jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We have things like cybersecurity insurance that's required to be carried for vendors when working with the government, but much greater investment in both private and public sectors into secure coding and operational practices (namely by making commonly insecure things much more secure) would be helpful to at least some trends away from the current dominant mentality of "ship it first, ship it fast" dominating the software business.

I don't think it makes much sense for a random one-off script written by some lone developer starting a company to be subjected to all the alphabet soup of regulation, but I don't think letting everyone get away with security breaches forever is a good idea nor is just throwing up our hands and going "oh well, we're going to keep getting break-ins" for another 50 years.
Public companies are when private companies have grown to the point that the leaders don't know what to do with it and can't figure out how to compete any longer.
Maybe you should elaborate on why you think academia is a zero sum game. Like e.g. for one researcher to get a grant, another one doesn't?
what these sorts of schemes ignore is how much time it takes to clip, sort and strategize. how much is an hour of your time worth? if it's more than what you'd save by doing the extra work then to me the savings aren't really worth it (shortened version: opportunity cost matters).
> It isn't a legal record, but people treat it that way.

What is this "legal record"?

Email can be a business record. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_record

Business records may be used as evidence in legal proceedings. Like all evidence, BRs may be faked/forged. So what?
It's fun.

Also, my campus just shut down (or "officialized", take your pick) DC++.
Or implement the deletion policy like a LRU cache would. Have a fixed size storage for customers who haven't paid and just delete the image of the oldest customer in storage when the disk fills up. Send emails to the oldest 10 customers in that disk that if they don't respond, their data will be deleted.
http://www.grocerycouponguide.com/articles/coupon-organizati...
Run this over IP/AC to make it even harder to trace (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1149.html).
I describe it as "cult-like", because they are essentially taking the one independent choice you have during your work day (what, where and how to spend your lunch break) and making you conform to the "norm".

I think it's probably a great thing at FogCreek, because everyone is isolated in private offices all day, so forcing everyone to come together is probably a good idea. But I don't think it would be the best idea at all offices, especially those with open floor plans where lunch is the only time you can get some peace and quiet.
If Facebook wants to scale they need to learn about customer service — maybe not so much for their individual users, but for businesses. I recently helped a consumer brand client clean up her Facebook presence which was a mess — their interface was impossible for typical bricks-and-mortor biz owner to decipher.
For those that are against spending time eating lunch with your co-workers, the following Tina Fey quote comes to mind (paraphrased. not exact):

Never work with or hire someone who you wouldn't want to run into at 3am.
I rarely get time to eat lunch. When I do, it's a precious 30 or 60 minutes of solace where I can actually get away from people and enjoy some time to myself.

Why on earth would I want to spend it jammed shoulder to shoulder with people chewing and talking about work?
I updated the header on the page–do you think that's better for a lead-in?
They definitely realize that they have to offer some sort of solution, hence his "stay tuned."

It was a big UX and strategy choice to offer the a one folder dropbox and it paid off. Now's when they can roll out what people want.
I was gonna quote exactly the same, to affirm this. Haskell is an absolute joy to program in. Nothing in the code of a Haskell program feels like "extra" or "too much".
Not really, it is just filler piece. It does not answer the question, that your manager will ask you:

What's the ROI?
Editor here, my apologies. I did of course mean to communicate MRR and didn't really notice how the title might be confusing when I wrote it but I see it now. I'll make it clearer.
I wonder what problems a 5 person startup is trying to tackle that they can't find technical talent worth interviewing... just from the way you wrote it already makes me feel like a place I wouldn't want to work for
His statement could probably be better refined as "largely keep their opinions to themselves and do their jobs."

IME, older workers were raised not to discuss politics or religion at work.
Thanks for the writeup! What was the sample size on your survey?
How many people over 50 have you interviewed?
Here's another fun one: how many usable IPs do you get out of the 4 consumed by that /30? Not sure about L3 specifically but it seems a lot of ISPs haven't yet figured out that it's not necessary to waste half the IPs in every /30 allocation with gateway and broadcast IP.
Odd that nobody is writing articles about how airlines are hiring 25 year old pilots or hospitals are recruiting 25 year old ansetheseologists. Their 55 year old colleagues stuck looking for gainful employment.
Are you offering a competitive cash salary? I hear this a lot and then it comes out that the company wants people to work for IOUs which unsurprisingly does not generally go well.
That is why I mentioned that the SHR is not a good test case, it's an outlier - very few people hike it every year, there is really no trail other than where it coincides with the JMT highway. In that case, cairns are nothing but impact on the environment, since people will have to make their own way between them anyway.

