jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't find much value in the LinkedIn timeline, for reasons well-described by this article.

However, LinkedIn has been of tremendous value to me as a founder of an enterprise software company. I see two primary areas for value:

1) Sales - LinkedIn allows me to quickly understand who I'm dealing with. Size of company, positions, org chart, etc. This is important information to know when trying to move along the sales process.

2) Recruiting - LinkedIn profiles are essentially a public resume directory. When folks are recommended or referred, I can often get a good sense of their resume by checking LinkedIn. This saves time for everyone when the connection does not need to be made due to lack of fit.
"Mainstream actually educated economists are right, not people hyperventilating about money printing."

The thesis of your post is literally a fallacious argument - the argument from authority. The textbook definition.

Yes, the "experts" are always right, like the experts that ran LTCM, the hedge fund run by rocket scientists that crashed the economy (until being bailed out by the Fed) /s

I would go on with more examples of fallacious "argument from authority" logic gone wrong, but I don't have the time.
Kotlin has lots of syntax sugar but the semantics are crazy. It's essentially an imperative language where the only way to reason about effects (suspend functions) is by reasoning about control flow. That already makes things like error handling incomprehensible, and it'll be a really bad fit for Spark's way of doing things (where values have to be serializable and shipped around the cluster) - imagine trying to use a suspend function from a Spark anything, it's completely impossible to implement in a sane way.
Of Oklahoma's five Congressional districts, one is represented by a Chickasaw, another is represented by a Cherokee, and a third is represented by an Iranian.
This is essentially what the react team is proposing with their new server components: you have the server doing most of the heavy lifting and data loading, leaving the client-side code to focus on the dynamic add-ons. The RFC and video are well worth watching: https://github.com/josephsavona/rfcs/blob/server-components/...
http://www.cambridgebrainsciences.com/

http://cognitivefun.net
Were there actually any fraud claims in court? I seem to recall that when actually in court, the attorneys were all very careful to explain that they weren't making any claims of fraud.
Developing vaccines are easy. The cost is all testing. Other countries could easily reverse engineer the vaccine and make it.
Hi! Second this- I don't find any jobs page as well. I am based in Asia, and will be happy to help spearhead the effort if your team ever wish to develop here.

Here's my LinkedIn so that you can see if I'll be a good fit for the roles you've in mind: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jie-poh-813748159/

Thank you!
I was in a writing group at one point and one of the members of the group happened to have studied Gordon Lish extensively; I think studied under him directly for a bit and more or less worshiped the guy as a guru. It was kind of an interesting dynamic--here was an aspiring writer whose hero was an editor, but it shows Lish's impact on American letters.

From what I've understood from others, Lish was (again, this is just hearsay) kind of a dick. The guy in the writing group that loved him was definitely a dick (no hearsay). It was a small group formed with the intention of taking a more positive, but still honest, tack to critiquing each other's works, since it can often be such a harsh experience and the passion, scrutiny, and energy of people's critiques often outweigh the passion, scrutiny, and energy they put into their writing--this guy did not want to buy into the rest of the group's philosophy.

Now, whenever I read anything Lish has touched I can't help but feel it comes off sort of dickish and he is the embodiment of the cruel, unrepentant editor/critic to me, though undeservedly so.
If there's a place for RSS, surely it's here.
...because he keeps breaking the rules and spreading baseless claims and allegations, as well as dogwhistle calls to action.

There is no right to incite, even under free speech.
There is a Seinfeld episode that covers this topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Millennium_(Seinfeld)
Boomers don't care about the platforms. They will go where their kids go and continue posting there.
As a matter of fact this is censorship.
Thats awesome, glad I was able to inspire you!

Yeah, iRacing can be tons of fun and the level of realism is impressive. I live within walking distance of Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and have walked and biked the track more times than I can count and the the sim gets so many of the track details right.
You may not be trusting the CAcert root, but just the ccc.de cert. I know I added an exception for it, but not CAcert generally.
France (Lyon). I'm ok moving to other countries in Europe and Australia.
> What if there was a policy to delete all email older than some cut-off age, e.g. 2 years? Would that assumption still be made?

You'd have to talk to a lawyer about the specific facts and circumstances, but in general:

1. If you didn't have reason to anticipate litigation when you implemented the policy, it normally shouldn't be a problem;

2. Once you do have reason to anticipate litigation, you're supposed to suspend any such policy and preserve evidence; [1]

3. If a dispute looks as though it's likely to turn into a lawsuit, your adversary's lawyer likely will send you a "litigation hold" letter reminding you of the duty to preserve evidence.

In situations 2 and 3, continuing with an automatic purging routine can get you in trouble.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_hold
This is awesome! Is it a drop-in replacement for gdb? The docs seem to suggest so but just wanted to know if there are any fine prints.
Solar power is a bit of a misnomer here because most people reading that will assume it implies eventual conversion into electricity or motive power.

