jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't mind ads most of the time. I have a script that rips out iframes, flash and other junk, and does a few other "cleansing" operations. It works fairly well and it's satisfying to push the "zap" button when a certain page is getting particularly annoying, and see all those rectangles become suddenly blank.
I discovered armitage, which is like the Staples easy button for remote exploitation.
>Few people questioned the RS reporter's ethics because Hey, she's written several well-regarded stories about rape for Rolling Stone...there's no way she'd have the standards of an intern for this story, right?

The loosening of journalistic standards was not uniform, but an exemption granted to this particular topic. People questioning details of the event were subject to attacks on their humanity, not least of which was characterizing it in this case as "rape denialism", transparently trying to transfer the obscene irrationality of holocaust denial onto it. There was no discrimination between honest criticism and the usual people who will inevitably question all aspects of a rape story.

The story was crafted to be a narrative-enhancing rape culture story to end all rape culture stories, which even if the event was true, would not actually tell you anything about reality, just that one event. But now that it has collapsed, the narrative has inverted and it blatantly reinforces misogynistic views of rape. Still not representative of reality, but now the media are in the position of having to confront the fact that maybe what they were trying to do wasn't ethical in the first place, and maybe all those rules that some people are calling victim blaming really are important for establishing truth. But now it seems like most outfits are dropping the story like it never happened, because it embarrasses the media who would be obligated to report on it, and because you can't rectify "never question the victim's account" with journalistic responsibility and attempting to do so is a losing battle. This says some awful things both about the media and about the direction of American culture.
Wont a factory reset bring it back to iOS 5 or whatever it shipped with?
No. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8803238
I concur - I would highly recommend taking a paying day job and working furiously on side projects, and parlaying that into an employment opportunity - I would also recommend looking at other skilled positions at an internet startup like data analysis, marketing, SEM, etc. You can learn those skills relatively quickly tbh especially if you are someone who programs. It will probably seems relatively straightforward to learn. Many companies are looking for passionate individuals who are technically savvy.

And do your research before job interviews. Understand the ins and outs of the company, their competition. I turn down people who I can tell haven't checked out our website let alone the industry prior to applying.
Would courses on Coursera count? I'm interested in school as far as learning goes, but many things turn me off. Ill look into this option!
Enough do. For example, the line for people from India with a master's degree (separate lines for bachelors or phd) to get a green card is more than 11 years long. That's the time from when they qualify to get a greencard to when they actually receive it and not counting the years it takes to qualify for a greencard. During that time they have to stay on h1b visas, which can apparently be renewed indefinitely if the holdup is the backlog in the line for greencards.
That's true. I thought he was making a point about syntax.
I would definitely use this. I especially like the idea of having an API. I'm really interested to see pricing details.
Groupon will drop the fees as soon as their shine fades. For now they need to show revenues and profits to fool the suckers to the tune of $15-$20 Billion
im floored
Yes, but there are drawbacks as well. Frequent brownouts. Frequent internet outages. Slow internet. Large distance from other hackers in your home country (more expense to travel to conferences and other meetings.)

Also, some things are cheaper, some things aren't. Global commodities such as oil and food are just as expensive. Imports are more expensive. The big savings is from labor (which in turn helps drive prices for everything down) and in some cases land (some places in developing countries, especially big cities such as China have land prices which can rival big cities in the U.S.) Currency fluctuations can have a huge effect on fragile bugets, especially if your earning / holding currency is in a relatively volatile period (look at what the Austrailian dollar has done compared to the U.S. dollar in the past 12 months.)

For me, another big savings is not so much from being in a foreign country, but rather the mental shift I made. Living simple is the norm here. Most people who come to live here drop the majority of their personal possessions and move into a far smaller place than they might have had back home. At home you might feel you have to keep up with the Jones' but simplicity is accepted here. If you begin to make a shift back the other direction, then your expenses can rise to eat up your entire income, just like anywhere else.
"Know the difference between hunger and appetite. According to Chalmers and Campbell, few people understand the difference between real hunger and appetite. "Hunger is more physiological, whereas appetite is more psychological," they state. The authors advise that it may take some time to distinguish one from the other, but eventually, it can be done. So the next time you experience a "craving," remember to ask yourself whether it is hunger talking, or your brain only imagining it needs food. Also, it is important to check your blood glucose (sugar) when you experience these feelings to make sure you’re not low" (Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School - http://www.joslin.harvard.edu/info/food_cravings_and_diabete...).
Guess what a janitor is in New York? A custodial ENGINEER
There is no need to cast to int in Python:

a = random.randrange(10000)
Quick answer: have presence in both the VA and CA locations.
It's with all of this in mind that my recommended language for teaching beginners is now Javascript. I know, I know, it's quirky and sometimes outright weird, but overall it's decent and modern enough.

