jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I can imagine two situations. In both, I hope this email was in private and not CC'ed anyone (if it did, that's terrible).

1) You screwed up really hard and management wants to make sure you understand that and not to repeat it. This has been happening for a few times and you received an email without red/all caps before. If you were lucky, management even talked to you in person!

2) Your upper management is unstable, thinks they are superior in some way and basically doesn't care about people in general.

In any case, I don't see how this is effective (unless they want to push you to find a better place, which I would do).
The code is a bit dense for my taste, these are extracts from the unminified version:

for(M=N=e=c=0,i=Q.length;!c &&--i;)!~s.indexOf(Q[i])&&(c=Q[i]);

RegExp(`${(g[2]?g[2]:'')+g[0]}|${(g[3]?g[3]:'')+g[1]}`,'g');
> Amazon pioneered the idea that you do not need to be profitable, in fact you can lose money every single day, month, year, for the sake of growth.

Amazon has reported profits almost every year since 2003 (the only exceptions are 2012 and 2014). The loss accumulated in 1994/2002 was $3bn ($4.3bn adjusted for inflation). Uber has been losing over $3bn per year since 2016 ($15bn so far).
I agree that the Mitsuharu version of emacs is pretty great on the Mac, but the lack[0] of multi-tty[1] support is a deal breaker for me. I like emacs-plus[2], which while not quite as nice as the railwaycat/mitsuharu version, allows me to run text frames and GUI frames on the same server process.

[0]: https://bitbucket.org/mituharu/emacs-mac/pull-requests/2/add...

[1]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MultiTTYSupport

[2]: https://github.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus
How long do you go between really good books? Or vacations to see beautiful scenery? Or really insightful conversations with good friends? Or enjoying a new perspective on a problem? Or between occasional visits with a therapist?

Hallucinogens can be (ab)used as a tool, like many others. The benefit is insight. (again, ymmv)
Standardization is inevitable. Teachers cannot and will not use calculators unless the module they are using (in the textbook or purchased separately) contains button by button instructions that work on the exact model of calculator used in their classroom. Something needs to be done to break the TI monopoly, though. There's no reason to pay that much for such primitive functionality, and the need for dedicated devices that can't be used to cheat won't go away.
> But then there are little things like no ability to pull down a web page on Firefox mobile to refresh.

This works for me with Firefox on Android. Not sure about Firefox Preview but definitely works on the normal FF app.

I've always been a FF user so there's nothing that would make me switch from Chrome.
Extension support, speed, etc. are all exactly where I'd want them compared to Chrome, so really I don't feel like one has much of a leg up on the other.
> nuclear waste is stored on the beach

What?
Trees seem to be the solution of the day but, cynically, it seems to be a smokescreen in that some people are promoting this as the solution to climate change. No amount of tree planting is going to solve long term climate change, so it should be seen as one action amongst many. The focus on tree planting shifts the focus away from the action needed to reduce carbon emissions. It's a bit like building an extension to your house whilst the house is on fire. It'll catch up eventually.
Where does it fail to free memory? As of 1.4 the GC is fully precise. Concurrent GC is in the works, and is scheduled to be in 1.5 (August of this year).
This link may be helpful if ccc.de is fairing poorly.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7Ps4U1P...
Yup story of my life building a BI platforms lately. Everybody inflates their concurrency estimates, and you can question them all you want, just don't be wrong in the opposite direction..
Guessing the discussion at Apple was:

Engineer: "We can get the computer to half heat if we add a few more intake holes..."

ArtsySalesDouche: "Nein! Nein! Nein! I don't want that! I know nobody sees the bottom, but I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want it, I don't want it!"
Counter-anecdote-- my 2010 Macbook refurb is still running swimmingly after a couple upgrades.
I mean, for what it's worth there's an aspect of this on Reddit, in the sense that you can choose which subreddits to join (and can maintain multiple accounts to keep your experiences separate).

