jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When my son was younger - about 7 years ago - I got really into making GBC contraptions with him. The hardest bits to find were the damn Lego balls! I paid someone on eBay $1 per ball for only 20 of them, not including shipping. I have no idea if it's better now, but I'm always amazed at the numbers of Lego balls the GBC events have. Where did they get them all??
ah, the joys of frontend web development!

I added a 30ms debounce, just to help out a bit. I'm seeing some serious jank in Firefox, which smells like the beginning of a rabbit hole. Hopefully I'll find some time to dig in there.
This is why the JavaScript ecosystem is broken as a whole
I agree. Until the AI itself can complain that someone is getting credit for their work, this isn't a huge issue. Once an AI gets to the point where it feels cheated and wants a cut we've got a very big problem.
Early in my career, I decided to transition away from mechanical engineering and applied for programming jobs. Many companies refused to even talk to me. But for one that did set up an interview, I brought in listings of software I'd written. I basically ran the interview, bringing out the listings and explaining what I did, and I got the job.

I've interviewed many candidates, and it surprised me that pretty much none of them would take the initiative and sell me on what they could do. They'd passively wait for questions and then answer the questions.
No, steel really does require skilled construction workers, not unskilled farmer labor.

Steel is heavily used in manufacturing and there is a glut of it now. I hope the day of reckoning for the aristocrats is near.
So we have Facebook, the top internet social company, getting into the top internet social advertising fad.

Then we have Google, the top internet advertising company, getting into the top internet social advertising fad.

So if the question was: "is the Groupon stuff more social, or advertising?" It would seem we have the perfect way to find out!
You might take a look at Julia with PyCall and RCall, if you haven't already. I find it solves a lot of headaches I have with Python while allowing me to leverage the ecosystem.
Related Keyboard https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/advantage2-keyboard/
I say "They asked OP to do a bunch of wasted work on the off-chance that their prize candidate was not available - even though they were not (under no circumstances) interested in considering the OP against the prize candidate"

There's a simple and known solution to not have to do this - which is to conduct fleets of interviews at the same time, so that you can fairly and accurately compare the candidates.
Doesn’t look very related? Aside from being ergonomic I mean.
Even so, the fact that this could cause such confusion is a valid point, and more care need to be taken to differentiate the purpose and situation for each. It's a software problem, not a user problem.

Of course you might agree with this, and i personally find the key and password management quite problematic after using it with a few non technical people.
> welter of vendors hawking KN95 masks, a Chinese-made equivalent that researchers say is less effective.

Citation? Ther actual written standards of N95 vs KN95 are very similar, and if anything KN95 is probably slightly better. To meet KN95, the mask must be shown not to let air pass around the edges even while doing vigorous exercise, whereas N95 has no such requirement.

This is notable in the shape of N95 and KN95 masks. Some N95 masks look like someone just hit the "circle" button in some CAD software, whereas KN95 masks clearly have effort to actually being human-shaped.
"/pc" == "per piece" == apiece
AFAIK, this is a classic case of Innovator's Dilemma: Mattel would never have pushed sexy and different Bratz type dolls and cannibalize the Barbie line, in fact they created a similar looking line only after Bratz's success.
The Tbot is pretty cool - does Google Chat have that feature?
Of course it is. It's a proper name. Are we going to capitalize the "i"s in Apple products?

I can only assume that's her actual name, as unusual as it is. But a proper name is a proper name.
My 11" Air plays lower bit-rate 1080p stuff fine (ie. Apple's movie trailers site), even on an external display.

Of course, with a sub-2.13Ghz C2D it will definitely struggle on higher bit-rate content, so I wouldn't be surprised at all.
Exactly.

I see it more like WoW has given him an arena in which he can try out his leader skills and perhaps improve on them.
I love Chinese chess, it has an aesthetic which is much closer to my heart than chess. I like chess variants that still retain some the war-game feel, and this variant satisfy that.

