jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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In addition to lines you can also animate points. You can simulate filled areas with thicker lines although it can be glitchy.
I can add other shapes, the possibilities are endless, but I had to draw the line (ha!) somewhere to keep the application simple.

Also, chaos is indeed easy to attain, but you can tone down the parameters to get something quiet.
Python had their smearing campaign claiming TIOOWTDI against Perl's TIMTOWTDI, and dubious claim's of sigils (`@$`) hurt readability. But once Python had the ecosystem going, it brought back `@`, `{}`, numerous `_`, fanciful `:=`. And, of course, there always is more than one way to do it in Python.

Python's "easy to use" is just a lie, https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfpython

The common lisp CFFI module is nothing short of Python's.

But, I know, people hate to put their `(` in front of their function names, and people hate to omit `,` between there function arguments.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713827.
I didn't see any of the tweets so I can't say for sure, that's just my read on the situation judging by the reactions. That's why I said "probably."

If you find a definition of merit that everyone can agree on, please let us know, because that would be news to me. In my experience in the US at least, most people seem to object to there being a central organization that decides who has merit and who doesn't.
Really? I know reserved instances lower the price but they still have shown themselves less performant for the dollar in the benchmarks I have seen. Are there any good articles you could recommend with benchmarks showing AWS to be more cost effective?
OP does state "I do not want to manage people" which might go against the "you just have to be comfortable with babbling on meetings/calls for the majority of the day".

And being in meetings/calls can be a very taxing job. Talking is exhausting from my experience at a call centre.
I might suggest a slightly different approach. “Early Retirement Extreme” proposes that if you save 80% of your income in a few broad index funds (search bogglehead), learn to live on the 20%, then you can get to where you are financially independent and retire in 5 years. I can’t say I’m personally there yet, but it sounds like you are more motivated and maybe less obligations. Get cheap ass housing, eat cheap, bike everywhere, and work your ass off for 5 years while saving 80%.

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/
There is a distinction between crime and acts that are morally wrong. For instance hiding Jews from the Nazis would be a crime from the Nazis point of view. But most anyone else would consider it to be the right thing to do.

And given the increasing militarization of the police in the US, and the US governments openly acknowledged policy of torture and refusal to prosecute war criminals...[1]

You should question whether or not your government is legitimate enough to be trusted in matters criminal and judicial.

And since the most likely utility of a program like this one, is to prevent the heimatsicherheit from also wrapping up your friends and family. It may in fact be your moral duty to ensure the safety of others in your affinity group by taking such precautions.

1. as a sidenote the US incarcerates a greater percentage of it's population than soviet Russia ever did, even under Stalin.
I don't think I can Direct Message on here. What's your Twitter or email?
i wonder what happen when he fails
That is apparently not true[1].

The Health Ministry has denied widespread reports that transvestites and transsexuals could lose their rights to drive in Russia based on a new road safety decree.

Although the decree provides for the disqualification of driving rights for certain individuals with psychological or behavioral disorders, the mere fact that a person has a "sexual disorder" does not mean that person cannot drive, Health Ministry spokesman Oleg Salagai explained Tuesday in comments carried by Interfax.

[1] http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/health-ministry-s...
This is how you do it: You design it in a computer. Test it. And then just follow the diagram.
Penang, beautiful island. I was there not too long ago. I would make the 12+ hr journey to return, just to taste the BBQ stingray again. Awesome!
Yes, but so do the OS socket data structures, which is why htons() and htonl() are in the first chapter of any book on network programming.

The bigger problem with this scheme is alignment, although we appear to have outgrown architectures that will blow up when you get this wrong.
>Secondly, the author believes that senior developers, who likely have 10+ years under their belt if they're senior, need to spend a solid month revising in order to be successful landing a role there.

FWIW, I joined FB at 20 YOE and spent about 3 hours on Leetcode problems just to get my mind back to being able to handle "stupid computer" tricks. Array manipulation, algorithm cleverness, etc. are things that I hadn't really done since the early days of my career. Aside from that, the only real challenge was a system design interview with a VERY junior engineer where I had a really hard time keeping things at a level they'd understand while not coming across as patronizing.
Alternatively, delete the Facebook app from your mobile devices and only use Facebook via web (or only on your computers and not mobile).
In sympathy with labor, my wife refuses to use self checkout systems. She says they're not paying her to do that job. When store managers or employees attempt to direct her to the automat, she refuses and lets them know why. They've told her she isn't the only one who prefers humans at the check out.
good idea, some people use the mobile website on phone and don't install the app because of privacy/tracking reasons.
> I'm sure the average Chinese would speak up if they knew they wouldn't end up in reeducation camp

What is the average standard of living in China 50 years ago vs today? There has been remarkable growth for millions of people. If your standard of living was 10x your parents, you might not view life as that bad?
I would not attribute the requirement of writing out code as something your interviewer personally demanded. He was simply following a template.