Although I'm sure it's not perfect, it's not terrible either. Especially if you follow the perennial Reddit advice and unsubscribe from the massive default subs.
yeah those c-64's were a lot of fun, but man I must have had 2-3 die on me so I ended up on Atari 400 (eventually when I could buy the 800 I upgraded).

Star Raiders in an emu is still pretty incredible.
Micro instances are good for certain things, but I wouldn't want to use one for general purposes. I'm not a guru with server performance, but the micro instances seemed very poor. In my case, compiling from source seemed to always take way longer on an Amazon micro instance compared to a VPS with pretty much any other provider.
I wrote a small compiler for a 'haskell' called HNH with type inference that generates C code, with a small runtime including GC. Everything is done very naively, but it's a hugely interesting excercise.
You can find it in https://github.com/fferreira/hnh
Stormondemand is a similar service, and which I'm actually using right now. I believe it's basically a VPS where you get the whole server to yourself.
I follow about a dozen news sources. HN is my favorite, mostly because I've been able to discover other interesting new sources/blogs (many of which I now follow on my RSS reader).
It's a way to play Core Wars across the whole Internet with other people's computers.
WinAPI is no more hospitable to viruses than Linux is. What it is is popular enough to be worth targeting.
That's also why there's no need to put on a seatbelt when you're sitting in the back of a car. I rarely do.
>Far too many people talk about the flu vaccine in terms of conspiracy theory, which is not productive for anyone.

Well, it's productive if there's really a "conspiracy", right? Short of "blind contrarianism", there is certainly reason enough to be skeptical. At a minimum, public health officials have been putting forth an annual vaccine campaign PR effort that seems significantly overstated with regard to the true efficacy of flu vaccines, and this hasn't been bad for big pharma.

Now, we can say they were doing it for the right reasons, but we can't ignore the credibility gap they are creating.

More generally, I am not sure why we have a notion that anything that counters the mainstream version of events is automatically to be dubbed conspiracy theory in the dismissive sense. It's actually even weirder to encounter so much of that sort of attitude on a site called HackerNews, where there have been routine calls to keyboard arms over domestic surveillance and the like.

But, I've also noticed here an adherence to scientific dogma that borders on the religious at times. It creates blind spots and a certain overstated assuredness. Overall, it's hard to put into words, but it is very real.

Let the downvotes commence.
As far as "Less is More" goes, this could be practiced in other languages by voluntarily choosing a simpler subset of features in a language with a complex feature set. Think RISC style in CISC architecture.
I think the idea is that there will be cheaper spaces somewhere else and you can park somewhere else, pay less and take a walk.

Of course the problem is that you have to know where those places are. Hopefully they can put little signs on the meters that point people to cheaper parking.
Not for laptops anymore, as far as I know. They still sell their Inspiron netbooks with ubuntu, though (8.04).
I personally would not consider this on-topic for HN, unless somebody credible had already declared the file fake, and the discussion was some hacker-interesting about "how to fake a PDF and not get caught" or "forensic techniques for examining computer files" in the general sense. But, in this specific context, I'm inclined to write this off as just "more conspiracy drivel" as hencq said.
Let alone go through all the steps to commence the subscription and read about it.
I am 49 years old and I work as freelance consultant on e-commerce projets. Honestly, it is impossible for me to work (which means mostly sitting) for 3-4 hours in the morning and 4-5 hours in the afternoon and also sit during lunch. If I do that I will either fall asleep or be unproductive for most of the afternoon. At lunch I spend at least one hour walking, running or biking. At the least I must get outside, whatever the weather.
1) The [X]'s are ugly I know... I will try and get an icon to come up on hover.

2) A top menu will probably clean up the mess with the menu items. I will work on that.

