jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've seen him playing for a few hours not that long ago. If you wouldn't have known it was a Chick Corea concert and he introduced a few things from now and then you wouldn't have guessed he was the main attraction of the show. The other players were at the same level as he was and took as much time doing solos as him.

It almost looked as the simply enjoyed being able to play every night with the best people he could find. Zero ego on stage.
I only have the Arduino to thank for my rotary mobile phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSkdWQswpc8
Check the amount of traffic you've got: number of packets, number of connections. If it's under attack you might have LOTS of packets (for example SYN) coming your way which explains the slow performance.
Native scrolling, I think
I suspect it's more about high refresh rate CRTs. On low refresh rate, blocks of colour really were very unpleasant to look at, but this went away over about 70hz. Of course, this was never an issue on LCDs.

There was also an intermediate period where backgrounds were usually _blue_.
That's amazing. I wouldn't expect an intro architecture class would let someone to understand cutting edge stuffs like Spectre and Meltdown.
In contrast to my old Sega Game Gear which ran on on 6 AA batteries and would last less than 2 hours. Though to its credit it, it came out about a year after the original Gameboy but had a backlit, color screen. Too bad so many of the games were terrible.
So long as those with disabilities are also accounted for, using gifs are a great way to demonstrate usage. I always appreciate running across them when I hit a readme.
When my wife had surgery and insurance denied part of our claim, hospital billing said it was normal, and it usually doesn't get resolved until one of their lawyers sends a strongly worded letter.
The question is why wouldn't someone buy from Amazon
Australia needs to reduce its dependency on coal anyway with china committing to carbon reduction by 2050 and (can’t think of the other country) committing to 2030. So the coal is a good kick for Australia. The rest I think time will tell.
F3-F3 was your friend!
Same here back in the early aughts, but it took me a while to really dig in and discover that units also handles times too.

e.g. units "sec $(echo $SECONDS)" "day;hr;min;sec"
Because state actors are all busy acting smart on the internet by using terms such as “state actors”.
You mean Ctrl+T "wo" <Tab> <Query> <Enter> <Wait 15 to 60 seconds for the page with your results to load> <Get something that's a mighty pain to copy/paste from>.

This experience is why I stopped using W|A few years ago. It's awesome, but it's also a pain.
I couldn't agree more. I think far too many candidates fail to make an effort to demonstrate what they have achieved in the past, which is generally a pretty good indicator of what they're capable of delivering going forward. Although portfolios are a must for designers, I'm always amazed that more developers don't put something similar together to showcase their work.
To go on a tangent, the OP mentions once being asked for his favorite video games...if I'm ever in a interviewer role -- and the candidate mentions in passing that he plays video games as one of his interests -- I think that'd be a great expository question.

For instance, a gamer who enjoys TF2 or better yet, Left4Dead...that's a partial sign that they enjoy teamwork, despite the downsides of dealing with weak-links and griefers. Someone who enjoys only Halo deathmatch...well, hopefully their skills match their bravado ;)
How is a Powerpoint file more likely to leak than any other kind of file?
How does turning something into a commodity that people buy, sell, and trade for profit raise prices?
>return of a strong middle class in cities

Where are these cities where a strong middle class has returned? Surely not in SF, where one of the area's highest paid professions (software engineer) cannot afford family housing? Certainly not elsewhere in California, where incomes among middle class Californian households fell by nearly 7% between 2009 and 2013, while income among the state’s top 20% earners grew by 1.3% [1].

Certainly not small cities in the Midwest or South. Having traveled through those extensively the past few years, I can assure you there is no middle class returning to those cities. Quite the opposite.

I'm not one of those who gloats about SV "privilege" and scolds people for making the money they deserve to get paid, but the extent to which the typical educated SVer is getting out of touch with the economic reality of this country does have me concerned.

If software really is eating the world, and the industry's best and brightest are blithely unaware of the dire condition of the country's middle class, then we are good and truly fucked.