I totally agree that cairns are a good marker when there is an official trail that in parts has no visible trail (usually in boulders/lava/talus fields).

btw, which desert of the southwest is in question? That's a LARGE area. If we're talking SoCal for example, the entire 700 first miles of the PCT are desert with trail so well maintained and visible that when I hiked it last year, I walked many nights well into night without having to take my flash light out until it became pitch black.
How would they force me to send the NFT with the car?
Good bye git history!
"The car contains all the equipment necessary for FSD."

"... except the parts that you'll need to go book a service appointment to have installed at a later date."
>... it was thought ...

And therein lies the problem. They presented it as absolute undeniable fact, but there were no definitive studies to back up their claims at the time.
I have indeed done the former when discussing why I use meters instead of feet.

The latter was an ice rink whose customers are very physically local. Local teams do compete internationally but the ice rink itself isn't an international org.
In addition to what others have said, text encodes oral language well but is not necessarily a good fit for sign languages. I guess it might be like writing a non-Latin scripted language using Latin letters?
You're ascribing bad faith where there is none. Spammers make it difficult to keep the email system alive at all, even between big firms. If you think it's easy, go set up your own webmail firm and show them how it's done.
Let’s use a key value store and call it the configuration registry!
But hey, maybe that's the eternal struggle of being human. Maybe we die on this hill, and keep agency from drifting upward beyond our scale.

Also, that likely means an alien civilization that DIDN'T resist entropy will eventually come along and run circles around us, in some form...!

If there's an analogy in nature (and I'll admit I've thought often about this), it's probably the slime mold[1]. It's an aggregate of single-celled organisms that managed to preserve their individuality much more than most other multi-cellular organisms. But the contrast in capabilities between slime molds and traditional multi-cellular organisms (bees! insects! us!) is pretty vast.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold#/media/File:Fuligo_...
We need to _do_ something with it. Reading is not enough, we must apply it somehow. That's why there are exercises in school or uni. That's why some people write summaries of books on their blogs. Another idea might be to make youtube videos about the books we read. Just to summarize them in our own words. To do more with the material that just reading.

(P.S. It's also the reason why I like and recommend Zed Shaw's "Learn X the hard way" approach. He makes you actually type the whole source code in the book. I actually did as he said and it made me a better programmer.)

(P.P.S. Even if we don't read to remember, I think we always still do, just differently. I think Paul Graham said something along these lines: When I read it's like compiling source code. I lose the source code but the compiled machine code is still there, running in my brain.)
This got my upvote at "zip source file embedding could be a more socially conscious way of wasting resources in order to gain appeal with the non-classical software consumer".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_RAM and http://iram.cs.berkeley.edu/

I ran into one of these companies, in 2015? at a big data conference. The founders claimed to have not known about iram, ;) It feels like PIM comes up every couple years, but ram is expensive already, and these chips are going to be some multiple more expensive. There is some inflection point ,memory bandwidth, power, something that will enable PIM to finally get traction.

The immediate problem was tooling, os support, supply, scale, etc. I think it would make a lot of sense to get this stuff installed sitewide after your code has been tuned for support. So it needs a good simulator or it needs an interposer so one can code to the ABI of the hardware.

I could see a big super computer initiative being used a test bed, probably one designed for genomics. I think we overestimate how effective and easy to use PIM (processing in ram) could be. Where it will really start to shine is when the processor can retire instructions into the PIM, pre-materialize data streams from the PIM, do a scheduled reduction and then push compute bundles back to memory. The computational ram needs to be integrated with cpu, it can't just be an accelerator.

Computational disks might be way way easier to implement. We will know how that is going as soon as Western Digital tells us.

https://github.com/chipsalliance/Cores-SweRV
Empathy, the Gnome messaging software, has yet to implement end-to-end encryption because of this mode of thinking. Rather than implement OTR they said they felt it was better to implement a protocol with E2E built in since it would be supported by native clients (what does that even mean for XMPP?). As a result, their users never had end-to-end encrypted messaging at all.