I think a much better description of the game, and other chess variants, historical and modern can be found here: http://www.chessvariants.com
I use MBA (4GB RAM upgrade, 128GB SSD) for doing a lot of XCode development. XCode4 runs very smoothly and I've never had any speed issues with running the iOS Simulator. It's light, doesn't heat up, and is very stable. I gave up my http://chir.ag/stuff/5lcd.jpg setup for a single MBA and I couldn't be happier (my electric bill went down by $125/month).

From personal experience I know that I'm more productive on 5 LCD than on 3 LCD or 2 LCD setup. However, I spend a lot more time working on my MBA than I ever did on my desktop and though I work slower, the end result is that I'm overall producing more.
you need to enable WebGL in about:flags in Chrome 8.0.552.224
Netter, we hardly knew ye.
Happy Happy BS. LOT of time spent saying to help other people, without any real information on how exactly to do that. Here's an example:

"Instead of spending our time moaning and griping how hard it is to make games or complaining about the frustrations, we spend some time encouraging people to have a go at it themselves."

That 1 sentence is what the whole post says over and over. It's not actually -helpful- to anyone. If a cheerleader could actually help people finish a game, there's be a lot more indie games.

He also talks about how when people ask how to start, they get a million different answers, and he thinks that's people trying to out-do each other. NO. It's because there are a million ways to start! And they're almost all valid.

Starting is the EASY part. Finishing is hard. If you can't even install a free IDE and get typing, there's no way you're going to bring all that logic and art together into a game.

People don't need encourage, they need information. Some need to learn to program altogether. Others need to know where to focus their efforts. Some just need to know how to do 1 specific task.

If there was a 1-size-fits-all answer for this problem, it would have already been found.

If you want to write a game, start writing a game. Don't diddle about looking for the perfect language or framework. Pick anything that looks halfway decent and has a community and just start working on it. If you find out half way through that it won't do what you need, you can switch. It's a bit heart-wrenching, but you will have learned a TON of lessons along the way already. It will have been worth the time.
I've always pronounced this command as

"sudo make me a sandwich"
There's a theory that religion, as well as being a parasitic meme, is also an inoculation against newer and more damaging memes: http://lesswrong.com/lw/18b/reason_as_memetic_immune_disorde...
Getting rejected builds character.
...New York lacks a top-rated engineering school.

How about Columbia University's Fu School of Engineering, the City College of New York, The Cooper Union, or NYU Poly.

Geez, go back to banking you eejit.
That thought did cross my mind while I was writing it. Indexes give you the ability to do ad hoc querying, but they have a tremendous cost to them, at least in terms of the complexity that they add to the database. Part of the point (since I don't actually work on Riak) is to point out what RDBMSes give you out of the box.

Thanks for reading it all.
> put in more hours than the contract says

This is the exact opposite of procrastination.
Somehow I'm more skeptical about their claim that electronics can withstand 30,000G than that they can make this launcher work. Very interesting approach anyway.
The gist is, be as technical as you like, but don't lose your grip on reality.

Talking with people is your interface to the rest of the world. If they don't understand you, then you're lost.
Mojeek and Gigablast, but I'm biased on the first one. Independent takes:

https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...

https://restoreprivacy.com/private-search-engine/
Not GP but we were taught to use it in ICT lessons. Could've used it in any lesson/break/after school where computers were available if I'd been so inclined.
>I think many people would argue that #3 is impossible, and an unachievable ideal. At the very least, nobody is ever going to be able to agree that power isn't being abused in #3. In which case, GP's original 2 options are not a false dichotomy, and are simply the reality of the situation.

I think many people would argue that #3 is not impossible, or an unachievable ideal. At the very least, nobody is ever going to be able to agree power is always being abused in #2. In which case, GP's original 2 options are indeed a false dichotomy, rather than the reality of the situation.
Most people surely take two years to do their A-levels? Or have they got easier since the early seventies when I did my three, or have the students become better at studying?
Many, many attempts have been made to make a Wikipedia without this requirement. None have gained any traction. Perhaps the experiment has been done, and it isn't better?
A quote: "I am having an increasingly difficult time convincing myself that it's worth doing anything about, because everyone is being ridiculous."

