jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You might be experiencing imposter syndrome, and it makes you question if you deserve to be there.

I suffered from imposter syndrome when I got moved to a new team (same employer) by myself after a cohort was moved.I felt like I wasn't properly onboarded and I did not have a fellow noob to ask "silly questions", and I suffered for it. I was tasked to do a major-ish feature and I completed it with no confidence: it was scrapped from the first release & I felt like I had failed. When a colleague was asked to 'redo' it, he only added about 5% more and called it a day. Looking back at the code: it was good work, and it was 95% of what was required (to me at the time it felt like 20%).

I will tell you what I would have told myself then: don't be afraid to ask "silly" questions - don't let your egobget in the way.(try to figure it out first though). Also: it's a great opportunity to learn.
A few Internet buddies of mine did affiliate marketing, which has roughly similar cashflow issues. If you need to charge $100k in a day, and you can demonstrate capability to pay $100k in a day, Amex will happily accommodate your business.

The main question is whether you can scrape together $100k~200k for your first 48 hours. I don't know what to say about that other than "It's clearly doable." (Anecdata: My personal credit limits total about $100k and have since BCC was my main source of income. That's the "No phone calls required" number for what a young professional with a fairly modest income and good credit habits can have just lying around. Do I have difficulty thinking that a team in Silicon Valley can float $X00k for N days? Not in the least.)
You can easily checkmate with a king and a rook, it just has to be along an edge of the board.

In rare circumstances you can checkmate with a king and a single bishop: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/more-puzzles/mate-with-one-b...
Actually it is far better to minimize the number of launches to complete any mission. For example, Elon Musk has repeatedly mentioned that he is not currently a fan of in-orbit assembly. So having a really powerful engine is of great utility. The problem is one of cost-benefit. Having a huge engine means a big rocket which needs to be launched multiple times to achieve economy. But there are not too many missions around which require such capacity. Just look at the proposed SLS cadence. So having a Falcon Heavy with 27 engines is a much better solution any way. I cant wait when Merlin 1Ds are replaced with Raptors on first stage on Falcon Heavy. That would be one monster of a rocket.
All these comments about space junk, Spaceballs had it right with the giant cleaning lady in orbit. I think we should switch our focus to that instead.
Absolutely agree. There are still plenty of companies out there who have the relevant covenants and ability to sign that 3 year lease.

However, as the economy evolves and high growth companies companies become the norm the number of people willing to commit to a 3 year lease will start diminishing. This not just because they are not able to forecast their financials, but they are not able to forecast their staff numbers either.

It's an interesting time for commercial property and it'll be intriguing to see how this plays out.
I meant that statement in the sense of it's not really as if we've lost the knowledge from some golden age of engineering. I'm guessing it would be enormously difficult and expensive to build an IBM 360 as well. (Or, if that's not a good example for some reason, certainly any number of other obsolete computer systems.) But people don't normally lament the fact that we can no longer manufacture a 1960s-era computer.

But, that said, fair comment. It's the reason that there are always various military projects ongoing to basically replace old technology (such as guidance systems) with modern tech. Not necessarily to upgrade capabilities, but simply because we can't build the old stuff any longer.
I am a not criticizing the iphone 4 per se; just saying that for the first time apple is coming out with something that does not have that "wow" factor; in fact a "meh" factor if you ask me. I add that I own a MBP, 2 ipods and I found the iPad interesting (for its wow factor again).
All real crypto keys come from PRNGs (if they don't, you have bigger problems). If your PRNG sucks, you're in trouble. You aren't as secure as AES; you're as secure as your RNG.

Bernstein used a similar visualization to show diffusion in his stream cipher over multiple rounds:

http://cr.yp.to/snuffle/diffusion.html
Biggest disappointments (for me, at least):

- AT&T no longer offers unlimited data

- Video calling is only iPhone to iPhone

- Video calling is WiFi only

- No 4G

- Still AT&T only
Wow. You know you've got marketing down when CNN's top story is simply a feed of your product announcement.
Really? The iPhone success is a result of a "reality distortion field"? That is essentially what you are saying, that it has all been a result of smoke 'n mirrors and "star power". But it hasn't. For all of the criticisms you can throw and Apple decisions, the iPhone has been truly revolutionary, and the biggest revolution has been that it is a smartphone that doesn't make the average person want to cry when trying to use it, in fact, it makes the average person giggle with pleasure. That isn't hype, it isn't a reality distortion field, it is the result of real, hard, work.
I agree with the "should" part also.

Experience says that "HR" and "competence" go together approximately as well as "military" and "intelligence" however.
Really? The original iPhone had a competitive advantage based on a "real" webkit-based browser, visual voicemail, a large multitouch display, on-screen keyboard with good auto-correction...etc, etc. What smartphones had those features before the iPhone?

