jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would love to buy a Sony, because my previous phones were Sony, but a year ago when I needed a new on no Sony phones were available, and now they are only making 21:9 phones, which I think is just absurd. They look so tall, that I would be afraid of putting them in my pocket, fearing they will snap in half. Where is a man supposed to carry these phones, which are so tall that they don't seem to fit in jeans pockets? I wish they would stop with that sillyness.
When you're 22, and the Internet remembers all, will being able to tout your prior age at job interviews be the foundational evidence of your talent you wish to preserve?
"Ignore" is just not paying attention. You are free to do so. No one is taking that right away.
It's a log power spectrum (or log abs spectrum) that is being displayed, so you can get away with only adding the pixel values to the real part. There are probably cleaner ways to do it soundwise to avoid high frequency noise, but it would get the job done.

I think it would be interesting to embed these types of things as the difference between left and right channels (or channels of 5.1 surround), so that it could only be seen by subtracting the two channels then doing the log power spectrum. Lots of fun!
This still makes the assumption that these kinds of watercolor conversations are unable to occur online. They do, either in the form of chat logs, or voice calls prior and after meetings, or just as two people get the desire to BS for awhile after coding.

These behaviors are simply not constrained by the environment, not anymore.
I share your disdain for cowardly down voters.
> All you have here is an argument of semantics. Blocking and using are not mutual exclusive categories of human behavior.

I feel like you missed the point. For obvious reasons I'm not allowed to park my car in the middle of the freeway, and that is arguably a Good Thing. Protesters blocking the freeway aren't much different then that. We built roads with the intention of people using them to get from place to place, people seeking to impede other peoples use of roads to accomplish that goal are obviously going against the main intention of the road.

What they're doing is comparable to blocking the doors to a library instead of simply standing outside and protesting, it's just they would get much less sympathy if it was a library. Both still prevent people from using public property for it's intended use by the public.
How many years working remotely?
In 100 years we will have gobs of massively parallel computing power in the size of today's cellphones.

Even badly written code will be able to execute at speeds we can't fathom today. Every dot in an image will be able to be analyzed in milliseconds, matched to terabytes of stored patterns. Every sound wave in a voice analyzed by the same massive amount of power and patterns.

We may not have "real" AI in 100 years like in the movies but it will be a spooky close simulation.

I just don't know what will happen with power storage, we'd need a huge leap, the simple evolutions in battery chemistry so far are just not enough.
Oh really? I don't think you know what you mean.

In point of fact, I just sent myself a very important password in clear text. Hack me.
Well, my work is pretty detailed!

But all the information about the correct numbers of bricks, the slump of the mortar, the number and type of screws - these are all just library functions. Why would you re-write all that perfectly serviceable code for each project?
How does me, a single person and a simple SDE, being defensive (was I being defensive just because I wanted to clear up misconceptions?), says anything about an entire company's culture and image?
not all, no. many people were pushed into this. but many people have been doing this for a very long time, and we do it very differently from the people who just got pushed into it.
Most of the times when I interact with the address bar it's either to go to a different site, google something or copy the url - in all of those use cases I interact with the entire address to either replace it or select it.

I would wager almost anything that this is the case for the vast majority of regular users because most of the ones I've interviewed (N = 31) for a uni UX study didn't even know how to read URLs for the most part - especially not after the ? query part.
While that is often the case, it is not necessarily the case. Look at France for a counter-example.

The downside is that the French "solution" was/is for the parties to enter into extensive election alliances to prevent splitting their potential voters, so it's an ugly workaround for a broken system, and you still get horrible distortions but it still better represents the actual views of the electorate.
Without proper proportional representation, a huge proportion people are still left with representation they actively disagree with.
The author also doesn't help his case by pointing out the number of exceptions in using the existing system as a rule of thumb. Never mind 4am, what about calling someone at 4pm their time. That might be after the end of their working day in the Baltic states, or just after lunch in Spain.

Depending on location and specific business practices, 9:30am their time might be a good time to call in mid morning, but it might actually be the time they usually arrive at work, or in some Chinese cities the time they usually get out of bed. If it's 9:30 am on Friday it could be, like Europe, the last day of the week in some Muslim countries, the first day of the weekend in others, the only day of the weekend in Afghanistan, and subject to quite a bit of variety somewhere as full of Western run companies as Dubai. Most of these countries changed the days of their weekend in the last decade or so (which suggests problems with religious holidays are not insurmountable...). And that's the standard work week, without getting into the minefield of regional and religious holidays, and individuals' own holiday, sick leave and round-the-world travel...

Suddenly a universal status update system (or algorithmic handling of how inbound calls are passed on) looks far more necessary for the digital age than time zones.