That is what being religious about these things gets you. Signal is completely closed and its users are at the mercy of the developers. XMPP+OTR was a kludge but it worked and the only reason the outstanding problems were not resolved is that the cryptographers behind OTR decided to focus on Signal. Matrix is basically irrelevant right now and whatever security benefits it might have are equally irrelevant because very few people are using it.
I agree with you. I'd love to be a part of a solution, but it would take some serious commitment and big-backing. At least, as you say, on a social level - through HN and similar communities.
I can only wonder at what doomsday scenario the lawlyers think would occur if this access wasn't a crime. Anything that could happen can already happen from foreign or anonymous addresses without recourse. I can only come to the conclusion that by not understanding or even shunning how the Internet works on a technical level, they can't appreciate that it actually already is just a system of rules. So they think it naturally needs to be "improved" with rules of the style they're used to working with (centrally dictated, overreaching, ill-specified, and inefficiently enforced).
Programmers are data manipulators, no? Github is about streamlining data manipulation (storing your code, helping you with CSVs/GEOJSON). They're just lowering the bar to make data manipulation more accessible.

One day, everyone is going to be a programmer. Is everyone a professional driver? Not at all. But most people do know how to drive a car.
About antialiased: apparently Apple does it too. And BBC.

I really hate that.
I see. So what's worse than not being to play only one turn of Civilization is being able to play only one turn of Civilization.
The server is down at the moment, so I'm not sure, but did he claim to be giving advice on how to live a happy life? The title of the link says "successful", which for many people is a very different goal.
The more we have organizations like Wikileaks, the more we have a level playing field. If we can't have privacy, then the only alternative to equality is for the government to be equally exposed. Unfortunately, Wikileaks seems obsessed with foreign affairs to the detriment of domestic exposure.
I'm pretty sure it's because boats are a whole lot more expensive than land surface. Unless you can get a lot more productivity per square foot than a field, transportation costs are still going to be low in comparison.

I don't see why this wouldn't work for high-profit produce like tomatoes or peppers, though.
>How so?

The government people are elected by the people.

>When you have a "choice" between a limited set of candidates

Choice is still a choice. If there is a limited set of candidate then they can themselves try to be the candidate (not implying that it is easy)

>serious restrictions on voting rights (eg. following a conviction)

Reasonable restriction

>when candidates aren't bound to any form of contract (they can promise anything, do the opposite)?

Democracy doesn't care about that. Its up to the people. Its still democracy even if people choose lying politician.

>Also, voter turnout for last USA presidential election was only 62%

People are free to make decision to vote or not vote, democracy doesn't mean people are forced to vote.

>Only because we let governments/politicians dismantle public services to the point they're essentially useless. It is not the case everywhere, and was not always the case through history.

Where is the case of public transportation that can take you where you want, when you want and from you want ?
> somehow the material is digestible by a kindergartener, this paper is really only accessible and relevant if

When suggesting a novel science education conceptualization, there are two sides. Science side, showing correctness and fruitfulness. These research papers. And education side, showing accessibility and effectiveness. The long unavailable book. Though I fuzzily recall fragments or draft being available somewhere.

Say I were exploring how getting the color of the Sun right in K-13, might then be used to help teach other things better, like color. Which I just might get around to. And maybe, beyond a correctly colored circle, I wanted realistic limb darkening and tint. Science side would be python color code, and spectra from papers. Or perhaps now simply python exoplanet library code. Education side is a white circle. Maybe a radial gradient for easily drawing it with a slightly darkened and red tinted edge. And perhaps a "no, not yellow, not at all - that's a pervasively common misconception - sorry all the adults and textbooks in your life are wrong - collectively we suck and don't care". :/ One side is color theory and code, browser limitations and image standards. On the other, a white circle.

In the pipeline from science research to education content, I suggest the bottleneck failure is at the science end. In using deep domain understanding to explore for fruitful and accessible conceptualizations. Whether string diagrams for quantum works out as educational content seems an open question. But it seems to me a good question.

This work has context in speculation that string diagrams might provide a useful representation across a variety of domains. With its ties to category theory. One nice aspect of string diagrams is that transformation correctness is more transparent than with equations. And one can easily imagine interactive editors making it a plaything. Scratch 2040, but vastly more general and powerful. But fleshing out how it might be used to represent various domains is IIRC a work in progress. As is demonstrating that it's a compelling cross-domain representation. Then there will be minor matters of pedagogy, and finding a foothold ahead of large scale curriculum change. But first task is finding something usefully worth attempting to teach.
They also all eventually encode control data as text, which then causes errors with parsing some data that coincidentally has those same control characters in it.

