jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That list is a bit misleading because the vast majority of those calculators are no longer manufactured. So, you could pick one up on ebay/etc and use it, but the problem is that if it breaks or gets lost it may be difficult to source another one. Given that the user interfaces/functionality is different from model to model its not necessarily easy to go from a TI 85 to a TI 84.

Which using that as an example, I still have my TI 85 my poor/single mother purchased in '92, but I ended up purchasing a TI 84 (ebay) for my middle school daughter this year because that is the calculator she knows how to use because they have them in school. Sure, I could have gotten one of the recent casio's, which is probably a better calculator than the '84, but its the same problem. The teacher shows them how to do stuff on the calculator, and the school's calculator's act as backup if she forgets/etc to bring it to class.

That said, while they are a rip-off, I used the same TI 85 for 8+ years of schooling. Back then that calculator was banned by the college board AFAIK, for testing because it had linear algebra solvers/etc. (apparently its now allowed along with the 89, which makes no sense) Even so, while I was probably the most honest student in many of my college classes there were many times when that calculator had a built in function which would directly solve problems I found on exams. For a few years I had an ongoing joke that engineering school was just 4 years of learning how to use all the built in functionality of my calculator.
I once thought that bitcoin's usage as a secure decentralized database, not as a currency, would be the source of some major use. But there are no big results here, so now, not so sure.
The semantics of those languages are so brutally complex and different that I find it difficult that we could see such a tool.
You should start reading up on HIPAA regulations if you will be hosting any of your users' private medical data.

This is one of the big reasons that only Google and Microsoft are dueling it out over PHR standards--they have major legislative and regulatory affairs departments and fleets of lawyers to make sure they are covered legally.

(disclaimer: I'm working on an app in this space)
Though I doubt it would be possible because of licenses, (and also a relatively small number of people interested in that) the different clocks and the chosen time (which covers most of the world being awake) make me hope that they move to a somewhat global iTunes Store, where one can buy and gift music, apps, movies across country-specific stores.

Just last week, I couldn't gift an iPhone game to a friend because he wouldn't have been able to get it from his "local" store.
I agree Microsoft had an opportunity to capitalize on casual game and they missed it. In fact once I think about it Microsoft was really close to it. They had MSN Spaces, essentially a dumbed down version of my space and they had The Zone. MSN Spaces already had MSN messenger intergration and MSN messenger provided games you could play with your friends, my favorite being Hexic. Looking back it seems like such a natural move to try to tie it all together. Of course Hindsight is always 20/20.
Stream live video?

Synchronize javascript events to keyframes in the video?
I live in the area, but am unable to attend. I'd also like to watch a recording. Is there a cheap / easy way to do this? If there is enough interest, could someone attempt to record it?
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." --H. L. Mencken
There are also "closed canoes" that are decked like kayaks but deeper hulled, and you kneel like regular canoes. I had a room-mate that used one in competition.
I'm quite pleased to have learned that a simple thing like a bunch of people with oversized kazoos can cause international outrage.
Everyone's said this, I'll say it too: Awesome!

I fell into programming by accident at about 21, and I remember what it was like, it's much as you described. Fun times!

All the advice here is good, but nobody has recommended you read "The Pragmatic Programmer", which I found to be a bit enlightening. I still go back to it years later to read and ponder.

Good luck! You sound like you wont need it. It's a damn good career for those who enjoy it and are willing to put in some effort.

EDIT: I never did a CS degree, but considered doing it many times (if work dried up, it never did). I believe though that the people you meet and work with is a major part of doing a degree, so that'd be why I would go. I get to work with good people anyway. This article was posted on HN recently and I think is relevant:

http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1275258018.html

I admit there are CS-type stuff I can't do (but I know where and who to ask) because I never did a degree. Saying that though, I have worked with people who have had CS degrees and couldn't code themselves out of a paper bag. If I were to go back in time to when I was your age, I'd do the degree, though.
And of course the follow up -- how long does something need to exist before cultural relativism kicks in. 20 years?

