jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There are more aspects to a police state than whether the citizens can possess firearms.
Besides, regardless of your handgun or rifle, the authorities command overwhelming force. They possess and are glad to use grenades, armored vehicles, automatic weapons, shotguns, superior numbers and chemical weapons against citizens when deemed necessary.
There are tons of sweet projects out there written in Java, and there are lots of really really good programmers out there in Java. Just cause you don't know them, or look up the projects, doesn't mean they don't exist.
I am European as well, and although I completely agree that American people are the best part of the American experience (INS officials being an exceptions, because they are not humans, of course), there was this one exception the first week I came first time in my life to Boston. I was rushing to the revolving door and I saw a lady obviously some kind of professional who was rushing to the same doors. I have opened the door and hold it for her. I couldn't believe when I was slapped on my face and told she didn't need a help from a sexist pig. Fortunately, I have not gave up on being courteous and I have never repeated this experience, but this was surely weird situation.

Greetings over the Pond!
For all the students searching for a post-graduation job or all the laid off workers, this article by Tim Devane is a great read for anyone beaten down by the job search.
You can see this in action almost every day in New York City. On a crowded subway car, if a pregnant woman or very old person gets on the car it is almost always a Hispanic male who jumps up to offer their seat, even if it means standing up for the rest of a long commute.

As a middle aged person who grew up in Houston, I can remember having these basic values (golden rule/help other people) drilled into me by parents/teachers in the 70's.

Somewhere along the way urban life seems to have washed those values away.
This is a great way to donate to the EFF and get some games in the process.
That's a nice metaphore, but I think it is wrong wrong at a very critical level. If these crackers had went after a single user and decided to trash his webpage, release his emails, and ruin his life, then yes, I would agree with you -- they would be like a bunch of arsonists.

Let's assume a different metaphor. LargeBank offers people the option of storing their personal antique items there -- items which have significant emotional value to them. One day, the bank is robbed because the robbers smashed through glass doors to get in, encountered no security guards, and the bank never changed the default pin on the bank vault. Yes, it is the fault of the bank robbers for taking the money. But seriously, these people had entrusted the bank with their property. It is the banks fault for not doing even attempting to secure it properly.

EDIT: I do agree that by releasing their passwords, they have opened their users up to possible attacks which release their emails and trash their websites. And in this way I agree with you: the attackers have done this for the joy of attacking. However, I still place a large portion of the blame on Gawker.
Well you probably know a different set of people I do. I know quite a few that quit. Of the ones that are current, one is my cousin, but she confessed to me that after last Thanksgiving she bought herself an entire turkey and ate the whole thing in one sitting. Another friend of mine is a veg as well, but she eats one steak per month to prevent anemia. Of the two that are strict non-meat eaters, one is the friend that is always sick all the time, and the other has an underweight BMI. Yay anecdotes!
From all this uproar lately, sounds like work is a cardiac stress test for the TSA.
I'm sure SOME people get jobs via Monster and the like, as they wouldn't be huge/exist like that without a bit of success.

With that said, when I've hired, it's always been via personal referral first, and then a look at submitted resumes.
Or Pycha:

http://bitbucket.org/lgs/pycha/wiki/Home
Valve will want you to do stuff that works at scale, which you seem to be having some problems with.

What is the backend datastore/communications for this? redis? node.js? or just plain MySQL?
Seriously guy? This hostility towards Dancer is silly.
This may sound harsh, but an army of slaves (i.e. conscripts) is incompatible with a free country. If the citizens can't be mustered to volunteer in its defense, the current state as a social organization becomes obsolete.

Granted, there are many Israelis who would indeed volunteer and militarily, they are not in danger.
as long as the instructor is able to defend the pedagogical purpose of the limitations he demands

I just had a thought over my morning coffee: I would agree that the instructor should be able to defend such choices to the head of the department. The instructor may choose to defend the choice to the student, but the instructor should only be required to defend the choice to the student if the student is also required to be able to defend why they should be allowed to be there. I fear the most precious thing we've lost in our modern society is a student's willingness to bring themselves to the process, and so if I (as an instructor) must defend why I've set boundaries on an exercise then then you (as the student) must be able to defend that you really want to learn what I have to teach.

Alas, higher education has been reduced to a transaction for a service, and "the customer is always right".

few situations warrant such limitations, and I agree with him about that.