The only thing in favour of time zones as a hack to assess someone's availability [given assumptions about their location] is their universal acceptance.
Parsing is easy, you can hand write a recursive descent parser for a reasonably sane language in a couple hours. As the joke goes, XML and Lisp are languages for those who are afraid of parsers and syntax. Though I'm not sure I would want to argue this point with Shriram.
There are a lot of people that would be very happy to receive a check from Knuth for reporting a bug (those checks are rarely if ever cashed, for obvious reasons).

So it's not like people aren't looking for bugs.
It’s also very difficult to prove in the vast majority of cases.
>I guess you're implying that certain bad things are happening in China.

https://chinatribunal.com/who-we-are/

“The Tribunal’s members are certain - unanimously, and sure
beyond reasonable doubt - that in China forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience has been practiced for a substantial period of time involving a very substantial number of victims.”

Brits, Americans, an Iranian, a Malaysian. Are these people making it up?
"Once it's complete" indeed... and to draw that particular random line in the sand?
I don't think there's any contradiction between the two statements. Y Combinator stops their involvement in YC China, turning it into a separate entity. YC China gets renamed MiraclePlus.

The announcement by YC emphasizes the separation from YC China, the announcement by MiraclePlus emphasizes the continuity with YC China.
Since the context is a four+ seat vehicle with cargo space but not a dedicated cargo mover, I feel justified in offering you:

Pontiac Aztek and Jeep Gladiator.
Welcome to my world. "You all rationalize this by telling me that it "isn't surprising", and that I don't live in the [USA,UK] and therefore I have no rights." This is because Americans are naive enough to think we have rights. And I was once one of the fools that thought this was a free country until what made us similar happened to me. And anyone who thinks that they are 2 far removed to be affected by this is in for a rude awakening that I don't wish on anyone and if we don't open peoples eyes 2 how close it is to them before it happens to them they will find out for themselves when it's a moot point. So my question to you is how do you let go and move past something as violating as this? It is rape of epic proportions!
I started just a week ago with expressjs + jade, simple css grid framework and some node modules for things like form validation and database manager etc.

The prospect of learning an elaborate framework for something I could piece together myself seems like a waste of time, plus none of them seem to last when it comes to relevance.
It seems that icey did not think it was so harmless and wanted to inform the community in case any malice was involved. If this experiment was completely harmless I don't see why the contributor needed to contact so many people (as it seems they contacted quite a few active members from the comments) in order to perform it.
Home automation seems to mainly achieve "low low benefits". Like turning on a light from your phone instead of using a light switch. These things make some minor conveniences possible, but don't come close to being essential. It doesn't seem worth it for the privacy, security, management overhead, cost, etc.
Yep, I agree this sounds hypocritical,but everybody has different "lines" to cross. I guess mine is how close they are to humans. (98%), and I also differentiate "food" from "experiment".
> (and has been portrayed more negatively in the news media than any other living person)

Um, did you forget about his first wife?
Okay, we need centralised authentication of some sort. Since everyone seems to hate OpenID, is there a good protocol we can use now? OAuth looks good, but I don't know of any way to have individual servers, like OpenID.

A great solution would be to have what is, essentially, OpenID, but verified by your email provider. You enter your email (instead of a URL), and get sent to your email provider for authentication. Nobody forgets their email...

Regardless, what's a good alternative now?
Hah, and in the week after I wrote parsers, renderers etc. for URI Templates... Anyway, they're cool, but I wish to <deity of choice> that they were actually reversible. They so nearly are, but they buggered it up with Level 4 modifiers. For example...

/{lista:*,listb:*}
+
"lista": [ "one", "two" ], "listb": [ "three", "four" ]
=
/one,two,three,four

Now, reverse it. You can't because there's no way of knowing which elements belong in which list. It's so annoyingly close to being a pure dual, but it's not. So I've had to make up some irksome rules for the edge cases like that which make me sad, but make matching using templates feasible (wise? maybe not, see note in spec, but that note wouldn't be even needed if only... sigh). URI Templates are a good example of why I wish I worked on IETF specs, while also being glad I don't...
Regardless of whether you agree with the truckers' methods, it's becoming increasingly difficult to justify the lockdowns and mandates. They've outlived their usefulness and are now doing more economic harm than public health good.

If you disagree, I only request that you ask yourself: If you were suffering from Stockholm Syndrome, would you recognise it?
To be clear, the proof is not dependent on visualization.
Turn on 2SV (or we will!)

what the hell is that?
It's not a bug, it's an explicit design decision with trade-offs.

