is, in fact, "can't buy it because it's not for sale and even if it were it would be in a foreign language".
Photons don't have mass either. Yet they cannot exceed the speed of light.
The MIT license actually has one requirement:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Attribution (In the form of this requirement) is the one thing the MIT license actually requires.
> passing the cost of living of the employees on to the customers

I see this trope a lot, but the point I think it misses is the customers of these businesses are often enough the ones making minimum wage. So raising the business’s prices to pay the higher wages just ends up in a self defeating loop for all involved.

If the solution to poverty was “just give the poor people money”, it would’ve been done already I believe. Sadly, societal problems are generally not easy to solve.
I had a pretty negative experience with TripleByte. This isn't to say that you shouldn't try them out, since it's a pretty small time investment, but I wouldn't do them again, in large part because I believe that simple networking is way more effective for job hunting.

First, I got a multiple-choice quiz, which wasn't too bad except there were at least a few of those "spot the problem with this code" questions that actually had multiple problems but you could only pick one. That sucked, but I still passed it.

After that, I got a technical interview over Skype with some stonefaced dude who asked me almost nothing but computer science questions. I applied as a web developer, so it really shouldn't have been surprising that I know the difference between a binary tree and a binary search tree. The interviewer was stone cold and had no sense of humor. The following day, I got a rejection email.

Seems like yet another SV startup run by bros who want to disrupt an industry and have no regard for their "human capital".

Hopefully that was a fluke or they've changed since. Keep in mind that my experience is from 2 years ago.

All in all, I'm glad that I didn't get hired through Triplebyte because I probably wouldn't have gotten my current job, which is an awesome one in terms of the kind of work, the benefits, and the people.
This can be done, but it's not a long-term solution and honestly I wouldn't recommend it.

H1B visas are granted for three years, and you can renew once. That gives you a total of six years after which you have to go home - no matter how well your startup is doing at that point. I've never heard of anyone doing the above and managing to keep their Green Card application going. I'm not sure it's actually possible.

In contrast a Green Card can be renewed indefinitely, so it's a rather valuable thing to wait for. Totally worth it in my opinion.
A better title for this would be "50 somewhat uncommon, but not particularly challenging words some of our readers had to look up using our online word definition utility."
Great question. I have no answers, but some thoughts.

It depends a lot on the job being offered. Soulless job boards are decent when you're looking for fairly fungible workers, but if you're looking for employee #7 at your startup, no way. So a first thought would be that you could do better by focusing on certain types of jobs. You would be able to tailor your recruiting method, and you would also benefit from a marketing perspective.

If it's programming, I think the online-application-form-including-a-difficult-programming-problem route is pretty good. It weeds out those who can't do what you want them to technically, and also those who aren't motivated by solving difficult problems. It's not the full solution, but it gets you a shortlist.
Disagree
a) they disclosed it at the end of the day (literally?); b) they didn't convince him of doing something really terrible.

Giving a) and b) I would argue that was a valuable lesson.
When our first son was born 17 years ago I was making $10/h. My wife got WIC, and used medicaid. We told the government that she lived with her mom and that I was a deadbeat. We needed the help, and my low-wage job would have been prohibitive. $10/h actually wasn't too bad in '98 for a single dude. I had an apartment, ate, had utilities paid, with enough left over for beer, weed and cigarettes.

It was rough, but definitely not hopeless. Not all of the decisions we made were good (lol, by a long ways), but enough of them were.

I never expected to be poor forever, which makes a huge difference. There were spans of depression where I felt like giving in and just accepting my lot in life, but punched through and kept grinding. Thankful for that.
Yeah, that probably would help attract more people, since people now a days loves extensibility for their editor :)
I've tried to use MKL_DEBUG_CPU_TYPE=5 trick on a Threadripper but it had no effect on scikit-learn nor matrix factorization inside MKL.
I get it, but when I reach out for help, its because I wasn't able to figure it out myself and I likely put a significant (relatively speaking) amount of time into it. If its in the manual, it means I overlooked it and could really do with a pointer. If I'm just told RTFM, that leaves a very sour taste.

I understand that devs have to deal with a lot of "dumb" questions, but that doesn't mean they have to be rude. As someone else said, silence would actually be better in this case, but a better response would be something like "hey, that's in the manual, in the blah section" because its not rude, it affirms that it is, indeed, in the manual and gives me a pointer where. Even without the last bit, it would be better. Part of good support is to acknowledge that the person has a problem, even if you can't help. If you don't want to provide support for an open source project (as in the case of the linked issues) then don't respond or at least set up a replacement to turn RTFM into something a bit more human.

> I found the answer valid, because I couldn't find the manual before.