I have the opposite view. Most of the homework that I've ever seen (as a Math & Comp Sci double major) was about the benefit of the exercise, and very rarely about strengthening research abilities. But, then, I was in school when Tim Berners-Lee was gestating the world wide web concept at CERN.
Wouldn't just eating them work better?
I think the rise of dark mode is mostly related to really good displays. Dark mode looks like shit on CRTs and even older flat panels with poor contrast.
Thanks! That's interesting, because at work we're struggling with browser-specific regressions and were looking at headless browser testing to help solve that. I agree with all the drawbacks you listed (except #4, since some headless browser solutions let you use multiple browsers), but unit tests don't do anything to help with differences in browsers. Do you just do manual QA and hope for the best? Or is this not as big an issue for you as it is for our company? (We still have to support IE 11, so that's where the majority of browser-specific issues manifest.)
No confusion was intended; sorry about that. The domains seem to be fairly orthogonal. Or am I not understanding what ssbc/patchbay does?
Activists, yes - but not really through marching. Money, judicial challenges and coordinated political action to promote marriage equality as a goal were the key. The debate was reframed, messaging was crafted carefully and the groups organizing and paying for it all were extremely organized and cohesive. The Proteus fund and specifically the CMC did a heck of a lot here.
huh? 75192? It's $800 like it's always been, and in stock everywhere.
I think the idea many people have is that being hardworking is something you decide on your own and not related to your genes. Being lazy is seen as a character flaw that a person could change rather than something more innate. I think they're right to a degree, but I'm also guessing that it's easier for some people to not be lazy than others.
> If you did in fact know when big dips were coming, you would absolutely trounce dollar cost averaging.

If. /Sparta
fpm or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Linux Package Management

https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
The wizard of Oz humorous reference is from

https://ew.com/article/2012/10/26/wizard-of-oz-movie-descrip...

I think many people are aware of it, or were in 2012.
I recommend staying away from Istio unless you have experienced team of Isto ops and very good reasons for using it. I tried it a year ago and it was not pleasant at all. It looks nice (Kiali) when it works but it's a nightmare once it stops working. Using TLS complicates debugging. It lacked basic functuionality like simple Basic Auth (just recently implemented in wasm) and they deprecated original plugin architecture. At one point it started logging out certificate problems for me, I spent hours on it trying to figure out what happens. Then tried to upgrade to newer Istio and it magically fixed it so I think they shipped a broken build but comparing commits resulted in so many changes that I was unable to figure out what happened. It's unnecessary complicated layer which almost no one really needs! Maybe in the future it will be a standard but maybe not, I strongly don't recommend it unless you know what you are doing and have work/troubleshoot capacity.
The other missing part is that Nagorno-Karabakh was moved from Armenia to Azerbaijan by Stalin in order to mess up the region (reminding of Crimea) even though the population was massively of Armenian ethnicity.

After the USSR dissolved Azerbaijan held pogroms in Baku (1990), pushed all the Armenians to NK (at which point the NK population was 98% Armenians) and started eradicating their culture. Armenia started occupying Nagorno-Karabakh in 1991 after these things happened.

Add to this that Azeris are ethnically and historically related to the Turkish, who are responsible for genocide of Armenians in the early 20th century and have been denying it since, and you can see why Armenian occupation of NK deserves little more than a footnote.
Then you realize it's pretty amazing that an app that was built 20 years ago by a non-programmer without any assigned budget fulfilled the needs for so long.
I think that's their point. There's a lot of discussion that 'banks will become obsolete with crypto' that forgets that banks are not the currency, they just manage it. If crypto becomes widespread banks will keep on existing, they'll just move to manage cryptocurrencies.
tldr, Rob is growing away from the mainstream. He feels he has no voice, no power politically and seems to want to lash out at an entity that appears to have both.

I don't understand it, but it's not an uncommon story, especially recently.
Are you confusing Scott Alexander (whatever his real name is) with Scott Aaronson?
Well i agree that the energy cost is immense, it doesn't scale with number of users but mining power.
Downvoted? Well, I ve been corrected before.

Merry Christmas, Happy New year and Happy Holidays to everyone.

EDIT: How could I forget my favorite. Happy Festivus and I ll see you around the aluminum pole. :)
That is not true. In years past, money helped a lot, but letters and phone calls have always had some level of effectiveness. Dollar for dollar, a letter signed by a constituent is more effective than an expensive lobbiest (it helps that the cost of letters are disproportionately low - unfortunately, it takes a lot of letters to be effective).

There are a lot of "grass roots" lobbying going on for nearly free based on emails, web pages, and social media. In fact, it is so effective that many lobbiests have adopted "grass roots" mechanisms to lobby - see "astroturfing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing.
Thanks maguay! Best to you and yours in 2011
I cannot rightly apprehend the confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.
I had a stint at a startup. It never got more than a bit of "angel" funding. Pay was at market rate-- perhaps a bit less. But so what?

As everyone knows, most startups eventually "fail". They use up their "runway", and everyone scatters to do other stuff. There's nothing wrong with this. That's just the way it is. What you come away with is a bunch of connections, the opportunity to do cutting edge work with minimal red-tape, and a chance to work with really driven people who are following their dreams.

