jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
How I miss Summly, although this article likely wouldn't have been found there.
Yes, if you see it coming and take it head-on, you'll be most likely fine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdhfV-8dbCE

A tsunami at sea is fairly harmless compared to rough weather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPBaqh3dcVM

However, upon hitting land, the wave gets shorter and taller: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Propagation_du_tsunami_en_...

So that's where things get troublesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cC8wuj31MWs
Right. Most "brain teaser" technical interviews are just an oral test. We all know that passing a test is hugely different from productive work.

I don't understand why technical interviews are not more oriented to "how would you design X? Ok, what objects? What interfaces? How does that work, explain like I'm your 10yr old nephew? Ok, pseudo code that part. What are challenges with it? Have you coded similar things? Tell me about one. How would you do it different now? How would you convince me that it's worth refactoring? How about if I was your peer and I told you your idea was the worst thing I'd ever heard? Ok, now assume I'm working for you, and it's my second week, explain how to write your new design from scratch, and what some gotchas I should avoid are?"

We all know that green field coding is a rarity, and most time is spent writing/running tests, refactoring, bug squashing, design writing, code reviewing, team managing (always at least upwards and sideways). Most of this is still "technical", but seems to be overlooked with endless stupid brain teasers. I know what Knuth volumes are, I know what google is, and I know my basic algorithms. Most people don't need to have memorised how to implement random algorithm x.
What, the one on the first page? I don't think it's very problematic. It's belied by the more or less fair actual reporting.

Furthermore, I think that people who would immediately conceive of Bitcoin enthusiasts as "anti-government hippie-hacker drugdealers," as well as those people who would similarly conceive of any of those things as inherently pejorative, already have their minds made up and don't need help from the supremely subtle implications of a photo.
And, if I'm reading you correctly, it may end up being a benefit to the interviewee, too. At the end of the process, whether I got the job or not, I have additional "implemented X in Y" experience.
Fair point. I was unfamiliar with B-Trees because most of my time is spent as DevOps/Networking/Sysadmin. It took me 15 minutes to learn and understand what they are and how they work.

http://slady.net/java/bt/view.php?w=800&h=600
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%2B_tree
http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/btree.html

Now if you make understanding B-trees a prerequisite for the job, I can at least learn it ahead of time for the position.
You should try to build own your video hosting site or SHUT UP. At least Youtube is free, the last time I checked F-Secure was not, so SHUT UP! or build your own :)
saying that Docker's goal is to "sacrifices security" is untrue and unfair ... unfounded statements

People running things they don't understand means probable security issues for those users... and I think it's totally fair and in no way bad form to discuss this tradeoff in the context of docker and similar projects. Especially given two attack vectors documented in the current codebase, and the fact that the article we are commenting on ignored such. What docker is attempting to do - apparently give people easy to use 100% portable containers for arbitrary code - is hard, and security for arbitrary code is one of the challenges.

Personally I wonder if perhaps taking some time out to consider the blurrier and more complex edge cases with regards to the project's overall goals and architecture, potentially considering a dalliance in to integration with weightier operations + development process concerns, higher security deployment requirement concerns and other areas that container-based deployments may affect would be really valuable for docker at the moment.
It's 2021 and I can't believe we have to recycle perfectly good laptops because of swollen batteries or other replaceable components not easily serviceable. That was not the case for my 1983 Apple //e. And now Chromebooks EOL, sealed Macbooks, the next best Surface? Computers have become appliances for the landfill after data extraction from the platforms. I hope frame.work marketplace thrives, consumers need freedom from the tyranny of convenience. 50 million metric tonnes of e-waste and going https://www.ft.com/content/26e1aa74-2261-11ea-92da-f0c92e957... We need a different mindset.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream

> in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, as well as an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few barriers.

Essay:

> I am an immigrant son of a single mother from Iran; while my mum cleaned in hotels, I studied hard, worked hard, and became a successful entrepreneur. I rose to be a multimillionaire — the American dream, except in Denmark!

It seems a pretty good fit.

You comment: "just some millionaire spouting off"

It's meant as a counter-point to American millionaires who "lobby for a threadbare safety net to pay less in taxes".

I've seen that people listen to millionaires and billionaires because they are wealthy. (Eg, why did people care so much about Musk's views on cave rescues when there are many more poorer people with more expertise who didn't get such coverage?)

Therefore it seems appropriate to have a contrarian viewpoint originating from the same class of wealthy people, which can't so easily be dismissed as a sour-grapes sort of complaint.
Unfortunately I have zero insight about how many people spent their own money vs used their company budget to buy this.

