jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The argument would work the same way if reality was the same, sure. I'd think there was a very severe problem if there was someone going around broadcasting messages that thousands of people interpreted as orders to terminate fetuses.

But that's not what's happening, so the same argument doesn't apply. No doctor believes they're on a a holy mission to end pregnancies. No one is looking for a leader to reinforce this viewpoint. That's very different from the reality in this situation.
No, Twitter suspends millions of accounts, of varying notability. Obviously, they just don't get the attention that the President does.

You're clearly carefully picking words that frame the event as inconsequential. That nameless "microblog" is how millions of Americans get their news, lol.
location: Victoria, BC

Remote: sure

willing to relocate: unlikely, but bay area is a possibility

technologies: C#, unity, python, C++ for programming languages. PC, linux, Mac, Android for platforms. I've spent the last few years immersing myself in synthetic biology and would love to find a way to merge those interests with my computer background. (which is strong - CS masters degree, 10 year Microsoft vet, UX experience etc.)

Resume: http://biobit.ca/derekja_resume.pdf

please contact me at derekja@gmail.com

Thanks!
Well, unemployed is a flexible term. How about freelancers?
I'm freelancing and (apart from my startup efforts) technically unemployed for about 1/3 of the year.
I got to use it too. For IE6, the website failed to download any images. For the other browsers the images came in fine.

To the creators of browserling, please don't take these negatives as criticism. It's a great idea and very ambitious, I am excited to use this site!
Semiapies' description of AP classes is really bizarre and can only reflect a situation in which the teachers did not give a rat's ass about their students' AP scores. The nice thing about an AP class versus a non-AP class is that the AP test gives teachers an excuse to care whether their students are actually learning or not. Naturally that means the kids end up working a lot harder, but teachers who care at all about the scores at the end of the year (and mine did) will do everything they can to discourage cramming and other fake learning.

Kids who can't pass the class without cramming and who aren't going to retain the material shouldn't be in an AP class in the first place. They're going to run into a concrete wall at the end and waste their money (or the school's money) taking a test they aren't prepared for. Some students can handle it, and that's who the class is for. In my graduating class, there were maybe a dozen kids who got a 5 on at least one AP test, and I think there were two dozen who got a 3 on at least one AP test. That's out of a graduating class of a little over 300. (The entering class was over 400, so you can tell I didn't go to an especially good school.)
IBM added iPhone support to Lotus Notes Traveller in the last release. It provides mobile access to Lotus Notes/Domino mail, calendar, and directory. That removed a barrier to adoption for many enterprises. Several of our executives are using it now with good results.
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/notes/traveler...
Is "book" next? It seems yes: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-20023684-36.html
Web Developer is a Firefox favorite of mine that also has a Chrome version available now. (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/)
Dude, most people I know who use C or C++ for their daily work tend to curse them. I wouldn't exactly call them popular. Of course, those same people then bite their tongue and go back to work, because they have actual work to do.

"There are two kinds of programming languages: those that nobody likes, and those that nobody uses." -- Bjarne Stroustrop
If you care about making money -- Mobile First, Web Second, API Third (though web and API kind of go together, so how about both at the same time? :)
No, it's a glitch and I can't seem to figure it out, as it only happens from time to time. Supposed to show up 5 pixels from the bottom of the screen.
This is a very innovative project and I hope you pursue it regardless of yc funding or not. There's lots of Windows apps that would be useful to run in a browser :)
"YBombinator!™ is a concept that was conceived in real time by real people in an Internet chat room on April 17, 2007 @ 2:09AM Pacific Daylight Time."

They were talking about this on Justin.tv. I assume that's the chat room they're mentioning here. But anyway, I have no idea what this is... most likely a joke.
The designer had performed research and learned that no, people DON'T care why they can't park, they just don't want a ticket; and that they don't care about fine distinctions, they want clear unambiguous information.

