jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't read or follow thedonald.win, but I share your general feelings of apprehension for the well being of anyone who consumes CNN, MSNBC or NYT hoping to be accurately informed.
Correct. Most grids work this way. ERCOT does not.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/capacity-pa...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-weather-power-prices-...
It's funny how this is so exactly the the "heuristic that is almost always right", that is right now at the top of the front page.

You're basically saying that the average state of the stock market and the economy is to be average and not non-average. Ok, that's true by definition. The point is that people who have even marginally better understandings of how it plays out in the tail events can make enormous amounts of money. Even those people would agree that the average case is for there not to be an issue.

Market's are efficient, thinking that that means they are always right is a drastic misunderstanding of what EMH says. Were markets right in mid 2008? Clearly not. And people were specifically calling for and profited off of what happened.
I'd definitely prefer to use Outlook and Office over Gmail and Gdocs.
Where was the car even going? Into the bus lane?

It seems like these issues could be easily avoided by putting LIDAR back in. I'm afraid that they're hesitant to do so because they'd have to admit that removing it was a mistake for all of the cars on the road without LIDAR.
Just curious, what did you think was pretty interesting about it? The fact that one human knew another? The fact that someone on HN knew this person?

Not trying to troll, is there something here I'm missing?
I've been steeped in Pylons for several years now. I agree that Pylons has nothing to get excited about. However, (and this is the important part) it provided really straightforward glue to integrate a few other things that are definitely worth getting excited about: SQLAlchemy, Mako/Jinja, Routes, Beaker, and Paste.

Pylons' past philosophy always seemed to be "we'll take the best-in-breed of python web software and put it together in an elegant way." Sadly, they seem to have abandoned that philosophy for the sake of protecting the precious nest eggs of massive full-stack framework developers.

While the new changes to Pylons certainly don't prevent you from using the aforementioned exceptional-quality components, the smushing-together of projects while trying to retain legacy compatibility seems to have created an enormous system where there isn't a cohesive or consistent way of doing things.

No thanks--I think I'll go for WebOb and its lightweight performance.
Food production and food science are advancing and it will only accelerate. Currently, technologies like aquaponics allow for high volumes of nutrient rich foods to be produced with much less water and fuel inputs. In the future we may be able to print food. At that point, you don't really need to be employed to survive. An unlimited supply of food for a person will be as cheap as a stocking stuffer.
Authentic leaders are the most successful networkers - there is no effort in their ability to connect, genuinely, with others.

A great example of this is this type of leader is Ron Conway - actually, great article from yesterday "The Ronco Principle" by PG.

One thought this article does not contemplate is the impact of people who are not self-aware. There are many people I have met who truly believe they are great networkers, but they lack the leadership trait of authenticity.. be afraid, very afraid.
One breathtaking technology innovation from Quora would be LiveNode. Here are some detailed notes that got taken down for some reason or another: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:IdWqEvS...
Python on Planes - someone please do it
One of my favorite things about CL writ large is that they don't try to be smart, they just organize things reasonably so that people can more easily find what they're looking for.
Ruby on Rails (http://rubyonrails.org/)

ColdFusion on Wheels (http://cfwheels.org/)

DOS on Dope (http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp)

Haskell on a Horse (http://haskell.on-a-horse.org/ -- site seems to be down)

Cobol on Cogs (http://www.coboloncogs.org/ -- not actually real)

The $LANGUAGE on $NOUN naming convention amuses me. Any others I'm missing?
My sister has little programming experience but wants to learn to make webapps. Should I send her this or point her to some javascript stuff?
it's not just for "underserved countries"; they're so good at what they do that they'll be everywhere.
Economies of scale will do their magic. So if Google or Apple don't fill that spot, someone else will with cheap enough devices.
99% of developers cannot organize themselves and develop a monstrous amount of high quality code in a short period of time. 100% of developers can demand big paychecks, all of the perks, working from wherever they want, never working in an office and work on their own time when they feel like it.

