jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think the only thing it shares with the historical company is the name and the patents they got along with it. I would consider it owned by the CCP at this point and act accordingly to what you consider acceptable as far as security if you have one of their phones (remember software update backdoors can be nearly as bad as hardware backdoors)
Well it's human nature, really. You are not constantly stepping back and rationally evaluating the present moment. If you have a small bunch of followers and you start a conversation with them, the topic can evolve towards more sensitive matters. Kind of like with normalization of deviance in privacy terms. You just focus on the content of the conversation. As soon as you are answering to anyone, your mind focuses on only that person who said something to you.

Criminals post Facebook photos with evidence of their crimes constantly, as another example.
Just google HashWithIndifferentAccess...
Here is Glenn Greenwald on the CIA, NSA, DOJ, and the FBI manipulating the news industry:

https://youtu.be/l8pkCZBjgrk?t=252
This is a good time for Facebook/Instagram to step up and buy Meerkat.

This is also a great time for Meerkat to sell. To anyone who's willing to go above $50M.
I took this course as a freshman CS Major at Wheaton College and helped edit Dr. VD's textbook. He used to give extra credit for finding typos in his book. I got a bad grade on one of the exams and then came to him the next week with 20+ corrections to his book.

It was a great course and VanDrunen is one of the best profs I've ever had.
Can you point me to any evidence that Google ever "hyped" Go ???? Like some kind of company announcement by Larry Paige? What language (any???) has Google every hyped? They hype products, that's it.

Not only that, but there's less than 6 people probably in Google who work "full time" on it. For the vast majority of other Google employees it's a "20%" project. More and more of the pie is being worked on by the community, not the core Google team.

I know you hate Go, I realize that, but other people like it, and it's not because "The Great and Almighty Google" is shoving it down our throats?

I hate PHP with a passion for example, but I don't think there's a vast conspiracy to see it still being pushed around?
That is essentially the definition of financial independence, and it's certainly possibly with a job in software. It just involves saving as much as you can afford to and taking advantage of compound interest early on.
> You just have to be okay with doing things that basically add no value to anything.

So, most silicon valley startups?
That just sounds like a shit environment to work in. I know it's easier said than done, but find somewhere else to work. These guys sound like dicks. They are not stars. A star would mentor you and help you to get a leg up. That said... there is a certain amount of karma being dished out because you were cocky in the interview. Perhaps they think you should be able to hold your own. I guess you learned your lesson :P Of course, you have to have a certain amount of confidence in an interview to get your foot in the door - don't make the mistake that confidence and cockiness are the same thing. Perhaps they genuinely liked your cockiness - it sounds like it fits in with their culture.

1. Handle it the way you would handle anyone else being a dick in your life. Hold them accountable for their behaviour - call them on it.

2. Yes, it's quite common to be thrown to the lions - in fact, it's more common for this to happen than not to happen. A certain amount of this career is an ability to dig in and figure it out - for right or wrong. It's not ideal and it's certainly not in anyone's best interest for it to happen this way, but more often than not, that's exactly what happens. The sooner you get comfortable with this, the better. If you honestly care about your craft, the first few weeks/months of any job worth having is uncomfortable as you get up to speed. The only thing you can do here is learn to cope with that discomfort and try not to let it stress you out until you're up to speed. Don't make any decisions, nor let anyone voluntold you to do something within a timeline that adds additional discomfort during this time.

3. No. People with big egos have this rotten attitude. "Star/Ninja/Rock-stars" usually get big egos by being treated like the world revolves around their [often exaggerated] abilities are the only thing that holds the company together. If you treat someone like a superstar long enough, eventually they succumb to thinking they can act however the hell they want. This is why "popular" kids at school act like brats - because nobody holds them accountable for their behaviour.
Other "idiots" that are "lying" about "unlimited" and should be sued for "false advertising."

https://github.com/pricing

https://www.dropbox.com/plans

https://www.google.com/work/apps/business/driveforwork/

https://www.box.com/pricing/
It's probably not down to you; IMDB is pretty much a wiki I believe.

But, not becoming famous is something to strive for. or. not becoming famous is? Either / or.
That no one remembers what it's like having an office is the system working as intended. The open office layout is meant to reduce costs as it's cheaper to cram more people in fewer square meters of physical space. It's also cheaper to reorganize teams/furniture in an open office layout.

Plus, it allows managers to look over their demesne unimpeded.
Is there more than one cause of sickle cell?
That's one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. I'm sincerely astounded how bad it is and it gets worse the more I think about it.

To start, it shows a complete lack of respect for the right of ownership. Under this system you wouldn't own anything and would be subjected to compensated theft regularly. This system would simultaneously represent the worst ideas of what Socialist and capitalistic life can be.