Those features are why I picked the iPhone as my first smartphone. Other features are making me strongly consider switching to an Android phone. I know the mantra here is "design is everything, feature count is unimportant", but I think that is an oversimplification. Design (really, usability) is more important than features, but once two products are roughly as usable, well-implemented features make a big difference. Clearly, Apple thinks that these features are important, otherwise it wouldn't be choosing to showcase them.
Isn't .co to similar to .com? If I'm going to use something outside of .com/net/org, I prefer to go with .me.
I really didn't mean to sound aggressive. Sorry.
The quote that comes to mind when I think of the reddit community: "Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not... fuck with us."
The Law of War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war

From the prespecitve of the treatment of POWs Gitmo breaks most of those:

http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/powerpoint/Military_Ju...

From the prepective of civilians in war zones, some of the tactics used in Iraq broke those:

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/721819/law-of-war/...
That could be made to work. The altered files are being served from ips within China even if the attack comes from those external to China downloading the altered files.
OP here. Wow, just wanted to say thanks for the hundreds of comments and emails. I'm touched (and a bit overwhelmed!) by the response. There are so many suggestions that it's hard to know where to begin. I'm trying to sort through the many responses and do some triage. I've already been down a number of paths that have been suggested (not to discount them, but I'm trying to maximize my chance of finding a solution, and not just go in circles).

At this point I really do feel like I need a good doctor to help manage this, and would really appreciate tips for a doctor in or near the Cleveland area. Thus far I haven't had much luck in that department (example- I have an appointment with an Endocrinologist at the Cleveland Clinic coming up- in OCTOBER!) My current doctor is now balking at my requests for various tests, so it's time to move on. Recommendations really, really welcome.

Thanks again everyone, you guys are awesome.
> Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something?

If you have "showdead" on (check your settings) you can vouch a comment that has been flagged to death.
Using the author's definition (necessary when comparing the two) of "I consider a piece of software development technology to be a framework if it dictates the way all or most aspects of an application built using it will be programmed and how the code will be organized, while a library covers only a specific aspect of the system and is usually less opinionated about architecture.", I'm not sure your criticism really holds; Rails is a framework, but Sinatra is a library - both serve HTTP.

Even then, a library or framework can choose to split up functionality and allow you to include it or not based on your needs; even if it doesn't, there's a high likelihood that problems that aren't unique to you already have a default solution (i.e., HTTP serving frameworks/libraries that make CORS, CSRF protections, and other browser only considerations a piece of middleware that is trivial to include if you want it. An example being Spring, where I believe the only place CSRF tokens are supported is in Spring Security).
If the electronic power assist steering controller fails during use, the rack falls back to manual mode where the steering is heavy. I wonder if they were collecting data on how many units fell back to the backup unit, and decided it was enough to either not use it, or pay the warranty costs for fixing them. There's really nothing in the EPAS system that can wear out, maybe the motor itself...

FSD is trash, all these Teslas on the road braking to a stop for no reason, driving slow in the fast lane >:( Cut them off the computer wont care.
I had movers a couple months ago and tried to tip them. Note that I don't ever carry cash and am a proponent of abolishing the Federal Reserve. I asked them for their Ethereum or Bitcoin address, and they said, "neither of us don't have that, but we take cash." I calmly tried to explain to them the evils of the Federal Reserve for around five minutes, then began to set them up with their own cryptocurrency wallets on their phones. I then plugged in my Ledger Nano S and had them each read me their public keys, which I entered into Ledger Live and sent them each their five dollar tip. It was a simple process and did not take longer than thirty minutes. By the end of the exchange, they were both very happy with the arrangement and thanked me profusely for setting them up to use the future of currency, although I was still in the process of explaining its importance.

"Teach a man to fish," they say, and I believe I did it on that day. I encourage everyone else to do the same.
What if a 3D scan were taken of the subject, and the artist then made the painting while viewing the 3D representation in some kind of augmented reality setup?

That would be 3D but still effectively painting from a "photo".
Reposts are a good thing when done in a non-spammy way. I had never seen this before and now I have.
Is it just me or is $40 a month too much for the content they provide? I would spend a couple thousand on fancy exercise equipment, or maybe get one as a gift for my parents but the required subscription gives me rent seeking vibes.
If you wouldn't mind opening an issue (or posting on forum.indiebits.io) and sharing anything you learned that's not already in the list it would be very helpful. I don't have time to try them all in depth.
I absolutely love the The Datasaurus Dozen. Like Anscombe's Quartet, it reminds us that summary statistics are all misleading in one way or another, and there's no substitute for looking at our data from multiple angles, and often no substitute for just looking at our data with our eyes.

