jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft on June 11, 1980, and became Microsoft's 30th employee, the first business manager hired by Gates.

> Ballmer was initially offered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8 percent of the company. In 2003, Ballmer sold 8.3% of his shareholdings, leaving him with a 4% stake in the company

Wow. How common is it for such a late employee to have so much percentage of a company?
What you are saying is "Don't use mtgox because one of its founders that has no role in the company once thought about doing magic the gathering cards exchange".

The site never really worked as a cards exchange.

However, I agree that given Mt. Gox record of fuck ups, I would never put any large sums there.
IMHO, The first step towards getting competent people (of any gender) into positions of power would be to stop this blatant, generalizing sexism while doing the analysis. Imagine an article that said something like of "Why Do So Many Incompetent Women Become Fashion Designers?" That would be considered massively sexist.

So is this. Justifying it by saying "But it is meant to help women" doesn't help anyone, really. Most men reading this will bridle, seeing yet another "incompetent men" article on the Internet, and sexism will grow yet more entrenched.
This is very true.

You'll never make that much as a hobby beekeeper. The real money is in pollination.

That said, the hours worked calculation for me last year was $650 / 10-15 hours or so.
Anyone else thinking Bill Gates might be "chosen" to be the next CEO of Microsoft?

It might sound ridiculous but he's been involved with his foundation work now for several years so it should be running well. He could probably leave the foundation to others to run now. So, he could return to Microsoft to try to lead it's resurgence. It's a challenge I wonder if he's up for.
100-500 LOC per day is normal.

It is not. You are not writing a novel here. Yes, most of the time is spent thinking. Some days there is no coding because it is spent on just trying to figure out what to do.
You're not afraid to ask what the competing narrative is though, because you have all the institutions pushing the dominant narrative on your side. Enjoy this!
as I've said for Facebook before: too little, too late.
>twitter really is the last place his voice can be heard

He's the POTUS !!!! He can be on more or less every media outlet on the entire planet in a few seconds if he so chose.
Yes, the best way to build trust is to act as a megaphone for Donald Trump.
They'll start with whoever they hate most and work their way on down. This is crazy.
This is a simple extrapolation of their argument:

> Due to the ongoing tensions in the United States, and an uptick in the global conversation in regards to the people who violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, these two Tweets must be read in the context of broader events in the country and the ways in which the President’s statements can be mobilized by different audiences, including to incite violence, as well as in the context of the pattern of behavior from this account in recent weeks.
May 31, 2020 attempting to breach White House perimeter: "More than 60 Secret Service officers and agents were injured near the White House ... when protesters threw “projectiles such as bricks, rocks, bottles, fireworks and other items,” according to the statement. “Personnel were also directly physically assaulted as they were kicked, punched and exposed to bodily fluids."[1]

July 22, 2020: "As they have for the past 53 days, violent anarchists continue to riot on the streets of Portland as federal law enforcement officers work diligently and honorably to enforce federal law by defending federal property and the lives of their fellow officers.

Attacks on federal personnel and property overnight have included attacks on Law Enforcement officers with commercial grade fireworks, hard projectiles, and lasers – which can cause permanent blindness. Last night violence was even more aggressive than previous nights as rioters once again tried to set fire to the federal courthouse and actively tried to breach the entrance of the courthouse. Rioters are also employing tactics that force federal officers to leave the Hatfield Federal Courthouse, setting them up to be attacked with lasers and projectiles."[2]

Perhaps these do not meet your narrow definition, yet violent attacks on our other branches of federal government seem fairly analogous if not of the same magnitude as Wednesday's assault. Are you suggesting Apple would/should allow apps where users organized violent assaults such as these on the executive and judiciary - just not against the Capitol building as Congress is in session?

[1] https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/george-floyd-protests-05-31...

[2] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/07/22/portland-riots-read-out-...
A few people? There were thousands involved, and a plurality of Republicans support their action, according to this (reasonably reputable) poll: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20...

Over 70 million people voted for Trump, who has made no secret of his disdain for many groups of people and institutions. After 4 years of having him as President, youc an't say they didn't know what his deal was or were misled by his TV celebrity status. Minimizing the structural issue is unhelpful.
Not everyone is a touch-typist (although I recently put in the effort to finally learn - highly recommended).

Also, there are some weird keys out of reach from the home row you may need every now and then - the fn keys on a Mac being a good example. Turning volume up/down in very low lighting is a pain if you can't see the keys.

