jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I wish hibernation would consistently work at all...
The licensing did happen. There were licensed Mac clones for a while.
That is probably intentional to keep the core small and lightweight. You can try bundling all the plugins you use during build if you want to reduce the number of fetches.
Does murex use threads? If so, how does it handle the fork/thread interaction?
It reminds me of the saying "Everyone has their price".

I do like this principle, and I already identified several occasions in the past where we said "No" when we should've said "Yes: the price will be X", being X an amount that would certainly have been bigger than we initially thought.
>So our advice is, be naughty enough to get your goal accomplished, but retreat if necessary and make sure you apologize!

I would say the advice is more along of the lines of, "First, do no harm (unless it's to the industry you're trying to disrupt)."

Sounds like their major transgression was outing other interviewees who wished to remain discreet so as not to lose current jobs or career prospects. That's a big OUCH.

The secondary one was originally sounding too much like a YC-sponsored event, which could have enticed customers under false pretenses.

A good lesson to keep in mind not just in applying to YC but in any endeavor.
If you want to be pernickety, 'alternative vote' is also a misnomer: the word 'alternative' comes from the Latin 'alter', which means 'the other of two [options]'. There are more than two voting systems, so AV is incorrect as a name, at least to traditionalists.

But this really doesn't have any bearing on which, if any, someone in Britain ought to vote for. That the name doesn't really fit doesn't say much at all about the merits of the system itself.
Related article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39523298/ns/health-mens_health/

Previous HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834671

ps: standing desk :)
I wrote it, with two subscribe links, for what it's worth.

The content is basic as per his MBA Monday's theme. He tackles one basic concept each Monday.
Great stuff!

"But the world would be a better place if more engineers, like me, hated technology.
The stuff I design, if I'm successful, nobody will ever notice. Things will just work, and be self-managing. Though, I've learned that some people like to configure things, so I usually design in knobs for them to play with, and perhaps improve things, but any setting of the knobs will still work correctly.

When engineers [who] just love this stuff design something, we wind up with a system that asks an innocent person attempting to install email, "Do you want POP or IMAP?" One common comment engineers make is that we need "more user training". That's just wrong. Instead of expecting humans to adapt to an interface slapped together by engineers, engineers should strive to create a system that is designed for humans in their natural form. "
The issue about renaming a file and having it shared is well... I'd love to hear the explanation of how else it would work. Are you going to fingerprint every file? Well, dropbox doesn't work then because most of the point is to have it editable by many people. Removing a file and placing a new copy is a rather common way of making changes.
Completely agree here. Passion is what drives motivation. Paul Graham wrote extensively about that in one of his essays (Do what you love).

So I'd say :

1. Try to figure out what you'd love to do
2. Do it, and enjoy everyday of your life :)

The problem is, it's not always easy to find answer to point 1. To find, you must try a lot of different options, until you find what you really want to do. That's why I would suggest :

1. Try to work as an intern in small companies (startups). You'll get a very good contact with the founders, who are usually very smart guys. In other words : find a mentor

2. Try to be friends with people that have a passion for something, and see if you can share their passion

3. Be curious, go out, speak with people. And travel. Travel a lot.
Homepage (I think):

http://wiki.basho.com/display/RIAK/Riak
There is one preeminent technique shared by both students in the top programs and auto-didacts of all ages: intensive reading.

Longer-form materials that require deep concentration are best. On hard topics, go as slow as necessary but don't change tasks looking for the quick hit of some lighter reading/interaction.

You could fight your way through a textbook, going more slowly (and doing side research or seeking others' help) on the parts that are most difficult. Or grab research papers of interest, and when you hit things you don't know take detours only to fill those gaps.
Recorded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON4N0yGz4n8
Chinese is difficult for speakers of chinese. They spend a long time drilling the letters.
Makes you wonder how many problems are solved by people who never tell anybody.
Being the anti-Google guy I am...I have to wonder what kind of reception this would've received if the roles of Bing and Google were reversed.
Things this is missing: Privacy policy, ability to search or differentiate, proof of security, testimonials, terms and conditions, proof that there's any actual people in the database.

Pluses: excludes job seekers!

Interesting sidebar: "We research each seeker request and only send you the best ones." I'm sniffing a discrimination lawsuit in the making.
Depends on what the inequality is caused by, if it is caused by a shrinking middle class, then no, it isn't a sign of health. If the middle class isn't shrinking but the rich are making more money, then I'd argue that it could be a sign of health.
Good faith and good intentions are not enough to create good in the world.
"On the Trail of a Fourth Soviet Spy at Los Alamos"

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
In 1994 I was junior in high school and took as many years of auto-tech as possible. In the end we were rebuilding engines and air-conditioning units. And yeah, our high school had welding, cnc, woodworking, auto-cad, and even lumber-jacking as electives.