Originally made out of tin, the vuvuzela became popular in South Africa in the 1990s. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuvuzela#Use_outside_football_g...
I will be in Tokyo in July and beginning of August. Hope you will have another meeting!
Could this be done effectively in an RV?
i had to look:

google-questions.com/tip_guidelines

how timely is this google webmaster video?

youtube.com/watch?v=RlNPRonDxuU#t=2m57s

the key part about domains google seizes starts at 2:57
I wonder if there are any particular initial conditions that led you to genuinely enjoy it.

For example, a lucky streak or parental encouragement might have led you to make "I'm awesome at bowling" part of your identity, creating a virtuous circle of getting better and being proud and wanting to get even better.

If you had a friend or older brothre that had been doing it for 6 months that was with you when you first tried bowling, you might have decided that you simply weren't any good at it, and therefore why waste your time practising something you're clearly no good at?

I wonder how much of what we all decide to dedicate our lives to is simply down to random initial conditions.
Tiktok, the app, is made by the same Chinese firm that makes Douyin, but it is maintained separately and not available in China. The content is entirely separate.

It is not uncommon that Chinese firms have separate, parallel versions of their applications within / outside China.

So it is accurate to say that Douyin is a Chinese (meaning, available in China; not meaning made by a Chinese company) version of Tiktok.
Thing is, the "Cupertino Grand Unified Vision" usually syncs up better with the needs and desires or the general population.

Some people don't want to have to configure anything to start using it or to start being productive with it. Apple's desire to focus on these types of people is obvious when not only analyze the type of features they add, but how they're implemented.
Avoid their SSD's now too. With the the 980 PRO, Samsung has just changed the components but kept the same model number.

Samsung have removed the Elpis controller from the 980 PRO SSD and replaced it with an unknown one.

Take a look here for what's changed on the 980 PRO: https://i.imgur.com/YJShyLR.jpg
It's amazing how many people today don't know we once had concentration camps in the USA and what we put innocent families through.

We almost went there again with arabic Americans after 9/11 via census data.
It's not specific to bind:

RFC 1035 says the following:

2.3.4. Size limits

Various objects and parameters in the DNS have size
limits. They are listed below. Some could be easily
changed, others are more fundamental.

labels 63 octets or less

names 255 octets or less

TTL positive values of a signed 32 bit number.

UDP messages 512 octets or less

Although if the response to a query doesn't fit, the TC bit is supposed to be set and clients should retry over TCP. This is rare enough in practice, though, that not all implementations bother.
If they let me show up with massive hangovers, allow me to drink at work, don't care that I smoke inside and miss half of my deadlines. Sure. Otherwise, stop fucking using that term.

Great thing I'm my own boss, I guess.
I know you're on a comedic roll, but "women" are not objects to be earned, owned and traded as prizes.

Please mind your language.
None of the above except Shaw are technology people. Simons is a mathematician, and Griffin seems to have a pure finance background:

"While still at Harvard University, he started two funds from his dorm room, and he claims that in between classes he would make trades. He even installed a special satellite link to his dorm to acquire real-time market data. After graduating with a degree in economics, he won the attention of an investor named Frank C. Meyer, founder of Glenwood Capital [1]. Meyer was amazed at Griffin's success and rate of return with his investments (which at the time were largely based on convertible bonds), and provided a relatively small investment for Griffin to invest ($1 million) [2]. Griffin exceeded Meyer's expectations, and as word of his strong performance spread, investors persuaded to back Griffin. Citadel was officially founded Nov. 1, 1990 with $4.2 million; the name "Citadel" was chosen to suggest strength in times of volatility [3]." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_C._Griffin
I know how hard web apps are, but the article isn't about that. It's about kids making static HTML pages, pre CSS and JS for everything except rollovers, which they certainly succeeded at.
No. In fact if I had to guess I'd say two founders - one business and one technical might be the median YC company. Even if not, it doesn't seem like a big outlier given the founders I've met.