As for complaining that this misunderstands local government: that's the point, it's user-centric design. Parking signs should not be a catalog of the internal departmental divisions in city hall, they should clearly communicate to street users the way in which the street is permitted to be used. It's like complaining about the design of the iPhone on the basis that it completely failed to reflect the reality of how cellphone carriers operate. Yes, yes it did. That was the point.
Yeah "bill gates" is more descriptive than "ex-microsoft chief". Based on the title I thought it was balmer or something.
Looks like they mixed up correlation and causation
Exactly. I do need it. I also need mic/line in jack for guitar/any_other_instrument where _any_ delay is not desirable
I'm not a hater, just hard to even take Blue Origin seriously in comparison to SpaceX. Musk will be putting feet on Mars and we'll still be reading about all the great things Blue Origin is going to do. Virgin Galactic is going to reach Space before they do.
Thanks for that, will try out graphviz. I was doing some custom implementation for minimizing edge crossings and it seems to work fine for me but thats mostly for 2-layered graphs. If I am to expand to multi-layer graphs, its going to be fairly more complicated to figure out how to do that and I dont know if it will work well.

Graphviz seems to be great for getting you a mostly-useful auto layout majority of the time.

I have a requirement to be able to mix fixed-positioned nodes along with dynamically changing nodes, I havent used graphviz to know if it could do that. A library like cytoscape works ok or maybe d3 (I am still evaluating these)

Honestly coming into this, I thought graph drawing would be fairly easy and I could look up online for examples - but it seems to be quite opposite, its really complicated to get graphs that are both dynamically generated with the nodes positioned at the same place in case there are similar nodes
I'm not for or against BuyVM. I'm just surprised that nowadays people will hang out in a VPS provider's Discord. Like if Wawa had a Discord and people decided to hang out there. I just don't get it.
Why isn't an identifier included in each request ("a cookie") not a valid way to track state across requests? It's the solution that makes sense with an otherwise stateless interaction. With a persistent connection, you don't need to send that with each interaction, but the RIP:RPORT:LIP:LPORT tuple becomes the "cookie" that identifies the client or session.

> That still leaves us with the problem of Cookies. ... But, if I could avoid having every website yelling at me about using cookies, I'd happily adopt a Websocket architecture, if that's what it took.

This is a red herring. If "the problem with cookies" is that websites yell at you about using cookies, that's a legal issue with the requirement to notify users they are being tracked. This "problem" of being yelled at didn't exist before the legal requirement.

Moving the transport to websockets (layered on top of HTTP, layered on top of TCP) doesn't get rid of the legal requirement for notification or opt-out. It just buys some time until the law catches up and says that the state management you're using with websockets is also subject to tracking notification and opt-out.
Underestimate the importance of the world wide web (different from the internet) once in the early 90s, and the entire world will never let you forget it.
From the article:

> Larry [Page] and Sergey [Brin] said, “You know, we have seven engineers, and they’re all guys. But we’ve thought a lot about how we want to start our company, and we’ve read a lot of books, and we know that organizations work better when there is gender balance. So it’s important to us that we have a strong group of women, especially technical women, in the company.”
"Low wages. Bitter cold. Long hours of complete darkness."

At least he was honest. That description applies equally well to startup life in Seattle, but I didn't see any mention of it in Bezos' email. ;-)
And how exactly would you differentiate between printing money "to fund government initiatives" and printing money to fuel the economy?