The point is that when you write out the code, there will be several other people who will end up looking at it as part of your “packet”. This can actually be beneficial for the interviewee: if you use some technique or library that the inexperienced interviewer has never seen, they might be confused and write negative feedback, but someone down the line will be able to see what you wrote and say, “Oh, this is actually really good.”
I too have seen the Facebook chain letter about how we could end world poverty for only $XX billion. But yes, let's definitely not fund malaria relief in the meantime.
Let’s not let facts get in the way of some good old-fashioned racism shall we?
Amazon Go stores are located in very dense urban areas and—if successful—will drive out the 7-11s and other convenience stores in the area that accept cash.

Costco, Sam's Club, and other similar 'big box' stores are usually located in less-dense areas and are not competing directly with 7-11s or other convenience stores.
I think I remember seeing (from the initial wave of news) that they tell you not to intentionally try to obfuscate or trick the system, but if you pick up a product and it doesn't correctly track it, it's yours (but you should report it so they can improve tracking).
Almost All of the systemic risk was caused by regulation. Too big to fail messed up with "the role of market discipline in financial markets" (3rd pillar of Basel II). Firms were even picking their own regulators (through loopholes) so they got the most lax ones. And so on.

I actually think that---since we cannot regulate for every contingency---then it's much better to avoid having too big to fail firms.
"Already", "trials"... Oh, never mind, there's a whole year (or even more!) before RIRs will allocate last block from their assets!
I wonder how other companies making quality Android products feel about this. I'm not sure how ubiquitous the term "Android" is in the cell phone market (obviously the more informed consumers know, but what about more casual users?) but it seems like a lot of the commercials for the phones in the higher end mention that the phone runs Android.

Can the casual consumer differentiate between a terrible device that runs Android and a great device that runs Android? Would one bad experience with Android on a horrible device preclude that person from buying another Android product, even if the other product provides a quality UX?
Access my files on Google Drive? No thanks.
That's really just my own take rather than a formal philosophy, but I think it's at the essence of the leadership offered by history's "liberation" teachers for example. The following is my interpretation:

I think individual humans are often fearful about reality which is often outside of our control and goes against what we would prefer to happen. This fear generally expresses itself as individual reserve, which means that even if there is a negative issue in our vicinity, we would rather accept its negative effects then proactively attempt to change it, even if changing the negative issue is within our capability.

I think the power of a true liberation teacher (Mandela, MLK Jr., Ghandi, Whitman, Tolstoy, Mohammad, Jesus, Mani, the gautama or whoever you might include in that list that is incomplete) is that they show us that we can travel beyond our fear to improve the world. It's not so much that Ghandi, for example, stood up to the British Empire all by himself, but that he showed his countrymen that they could stand up as well.

At a more personal level, consider the teachers and mentors who've helped you and pushed you forward beyond where you thought you could go. They didn't take your math test for you, but expanded your own ability to see success perhaps. They didn't give you that great creative idea, but they supported it or helped you refine it by probing its weaknesses. In addition, we're the product of all the people making incremental improvements and negative effects who have come before us, so no amazing success is the product of a complete vacuum. It's our duty as beneficiaries of that positive balance of improvements versus decrements to at least improve the environment for further improvements in the world's situation despite costs to ourselves.

I dunno, that's just my long-winded idea of how we may not be able to do some crazy ground-breaking accomplishment or develop a paradigm-shifting idea ourself, but we can lay the groundwork through our fellow man so that they might themselves. Just a thought...
Thank you for the link. Is there a way to have more results ?
FYI this is marked "sensitive security information" and makes reference to 45 CFR part 1520.

§ 1520.17 describes "consequences of unauthorized disclosure of SSI ... Corrective action may include issuance of an order requiring retrieval of SSI to remedy unauthorized disclosure or an order to cease future unauthorized disclosure."

So AWS and/or HN might end up receiving such an order, right?

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/1520.17
I can churn out four or five pages an hour.

I'm utterly fascinated, is it really possible to produce that much text on an unknown subject? I write maximum about 1 page of academic text per workday. That is of course real, and contains a significant amount of math, but still producing the amount of material mentioned in the article consistently is very impressive. I wonder if one way to improve writing skills would be to produce this kind of massive levels of output. Maybe that is a key benefit of blogging.