I should definitely do a better job by creating a template and allowing people to use that to convince their bosses. This site is a good example of that: product-toolkit.com

Your post gave an interesting idea - a gallery of products that people can buy to spend their budgets in case they don't have ideas lol
I've always used distilled water. In addition to fine particles, humidifiers can make all kinds of pathogens airborne, so, I bought one [0], which uses UV to disinfect the water before ejecting it in the air ultrasonically.

[0]: https://crane-usa.com/product/1-3-gal-warm-cool-mist-humidif...
If Ikea stocked them in their stores then the logistics could easily be covered with their economies of scale. Importantly if Ikea did stock them it would be a way of raising money for the project. They could sell them for $1500 and give away one to charity for every three sold (assuming 20% overheads and $300 donation).
Wait. To our best knowledge we don't know whether there is a meaning of life, right? And it would be irrational to act based on a conjectured purpose if there isn't solid evidence for it. So even if we will burn in hell if we don't destroy ourselves, there is no solid evidence for that, so it would be irrational to do so. The best way of proceeding is then to keep our options open as long as possible. Our quasi-purpose is to find out whether there is a purpose in the first place.
Original source: http://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/hans-solo-and-bay...
Even as a member of a fraternity, let's be honest calling it a frat is completely acceptable considering it's pretty colloquial.
> It's just weird old thinking that has nothing to do with how the technology actually works.

It has nothing to do with the technology at all. A cable modem has perfectly adequate performance for a lot of commercial uses and the telecommunications companies want those customers to have to pay 50X as much for a leased line.

Which is why it doesn't make any sense for Google to be doing it. Their purpose isn't to upsell business customers, it's to demonstrate demand for high bandwidth connections so they can pressure other telecommunications companies to increase capacity.

The whole "heavy users" thing is bunkum. Yes, 20% of the users transfer 80% of the data. That's how pretty much everything works. People are diverse and have non-uniform usage patterns, and if you sort by consumption level then the high end tautologically uses more per capita than the low end. But bandwidth is by far not the predominant cost of providing internet service. The predominant cost is getting the wire to the endpoint whatsoever, once it's there you can send as many bits as you can fit and upgrades are a matter of replacing terminating equipment rather than going back into manholes and bucket trucks. If bandwidth consumption were to quintuple it wouldn't require any significant rate increase -- it has been increasing exponentially for years with no real trouble.

The only reason telcos talk about heavy users is that they want to engage in price discrimination and they know it confuses people who are used to dealing with commodities whose dominant cost is the unit cost rather than ones whose dominant cost is the fixed cost of building a distribution system.
On the individual level, the $5 donated by the cashier has the bigger impact.

On a social level, Tim Cook's fortune, donated, has the bigger impact.

Both gestures deserve respect.
This is a reminder that having a single service, like Google Analytics or Google Fonts, injected into just about every major site on the web might not be a great idea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

You're looking for Russian trolls now, instead of considering the obvious, that Russian rocket engines have been the main way to send stuff into space for decades.
> It goes against HN's general discussion style

What? The use of terminology specific to social media?

1 - HN is social media.

2 - 'OP' is a term as associated with social media of a certain nature as the use of '#'
"Self made" defies precise definition. If you start with $999,999 and earn $1 by your own efforts, a strictly precise definition for "self made" would imply you were a "self made" millionaire. However it would also apply to somebody who started with $1 and earned $999,999 by his own efforts. Hence using "self made" in both cases renders the phrase so broad as to be empty of meaning.
None of these arguments seems very strong. I don't believe that depreciation costs are significant compared to the rate of growth in income among wealthy individuals. No numbers are presented to support that hypothesis and intuitively it seems unlikely. I don't see how the third point about landlords cuts against Piketty's premise at all; on the contrary, it supports it.

Only the second point has some merit. It is possible that we're not measuring real wealth growth, but merely the froth in an economic bubble. But again, I'm not sure that historically that froth accounts for the disparity. Despite the correction in 2008, the wealthy are still handily beating GDP growth over the past 20 years.
Yup, although that's not nearly as "in" the city as Battersea.

Every time someone mentions wind turbines "spoiling the view", I show them a photo taken looking along Portobello beach. In the far distance a few white single-pixel turbines are visible. In the medium distance is Cockenzie, which is on the seaside and visible from miles around.
>First off he's a techie not a Steve jobs. He was clearly nervous and is totally not a politician.

I believe that's the point.
Three times, actually. It counts Australia to Japan as Kayaking the Pacific.
There is a company that makes language CDs specifically for drivers. Put "Behind the Wheel" into the Amazon search box to see what's available.

About 5 years ago, I had a 60 minute commute each way for about 6 months. So I learned French.

It worked really well. Lots of listening and repeating, both in French and English. Increasingly difficult levels. And stuff you'd actually use. I went to Paris and surprised myself. All that repitition in the car actually paid off.