The fact is, even if all the money printed would be given away to non-governmental entities (that is, central bank would not be engaging in Quantitative Easing), it will still be funding the government (e.g. some of it will be collected back as taxes).
I like the fact that I can read the clock without looking in 2 places, just read down a line. Well done.
so...who ended up taking that job? Werner Vogels?
`xi`, notice that if you substitute `Float` or `Double` for his `Int` throughout his module, you get the same type error he gets, as you would intuitively expect:

[1 of 1] Compiling Main
Ok, modules loaded: Main.
*Main> p [1,2,3,4,5]
<interactive>:1:11:
Ambiguous type variable `t' in the constraints:

If however you substitute `Integer` for `Int`, which is after all what he claims to have meant, then suddenly:

[1 of 1] Compiling Main
Ok, modules loaded: Main.
*Main> p [1,2,3,4,5]
(5x^4 + 4x^3 + 3x^2 + 2x + 1)
*Main> :t it
it :: UnivariatePolynomial Integer

It seems, then, that if he had known that in Haskell the 'integer' type is called Integer, not Int, he wouldn't have had any difficulty, or any blog post, or any occasion unjustly to malign his teachers `conal` and `mauke`, to whom he ought rather to be grateful.
Well, its certainly more fair than giving puzzle/coding questions during an interview. This way you are under no pressure and can work on your own machine in your own time.
It's from Jan 09.
Why not just have all the boats going at all times (assuming there is a line)?

If there are too many boats, then the people on the ride will have to wait longer after finishing the ride to get off.
Well, the top videos get barely over couple of 1k views so I don't know how valuable it is.

I am extremely strict with what I count as a hit (I have a whole GEOip & browser combination) so if two people come from the same country with the same browser, it's only one hit, ever.
We are using Hetzner. Xeon 1270 with 32GB RAM costs €69/mo http://www.hetzner.de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/px60

Their SLA is 99.9%
I sell drugs.

It's a lot harder than you might think.

My clients give pretty reliable recurring revenue, so much so that it's gone from a side project to a full time gig for me.
Yep. You want to really get your mind blown, see the level of research that the community has done on anabolic compounds vs. the knowledge of the average endocrinologist.
> I can also ban you if I don’t like you. Or if I think it’s funny, or really any other reason.

Yeah, just like a game server admin that banned you simply because he lost to you in a game. Everyone loved them. Just because you can abuse your powers doesn't mean you should.

If social media that are influencing the outcome of the elections (reminder that we're in the middle of Covid lockdowns) are not aware that they shouldn't abuse their powers then it's time for the government to step in.
>the hunter, logger, and geologist will walk through the same patch of wilderness and see an entirely different forest, for each eye is trained to notice something different. The more abstract the things observed the greater individual variance there will be. For intangible social processes like market exchange, mass movements, and elections, our understanding is all model, no matter.

I really like this snippet. Captures an idea I hadn't ever been able to put into words before.
Does having a 8-bit converter seriously affect in any way reception?

I'm happy with my rtl-sdr v3 dongle, although living in a very noisy area would like to get something better for HF reception. I don't have a HAM license and no need for the HackRF transmit capabilities, though it may turn out useful for testing remotes, filters, aligning RF stages in diy receivers etc, but the SDRPlay RSPdx or the AirSpy + Spyverter seem better alternatives for receiving only with their 14 and 12 bit ADCs.

Here's a comparison of the three; I'd be interested in reading from other owners as well.
https://www.rtl-sdr.com/review-airspy-vs-sdrplay-rsp-vs-hack...
It's one of those things, I think, where the individual jokes aren't meant to be funny but rather the fact that they're all terrible yet people keep telling them is the real joke. Similar to Chuck Norris jokes.

As for the foreign language part, it's probably meant to lean into stereotypes about Russian English speakers to emphasize the "trashiness" of the joke. You could have an ethical discussion about that.
People forget that prior to electronic computers we had mechanical computers: abacus, slide rules and other devices.

Slide rules go back all the way to the 17th century, and the abacus goes back thousands of years.