On a more serious note, I think a key benefit for computer science as an academic discipline is that much work is published in conference articles, rather than journals as in most other fields. This means that computer scientists must be able to communicate complicated ideas on 8 pages, rather than 30-40. It really forces the communication to be terse and efficient. I've done course assignments together with people who only publish in journals and it's amazing how these people can blabber on for ages. We had a maximum page length of 20 pages, which left about 3 pages per author. I was very puzzled when some people wrote 6 pages of stuff which I could have easily expressed in 1.5 pages without any loss of clarity, but I'm blaming the culture of their fields, where many words are better than few, and no hard limits are imposed.
This argument is entirely arbitrary.

What about security? Your business won't succeed if you're hacked daily.

What about monitoring? If you're losing data and don't even know it, you're creating compound technical and potential business debt.

What about performance? Once you have a perfect data model, no amount of trying to optimize it will improve your business further. Optimizing other parts of the application can.

Basically everything is important, saying that just because someone isn't an expert in one phase that they're not as good of a developer is myopic.
Rumor is that the MQB platform Tiguan will be available in TDI, but I think that's not expected until MY2017.

Wagen is a great vehicle. I love mine.
Seconded. He was on episode 199 of Software Engineering Radio two years ago (http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...), which I thoroughly enjoyed. It was so informative that I took a page of notes while listening! Really great stuff.
His book "Readings in Database Systems" 4th edition
http://www.amazon.com/Readings-Database-Systems-Joseph-Helle...
Agreed. I remember being very inspired by some of his papers when I started studying databases in grad school. His work along with all of those who developed the B-Tree and its variants[1] is really foundational to data storage and retrieval. He also helped to kick off the "NoSQL" and "NewSQL" movements with his C-Store paper.[2]

[1] Proposed by Bayer and McCreight, and independently developed by Chiat and Schwartz, and also by Cole, Radcliffe and Kaufman, improved by many including D. Knuth.

[2] C-Store: A Column Oriented DBMS. Mike Stonebraker, Daniel Abadi, Adam Batkin, Xuedong Chen, Mitch Cherniack, Miguel Ferreira, Edmond Lau, Amerson Lin, Sam Madden, Elizabeth O'Neil, Pat O'Neil, Alex Rasin, Nga Tran and Stan Zdonik. VLDB, pages 553-564, 2005.
Pretty much everything is too much if the alternative is free. Taking your Sublime Text example, you can get Atom.io which has functionality that is comparable to ST - meaning you'd only pay the $70 for performance. And even then, you can get the free / demo version of ST which is just as usable as the full version, but with an occasional and IMO not very annoying popup every once in a while.
I use LastPass and think it's great as well. I've tried to recommend it to others though and the common reply is "that doesn't sound secure enough for company policy".

They don't seem to realise though that their usual approach of sharing passwords over email, using the same password for several logins so it's easy to remember and using easy to remember passwords in general is much more insecure.

Services like LastPass make it practical for you to use impossible to guess passwords, different passwords for every site and let you share passwords securely.
I assume it has something to do with registering to vote at the DMV (a service they offer). I always naively thought they offered to do this because it was just the government trying to do something that benefits the people (their job), but now we know it's because that is very valuable information that they can sell along with your other information (otherwise they may as well toss it after forwarding it to the appropriate elections registration desk).

If they're going to store it for any reason, they should at least hide it from the low level workers... there's no reason anyone, of any political affiliation, should have to even talk about something so irrelevant to the role of the DMV. Not to mention, it would speed things along for everyone and that's a real benefit that we all need.
I hope you realize that the stories in books etc aren't the real thing either, but a hollow facsimile, an ersatz marshmallow.
The license looks like a mess. They claim their own code is LGPL, but it looks like some of their code links to GPL modules (e.g. serialbus).

To my mind, this is entirely GPL and heaven help anyone who mistakes it for LGPL.
You're making a hell of a lot out of something that could be a mis-memory or easily explained. Either way, he's still the person with two decades of experience in the field, and as near as I can tell you're not. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is why I always use PDFs as the slides. Even if there is no PDF viewer, the web browser is capable of opening it.
> GPL does allow all uses.

GPL does not allow use of GPL-licensed libraries and frameworks to build nonfree applications. If you do that, you violate the GPL.

The "use" versus "build" distinction is pure semantics. And those semantics are pure post-hoc politics. For a sense of their weakness, ask: Which of the four freedoms covers building software with unmodified GPL libraries? The four freedoms say "run", not "use". It's only specific verbs, which don't clearly covering everything people do with software.

