jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Kant's categorical imperative:

> Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

If everyone blocked ads the websites that rely on ad revenue would lose money and have to shut down.

Sure, if only some of the users block ads they can probably survive, but someone had to see the ads. How do I justify that I get to block ads while others don't?

That said, without adblock I do find NoScript to be a necessity when navigating some parts of the web (e.g. TPB), which has the side effect of being a sort-of ad-block. But that I can live with.
That's the lack of design of a library, not really necessarily the size. You could easily have one entry point class with a bunch of ready to use functions and start your docs off there. Otherwise, you're just punting the discovery problem up a level. There's also a benefit in having multiple things in a module. You could make your code generic over the type of hash being used for instance.

As far as node, you could easily export 20 different hash functions for use, instead of a dedicated sha1 package. Then getting yet another when you want hmac.

The downside is nontrivial. In a repeatable build environment it can add tens of minutes of delays to a build as these tens of thousands of files aren't free. (And that was on a VM by one of the big providers, with top notch bandwidth.) Just even doing a local copy of so many files can take a while.
You not only could have been a programmer, you still can. There was about a 12-year hiatus between the Fortran IV class during my first semester of college and my decision to teach myself assembler when I ended up in tech support. That was quite a few years ago now.
"Flattening the curve" definitely worked, and you can see that in the data. However, what you're not accounting for is what happened AFTER the lockdowns were effective.

Experts worked on detailed plans for staged re-opening after the lockdown. I don't know about Europe, but the US did not follow such a plan. Different states reacted differently, and politics had a bigger say in how reopening was done than any epidemiologist.
Slide #19: Mike get's started on

Correction: "Mike gets started on..."

Moral of the story: Do not make easily-corrected spelling or grammar mistakes in your slide deck.

Bonus: If you hired me, nothing but flawlessly written English would go out under your company's banner.
rubygems still lacks a mirroring and is heavly amazon AWS dependent.

see the slides of my recent talk about it:

http://www.slideshare.net/rmoriz/rubygems-behind-the-gems
Drb is a bit unusual and rarely used, but I wonder what his objection is to the API?
Lol @ downvotes. We all know Cook is dead in the water.
Even on a narrow monitor, all websites since suck.com use snake text these days, so the width of your text columns is likely to be unaffected. The only exception left seems to email software created by Unix folk who prefer all text to be forced to 80 characters wide monospace.

Using a narrow monitor will only lessen the amount you scroll.
As you suggest, we do need "value traders". In particular we need traders who buy and sell stocks in reaction to news. These traders don't have to be necessarily the active fund managers the article is talking about. They could be prop traders working for their own account or for a bank, broker or hedge fund.

"News" is any new information that affect the expected present value of a company cashflow. It could be a new product, a possible merge or macroeconomic indicator.

If you invest in an index fund, you're basically following the trades of those value traders. You won't make as much money as them, because often you'll be buying "good" stocks after they've already increased in price, i.e., by the time passive fund managers buy the "good" stock, the price will often have already incorporated the value of the good news. The same holds for the "bad" stocks.
You say "gee thanks" as if somewhere in Julian's stated intentions is "helping the US government." - it obviously isn't, and one of his stated objectives is to change how governments work.
it makes me wonder how the clever financial world will find a way to take a lot of people owning index funds and somehow fleece them.

I think a lot of companies are setting up index funds now with high fees, because they know index funds have become a buzz word.

Always read the fine print.
> "it's impossible to time the market"

That depends very much on exactly what you mean by "time the market".

It is impossible to reliably predict whether the market will go up or down on any given day. It is also impossible to reliably predict exactly when a market will hit a peak or trough. Dollar-cost averaging is a great strategy to reduce the risk associated with the inability to "time" markets in this sense.

But it is completely possible to recognize that a particular asset (or class) is over- or under-valued, as long as you have good enough information. You can't necessarily predict how long it will take for its value to be more accurately reflected in the price (another sense in which you "can't time the market"), but you can recognize that certain assets are on sale or commanding a premium price, and therefore get a good price on/for certain assets.

Portfolio rebalancing is, in part, meant to help capture this. Investing more in assets that have fallen behind, and less in those that have gotten ahead, is a (very rough) mechanism for selling high and buying low. Value investing is even more about this -- explicitly putting money into assets when it is cheap to do so, and selling assets that people are putting money into when it's expensive to do so. The idea is not to "time the market" in the sense of knowing exactly what day the market will turn, but simply to take advantage of really good deals (in the long-term sense) when they present themselves.
I would like to know the answer to this too! I'm trying to think of a present for my boyfriend but I don't know much about the latest gadgets or useful accessories for a programmer. I was thinking an ergonomic desk chair but $600 is way out of my budget. Any ideas??
Interesting observation. Though, just to be clear, this promotional series VW has been doing called "The Fun Theory" is merely meant to observe how fun can affect human behavior for the better. The tie-in with their brand, of course, is that fun IS functional.