Having no technical founders is different. I believe that's happened only once in YC, and the founders were teaching themselves to be technical people at the time.
Devotion of resource arguments are detrimental to the spirit of liberty in OSS. I think of these works more like exploration than some effort ultimately asymptotic to a goal. Exploration is hardly ever an unrewarding pursuit. And it has beneficial externalities. In this case more than most even!

From http://www.winehq.org/site/acknowledgement:
"Wine is at the heart of ReactOS' Win32 support. Initial work improved Wine's portability by cleaning things up so MinGW could compile it. From there, a considerable amount of effort was spent improving Wine's shell32 infrastructure and various controls. The ReactOS team is also responsible for the regedit and task manager utilities."
More details are in http://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE
Why the downvotes? Not angry, just curious.
Why use the term "market failure" here?

"Ecosystems like coral reefs or forests are public goods. And we are drawing a benefit from these resources and some people may be drawing an income, but there’s no cost. In economic language, this is a market failure. There is no incentive to maintain that resource and so it suffers what is called a tragedy of the commons."

This is not a market failure, it is the total absence of a market. Without clear property rights, the tragedy of the commons is bound to ensue.

For example, it is widely known that poachers have decimated the elephant population in Africa. But on private property, the elephant population has rebounded enormously. The reason is simple: the people who own this land have a vested interest in maintaining large numbers of elephants on it.
To say that it's fine to disclose the use of a screen reader because willful discrimination is not a problem we actually have -- that, if I'm using the phrase properly, begs the question.
https://archive.is/8ycEb
I decided to do that as well, and the fact that artists get literal pennies from Spotify made me completely apathetic towards piracy. I support artists I like through merch and concerts, which is where they make money nowadays.
Engineering implies scientific rigour and high intellect. So, no wonder software developers, usually a derided and mistreated collective, just love being called engineer...
So that leaves either green tea or nato as the magic antidote.
When we talk about underlying conditions, note that a pretty significant percentage of the population qualifies.

Elevated blood pressure, childhood asthma, obesity, diabetes

High blood pressure alone captures 1/3rd of the public, and it qualifies as a underlying condition. 1/2 of the public has "cardiovascular disease". It goes on and on.

It just seems like at this point people are just trying to comfort themselves. A 51 year old gentleman near me passed very quickly from COVID-19 and the report claimed he had a pre-existing condition. Later the wife was interviewed and she described him as completely healthy...but he had bronchitis when he was a child.
We are going to need to massively scale up that testing; per capita tests is not a terribly relevant metric. The best measure is: can we test everybody who needs it?

All around the country, many (most?) people with symptoms are being denied any form of testing. We need to go beyond that to massive testing of even asymptomatic people that have come into contact with people who have tested positive.

The healthcare workers are thinking about how to best help the people under their care, with severely limited resources. And for them, testing doesn't matter unless it changes treatment. But there are other reasons to test.

What the rest of our leaders need to be thinning is how to engage a strategy to contain the broader spread and let people return to normal life, safely, as soon as possible.

South Korea has shown us one way, massive testing:

https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1240444836982878213?s=21

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...

The other ways or get there will be some sort of antiviral treatment or vaccine, but those will not be fast.
Back in the 90s, all my friends and I used ICQ. Then something weird happened. I can't explain why, but everyone started switching to MSN Messenger (this was in Canada, I understand that AIM was more popular in the US). It probably had to do with the nicer UI, but I can't be sure. Basically, ICQ became irrelevant, except in Russia. It's a perfect example of how all your friends can move somewhere else. The other great example: Friendster.
Yes. But from what I understand, that's even the case if you bcrypt() the same password with the same load factor multiple times, as it uses a random salt.
"Obvious" doesn't mean what you think it does.