3) Good suggestion. I have changed the wordage now. Yes, it means you get the pay feature (your client will be able to pay you directly using PayPal or a CC)

Thanks again :-)
We were also not sitting on our butts all day long then.
Facebook has issued a statement to ReadWriteWeb and (as of this post) has yet to contact Ars. That action speaks volumes about what Facebook's real concerns are.
It's called GoSwedish - a friendly introduction to learning Swedish. http://xinsight.ca/goswedish/

Findability within the Market might also be a factor. A search for "swedish" in the App Store, and it's on the first screen. But it's quite a long scroll down on the Android Market.
It seems there's an obvious middle ground which doesn't seem to have been mentioned by Joel or anyone else.

Being compelled to have lunch with colleagues every day sucks. Sometimes you are feeling cranky, want some fresh air, need to run errands, or have a hot date.

Not having the opportunity to lunch with colleagues also sucks. It provides a great opportunity for employees to get to know each other, make friends, and informally discuss company business.

Seems the onus is on the company to make lunch pleasant, and perhaps to steer newcomers into the middle of the crowd. After that, create the kind of environment where no one feels compelled to do anything, but employees want to eat with each other at least a lot of the time.
Thanks from me also!
The entire reason the Cambridge Analytica thing happened was because Zuck made moves for politics. At least that was my theory. I spell it out here:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/facebook-politics-and-orw...
Have you seen any solid, readable critiques anywhere I could read?
Friedman was right when he said "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon."

Assume doodads are $1 today. If tomorrow money supply is doubled, they will be $2.

A reasonable definition of the intrinsic value of a stock market index is the discounted net present value of all the profit streams of all the firms included in it. If it is 100 today, and the money supply doubles, it will be 200.

What good are the returns to your investments? At some points, those returns are to be spent on real stuff. If your returns went up by 100% but the prices of the stuff you spend money on went up by 200%, the returns are not that good, to put it mildly.

Over 2020 and continuing in to 2021, governments around the world have chosen to burn GDP, and lower the future growth trajectories of their economies. Ceteris paribus, that would mean the intrinsic value mentioned above will be much lower. Given the expansion in the money supply, asset prices will be inflated (i.e. keep going up despite physical reality). As governments fear asset price crashes, inflationary policies will be their refuge.

See stagflation in the 70s and the so-called inflation-unemployment tradeoff.

> The theory which has been guiding monetary and financial policy during the last thirty years, and which I contend is largely the product of such a mistaken conception of the proper scientific procedure, consists in the assertion that there exists a simple positive correlation between total employment and the size of the aggregate demand for goods and services; it leads to the belief that we can permanently assure full employment by maintaining total money expenditure at an appropriate level. Among the various theories advanced to account for extensive unemployment, this is probably the only one in support of which strong quantitative evidence can be adduced. I nevertheless regard it as fundamentally false, and to act upon it, as we now experience, as very harmful.[1]

[1]: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/1974/hay...
We’re hiring remotes. What stack and what time zone are you in?
I second that. While it has plenty of flaws and is getting very dated, Excel has been a phenomenal tool in the land of the analysts and others who actually need to get work done and move on.
HN is more about intellectual posturing than it is about having discussions on anything.
Just want to say thanks for this excellent comment. Out of curiosity, would you be up for sharing more about your own research? I always wanted to be an archaeologist as a kid; wound up becoming an historian almost by accident instead.
I find it interesting how the eyes are carved in relief to give the appearance of shadow and reflection (note the little protruding tubercle to simulate a "glint"). Presumably in classical statuary the eyes were either painted to create those effects or replaced with jewels/stones.
> I am not really understanding why you think SIX vaccines into a 20 pound body seems OK?

Because body weight and number of vaccines don't really have any relationship?

> Do you have kids and did you give them six vaccines all at once?

I have two relatively young kids, I don't think they've ever been recommended for more than four at a time, but I could misremember, the numbers never been a big deal. I've never had them given less than what our pediatrician recommended. The CDC schedule has some ranges in it so I see you could possibly end up with six at once.

Haven't observed any relationship between number of vaccines and side effects, either. The times they've gotten one have been pretty much the same as the times they’ve has a bunch.

