jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Or you can go in the Air Force, be a "civilian in uniform" (Air Force is really easy), and have Uncle Sam pay for your degree at night while you get free room and board, free meals, free medical and dental. It's an option for those people not opposed to military service. The AF really is an easy row to hoe. Personal experience. Show up with a clean uniform, good attitude, and everything is easy peasy lemon squeezy. My military service paid for my own degree. Nothing says crappy life like emerging from university behind the power curve because you're in massive debt, paying back student loans while struggling to pay rent, medical costs, transportation costs, ad astra... Start your working career not in debt. Just my 0.02.

Editing to say that if you make the military a career, you can literally save almost your entire salary if your personal peccadilloes are minimal. I knew guys that decided 4 years was enough and emerged after 4 years with over 50k in savings while paying nothing and they also got the BA/BSc degree on Uncle Sam's dime. They emerged debt free, degreed, and ready to start the next stage of their lives. Doing 8 years gets you a masters all the while doing nothing but work a job with everything paid for. At that rate, you might as well do 20, marry another member and have a steady retirement at 39 or 40 with money enabling you to pursue a job you really love because you can afford to live where you want. Bonus: Tri-Care military medical costs $500 year on retirement. Cannot touch that out here.
I'd be surprised if anybody really wanted spending time hearing about useless horrible event after another alone in his flat.
Tesla is classified as a car company. They also produce renewable energy products in the form of battery packs. I would consider this an offshoot of the main business, kinda like a lumber mill might also produce bark chips or mulch for landscaping.

To get pedantic, if a classification existed of energy storage companies, that's sort of where Tesla is right? They don't have products that produce energy via solar/wind/nuclear, they have products that consume energy and store it for later use. Is Duracell a renewable energy company? (sarcasm)

All car companies have software engineers. Practically any company past a certain size hires software engineers. That isn't really a criteria being a "tech" company is it? By that definition Caterpillar (makes giant diggers and construction equip) is a tech company. CAT has over 200 software jobs open now.

I'm not denouncing Tesla or what they are doing. I'm just pointing out that I don't classify them as Tech and those that are in the business of classifying companies don't either.
Sure they can fit any experimental result that way, they can probably fit any 19 experimental results that way, but in general if you would freely adjust a constant to fit one experiment then it would stop fitting other experiments.
> They're hints to the complier about how to order the code for 'if..else' statements.

It's more than that - it can inform many optimisations, for example keeping values alive in one branch at the expense of another.
I am familiar with May '68 but I do see it more as an ultimate victory for youth, rather than repressive defeat.

But I think I see your point nonetheless.
If you are paid by the hour it's immoral (and fradulent) to submit a time sheet for more hours than you actually work. However if you are paid a salary, you are being paid to do a job without regard to how much time it takes. If you can get the work done in 10 hours, and your supervisors are happy, then that's all you're obligated to do.
This is pretty cool.

On a similar note, anyone know of equivalent options for iOS? I see a few open source implementations, but none that are actively developed. There's SocketRocket, but that's just vanilla WebSockets.
WhatsApp could go MySpace overnight. Or I guess more accurately, go BBM. If they had a multi-day outage, how many users would they have on the other side?
I am amazed it is OK to say "the CIA saved American lives" as opposed to "the CIA saved lives". Are American lives worth more than non-US citizens' lives? Would it be permissible for 9/11 to happen if the only people who died were undocumented immigrants? What a shitty person and what a shitty attitude! I guess Paul Graham is a shitty person if he associates with shitty people like Ronco.
Note that universities haven't traditionally seen it as their role in society to teach job skills, believing that breadth of knowledge and subject area fundamentals are more difficult, more important, and more widely applicable, and that companies can and should foot the bill to train their employees on the details of their jobs. You can certainly argue that this is an outdated view, but it isn't a new thing.
The whole point of iMessage is secure messaging for the masses. Mining your text conversations in flight would pretty much kill all trust in the app.

Plus, why do something this complicated when you have a maps application on every Apple device. Replace Yelp integration with "iDine" and you're done.
Yea but you could make arguments that whatsapp could suffer any number of ill-fated results. There's no business without risk. Technical risks are difficult but whatsapp has only shown that it can charge $1/year. $19 billion is a bet (and a risky one) that they will be able to squeeze more money out of those 700 million users.
"Leon Panetta, former US secretary of defense and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)"

Interesting board of directors for a database software company, isn't it?
Personal expenses are just that, personal. While some have a limited effect on your ability to earn a living, most are just consumption.

Business expenses are almost always only the costs of actually generating revenues. Thats why there are strict limits on travel & entertainment deductions. Of course there are always exceptions, does the company need that private jet? But their accountants have to justify private jets, etc to ensure the company doesn't face tax fraud charges.
True. But given the examples in the article this is done in a masterful way.