That said, I found the blue LEDs of the Macbook keyboard backlight to be too bright when used in combination with flux on lowest screen brightness, so I wrote a small command line app to reduce it below the minimum normally permitted by the function keys: https://github.com/drhaynes/brightness.c
Exactly this for the exact same reasons, only more specific to the Eloquent ORM instead. God forbid you need to do nested-nested-nested relationships or something relatively complex. Laravel works VERY well for the simple cases, but all the weak typing, reflection and runtime searches that it uses just makes every runtime framework problem a pain in the ass to debug. I'll stick to Spring Boot or ASP.NET Core any day.
Venmo takes credit card. Zelle does not at all.

A couple reasons when eating that credit card fee is worth it for me:

1) Although it is accurate that paying the merchant fees yourself as a consumer makes it a loss on the credit card points, the points themselves can have a much higher exchange rate with transfer partners, which makes it not a loss. For example, with the credit card company their points are range from a value of half a cent to 2 cents each, a hotel or airline may have a fixed exchange rate based on a different metric such as quality or distance, that is completely decoupled from the current dollar value of the good and service. (ie. a fancy hotel might cost $300 one night and $1,700 another night, but only costs 25,000 points all nights. better to just have a balance of points)

2) Many of my purchases are expenses I deduct against my taxable earnings, and that makes me less price sensitive and more spend sensitive. The points I can use solely for my consumptive activities, which makes play time free.
There is the belief in karma and reincarnation that addresses this.
> However your then hoping that there are not any vulnerabilities within the framework.

The likelihood of me introducing an injection, authentication/authorization bypass or RCE vulnerability in homegrown stuff is orders of magnitude larger than in an application where at least the sensitive core parts are handled by something that's battle tested in millions of deployments and regularly audited.
Bitcoin is about separating money and state, but having a government is still very important.

I'm much more worried about non crypto believers hating crypto believers for getting rich while their life is getting harder because of the inflation central banks are imposing on most people.
Installed and already benefiting from it. Thanks!
He was just a million-dollar hacker, but the power of HODL boosted his illicit fortune to the billion-dollar range.
With what capital? The banks were in the process of failing.
Try Serverbeach.
Nah, it's not just Duolingo. Google is making frightening inroads where it counts - they just won a hugemongous contract from the WIPO that a lot of people were hoping for (I was asked to be part of the team by at least four agencies placing bids). Statistical methods work pretty well for a lot of applications, and patents are probably one of those applications.

Actually, I think Duolingo is going to help the translation market for a while - anything that brings people closer together between languages is going to encourage more people to need quality translation - but they intend to train massive numbers of people to do what I do for a living. And once that system is in place and honed on Wikipedia, they'd be insane not to employ it for placing contract translations. The notion of employing multiple human translators and combining their input to produce a better overall output is fantastic! It really is! The only reason nobody's done it yet is the expense of paying for the translation multiple times - and that's just about to go away.

No, seriously. I've been predicting five to ten years for the limit for the industry already. This just tells me how right I am: things are going to start getting freaky weird for me.

It's about damn time, too. I'm bored sick with translation. I want to get back into programming anyway. If I can figure out how to combine them, I'm going to be a happy man.
That's a very good point. I'm going to move fbConnect way up the list. Thanks for the tip.
Or Facebook. Their "Like" buttons are everything and I'm sure Facebook would love to collect money from users, not just advertisers.
I think it's an excellent idea. However, the app never worked for me. I've got an iPhone 4 with the latest firmware, and just after opening all it does is crash.
Generally I don't recommend rackspace, but reliability is a huge concern for this customer.

I took your approach once in the past... I showed them a price sheet from the planet and they sent me a presentation about how their service is superior. It was quite compelling.
> Although the people were told that all five wines were different, the scientists weren’t telling the truth: there were only three different wines.

I did the same experiment with beers few years back. Showed friends three different ales, poured one of them into three glasses and bet they couldn't tell which glass had which ale. Though exact answers differed, all of them thought there were three different beers in those glasses. That was truly epic :)

On the other hand I ran the same test with cheap and expensive port and people could easily tell which one is which. I also find that the same is true for wines - there is a noticeable difference between $5 and $30 wine, but once it gets over $50, then telling them apart becomes much harder. One should really have the palate for that, and very few people do.
Don't forgot about multi-user licenses. I'd love to incorporate this into our intranet. This is great.

Anyway to back up your notes?
H1B workers can switch jobs -- your point (2) is not true.

During the first 6 years or until the LC is filed, H1 workers can work for any employer in their field of study. After the LC has been filed, they can switch jobs as long as the job title/requirements are substantially similar (thanks to the American Competitiveness in the Twenty-First Century Act). And the recent executive action by Obama will make it even easier for post-LC workers to change jobs.

I have yet to meet someone on an H1 who felt tethered down to their employers. Almost every H1 worker I know has switched jobs at some point. This whole idea of the "indentured H1 worker" is complete lie, and anyone making it is being dishonest. It's just a cover-up for their hatred for immigrants -- a lie fabricated to cloak their hatred as concern.
You make me wonder if there is yet another way of compromising TOR, to ask each intelligence service to contribute a small fraction of their capacity to TOR so that the vast majority of the nodes is owned by some agency, who then exchange data through some back channel. Harder to detect and with far more resources than any single agency could provide.