But I took a lot of auto-tech, three years of it. And the funny thing is I have never gotten my license. I'm nearly 45 years old and have never been able to legally drive a car.

But I was living with my sister at the time who was 18 and our landlord had a weird crush on her. Our landlord also owned a ton of properties in Eugene. And he would have me mow as many lawns as I wanted for 8 bucks a hour. Most of his rentals were to elderly people. I was making double the minimum wage and had no shortage of work. But I also had a girlfriend and skateboarding and bowling league to attend to. I did the minimum to maintain to healthy balance. If I needed new shoes I would mow a extra lawn. Skateboarding is hard on shoes. I would go through a pair a month.

But eventually I found myself doing auto stuff for people after mowing their lawns. I would get scheduled for oil changes, filters, plugs, brakes.. Eventually I was mostly doing auto maintenance for people and I charged significantly more. I had a lot of cash for a kid in high school with a Operation Ivy T-shirt.

Enter the internet.

My buddy Billy went to the University and could get me a cheap computer. This was back when Apple had serious discounts for students. I got a Performa 6214, Stylewriter 1200, and 14" Multisync monitor for about $900. A significant discount.

And Bill gave me his dial-up info into his university account. He gave it out to a lot of people. They didn't check if multiple people were using it. Back then we mostly looked up stuff about how to make LSD and mortal kombat fatality codes. It was Amazing. And a lot of very slow loading scans from porno mags.

But a person that was exploring this new thing that was non-commercial with me had a forward-thinking father. He was a real-estate agent and thought the internet was cool. So he wanted to put his listings on the internet that nobody would ever possibly use for looking at houses. Images were brutal since dial-up was the norm. And we used tables since css wasn't a thing back then.

But we made a commercial site. A site for a real-estate agent. And we hosted it on the university's of Oregon's site since we didn't really know how to get a domain name or find hosting. But it was pure HTML.

He paid us well to update the site with new listings. But then the dot.com thing happened and I got a job at a movie theater and wouldn't touch the internet until 2002.

edit :: I forgot to add that I think I might have been responsible for making the internet worse.
For me, daily meditation has helped reduce my anxiety and has made me generally a more happier person. A book i recommend is The Mind Illuminated. It’s a step by step guide into meditation.
You are at least partially right in saying the goal of the EU is to unify the markets. But not, I think, in attributing this to neoliberalism. There’s a much simpler explanation that was very much in the minds of the architects of EU back in the day: to avoid another war. Making sure as much people as possible stand to lose as much as possible from a conflict with anybody is a pretty good way to avoid conflict. It has worked, too. Yes, it has consequences like everything. But I suppose it’s one of the most effective ways of conflict avoidance there is.
I replaced one type of Future for another in a large Java codebase. Not productive.

I had a colleague who wanted to rewrite the same piece of code using Observables instead.

Later in a different company I met someone who was working on the exact opposite, i.e. taking Observable code and rewriting it as Futures because "observables are confusing".

Just extract these things behind an interface and call it a day.
This has got nothing to do with my point of using a changing code base to compile against.
Bitcoin certainly got enormously slower. But the other major currencies (ethereum, xrp, etc) are both much faster and more liquid than BTC was in 2015.
About (a) and (b), in my first 2 jobs this was a non-issue since my boss always had the last word. I guess today's Agile/Scrum situation is a big improvement over that, where people work data driven and not by personal taste of one person.

Anyway, one could solve it by maintaining a ratio of people with a lot of experience.

(a) A Designer needs to be on the team that can do a Corporate Identitiy (CI) => this way it's possible that Engineers create their own Bootstrap

(b) Either solve it top-down by having an engineer with enough architecture experience; or have architecture guidelines in place / develop them consensus-based

At most places there are very concrete guidelines about codestyle, usually ensured by linters. One can also put more emphasis on architecture style
Well, this was all before Google and even Altavista. Back then all the worlds quotes wasn't at your fingertips.
"considered harmful" considered harmful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Considered_harmful
Thanks for the links! It's nice to see shyness and intro/extroversion addressed as separate things. I've always had a really hard time identifying with descriptions of both introverts and extroverts. I'd really like to read about shy extroverts, if that's not an oxymoron, since I suspect that that description might fit me.
I'm waiting for the Wakemate Forever edition before I buy this.
For me it seemed to work better in the translation mode. The reversing mode flickered forth and back, but with English-to-Spanish seemed to be more stable.
There are at least some bigger peanuts than trying to take a few nibbles out of the NSF budget ($7 billion) though. Like farm subsidies (~$20 billion), homeland security (~$45 b), or department of justice ($27 b). But I suppose I'm not surprised they didn't take on any of those, either.
It's pretty interesting when someone who doesn't really know a subject tries to teach it. You can always see what people perceive vs. what actually is.
I vote using the YC bookmarklet more often than not.
Nerd porn is the appropriate label here.
Right-click on the timestamp. http://twitter.com/#!/nateoostendorp/status/6033430473933619...
Provided you never travel to, though or over the USA, volitionally or by ill luck, nor hold assets there, provided your government doesn't have a cravenly subservient extradition-at-whim treaty, and provided you aren't high profile enough for them to bend rules, then US laws probably don't apply to you.
I'm intrigued by the concept (food is important to me and your business has synergies with http://letslunch.com). How does the logistics of delivering quality, unique meals, work?