One place that does this, it's obvious and uncreatively done: Deutsche Welle for their English articles.
The economist is very heavily biased towards global capitalism, and they present many strong cases in favour of particular political paths. I’m not sure why so many of their readers see them as neutral, I suspect it’s due to the high brow nature of the writing.

At the end of the day there is no way to produce a non-biased publication, you’re buying into the stories the publishers choose to publish (fact based or not), your opinion is likely formed before you read the magazine.
Those properties are also what makes it such a good indicator of commitment, and of course it has the added benefit of not getting caught in machinery.

I made a personal rule early in life never to marry someone I hadn't successfully lived with for 5 years prior and it's worked out well for me so far.
My first response to this really is why on earth would you want a common European culture? Especially one predicated on watching American shows like Brooklyn Nine-Nine?

Monnet saw an imminent threat of a Third World War and was trying to bind Europe together to prevent one. It bears little relation to the situation we're in today.

The great thing about Europe is that you have so many great individual national cultures and traditions. This need to create "Europeans" seems utterly bizarre to me.

Amusing the idea that Eurovision creates 'Europeans' though - the voting every year is a hilarious tangle of countries swapping votes en masse with the cultures they have the greatest similarities with.
So I just recalled I had a DC-capable clamp meter, and I was able to isolate the disk on the last stretch of a power connector chain.

I tried running with both the power management set to "Level 128 - Minimum power usage without Standby (no spindown)" and Acoustics Managment to "Maximum", as well as "Disabled" for both. Didn't make a noticeable difference on power draw, at most 0.1A more during writes, primarily just noise.

Idle
5V 0.27A
12V 0.40A

Write
5V 0.53A
12V 0.50A

So that's just over 6W idle and 8.7W under load. I'm surprised about the high idle draw, both due to being significantly higher than the specs[1] and due to them running so cool. Did they spin down the disks to get the 4W figure perhaps? I did check my clamp meter against my electronic load and it reads pretty accurate.

I didn't manage to test reads properly, since the disks are part of a ZFS pool and it spreads the reads all over, along with aggressive caching.

[1]: https://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/storage/product/data-...
Yes, I'm currently just using a single PointZ column, which is at least making some use of the index on my relevant 3DDWithin queries.
Not sure that’s correct.

Copyright attaches to the actual text (illustrations, etc; whatever is “fixed in a tangible form”), not the ideas.

You could write a story about a boy of humble origins who is whisked off to a special school, discovers he’s special, and fights evil. There aren’t that many original plots, after all....

You’ll only get into trouble if the main character is called Harry Potter of 10 Privett Drive, where he resides with his mother’s sister and her awful family, and he later attends Hogwarts, etc.
This is just a subset of the broader question of "why aren't there more women in tech?". I honestly think, in no small part, that the answer is "because the tech hobby community is so toxic to women". Note that I don't mean the professional industry, but rather more generally that women who may be interested in computers / tech in general get zealously singled out and demeaned. This drives women away from exploring their interest and in turn cuts off any chance they'd have taken at turning that interest in to a career.

It's sickening how toxic the community is to women. Misogyny is often a cornerstone of 'internet humour' (e.g.: comments about getting back in the kitchen) and people act surprised when women are marginalised and driven away from indulging their interest in technology as a hobby. It's so normalised that even other women repeat the misogynist comments. I'm sure there's a fascinating psychology paper here on 21st century stockholm syndrome.

I really don't understand how people can be surprised women are systematically driven from the tech industry when their exposure of it is so constantly toxic.

An excellent case in point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Sarkeesian#Kickstarter_c...

preemptive edit: Just to repeat, I don't think that the professional industry is systemically misogynist. It's the hobby community centred mainly around the internet (which is, let's face it, the primary medium through which interest in tech and programming especially is explored) which kills any interest in the field before it can reach the stage of becoming a possible career option.
Would you please stop posting flamewar and political battle comments to HN? You've been doing it a lot and we ban that sort of account. The idea of this site is curious, thoughtful conversation. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting.

I realize lots of other people are breaking them also, but that's not an excuse to do it yourself.
False equivalency. McDonald's can and does manage food safety over a vast area, because they've got it down to a fine art after 60 years.

A brand new startup from last year can hardly be held to the same standard.
If they have the laptop, they also have the TPM. It doesn't prevent decryption if you have the TPM.
Care to elaborate? Are they violating sanctions?
Lots of groups only accept one view point. Anyone that disagrees is attacked viciously.

It’s how the Scientologist operate. How China operates. It’s where America is/has going.

Next step is going to be a push to gather up all the guns. Wouldn’t want all the free thinkers getting any ideas now.
I actually think that Trump, of all people, is the worst to try to make that case with.