To an anti-socialist, socialism represents theft. The problem is the forcible reappropriation of assets. The justification for this is twofold: property being theft in itself & it being immoral to deprive the in-need of assets you don't need. Private property represents theft since claims must begin somewhere and that somewhere is the state of nature, the commons. In our imagined socialist commonwealth, goods ought to be for the benefit of all. The problem with this is that some goods are exclusive by nature. Only I can wear the clothes on my back, it's more hygienic if we have a toothbrush each and frankly we should have enough goods that, in general, we don't need to argue over use. For this socialists make a distinction between private and personal property. This distinction diminishes possession but at least it comes from a place of wanting help for others. Mandatory sales mean your rights are trumped by capital, or more accurately those holding it.

If mandatory sales apply literally to all goods then go ahead and take the clothes off my back. There's little room for dignity when those richer than you can take even the most sentimental of belongings. Why don't we go a step further? Apply the concept the any service a person may provide, recognise that sex work is real work and you've just legalised rape.

This may seem a disproportionate response but I'm sick of people being so detached that they think reengineering society is something to be taken lightly. Reminds me of a sketch which had the line

> Have you tried 'raise VAT' and 'kill all the poor'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg

I'm sure any objection I have could be rebutted with something which amounts to 'there are loopholes'.
May I ask why the heroku instance is unreliable?
Your problem is the 2GB of swap. Get rid of it and it will just crash without 10min of slowdown (while swap disk is getting written to). </sarcasm>

Linux overcommitting memory and especially chrome/firefox beeing big-fat-memory-hogs are the problem. In fact every application which doesn't cope malloc beeing out of memory or assuming everybody has multiple gigs of memory to spare should "reevaluate".
It may have been other factors that were involved in their promotions. Did they perhaps walk around with their arms out to the sides, in a T-esque shape?
Which biz school did you go to if you don't mind me asking? From my experience, it's not that they believe in those stories, it's that they behave as if they believe in it. MBAs is about training pliant middle managers who carry out the wishes of those above regardless of their personal cognitive dissonance. Suppressing this personal desire to benefit shareholder value is a big part of it. And worshipping certain companies or narratives certainly make the suppression of individual easier.
I never said or implied radicalization was exclusive to recommendation algorithms, so I’m not sure what you’re arguing. You seem to be confusing the existence of radicalization in history, almost exclusively by large groups with mass media control or within isolated pockets that do not spread, with the degree to which it is possible for extremely small groups or individuals to alter consensus at scale with these rec algos, on purpose or even by accident.

Also, will not continue discussion with a 5 karma temp account, sorry.
Firefox on Linux has consistently worked brilliantly for me for years - until a few months ago. I now find it really struggles with Zoom, and regularly becomes barely responsive with Slack.

But I don't know if this is because of changes to Firefox, Slack/Zoom, Linux, Nvidia drivers, or something else. And I have no way to find out, short of retraining as a desktop performance engineer.
Well, I don't hear anything jazzy about it. I guess it's (piano) improvisation. Or "Keith Jarrett music".. a mix of classical/gospely/bluesy/folky etc influences. Don't know. If someone wanted to hear jazz, I wouldn't play them that. I think if Keith wasn't a jazz musician, noone would think of calling it jazz.

I heard a couple of times about 15 years ago a classical guitarist playing a transcription of the Memories of Tomorrow encore (the last track of Köln Concert) on the Australian classical-music-only radio station ABC Classic FM. They'd never play the original – that would be "jazz", I guess, and inappropriate. But a classical guitarist playing the same notes – classical.
I don't include Linux in my definition of mainstream.
I was bored so I copied your spreadsheet and created my own summary: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al3XiYsO01iIdEJRMnU...
Haven't searched much yet - does this have anything to do with the Skype protocol encryption being cracked and the people responsible leaking POC code before they release it to the world this month at 27C3?
1) Nonsense.
2) Nonsense.
3) Which came first, the MP3 or the MP3 player?
4) Nonsense, all software DVD players I've worked with support straight decrypted VOB playback.

New variations on intentional errors regularly disrupt previously released DVD ripping applications. This is a known fact as evidenced by the assortment of results you'll find if you search for "dvd update arccos". It's also why a few of the more popular rippers in the past are no longer popular since they haven't been updated.

Intentional errors on CDs would actually demonstrate my "theory".

And in terms of it being a theory, I have anecdotal evidence that multiple people I know were annoyed at the inability of a ripping program they used/purchased to handle a new release and therefore gave up on ripping. Since my "theory" only required a small decrease in ripping, my theory has been demonstrated to be correct.
Narratives in code are a tempting analogy, but code is non-linear. Verbose 'how' code comments usually assume one path through the code, and it only matches my actual path 0.1% of the time. The remaining 999 times out of 1000 all the verbosity just gets in the way.

