jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I consult, I teach (distributed systems) at a university, I sit on a few technical advisory boards for a few companies. I don't really go out of my way to find clients; word gets around and I get referrals. If the problem interests me, I'm happy to sit with the potential client and give pointers and advice (for no charge) even if I don't want to take that project (cf. rule 1 -- never pack my calendar). It is a win-win.

I've also gone and worked for a postdoc salary (at Berkeley, on the Bloom language) because the project was so interesting. Once you own a home outright, and health insurance is taken care of, the other expenses are completely manageable. I don't need to earn a lot to lead a rich life.
..or not visiting sites anymore.
But since they weren't performing the duties of telephone operators - a machine was - this was just an expression of the problem, namely they didn't like the ui. Previously, they communicated to a human being the identification of the person they want to connect to, and a human being connected the wires.

Now, they connected to a machine and told the machine an identification standing for the person they wanted to connect to, and the machine connects them. There was no substantial difference to the responsibilities of the senators, except that they no needed to know an additional way of identifying a person.

If they had spoken into a computer and said the name of the person who they wanted to talk to, and the computer routed the call, they would have been doing the duties of telephone operators exactly as much as they were when they were twisting a disc with their finger.

But they would not have objected to the ux and they would not have said they were "required ... to perform the duties of telephone operators".

It is important to understand what a person is saying when trying to interpret their meaning. Give as full force to their words as possible, without turning them into a fool or an idiot who says things that are patently untrue.
The documentation states that it uses a non-allocated country code (+21). So it seems unlikely to happen.
There's a soft fork coming up for taproot requiring a super-consensus of 90% miners. It will likely go through and still be bitcoin afterwards. Thinking you might not understand the difference between the various types of forks the protocol can undergo.

https://taprootactivation.com/
> This is evidence of what I call magical thinking–an undue focus on the clinical trial design as having incantatory power.

This isn't complicated. Once we have clinical trial evidence, the protocols tested form the standard of care.

With no standards of care (i.e. no tested vaccine, here), then we can only guess about what might be better than nothing. It's fair to make that decision on a balance of probabilities -- try something if it's 51% likely to help (absent negative side-effects, anyway).

But once we have such a standard, the very deliberate conservatism of our medical science means we need compelling evidence before supplanting it. I think it's very likely that a single dose of Pfizer/Moderna is adequately protective in the medium term (weeks to months), but this was not fully tested. It's not appropriate to start experimenting on the general population based on a hunch.

This community is IT-centric, so think of it like experimenting on a production system. Even if you are 80% sure that something's likely to work out, the risk of failure is so catastrophically high that you don't do it when any other option is open to you.
Yeah, the most they have done is a capacitor attached to an oversized alternator for regenerative braking. They have pushed ICE pretty far out there with skyactiv-x but they aren't bringing it to the US market soon. It's over in Europe for now. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a15339942/mazdas-gasoline-...
> they are, in fact, said government

Great! where do we sign up to vote on legislation?
Yep....the claim is companies create jobs thus should have tax benefits. But I'm pretty sure the only reason that company can create job is because I purchased items from them.

If a company creates jobs because good/services were purchased, then why not empower the purchaser with more purchasing power? In a supply/demand economy, the supply side is reaping the benefits...if you give benefits to the demand side then that's labeled as making people lazy LOL.

70% of the GPD is driven by personal consumption but we're often told that we are meaningless to the economy and should give tax benefits to companies to "create" jobs.

(https://www.thebalance.com/personal-consumption-expenditures...)
Total Annihilation (1997), Thief (1998), Dungeon Siege (2002), and many others used ECS and their developers wrote about it long, long before Minecraft and others.
"I don't think I've ever met a CTO who wouldn't benefit from a list like this - or who would deny that it would be useful."

The most valuable thing for me, and I am a CTO, is exactly the reminder of the breadth of the list. Most of the areas of the list are things I am familiar with, but it is easy to let a few areas fall short. One of the key expectations of a CTO is broad expertise, which is a tall ask.
I've always wondered why airlines charge for the privilege of being first on the plane rather than the last...
Understood. Appreciate your response.
JavaScript (or rather: a subset of it) is a fine teaching language too, especially since it's easy to publish runnable code - even for beginners.

However, there is no language that can do everything equally well. It's a common reaction displayed by the proponent base of many languages, even here on HN, to advocate the use of their language for every conceivable need. This can't possibly work well.

