jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Julia is incredible, but I worry about its future because, unlike some other promising-but-not-quite-mature languages like Go or Rust, Julia doesn't have any kind of corporate or organizational patron promoting it and investing big money in it.
> phones could broadcast their availability status and this status could be queryable by phone number

There was a standard for this in the 00's called "Wireless Village" that got so far it was usually integrated into the phone books of dumbphones by Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, but it never got any uptake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Village
There are a countable number of countable numbers between any two uncountable ones.

But there are an uncountable number of uncountable numbers between any two countable ones.
Found my position at CollegeHumor through techcrunch (crunchboard) about 4 years ago. We are hiring... http://www.crunchboard.com/opening/detailjob.php?jid=8209

My personal experience has been primarily through introduction in my network. The majority of my network I met at meetups and events. I have tried getting work through recruiters, but never actually excepted a job they set me up with. Most of the companies they sent me to were uninteresting and very generic.

I think the best way to find a job is the reverse approach. Don't wait for listings that 2000 other people are applying to. Put together a list of the companies you like/want to work for and start contacting the right people there. Take apart company directories, break email codes and get your resume to the right people. Even if its the wrong person they will often forward it to the right person (or ask them to).

(Edited)
I've only had two jobs in the industry. The first was found in a local paper. I was hired entry level and moved up from there and the experience was invaluable.

Current job was found through monster.com and is also proving to be well worth my time.
I actually liked it more than most 'mafia war' rip-offs. I work in social games too (for the moment) out of Ottawa, Ontario.

Moving to something even more Ajax based, like mafia wars would be a good idea.

I liked the users online incentives for players online across the top, but should be bundled with a call to action telling me how I help raise that number (though invites). I'd add an incentive based bar for more virality (Like, bookmark, extended permissions and we'll give you energy/coins/unique gear) and adds channels for you to communicate with users.

Some kind of a play rating (a simple number) that tells me how well I'm doing in relation to others is also a good idea, so long as it points out how I can raise it. People like getting graded.

I should be able to pay my way to end game, even if the amount of money required is obscene. If you're looking to make money, let me pay to cut out a whole segment of play to see what happens next.

Other than that, pretty cool. I enjoyed playing.
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Well in that case, this logic still works. An application that does a DNS lookup on such a network will receive an error whatever logic you use.
> it generates serious problems

So do time zones. So do leap seconds. So does the speed of light. I guess deal with it.

None of what you argued negates the post you replied to. He is right after all. Dates within the year are sortable by pretty much any system.

But most of all the format makes ISO 8601 quite easy for Americans to wrap their head around. So maybe stop complaining and look at 8601 as a possible solution to what you consider confusing and problematic.
Selection bias, not myth.
Return 0 is different from using 0 in the rest of the function body.
Good photo. I hadn't see that one yet. He's definitely armed.

I was right there with you all summer claiming a group throwing water bottles at police wasn't armed and shouldn't be beaten and shot with rubber bullets.
Any chance of integration with vimdiff? Any ways to have "semantic" diffing in vimdiff?
Here in Lithuania it's ~€0.18/kWh for peak rates. That includes all connection and admin fees, which in the US is usually billed as a separate line item. Most of our electricity is imported from Sweden. Our media keeps saying we have the highest electricity prices in the EU, but I guess not :-)
One issue is the fractured nature of alternatives would mean limited network effects, if one group moves to Matrix, and another to Signal, and another to Telegram, that means juggling multiple alternatives depending on the groups one is part of.
What policies he pushed you are not happy with? Less taxes, no new wars, and leaving each state making their own decisions for covid-19 seems pretty center right to me.
> "six children die each year in bus accidents"

Those seem to be ridiculously good numbers and back up everything stated in this article. I would worry that making ANY changes could actually increase that number.
It's not just popularity. "Admin by default" and "Easy-to-use over everything" is what doomed Windows. In *nix you always had to exploit bugs, in Windows you hadn't to. Nowadays Microsoft has built layer of abstraction over layer of abstraction to fix these previous decisions, but I think that such complexity has just made exploitable bugs more likely. Moreover, according to Secunia, in mainstream Linux distros every security bug gets fixed eventually. No such hope comforts Windows user.
This is correct. It was not The Oatmeal.
FYI, you actually can reach Paypal support, and it is not a Markov machine.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2049650
I absolutely agree (though the people downvoting me probably don't think so.)
I tinkered with ZX Spectrum macros from books/magazines occassionally when I was a kid... shame nobody was around to encourage me ever so slightly (once I got a games console, I stopped completely). I also meddled with websites a tiny bit, and had some programming lessons at school.