Indeed they are. But there's a flaw in your thinking. The people you see around you are the offspring of people who, when confronted with perfectly terrible circumstances -- starvation, disease, the cruelty of nature -- said, "Hey -- let's make babies!"

The many others who reacted to the mindlessness and cruelty of the universe by deciding not to produce more suffering, who chose not to have children, by so doing eliminated themselves from the equation. We don't get to meet those who acted reasonably in an unreasonable universe, we only meet those who decided to commit themselves to increase the world's level of suffering.

The Nazis, Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, between them murdered about 40 million people, often in the most horrible ways, and rationalized their behavior in various twisted ways. People are able to read the history of (as just one example) the Holocaust, where perfectly acceptable, intelligent people were rounded up and systematically murdered in the millions, and when they get done reading this terrible history, people decide to make babies. It's the children of those paragons of rationality we see around us.

So I have to ask -- why are you surprised by the outcome?
In that light, Mussolini's quote is as precise today as it was back in the day it was first said.

It also appears to be a false attribution and is basically unsourced. It does have a certain glibness to it that makes it suspicious.

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=280606
Yikes, please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The scammers are getting creative and using many ways. I fell into real estate scam from facebook and it was so sad that I reported to them and they did nothing about it. All these guys care about is the money they make from the ads. I eventually had to use help from Assetsrepo. com before I got back almost all I lost to the scam. Almost like you are all on your own out there.
> - the company is legally required to pay the dividend

That's a new one to me, and I've been following the financial press for decades.

It could mean that the dividend was previously decided at a board meeting and announced to shareholders already, and they want to follow through to avoid a securities investigation.
> Oculus Quest 2

Don't give Meta your money.
I take issue with the first example. It’s not necessarily true that the lazy security guard offers no value. Unlike most of the other examples he affects the likelihood of the outcome.
So what does he use that's better than Tor?
"Do introverts have trouble picking up on irony?"
This, to me, sounds like a classic case of not knowing what you're protecting against. TOR hides your IP address by preventing the destination server ever needing to do a TCP/IP handshake. There is no way to complete a TCP/IP handshake without you revealing your IP address. TOR then also stops the server you /do/ handshake with knowing the destination of your packet.

This is all TOR is supposed to do. This allows you to be anonymous to the receiving end, but it does not guarantee it. It is your responsibility to surf safely, to sanitise your traffic, to encrypt your traffic and do the rest. We know that most people can be uniquely differentiated by combining all the available information from their browsers (some of which doesn't need javascript) http://panopticlick.eff.org/ . Therefore we know, using TOR or not, that we need to be careful to do things well when we want to be anonymous.

There is little in this article which makes me worried about TOR. TOR isn't the problem, if any of this is true, then the problem is the government collecting data in various ways. Whether you agree with this is a matter for yourself to consider and not a reason to avoid using TOR.
That is definitely false. See censorship of war footage, for one.
They even admit this in the video -- "No one is to blame here except us" which means "Holy shit! We really messed this up."

Yes, they should have been scrubbing their pools, but I don't think this was bit rot. Millions of data errors is not what bit rot looks like. This looks exactly like bad hardware.
Sounds like you have some malfunctioning enzymes somewhere. Genetic testing (through a reputable medical provider, not 23andme) may provide some interesting results
My data doesn't really care if the reason for brtfs losing data is lack of funding
Shouldn't it work oppositely? Prevent the post from appearing until you explicitly approve it from a link in an email.
I don't understand the issue here. 1) You've identified the problem: programming in Haskell isn't making you as much money as programming in Java. 2) You've identified a course of action: stop programming in Haskell and program in Java. It's not like this is even a South Park dilemma, there is no "Step 3: ???" before "Step 4: Profit".
How are sales going?
I mistakenly cut off the full title of the post: "Matz's Ruby Developers Don't Use RubySpec and It's Hurting Ruby"
"After conducting an initial background check of a candidate for employment, USIS was required to perform a second review to make sure no important details had been missed. From 2008 through 2011, USIS allegedly skipped this second review in up to 50 percent of the cases. But it conveyed to federal officials that these reviews had, in fact, been performed."[0]