Programming teachers should make a habit of pointing out that writing code is a journey that will require students to learn new tools all the time.
Interesting. Very similar to the way ints are represented in Python (since they have arbitrary length, negative numbers are represented with infinitely many 1's in the most significant bits).
Not new - I implemented this for a bank's trading floor in 1999, using the Java Ring http://www.javaworld.com/article/2076641/learn-java/an-intro... - we also did a few other interesting things with this device, but one of them was "walk away from your desk and your machine locks"
Well everything is part of the experience. If something stands out in the game some people are bound to notice it, and no matter the subject of the game (GTA V was brought to light here but it could be any other popular game) you will probably feel responsible for some of the good reviews the game got (and how successful it was market wise). Beyond what you did as a person you were part of a team working on something that many people enjoyed.
I purchased the second edition some months ago and seem to remember the airmail taking only about a week to get to the US.
A few months ago I implemented the Graham Scan algorithm with visualization in GO. If anyone's interested, here's the link: https://github.com/hemantasapkota/go-convexhull
UPDATE: "But even though they are running thousands of new relays, their relays currently make up less than 1% of the Tor network by capacity. We are working now to remove these relays from the network before they become a threat, and we don't expect any anonymity or performance effects based on what we've seen so far." So hopefully this gets nipped in the trollish bud before anonymity is affected."

http://gizmodo.com/hackers-who-shut-down-psn-and-xbox-live-n...
That still seems way low to me. A qualified software engineer or designer can command a six figure salary remotely, thus eliminating a commute and the need to live in an expensive city. If Pandora is doing $150k for mid level developers then I'd say it's worth it, but not a penny less.
Absolutely correct, with the caveat that putting up with the process in government is rarely a winning strategy for a small company.

And that, in a nutshell, is why the myriad defense and intelligence agencies have always been easier for startups to work with than the civilian government. It is virtually impossible as a startup to have a profitable relationship with the civilian U.S. federal government due to the mind boggling overhead and an extremely slow, paperwork driven, and politicized process that makes enterprise sales seem easy.

Mind you, defense and intelligence is the same but with one important exception: if you can address a critical operational need, they have the ability to make the absurd overhead go away and pay real money. It is why startups have always had much better luck there than the government at large; you are not automatically subject to a Byzantine multi-year process that will probably never pay off. But even then, it is a challenge to get to the right people. Nonetheless, they are constantly inventing vehicles like In-Q-Tel that have no civilian equivalent to funnel money to startups.

Enterprise is definitely easier than government in most regards from the perspective of a startup. The mechanics are more transparent and businesses understand ROI.
The best argument I've heard for the current length of copyright is this-

If someone spends decades building a business, such as a drycleaning chain, they're able to pass that on to future generations. In fact, the ability to pass a business on is a major motivation for a lot of people to build that business in the first place.

So why shouldn't Rowling be able to pass Harry Potter on to her kids? Why should her business be treated differently?

I don't completely agree with this argument. It doesn't address rights sold to corporations, for example. And personally I'd like to see copyright terms at about half of what they are now.

But this particular argument does have some merit, and I'm not completely against it, either.
In many industries it's impossible to find employees who are master programmers and understand the business domain. So some additional leadership is necessary.
As someone excited by the improvements that are possible moving from AVX to AVX2, I was recently surprised to learn that Intel has chips released this year that do not support AVX. AVX-512 is still supposedly scheduled for release next year with Skylake.

How long do you suppose until it's reasonable to presume that most processors will support it? SSE 4.2 came out in 2008 and appears to be the baseline now, so 5 years seems like a reasonable guess.

It's hard to believe this degree of ISA segmentation is going to benefit Intel in the end.
Here's a bit more on linear thinking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect

*Feel free to send more insults my way if it fulfills your ego. I am here to listen, but please keep the discussion constructive for the sake of the community.
The author of the software stated very clearly that he was approached by the CTO of Dropbox, who asked civilly that the repo be taken down.

This seems an intentional exaggeration of the issue to drive traffic.

>wladimir: Arash (the CTO) asked me to, in a really civil way. So I decided to respect his wish and take down the repository.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2478688
If I understood correctly, OP said that the Dropbox CTO stated the DMCA was "an accident". Why didn't they say it was "fake" if it was, ya know, fake?
> trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish

As does the fake DMCA takedown. If Arash Ferdowsi wants people to think he's dishonest, he's going the right way about it.
I think varicose veins are evidence that standing up all day isn't what we were evolved for.

Looking at chimps, gorillas, orang utan seems to conform that. In my limited knowledge, those species spend hours sitting or lying down.