But I didn't get into programming seriously until I was 22 (VBA scripting for Excel at work). Sometimes I wonder how hard it will be to catch up, although so long as I stay ahead of the average CS graduate I should be OK. I think.
That would create big headaches with existing apps though, which is worth it for major improvements in resolution (e.g. the Retina display) but probably not for more minor improvements in resolution.

Also, the scaling would be awkward, because it isn't a multiple.
He should start stopping at all of the little ports, marinas & marine supply stores on his way and tell them about his website.

He should then offer them direct advertisements on his website. Sounds like the ads were actually effective.

An ad buyer would of course want to do pay per sale instead of pay per click given the site's history :)
oops, forgot that was real, I only remembered the parody: https://youtu.be/GijLoiVkmYI (nsfw language)
Are you going to move your very significant app to another platform because of this? Seems like an absurd thing to do to save yourself maybe a couple hundred bucks a year...
pacman is a burner: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7870737,-119.2049763,18z/dat...
The check-in URL for heartbeat seems to be HTTP ("http://self-repair.mozilla.org/%LOCALE%/repair"). Will Firefox 37.0 automatically convert that to HTTPS (HSTS preload, etc) or is there an insecure redirect lurking?
Maybe you're right about those particular things (but maybe in a dystopian future you would because the interference with competition drove the price up into local maxima).

Seriously though, do I question my habits when buying food, drinks and coffee. This video is saying "you can lock yourself into a cycle of dependence on this one brand of coffee and this one brand of water and this one brand of cheap unhealthy ready-made packaged food".

Either you find that unpalatable in principle or you don't. It's probably a cultural thing.
Having a new "MacBook" that's thinner than the "MacBook Air" is admittedly a bit weird, but it's a transition period. Once the price on the new one goes down, they'll drop the Air from the lineup, and it'll just be MacBook vs MacBook Pro again.
This is a non-trivial point. Those black holes on your records DO influence hiring managers. Say you worked for #ThreeLetterAgency for 10 years in a very secretive manner. Depending on state laws, you may not even be able to say which languages, o-scopes, or databases that you are proficient in. That leaves an employer with pretty much nothing to go on to evaluate your skills. Guess what will happen then?

Yes, this gets into the brokenness of hiring and interviewing, a problem a lot of start-ups are tackling, but the problem is there today. Many people in #ThreeLetterAgency know this and may feel trapped in the job, and rightfully so.

So, have some compassion for your fellow humans in these #ThreeLetterAgencys. They have families and kids just as we do, and a different set of courages and viewpoints than what we see and feel.
How much of this will be on dedicated bike paths, how much is bike lanes on car roads? The former is way more pleasant than the latter.
This was never going to go anywhere. The same companies who supported and appreciated Pai’s net neutrality ruling (big ISPs) are all content companies now too, and they benefit as much as Facebook and Twitter from Section 230.

Unlike net neutrality, which split the business community between network owners and application companies, I can’t think of a category of business that benefits from repeal or weakening of Section 230. IMO it’s a purely performative policy discussion.
This is the best place to become familiar with the tools and to set the stage for your journey. Then find a problem you want to solve, and find more domain specific resources. Some people learn best from tutorials, some from video, some from courses, some from just banging their heads against a wall till they figure it out.
FiveThirtyEight recently covered a study that does indicate police have always been issuing a lighter touch to alt-right/conservative movements.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-respo...
I'm not familiar with Parler, but places like that in general, people just find the closest of threat / incite that passes moderation. And everyone who frequents there knows what is implied.

My personal "favorite" of such: "this country is not safe for you". Not a threat, just stating a fact.
I have it enabled. What exactly does it do?
The editor is skywriter which is based on canvas, so it doesn't work on IE<9

https://mozillalabs.com/skywriter/
Minimum signup process (username & password, like HN)

No signatures

Maybe no avatars

No premature pagination (don't split threads to pages with 10 posts per page). HN doesn't have any pagination inside a thread.

up/down votes.

No crappy wysiwyg editor; use markdown like stackoverflow.

Minimum or no category hierarchy. Use tags.
Mutters to self: I can't believe I'm explaining jokes on the Internet.. sigh

Unless ojbyrne was being ironing, as in, what about dictatorial rule is un-American?
I really gotta ask, why are you surprised? He is very, very friendly with big media. He even got the other MN Senator in on that one. Do we really expect him to vote against his friends?
Nah.

People living in cities are healthier and less obese than their counterparts living in the suburbs, rural areas, and small towns.