Or is the NSA so large that it dwarfs the resources the rest of the world could contribute?
I disagree with that (which city has been the target of the biggest, most dramatic terror attacks thus far?), but ok, fine, let's go with your list.

What is most likely to be the source of a rogue nuke in any of those cities?

One of the nations where the US is trying to avoid nuclear development or at the very least keep the stockpile under control.
Why is your name golden with the font color value of be6400? http://imgur.com/xb5W7

I see it now with your first parent comment now instead of the one in the screenshot, but clicking on the permalink shows no coloring.
def cannot have {}, it needs ;/end.

{} or do/end work for blocks, however.
Having optional beauty isn't really any beauty at all though.

I'm just more at home with exact, specific concise well structured syntax.

I know it's an extremely unpopular opinion to hold, especially round these parts, but I don't see any beauty in Ruby syntax. Same with Python...
They've also recently added suspicious activity alerts depending of geographic regions which I though was a nice touch:
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/detecting-suspicious-a...
I have to add my support for Rimuhosting. I have accumulated nine VPS instances with them over the last three years, and I have never, not even once, experienced an outage. We use an independent monitoring service to keep track of all of our services, so I receive alerts when a service goes down. I know this all to well because of some lingering services we had with MediaTemple for too long.

The upsides of Rimuhosting are:

* Stellar support. No really, stellar support. Their techs know what they're doing, and they respond quickly
* Flexible plans - choose your own distro, VPS size, even semi-dedicated plans in between shared VPS and dedicated servers.
* Did I mention the support rocks.

A lot of what I know about system administration, I learned from Rimuhosting techs. Not only do they fix what needs to be fixed, but they send you a great summary of the steps they took, complete with copy/paste from the command line. It's a classic "teach a man to fish" approach to support. They've spoiled me so badly that I get a little upset when I receive terse "problem resolved" responses from other companies.

I can't say enough good things about them. They're worth every penny they charge.
thanks for your comments! The badge idea is a good one and account giveaways to high profile bloggers as well. I'll look into that.

Any ideas on relevant advertising? Reddit maybe?
I think the penis showing men would just disguise their penises. So we would see penises with little wigs and glasses on. I would like to see the penis AI cope with that!
From the news story:

Bogdan Dobrescu, Adam Martin and Patrick J Fox from Fermilab say this large asymmetry effect can be accounted for by the existence of multiple Higgs bosons.

They say the data points to five Higgs bosons with similar masses but different electric charges.

Three would have a neutral charge and one each would have a negative and positive electric charge. This is known as the two-Higgs doublet model.

And:

The Standard Model only has one Higgs "doublet". Although we tend to think of the Higgs boson as one particle, it actually comes in a package of four, explained Dr Martin.

"In the Standard Model, you only see one of them because the other three are absorbed into [other parts of the scheme] such as the W and the Z bosons. There's only one left," he told BBC News.

"So if you want to add another Higgs doublet - you actually have to add four more particles."
FTA: > The Standard Model only has one Higgs "doublet". Although we tend to think of the Higgs boson as one particle, it actually comes in a package of four, explained Dr Martin.

> "In the Standard Model, you only see one of them because the other three are absorbed into [other parts of the scheme] such as the W and the Z bosons. There's only one left," he told BBC News.

> "So if you want to add another Higgs doublet - you actually have to add four more particles."
it won't switch to ExtJS unless it gets trimmed down to like 40kb. It won't. I think this is just a diversification for ExtJS since other frameworks are doing UI components now (jQuery UI will catch up to it soon)
I was giving feedback to a subordinate once a long time ago and the person replied "I'll take feedback if I think it's valid". On its face, a perfectly reasonable reply, even if antagonistic. The problem in that case was the reply was endemic of a further, much deeper attitude misalignment, one that I had to take care of right away.

I view this reply as nearly exactly the same thing. On it's face, it might be a reasonable response, but knowing what we know about RMS, it just shows more of his lack of humility, ability to empathize with others and general disconnectedness from the "movement" and "community".

As someone might say in war time, RMS is a general for a different type of fight...he is ill equipped to handle the current one.
We also "have the technology" to obliterate the planet many times over. You need a few more facts than just "having the technology" to start inferring things.
Lol, "using web 2.0 technology".