Electricity is like steak, heat energy is more like hamburger. It's useful but not nearly as useful as electricity, so you're going to need another conversion step (steam turbines are best at this right now) to get to a more usable form of power and that conversion step will have losses (radiation losses, mechanical losses, electrical losses).

So 'overall' efficiency is the key, not the efficiency of a single step in the process (they should at a minimum then list their current efficiency next to the previously achieved maximum for that step and how cost effective this new method is).
I keep all my email, back to 1997. I only delete (automatically) old mailing list messages. Why not? From time to time I may dig up some useful information I forgot.

I even at times run some scripts to get statistics from my email archive; for instance how many times did I send failed disks to Seagate? Which customer sends more support requests? etc.
Is it bad to just give them a number?
You could run something like Autotest for continuous testing & quality control: http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest

You can run Capistrano for continuous deployment: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano.

If you wanted to go the extra mile you could also setup different staging environments on your server:
http://cjohansen.no/en/rails/multi_staging_environment_for_r...
To know more about Professor Stonebraker I cant recommend this excellent interview[0] by se-radio enough. Its easily one of the best interviews that I've heard on a podcast. Do check it out.

[0] - http://www.se-radio.net/2013/12/episode-199-michael-stonebra...
Why do you think it is impractical?
> Never mind merging. It's not an SCM, it's a distribution and archival mechanism. I bet you could make a reasonable SCM on top of it, though.

Linus Torvalds really has a gift for under-promising:

> I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.

[...]

> It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.
Much obliged. I'll get it fixed.
> What were the names of those geographers?

Well, among them, Amerigo Vespucci, another Italian working for the Spanish crown. Contemporary of Columbus, traveling at the same time as Columbus later voyages. He's the one that first identified, or at least popularized, that the lands Columbus was still insisting were the East Indies were a "New World". Has a couple continents named after him.
This is the lamest, most annoying cliche about the startup industry. Everyone building a picture sharing app that people will mostly use for dick pics is "changing the world".
of course not. they can have that meeting by zoom or teams or conference call. they didn't ruin anything, unlike the neighborhoods that may take years to rebuild.

they feel political unrest and they took it out on politicians. theyre probably wrong, but its better than burning down some unrelated guys store, no?
As a upper midwesterner, I wholeheartedly agree. It's just annoying that the moment I get home from work, it's so dark out I can't jog without a reflective vest or headlamp. The morning is fine because it's no different than when you have to wake up early for work.
I’m not sure I totally buy it but stunning parallels: https://us-central1-spirit-fish-function.cloudfunctions.net/...
Tough when your company becomes a feature
If anything ever proves just how distracting raising money is, this is it.
I think I mostly recognize you from CoffeeScript's #issues on Github, where your comments are cogent and insightful.
I wouldn't see this as a danger to Instapaper, I rarely ever use Safari (especially on an iPhone) to send to Instapaper. It feels more like a Readability competitor, who even use the phrase "Reading List" on their site.
> WebKit2 is just an API layer on top of WebCore, much like the Qt and GTK WebKit API layers.

WebKit2 is a very different API than WebKit1, though. For one thing, it is non-blocking, and that necessarily means a lot of changes underneath.

Chrome was built around WebKit1, and it may be clunky to layer it on WebKit2, as it seems unlikely that Google will rewrite/remove Chrome's special multiprocess code and use WebKit2 instead.

So I definitely see some tension between Chrome and Safari here. WebKit2 is multiprocessing for WebKit 'done right', while Chrome's approach was, I suspect, in part done in order to get results quickly (and indeed it got to market far, far before WebKit2).

The duplication of multiprocess code for WebKit is already itself fragmentation in WebKit, which is not surprising given the development model there. But, I expect WebKit to continue to be an excellent project nonetheless.
Moving my stuff to a new apartment.
the 2MM bonus in 2010 for increasing operating income is a harder piece to deal with, especially after reading it was generated by lowering head count.
Well the protocol turns out to look a lot like HTTP talking to Apache over SSL. This is no surprise, it's easy to develop with and is the most likely to make through proxies and firewalls outbound.

Nevertheless, Sony seemed to assume that it guaranteed they would only receive valid messages from actual hardware they controlled. This is not a security feature of SSL/TLS which depends on the client doing its part to prevent the absence of a man-in-the-middle.

When the client was hacked, many of their assumptions were violated. We hear rumors of hackers "mapping" their systems onto some internal development networks. What this means exactly I don't know.

But if Sony's primary network defenses were the Maginot line, their dev network probably looked a lot like Belgium.
I wonder if Google has a harder time with spam that isn't in English.
What do terrorists have to do with anything? Nation states are far more likely to launch a cyber attack against the EU than a terrorist organisation.