How did RTFM help you find the manual if you didn't find it before, aside from affirming that there is, indeed, a manual?
Repugnant is entirely your opinion and there are lots of people who disagree with you. It might be an amazing opportunity for some.
A counter-theory is that technology will always be constrained by the physical limitations of energy and matter. Given the material resources of a solar system, there's only so much you can do no matter how advanced your technology. Given that constrained matter/energy budget, how much of those resources are going to be devoted to ancestor simulations? Possibly not enough for it to matter.

Ok, you can assume an interstellar hegemonic civilization that can consume the resources of a galaxy, but if such a thing were possible how come we haven't already been absorbed by one yet? Ergo such a thing seems to be unlikely to be possible.
100 years ago you would have needed an expert, specialized equipment and several hours. 10 years ago, you still needed an expert and probably an hour at least. Soon, there may be tools anyone can use, feed in some photos of you and a description of what you want to see. It will be easy to generate fake profile pictures that look like you, for instance. Your voice will be easily cloned on the phone as well, and eventually, even video chats could be fake.

Scammers could find out when you're on a trip from social media, reach out to your family, ask for emergency money because of a stolen wallet, etc. Still some effort for the scammers, but eventually, you might be able to automate the whole scam with a bot. The bot doesn't need to be that smart, it just needs to follow a script with a handful of variants, like a preplanned dialogue tree.
lol, as a general rule, I think that's a good call, below the treeline for sure.

The original Steve Roper's guide book for its brainchild — Sierra High Route, opens up by instructing hikers to do just that so it doesn't end up becoming a well worn path. It's probably not a good test case for whether or not it's good for the environment since very few people hike this route. Anyhow, the vast majority of (official) trails in the US are so well marked and maintained compared to any other country I've visited, that cairns are nearly always redundant.
I think at least in the US, maybe 10-15 years ago was much more open and accepting of dissenting ideas.
Wow! I've been watching various SBIRs this year with a buddy, but have never heard of some of these programs. Muchas gracias!
If you aren't doing formal verification of programs, the other main use case of Coq would be using it to assist with coining a new domain-specific language, and proving that the language meets certain requirements.

If you have a concurrent program you can also try encoding a fragment with simplified semantics in Coq and prove the correctness of the program in Coq.

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/current/plf-curren...

Here is an example of that for a toy language.
the new yorker is the most prominent top hat aesthetic organization in the world. just look at their icon. andwhile they are often nominally opposed to monopoly they're a thoroughly capitalist news organization that is privately owned by a selection of the superwealthy.
"New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down!"
Yeah I agree with you... I believe the Nigerian technology ecosystem is ready for this productized services revolution.
In few years from now we would see productized services pop-up the Nigerian market and this is good for the ecosystem.
Right sidebar and popover message obscures the page and is hard to click away.
Huge issue for whom?

Hypervisor developers are livid about this across all cloud providers.

In practical terms the baseline of a windows OS is rather high, so if you have high density throughput of compute then you get more for your money.

IE: You pay a license cost per CPU, and you pay at minimum 1physical CPU core and 1GiB of memory per Windows machine;
It's funny to see attitudes change so dramatically is all I mean.

I think you may be blind to the harshest criticisms, though. It was a common view that the web was built for static content (or server-side dynamic content) and code execution by the client is mostly a nuisance at best. And there is some validity to that. When JS was developed, roughly contemporaneous with worse ideas like java applets and ActiveX on the web, it was thought by proponents that untrusted code execution is OK to good. 20 years later, it was still assumed that if JS is sandboxed, memory safe, has a different page table from the rest of user mode, untrusted code execution is safe. Then spectre and meltdown happened.
Out of curiosity, what new practices did you adopt after reading Moonwalking?
There was that time I "invested" in an inverse VIX ETF. It was doing great until the day the VIX spiked and it got liquidated.

Funny enough after the liquidation I had about as much money left over as I put in originally. So I didn't lose much skin and got a great story to tell.
As soon as you throw an MVC framework into the mix with an ORM the much-touted speed gains of PHP in recents years vanish into thin air. That's because with heavy frameworks PHP's shared nothing architecture works against you.
But that doesn't imply any higher probability. Say chance of dying when doing alpinism is one in a thousand.

The 1000th time you go climbing the chances of dying are still 1/1000.

If you get 100 heads in a row, the 101th time you launch a coin the chance of getting heads is still 50%.
I'm not arguing it isn't, only that the comment does does something similar by ignoring the point of the article.
Can someone please explain RISC to me?

I gather that it is a direct competitor to ARM.

By extension it competes with Intel and AMD [and NVidia?] - as phones swallow the world, Both Apple and MS have ARM desktop OS's, and the big boys like Adobe are rewriting for ARM.

But I don't see how RISC has any hope, as ARM is already everywhere, and so much software has been written, and is being converted to being ARM compatible.

In fact, I don't see how x64 has any real future!

What am I missing with both AMD and RISC? How does RISC get such good press?