> You are free to debate all you want, but attempting to redefine the commonly accepted meanings of what constitutes "open source" and "free software" amounts to the corruption of the principles that those movements were founded on, more especially for "free software".

Commonly accepted is a big reach. We may both be familiar with deep cuts from the FSF.org philosophy section, but the vast majority of programmers aren't.

I don't know why you mention profit. Selling exceptions to ethical licenses is legally possible, but I haven't heard anyone asking for an ethical license term bring it up yet. If you have links to folks exploring that, do share! I'm genuinely interested, and would be genuinely surprised to see that become a common model.
So the rich can afford to buy privacy but it's a luxury for normal people.
I recently saw a post (maybe here on HN?) about a study where participants had the ability to choose between a strict-no-cheating game environment and a mostly-cheating-allowed game environment. Cheaters self-selected into the latter because it allowed them to cheat, even though they knew that others were also trying to cheat.

Hopefully I'm paraphrasing/remembering correctly.
I have never been a CEO so take this as a question rather than a statement. Someone in that position can lay our rules, regulations, governance standards etc for people under you, but how realistic is it that a CEO has any visibility on how they are implemented or enforced?
I3 gaps config.
See also https://twitter.com/apollo_50th , live tweeting the Apollo space program as it happened 50 years ago.
In what way is Stadia an "unmitigated disaster"? The people I know that actually have it are (to my suprise) quite happy with it.
Its literally not getting what you paid for. If a company offers you something for cheap, they still have to give it to you. Sure they can compromise on quality, but if they literally don't deliver the product, its fraud regardless of how little they charge.
Oh god yes. I worked for a telco that had a ton of service on a domain they no longer owned. In the end that other company was just blocked from our network because we hijacked their DNS internally. I wonder how much that could potentially break with DNSSEC.
My favorite TLD that never was used is .dd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dd
Hmm. One of the things I enjoy about the visualizations is that your metrics tend to answer useful questions succinctly (e.g. Where is the sweet spot for ppi/price for a laptop with a screen size of less than X and weight less than Y?).

Why do people buy desktops these days? Expandability?

Passmark # from processor, max memory capacity, and chipset would be interesting to have.
In theory, so long as one does not make contact with their nose or eyes, except in a shower (after washing hands), all infections can be prevented, besides airborne-based intake? Has it been established that infection cannot be caught by consumption of contaminated food?
Seeing a lot of folks getting worried about layoffs but haven't heard of anyone being let go first hard yet. Nonetheless, I think this is an important time to understand how layoffs work, what is negotiable and what to sign/ not to sign if it happens to you. I warmly recommend this short read, even if you're pretty confident you won't be affected: https://candor.co/guides/layoff/
Yep noticed this today. Too depressed to work on my personal programming projects. Taking up a cheap musical instrument (yamaha recorder anyone? lol) sounded like a good way to pass time. Amazon says my prime order will be ready on April 21st :/
It's not rare to leave a company but still be interested in that company's projects. And when you're a tech blogger, it's hard to not write about a trillion USD tech company. I don't think speculating about his motives is necessary.
Thanks, that's kind of you to say. Running things like this in Docker is a very handy pattern.
I had to go to the pharmacy to pick up my meds[1]. Guy in line that checked all the boxes was trying to tell everyone in like that the whole thing was silly.

[1] I have an appointment with an endocrinologist in April. Most of her patients are diabetic and or over 60. I'm fretting a bit.
Isn't this exactly the point of OP?

>In Static Armies, you don't give field commanders a lot of lee-way or control. You send orders, they execute.

If we had a Static Army, the Pentagon brass would have immediately yielded to SecDef and executed his orders. The fact that there had to be immense debate around the issue means that everyone is granted the right to do their thing and improvise in the meantime. You can bet troops were trying all sorts of wacky things to IED-proof their Humvees.
God help us all if the Waffle Houses ever fold.
Do you have any experience in supply chain logistics, the medical industry, incident response?

There are already established systems. How will yours interface with the existing / international norms?
Pretty cool, it would be useful if it could remember what it changed and allow you to toggle back in case i breaks the site you're on.
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Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you afraid of? Not meaning to belittle your concerns; I just wonder what topics are now taboo, e.g. discussion about hijacking planes or how to build bombs perhaps, that might flag you in some keyword search and trigger a visit from the FBI?
> Why did they try to take down a piece of shit like that with a ridiculous bullshit charge.

I don't know, but it backfired gloriously. He won on appeal, fled the country, and is now legally untouchable.

I suppose the US could always just use predator drones to make him disappear like they do innocent children, but :\