And since when mass surveillance is a new thing? The US, some European allies, Russia and any other capable country were conducting mass surveillance since pretty much WW2 if not earlier. Tapping phone lines including the transatlantic phone cables since the 50's, opening millions of letters each year and far more.

Nations have always been spying on each other and on their people, I am not saying that this is right, and that it's justified in every case but it's the reality we've been living in since the middle of the 20th century if not during the entire recorded history.

But sure keep thinking that posting every document including ones that deal with operational aspects of the programme is justified. Next time when the EU decided to duke it out with Russia over the gas piplines and trade agreements it might find it self on the receiving end of such programmes far more hostile than the NSA tapping a Belgium ISP.

P.S.
H/N Don't forget to bury this comment with down votes too since well screw the content rules, your political opinions and narrow world views are under attack.

P.S. 2.0

Just for the kick of it according to data from the ERA(European Railroad Agency) the total number of deaths in train accidents from 2000 is 319, number of people who died in terrorist attacks in during the same period in Europe is 338+(stopped counting once I've got pass 319..). Please note that this isn't the number of EU citizens who died in terror attacks(which is several times greater), but the number of casualties for attacks on European soil.
Of course if you count the Madrid train bombings as a train accident you are welcomed to subtract 191 people of that list and add it to your get hit by a train statistic.
I don't know if it's "most people", but basically every dividend stock has a DRIP program that will automatically use your dividends to purchase shares of that stock. It's a very common strategy outside of the frenzied trading encouraged by apps like robinhood.
I've noticed that too about Scientific American. Its like circa 2015 a switch flipped and they became a completely different magazine. Anyway I found it much more informative to just go straight to the source in most cases and subscribing to peer-reviewed scientific journals. For example, can select any subject in Nature and get a RSS feed

https://www.nature.com/subjects

There are various open access journals in PLoS

https://plos.org/#journals

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/find-and-read-articles#l...

As well as many others listed in the Database of Open Access Journals

https://doaj.org/
From your article: “Real-time locational marginal prices for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas remained at or near $9,000/MWh cap on Feb.” If they set the rate at 9k it would have stayed at 9k not near 9k.

What your referencing is points in the day when the price fell because rolling blackouts where intentionally created. “If customer load is being shed, scarcity is at its maximum, and the market price for the energy needed to serve that load should also be at its highest.” That’s saying if rolling blackouts are implemented then the price should be at the limit. Grid operators can’t simply turn off more people’s power to reduce the demand arbitrarily below the limit. So, prices where adjusted retroactively.

As to why that’s relevant, Grid operators are stuck with the bill. If they can maintain normal prices by simply cutting off everyone’s power to avoid losing billions that’s what their going to do. But, the are not allowed to arbitrarily cut people’s power because they dislike the current wholesale rates.

Again, choice was made about this storm, just enforcement of existing rules.
How many unqualified board members does it take before paying qualified men to take estrogen shots saves the company money? A good board can be worth billions
Not only them. Almost all newer EMU's for regional/commuting here do it, too. And I don't like it because I can hear the fucking chirping of the electronics when they do that. Which is *very annoying' when I have to ride them.

Started around 20 years ago.
That's a great incentive structure to build unmaintainable systems.
My guess is that the window for that kind of arbitrage closed faster than people would have been able to get set up to transact against it; I think you need a special account and meter if you want to sell power back to the grid.
My team use merge in the past. And we found out in git, merge commit may contains it own changeset. Our code suddenly missing, and when we check on both history, commit look fine. Lo and behold, file deletion happen on merge commit. It bite us hard and I never trust merge commit again. Its very hard to read on complex feature merge.

My team now only use rebase, clean up commit using squash, and fix conflict before landing commit on master branch are kind of natural using rebase. Lead developer also have easier time to check file changes.
I have fond memories of Blitz Basic which still seems to be maintained: https://www.blitzcoder.org/forum/
No, we probably wouldn't. These one-way functions have some nice properties that we use in RSA and Diffie-hellman, like commutativity and the fact that encryption is a permutation, but these properties come with caveats in that they are considerably easier to break.

A simple consequence is that we need something like 1024 bits for a strong RSA key, but SHA-256 is still miles out of reach of being attackable.
It could.

Think of HN as an exercise in MVP and YAGNI.
1+

My house supposedly has an A rating for thermal isolation, and yet I feel the indoor winter experience to be colder here than my experiences living in Illinois and Salzburg.

On the other hand, Portuguese winters are very humid, which makes it feels colder than it is.
Well, traditional payment systems provide sufficient security for lower fees (though not 1 cent, i believe).
I wouldn't consider the new redditors normal. They are highly radicalized, highly emotional, highly active on the internet, and extremely motivated to ban anyone who dissents. Its exactly the same as the Tumblr population before Tumblr died.
Even worse, there was (and still is) no requirement for a command and its switches to be separated with whitespace.