Romans engineers, for example, were known to carry portable hand abaci.
I'm not aware of any libc :ascii: bug, but I'm aware of the erlang bug interpreting :ascii: as :print:
He admits ‘At some point Scott would have to choose which role he wanted to play full time.’ And then immediately negates himself by saying ‘But that should have been his decision. What right did the New York Times have to make that decision for him?’ The answer is: because they are a newspaper. I dislike NYT as much as anyone (mostly because of their focus on access journalism). But The New York Times is still a newspaper. Their job is to report the news, and much of the time they do so it is against the personal or professional interests of the people they are reporting on. in many cases not reporting the news against those interests would actually be a violation of their own professional ethics. It is not their job to help someone tightrope walk the ethics of their profession in the precarious way they’ve chosen. The author here admits that the anonymous blogger at the center of this controversy is walking such a tightrope, at their own risk. Isn’t that on them? lots of people would like to remain anonymous.
would you like to live in a world where the New York times lets powerful people who are doing awful, unethical things remain anonymous as they would like to? wouldn’t that be the opposite of journalism? so what’s different here? the fact that we are ok with or even admire what the subject is doing? and why should the ny times care about that?
See e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/IntelligenceNews/
Yes, as they require a significantly less amount of stuff you need to deal with. WINE needs to implement vast amounts of Windows APIs to make something like .net work, while cosmopolitan limits you to low-level C (and things built on it, like lua) at compile time.
Matz's happiness is closer to mine than Guido's dictatorship and Python is not the language of my soul, either. Though as a card carrying condescending know it all I find Lisps most attractive.
You could set one up in approximately no time at all using your local copies.

I mean, having a proper local master backup is a great idea, but you could survive without it in a case like this. Just set up a new repository somewhere everyone can get to it and have everyone push to it.
Well engineers and scientists already have solutions that are sadly not already put in place in China.

A district heating company from the EU I worked for in China replaced 19 coal plants with a single one in a smaller city in the north of China. So good engineering and management already exist for that, but the government owns all the existing plants and you can't replace them without their "OK".

Same goes for cars. Chinese manufactured cars are not the most energy efficient, but mostly, there's lot of very old poorly made cars. Not the same very old as you'd get in other countries. Pretty horrible crap.

The type of oil used there for cars is also decided by government standards. The current one is "not great".
Not necessarily.

Stingray is actually built by the Harris Corporation, so it seems entirely logical that a public corporation would consider the technical manner it's designed to glean intelligence from a standard cell phone a trade secret.

They are, after all, selling that very product to the US Government.
If SpaceX is providing fixed pricing to the Air Force rather than cost plus pricing, their internal processes and methods are basically irrelevant. The only time that matters is when doing cost plus where management efficiency might have some kind of an impact on the price.

The Air Force took a pretty silly position on the whole thing IMO.
Actually, the world needs more people who think beyond their own family legacy and consider what the world needs. Its interesting how you can look at people today (via the media) and size them up as far as if they feel they are a citizen of the world. Tim Cook clearly sees himself that way. The Koch Brothers...not so much.
Even if you aren't necessarily into Physics there is a great documentary called "Particle Fever" (also on Netflix) which has documented the Higgs particle discovery and the general purpose of the LHC.
Are there many drones out there carrying enough processing power to do serious machine vision (SLAM, obstacle avoidance) in real time from the drone's onboard sensors?
Ha, as someone with a degree is chem with a similar programming background who has been studying rails for 6 months, you give me hope and make me feel like a total slacker! Seriously though, that's awesome!
I appreciate the comparison, and I know it's nitpicking, but those images seem much heavier than they need to be. Using JPGs and/or 8-bit PNGs for the header and sub images could have saved 400K or so.
Good user report.
From the article "A gifted child is just one who has advanced beyond his or her peers; it takes drive, application, perseverance and insight to turn that potential into exceptional adult success."

It's worth saying that again. "A gifted child is just one who has advanced beyond his or her peers". It's not a big deal so don't make a big deal about it. Praise shouldn't be the response to gifted-ness, but rather asking him/her "What do you want to do?"

Learning that the best motivation is internal, not external, is an essential need in our early educational system.
My thoughts exactly. Pointers are one of the easier "computer science concepts". Instead of storing the entire value right here, we just store where in memory that is. That's all. The side-effects are also relatively simple. Since we're just passing around memory addresses, anything (including called functions) can modify it, since they just write to that memory.