I don't know what Zuckerberg is doing there, but let's hold off on peddling completely unfounded conspiracy theories. More likely, and less unfounded: Old-style news organizations are scared positively pantless by the fact that a blogger (He's a guy with a computer, if that's not a blogger, WHAT IS!?) was in charge of not just one, but quite a few, of the top news stories this year.
One of the more interesting papers I've read (which you/they don't have) is 'A simple algebraic representation of Rijndael.' [1] The paper contains equations which if solved would reveal a major weakness in Rijndael/AES, the current standard for actual TOP SECRET Classified information. [2]

[1] http://taz.newffr.com/TAZ/Cryptologie/hash-lib-algo/aes/rdal...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard#Se...
This was my initial thinking, but then I think most businesses won't want to use a phone as their payment platform. My reasoning is that when I go into a business and I tap the Square terminal, I am assuming that terminal belongs to the business, because what individual would have their own square terminal.

If the person who is ringing me up has an iPhone, and says "just tap this", there is a part of me that is wondering if this is the company's iPhone, or their personal device? Of course, this is easily resolved with the right surround which would remove this question, but I think it's somewhat valid.

Isn't this how it works in Apple stores (I'm not an apple person). Don't they walk around with iPhones in this big chunky yellow cases, and then you just pay for stuff through that? Maybe I'm wrong...
I hope they don't hit my VPN, I use it to get around ISP throttling.

Edit: since this is a DNS hack, looks like I'll be OK.
Spoofing your location at the DNS level doesn't work in a lot of cases. Specifically, the Netflix Android app and every Chromecast app is hard-coded to use 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4. To fool their geolocation you either need to reroute those IPs or run a VPN on your router.
A simple example of the best practice described here is to display a checkbox that says "Allow us to use your camera". Then if the user toggles the checkbox the app immediately presents the system permission prompt.

When you see it in action it feels really natural and less jarring to the user.

I've noticed this in a few apps so it seems like it's becoming a design trend, and a good trick to learn from for those that make apps.
Forbes has a number of such 30 under 30 lists - each one linked in the blog post (Consumer Tech, Enterprise Tech, Food & Drink, etc) is a separate list of 30. So the number of people named to Forbes 30 under 30 this year is greater than 30 total.
FWIW: This is exactly why places like Heroku are in business. They handle these sorts of details for people who aren't comfortable or able to do it for themselves.

Remember that PaaS != IaaS. Also, Redhat's openshift isn't too bad and you can get the code running on your own hardware, so ++.
There are some 20 categories, some selections have two people, and thus it would more appropriately be named 700 under 30.
There’s a link to the Onewheel at the bottom of that page, no indication they’re related though.
From what I've read it is speculated that NetFlix is now doing nslookups within the actual client with a internal whitelist of DNS servers; ie the client no loner trusts the results from the system configured resolvers and does spot checks.

Workaround is simple really; null route the DNS servers at your router. I have to do this anyway to get chromecast working with UnblockUS as the chromecast is configured explictitly from the factory in a attempt to prevent these things.

* create static route at router for 8.8.8.8/255.255.255.255 to your routers IP with metric of 2. Then do the same with 8.8.4.4. Note this disables querying googles DNS infrastructure on all devices connected on the network.
> secret crime

Sorry, I forgot 18 U.S. Code § 2383 hasn't been declassified yet. [/snark]

It's not clear at all what your point is. Are you a freedom of speech absolutist? Do you not believe in due process?
Yeah, Mr Lefthanded appears to be sweeping his LEO friends with his barrel also.
That's pretty awesome, but it was really choppy on in my browser and I've got a pretty decent laptop (2011 MBP). Did anyone else have that problem?
My guess is that the difference is in the evening, everyone else is awake and there are more distractions where in the morning, it's more quiet and peaceful.