> It makes the kid miserable.

I'm not aware of any evidence that more vaccines at once does that; I am aware of evidence that spreading them out over a succession of weeks extends the length of time that they are likely to experience side effects.

> And if you have one of your kids get chicken pox from the vaccine during a family vacation to go to the chicago zoo, which she couldnt do and we had to stay in chicago another week - so yeah, fuck risking it.

I'm not sure how you think that very rare side effect (varicella vaccine produces chickenpox in about 2% of cases, but even in the vast majority of them it's extremely minor with a few pox, nothing like what you describe) of a single vaccine has anything to do with your belief in a higher risk from giving multiple vaccines at one time rather than spread out 1/week. That makes no sense at all.

> Maybe my kids were extra sensitive - but would you deploy six patches at once to all your production servers with no idea what the outcome will be

I wouldn't apply any patches to a server with no idea what the outcome will be, but that's not analogous to the case with vaccines, anyway. The only reason I might spread out different batches is to make placing blame for any unexpected problems easier, but even that is only a benefit because patches can be backed out. Your analogy is deeply flawed.

> when you already had a two week outage caused by a previous attempt at doing such?

But even by your own account, the “outage” wasn't caused by the practice you were later avoiding, which simply magnified the impact of common side effects without doing anything to mitigate the risk of serious, rare ones.
That is what I suspected - in order to get an "A+" you have to recompile the web server (the article is for nginx but the same idea applies to Apache). I'm not saying this is a difficult process - but not something I want to do on a production system.

While, distro maintainers usually do a great job of maintaining software - I think it does highlight a certain need for another way to easily install bleeding edge without adding a whole other repo (which could contain/override versions of other software you may not want). You can always rpm/dpkg an individual package - but now your version will never been updated by the package manager, well by yum update/apt-get upgrade anyways (or even worse overwritten).
So if they had a lot of karma would you change the opinion you had formed about the idea/whatever?
I am referring to in past when Yahoo used Google and other search engine solution instead of buying or building their own before it was too late.
I think a major gripe I have with said movements is that they exclusively want the latter, to the point of hostility towards the former.

Example: the body-positivity/fat-acceptance movement, which is often hostile to the concept of "unhealthy body weight" and "losing weight".
First post on HN, but after reading about 50 pages of this book since morning I feel it really deserves a praise.
I'm a student working on a metaheuristic focused MSc thesis, and I find this book as an invaluable summary of most methods presented in literature.

I do not agree at all with remarks about code samples, pseudo code is all the topic needs. Real code would just make things more complex (and not understandable to a reader not familiar with the programming language of choice), without much of an added benefit.

Not sure about exercises either, given the focus of the book. I really think the book is very clearly written, but I must admit I already have a somewhat decent background in the main topic.

Anyways, thanks!
People who may be solid but are grumpy and don't like to show off their accomplishments... well... If they leave over unicorn and end up being replaced with people who do the things that are rewarded by the system then I'm happy with this outcome.

Do you prefer less-talented, extroverted employees over more-talented, introverted ones?
Thanks for the acknowledgment Cory. FYI, we collaborated with Google and these pages are no longer indexed as an extra precaution:

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afacebook.com%2Fo.php
Hi Rand,

At Pear Analytics, we haven't experienced that at all. In fact, most developers will tell you that they no nothing about SEO anyway, so I'm not sure where the bias would come from. Engineers are attracted to solving problems they've never solved before. We've had plenty of issues dealing with external API's, Google's ridiculousness, queuing systems, data storage and more - yet they continue to find ways to get around these issues.

You guys seem to be located where there is a wealth of talent, and with your success - I am surprised finding the engineers you need is difficult.

I would say keep the focus less on the SEO, and more on the solution/problem you are trying to solve, and making it sexy to the end user. Maybe that will get some attention.