At the click of his fingers he’ll have cameras from every major news network and reporters from every newspaper in a room to listen to what he says. Inevitably whatever he does say will be on Twitter instantly. Not that it matters that much because the majority of the country aren’t even on Twitter. They read about his tweets in news reports.

I don’t buy that Twitter is a source of power for Trump. It is his communication medium of choice, certainly. But his power has always been in making controversial statements that generate headlines. He doesn’t need Twitter for that.
Aye, like the ol' Red Scare. Purges are good an' all. After all, their worldview is too scary to tolerate, beyond the pale.
So today we had:

* Reddit ban a number of pro trump subreddits (details at reddit.com/r/reclassified)

* Twitter permanently bans Trump and a number of other influential conservative accounts

* Discord has banned the donald win discord

* Google banned Parler from the Play Store

* Apple is strongly considering to do the same

This will go down as a very important day in American Internet history. A very important week in American history.

I can only wonder what the next two weeks will have in store.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25695741
Makes sense. They just set a policy and he immediately attempted a workaround.

Let's have the free speech discussions debated through representatives. I can agree that violence should be removed by platforms immediately, and that "Stop the Steal" did promote just that.
This is pretty huge. Anyone who bills on a regular basis will know how frustrating it can be chasing customers whose credit cards have expired.

Having the cards automatically update is a game changer.
If you can afford the 500kb overhead, I'd just use React to render any 'slow' angular component such as tables and lists.
More info, https://youtu.be/XQM0K6YG18s?t=403
print version: http://www.salon.com/print.html?URL=/mwt/feature/2011/04/04/...
The book "Killing Star" comes to mind. The aliens did not burn up tons of anti-matter to come and steal our stuff -- the came (in the book) because they had the MicroSoft business plan: destroy any competition. (do unto others before they do unto you)

Yeah, that book starts with a neutrino detector. The guy monitoring it is not a happy camper :-)
Personally, the most important take away point from the software craftsmanship movement [well, as I see it] is that it gets programmers to feel good about themselves, take pride in their work, and keep on improving. I am sure for many who burn nights, calories and eyepower against never-ending deluge of deadlines from incompetent managers, this is good.

Now, expending real energy, effort and time agonizing over whether it is a profession, a trade or a craft? Is arguing over semantics really important? Instead of doing that, I say why not spend that energy helping out your team mates struggling with a particularly hard to trace bug or doing more data analysis for the next round of features?
I don't know if this was meant to be a puff piece or not -- there's not a lot of sources outside Google. Hard to say if that was by design or not.

In either case, the story increased my admiration that Google is trying to do the right thing -- sometimes being tremendously naive, but still trying to live their motto. That was good to see.

The easy response to this is: you can't be just a little bit pregnant, that is, either you are a search gateway to the rest of the internet -- all of the internet -- or you are being controlled by other forces. It was sad to watch all the "free" companies in the west roll over when asked to censor. I'm glad this theme is getting more attention.
But Zinio is just a glorified PDF viewer. It may get the job done, but it's such a typical old-media way of solving the problem. If you want to see something really innovative look at e.g. the digital textbook app Inkling [1]. That is the future.

[1] http://www.inkling.com
Mine does. Works well! Even with gmail.
> Eventually there has to be some real demand to support a high price

Yes, of course. That's why the bubbles burst. But before that, there's a ton of money on top of the real demand, invested only in hope that more people will invest more money in hope that more people will invest... so it goes until there are no more people willing to invest.

> or else the price will drop as traders trade away to avoid delivery.

The delivery is not the limiting factor. The traders just roll forward their contracts long before the actual delivery date.
When I have been zoning for 4+ hours, I often dream about vim and data structures. Same thing with chess, not joking.
So your argument could have been phrased 'Personally, i disagree that all commodity businesses are really commodity businesses'?

What you were actually challenging was his characterization of domain registration as a commodity business; I don't disagree with you there, I just wanted your point clarified.
So, it's basically a PHP shared hosting with source control(git)? I would try it.
>> "The resume form makes everyone look good, which means it doesn't tell you anything useful."

I disagree. I've seen hundreds of truly awful resumes.
Another rule of thumb: When in doubt, always hire the better writer.

OK, I'll bite. Why?
"I'm not saying that and you know it."

I had no idea what you were saying. Your point wasn't very clear.

"If someone uses fruits of your passion for free, it would be nice to get an acknowledgement for that, wouldn't you agree?"

Certainly, but acknowledgements don't make you famous.
I think we're talking about 2 different things here.

Such licensed artwork (images, icons, etc...) that become part of a commercial application are different than same artwork displayed in an application.

The first is embedded by the commercial developer, the second is initiated and viewed by the user. Otherwise, by just viewing such licensed material in a commercial browser, you'd be breaking the license of the artwork. It's a catch 22 that makes no sense.