The best part is that you learn without sacrificing safety or focus on your driving. Just start the CD and follow the directions. That was the most impressive part to me.

I'd like to learn Spanish now, but my commute is only 5 minutes. It's just not important enough to take time away from my other work. But converting lost time in your commute into a new skill is a no brainer.
Types of slavery prevalent https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Types
In an attempt to help you find out where you stand on the issue (that is, I don't expect a response):

80% of sexual abuse of minors happens within existing social contexts, that is "family and friends".

It would be useful to place cameras in every single private room and have them be automatically monitored and the live feed passed to some on-staff LEO when software considers anything suspect.

Are you at peace with that? If so, why? If not, why not?

(Yes, it's an extreme example. Both in terms of privacy intrusion and in the potential of helping law enforcement with a 'worthy cause'. It's why I think this example is particularly helpful to consider one's position)
For reference:

- https://weechat.org/

- http://www.wechat.com/en/
I'm talking about Windows here, to be honest. I use both Windows and Linux and, well, when I configure laptops, I always use Intel (and NV for the GPU) components because they are guaranteed to work without spending hours on Google.
I used drop.io a bit while it was alive, and it was really useful. I was sad when it went away. I hope more sites like this (anonymous use, quick to create and share something) pop up!
Exactly.

Recently I was showing my coworkers how the type class pattern works in Scala, and was arguing that this was very OO, just not OO the way someone from the Java/C++ branch family tree would think of it - but rather more along the lines of what you see in CLOS, Dylan, R's S4, etc. They weren't buying what I was selling, but I'm still selling it.
> There’s other no code tools for things like mobile apps and CRUD.

You're joking, right? There are loads. They all suck to various degrees, which is why they are not popular.

> Ultimately, I think there’s a lot of fear

Mine is not fear as much as frustration for having to waste cycles on stuff that will not endure.

Take Power Automation (aka MSFlow): it's very powerful, but not because it's a graphical environment; it's because we have an environment with a lot of APIs available without having to do anything. If MS gave me a blank editor with all those APIs preloaded, I would be 1000000x more productive than I am fighting with this goddamn half-broken flowcharty thingie. Meanwhile, nobody else in my team (all non-devs) want to even consider look at it. They'd rather brush up on VBA if they really need to do complex stuff. And it's a shame, because the API wiring is amazing and when things eventually run it's magical.

Repl.it with all those APIs preloaded would be so much more popular than PA, which I fully expect will eventually die a slow death like Yahoo! Pipes and friends.
> These hypothetical scenarios are not anchored with the language that most businesses will understand: cost.

I've argued this to well-placed people in two Fortune 250 companies. At the first place, the conversation led to a cleanup up the IT policies, so that they were more consistent and reasonable, but they still weren't grounded in reality. The reaction at the second place has caused me to realize that IT security -- like everything else at a company -- is just another political game of thrones. Aggressive people are trying to work their way up the ladder, and increase the size of their internal kingdoms. They use scary language to leverage fear in upper management to drive ever-larger budgets and ever-more inconvenience in the name of "security" which winds up being little more than security theater. If there's a Fortune-sized company out there which actually makes IT security decisions based on practical consideration of risk vs. cost, I'd love to know. My current belief is that, by the time you get this big, there's too much disconnection between the IT department(s) and everyone else to align the incentives.
Out of legitimate curiosity: what is the actual weight difference between a nice steel frame and a Ti frame? My nice road bike is 40 or 50 years old Reynolds 531 and it feels like it weighs nothing, especially compared to my mountain bike or my beater road bike.

My understanding is that with advances across the industry, it's pretty easy to build a bike under the UCI minimum weight, which suggests that you could make the frame out of whatever is best for the application.
this is true, but on the other hand a society needs to be coherent (at least insofar as it is needed to support social interactions).

a society built on several isolated nucleuses can vary wildly, a society where we expect people a thousands kilometers away to campaign in social media for local elections needs to be more uniform not to split
Why would monitoring servers have access to the internet?
by "people never discuss" you mean the negotiation between the employee and employer is based on after tax salary, or do you mean casual conversations with friends? I haven't seen discussing after tax salary at all during interviewing process in the 4 countries I applied for jobs and got offers (Slovakia, Czechia, Switzerland, Denmark).
Note the comment you're replying to said "prospective employers". Until you're entered into the payroll system, your employer likely won't know what all the applicable deductions are, so can't give you a net income figure as part of an offer, just a pre-deductions figure.
> Use a better ORM.

This so many times. I also think before people talk about an ORM they need to define ORM as they can range from something like Hibernate to a simple object mapper. Is something like jOOQ and ORM where I can write typed SQL and it maps results to objects?