As an employer I used to be upfront and tell developers there is a 90% chance you will be gone in the first week, but if you make it i'll pay you 15k a month no problems and give you anything you want.

I went from a 75% bad hire rate to a 0% bad hire rate after that. just 1 data point here.
Since profit tends to zero, the entire car industry converges on paying its own bills and nothing else. Any new company that shows signs of growth potential is way more significant to investors - although, I admit, this might be a little overboard.
Over the last 10 years, I've migrated from three screens down to two screens and am currently down to one and a half screens. (I currently run my code editor and a browser on a 4k monitor and airplay to my 11" iPad where I keep a terminal app fullscreened.)

I think it's because resolutions have gotten better. 2010 I was running one screen for editor, one screen for browser, and one screen for everything else.
Iran is already sanctioned, and is this the “remove the Zionist regime from the pages of time” quote?
The craziest thing is that TSLA was in an anti-bubble just 2 years ago, with the price clearly suppressed far below a reasonable valuation. Now it's even farther from reasonable. Something about TSLA just makes people lose their minds in both directions.
Mincraft/Mojang only sold for $2.5B if that's any help
This looks really cool! What's the tech stack?
In 2000 it was unclear who actually won because the Florida vote count was very close. No one was alleging that one side or the other was cheating, and everyone was in agreement that whoever got the most votes should be president. Also, Al Gore, as the outgoing Vice President, presided over the same certification proceeding that Trump and his followers disrupted yesterday. In January 2001, that proceeding went without a hitch even though the loser of the election was in charge of it.
> I'm not sure why they went out of fashion.

Good question. Maybe smaller families and fewer multi-family/multi-generation households?
It matters because people respond to incentives. If what you want to see encouraged is good answers to novel questions, you need a system that rewards that over copy-pasting from documentation.

What do you think happens when the two are rewarded equally, but the latter can be done much more frequently per unit of time?
One thing about these "daemon" type apps that only need to respond to background Bluetooth events (e.g., Automatic, the UniKey app), is that, at least on iOS, they clutter up the multitasking view and it's not obvious if they will work if killed. This is something that needs to evolve in iOS as we get more background agents like this.
In the 70s maybe, but in the late 90s? No, it has been a potential hobby project for a long time now.
If you design your database with proper views and stored procedures, name spaced and permissioned correctly for the applications then any data model change that is not coupled in the data model need only be changed in the data store. If the data model itself is coupled then nothing you do will prevent the change crossing the application boundaries (and probably will propagate to more places).

There are lots of valid reasons to have multiple app frameworks deal with a shared database. I mentioned one (transactionality) and there are many others.
Mobile battery life might be just the thing that pushes this over the critical point. The first party to create a smartphone with a four week battery life because they made their (tightly integrated) system work on a 5 Mhz cpu will make a lot of money.
P.S. I found out about this movement while looking up Konstantin Tsiolkovsky [1], a remarkable figure on his own.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky
http://rubyconf.org/

The International Ruby Conference -- more commonly known as RubyConf -- has been the main annual gathering of Rubyists from around the world since 2001.

http://www.railsconf.com/

April 21-23, 2015 • Atlanta, Georgia

Something similar to JsConf:

http://fluentconf.com/javascript-html-2015?cmp=kn-web-confre...

http://www.buildwindows.com/ 2015

"/dev/winter 2015"
http://devcycles.net/2015/winter/?utm_source=lanyrd

Free 1 day software conference. Development, DevOps, Mobile, Web, NoSQL, Cloud, Functional Programming, Startups and more.

QCon London 2015

http://qconlondon.com/

9th International Software Development Conference

Or

QCon New York 2015

The 4th Annual International Software Development Conference

https://qconnewyork.com/

Maybe: http://sxsw.com/interactive ?

Less Web Dev though ( http://www.gdconf.com/ )

Game Developers Conference

I think there will be:

http://html5devconf.com/ for 2014 as well.