This is the first/only experiment connected with the government (and the Swedish government at that). The rest have been environmental or health-related (making more people recycle, take the stairs, etc).
Yes, a trade represents an instant in time when a potential buyer and a potential seller agree on a price. The highest bid matches the lowest ask, and then the exchange "matching engine" generates a trade from them.

Instantaneously afterward, the highest remaining bid will be below the lowest ask.

When anyone talks about "the price" of a stock it is an approximation of some sort. Probably they mean the last traded price; maybe the midpoint (bid+ask)/2; maybe the symbol is in the middle of an auction and they mean the auction clearing price.
Sure, but you're comparing the best of game dev to the worst of software dev. That is an unfair comparison. I work on a crypto exchange app, with hundreds of thousands of users buying and selling crypto. We take user feedback seriously, we iterate hard on performance and stability, and I go home knowing that I make a product people like using.

I think you have a really warped sense of what the average software job is really like.

What about embedded systems designers? What about machine/traffic control systems? What about cutting edge stuff like tik tok's recommendation algorithm (which disregarding the politics, has to be marvelled at for its ability to pair users with content they like)?

There is more out there than just Big 4 corporate paper shuffling to make the suits in head office more money..
Unless a post explicitly mentions all operating costs, I would not assume that.

There's too many different versions of the word profit and in this case it looks like gross instead of net/EBITDA.
"In our financial plan, you will never find the one staple item that every financial planner calls the cornerstone of a responsible financial plan: the emergency fund. We have none. Zilch. Nada."
https://earlyretirementnow.com/2016/05/05/emergency-fund/

If you get fired you can live off severance and liquidate some of your investments.
The confusion matrix is the product. Nobody wants to hear that, but seriously, that's the only thing that matters in ML and so-called AI.

This is hilarious, and who are we to say it's wrong?
Asides what the other user said about metadata, Signal is drastically better at multi-device support. WhatsApp only lets you log in one non-phone device at a time, and this device syncs via your phone so it doesn’t work if your phone is offline, and it doesn’t have an iPadOS app. Signal has desktop and iPadOS apps, and they all function independently of your phone once set up.
So imagine, you hold a large amount of stock of one particular company. If I put a gun on your head and tell you to sell your stock, it is a free market?
An article about this appears every few years.
> It was a 6502 assembler with Lisp syntax and a Lisp-style macro facility

And I had to use Merlin... Sadly, I couldn't afford a VAX :-(
I use a 2008 MBP. Video and wifi all work fine with no problems. I use VLC for video. Only problem is that the MBP runs hot on Ubuntu.

I've been using this setup for close to 2 years and I'm happy with it.
In Spanish, "Vaya" translates roughly to commanding someone else to "Go!" Granted, not everyone knows Spanish, but it's not totally out of the blue.
If you registered it with GoDaddy, you can use their free domain parking service.
Would converting to hydrogen be a low cost possibility/alternative to converting to electricity?
The biggest reward is the emotion that you're maintaining your sense of order. Everything has a place, and the sidewalk is certainly no place for a penny.
While in theory a quicker release cycle probably should result in less stability and more bugs, there doesn't really seem to be this correlation in practice.

Anecdotally, the bug tracker for every major project I currently work on would disagree. That's a fair range of projects, using very different sets of browser features but including quite a few relatively recent developments.

A good way to check this out is to have a look at caniuse.com and see which browsers have issues with feature implementations

Caniuse is great, but it's not even close to the level of detail I'm talking about here. For example, it currently lists no known issues with HTML5 video elements, where IIRC one project I work on that uses that feature extensively was tracking 17 related open issues as of a few days ago, including at least one for every major browser.

When I write about that kind of experience, I sometimes get asked why we don't do more to support the browser developers by filing detailed bug reports when we find these issues. Sadly, the answer is simple: the projects I work on all have relatively small teams and would literally have to hire another full time employee just to report browser bugs, because we find that many. And a heavy majority of them are in Firefox or Chrome.
compared to the average MD, accountant or Lawyer with the same qualifications we are lower middle class
An irony here is that the legal profession was recently ravaged by a structural shift that eliminated lots of jobs, and it was caused in large part by the tech industry.
Excellent talk, even if you've seen it before.