1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/24/states-middle-class... (not usually one to cite the Huffington Post, but this article clearly outlines the data sources and methods at the bottom, and they seem solid)
You probably need a font that covers the relevant ligatures. Does "ﬁ" display for you? That's the Unicode codepoint U+FB01.
I'd rather have people paying for test prep services than essay ghostwriters or fraudulent extracurriculars.
ColdFusion/CFML has had this capability for a while: Most iterables return a "query" data type, and queries can be queried against using an in-memory SQL engine.

https://cfdocs.org/directorylist

https://cfdocs.org/queryexecute
Happy that the ACLU is taking this on. It shouldn't matter, but if you look at the filed complaint[1] Ahmad is a US citizen. This treatment seems clearly unconstitutional to me.

Also, this excerpt from the complaint:

>In response, the agents pulled out two newspaper articles about Hezbollah and told Mr. Chebli, “We know you are a Hezbollah agent and were sent here by Hezbollah.”

What a couple of assholes.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/chebli-v-kable-complaint...
I thought the SATs were similar to the A Levels. What's the difference?
They actually have a tracker blocker as a core feature: https://missiveapp.com/features/auto-block-read-trackers

Their approach works by blocking trackers specifically, similar to an ad blocker, rather than blocking all external resources completely. Hey.com take a similar approach I think. Although the images from that test service are allowed, trackers from all the popular email tracking services will be blocked (in theory at least).

It's not going to be 100% effective of course, but I suspect it's very close to that for most real-world email tracking, and the user experience is dramatically better (i.e. you can read emails that include images with no hassle and avoid being tracked all at the same time). And they do proxy all images through their own servers, so any missed trackers still get only limited info.
Instead of "correct", the layer should be "Performs" or "Works for me". Then maybe the next layer should be "Works for others without crashing"
Why would an IQ test for admissions be ridiculous? Any knowledge test at all will eventually test and select for higher IQ so there’s really no getting around it unless all ability-based admissions standards are dropped.
I've only run into one instance where they wanted a real number. (Coinbase) I think sites only block those when there's a reason to.
Replace the donation ads on top for billable ads.

There, a steady income source way better than asking for $20M every year.
Depends on how you interpret `reproduction' in the comment you're talking about.

Reproduction trumps everything in evolution. It's everything, actually. But for that to be true you can't define it as `number of offspring born', but in a more long-term sense. And e.g. Elephants seem to have more long-term off-spring by investing more in fewer births.
I don't agree with returning anywhere; I think it's important to "return" exactly once, and that includes not using "break", "continue" and "goto" to perform logical short-cuts in most cases. (I've been writing code for 20 years.)

One reason is to have result or loop variables, which help debugging. You can ask debuggers to watch the value change, or print it, and so forth. Almost always create variables; ignore premature-optimization "experts" who think they've sped stuff up because they used fewer variables.

Cleanup isn't repeated. I despise "hunting" for return statements to ensure the same 3 things always happen. Yes, maybe functions shouldn't do so much; but if you're stuck maintaining something you didn't write, you still have to be able to apply a change correctly.

Another problem with multiple returns is inconsistent types. I've seen code where one person did "return false" and another did "return 1.0" in the same function; whereas, if you're forced to type "isOK = 1.0", you'll see the problem immediately.

And a single return point keeps overly-complex logic in your face, so that you have good incentive to fix it. You're less likely to put off refactoring an ugly and oversized function if you keep having to scroll through it to figure out what a single case is doing. Less code is ultimately good for maintainability.
I'll one up you on this. Maybe one particular group of coders can build a giant CMS that also has social networking features and allows everyone to have their page on the web, and keep up with what their friends are doing, without having to own, set up and administer their own servers (a prowess which most are incapable of). The hardest thing would be getting critical mass, but if someone could do it, wow, that would be awesome, right?
I wear an automatic watch most of the time when I'm outside. I like mechanical things and I don't have to worry about the batteries or water.