Here are some other conferences about "Computer Image Analysis, Computer Vision Conferences One Year Calendar"

http://conferences.visionbib.com/Browse-data.php?order=DateN...
I live in Australia. So almost EVERYTHING is an international airfare (ugh).

But love it here anyhow!
If you're allowing Javascript then it'd be tough but if scripting is stripped it should be doable.

For anonymizing, stripping Javascript, Flash/plugin content would be essential I think.
I wonder if anyone on HN has access to the SS7 network. Using only the phone number you could attempt to locate his phone.
Possibly, yes. I would think that it would have to be a coordinated effort and with a lot of them.
> That means always out looking for great people who are also a cultural fit and bringing them in regardless of whether there is an open position.

> I speculate that there is a type of HR role that could fill this need

We have this at my company (not going to name, just to remain semi-anonymous). There's a whole group dedicated just to finding people who seem like good fits for the company. They're employees the same as any engineer would be.

I don't think it's that uncommon at bigger (i.e. > 100 employees) companies.
That actually adds some slightly negative overtones to it -- each choice you make is reallocating away from the other fine charities. Even if it's accrued per tab, the probability of them hitting their maximum is virtually guaranteed, so it's simply voting for distribution.

So go ahead -- contribute to books, knowing that really you're just taking away from clean water and shelter. Merry Christmas!
But now if you upgrade to a newer kindle, you can't take your books with you.
I am not sure why you need a sign up script, but you can make one with the iMacros Firefox extension in minutes: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
Re: "over the top"

Gary Halbert, one of the most infamous "over the top" copywriters ever, was using this general verbiage since at least the mid-80s. He used it with, among other things, his very famous "Family Coat of Arms" mailings, which numbered in the tens of millions. It is a well-known piece of writing among copywriters.
Is it me or putting the figure "100,000", is meant for people to mistake it for "100.000"?

But, if I'm not mistaken, there is nothing like it in reality, it should really be "100,00" unless the Fed are planning to introduce new currency that is 1/10 of a cent...
Yeah, I don't mind it either. Syntax is not a big deal to me, I care more about the unique capabilities of a language are. But I have heard other developers say they hate it.
This attitude drives me nuts. Why would anyone want a staff of sysadmins? You're almost certainly buying (at a high capital outlay) the B-team when you can rent the A-team for next to nothing.

There's nothing magical about your "private network". These days corporate networks are chock full of holes and ripe with hypocritical security priorities.

Use Google apps for business ($50/year/user). Hire one of the many companies that archive Google Apps data.

It is total folly to think that you'll buy better security by paying for your own infrastructure and a small army to run it. That's like claiming the only safe automobile is one that you and your friends build.
http://postmarkapp.com - we love it.
Yes, depending on where you live.

I lived in one of the newer subdivisions for a few years, and it was fine.
From section 5 of http://code.google.com/projecthosting/terms.html: "regulations require that all postings of open source encryption code be simultaneously reported by email to the U.S. government"

Makes me want to organize a protest where everyone posts an implementation of ROT13 on GitHub and sends email to the govt. Of course, it would probably fall on deaf ears...
The japanese market pricing provides a sensible alternative: Scaled pricing with a reasonable limit.

You pay a minimum monthly price up to a certain cap, and any usage over that cap scales your total bill linearly up to a maximum total bill, beyond which your usage is effectively unlimited. The minimum is about $15 and the maximum is about $50. Not exactly going to break the bank, and totally reasonable.

Metered usage is not evil, people just need reasonable assurances that their bill has a safe ceiling.
I had basically the same SATs except I dropped out of high school. I still got a job at 17 for 30k/year which adjusted for inflation + san francisco wages is like 60k+/year.

At this point you can't compete with Stanford grads. The great thing is that there aren't that many Stanford grads (or mit, cmu, etc.) You don't even have to compete with them to get a decent job.