The best idea to come out of literate programming, IMO: order code in the best possible order for reading and navigating, and let the computer figure out how to compile it. That's one thing we've largely gained from more dynamic languages like python and ruby, and from AOP. That's about it. It's good to to aim for a codebase I can curl up with on my iPad, but if so my interest is in the code. Don't get hung up on typography, and assume I'm going to be choosing my own adventure at the end of each page.
YES - I was wondering why nobody had brought up the painfully straight forward solution of "Fixed Width Font" - Then your bounding area is a simple function of the number of characters you typed in, and an error message can pop up if the student exceed it.
If all of this is true, then it is really astonishing.

But there's something in this article that sounds very hard to accept:
DNA is extremely fragile, it is very hard to imagine it surviving 50 000 years, even in Siberian ice. It is even harder to imagine someone to be able to sequence the entire genome of such species. And also: how can they affirm there's no contamination from human DNA (e.g.: bones remaining from cannibalism)?

I'll wait to hear more confirmations of this story.
Whilst the developer in me appreciates the sentiments expressed in the article I have to point out that to build and app that is used by over 700 millions users you have to be focussed on a fairly narrow set of features. You need to execute those features very well and WhatsApp delivers.
Pretty soon, offices will be filled with chairs the fit two and three-person keyboards.

I don't even want to think about how the whole "open office" philosophy will influence future restroom design.
Everytime I see this kind of "new building" news, I'm reminded of the genial "Plans and Plants" chapter of the Parkinson's Law book (by C. Northcote Parkinson, natch).

Worth a look. I've seen it in action up close.
This is what most people, even HN users, seem to fail to grasp about this slippery slope we find ourselves hurtling down. The surveillance engine is about control (not security), and as that "control" pervads more and more spaces previously reserved to the individual, I see, given current trajectory, no other end state than pre-crime and thought-crime becoming a reality.
>Even in those states it's not that common for people to actually carry guns, at least in cities.

Going to need some sort of evidence for this. Anecdotal doesn't even work here because the firearms are concealed.
Yes and no. It all depends on how many are spam and how many are welcome emails with registration info. People register in websites and go check their confirmation links. Then forget about it.

Out of that, one percent of welcome emails means 10K real visits daily, and that is good enough for a steady ad revenue flow.
Loved this interview segment.
In 2021, I am a little surprised and amused to see so many people who seem to be shocked (shocked!) that the things they post on the Internet might get archived forever. Especially on HN, where technological literacy tends to be a at least a little bit higher than than the average tweeter.

Even back in the early days, it was a common-sense rule of thumb that you never put something on the Internet that you wouldn't want written in the newspaper about you, even in "private" forums such as IRC channels and email. Let alone something as public as twitter.
I am not. Therefore it is good to have clear rules in public indoor places, for example measured lines before counters in the supermarket, limit on visitors inside etc. But I am relaxed when passing people and I do not get anxious when they temporarily get close to me to pick something from the shelves.
Some general background on STDP for the thread:

Biological neurons don't just emit constant 0...1 float values, they communicate using time sensitive bursts of voltage known as "spike trains". Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are a closer aproximation of natural networks than typical ML ANNs. [0] gives a quick overview.

Spike-Timing-Dependant-Plasticity is a local learning rule experimentally observed in biological neurons. It's a form of Hebbian learning, aka "Neurons that fire together wire together."

Summary from [1]. The top graph gives a clear picture of how the rule works.

> With STDP, repeated presynaptic spike arrival a few milliseconds before postsynaptic action potentials leads in many synapse types to Long-Term Potentiation (LTP) of the synapses, whereas repeated spike arrival after postsynaptic spikes leads to Long-Term Depression (LTD) of the same synapse.

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[0]: https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-versus-biologic...

[1]: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Spike-timing_dependent_p...
Out of curiosity, what do Americans mean when they say "sub-zero"? 0°C or 0°F?
The website (https://git-annex.branchable.com/) has many details, including scenarios to explain why it can be useful. git-annex is not so much a backup/sync utility, it's more a tool to track your files if they exist on multiple repositories. Instead of having remote storages holding files that happen to be the same, with git-annex the relationship is inverted: you have files, and each one can be stored on multiple storages. You can follow where they are, push them/get them from any storage that has it, remove them from one place if it's short on free space knowing that other storages still have it...

There was a project of backing up the internet archive by using git-annex (https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE...). Basically the source project would create repositories of files and users like you and I would be remote repositories; we would get content and claim that we have it, so that everyone would know this repository has a valid copy on our server.
Sure I'm not disagreeing with the legal history, but on what merits is one patentable, and the other either fair use to reimplement or not even copywritable!!

I could understand Intel having a CPU patent for specific CPUs, but an specific ISA?!