Plus, at the end of the day you have thoughts of the day racing through your head where in the morning, it's a fresh start.
Preface: I develop on a Mac.

There is no easy way to answer this question. You can definitely get a more powerful PC for the price. With the Mac, you are buying some brand, some better construction, and a lot of better customer service. You are also buying OS X, which may or may not be attractive.

I used Linux for many years as a primary development machine, and it was great. Ubuntu is doing a good job solving the "there is no good desktop for Linux" that was pretty true five years ago.

That said, I prefer my Mac because I get almost the same ability to play at the command line (I spend most of my day in Emacs right now, including running my shells there), but I also get a refined experience when I'm interacting with applications outside of development (e.g. Garage Band, Pages, Keynote, etc).

In the end, I didn't switch for development, I switched for all the time I use my laptop when I'm not developing. For me, it was worth it, but YMMV.
Unity is a plugin for compiz and relies on other parts of compiz for some of its functionality.

https://lwn.net/Articles/430686/
This is not the right place for your question. Anyway, you shouldn't buy a Mac. Ubuntu with gvim can be the most enjoyable environment for rails/node development.
I have a very similar setup. I highly recommend this article, which elaborates on what you discuss:

http://remiel.info/post/1601242301/making-the-leap-to-ssd-on...
The Bonus Army protests weren't entirely without conflict.
I mean...arbitrage? Isn't that obvious?
though I agree that it's probably too general of a statement, I'm more with raverbashing on this one: while now mainly doing software I have a strong hardware background and it's more often than not just baffling to see the approach of software-only engineers when having to code over the software/hardware border. Then again, maybe I only met some exceptions. I also have no idea if/how these topics are covered in a typical software engineering's education.
So? If you think that all parts of the EM spectrum have the same effect then you didn't pay very close attention in physics class.

Propping up pseudoscience bullshit like "it's radiation!" is the same reason why we have to deal with morons complaining about wifi signal.

Ugh
/former physics minor
While its really cool that they have raised 15-X donation, for the "staring eyes" banner on every single wiki, for a site that has 400 million monthly users, 47 K still seems less. I would have expected atleast double the amount.
You might be interested in joining the linux driver project - www.linuxdriverproject.org

(As started by GregKH - http://kerneltrap.org/node/7636 )
I'm not clear how the TN helps founders... you can't be employed on a TN for company you own (ie start up your US based LLC, then employ yourself on TN).

How are BackType and others doing this?
The conspiracy theorist in me agrees with you. The quality of these images are shit, and the first thing that came to my mind was "well these aren't so bad."
You just affirmed 3pt14159's comment without adding to the discussion. That's what the "vote up" arrow is for. Also, if you haven't already, take a look at this:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Addiction may be a secondary effect, but I'd say the appreciation of good coffee flavor is the primary motivation. You can be addicted to caffeine and not care about good quality coffee. In fact, I'd say most coffee drinkers fall into the latter category.

To me it's simply the equivalent of a foodie's interest in preparing good food.
"... Today, the war in Afghanistan becomes America's longest war. Longer than the war in Vietnam. Longer than the Korean War. ..."

The most significant item I've read today.
The quad-core Sandy Bridge could end up labeled as a Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon E3. The dual core Sandy Bridge could be labeled as a Pentium, Celeron, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 (mobile), or Xeon E3.

The server designs (LGA2011) have QPI links and may be the only memory controllers capable of using registered memory. But among the processors targeting the LGA1155 and mobile platforms, they only had one core design and only one memory controller design that was shared across all products though never with everything enabled at once.
I've found that it varies based on how we (the candidate and the hiring manager) crossed paths. If I (the candidate) approached them out of the blue then I'm probably going to have to jump through some hoops like technical-interviews and such. But if they approached me then that stuff rarely comes up.
> emotional-support animals

As an European: wat ?
You seem to be expressing two entirely different view points in the same post ... which one is sarcastic?
Was Adobe Air way ahead of it's time?