For example, one thing that comes up really often is folks saying not to use the mean as a summary statistic, often because they claim it's too sensitive to outliers. Through the same lens, you could equally say that the median is not sensitive enough to outliers, and that order statistics in general (like percentiles) elide a lot of the structure of the underlying distribution that may really matter in practice. The point is that both of these view are correct, and that there is no summary statistic that captures everything about a distribution. They're tools, and you need to pick the right one. But if you're looking to understand your data holistically, all of them are going to mislead you in one way or another.
> A company is a collection of individuals.

What's your point? Facebook is a collection of individuals, but if Zuck wants political ads barred from his platform he can snap his fingers and make it happen.

Having individual private companies become the arbiters of justice for good/bad actors is not a sound resolution...especially when it comes to fraud/identify theft.
Don't bother, by the name of the account alone I can guess they aren't very serious. Keep the energy for non-trolls
Hey, this is fixed. Can you try signing up again please? Let me know if it still doesn't work.
Gun control or land use causing inequality and social calcification?
Does this also apply to European customers, given GDPR?
I still don't see how you are connecting the dots. A lot more needs to be in place for civil war.

Pretty sure the monied interests have no desire for civil war — the opposite was the case in the mid 19th Century.
Seems like they buried the lede. In the simple minds of the Feds he was connected to the Wikileaks crew.
It's strange. The more I'm using Ruby and Python, in different projects, everyday...

The more I'm attracted to Lua. I'm not sure why.
In most Arab countries, the typical work cycle is 6 hours per day, 6 days a week. Recently it shrank to 5 days a week; I'm not sure if the hours-per-day increased.

Typically it was from 8 to 2.

The same goes for school. High school (IIRC) was from 7 to 1, or something like that.
I seem to recall that there was also a small but significant minority of conservatives, who were freaked out about civil rights abuses under Clinton but then became strangely silent under Bush. Government powers are always less scary when the face on them is someone you feel is a member of your tribe.
For example, I continuously found myself often type stuff like
var me = this
...some local function body that uses me...

Probably "boring" is the wrong word. "Tiring" is more to the point.
Not linkable evidence, no, although Verisign has their own collection of user stories claiming huge conversion increases in their marketing literature.

We have done A/B testing on Verisign seals vs no seals vs generic "Secure Site" seals we created. There is a statistically significant increase in conversions with the Verisign seal vs the other two options.
I've observed this too, and as an '05, it saddens me somewhat.

Much of the top of my class seemed to find the "salesy" aspects of entrepreneurship dirty, and they wanted nothing to do with it.
From the limited amount I've read about this, he seems to believe that academic mathematics is corrupt and unethical. Basically, he objects to the whole machinery that would award him this prize.
The author is actually a friend of mine; if you want more substance, you check out the slides for a longer form presentation on copyright reform that she did; see http://cmmulligan.com/?page_id=27

Alternatively, Jessica Litman's book Digital Copyright is short and a good exposition of these issues.
"According to Carlson [Head of Clay], the money will be sent to a charity foundation if Perelman does not claim it within one year."
Guessing a name is a much simpler problem than guessing a disease. Can you point to any such systems for medical diagnoses?
> So implement storage. Build more capacity than you need for momentary power and use the excess to charge batteries or raise water columns. Build still more excess capacity, charge local storage at the solar plant or at intermediate locations, and use the rest of the excess at the point of consumption to charge storage there.

You're assuming that that's economically viable. If it is, why aren't you going all-in with your money?

> That's a lot of solar generators. So the sooner we start, the sooner we'll get there.

Nope. We'll end up with a lot of old-tech solar that isn't as good as what we'll get by waiting.

> If we can only make it through part of the night before lighting up an oil generator, it's still a win.

Only if you ignore costs.

Spending $100 today on a solar system that is half as cost-effective as one that becomes available in 2 years is a good idea in some circumstances but not all. That's relevant because solar systems are not static.

> increasingly available energy will drive the cost of existing energy down

That's not necessarily true. It depends on costs. For example, we can get energy by burning diamonds. However, doing so will not drive the cost of existing energy down.
if you read the article, it stated that it would donate the prize to charity.
or, in APL/K style languages,

+/dice`facevalue
Allowing forgein visitors is one of their main ways of getting hard forgein currency, that they can then use for trade.
Perz Vs. Mossy Toyota
Superior Court of California - County of San Diego:
Case Number: 37-2007-00066485-CU-BC-CTL

Previously rear ended and submerged non disclosed flood car bound by arbitration lasting into 4th year.

Arbitrators:

#1 Refused to hear the case.

#2 Dismissed for Bias.

#3 Record of 40-0 against consumers, Superior Court says that's cool and A-OK, refuses opinion and compel. (June 2010)

See the video and leave your comments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCUmXfy03c

Read the story:
http://www.mossyscrewedme.com

Join The Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=405196671351

Please spread this story...Support the Arbitration Fairness Act HR:1020 and the need for a fair playing field between consumers and big business.