Worst case, work QA for a year in a position where you can code as part of your job, but you don't need to code to be hired.
You may want to look at the learning curves for most editors: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3109/3251176498_c3485a55fb.jp...
The source is well-laid-out (start with main.tex). It's really cool that I can go to the PDF, see something I like, and immediately look at how it was done.
Some specific points of the new pricing are really outrageous honestly. The fact that they do tiered-pricing is, while annoying, kind of their prerogative. It actually sounds like it could save me a few bucks.

However, paying $20 (!) to have access to tethering without extra bandwidth, is complete non-sense. I just can't find a reasonable explanation for this. As well as the price for extra data for DataPlus plan: $15 gives you 200MB, whereas $10 gives you 1GB if you are on the DataPro from the start. I also assume they won't have roll-over data: if you use less, you lose, if you use more, you lose.

Finally, having data caps impedes on the benefit from getting multi-tasking. Besides a faster switch between apps, the point is to have apps stay connected while you're doing something else. (think Pandora) If you start thinking about your data usage, you'll have to think about what's actually running. Exactly what Apple didn't want you to do.
I think he wants to say AT&T should get the users hooked to using lot of data, so they as a subscription company can keep making money from users for a longer time.
There's no money in it. They couldn't sell enough to justify the costs of designing and building them.
I like Session[1]. It's snappy, simple, and built on an onion network like Tor. Their private group chats can handle something like 20 people but I believe that this will expand in the near future. Plus they expressed interest in using Arweave[2] as a decentralized storage option, which seems cool to me.

I am also interested in Berty[3] and Iris[4], but those aren't really "ready" yet, despite being cool tech.

[1]: https://getsession.org/

[2]: https://www.arweave.org/

[3]: https://berty.tech/

[4]: https://github.com/irislib/iris-messenger
What is meant by "switching" here? Forcing others to install/use the client for communication with you?

I have all of them installed, different people use different ones, I don't care really.
This is cool, but you might want to adjust the feature lists in your pricing section! Since items are crossed out on the free plan, it would make a lot more sense for both lists to have the same features. It's confusing that it says "No additional guests" on the free plan, but then that is crossed out; you could misread this to mean "NOT no additional guests", which is kind of nonsense but might lead someone to believe that they _can_ have unlimited guests on free.

Similarly, you have "Unlimited meeting minutes" listed and crossed out on free, but you don't even offer that on the paid plan, only a 240min max. You probably shouldn't tease unlimited meeting minutes like that.
It isn't even clear to me what is really changing or whether it matters... WhatsApp has had a feature they have been working on with Facebook for a while to allow Facebook business pages to maintain a presence on WhatsApp with a hosted client (something you might appreciate being useful for a lot of companies), and as far as I know this is just that.

> The move, the spokeswoman said, is part of a previously disclosed move to allow businesses to store and manage WhatsApp chats using Facebook's infrastructure. Users won't have to use WhatsApp to interact with the businesses and have the option of blocking the businesses. She said there will be no change in how WhatsApp shares provide[d] data with Facebook for non-business chats and account data.
I’m pretty sure dang could handle both, but then we’d lose HN. Is it a good trade-off? Hard to decide.
Which company was that? Genuinely curious to learn from the graveyard
It will never be big and professional like GNU.
"force" is certainly an overstatement, but it does add friction to creating small components.
I have to imagine any executive leadership team that agrees to an Apple acquisition is only looking at the exit package of stock they'll be counting in a couple years. They know what they're signing up for and know how the game works better than anyone. It's their setup for getting into venture capitol investing, retirement, etc. For a very small few they might stick around because they genuinely want to be part of the company's future.
It's crazy to think what is basically a branch of the NSA (sorry Echelon member states) has the will and means to go on strike. Those kinds of tendencies would likely disqualify you from the job here.
I think it does because it gives them market share and power, and it seems they are not the group I want to empower and trust with that kind of influence. I worry that Mozilla will one day enact browser-level deplatforming where it fits their political ideology and also am against "cancel culture" more generally.
Good question.