Ryan Kelly
I guess the irony of your statement is lost on you. Funny, though.
To me, "in shape" means whatever conditioning I think I need for the activity I want to do. That kind of strength training makes sense considering the demands of my sport.
> LastPass wants a few bucks for a hosted product

Many people already have cloud storage (dropbox, icloud) and don't see the need for another subscription. I certainly don't.
Interesting, so the most broad claim that gets the most press might not end up being the one that "counts", but on the other hand when someone says you have to read the whole patent to know how narrow it is that's not necessarily true either, since the most broad claim could be ruled valid.
It's not so much offensive as contradictory.

"We were told we could not use 3rd party components, which sums up the prevalent mentality in the .NET community. So we did not use the popular 3rd party component CSLA, written Rocky Lhotka, a well respected member of the .NET community."

To make it clear... how can that mentality be THE prevalent mentality when there are these extremely popular third party components such as CSLA and Log4Net. They're popular because a LOT of .NET shops use them. They're extremely popular, because that mentality is not as common as you might think it is.
Can you elaborate on places to get feedback? Thanks.
Plenty of business and teams use Posterous Sites already today. Some are using Posterous as their public, outward facing site, and others as an internal, collaboration tool.

Many businesses also use Yahoo Groups or Google Groups today for email lists. Yet those products are pretty lacking.

We think there's a real need for a modern email list solution and we're confident we can get users from individuals to businesses to bring their lists to Posterous.
Here's my .vimrc:
https://github.com/quesada/dotfiles/blob/master/.vimrc

The nice thing is that all the plugins are from the package manager; it takes me 2 min to get a working install. Sabayon is great.
My initial reaction was that they were trying to act like Derek was still there. Then confusion as I saw his signature (were they still sending out the same old emails?).

Please put the year in the title if the post is old. Thanks.
Add a job board. 375$ per job posting.
> Another solution would be for them both to negotiate a lower price.

I disagree. If you want to get something for less than the offered price (i.e. OBO) you should talk to the seller before you place a binding order. Taking a valuable commodity out of play, to force a negotiation, is plain wrong.
What if there are no passwords to start with. If users do not enter a password and instead a hashed key is generated for the device used by the user which then encrypts everything before it is stored on the server.

This key could be generated in real time and would not be displayed anywhere on the form and will be transferred in stealth mode to the server.

With no passwords to enter or transmit, there will be nothing to hack.... If the key generated in origin is itself a strong key decrypting information stored on the server will require first hacking the key which if not stored on the server in the first place will make life hell for hackers as they will require access to the individual devices as well.

Cheers, gurudatt
The form factor of EOMA is simply unsuitable. Compared to any laptop motherboard or SBC, the volume available in the slot is tiny.
At least they're honest and straightforward :)
Our milkman had an electric vehicle in the 70ies.
Yeah... smells a bit clickbaity to me! If you decide to use such a title, you should at least expand on it in the article a little bit more than the "(although it almost crushed me)" at the very end...
Yeah, in the UK this is incredibly common. Drinks after work were at least a weekly thing, sometimes even a nightclub.
Not for lack of trying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide...

Like I said below, when the largest empire the world has ever seen makes it a policy to destroy any socialist leader (even the mildest of social democrats) that threaten their resources or hegemony, only the iron-fisted strongmen survive. What people cite as failures are a result of the intense external pressure which favors strongmen because democratic socialist movements get massacred.
Woah, I really like this idea of finding domains, from a subreddit. Its literally bootstrapping your business reputation with that subreddit reputation.

Again kudos for the idea :)
It may just take a few minutes of the day, but it's probably the most irritating and demoralizing few minutes of the day.
Always love me some Ruby but what really catches my eye here are the alternatives to paying hard cash for the engine. Great initiative!
I agree. I think that would be an app like yours :)

My world is really about data structures.

https://bitbucket.org/BjornErlingFloetten/ARCore

"A library for building data-oriented backend applications written with .NET Core / Standard."

is what I really like to work with.