A really interesting test case would be to implement an isomorphic encoding to x86 with same instruction widths and what-not such that it's trivial to convert binaries from one to the other, and modify compilers (especially the JIT ones).
> For handling the different lengths between the months, I've considered a few approaches.

> 1. If re-bill is supposed to be the Nth of each month, that simply means N-1 days after the 1st.

I have a credit card that takes the much simpler approach "Your payment due date is the Nth of each month. N can be any value from 1 to 24."

This seems to basically match your approach 3.

If you ask how I think you should bill ( :p ), do it on a fixed day and don't try to do rebilling at a fixed interval. If the day somebody buys your thing is unsuitable for fixed-date billing, the answer is prorating their first period, not interval billing.
I assume that Clubhouse is almost over before it began, like Meerkat before it.
Don Hopkins did something quite like this a long time ago: http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html
This article is conflating two different ideas; that we should have more students studying STEM subjects, and that students should have a narrower (and more STEM-focused) education.

You can disagree with either of these proposals (and I disagree with both), but it is wrong to set up one as a straw-man to argue against the other.

The real reasons to think that STEM-mania is silly are much better described elsewhere (e.g. here; http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/03/the-myt...).

There is little-to-nothing to be gained by trying to entice reluctant students into fields with high unemployment and stagnant wages in the face of STEM majors leaving their respective fields in droves.
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation would be a good place to start.
Hypothetically, if another "U.S." company with higher economical consequences got cyberattacked, would it be considered an act of war? For example if Facebook got shutdown for a few days/weeks. Or does it have to be military/government/infrastructure related tech?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberwarfare#Cyberwarfare_in_th...
"The new United States military strategy makes explicit that a cyberattack is casus belli just as a traditional act of war."
I always think about the generation part as a a brush rather than the composition itself.

Once you know how to use it you can start to create meaningful compositions.

Look at a lot of the stuff Ben Fry and Casey Reas used to do with https://processing.org/
Tiny bug, need to fix it indeed, it shows last player who killed you or something like that.
EDIT: fixed
I feel like you're missing the forest for the trees, but I have to say I find it somewhat disturbing that you feel as though you have to assert your superiority over machines by citing an argument that's basically "I evolved, you were created, so I'm better".
Yes; it's just not the liberal arts kind of creativity where there is no objective criterion for being wrong.

You can't teach that creativity. The people with some of the most notable kinds of creativity didn't get it from sitting through some humanities courses.
Please don’t parrot phrases if you don’t understand them. “Security by obscurity” is bad when the security is provided only by the obscurity, such as when you have an unauthenticated service running on a hidden port somewhere. Otherwise, obscurity is an essential part of security — the concept of passwords and secret encryption keys rely on obscurity by definition.
I'm excited but hesitant to see what happens, as an adult who recently got back into Lego I think there could be some great support given. Or it could all go to hell in a handbasket.
While you're at it, how about a reasonable print stylesheet? I had to do a lot of surgery on the node.js tips article, but still gave up because I could only get a max of 19 lines of the code snippets to print
Without commenting on IP piracy itself, I don't think the train analogy works for the additional reason that it certainly costs less to transport a train with (say) zero people than a train at full capacity. Fuel cost is probably the biggest issue.

Others have already pointed out that a train has a finite capacity, unlike copies of digital media.
I had discovered this the hard way. Replaced with Apache Zookeeper, which now is much more stable than at the time. It is meant to be a port of Google's distributed lock server Chubby.
I guess that's true. But what I meant to say was that in order to arrange for the results to net a zero difference from what the government would collect normally, you're not really randomly assigning tax rates or running a lottery, you're just fixing people's rates at something other than what they would normally be.

Something about manipulating the conditions of the experiment (even a stupid thought experiment) to force a desired outcome doesn't sit right with me.
I find it strange that formstack.com published this but don't use it on their own homepage...maybe they followed item #10 and iterated away from it ;)
If you want to give yourself the best chance to build some product that succeeds, its probably much better to fail fast and often.
I would have loved to buy something more capable, but instead I settled for this cheap LCD writing display as a mini-whiteboard. I don't even know how to describe this technology but it gets the job done at $20.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QL11LWF
You do not understand your own country's electoral system.

Question: in a first past the post electoral system, what happens if the vote between two parties in a three party election is split 35% and 20%? Does either party take power? Do any of their candidates take power?

NO.

The other party wins - with 45% of the vote. EVERY TIME.

Third parties in the US literally cannot win, unless some mysterious outcome hands them an immediate largest share of the vote. Which isn't going to happen in one electoral cycle, which means the ascendancy of such a party has to involve decades of losses for whichever party they accidentally poach more voters from each cycle.
Update is archived here: https://archive.vn/nf70K
Please upvote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22654623 to give IT a useful task in this crisis (yes, this a blog of mine)