=> I would guess it is not the sitting, but the sitting for long stretches in the same posture that is the problem.
Buried lead from the article:

"We found the minimum to be (39◦, 87◦), a location in Greene County, Indiana, about 70 miles southwest of Indianapolis. From this point the average distance to any person in the country is 795 miles, while the average distance to Memphis is 843 miles. It is interesting to note that as FedEx has grown it has established some secondary hubs, one of them being in Indianapolis. Furthermore, the optimal location is only about 85 miles northwest of Louisville where UPS has established its main hub."
This has been going on for as long as I've been an engineer, 25+ years. You're free to work somewhere else; this is nothing close to slavery.
This reads like one of those late-night "get rich quick!" infomercials that drag on and on, always talking about some revolutionary system that's guaranteed to make you rich but they never quite get to it. And then every few minutes there's a number to call so you can order the book that has the secret method that they won't talk about for only $29.99 + $8 s/h and all it contains is a longer text-only version of the infomercial except somewhere in chapter 12 (of 35 2-3 page chapters) it mentions something about living within your means and the miracle of compound interest.
I'll add that by using public ledger and blockchain tech I take a lot of the problems of mal-investment out of the picture because we can collapse holes in the economy when they pop up. The market will take care of this because people will learn that it is far more profitable to avoid holes in the first place, but I also provide an escape hatch.

When the bubble collapses you can just follow the chain, convert the failed companies to pass through entities and move on the next best idea. The money went somewhere after all. Today we can't find it because of complexity theory. With a chain, you can find it. Or at least that is the theory....
And I thought I was the only one burned by this ;)
I think the integration with JIRA (which is arguably best-in-breed for moderately heavy-duty issue tracking) is quite a compelling argument for going with an all-Atlassian setup; you can even use their SourceTree product as a git GUI.

On the other hand, GitHub's stuff generally does feel nicer to use and better and more thoughtfully UX'd.
The handful of games inspired by Dwarf Fortress are cool, but I really hope somebody is working on a proper successor. A game that's even more ambitious with its simulation, with the software appropriately designed so it can be multithreaded and optimized.

Dwarf Fortress is amazing. It's quite possibly my favorite game of all time. But at the same time, it's really only scratching the surface of what's possible with this kind of simulation. There's a whole genre of incredibly deep RPGs just waiting to be created.
As to simple terms, I assume you are talking about a conceptual model.

The problem with a conceptual model really is that we have only a few conceptual native schema to work with. I.E. As we grow up and observe the world, we don't seem to need more than about twenty five. (See George Lakoff's work) We deal with the world of macro-effects, so none of them have the desired qualities of having a super-positional state that resolves when we observe it.

If you are talking about a mathematical model, I think they tend to be even more abstract, and definitely not intuitive until you spend a lot of time with them.
Still, TFA raises a good point, which is that the diff should be between the feature branch and current master, not master at the time the branch was created.
I'd say that she is a prominent person in tech. Prominent people in tech get a lot of attention, good or bad.

One reason (among many) she is prominent is the fact she is a successful woman in tech.

In other words, I don't feel the criticism is because she is a woman, but I do think she's more in the spotlight than her predecessors because she is a woman.
This is not a hack. It's a thing non-tech people have been doing for quite some time. Indeed, you can simply call the hotel and ask them if they have any discounts (including event-related discounts) during the period of your stay, and they'll gladly tell you if it means they get your business.

It's always jarring to read something that techies call a "hack" which is something that non-techies consider common sense. What is localfu going to "discover" next? That you can ask the concierge desk to book reservations at popular restaurants?
Not quite the same, but I once had a no name company (getglue) tell me that I need to do a 3-hour programming assignment before I can interview with them. I have too much self-respect for myself to put myself through that process. I declined the "opportunity" to interview with them.

The interview process is broken and many of the interviewing techniques either do not correctly judge a candidate, or place too much burden on them. I guess the reasoning is that a false negative is better than a false positive.
3D printing company WhiteClouds was inspired to prototype the design.

Using three different 3D printers, the group printed each part layer by layer. The Connex 500 printed the pillars using Polyjet technology, while the tubes are made of a clear UV-cured resin and printed with the ProJet 3500 HDMax.
The ZPrinter 650, meanwhile, printed the station platform and the pods. All pieces are full-color and made of sandstone-like material.

Kudos to designer Krista Davis, CEO Jerry Ropelato and everyone involved in the project --- very nice work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PceZmSMo3KY

edit: fixed link
On the job training? Heresy! Shun the unbeliever, shun!