What would worry me is that cheap chefs will just list their restaurant menus, and then you truly end up with waiters on wheels.
>...got accepted as a non-technical single founder.

That's interesting. I didn't know YC had funded a non-technical single founder before.

I wonder how many non-technical single founders it's funded to-date.

>It's kind of a long story as to why

Would love to hear that story.

Also, what startup did you get in with?
> I think they probably see Western government through rose-colored glasses but the fact remains that saying the wrong thing about the wrong people can land you in jail here.

You mean like

http://www.lvrj.com/news/exclusive-police-beating-of-las-veg...

or

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/well-done-dearborn/
It freaks me out the largest mob in the world has the 2nd largest nuke stash ready to fire. They are out of control:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen...
It can be two things.

Personally I would doubt that the signage was made purposefully confusing out of "malice". But any attempt to simplify it, now that it exists, will have to deal with a "but it will decrease revenue" excuse.
Looks like they are already doing it: https://help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/articles/1260803955549-Tra...

CSAI Match – YouTube’s proprietary technology for combating child sexual abuse imagery. In 2020, we scanned all video content previously uploaded to Pornhub against YouTube’s CSAI Match and continue to scan all new uploads.
PhotoDNA – Microsoft’s technology that aids in finding and removing known images of child sexual abuse material. In 2020, we scanned all photos previously uploaded to Pornhub through Microsoft’s PhotoDNA, and continue to scan all new uploads.

Google's Content Safety API – Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) technology designed to help identify online child sexual abuse material. Initially built to help detect all “not safe for work content” as well as illegal content, Google’s Content Safety API attributes a score to content, which in turn serves as an additional tool available for our moderation team.

MediaWise – Vobile’s cyber “fingerprinting” software that scans all new user uploads in order to help prevent previously identified offending content from being re-uploaded.

Safeguard – Safeguard is Pornhub’s proprietary image recognition technology designed with the purpose of combatting both child sexual abuse imagery and non-consensual content, like revenge pornography, and helping to prevent the re-uploading of that content to our platform and any other platform that uses Safeguard. We believe in sharing this technology with other social media platforms, video sharing platforms, non-profits, and governmental organizations, free of charge, to help make our platform, as well as the Internet at large, a safer place for all by helping to limit the spread of this harmful content. We also will provide the Safeguard technology to our Trusted Flaggers so that our Trusted Flaggers can fingerprint content on behalf of victims or potential victims.
Thanks and for writing about this in the first place. It actually made be feel much better that I'm not alone in being frustrated about cover art!
Unfortunately people will actively refuse to read any kind of diagnostic information that you do output to them, as I have learned during over a decade of doing troubleshooting sessions with customers.

If you're having a good day, you can get them to leave a pop-up error message open for long enough to read the whole thing on the third or fourth attempt. On a good day...
> and perhaps there could be a more concise enhancement of Erlang which would get the job done

Erlang already is a more concise language than Elixir but also noisier as there are more punctuation characters. I would love if Erlang would drop some of its punctuation, as some of it is frankly unnecessary.

Elixir syntax is definitely simpler than Ruby’s. Probably in the same ballpark as Python complexity wise: Elixir has less keywords and less rules thanks to the macro system but on the other hand more affordances, such as optional parenthesis.
I use it too. It's good.
I looked at the site, I can't really figure out what you guys do.
"NWAvGuy wasn't actually banned for his interactions with Schiit, but due to the very strict advertising rules at Head-Fi."

And Al Capone was nabbed for tax invasion. If they want to lock you up, they will.
I don't agree with owenwil. Apple is actually making bugs release after release. It really brought pain upgrading to Yosemite, waiting the fucking hours copying files in the so-called "a few minutes". As I can recall, upgrading from 10.8 to 10.9, Preview begins to blur when scrolling, and more memory taken. Then in the release of Yosemite, MATLAB GUI won't work at first, then goes the ugly color theme for mobile devices. Few will upgrade to 10.10 if there were not Swift support.
Speaking of GNU there’s Datamash https://www.gnu.org/software/datamash/ if you like doing “data science” in the shell
good catch my friend
Thanks. Yeah, it was down for maintenance for a few minutes there.
I think it may be Pixars influence... Up! and Wall-e were both pretty adult intellectual movies (yawn).