And - OT - how anyone choose a name which projects the concept of being risky ;)
As an adult Lego enthusiast, I disagree. I'm probably not the target for this one, but I can see others wanting it. None of my sets are for playing with after built. Like my Saturn V rocket. Try and play with that, and you'll have a pile of bricks very soon. It's for building & looking at, once completed. I'm the sort that loves the model aspect of Lego, especially with a lot of the newer (past 15-20 years) large sets. I have some of the larger Star Wars sets (Death Star, Star Destroyer, Millenium Falcon, etc). None of these can you play with as a kid would. You can't pick up the Star Destroyer or Millenium Falcon and run around a room making pew pew sounds.
Nice read. The tl;dr is that we think intelligent life is very rare, but at the same time we think it's really hard (almost impossible) to make an intelligent guess.
"It may do the wrong thing at the worst time" -- each FSD Beta announcement email.
Eloquent JavaScript has a print version coming out as well: http://nostarch.com/ejs.htm
If you're Google shareholder and think they don't return a large enough dividend, you can sell your shares.

The market will fix the issue better than lectures.
Yahoo has been lacking any major "must have" products in the past what, 10 years?

Here is a list of everything they offer: http://everything.yahoo.com/

Delicious was about the only thing that the 'tech' crowd uses. Think about the people you know who might use Yahoo! Mail or Answers. It is the decidedly less-tech people who use these products, mainly as a throwback to the Yahoo! of 2000. Of course, Yahoo!'s goal isn't to cater to tech people, but people who click on ads. I imagine their revenue is declining for even those main-stream products, but for them to cut out the more tech oriented services which actually have a chance in the future to really get 'big', is just delaying their demise a year or 2.
Consumers don't feel many pain points that are harsh enough to change habits and loyalty from current market leaders.

Hard to monetize in scalable manner.

News (and even content) is percieved as small by investors.

Numerous - dozens - of failed startups, that have tried hundreds of propositions in the past decade - isn't clear what has changed to make those propositions work today.

Using someone elses content is of questionable legal grounds (EG: when you are winning, they'll knock)

Current social products like Facebook or Twitter or even Reddit do "good enough" job for vast majority.
I've been to these conferences. I would say it's about a 50/50 split among the attendees and a 80/20 split (towards UNIX or Windows) among the presenters.

The followers love their Macs.
I think I agree with this; I just wanted to clarify.
I second that. Scanners and faxes too. There has to be a better way then a box sitting in the corner of the office. Costing more keep it supplied with toner cartridges.
The post we are commenting on was by a person who was not making a claim, but relaying an experience.

He was not only relaying an experience, as he cites the Lisp Curse. See:

"I do believe in the Lisp curse that the power of the language is in some respects self-undermining because it empowers the individual and so tends to attract people who don't work well in teams."

And I'm sure you've read the Lisp Curse.

His essay argues that he's really not a great programmer, but Lisp gets him to principal engineer! He further implies that Lisp really is something beyond other languages with his statement about the planner code (of code, he never considers that porting often fails even within the same language family for a variety of reasons).

I'm sure with a Sun Java marketing budget and the right pepole we could make Lisp as popular as we wanted.

How do you explain C, C++, Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript, and PHP? None had very extensive marketing budgets.

So all that being said, to address your actual point (however disjoint from the OP it might be), nobody's claiming it's a "super language", just often better for the people who commit to using it despite it's unpopularity. I can back up my claims of betterness with arguments about worthiness, but not about popularity, but then I don't think the later kind of argument matters in the first place.

I don't know what your metric of worthiness is. Maybe its the existence of some esoteric feature. You say I talk about popularity, but I only do so to ask for an example of the "worthiness" you speak of. As I said before the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. If you tell me you have some great pudding, but it tastes like cow dung, I won't be impressed regardless of how many fine ingredients you use and advanced cooking methods employed. It still tastes like cow dung. And I'm not saying that Lisp is cow dung, but I am saying that fancy ingredients and world class ovens don't impress me if you're making the same McDonald's sandwich as everyone else.

And when you start creating great pudding, you won't need the marketing budget.
Parallel construction is a great way to bypass the trivialities like constitution and law.
It appears on my version of that page.

But, this is such a well-documented aspect of Ottoman slavery that it doesn’t depend on any particular Wikipedia page.