"Those who demands, requires and appoints the arbitrator most likely gets repeat business"...Sound fair?

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Mossy Toyota sold me a previously rear ended and submerged flood car and refused to take it back. Demanded mandatory binding arbitration and has strung this out now into the 4th year.

Mossy had three options if they really cared about customer satisfaction:

1) Fix the vibration as promised (it would have never been discovered that it was a flood car and previously rear ended).

2) Exchange the vehicle for another at no added cost.

3) Refund the purchase as requested (without laughing in my face).

Mossy chose none of these instead ignoring the situation and refusing to do anything about it, hiding behind a clause.

After an auto investigator determined the car was once submerged and previously in a rear end collision I sought legal representation.

After Mossy Toyota was shared this discovery they still refused to do anything about it demanding arbitration.... Sticking it to the consumer hiding behind an arbitration clause that they most likely knew would get away with.

The Auto Industry should not be exempt from the Financial reform bill and the Arbitration Fairness Act HR:1020 should be passed.

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Regardless of my outcome, I wish my personal story can bring change to laws that protect consumers from predatory business practices. Please share!
errr, no.

It is in no way more generic or less error prone. Just asserting that does not make it so.

You _can_ get the loop wrong, if you accumulate(dice1.begin(), dice2.end(), ...) for example, or switching the begin() and the end(). You can just as easily change the addition operation to anything else in the non-boost/stl version.

In the 2nd version, when you _do_ make a mistake, if the compiler catches at you get an error message that's totally unreadable with 2000 character error lines. And if the compiler doesn't catch it, and it causes a runtime problem, it is also extremely awkward to backtrace.

Not to mention, you need the latest-and-greatest compiler to do the lambda thingy, for no obvious benefit.
Why not send American kids to China or India for education?
> If the UK is so porous then how come Germany wasn't able to stroll over in 1940.

A few thousand unorganised migrant workers who are trying to smuggle themselves in with no more than a suitcase each and try to hide in the corners of soceity when they get there is quite different from a massive uniformed army with tanks and trucks who then try to take over the running of the government when they get here.

Also the army was legally allowed and ordered to shoot the Germans who were trying to come over, whereas they is not the political will to shoot migrant workers.
One of the main reasons for me to play a game is their story. Over time I noticed that the open world games that provide huge amounts of freedom can't put too much polish into the story and it's presentation.

Of course that's not surprising: you can't spend too much work and polish for a part of the game that with some luck nobody would ever see.

This is why I personally prefer more streamlined games of late.
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/cxx0x_status.html : "Status of Experimental C++0x Support in GCC 4.5"

Last month's release of 4.5.0 is stable, but the C++0x support is experimental.
Is there raw data available somewhere?
I'm working on my long-time side project, a general-purpose programming language called Kythera. Inspirations include the compact grammar of Go and the type system of ReasonML. Uniquely, types are first-class and can be treated like any other value - passed as parameters, returned from functions, etc. Besides maybe flexibility, there's no intended practical reason for this, it began as a "what if" when I first began the project and I just kept running with it to challenge myself.

I'd like to target the JVM, so I'm currently in the midst of translating the original JS implementation into Java. This does unfortunately mean that there's not a whole lot to show (the code doesn't even build yet), but if you're curious you're welcome to look through the code [0] or drop a comment if you want to talk about it further!

[0] https://gitlab.com/dejawu/kythera-jvm
Try VIX, VXX, TVIX, SVXY

Love the Vix products
Some 50% of people in ICU are under 50. When ventilators run out you'll see the deaths rise.
I can't disagree more. I wouldn't call high school an 'outlet to try new things'. If she learns to be a developer by the age of 18 how is she tied down from doing anything else? I would say that self discovery is amplified outside of a high school environment not stifled.

I also think networking and making friends is also augmented outside of high school.
NYT is not exactly a reliable source of news in China, actually none of US MSM are.
There is something there. I think it's good to give customers a voice, and I think it's fine for Apple to ignore them as it often does.

Apple loves to move forward and drop support for legacy technology (USB A and 32-bit apps being two recent examples) but this inconveniences users and they tend to scream loudly.

You're absolutely right about the Q&A, and Apple isn't remotely transparent regarding bug reports. They also tend to prioritize new bugs over longstanding issues. Will it get fixed, ever? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on which way the Apple winds blow. However if it's more than a few years old often the answer is "probably never."
How would anyone know? Except for the NSA, I guess.
Looks like it's actually downvoted now.

Anyway, I think it's more correct to say "It speaks horribly of Hacker News readers _economics knowledge_." There are some topics here in which the quality of comments is quite poor but it's probably unreasonable to expect a group of people (specifically "good hackers") to be knowledgeable about _everything_. It is what it is and you just have to figure out which topic to avoid here.