One of the legislation changes Facebook negotiated was if they have ‘enough’ commercial agreements in place, the code won’t apply to them.

I’d love to see a definition of ‘enough’

* edit for autocorrect
That'd be an exciting party!
> Ok, well suggest a different way they can make money then.

Don't.

If that means not doing further development, great. Leave that to people who want to make the software better, not worse.

If you can find a way to monetise software, that's fantastic, but if that monetisation requires degrading quality I have no respect for it.
^the same as any text box on any OS since Mac Classic and perhaps before on the Xerox.
Randomness is definitely a factor, there are so many things that can go wrong, from having a bad day, an interviewer having a bad day, just bad luck on the set of questions you are asked, the list goes on.

I have performed a lot of coding interviews (probably 400+), I'm painfully aware of how limited the signal is that I can reliably read from 45 minutes with a candidate

I deliberately ask a question that has no algorithmic or data structure component to it (and tell candidates that) it's just a simple problem solving coding question which allows some insight into general coding and engineering chops

I still see experienced engineers struggle. It is hard to pinpoint exactly why, but lack of preparation/practice definitely seems to be a problem

Covid appears (at least for me) to have killed off the whiteboard
I don't think the comment you're replying to was talking about a political agenda, but rather, replicating the financial rewards they received in Australia: "The announcement comes days after the tech giant struck a deal with Australian lawmakers to pay local publishers for their news content"
Long before Obama. He was instrumental in pushing the illegal war in Iraq.
Google thinks it is Google. I don't agree.
Why do we have to make anyone into the enemy? I legitimately do not hate any American leaders, even the leaders of the opposing party who do the most to prevent "my" policies. They are human beings too, and we'd all be better off without hatred.
You can always shortcut things by using Docker
So far we've heard that he has expressed questionable views in the past (not a crime) and that he can come across as a bit creepy to some people (again not a crime, I know tonnes of people like that). Basically he has committed thought crimes (to some people) and is being cancelled in a very obvious sense.

Given what he has achieved in his life that has benefited everyone of us, I'm amazed HN folk are so quick to go along with cancelling him. Shame on you.
Stephen Baxter's book Coalescent shows how a human hive mind could form via an set of circumstances that could be enforced or simply arise due to the environment. His "eusocial evolution" is a pretty damn creepy idea!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalescent
Is Clubhouse still being used? In my circle the hype pretty much died out around 2 weeks ago.
It's only a crime if you get caught and convicted in a court of law.

Innocent until and unless proven guilty.
This argument (real life game theory) seems to be like:

"I'm taking this (goods, property, residence in a place) and I'm going to give you this (payment, lease, rent, tax) for it"

"Okay. As the owner, the price of (goods, property, residence in a place) is this."

"That's nice of you to think that but I'm not going to pay it. I'm giving you what I said I was going to. Maybe you should be nice, or I'll take the thing and give you even LESS for it"

I think in some contexts that's called extortion, not 'game theory'. Seems like the bottom line is the question of whether the owner of a thing has any property rights over the thing through owning it. If in practical terms they are obligated to sell at whatever terms the buyer demands, they're not much of a property owner.
Interestingly enough, Chrome is the odd-browser-out on this one (err, I didn't check IE cause I don't have one handy, so let's just assume they do things wrong and move on). Safari 7.1 also behaves like Firefox and (IMHO) does the correct thing. It is just silly that Chrome thinks I can't handle méric in my address bar because I don't browse in French.

As another interesting observation, Chrome on Android does as Chrome desktop does (Firefox Android similarly to its desktop companion), but the "Internet", which I presume is just fancy trimmings around the Web View component in Android, behaves like all the non-Chrome engines and renders the e-acute on 4.4.4. I just got my Android 5 update this weekend on my tablet, which brought with it a revamped Web View component so it's likely going to behave like Chrome does. I'll try to remember to check it.
Eat your heart out Baudrillard