This was known to be full-on castration.
being a command line person, i always wonder about these IDE "shortcuts".

to be blunt, my productivity is limited by my speed of thought, not by how i manipulate source in a program.

my use of vi is about 10 commands; whenever something sophisticated has to be done i look it up.

if i need to see a declaration, i go back to the command line, run a quick "find ./ -name... |xargs grep and i interpret the results. maybe the results have to be passed through grep, no big deal.

in almost all cases, i spend a lot more time looking at the code and thinking about it than i do searching or typing. a lot more time thinking.

so, my comment / discussion item is "what do you do in the IDE that makes all these shortcuts so valuable?"
There aren't any loops or conditionals in the example, but since it's using blocks, there could be arbitrary code. But yeah, if you're not doing any of that you might as well just use YAML, or a hash.
For someone who is singing the praises of linux, his website (it does look like his personal website) is pretty awesome. Specially http://cloudhead.io/
The funny thing for me, is that the better I've gotten at programming, the less time I've spent with my hands on the keyboard writing code, and the more time I've spent pacing around my desk or staring at the ceiling.
For me keyboard efficiency is becoming less and less relevant as my code becomes more sophisticated.
Hardware support in Linux is heavily tied to the state of the kernel that your distribution uses. Newer kernels generally have better support for newer hardware.

I am not aware of any distribution which is better or quicker at patching their kernel to fix Apple-related issues, so I suspect that your mileage will be about the same using most distros, especially as your MBP is not particularly new.
>http://mobilized.allthingsd.com/files/2011/04/apple-v.-samsu...

I think they have an actual case here. That's about as blatantly-copying as you can get without making a complete knock-off that's designed to fool people.
Hardware support and applications.

The first point does not need much elaboration, but I simply can't live without Lightroom, InDesign, and Illustrator. If I ever switch back to Linux on the desktop, I probably need a Windows VM to run those applications.

Also at home, Linux cannot provide the same level of integration as the Mac, iPhone, and Apple TV. I like being able to stream a video on my iPhone to our TV, or use my laptop to stream an album stored on my Mac Mini to our TV.
If you;d like to contrast the MailChimp "shiny on the outside, shitty on the inside" experience with a direct competitor, log into Campaign Monitor. It is comparative bliss. I am also a fan of the outside, as it happens - its a nice site:

http://www.campaignmonitor.com
To me this is probably for the following reasons:
1. Talent acquisition (15 employees)
2. Build this up into a pro premium set of tools
3. Much less than $50m frankly I think tweet deck can't be generating more than $2-3m in revenue. I'd bet 15-20m is the price.
How often does your OS X box as you're programming it?

/me runs `uptime`...

17:32 up 27 days, 2:13, 11 users, load averages: 0.11 0.15 0.24
I deleted my last post which came out snarkier than I meant it.

The point I meant to get at was that the timecode analysis which was featured is not just claimed by Charles Johnson, but rather is in the torrents released by GOP.

I don't have any problem with Schneier referencing this article.
In NYC the taxes are much higher on the self-employed. I asked my CPA why this is and he said "well you get more deductions." Hmm, not really, but okay, I guess NYC is expecting me to take some frivolous/borderline deductions?
The technology allowed him to confirm all of his already-existing suspicions. He'd already noticed that his wife was fawning all over the man that she was apparently really sorry about having slept with - a man who also had dumped her hard in the past and didn't really give much of a shit about her, going so far as to make a joke about their affair in front of her husband. I agree with Michael that following the logic of the episode the technology just sped up what was probably going to happen anyways. (There's also the fact that the main character probably gets obsessed for reasons involving his murky career failure.)

Not sure what you're implying with the "even women!" comment.
You're one to talk about tone.
A segfault from running interpreted code is definitely an MRI bug.
This seems like a good idea given that the main way of generating hydrogen now is through steam reforming natural gas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production#Steam_refor...
Thing is, Joe Iowa generally can move to cheap third world countries and work in manufacturing there, the work visa rules usually restrict only the opposite movement of labor - it's just that it would be a really bad deal for him because despite the the much lower cost of living, his working conditions and purchasing parity adjusted income will be much worse than in Iowa.

A USA blue-collar worker can't possibly expect to compete for labor in the global market and keep their current lifestyle - for an illustrative example, many such workers can afford cars and houses, which is a relative luxury if they would have to compete with workers who live in dormitories next to the factory. Someone who's earning $35000/year is in global top 1% in income; and adjusting for purchasing power doesn't change it that much, they'd still be in top 10% globally, and they can stay so relatively wealthy only because (and until!) they don't have to directly compete with all the much poorer laborers of other countries. Any increase in global labor mobility will only make it much worse for Joe Iowa.
Which variables?
Joy: once you learn the ropes, it's an order of magnitude faster to add entries. It was designed to be opened for as little as possible each day.

If you make it hard to log your food, you won't do it. This makes it trivial.

Also, there are no community-entered foods. This is a feature in most cases. All the food is either from a professionally curated database (Nutritionix) or custom foods you enter.
Awesome, looking forward to help you discover more podcasts :)
Another comment:

You need to be super transparent about what sort of cut you are taking from funders and how you are funding the OpenTeams project itself and what expenses that funding is paying for (salaries, development, servers etc).