Thanks for the insight. Shady, incompetent firms seem to be a common theme but there has to be at least a few honest, effective resources available.
No. I always point XBMC at IMDB. tmdb doesn't have nearly the breadth or depth of IMDB.
Dart: Google's ActiveX
Whichever kind you do, it just has to be optimized for reading the code, not be a leaky abstraction, and stay out of the way of debugging. Static meta programming can be bad in all these ways as well.
I think the golden moment for me thinking about Erlang was when I started thinking that the actor model was made to support fault tolerance and concurrency was a nice bonus.
I think my point is best summed up by saying that I can still run a project that has failing unit tests. To my knowledge, I can not run a program that fails type checking.

The argument for this is typically "once it typechecks, it works." However, sometimes I can see enough from the output of a non-test passing piece of code to know whether the idea is even sound.
You understand that China is a widely different case right?
There are several foreign workers but they mostly work for established international companies with offices there. Few of these companies are Japanese (people do work for Japanese companies but usually outside Japan). It's not only about xenophobia, Japanese work culture is deeply hierarchical and seniority-based (the person who's been in the company the longest gets to run it, regardless whether they're any good at their job or not). Companies change their policies very slowly. They fear that foreigners would not understand this culture and try to disrupt it, for good or bad.
Sure, it's a net benefit for tax purposes, and she "gets things". But what I'm saying is that it's not a real fungible, useful income.
And then he retires or gets run over by a bus and I have to spend three months reverse engineering it only to find that it is really just an over complex UI hiding a bug ridden home made database management system. Which I then reimplement in SQL Server and C#/VB.Net in a week; and the new version is faster, properly multi-user, more reliable, and actually maintainable.
"Of course, as most demilune tables are put against walls, rotating them into the wall is probably a better idea in theory than in practice."

Depending on how the wall and floor are framed, there might not even be a well-defined "floor" if you try. Or the floor may not have a smooth curve.

Also: is there a word or phrase for the situation of getting 2 informative answers to a question and being even more confused than when you asked? Because I'm there thanks to you and dzdt.
Absolutely, but that confirms the point.
There's also nothing stopping an Uber driver from doing a side deal with regular customers, where they phone the driver directly when they need a pickup, and they'll keep all the fare.

I wouldn't be surprised if that happens a lot.
I don't mean this offensively, but I had to roll my eyes at this one. This is the exact type of question I would expect from a tech startup focused board.
Heh, reminds me of when I changed people’s CRTs from 60hz to 85... and they don’t even notice the difference.

How ??????
Address is also not a requirement.
Inyo County, California is 1/3 the area of Switzerland. At population 18,000, it has fewer people than any Canton save Appenzell Interhoden (~16,000). Inyo County is surrounded by more Mojave. The Mojave Desert is the size of Portugal...nearly thrice that of Switzerland.

No driving in water.
lol, are you combing through photos of poop and categorizing them?? yeah right
(1) Keep doing what we are doing. The current approach is working very well.

(2) Wealthy people can cope with climate change; it is the poor people who will suffer. Reducing the number of poor people is an effective way of reducing the overall suffering.

> This just changes the subject away from climate change to something else.

I was quite explicit about that - the France v Germany example is a great example for saying that pro-environmental strategies have actually not had a great record for making emissions drop.
Why on earth wouldn't you want toilets for the homeless to have enough privacy for a drug deal? The alternative is having the drug deals done in public where I and my kids have to see it happen.
Win-key "edit" brings "Edit the system environment variables" up as first option.
I interviewed at YouTube and I kid you not, the interviewer had no idea what YouTube Leanback was. As wrong as it sounds, I had to school her, a team lead at YouTube on their own product. YouTube Leanback is awesome and will be missed. I integrated it in a chrome extension I made called YouTube Share Enhancer.
>> A team of 5 ML engineers can improve an ad targeting system by 5 % and if the company is google that’s billions.

Not going to pick up on your arbitrary 5% constant here, but please elaborate how these ML engineers are any different from anyone with a quantitative background?
It's interesting that open source lives off transparency and equality (e.g. with git, anyone can at least start to put a patch together), whereas many other vital parts of society like finance, business, politics only work, when you explicitly do not share, what you know.
Remind yourself of the alternative ie working in a company pumping out lines of code for the rest of your life for a salary.
Nice to see HN submissions that I also just added to reading list based on another HN submission, Litestream in this case, right?
“People fear what they don't understand and hate what they can't conquer.”

Bitcoin itself may end up being worthless or being a fortune. The block-chain technology is the revolutionary part that is here to stay and will only continue to grow in the future.
Are there plans to do in-person classes when that becomes permitted?
It's also not authorizing automatic warrants; it's just increasing the range of magistrates who could be authorized to issue a warrant.

But if our headlines stick too close to the facts, they don't make it to the front page of HN, right? ;)
They also have a different explanation for cosmology as well. It's not just evolution they are against. Many also believe that all these extrasolar planets we are finding are myths.