Just look at the garble URLs you see sometimes, more percent signs than a Macy's sale.
Jeremy Irons is a god in Margin Call, such a good performance.
I don’t think there’s a single labor activist who disagrees with you. We aren’t saying Amazon is forbidden from making their case, but rather that their specific behavior is unacceptably intimidating and misleading. We agree Amazon is allowed to argue that unions are bad (although I think the rank condescension and borderline dishonesty in the mailer is a legitimate news story - the thing about dues is a lie, Alabama is right-to-work).

The problem as I see it are the two other things:

- telling employees to vote by March 1st in a specific mailbox, even though the deadline is March 29th, is blatant intimidation (since management is clearly surveilling the mailbox and will know if you don’t comply). If that’s not illegal it really needs to be.

- “Protect what you have” is a very suspicious and threatening message that suggests retaliation if workers unionize (especially given the last page in the mailer). I would say this is paranoid if we weren’t talking about Amazon - they lost all presumptions of decency with the traffic light shenanigan.
There used to be a pretty standard adapter card for laptops.

I had an "ethernet modem card" from ibm in that form factor that worked well. And a scsi adapter for a zip drive I think. Its been a while...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Card
That is weird.

The literal purpose of a corporation in all its varieties, for profit, non-profit, co-op, S Corp, C Corp etc. is to pool the resources of its owners and serve their interests.

Unions are just another type of corporation.
So in other words it’s going to be 2k for i7, 16 Gb RAM, and 512 Gb SSD?
This is how every bureaucracy works, whether government, commercial or academic. Once the institution has enough income/cash flow for momentum, then it attract people who are expert at operating the machine itself, rather than expert in what the machine is supposed to be accomplishing. After the first one lands, they continue to accrete.

It's hard to recognize when it starts, but you'll know it's happened once you see a lot of people who are not connected with the apparent goal of the machine, and there are posters all over the place touting whatever programs the administrators have created to justify their existence, as well as packaged training programs from motivational/educational consultants (think Franklin Covey).
Don't you know already the rules governing date-time in js?

It seems to me that you are not doing your homework and studying hard to get things done professionally.
Google has not pulled its 20% support policy[1]

[1]: I work at Google
If I wasn't already a Go programmer, reading this would make me more interested in Go than not.

Simplicity is deceivingly challenging, and quite different from simple-mindedness, which seems to be what the author is accusing Go of being.

Keeping code simple, elegant, and consistent is IMHO one of the most valuable principles a team can adhere to. Simple is not necessarily shorter, as short can often be subtle and sneaky rather than simple. Complex power tools can be fun to the inquiring mind, but the ultimate consumers of your product almost never appreciate how you built it, but almost always appreciate the final outcome.

A wise man once said: “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?” - Brian Kernighan
There are interesting (aka crazy) copyright issues surrounding these recordings. Lomax had copyrights on songs he only recorded? And modern artists need to license them if they are sampled?

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2011/jay-z-and-alan-lomax/
Article: Reinvent the wheel, because if you just mount whatever wheels fit the axle they will inevitably work poorly for your purposes.

Wheels work just fine. Choose the best wheel from those available and tweak it as desired. Test it to make sure it doesn't shatter under too much weight. Apply and move on.

This pervading notion of "if you don't understand you shouldn't do it" is silly. Sure it is nice to understand, but it doesn't put food on the table. Sometimes it's just handy to use the gun as is and go shoot your dinner in the woods. You don't need to understand the formulation of gunpowder or rifling in order to use a gun properly for it's intended use.
It may go even further than that. Google has to produce multi-million line programs and maintain them for a decade or two. That's not a problem that most programming language researchers face. If researchers think about that, they usually do so in the abstract, rather than from a position of personal experience.

One place this shows up: Build times. Turning a 45-minute build into a 10-second build, times 30 programmers, times several builds a day for 10 years... that adds up to a really big difference.
Public visibility of a Google product and the size of the team working on it often aren't correlated. It wouldn't surprise me if News is a very small team that's spending most of their time doing maintenance.
That I would definitely agree with. France is much better for cyclists and motorbike riders.