"DIR/W" is the same as "DIR /W".

Which would have made it impossible to determine whether you want to invoke the command "DIR" in the current directory, or the command "W" in a subdirectory named "DIR".
I’ve always thought it’s interesting how the languages like that (most of the Romance languages have declensions and such) add error detection and even correction - you can figure out parts that are missing or got changed by the lack of agreement between the various forms.

You may not be able to correct it from the Information available but you’ll know something went wrong.
The thing that sucks about that is there is a real need for adult acceptable college, we declare people done/sorted way to early in life at 22/23.

University of Phoenix started for that need and actually used to have some decent focus in that area before it was bastardized for profit and major growth late 90s/early 00s. They may have also proved online learning is acceptable somewhat as you see other schools and traditional Universities offering it now. OSU offers a full CS online degree. The problem for UoP is they did not focus on quality and got greedy, they can't compete with traditional online as much now.

I think that online is partly the future of education and there also needs to be a focus on actually preparing young as we do now, and regular adults for new challenges. Anytime someone at any age is willing to go on a learning challenge the systems we have should encourage that.
At my company, I am the tech lead.

(For me), the company isn't big enough to justify a full time Software Architect. Also, generally Software Architects don't spend a lot of time (if any) coding.

I prefer the title Tech Lead over Senior Developer, because a Senior Developer could be someone doing the same job for several years (ie a mid level developer who has been there for a long time). A Tech Lead is responsible if something goes wrong.

A Tech Lead also has a mentoring component. Senior Developers don't necessarily have the communication skills to do this.
Being better than other hard working people can also involve simply kicking the ladder from underneath you, playing the social status game or making bets at the edge of the law and shoving that risk onto other people.

And sometimes no matter how hard you work, you're one of those people under the rungs.
In support of your comment, I don't know much about this space but I would imagine the realities of manufacturing a CPU would make it prohibitively expensive for new entrants and highly amenable to big players buying up anyone with new ideas.
I am glad to read this, because it really sounds weird to me that so much people blame AI for not being able to do causal reasoning, while us human don't even do in my sense "strict" causal reasoning. I feel like we just learned a small subset of causal rules just like AI algorithms, by having experienced a lot of events that followed those rules.
I'm no Ballmer fan but there is one very interesting correlation not highlighted here: Apple started surging and Microsoft stopped from around the time when Microsoft came under anti-trust pressure. Microsoft has been enormously handicapped for the last decade by their monopoly status. They have been completely unable to leverage synergies between their multiple platforms because of it.

Now, I happen to agree that Ballmer is a disaster. I hate the fact he is 100% about screwing money out of businesses and zero about love for technology. There is nothing in him that is beautiful, nothing that inspires a vision of the future. Jobs, as much as I detest him, has at least a love and vision for technology. Gates had these latter as well, but unfortunately, not the force of personality nor the aesthetic sense to drive his vision to the core of the company the way Jobs has.
On your mobile phone?
Great list. For me the last two points would be show stoppers.

If you can't code (and I'm one of those, btw), then your driving a startup to success is significantly dependent on your level of experience in shipping products, doing sales, iterating, working working working.

One can learn to do this on the job, but do you want to pay for the mistakes they're bound to make the first time around?
But then the tweet can't be sent in a text message anymore, and everyone has there tweets sent to their mobile phone.
Did you try Gnu Global? I mostly use it for C/C++, but it claims to support "C, C++, Yacc, Java and PHP4".
53 pages slides! that's huge, good stuff! these are what i capture from page 1 to 10, need to get back to work.

mobile internet:
86 mil subscribers of iphone/itouch alone. more than desktop internet devices. smartphones > pcs. more powerful processors & greater 3g penetration.
# i ask myself, can the telco deliver all these data to all its subscribers?

mobile usage:
43% search, followed by social networking, news, etc. avg 47 apps downloaded on iphone/itouch from 200k app pool. android has 50k app pool, avg 22 app downloaded.
# 86 mil iphone/itouch users and only 200k app, there are still quite a lot of opportunities for growth. wonder how many android handsets are there in the market now?
Rich people are more likely to have vacation homes. It's unclear that the extra economic cost of that choice explains why they're rich.
the problem that PHP doesn't have is configuring the environment to run it. You just install a few pkgs and boom!

Even plugins come in php itself and aren't seperately pkged. There's no gems, no seperate server to serve the ruby backend. Just upload/push your code and it'll run. And any cheap host would do it. The _only_ advantage I see here is that I can increase my resources for the app (if it's like heroku) just with the click of a button without restarting the server.

But I can't wait to be proved wrong. All the best guys :)
hmm, Linux?

After trying many clients, I have settled for rTorrent (libtorrent.rakshasa.no) which is quite lean and terminal based (so that I can wrap it in a Screen session)

It supports OS X as well.