Hopefully Toy Story 3 has something for the kids as well (Haven't seen it yet).
decent is an understatement
I suspect the average cost of app development is far less than the $15k to $50k the article claims. The formal budget for lots of apps is zero or close to it, and even if you include the opportunity cost of a hobbyist's time (which is silly), you'd only get to the low thousands in most cases. Maybe there's a few big-budget apps inflating the mean cost, in which case the median would be more informative.

Although along similar lines, the median app almost certainly earns well under the $6355 average.
Interesting . . . that other court case is entirely possible too with people complaining about the unlimited bandwidth bait and switch.
? Yes, Omegle supports anonymous chat.
If you are new to GIS, PostGIS would probably be a good implementation to review.
I'd love one. It looks pretty sweet. My email's jr@juanpatten.com

Thanks!
Yeah - I know the UK is quite active at the moment. I am in Ireland at the moment and it's not too bad either. It just doesn't feel good that one cannot move around freely in the civilized world. Canada for instance appears to be much easier to get into.
A combination of bad management (nobody set up that mentoring relationship), and insecurity on their part (I tried to do just that, but they wouldn't accept the help).

> New hires should not just be thrown a task, left alone and then be slandered two weeks later on hacker News when they get it wrong.

They were certainly not a new hire (they'd been at the company 7 years - if anything I was the new hire!), but I generally agree. My point was merely that while some people will easily transfer their skills to different languages and domains, this won't be true of everyone.
We had a scare around Cystic Fibrosis. I admire your courage and compassion - my best to you and your family.

The story of how CF treatments developed (Trikafta) is remarkable. KS seems much rarer than CF, but I recommend studying how the CF Foundation evolved. https://www.cff.org/about-us/our-history

There are lots of good suggestions in the thread. It seems you're already doing this, but I recommend connecting with people (e.g. families of those with KS, medical professionals with an interest, marketing volunteers, ...) and keeping in touch. This can help create momentum behind a movement, leverage networks, and mutual support/encouragement. We also very much appreciated connecting with others affected by CF during that time.
Flight risk is an FAA thing or a bail bondsman thing. Or are you using a version I haven't heard before? Similarly, I have no idea why Equifax would have anything to say about Employment Risk.

But, yes, they provide a service. And? There are two other major players who didn't fuck up who supply the same service.
Think the idea is a good one. As S3 becomes standard, it would be nice if someone could rip amazon's face-off (like amazon have done for other open-source companies, e.g. elastic).
“But net/net, when a GHC contributor rolls up his or her sleeves, they on average have a bigger range than people who argue about ReactJS vs Ember.”

I think that’s going to be true for most people who have both the skill to contribute to anything like GHC and the drive to do so, I’m not convinced it’s specific to Haskell no matter how much you’d like that to be true.
There's no such thing as "granular accountability". It's binary...there's no in-between.
No. The smokestack is clay flue. The boiler is approximately 87% efficient. When the current one goes I will most likely upgrade to a Buderus made for us market with higher efficiency.
Where are these shelters now? Were people really building a lot of these? It seems they could be all over the country in mid-century communities everywhere. I look at a lot of real estate listings but I can't say I've ever seen one mentioned.
Teachers are exempt from this rule.

From here: http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Glossary.asp?Button1=P#profession...

professional exemption

A person employed in a professional capacity means any employee who meets all of the following requirements:

Who is licensed or certified by the State of California and is primarily engaged in the practice of one of the following recognized professions: law, medicine, dentistry, optometry, architecture, engineering, teaching, or accounting, or
> I'll stick with what I personally witnessed and now remember

Very scientific of you.
He sorted BLM into the “trying to save lives”, then observed that it was inefficient at saving lives. I don't think he thought about it hard enough to realise that BLM is not just about saving lives; it's also about improving them, nor that the death toll of the things BLM fights against is higher than just direct police murders.

Judging others' goals by your own heuristics isn't a hard mistake to make, though it creates very flimsy straw arguments.
Interesting approach.

Caveat:

> This technique is often called "abstract interpretation" and JET internally uses Julia's native type inference implementation, so it can analyze code as fast/correctly as Julia's code generation.

If I understand that snippet correctly, they don't prove the absence of type errors (as a classical type checker does, e.g., in Haskell) but rather interpret the code to figure out whether pieces will (or even just might?) throw an error.

This is definitely a practical approach for a highly dynamic language like Julia (hint, python guys), but it has to leave gaps. There will be undetected type errors even in checked code. Whether that matters in practice, I don't know, though.
I imagine that if you live and own property there, the atmosphere is more important. Everyone likes it when their property values rise.