It looks less rude to be checking your watch for the time than checking your phone for the time. Nobody knows if you're really checking at your email, videos or playing games, etc.
If you're an alcoholic, you don't work as a wine taste tester, and you certainly don't keep an infinitely-replenishing liquor cabinet at home.
BAC, GS, and C seem like risky picks with legislation on capital hill.

It seems to favor tech and banking, is that just a bias for risk?
Blogging is kind of a mystery to me. Since discovering Hacker News is probably the first time I've regularly been reading news/information in the form of (good quality) blogs. Even here, though, the discussion is just as important to me as the blogs.

I'm planning to put together a website to showcase my various projects (for employers' sake), and was thinking of putting up my own blog, or at least PG style essays, after having worked on them for a few months. The goal being to be more impressive to employers, who can verify that I actually care and/or think deeply about this stuff.

Is that why most people blog? Or is it to make money? Or just cause they like writing (/want to practice)? Or like the attention? It seems like a major amount of effort/energy is spent on blogging and I can't say I know why.
By your wording, aren't CL packages considered to be just an implementation of a namespace? Is there another way to declare symbol namespaces in CL (outside of rolling our own organisms)?

I was under the impression that the function signature was not the issue raised... but the fact that the same function name could lead to completely different behaviors depending on a context. In the case of generic functions, the specific function implementation is usually (ignoring some of the other matching features) determined by the input types. The input types define the context.

All that said, I realize now that this might be less of a problem in CL if you just group your defmethods in the same area. If the problem is grepping for the definition, it is easy enough to rearrange things so that the related functions are in a close-enough place. In C++, the classes try to own their methods -- with the exception of warily-regarded "friend" methods.
Where I part ways with mathematicians is the intuition we should ascribe to Cantor's argument. They say that "almost all" real numbers are irrational. What Cantor's argument says is that "at least one" is irrational.

I know the arguments about measure and probability and such, but, there is also the fact that for every two real numbers, there is an infinity of rational numbers in between! So that makes me (personally, not mathematically) not like the "almost all" intuition, instead of an intuition of there always being at least one more, in a particularly slippery way.
Nice! Will wait to see the interview.
I'm pretty sure they were planning to shut it down.

Because when you plan to sell part of a company, do you know what you don't do ? - you don't fire all the software engineers that run it.

Do you want to guess what Yahoo did ?

It smells very much like Yahoo came up with this selling idea in the last 24 hours.
The crusades were a defensive battle in response to Islam militantly taking over previously Christianized Africa and eastern Europe.
If you are referring to America, all the founding fathers thought a Christian religious foundation was essential to such a system working. As it is, the system is falling apart rapidly today as we abandon our religious foundation.
wow...
Thanks for pointing this out.
I'm sure they'll make plenty of money, no disagreement there. My point is that I don't think they can charge much more than $5. Consumers just don't value software enough to pay that amount. The people that complain about a $10 app w/ this functionality will have no problem paying an extra $20,000 for the top line package on a new car. Or $20 for a T-Shirt. Or will pay an extra $2,000 to upgrade to 1st class on that foreign vacation.

For most people software has the value of a Happy Meal prize.
I dropped out after a year, but it wasn't to go "big," merely to go (work) at all.

The reason I never went back is simply that the cost grossly outweighed the benefit.

Strictly from a quantifiable/money perspective, the loss would have been huge. After 7 years, for example, I'd have been giving up around $85k annually in salary and spending $15k or so on tuition and books. I'm ignoring living expenses, since I expect those would have been close enough to comparable. I'd also be trading 3 additional years of industry experience in addition to the $300k for a diploma. Each of those years turned out to be worth $5k-$10k of additional salary in the short term, though it's tough to say what they've been worth in the long term.