Javascript is a flawed, quirky language, but with the upcoming ES6 and ES7 standards it's going to be a much, much better. I'd call it a tossup comparing it to Python or Ruby. I wouldn't have recommended JS to a beginner a few years ago either but that's where the momentum is now and, as the author says, the ease with which a newbie can get something interactive up on screen trumps smaller concerns. For a little more rigor you can use something like Typescript.
Purdue has a thorough curriculum and they've made changes to help students better choose the direction they want to pursue (whether it be traditional theoretical computer science or something more applied, like software engineering).

http://www.cs.purdue.edu/academic_programs/undergraduate/cur...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuY5XeEhX4g
eh, I think in this case, 'pride' is really the other party saying 'this negotiation is not worth my time'. I know a while back I got some interest in someone buying out prgmr.com. Well, I listened to them, and they wanted to offer me a years revenue. I refused, of course, and broke off negotiations, but then I did some research, and come to find out, in my industry, that's a pretty average price.

Why would anyone sell a company that's doubling every 6 months for a year's take? it seems quite irrational to me. But, like I said, it's normal for this industry. Now, knowing what I know now, my answer wouldn't change, I mean, the other party (and the market) obviously placed a dramatically lower value on my company than I did, but if I knew this was fair market value, I'd have said no to their initial feeler before hearing their offer. Of course, I'll sell, for a price... but my price is so far above the 'fair market value' of the company that for all practical purposes, you can think of me as being completely unwilling to sell.

I mean, like everyone, I have my price, but I really, really like my company; my price is a /whole lot/ higher than one year's take.

so, uh, yeah; I think a lot of times breaking off negotiations upon hearing an 'offensive' offer is the result not of a wounded pride but of a clear misunderstanding of the market value of the good at hand by one or both parties.

If I'm willing to sleep with you for a million bucks and no less, if you offer me $100, it's probably not worth my time to try to talk you up. In that case, assuming that you are unable or unwilling to pay me the million bucks, there is /no difference/ between me being willing to sleep with you for a million bucks, and me not being willing to sleep with you for any amount of money at all.
It's probably just a tactic to reduce resume spam. After being unemployed for awhile, people tend to apply to everything to increase their chances of success.
I've never fried anything in tallow, and while I keep good lard (and bacon fat) for confit, I never fry with it. However, I do fry things in duck fat, and it makes an enormous difference, both in flavor and mouthfeel.

The "best" french fries are, it's said, fried in horse fat (I first read than in Steingarten, a dubious source, but have heard it backed up repeatedly). If you Google, there's an article with someone actually tracking down horse fat and frying frites in it.
The phenomenon is better explained here:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
One point I'd like to add is that you shouldn't get your hopes up about meeting bug-eyed aliens. Titan is cold -- so cold that even if this is a metabolic signature, whatever reactions are running are probably so slow that nothing more complex than prokaryotic bacteria has had time to evolve yet since the formation of the solar system. And even bacterial life might be a bit of a reach.

(This is a guess, but based on what we know of terrestrial biochemistry. Just bear in mind that on Titan, the mean surface temperature is around -180 celsius -- methane runs like water, water ice is a rock-like substance, and so on.)
That's kind of like saying that the way Google processes mail for Google Mail isn't a secret. It's not, but knowing how "it's done" and knowing how they "actually do it" are two different things.
No, you're right. It's just mostly a free lunch.
It never really took off so there isn't much there yet, but for anyone interested in math discussion on a less advanced plane, you might try here http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Simple_math_of_everything
> Who started it?

WTH? You, by nitpicking a general statement meant to connect two perspectives and maybe allow some synthesis between two starkly divided worlds.

I've had the Lisp kool-aid. I agree it makes for a great time. I can do without the proselytizing blast.
> To reproduce, build the attached program with "gcc -pthread test.c" and run it on a 5.2 or later kernel compiled with GCC 9 (if the kernel is compiled with GCC 8, it does not reproduce).

I wonder if this is a compiler bug or a new optimization that broke the code.
Wait, it’s not an Atlassian advertisement? It’s an actual product?
watch this space! (announcements forthcoming in '20)
0.10.6 is released with a fix :-)
I think it's useful for me to first explain why I believe HN would benefit from some new guidelines. The polarized, tribal behavior that can be witnessed in any thread that has any sort of identity related angle to it (politics (and therefore economics), religion, gender, etc) is probably not the best that the above average intelligence and rationality of folks who frequent HN can come up with, but when it comes to such topics, in this respect it seems we are little different than the average discussion on /r/politics.