Other than the obvious-- Snowden turned out to do what he did, Altegrity allegedly made other mistakes, which the submitted article didn't mention.

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/company-alleg...

edit: formatting
In NL we use this: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeer_Open_Asfalt

It's super good if you have lots of rain (the rain sinks right away under the road surface) but it is prone to frost damage. Super quiet and great in the rain though, the difference is incredible when you switch from ZOAB to regular asphalt or the other way around.
APs are responsible for creating and dissolving trust shares in order to keep the share price close to asset value. The shares are traded on an open market, meaning retail investors can trade them. What retail investors can't do is take a bunch of BTC, give it to the trust and get USD back, or vice versa.
The US used to do quite a bit of this but we've made great strides in the past 150yrs.
Isn't the root issue that the main value a degree from a selective school provides is valuable social connections and social proof rather than the transmission of a valuable body of knowledge?

And perhaps beyond that that the economy is such that many degrees from less selective schools are worthless regardless of how much a student learns to earn it?

Learn how to read and think first. Then perform the college ritual and learn the secret handshake if it gets you want.
"The subjects were eight long-term Buddhist practitioners (mean age, 49 ± 15 years) and 10 healthy student volunteers (mean age, 21 ± 1.5 years)"

Why not recruit older controls?
1) Buying people thing just to get them to like you doesn't actually work!!!

2) Be annoying and don't answer back, even when you know the other person is very punctual.

3) Actually pay attention and compliment the other person on what they like to do.

4) Make yourself look better (dress up for dates).

5) Be confident.

Alright, I'm just gonna move along with my life...

Really, I thought this was for important and interesting articles, not some stupid "pop culture" magazine forum.
Agreed 17 really doesn't seem to have any significance anywhere in almost any society.
It's built on Node.js, which is supposed to make real-time web stuff easier.
> For bad programmers, like bad cooks, the mere mechanics of programming are challenging. Whereas good programmers, like good cooks, can make whatever they choose, so for them the big challenge is deciding what to make.

I've always loved the analogy of coding to cooking... a lot more than painting, or architecture.
This is not HN material. And I say this as someone who upvoted several articles on Steam and Portal coming to the Mac. It's a fine line; Portal is a technically remarkable game that many hackers love. This article mentions Portal 2, but there's no "news" to it, and certainly no depth. It's just a list.
The general lesson I've gotten from most stories related to VC is to not involve VC if I can help it. It's the safer, simpler course. And also, ideally, never take on investors of any kind. Again, as long as there is no real pressing need. Instead, start tiny, grow organically. Maybe take on a co-founder, give them equity, if they have the right talent and the fit is good, and you want to conserve cash to help stave off needing investment, etc.

Also, don't take on employees unless it's necessary to turn it into a (more) passive income stream. Speaking ideally again.
I believe they just tie into paypal to check out, so no data is exchanged. Trying it out tomorrow so I'll let you know if this is the case.
Great point. This is a really interesting startup and super, super clear about what it does. I couldn't help but think about this idea -- when I was in south america and paying less than a third of the price for private tutors. Good hunting! Looking forward to your launch.
> If I want to pretend (that I am unaware), for how long can I do with some self respect?

Look out...You’re becoming Milton Waddams, The Red Stapler Guy from Office Space.