Again, the developer is selling a tool to better view content (not selling content). The tool in this case is software. Apple is doing the same, but their tool is hardware and no one complains.
"In an era when the railway companies were highly competitive, they strove to keep journey times as short as possible, avoiding intermediate stops wherever possible".

Anyone know what made the railway companies less competitive? I had always assumed that since they each had a monopoly over the tracks in each region, they had no real incentives to innovate.
Your criticism is certainly correct. I see more articles that seem to be light edits of someone else's PR releases.

He's also guilty of a strawman argument. In picking CNN's iReports (whatever that is), and then dismissing it, he ignores the vast, vast majority of "citizen journalism". But that's not even a proper example of the phenomenon: it's still speaking through CNN's mouthpiece.

And that reveals one of the critical elements of citizen journalism, and one the OP ignores: that it's not subject to the editorial biases of established media. Nobody will say "that's irrelevant", or "we can't print that criticism of our advertiser".
This is a really big deal - now you can evaluate gateways purely on their technical merits, then go and find the best deal on the (commodity) merchant account. If you're using ActiveMerchant on Rails, then you really can find great deals since you'll even be indifferent to the gateway (incidentially, AM is why I'm learning Ruby instead of Python).
Fair point. Still I wonder how the discussion went at Apple. "Let's be generous. Give 0.00000000001% of our revenues."
The license, I'm not a fan of violating licenses.
I get that most people do it anyways, I'd just prefer not to.
I'd say that the point of "going public" is to provide liquidity to existing shareholders (e.g. founders, employees, outside investors). There are other ways to raise money, if that's all you want.
Yes if they successfully laundered it and paid taxes they would have no liability.
Utf8 is one of the most momentous and under appreciated / relatively unknown achievements in software.

A sketch on a diner placemat has lead to every person in the world being able to communicate written language digitally using a common software stack. Thanks to Ken Thompson and Rob Pike we have avoided the deeply siloed and incompatible world that code pages, wide chars and other insufficient encoding schemes were guiding us towards.
That's a good point.

Perhaps most companies don't have tasks that are hard enough to really require optimum concentration?
Context: Sweden.

I spend october-april in a city. I very rarely see any animals at all here, including insects. (Sometimes we get confused rabbits here.)

I spend april-october in a house in the countryside. There's so little light-pollution that I've considered buying one of those fancy motorized telescopes.

I get lots of insects there, including lots of beautiful butterflies.
It's hardly a "simple slogan". It's supposed to be the foundational ethos of a democracy. The fact that most people in the USA do not care enough to live by it is a big problem. Unfortunately it seems people like don't even believe in the ethos, so we're quite a long way from where Abe Lincoln wanted his country to be in this respect.
You can create and distribute all-in-one Python executables with PyInstaller.

I've used it in multistage Docker builds to produce very clean, minimal production images like what people commonly do in Go.

https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/usage.html
Very promising! Put me on your mailing list!
The argument is wrong in a different way too: there are non-team-sports in which you can participate by yourself just fine, while reaping all the fitness and health benefits.
When I was an admin of an IRC network we regularly reported large scale DDoS attacks to an FBI agent assigned to us. He didn't care. Some of those attacks took the network down for a while and resulted in many users moving to other networks. In at least two cases we even figured out the identity, address, and phone numbers of the people doing it and there was no movement on it.

Then one day one of the people we had the identity of boasted on how he had briefly brought down the website of one of the democratic primary candidates. We forwarded that information and our case was reassigned to another agent and the person was arrested immediately. I absolutely think it's true that the US government is only interested in protecting established and powerful figures. I suspect the reason is career driven - defending the little guys isn't glamorous and probably has no promotion impact.
Apparently governments can now unlock any privacy rights by supplying one of two universal keys: "pedophile" or "terrorist".
Actually, it's different from what the Nazis and Soviets were doing (forcing farmers to make whatever they tell them to), and more like what Vietnam and China do. Their governments deed tracts of land to farmers and say "have at it, you keep most of the profit, but you're contracted to this township or hamlet for x amount of produce. Whatever is leftover you charge whatever you want to whomever you want."

The incentivization of ownership empowered the Chinese agrarian economy out from subsistence or "the starving farmer" to one where the farmer owned the means of production but were sharing profit and produce with the state.

I think similar principles apply here, but on the distribution and marketing side rather than the production side. The Belo gov't allots public space for private vending of produce direct from the farm, saving the middleman markups associated. They also have the ABC markets that the farmers bid on for selling their goods at prices set by the state. I'm also sure that the Belo gov't also gets a substantial deal on produce in order to run the "people's" restaurants.

Does it work? Well, agrarian-dominant economies don't stand a chance when every citizen wants to put down the shovel and pick up a laptop to do their work. But, eventually, there is a happy medium.