The best way to improve your life is to look to science. Please stop spreading ignorance around. You're actively working to hold society's progress back.
I dunno... it seems important to me that CI is as dumb as it can be, because that way it can do anything. If you want that test mechanism you just described, that shouldn't be a property of the CI service, that should be part of the test framework--or testing functionality of the app framework--you use. The tragedy of this super thick service is that CI services suddenly start using your thick integration into your entire development stack as lock-in: right now they are almost fully swappable commodity products... the way it should be.
I'm curious what's a Diablo Project ? I've never heard of such technology unless you're speaking of the game with the same name.

Did you possibly mean Django ?
Came here to say the same thing. Neither company represents cultures or values that enrich the communities they are a part of.
I have someone in my network, who is very active in PHP scene. Tutorials, tips&tricks, code reviews, you name it. He pretty much abandoned his very popular website and went all in on YouTube. Why? Apparently watching video is so much easier than reading 3000 word article.
524Kbytes of RAM and 8Mb of "bulk storage"
It's kind of semantics but I guess it depends on the definition of "knowledge".

I happily agree bro scientist bodybuilders have advanced our knowledge of performance enhancing drugs in some ways, if nothing else by simply abusing the drugs and observing their effects on body composition, blood markers etc. But most of that knowledge was already available from the clinical trials or animal studies for the drugs anyway.

And while the bro scientist bodybuilders like to think they know a lot about what's actually going on in the body, how to combine the drugs and ancilliaries etc etc, their understanding and resulting advice is very often overly simplistic or just wrong. It's unfortunate and kind of important because it demonstrably leads to people thinking they're making informed choices knowing about the risks etc, but still end up making preventable mistakes with potentially very severe consequences for their health and lives.
Yes, single family zoning must be abolished. Doing so will cost governments no money and is among the most effective changes to improve housing affordability and climate change.
> ...then we are imagining a case totally unlike this one

That was my intent. My comment was meant to move to a setting where judgement was clear and then bring it back to see what was preserved; I don't think it did a good job of the second half of that.

> Google tried four times to get a license from Oracle to use their Java API code

Did Google try to license just the API? My understanding was that they tried to license the implementation, and eventually went with a (purported?) clean-room reimplementation. That doesn't seem to indicate a belief (or even a worry) that the interface itself is covered by copyright.

> Google clearly knew the code was copyrightable, because if it weren't, they would not have tried to get a license.

Even ignoring the previous point, I don't think that follows. Outcomes in law are rarely certain; "pay not to have to deal with the question" is not necessarily a bad response to ambiguity (particularly when that ambiguity was created by law and the courts rather than the counter-party, in which case there is concern about motivating more such ambiguity).
Yeah it's a bummer to see so much about electric cars in the Biden infrastructure proposal.

- Make driving miserable,do a carbon tax
- do a carbon dividend
- keep the infrastructure about good things like trains

A.k.a. planning for major centralized supply (public transit) and incentives for demand. There's no point directly funding electric car stuff because a) it is not good enough as pointed out, and b) it doesn't benefit from planning as much anyways.

I don't get why these things aren't more obvious :/ ...
Are we just going to ignore why Hong Kong was under British rule in the first place?
Yes, that's true, but it also has to be said that producing these vaccines is not so simple. It's all new technology, no mRNA vaccine was ever approved before, and you can't just dial up production so easily. Unfortunately. You can't just convert any old pill-factory into a factory that produces these vaccines. Apparently there are supply chain issues as well - some of the things that are needed for the production of this vaccine are in not available in the numbers that are required.

But all that being said, I think we should move to war-time production here.
> That a for-profit company proved able to develop the technology does not mean that for-profit companies are good at research.

Is there any kind of argumentation or evidence that could possibly make you agree that for-profit companies are good at research?
Ehh, I think Apple's software is pretty good - note that this is speaking as someone who writes iOS apps for a living.

Where they fail is web services. Apple cannot engineer a decent web service to save their sorry lives. The Cocoa API is pretty well thought out, generally well-documented, and pretty well-engineered.

Then you get into things where you have to talk to Apple via a network. StoreKit? [shudder]. iCloud? [terrified scream]. iMessage? Oh lord.
> I feel similarly with the phrase "beg the question", which in common usage now means simply "raises the question" or "invites the question". It doesn't bother me because I think people who use it this way are stupid; it bothers me because there is no synonym for "begs the question" which is equally succinct.

Since the original sense of "begs the question" is inherently intransitive, and the modern sense is inherently transitive (and, further, the original sense can be rationalized as an intransitive version of the modern sense where the implied object is the proposition that the argument was attempting to justify), there is no conflict between the original and modern sense, so I don't see the problem.