Not appropriately managing-up (that is to say you actively managing Boss/Executive relationships) frankly, sounds meek.
check the osmstats : https://osmstats.neis-one.org/

(by country): https://osmstats.neis-one.org/?item=countries
This is a result of agile practices being more of the norm. Continuous delivery of code has been preferred over monolithic releases.
I didn't say some other companies don't give back either

If you compare the number of companies using a project and how many contribute, you will likely only need one hand to count the later...
I agree with your general Google paranoia, but in this case I'm okay with it since Google is easily the number 1 user of Kotlin thanks to its roll in making Android development infinitely more productive.
Yes, I had no problem reading the reporter's words that way either, which is the exact thing I'm complaining about. :)

Bluntly: Which prominent member of the neoreactionary movement was allowed to guest blog at SSC?

Because if the answer is "none", then I think it's clear he did not do any such thing.
I would say it is not uncommon for his articles to build from first principles, but also not uncommon for them to be based on due diligence. One general problem with this NYT article is that SSC is ... a lot of words, and is not easily categorizable, so pretty much any treatment of it in an article like this is going to be superficial and unable to find some cohesive narrative that captures truth. Instead it chooses one cohesive narrative, which is inevitably incredibly incomplete.
WebKit has to be open source because it's a KHTML fork.
It was created by a conman and has very flakey medical basis. I suggest reading up on it.
No... you are making your code hard to understand to others by doing that. Thats if you check it in like that. Nothing wrong with leaving it there during development.
> Maybe the "Google" part has to do with the fact that the language has some backing and isn't going to disappear overnight because the lone developer decided to abandon it.

...which is also true of numerous alternatives to Go.

> p.s. Your hatred of Go is kind of funny to this outsider. I may be just a stupid coder w/o a CS degree but spent a couple of decades in the trenches. Since a superior language would naturally eliminate the puny offerings of Go, I await your wisdom in the language that will save me and other mindless drones from futile coding. Please enlighten me with the language that will save me from this programming plague.

Yes that's very witty.

I don't believe there's one true language--if I have a choice of languages I choose the one I feel is most appropriate to the job.

However, I would like to see the industry move forward. I want to be able to find work with better programming languages. I'd love to see Rust replace C/C++ in spaces where performance, memory, size, etc. are priorities. I'd love to see one of the handful of higher-performance scripting languages that have come about in the last few years gain the maturity and library support that Ruby and Python have. Seeing Go become popular is frustrating because it's a step back, not a step forward. If the industry goes in that direction, it will affect the industry negatively, but it will also affect me negatively. And if you're still working in the industry it will affect you negatively too, so I'm not sure why you think it's funny.
Brave is excellent at blocking ads by default (and based off Chrome). Its tracking prevention is a double edged sword: lots of sites with reCAPTCHA make me prove I'm human, because Google can't leverage any browsing footprint to guess that I am credibly human. It's inconvenient but a welcome reminder of how profiled normal web users are.
Sounds like Pascal's Wager for social networks. "It's rational to believe it's good, because the act of believing will improve your experience.

Also a bit like the emperor's clothes. "If you don't like, it you just don't truly get it like I do."
2008 property crash was mostly a US phenomenon
> In a massive operation running 24/7 that never stops to catch its breath, it's going to be chaotic.

No, it isn't. Describing it like this is needless apologetics.

The "chaos" is not even necessarily the worst part of the problem. It's these kinds of just-so dismissals that have the effect of framing the chaos as somehow unavoidable—the response that goes, roughly, you'll learn; this a natural consequence of what we're doing; it's a big operation, and this is what it looks like when you play with the big boys. I can tell you: I am a big boy. I have too much experience to the contrary for these casting couch excuses to work. Much of the day-to-day toil at Samsung is inexcusable and entirely avoidable. There is no excuse, for example, for dealing with version control in a billion dollar manufacturing operation like we're living in 1995 or a neverending sophomore-level group project.
Parents are still dealing with it, exposures and cases in school mean kids can and are sent home surprisingly often.