In my own current position, I would not have gotten the job if they had interviewed me then like they interview new hires now.

Don't know how to find and recover active but deleted files? Goodbye. Don't know how to follow strace around a distributed environment? See ya. No idea how the elevator works? Why are you even applying?

I know how to do all of those things now, because I asked questions of my colleagues and the internet. I'm now the lead developer, not because I knew everything coming in, but because I am able to learn.
> I politely suggest that a short contract job might be the best option for a company to evaluate a senior developer

I like the twist of doing the contract off site on the developers own time.

Every time I see someone on hacker news saying, "we've solved the interview problem. We just require every new hire to give up their old job and contract with us for a week to see if they are a good fit", I often wonder about the quality of the people they hire as I have yet to run into a talented dev who would quit their current job to do this one week contract for hire option.

Doing contract work via take home seems like a nice balance here as even people with kids have 2-3 hours free after kids go to bed. Done over a few nights in a week makes much more sense.
Pass. I spend enough time at the office writing code that I can't show to the world because my employer owns it. I don't need to justify my six figure salary to my next employer by writing even more code on my off time just to prove I can write said code.
However, if your startup depends on having a merchant account, you need to incorporate before you can get the merchant account correct?

I would really like to put off incorporating but I need a merchant account so I can bill people based on their usage.

Also even PayPal let me bill people based on usage, I hear horror stories about pay pal every day.
One thing that can be a negative irritant for new users is how far the esc key is and how often they have to reach for it. Vi wasn't designed that way. It was designed for keyboards that had esc where the caps lock key is on modern keyboards. One solution is to map caps lock to the esc key. Another solution, the one I prefer, is to map ii instead. This can be done with the following in the .vimrc file:

imap <silent> ii <Esc>:let &insermode=0<CR>

This doesn't work so well if you are frequently editing files on multiple servers you can't edit the .vimrc file on. But for your local environment it'll make going in and out of insert mode a lot more efficient.

I'm dead used to using ii now so I'm probably not going to switch, but others have pointed out kk may be a better choice, due to greater distance between keystrokes/mode. Indeed, about one in ten times I hit ii when I don't need to.
If you reject those 10-20 people at the phone screen stage, you end up with another problem that Google has been accused of: you overlook many qualified candidates who just had a bad day on their phone screen or drew a bad interviewer or got quizzed on questions that aren't their specialty.

It's a balancing act. Reject too many in phone screens, and you miss out on talent. Reject them at the interview stage, and you waste interviewer time. Accept them and put them on teams, and you drag down the level of the team and cause morale problems. Google's been accused of all of them, but in my experience, hiring sucks wherever you are, and they do the best they can given the data available.
When I went to the University of Michigan, our Engineering school had its own humanities department. This internal humanities department offered introductory level courses with smaller class sizes and faculty dedicated to teaching engineers rather than research. It was like having an embedded liberal arts school. As the article suggests, rather than eliminating humanities departments, by making these classes both required and well-taught, we earned knowledge that paid off handsomely once we entered the work world and took on roles that required more than technical skills.
sorry for the meta comment here but how can such a post end on the front page? Custom furniture stickers. OK there is a startup. This seems so out of place don't you think?

EDIT: Please no need to downvote me if you disagree - just state your POV. Thx
Physics major and doctor here. I've done the calculations twice now, once for ELF as an electrodynamics class project, and once for cell phones for mom's peace of mind (she's a math teacher and "wanted to really know". In both cases, the predictions were impressively reassuring.

I'm also in the military and see plenty of old retirees who were exposed to huge amounts of radio-length radiation compared to the average human (mainly from shipboard radar sidelobes, ELF from living among the power cables, and numerous shipboard radio comms systems). I haven't seen any case that suggested to me that their exposure such non-ionizing radiation has changed their risk of any disease or increased their all-cause mortality.

Here's a nice summary of the evidence:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/m...
So what does a place like this cost, to stay (i.e., room with bed), to live (eat/do stuff) and work (desk and wifi)?
> I'm using it in combination with µMatrix.

I'm curious: how do you use it? Do you have to mass-enable stuff using the 'power' icon, for many sites? Or do you just enable the things you know you need, on a per-site basis? Or are your default just good enough?

The reason I ask is that I was curious about it, so tried it out for a couple of days. I found many sites were not usable with the default settings, e.g. Udemy's login box didn't show up until I turned off µMatrix.
This should be written in C and have sufficient C language coverage to understand and translate itself. Functional tests for free :)