Of course, we're not unique in this way, but this sort of behavior is starting to cause major problems in society, and it seems to me all communities should be taking notice where it happens, and do what they can to figurr out:

a) what the nature of the problem is

b) how might it be improved

The current guidelines, if followed as written, might eliminate the majority of this behavior, but much of that would be the product of restraint, of people "biting their tongues". Maybe there are some new guidelines we could add that might both improve the quality of discourse while not requiring self-censorship.

If you pay attention to such conversations, what you'll often notice is that two people are arguing passionately about what they think is the same thing, but really they are arguing about unique perspectives upon the same thing. They are trying to discuss a multi-dimensional problem with only a very small subset of differing dimensions, and they are completely unaware of it.

What specific new rules we need is tricky, but the type of rules I suspect should be along the lines of:

- when asserting criticism, try to ensure your statements are adequately objectively correct (resilient to reasonably pedantic criticism)

- when replying to someone who is wrong, pause to observe your emotional state - are you replying to what they've actually written, or perhaps to a heuristic-powered interpretation of what they're saying?

- realize that stereotyping people by categories other than just race and gender is harmful, not only because it's not nice

- be careful to not speak in a manner that suggests you have the ability to read people's mind or see into the future ("oh those people", "all they want to do is", "they will just", etc)

- aim for epistemic humility:

(a) a posture of observation rooted in the recognition that (a) knowledge of the world is always interpreted, structured, and filtered by the observer, and that, as such,

(b) pronouncements must be built on the recognition of observation's inability to grasp the world in itself.

This sort of thing. Exactly how any guidelines should be written and enforced I'm not so sure.

At the very least I hope you can consider whether this is a problem on HN (and keep this in mind during moderation), consider the idea that conversations that happen here and elsewhere have a way of rippling out through the world, and consider whether we all have a responsibility in contributing what we can to building the kind of society we want to live in.
The syntax of S-expressions is the syntax. It's a form to serialize trees (made out of pairs) and it is described by some grammar.
Darwin is actually a BSD variant, so it does tend to absorb some features from the rest of the bsds such as dtrace. Darwin is nigh-impossible to get patches into as an outsider ( I vaguely remember a blog post or maybe a talk about the process). The rest of the BSDs are fairly easy to get patches into upstream/mainline.
> No water for hours?

I often go until late afternoon or longer without realizing I haven't had any water to drink. This really doesn't seem that bad. The OP's claim that his mouth was like sandpaper because he hadn't had water for a few hours reads like hyperbole to me.
nope I was citing jetty as an undervalued embedded library
Facebook and Twitter both have what Google doesn't, the "interest graph" - Facebook knows what you like and Twitter knows what you like right now. We are already seeing 3rd parties build products based on your interest graph, but expect Facebook to continue to build products as well. One of the products that I suspect they will move to the forefront is search. They will become a direct competitor with Google, within the facebook environment. There are already signs of them moving towards this with inclusion of Bing results. Eventually these results could be catered based on interests rather than an algorithm that weights websites based on backlinks and only your "search terms" (IE: Google). Search terms + interest graph is a very powerful algorithm - especially as Facebook deploys "like" buttons across the internet which serve as "votes" similarly to how Google considers "backlinks" votes for a website. Also, remember that Facebook did announce the integration of Microsoft Office web apps within Facebook.

Things are getting interesting.

Facebook, while scary from a privacy standpoint, is definitely creating value and will continue to create value.
They seem to get their page views either way, so that regrettably won’t stop them.
PostgresSQL and Redis. A local SQLite database installed under "/dev/shm/" (i.e., really in RAM) is nice while programming.
I highly doubt that Apple is now pioneering new innovations in the realm of metallurgy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_science

Do you really think a company like Apple doesn't have any materials engineers? I don't know what the ratio is of the materials they develop in-house compared to the rights they buy from smaller research companies or institutions, but materials science is definitely a field Apple knows a lot about.
"Strength" of a metal is always a tweaked compromise of hardness and toughness. It could be that their steel is formulated specially for the particular structure of the iPhone 4. This wouldn't be a new pioneering branch of metallurgy, though it could be spun like that by marketdroids.
There could be some neat stuff here in the end, but as someone that has several amps, a dozen guitars and 50 pedals... I find this somewhat useless, at least on just the basis of just sharing settings. The specific settings on most of my stuff is very dependent on the room, guitar and how loud I'm playing. My main amp these days is a '65 Fender Bandmaster. About the only relevant thing to tell someone about the settings is that I use the vibrato channel exclusively. Volume is just based on the room/volume, and the tone controls are normally somewhere mid-way and I mess with them while I play to make it sound good by ear.

Now, if it was sharing Sysex for keyboards, that could potentially be useful.
I don't think so. Manning leaked cables and somewhat classified documents from/to US embassies. These documents are internal US Department of Defense documents.
Reminds me of Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics found at: http://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

Sadly said guide to semiconductor physics provided better information than other online sources back when I was in school. Hopefully things have changed.
I played chess with my co-workers at a former job during lunch. I barely knew the rules when I started and struggled at first.