Is it a bug that my fork can't cut like a knife? Different tools, different purposes.
Same. Left it for job that doesn’t involve Haskell and far happier. Turns out picking jobs based on technology misses other important factors like what the technology is used for and how a workplace treats its people. Now I use technology I’d rather not, but in a super positive environment, and I’m happier than I ever was before.
Not too recently, it seems, as this link shows:

http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-houston/police-line-up-t...

I wasn't on Hacker News at the time(I'm on here now just as much as I've been on Reddit) but I could only imagine the storm it created. There was also a more recent incident of a Mexican UAV crashing across the border into El Paso, TX:

http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Vehicles/News/2010/12/18/Me...

I don't know if I'm more freaked out at the possibility of seeing dozens of these flying around at any given time in the future, or the fact that I won't be able to see even a single one at any given time, knowing it could be observing innocent civilians for no good reason.
That price is totally worth it though. I'm finishing up a first version of my own (native) C++ 2D engine. It runs smooth on iOS and Android, PC and I'm going to get it running on Bada, WebOS and Mac OS as well. The time it took me to get this up and running is around 1000ish hours, and I'm pretty experienced in the area. Going to put in 3D as well soon. :)
If it's any consolation, Austria got rid of the Soviets in 1955 and yet the situation you describe sounds extremely similar to the one here. The main difference seems to be overall wealth - GDP per capita is about 3.3x as high here, despite being neighbours. Neighbours on the other side of the Iron Curtain for 3-4 decades.

I don't know what the answer is, but I have a feeling it's not violence. The countries of former Yugoslavia to me don't seem to be doing better than those that emerged from Soviet rule peacefully. It's hard to judge from the outside, but the societal problems there seem even deeper.
Leaderboards, progress, achievements... it should all be there.

I'll contact you if I'll be an intern at Valve! Thanks :D
I noticed early Monday that lots of my friends were sharing their love for Dropbox on Twitter. Initially, I figured it was just impromptu declarations of love for the service. It wasn't until later that I discovered this page.
I think that's a great thing — not only have you caught and disadvantaged the cheaters, but you've also screwed the crammers as well.

You either know the material, or you don't know the material. The timing, location or preparation for the test is irrelevant. The test is irrelevant.
Plants and fungus don't have nervous system, so there are no scientifically demonstrable ways how they will use ability to suffer.
Animals can move and suffering helps them find better conditions, for example if there is to hot an animal will seek another place, if something causes suffering animals will try to avoid it, plants on the other hand can't move and can't avoid suffering so plants don't need to feel suffering.
What do you mean by "a great idea"? An idea that your friend and many others would enjoy, or a monetizable idea that can become a sustainable business?

If you have an idea ready for execution that you deeply believe can be a profitable business, what's the downside of executing?

The fact that you are not the customer shouldn't be a showstopper. But, you should be close enough to the customers to understand their needs, and what they would pay for.
I bought the startup plan some 10 hours ago, sent in an email but never received any follow up.

I've just checked my Appsumo account and see that the startup plan has been downgraded to basic. Will customers after the 1000 mark get anything or are you guys planning to refund?

(I think also think it is wrong of you guys to modify invoices which is supposed to be a record and agreement of a transaction.)
It was sarcasm man. I'm not defending using suicide attacks to invoke the process of reunification. Personally I would let the Korea peninsula future alone, where koreans would take care of themselves.

But again, what do I know? I'm a westerner programmer with limited sociopolitical knowledge.
It means he doesn't have the commitments that come with being a full-time faculty member but that he can teach classes.
mirror? cpu limit reached
To start, I think your interviewing practices are significantly better than the stock whiteboard-based version (and your criticisms thereof are spot-on).

That said, some concerns:

Leading with the source graph challenge seems a bit much. My experience has been that it’s necessary to have at least some filter for the unwashed masses before requiring that much work of someone. At my last company, we had a 30-minute non-technical talk with a founder (later replaced by our well-trained recruiter/office-manager). This helped filter out the people who weren’t what we were looking for at a really high level (e.g., an ops engineer applying for a dev role, a really junior person applying when all we have room for right now is a senior one, a dev who only knows pascal, etc) before making them invest the time required for an in-depth take-home test.

Also, what’s with the 24-hour limit? It seems too long to prevent cheating, but short enough to be annoying. For similar challenges, I’ve given people as long as they want (up to a few weeks), but asked for a blow-by-blow writeup of how it went and how long it took them. We may have gotten some liars, but we never had someone arrive on-site who claimed it took them 2 hours when, based on their skill, it probably took them much longer. People seemed reasonably honest about it, and the convenience seemed to be appreciated.