I prefer writing SQL, but also prefer using a library that can do the tedious object mapping for me.
also, if anyone is an expert on node, please email me at kevin at bostinnovation dot com so I can fill in some of the holes in this article
Bill Gates actually does things with his influence and his money. Versus spouting dogma for instance.
This describes my experience well, but I think it is worth pointing out that what I (and I can only describe myself here because I don't want to assume you are the same) have could be described as mild depression. What the OP describes would be, I assume, described clinically as severe depression.

I have been able to "self medicate" like you with exercise, diet, rigorous organizing and planning tools, and other ways of "ignoring" what my brain tells me to do. When I was younger, I was briefly on medication and did not like the side effects, and I have been lucky enough to be able to cope with the tools I have at my disposal. I do not believe this is possible for people with severe depression, and highly encourage them to seek professional help.
Why are the only routers supported using 802.11G? I got one of the Buffalo 300N routers and was looking forward to trying this instead of DD-WRT.
Takes a month for EBay to change an icon on a page
It wasn't recent work so likely not recent Tcl, but are you saying that Tcl no longer represents lists as strings? I'm surprised such deep changes are still being made in an old language.
Neat. I've not done this with USB, but I'll often take a trace off my logic analyzer and write a quick python script to turn it into something worthwhile. Now he's making me want to pick up a DSO.
Pretty much any webserver can do that though. Even apache can easily be setup to do that. So it's not really unique to node.js.

Definitely a good design decision, but as I say, not unique to node.js.
True, but LaTeX's output is worth the effort of input.
the only thing is that it is better to apply the readability bookmarklet on the print-version (single) page.
I'm a skater & love theberrics.com - he's been on there often, heres the backstory: http://theberrics.com/dailyopspost.php?postid=2440

warning: an ad will roll before you see the real content.
Was it? Might be nice if someone could find the comment thread for it.
and it's going to work as long as Slashdot works

This would be true as well if you'd use OpenID. OpenID dies when HTTP web services die, but then Slashdot will die, too.
No, it's not any better. This estimate is useless, because of the things I mentioned. The Secret Service costs are likely the bulk of the spending, so unless they release them, we won't know the real numbers involved. Clinton did not spend 40 times less than $200 million/day.

I'm not sure why you don't understand my point. Friedman cited a falsehood without saying that it was untrue. Clinton's trip did not cost $5.2 million a day. The CBO clearly specifies that the SS costs were excluded multiple times. Friedman did not mention this, so he is just as bad as Bachmann.
He also has a new one out if anybody is interested. http://veryawesomeworld.com/awesomebookofthanks/inside.html

They are well made and a good purchase for anybody has has or knows kids.
Hi Daz,
We're working on something related to your request over at AccountDock (https://accountdock.com). Email me at oliver@accountdock.com
I'd love to chat with you to get a better understanding of your needs and how we might be able to help :)
Funny, as I read this post I thought, "Not hacker news." Then I read all the comments (42 as of this writing) and still thought, "Not hacker news."

Then I realized, "Perfect hacker news." Let me explain...

I try to approach my business just as the Mexicans in the story did. Not to make money, not to change the world, not to build cool stuff (well maybe just a little), but to genuinely help people. For a business person, this thinking is difficult and counter-intuitive.

Why do I do this? Because of my first mentor (and co-founder).

He was relentless in everything he did. I learned to stay up all night, keep calling on customers, and stay with tasks until we got somewhere with them. I remember many nights with thousands of invoices spread across the carpet, watching the graveyard shift run their machines, or scanning reports on-line, looking for clues. He wouldn't quit and the reason was always the same, "These people need help and we can help them. So we do. Don't worry about how hard it is or how much time we spend, it'll all work out in the end."

Sometimes I think that this is the attitude very successful people must have. It's too easy to give up when it's for ourselves, but much harder when we know that someone else needs us to get the thing done.

The Mexicans in the story reminded me of my mentor. A great lesson for anyone in business (or not). Thank you, OP.
The original author is Daniel J. Bernstein, a mathematics professor at UIC, who wrote an entire Sendmail replacement and an entire BIND replacement and released them both to the public domain. Monetizing ideas is not what he does.
My personal favourite is "Operating Systems: Design and implementation" by Tanenbaum, it covers all the subjects you mention.
Nice to see the DC community coming together
Because clearly this is a publicity stunt, otherwise he'd simply do it without feeling the need to write about it.
I know of a startup using Java and SEAM Framework: http://seamframework.org/

They're doing pretty well for themselves too.
The Opera Web Standards Curriculum: http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/1-introduction-to-the-web...

I didn't find it until well after I learned HTML & CSS, and I wish I had seen it then. It covers web standards from the bottom up, and would give you a really great foundation to start from.
I think Microsoft know's the resuts if it tries to stop the hacking of Kinect. Their own games are really not that engaging so far - this could help. I just hope they don't try some Apple move with development.