Note that the slide viewer scrolls horizontally across the first few slides, but you need to use the keyboard (spacebar) to advance further.
I suppose you disagree with Eric Evans method of Domain Driven Design (DDD - http://domainlanguage.com/)

Don't people who practice DDD, including Martin Fowler, commonly talk about the benefits of some of it's concepts, while modeling the Domain using Aggregrate Roots, Bounded Contexts, etc?
In the first company I worked for for, that was the case (a sixth vacation week, compensating for overtime). I think it's a bad idea for both the employer and the (ambitious) employee though.
True, GMX is popular in Austria. Especially the kids and youth now use GMX instead of GMail or Outlook.com. For some reasons they trust European companies.

Even many older people. When I was doing my PhD, many of my German colleagues were using GMX addresses privately.
As a lapsed superconductivity physicist, I hate to burst the bubble. In the community there has been a long-standing joke about USOs, Unidentified Superconducting Objects, and it is well known that just because you see "Signs of Superconductivity" does not prove that something is superconducting.

There are really three questions at hand: 1> Does the sample show the Meissner effect, 2> Does it show zero resistance, and 3> Is it stable under addition of impurities. It turns out that for most ceramic compounds, even if 1 is true, 2 and 3 are often not true. For example, the Cuprates (the first to cross the 77K mark) actually have a higher resistance close to the critical temperature than copper. Point 3 is especially damning as sensitivity to impurities also means you can't draw these things into wires (certainly not wires you can bend) as the very act of bending may introduce defects that change local concentration of ingredients and hurt the superconductivity.

So the burden of proof remains very high, and the small blurb is very underwhelming.
I completely agree with your sentiment.

The winning quote from this article is:
"His courtroom foes contend that Balsam is one of many sole practitioners unfairly exploiting anti-spam sentiments and laws. They accuse him of filing lawsuits against out-of-state companies that would rather pay a small settlement than expend the resources to fight the legal claims."

Finally, a consumer is using the same tactics that big companies with big budgets use to get startups and individuals to give up their claims. This obviously only works because Balsam is a lawyer and doesn't need to pay his legal fees. But, I am happy to see someone fighting back!
Quite convincing... How Signal is perceived from cryptoexperts?
I found it interesting , reading for the umpteenth time why Smalltalk or LISP failed to get traction get's boring after a while.
Yes, but the stuff that people find most objectionable- the Fox opinion shows, Hannity etc- have their home on Fox-the-cable-channel. They might get picked up on some Fox affiliates (though I doubt it, they're the special sauce that gets people to pay for cable), but the engine of the thing is the cable channel.
Microsoft presented a pretty fairly innovative vision of what a “game” console could be with the original Xbox One launch announcement. It was a complete debacle.

I’m also pretty impressed with XBox game pass- it has changed my relationship with gaming. I’ve been gaming with my XBox than my Switch because its reduced the friction of accessing high quality console games, and I’ve been trying more indie games because they are just there.

Not the sort of hardware innovation you are talking about, nor is Microsoft a first mover in the game subscription space, but still important I think.

Disclaimer- I’m a Microsoft employee, but not working on anything near gaming, and my opinions are my own.
Can you share a specific piece of evidence where Trump is inciting a coup?
curious that this is filed under "Video Games - Humor" on the site.
"Like Heroku but for PHP" would have been a less arrogant slogan IMHO.

Actually a lot of top tier websites are built in PHP (Facebook's front end is a good example) and so I don't doubt there is middle tail in there that might jump on a Heroku-style managed black box hosting platform.
To reverse the journey, the passengers would board the slip coach at the intermediate station, which would then form part of a local train to the next station on the line where the express was scheduled to stop, and coupled to the express train there to be taken to its destination.

The concepts behind the drop-offs and the pick-ups are basically the same.
Did you read what I wrote? I get screwed every time my iPad crashes to desktop because Safari ran out of memory. It's still a great device though and the out of memory situation is rare, so I keep using it.
Why is Google App Engine not the answer for Python? Is it "the man" element or is there something at a technical level you don't like or missing?
Reminds me of Sun on the Moon by James Taylor:

I’ve been talking to a friend of mine
He says making money’s just a waste of time
He’s a lazy gent, he don’t pay no rent
He’s all bent out of shape from living in a tent
...

One for a nickel and two for a dime
Time may be money but your money won’t buy time
The Checklist Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/d... ) is exactly about managing excessive complexity.
I think the point was that (a) in absolute terms US taxes are not low and (b) in relative terms they can appear low, but the appearance is misleading. You can disagree with (a) by defining "low" differently, and you can disagree with (b) by valuing highly what you do get in return for your US taxes (roads, police, military, and so on).
The bell curve suggests that in a group of 20 employees, #8 & #12 perform similarly. #1 probably performs a lot better than #4. Thats what I meant by more technically correct.

"the standard you need it done to" doesn't really fit the model of what MS do. "great job" is relative. Anyway, the whole thing probably carries some assumptions. Some employees are great. Some stink. It's unlikely that a team of 20 will have a couple of stinkers. Employees #19 & #20 are adding little (or negative) benefit.