Asking to see source code for a significant project is tricky. I know good developers who wouldn’t have any code to show for that because everything significant they do they got paid for, and can’t in god conscience show to someone else. For example, I worked pretty long hours at my first job and built some interesting stuff, but I didn’t have much time for side-projects because of it. A friend of mine works normal hours now, but does contracting on the side. Plenty of good code, but nothing he could show to someone else. That said, asking to see some source is very high-signal, so it may be worth the tradeoff of only selecting people with significant free side projects.

That said, it’s still a way better process than teasers and whiteboard algorithms. If I were looking for a job, I’d definitely apply. :)
burning cross?
The NITE driver is what matters, though. OpenNI is just a wrapper and an API.
This is a good point, and one I forgot to address.

We would never ask to see proprietary source code. Hopefully, a candidate would have a side project or open source work they're willing to share. If not, we'd definitely work around this. For team projects, we'd ask them to describe their contribution. So far, this hasn't been a big problem, but we're still iterating and making the process better!
I think it depends on what your end goal is. Are you trying to scale and hide the pixel-ness of the original? The "ours" does pretty darn well, especially if you look at the Boo example as mentioned above.

However, if you're looking at in the case of an SNES emulator or something.. then hq4x seems like the best choice. It keeps true to the original pixel art, while appearing significantly better.
The lack of regulation is worrying. That exchange that just flamed out is an example of what the entire financial system would be with no oversight.
I've been burned too many times by people who can talk the talk, but cannot walk the walk.

Design, data structures, development methodologies, etc, they knew it all. But ask them to code a simple method (find the intersection of two lists) and they take an hour to deliver a barely-working, sub-standard solution.

Trust but verify.
Miguel tweeted this a week ago:

NoWin, Nancy, SignalR & Lego on the raspberry pi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ZQtiupyzE
On the positive side of things, northern cities of the world will likely not be buried under an ice sheet anytime soon.
Fully agree - This seems like a project with rather limited in scope. And that's ok. The authors even acknowledge it.
It's not an absolute judge of SFW'ness, neither does it claim to be. I can see it as a tool to skim a large set of videos for further human review.
Besides, beach volleyball very much is NSFW depending on the situation.
They do not threaten to ban Meta. Just the opposite. Meta threats to quit Europa (That is just words actually). Meta could work without moving data to the USA.
> I think we've fairly well established that the complexity of the code isn't the problem.

I've never heard this claimed before; I'm interested to see your evidence, because it's also not obviously true.
Yes, but atmospheric co2 sticks around for 300-1000 years and the resulting temperature spike should therefore definitely be detecteable. They might not be able to pin point the exact period of 100 years we started to industrialise but it will definitely be able to see the change and determine that this took place over a timeline 100-1000 times shorter than previous similar changes.

Furthermore, there will be massive cooroborating evidence in the form of fossile records showing a mass extinction event and ice core samples (assuming we will still have icesheets) showing the accompanying rise in co2 levels as ice layers are deposited on a yearly basis.
I think it's the same as with Google.

Of course there's some "hull" called "Alphabet" who legally owns Google, but what more than a hull is it? Don't know whether it's for tax reasons, spreading the risk, trying to decouple the image in case of failed products, everybody knows that Alphabet == Google. Same goes for Facebook and Meta: There might be a Meta hull but that hull is quite packed with Facebook, so it does not really matter what the hull is called (or does).
Infiniti produces steer-by-wire cars that have been on the road for awhile now.
> The pair were responding to comments in Meta’s annual report published Thursday, warning that if it couldn’t rely on new or existing agreements to shift data, then it would “likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.”

I don’t think they’re entirely bluffing, it may be they temporarily have no choice because this is a difficult technical problem with their existing code base. How do you store a global social graph and its associated content without having data cross borders? Even more so, how do you adapt an existing complex global social graph to respect borders? And how do you get Facebook to instantly load all the content from each of these segregated data stores?
Regarding where to look for jobs, I'd suggest stepstone.de, heise.de/jobs and also xing.com (a LinkedIn-like site with more german users - the Python and Django groups also have a dedicated forum for jobs).
Hi cshenoy, that was exactly my point. Thank you
They have some working parts (or a whole?) Zuse Z2 electro-mechanical computer in the Berliner Technik Museum.

Konrad Zuse built the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer. He also designed the first high-level programming language.
Yeah, the whole thing about jQuery is that you don't have to know design pattern to get things done. By the time you need design patterns, you are probably developing complex plugins or app, in which case, saying that:

$('#container').toggle(function(){}, function(){});

follows the strategy pattern, is essentially meaningless without context or explanation. Just reading the wikipedia design patterns page is probably more helpful:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns and move on to GoF for more advanced theory.

Also, I do the $var differentiation too. It may be ugly, but it comes in real handy, because you automatically decipher whether a variable is a $('div') or a div.