If you're working at a start-up strictly for the promise of riches, you'll be disappointed. There are many good reasons to work at a start-up, but pay IS NOT one of them.
Because of our balance of payments crisis. We need to stop our country's net outflow of dollars. Lauding Steve Jobs and trying to reproduce his success won't solve that problem. Suppose we all become designers of hit products that are manufactured abroad. How do we guarantee that the USA doesn't get cut out of the vertical stack? I have total faith that the other countries of the world will be able to innovate and support just as well as we can, if not already.
I would suggest offering it at Barnes & Noble as well. Doing this will allow you to offer the book for both of the major eBook readers.

http://pubit.barnesandnoble.com/
it's a Thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calimocho
> This probably depends on where you are using it. If I understand correctly, it tells an attacker that you have _something_ to hide, but gives no clue as to any metadata, such as the size of what you're hiding or how often it was updated.

Which brings you right back to the problem illustrated in the XKCD comic up top. As soon as you know they have something to hide you whack them until they tell you.
... and as long as that remains true it is the most user hostile general purpose platforms we've come up with.

It should not be celebrated. Or we will fix the mistake that is the PC forever.
Unpopular opinion: I get a lot more value from the output of Spotify's owners than I get from billions of musicians.

I only listen to hundreds of musicians and Spotify gives me those hundreds for $15/mo.

Those hundreds change by 10% ~ 30% every month into other hundreds.

I don't feel any ethical need to compensate musicians I don't listen to. And the ones I do listen to I don't feel strongly enough attached to to pay more than $15/mo for recurring access.

There are perhaps 10 whose permanent media I would buy and replay, if they left Spotify.
I finished about 20 seconds slower than I would have if the animation hadn't lagged as much.
> I'll also add that scala/functional engineers are also more likely to focus their energies on monads and type theory rather than product delivery.

Then how do you explain that a very significant number of "top" tech companies have teams who manage to deliver products written in Scala or other FP languages?
Well, I wouldn't hold that against i3, since that is not really different from when I manually arrange my monitors in the display settings through a GUI the first time I plug them in. So good going i3 maintainers!
Find a company that helps others as part of its products. Its easy to hand wave and claim entire industries are filled with companies that are greedy but there are companies out there with a purpose/mission that aligns with something other than greed.

Or (tongue-in-cheek) find a large non-tech Fortune 500 company, you'll feel like you're working for the government since they move slow and have lots of bureaucracy.
Maybe the solution is to use streaming as a discovery service but still encourage people to buy albums directly from the musician.

The musician can add value to the albums by making it a beautiful package with lots of extra details and behind the scenes of the music.

For example: a box set

https://us-store.deutschegrammophon.com/products/hilary-hahn...
30 years ago, they were beautiful and innovative. So were Atari games and 14.4k modems. Today they're archaic, on par with rolling a hoop with a stick that was popular 100 years ago. There's a reason text adventures don't break the top charts on the App Store. The point of the article is that this doesn't have to be that way, that text adventures can still be relevant.

If they weren't popular 30 years ago, this article wouldn't be talking about them becoming more modern, so really you're just rewording the entire point of the article.
Give me Publish to Wordpress and I'm in.
A car would have to be some sort of magical hovercraft to approach silently, because tires rolling on asphalt make lots of noise whether the engine contributes or not.
Isn't that basically rolling your own framework? :)

shrug Personally, I don't see it that way. Frameworks are more generalized and reusable. They tend to be so large because they have to take into account a wider degree of problems. Applications with custom architectures and some external libraries are very specific and not typically reusable. Maybe it's just a matter of degrees.
I've had the opposite experience, working smoothly with Django for a decade except for one huge Flask project. Which essentially re-built Django... badly.

I later tried and enjoyed Flask for a really small solo project, so I don't think you're wrong.

Maybe there's a lot of implicit cultural knowledge on what packages work best to compliment Flask and the original developers on the big Flask project I suffered chose poorly?
Oh, "the truth" from the BBC.
I believe those scripts require a mac to make a full bootable image, unless you want a network boot only image.
It's a pressure cooker for drivers and C. Horner seems to extract sadistic glee in fucking with these young drivers they throw up against Max.

Max was obviously molded by his father to resist psychological pressure. That combined with the fact he may be the best driver in the world insulate him from the toxicity. But between Webber, Albon, Kvyat, and Gasly, RBR has treated them horribly then glibly said "well it's F1 mate you have to stand the pressure to survive." It's sick.
Maybe one day we'll have pills to have total recall for a few hours, wouldn't that be cool for exams and learning languages ? I much prefer that than a chip in my head which the silicon valley seems super keen on selling me.
There is a very big difference between a wedding and a marriage. I don't understand why this confuses so many people, but it does.
Cool idea gaiz :D
Google Checkout Gadget aside, I find it interesting that this is the closest thing Google has to offer for an individual or business to build a hosted online e-commerce presence (https exceptions aside).