As for the intangible benefits, that was an even easier decision, since neither the process nor the "rounding" subjects outside computer science appealed to me. These were all more difficult than high school, but in the wrong ways. That is, the was just as tedious[2], more voluminous, and no more intrinsically rewarding. Writing an essay about literature that parrots the instructor's opinion is something I already knew how to do, but making it appear as if I'm not was a college-level skill I couldn't be bothered to practice, let alone master.

Had I dropped out to do a startup, even having failed, I can't imagine undergraduate academia as being anything but stifling and insulting.
Those templates are awfully written and I'd do it face-to-face anyway.

I find people who drop bombshells in emails even though I see them all the time to be a particularly distasteful form of business associate.
That's what they mean. You are listening/reading into it too much. Every Windows has a number of years for support, and this number can change. The number has never decreased and has only increased in the past because people/companies were too slow at getting rid of old Windows (e.g. Windows XP). We do not know what the actual number of years Microsoft is going to support for Windows 10, but I bet it's going to be around 10 years just like other Windows.

Check http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle for the current list of Windows.
Virtual hangout--do things with friends even if they're all over the world. It would also be extremely useful for remote work.
More on the delay from announcing their intention to IPO to actually getting there.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8932932
>Also, currently there are more positive cop reviews on the site than negative.

Fair enough. Where can we see a more typical example? Because the one you posted was pretty unfavorable.
Its never been clear to me why Facebook would have better ad targeting data then Google. Facebook has only ever had a passive view of its products, whereas Google has an active one - people go to Google and declare their desires and intents. Who cares about age and demographics when someone will tell you exactly what they're currently looking for?
> They're angry you're not suffering alongside them.

I tend to doubt OP is suffering at $450k/month profit, even if half of it goes to tax.
I don’t know if this is right and can’t find the source, but I vaguely remembering around 40% is when the government doesn’t actually take home more income by raising taxes, because rich people start moving away/hiding income.

I do have to say anecdotally that 40% does “feel” around the upper limit of what’s “fair” to me..
I know some localities turned to usage based rates, so a normal household (or maybe a normal house times two or three) was at a regular rate and then there was a sharp jump for usage after that (averaged over the month). Somehow they handled factories, etc. in a different system, but they wanted to only subsidize electricity for certain uses.
In my personal experience, yes. Absolutely yes. In a way that chess, novels and geometry do not. I think there's a strong correlation (I'll even say causation) for me between spending less time on sites like reddit and sharing/cultivating my own intellectual potential in meaningful ways.
While banning any executable hack on the official forums, without exceptions, is a reasonable policy, not spending a few hours to implement and release a same-sex marriage patch implies not caring about such a feature rather than technical obstacles: that maybe someone at PAradox opposes gay rights is an unavoidable theory.
"Never commit to deadlines"

-some software engineer

Software has an unbounded set of problems, like in the creative fields. The difference is that you can fill in a book with random thoughts (if there is no time), but you cannot just fill in functional features in the codebase you did commit to. The same issue exists in the very large and complicated builds (eg skyscrapers) although you can plan ahead really far due to the existing physical constraints (site size, machinery, materials, avg. labour output).

Over in the software shop I work for, we just prioritize each week. Works really well. And we cannot commit to the deadlines or even estimate, as there are too many moving parts, too many products. To make customers happy the product managers comfort them with words (just like sales people promise mountains of gold for a penny).
“Zuckerberg reportedly took action after he learned that a developer wanted to purchase one of his neighbor's homes and use the fact that Zuckerberg lived close by as a marketing tactic. ... Zuckerberg will lease the four homes he just bought back to its current residents.”