Also, the original sense of "begs the question" can be equivalently stated as "is a circular argument" which is nearly as succinct and uses words in something much more like there usual English senses, so even if the more modern sense of "begs the question" could create semantic ambiguity (which it can't, since its syntactically distinct), I still wouldn't agree that much useful was lost.
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Sorry about that glib comment, I deleted it.
Huh? No dual screen?
I don't want to get into the how. The how should be a very open question. Like there is a million and one ways to program something, so there are a million and one ways to create AI. Some implementations are more efficient than others.
What you should be asking yourself is how do I make this more efficient than taking 20 years?
I can't say I have much sympathy for either the editor who took the work or Sarah Lacy. The editor shouldn't have done that, nor should she have replied to the original person in the way she did.

Equally, Sarah Lacy should STFU.
Not really about the point you were making, but...

Google seems to be aiming this at enterprise customers looking for essentially a private cloud SAN. Their fees otherwise seem quite high.

Lets compare pricing:

Google: .17/G storage .10/G in .15/G out US/EU .30/G asia
AWS <10TB : .14/G storage .10/G in .15/G out US/EU .20/G out asia
AWS =100TB: .14/G storage .10/G in .07/G out US/EU .11/G out asia
Loss leading CDN: as low as .10/G storage - .01/G in - .01/G out US only (new customers only)
Biggest video CDN =250TB: ??/G storage - .10/G in - .10/G out US ??/G out asia
Managed DFW colo =2TB: 250G storage free - .21/G in - .21/G out worldwide
Carrier hotel rack 100mb/s 1yr: ~.10/G storage ~.06/G in ~.06/G out worldwide - ~.02/G out citywide

Obviously services offered vary - but the only player google is beating on price is rackspace with their entry level commit, but the colo also gets you ~4ECU's, dynamic content and 24hr phone NOC.

Google competes with AWS at the low end but once you scale amazon wins by 50%-66% or more. Akamai beats google by 33% with a sizable commit but that gets you on net at ~1000 edges and a great SLA. Google won't even tell you where your content is - except that it's US only.

I think this is only being marketed at applications like b2b sales force hosting, data heavy scientific apps and enterprise offsite backups. You'd get killed trying to use them for a consumer service. I mean $0.30/GB to .au AND high latency?

The irony is that google's real operating costs are probably the lowest out of any of the players at least for US delivery. Their backbone enjoys tremendous scale based on their search & ad traffic and everyone peers with them.
>I'm spewing anti-anti-radiation facts.

You've ignored every counter that was already provided to your "facts". That doesn't strike me as arguing in good faith.

>Primarily to get attention back to the actual issue: the usefulness of these machines in the first place.

Nonsense. If you care about people's rights, why would you want to bring the discussion to a place of utter irrelevance? The american people accepted The PATRIOT act for God's sake. Do you think they're going to give a shit about being scanned naked, so long as it's fast?

>Even if it's a factor 20, it still doesn't matter.

The damage is cumulative. How can it possibly not matter. Damage done by the X-ray doesn't "go away" right? So every little extra dosage you get is just making things worse for you. You can say it's less than taking a cross Atlantic flight but I have to take the flight. Trust me, if there were another way I wouldn't go near a plane.

I still fly. I get X-rays when I think I've broken something. I love bananas. These are all sources of radiation that I'm going to be exposed to for some benefit to me (sometimes the risk of not doing it is worse than the radiation risk) and am willing to take the risks. These scanners don't help me in any way. This is radiation I'm enduring for no benefit to me what so ever. Even if I did buy the party line about terrorists, dying in a car accident would be vastly more likely than being killed by a terrorist so I'd rather take my chances with them than with this machine.
No. There is a difference between pirating for personal use or even sharing with others and re-publishing content for profit.

Copyright survives precisely because it is not enforced 100% - if it was followed by the letter, everybody would very soon see that it's not a good idea, crippling culture and turning the participation in public discourse on its head. This is also why there are rules like Fair Use - to acknowledge that there is an area where copyright is just not producing any net worth for society.

That said, you cannot then go on and follow that because it is rarely followed to the letter by regular people, the whole system isn't working. I see the recent "liberal" approach to cultural content as a plain opposite and equal reaction to the decades of capitalizing on culture. The media industry had their way for a good while and very nearly fully commercialized it (which is why, even today, you see people arguing that artists wouldn't produce art if they weren't paid for it) and now that the sole purpose of their existence (distribution of cultural content) is done better, cheaper and more efficient by regular people do they circle around themselves eating their own young.

I see the Cooks Source incident as a very weird example of a regular person behaving as entitled as the big media corporations do (or compare, for instance, the various Timbaland "situations" we've had over the years) - she is not in a position where she can act like that, but others clearly CAN.

These are all symptoms of a change that is clearly happening, but the outcome will not consist of those symptoms. Or at least I hope that it does not.