It's dehumanising. I agree. So are all management practices at companies big enough. It may also be wrong considering how it affects morale and how it affects productivity when people try to game it (seeking out weak teams).

I just meant that I can see where it comes from. It would make just as much sense if you asked a restaurant owner to rank his mains. Out of 15 mains, 2-3 are probably stars that people come specifically to eat. 10 are OK. 2-3 suck, they make people not come back.
With so many millionaire/wealthy hackers in California it is not so abnormal. Plus Tesla being based in this region they probably benefit from the proximity and the Silicon Valley Pride effect.
Now I'd be really interested to see Tesla being more aggressive in cities like NYC/New Jersey and Boston. There are definitely quite a few well off people who would be charmed by the car.
After you do it once you realize its not that hard to deploy. Nginx -> Gunicorn -> your app
The previous post did say "something like an" - which I interpret as a low-power, low-cost board (presumably an ARM board), so it doesn't have to be a Raspberry Pi in particular.

Well, I'd just like to add that I'd totally buy that! A low-power and low-cost board with two S-ATA connectors and decent-ish performance? I'd fork over for a bunch of them.
"Donald Tufte" - I think you mean Donald Knuth and/or Edward Tufte.
How is the math done?
What happened before fiat currency allowed governments to step in, in the way they do now?
If you would think for 2 seconds, you know masks can help reduce spitting in front of you and also stop some of the ones others spread near you to get in your mouth.

Easy to think it's better than nothing.
It seems these elements would be easier to use in illustrator. This doesn't seem to provide any iso grid snapping? Based on the homepage I assumed it would allow me to draw isometric things, but really it just lets me place pre-drawn assets using a primitive 2d editor.
I hope we can get to the point of social pushback on the word "meditation" as far too vague. There are so many different kinds, and some take completely contradictory approaches. For example, existentialist "now"-based sensory meditation vs. visualization-based meditation. And that's just one of many dichotomies.

Not that I object to meditation by a long shot--it's just such rich world of alternatives and people deserve to know about that.
It was not hard to do, it's as trivial as drawing 2 buttons and some text. If this is such an issue then take it up with all the app developers. See for yourself how well they respond to accusations of being "antisocial" just for the act of moving some buttons up 30 pixels. This isn't a new thing or a regression on Mac, they always had CSD, even in the pre-OS X days. What is trendy there now is the merging of the toolbar and titlebar, which is different.
Note that the US did, in fact, occupy Japan for 6 years or so after WWII.
I don't think this is a healthy way to run. Plus it may work while you're young, but past 30 there's no way that you go on like this. Buy a heart rate monitor, and run at a reasonable speed for longer times, run faster once a week only to improve your performance and endurance.
Shorter list from hn-books: http://www.hn-books.com#B0=41&B1=14&B2=89&B3=119...

Note that I included a JQuery book in there. Any more, it's not enough to know just Javascript, you should also know JQuery (and just as importantly you should know when to use it and when not to use it)

These are ordered, so the top 3 are the best (in my opinion). The others are really good, but with a topic like this it can easily spin out of control, with hundreds of books getting recommended. Stick to 2-4.
Do what you love and the money will follow is pretty cheap advice. Some people love watching TV all day.

I also find it hard to believe that there was absolutely nothing of interest to you in college, given the pretty broad range of choices.
The urgent appeal banner is an ad.
I hear similar phrasing pretty often. Can't think of a single origin though.
I guess this might actually be a great use of 80Legs. Has anyone used them in the past, and if so, did it actually work?
There's a great deal of discussion about this from the last time it was submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2015134
Access to the piece of paper severely reduces the attack space, even if it isn't "go diagonal from (letter2, letter3) of domain name". Heck, it is not much different if it is a trivial transform on the characters themselves. Anything that a person could easily do (making the thing convenient enough to actually use) is not going significantly alter the number of permutations. Of course, this is making a big assumption that a targeted attack will go after the paper rather than say, the keyboard (which is generally much less secure than a wallet.).

However, this being said, it is much more secure against untargeted attacks than the standard "i have an algorithms in my head" or "i use the same password" approach a lot of people use.
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Microsoft loves to start things, then leaves them to rot. The Micro-Cycle...

You seem to be claiming this is going to happen to IE as well? Seems a bit far fetched, given it is still used by millions of people and something like 20% of all desktop browsers used is IE.
Thanks for the studies. That's good news.

I'd nitpick though that there's a substantial difference between "government surveillance to stop terrorism" and "volunteer my personal information everywhere because I get cool things for it". For instance, most Snapchat users are between the ages of 13 and 25 (according to http://www.businessinsider.com/a-primer-on-snapchat-and-its-...).