Not sure how this paints Zuckerberg in a bad light. The bad guy seems to be the developer who was going to use his fame to advertise, thus exposing Zuckerberg to way less privacy than a normal person. This was Zuckerberg’s way to eke out a bit more privacy in the vein of a normal human. I mean he left the people in their homes.
How exactly am I supposed to live in a system like this? I understand I can't have a perfect legal system, but the amount of effort required to challenge these ridiculous seizures seems very difficult. There are so many unconstitutional laws that need to be fixed. We need a second supreme court.
Shameless plug: If you like this functionality and don't want to wait for sites to implement it, use http://www.yourpane.com, it's a free alternative I wrote that doesn't rely on a webmaster installing it and you can view all the submissions in one place.
Google has a legal fiduciary responsibility not to hold onto that money.

You can't just take money on behalf of someone else and then say "Ha ha, you screwed up, read the fine print, now we get to keep the money!".
Though they used to take no fees from market makers.
"An aggressive exit strategy" when they started in "2003"?

Aggressive, as in two turtles fighting.
I'm stunned at how on point most of these are. See also https://twitter.com/cultureshipname
USB4 is documented to be upward compatible with Thunderbolt 3.

Thanks for the response.

Will be wanting to try https://www.sonnettech.com/product/egfx-breakaway-box/overvi... on The Framework Laptop.

Excited!
I've had so many clients from small companies to hobbyists convinced it's critical that Google Analytics be installed on their websites. Some even horrified when suggesting they don't need it.

In most cases, the results aren't even looked at or acted upon, so this bloat is just sitting there and feeding Google data with little in return.
Worked with Nathan before, long ago - also great! Come to think of it, a small part of that work did involve hacking on a CRM.

Congratulations!
What's the chance of a thicker/deeper version in the future? I'd love to see one with enough thickness to support a low profile mechanical keyboard for custom layouts.

With my RSI, I'm almost unable to use standard laptop keyboards, so I have to travel with a split ergo keyboard. Most laptops have enough room to support a split ortho layout, but aren't thick enough (or modular enough) for enthusiasts to roll their own.

Take a look at the Thinkeys [0] and pineapple60 [1] projects for what's possible.

[0]: https://github.com/dennisleexyz/thinkeys
[1]: https://github.com/saoto28/pineapple60
For the other side "No, it’s not The Incentives—it’s you"

https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2018/10/02/no-its-not-the-in...
Why are these interesting niche laptops always so small?
This is huge exaggeration and generalization. Some parts of EU are doing very well economically and have very quality of life. Cherry-picking specific countries does not represent the totality.
My guess is they mounted a few cameras in the middle and stitched the frames together using something similar to Photoshop's photomerge feature (the one that people use to make panoramas)
That would be the cosine metric then. I don't think it is that simple. The position (or dimension if you will) of a keyword in the data-vector is all important. So equal vectors in terms of the symbolic presence of a number of keywords will generate great cosine distances the moment the keywords are not in equal position.
Beautiful! Looks influenced by an Indian script or maybe Thai. I wish I knew enough to be more specific.

Edit: After much googling, it looks like maybe it was inspired by Kannada script? http://www.christusrex.org/www1/pater/JPN-kannada.html
Applejuice is for closers.
I'm not sure being dishonest with people is the way to get an honest response.

Wouldn't it be better if you asked people directly for their opinions about several ideas and not disclose which one it is that you care about? To get honest responses, you might ask about several obviously bad ideas to loosen them up and get them thinking critically.
You are probably talking about Cosine similarity ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity ) , a commonly used technique in the field of IR/NLP.
That's pretty much why I'm hesitant to do "cant.com". The only issue is that 'cannot' adds another syllable and doesn't sound as...casual;

JoeCantDance.com
JoeCannotDance.com

I get your point about the logo though. That's definitely something worth considering, especially as some (a minor fraction, likely) of my target audience might not realize that typing "can't" into the url bar won't work.
Lua's primary multitasking primitive is coroutines, and they work quite well. Preemptive threading support can be bolted onto the language, but the coroutine support is well thought-out and elegant, and doesn't suffer from the limitations of Python's generators (i.e., yielding from within nested function calls).
And now, introducing godaddy's latest upselling effort...