Compare that, in terms of functionality and revenue generation, to Yahoo! Store (Viaweb), and it seems like Google really has its priorities with App Engine askew.

Obviously, the scope of Viaweb's functionality is much, much narrower than that of GAE, but what is the purpose of GAE from Google's perspective?

Surely, it is not to create bitchfests for upset developers on tech blogs. It doesn't seem like revenue generation, nor developer satisfaction is a priority, either.
This is not a problem. If you're careful with your e-mail address, you don't get any junk-mail. (The simple solution is to have one e-mail address for online sign-ups and one e-mail address for personal communication.) As for the other problems, if you don't want to be overwhelmed by Facebook/Twitter/Socialwhatever, then don't go to them at work. I agree with notauser who said this is probably only a problem if you're a TechCrunch columnist...
Everyone has their own skills. It's just unfortunate that people equate good technical skills as undeniable potential for good management skills, and that managers are viewed as more important than the guys who are managed. The really good managers will always recognize, appreciate, and reward the guys who get things done well, no? Well, the enlightened ones, at least.
You maybe would like to read "Why Startup Condense in America" [1] is Paul Graham paper. I do not agree with all his points of view, but is a very interesting read.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
Really nice post there! Enjoyed reading it.
(Also agree with the bit regarding xps 13. I was given one at work and they expected me to have a 'wow' reaction to it and made remarks what a 'beast of a machine' I was getting. Lol.)
edit: typo.
You have to make sure the filter is HEPA, and calculate whether the device has had the time to do a full air change given the room size and its CADR rating.

Viruses are generally too small for even the best filters, but the droplets that carry them are well within what a HEPA filter can manage.
But you get the foreign currency! You can take it to a foreign country to spend it in blackjack and hookers.

That looks more like a bucket shop.
My counter would be that if someone "doesn't know whether they need secure randomness" then the problem is not that random() is not secure, it's the fact that someone is doing something they really should not be doing in the first place.
I would think though that an SOC with good drivers in the kernel would be a massive selling point, blobs are a massive pain in the Android world.
The US also has a comprehensive national ID system. We just happen to get all the disadvantages, without the advantages.
> Using incense smoke in 24.0 m³ chamber

Yeah, that's not the sort of indoor air that people actually have.
All of the "bad" examples shown have common issues that are ignored by this article. They use inconsistent styles for their fields (particularly when mixing buttons and dropdowns). They also do not group all fields together as one form. Instead, the size field is presented in some other part of the page, making it difficult for users to navigate through the form.

Meanwhile, the "good" examples all use consistent styles for the fields and group all fields together in the same part of the page.

Dropdowns might be part of the problem, but considering the examples given in this article, I think that problem is being significantly overstated. I would caution against forming any general opinions about dropdowns from just this article.
and servicing debt
A better approach is to re-use arrays instead of creating intermediate ones, which is what gl-matrix[1] advocates. Each tween might still need its own matrix instance for start and end points, but at least these are not created per tick.

A similar approach is to use a "pool" of arrays[2] which allows you to re-use them without having to manually keep track of the temporary arrays.

[1] - https://github.com/toji/gl-matrix

[2] - https://github.com/mikolalysenko/typedarray-pool
I think is more about penetration than raw speed. Also, I have read in USA still use modems in some areas. Here, we are all in 4G or optic cable.

Plus, perhaps is all the complaints we read about the internet in USA, and is very likely that make it look worse than true...
That's not true. Both UTF-16 and UTF-8 can encode any valid unicode code point.
PG said:

The anti-immigration people have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort technology companies have expended trying to make immigration easier. So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries. But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American. Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? The only explanation is that they're telling the truth: there are just not enough great programmers to go around.

There is nothing in this article to contradict what PG said - I'd love to see some well reasoned counter-arguments, but I don't see any in this article. In fact, I get the sense that the author has no idea what Y Combinator even does.
Just remember that the human brain is basically not set up for objectivity. Plenty of people who consider themselves rational are capable of making decisions that you would call unrational. Doesn't mean you need to live your life through a checklist, but it helps to be critical of thoughts like "I am a very rational person"
Don’t make the mistake of assuming there’s a “Right Number” of levels of abstraction. Their suitability is based on how clearly they help you interact with a system whose implementation you don’t care about.

That’s a totally human quality metric, which you can’t enumerate.
I'd gladly hire 1 John Carmack over 100 average programmers. Is he really more valuable than 100 programmers? If you factor the added cost of managing 100 engineers (and the intangible communication overhead cost of getting all those engineers to agree and be on the same page), than yes it is far more valuable.