If you can't understand that, I don't see how you are going to write a computer program. The deeper issues are things like object lifetimes, call-by-value versus call-by-reference semantics, and so on.
Actually, any important letter I have to send is sent with FedEx. They provide fast, predictable delivery, tracking numbers, signature requirement, saturday delivery, etc.

Letters don't cost $0.20 to send via the USPS either, unless you're a bulk marketer who is offered a huge discount to send people garbage. I have tried to opt out of all the unsolicited mail (coupons, flyers, magazines, etc.) and they keep sending it. It all (thankfully) gets recycled but it's a huge waste.

I also don't buy the argument that rural route customers should pay the same price for mail as anyone else. If you live in a rural area you get some benefits (cheaper land) and you should have to pay extra for infrastructure that is not efficiently offered when houses are 3 miles apart.
It matters more when the credential is used in licensing a difficult and socially important function like medical care, though. I think people were undestandably up in arms a while back about the institutions which were giving out fake degrees.
Money rules the media. (In large part, not completely.)

Through the media, corporations, and lobbyists the rich rule America.
Why not both? I'm sure it's similarly easy in PhoneGap, but here's how easy it is to package a 1 page HTML5 app in Appcelerator Titanium for submission to App Store or Android Market:

wv = Ti.UI.createWebView({url:index.html});
win = Ti.UI.createWindow();
win.add(wv);
win.open();
The act also removed $27B of pension obligations from the postal service's books, and used this and other benefits to smooth the transition away from a "pay-go" pension program. Pay as you go retirement programs are fraudulent because if the firm fails the retirees get nothing.

I don't have a problem with the postal service being in debt or unprofitable, I just don't think the service is needed, and it's troubling to me that there are laws preventing other firms from offering letter delivery services that compete with the USPS.
Slightly off topic but, I thoroughly enjoyed Jared Diamond's Gun's Germs and Steel[1]. Though his argument has some weaknesses, it makes an interesting case for why racial inequalities exist in the fashion that they do.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel
Virtually all movies of all genres follow a minute-by-minute plan also. It was popularised with the book 'Save the Cat'.
http://www.savethecat.com/ It is hard to watch a movie without mentally ticking them off...
Uber Lux already offers that in Los Angeles, but it comes at a price.

http://blog.uber.com/LuxLAInvite
They probably shouldn't be rows at all. They are effectively low frequency sound files. I'd probably store them in parquet and use a FDW wrapper in Postgres.
I'm not really sure anyone's come up with a better system though for a game like OW.

At least in comp I don't get rolled too often, so it sort of works.
Thank you so much! HN at its best!
> Some companies believe diversity of skin color actually matters and demonstrates a serious commitment to avoiding groupthink.

The best combination for being hired by these companies is having a diverse skin color and being committed to the groupthink.

The second best combination is having a non-diverse skin color and being committed to the groupthink.
The day after this article (i.e. yesterday), some things are updating again:

https://9to5google.com/2021/02/12/google-youtube-iphone-upda...
> I generally think that if I can't find a good name for a thing, I don't actually know what it does yet, so Im not ready to code it.

I can understand that viewpoint. On the other hand, you have to develop that understanding somewhere, and on some problems I find that sketching out a solution in code is more productive than using a whiteboard or some other mechanism, especially if I already have a rough idea of what needs to happen.

E.g., I might know that I need to keep around a little intermediate state, and I'll throw that in an unremarkably named variable and iteratively build up the rest of the algorithm. Once I have _some_ solution I can go back and see if the variable was really important, prove it correct (or find additional work to do), and dole out meaningful names.

The idea isn't that different from how when building up something which needs a loop you might start with "while (True) {}", figure out where you need to break, and then go back and factor in an appropriate stopping condition once you understand exactly what the loop needs to do to accomplish your goals.