I began to practice somewhat obsessively and I got to the point where I could regularly beat most of my co-workers within a year. It could be argued I have an inclination for something like chess, but the connection between practice and payoff was more apparent playing chess than just about anything else I've ever done.

Chess has also taught me to think ahead a few moves and to realize that sometimes a short-term loss is worth it for a long-term gain. All things I see as essential for entrepreneurship.

In my youth, I used to just think people were just "good" at something, and there was little they could do to influence it. I did software because I was "good" at it. Over the years, I've realized that an inclination or talent is important, but relentless years of honing one's craft are more important. I've watched a couple of my "smarter" friends waste away due to lack of focus and other people shine seemingly in spite of themselves.
More importantly smugmug was smart enough, when moving to the cloud to realize which components were the most failure prone and to stay away from those.

Not using EBS wasn't luck it was a conscious decision.
I was wondering that as well. They don't seem to mention, which could be a protective measure in either case (if its not, don't draw attention to the fact that there is another currently not detained leaker; if it is, limit the scope of what we know he leaked (has wikileaks itself ever mentioned Manning?)).
The "Wolf PAC"? Aren't they a subbranch of the New World Order?
Here's a link to the Yosinski's paper.

http://yosinski.com/media/papers/Nguyen__2014__arXiv__Deep_N...
One thing is 10-15 years ago, Internet was wasteland and people have to ask questions to learn.

But now, when someone unable to spent 5-10 minutes to find answer on SO on their own, make me wonder if they choose profession correctly.
(Born in '73) Flight Simulator II for the Commodore 64 ingrained 'down is up' for me.
Or "How I advertised my startup on HN".
I've long been a fan of 'Getting Real' and now 'Rework' but I'm pretty sure I'm not their target customer -- I've found all of their products lacking in functionality. And, it just doesn't seem like they're listening to my customer type, or my problems. So, I've just relented and have assumed that I'm not their target, and they they're doing an awesome job with whoever their actual customer target is!
So, what did you end up doing? I'm very curious.
I felt like I was reading something I wish I'd written, thanks.
That's why in the US after the president ordered the FDA to approve Choloroquine for use against COVID, the FDA immediately came out and demanded that it not be used, except for "compassionate use" in the most severe cases (people who will die anyway, even with treatment), and in the UK why after studies started to appear showing it to be highly effective, the UK banned the sale of the drug.

First rule of power: never waste a crisis. If we cure this thing now, before the destruction of all personal freedoms is complete, people won't be willing to go quietly into the totalitarian night. Therefore, it is critical that even news suggesting there might be a cure be suppressed.

Notice how for every one article you can find about the promise of Cholorquine + Azithromycin, you'll find 10,000 all talking about how it's a hoax/lie/fabrication, or else that more study is needed -- at least another 12/18/36 months? All long enough to ensure that the dismantling of our society can be completed before anybody can be treated.
>I often need to be able to do that in e.g. snowy weather where a combination of all-terrain tires and 4WD/AWD is invaluable

How often does it snow enough for that to be a problem? It can't be more than a couple of days a year, we don't get that much snow in cities.
> Basic macroeconomics tells us that savings must be invested.

Because this wisdom is wrong. Investment is buying non-liquid capital, and to some extent, an irreversible decision; while saving is pretty much keeping liquid capital (like money) on hand.

So if you invest (make an irreversible decision), you are taking a risk that the decision is wrong. Therefore, other players on the market, who save and not invest, can learn from and react to your decision. In other words, keeping options open by saving (and not investing) gives you an upper hand over people who do invest.

Of course, if everybody saves and nobody invests, everybody loses as well. It's a prisoner's dilemma of sorts.

In practice this often manifests by large corporations keeping large amount of savings on hand, so they could "invest" in smaller companies that are deemed to be winners. It's generally a better strategy than to invest themselves everything back into some cutting edge research and risk these investments won't pan out.

The basic macroeconomic wisdom ignores this dynamic (and the fact that fundamental difference between investment and saving is that one is irreversible and the other is reversible), and so it concludes that all money that is not consumed (savings) must always be invested.
Another day after that you'll have learned your lesson and never connected it to your wifi, but the manufacturer included a SIM that connnects to the internet on its own. You want to remove it but the TV asks you to put it back and won't boot into a usable state until it is connected to the mothership. Also please open an account on Samsun MySmartTV and login to it otherwise it's black screen for you.

Manufacturers are already looking into the first part and HP has implemented the second part with their newest print service (https://medium.com/@amandam_95165/what-you-dont-know-about-h...)