jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"Why the accent on physical presence?"

Big money over there will prevent big money in the US from hiring smart people over there because big money over there would rather sell those smart people (or their product) at a 400% markup. For example, this quote in an article about Google moving engineers out of Russia: "The changes in the political situation make it less viable, less feasible to maintain engineers here" http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-e.... It's simply about money and has nothing to do about fulfilling immigrant's dreams or "being in the epicenter of tech" or any of that. Tech workers are money generators and people are simply trying to capture that money.
The sentence doesn't make sense. Japan and (apparently formerly) South Korea use chronological rather than geographical ordering.
Biggest caste survey: One in four Indians admit to practising untouchability
http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/one-in-f...
"... and don't assume I can't take commitment because of dropping out of highschool ... nothing is worth feeding that monster."

There is a tremendous depth in that particular rabbit hole. Your success (or lack thereof) in life will depend on you understanding how you got to this point (18, broke, and not even the Army will take you) and at the same time did not do the minimum needed (figure out how to finish high school). The advice here is that navigating life is like swimming, there really isn't any "right" way to do it, however there are ways to do it such that you end up drowning. Understanding that has to come from inside of you.

If you need cash now, I suggest you help older people with their Internet. There are a bazillion of them, they don't know an SSID from a SSN, and they want to be able to participate in the tech heavy world around them. Join a church, visit the Rotary club, walk door to door, or just set up a table at a nursing home (with permission of the home of course) offering "free help with your smart phone, tips appreciated". It won't be rolling in dough but it can keep you off the street and fed.

If you can, visualize what you want to be, and then work backward from there to see what you need to do today to get there. Good luck.
I wonder how the humans in the turing test would get on with sonnet writing. I imagine if they were, say computer scientists, rather poorly. I don't think I'd do terribly well at that.

Looking just now at Turing's paper he actually deals with Sonnets and suggests the conversation might go:

>Q: Please write me a sonnet on the subject of the Forth Bridge.

>A : Count me out on this one. I never could write poetry.

Now that I could probably do.
It's not even new. It has a 40-year history and unikernel-like systems were a major research topic during in the late 80s and early 90s -- except everyone was dreaming that we'd have thousands of tiny machines to run it on, rather than big machines with virtualization.

"Not enough machines" and "network gets slow before we even get to enough machines" were the two main bottlenecks. Virtualization solves them to some degree.

What doesn't help nowadays is the marketing hype that tries to oversell everything and the insane complexity involved in sustaining the whole thing, since virtualization on x86_64 is still, to a high degree, an afterthough that was grumpily patched on x86 along with everything else. The PR bullshit makes serious people outside the high-availability & distributed field discard this as fancy fluff, and the baroque technology stack makes the development pace rather slow.
In an old post (in 2009)[1] from their blog, they host their stuff on Rackspace.

[1] https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
Well maybe no one at Github is allowed to contact local news sources, and if they can't get a quote or information from a reliable source at the company they won't run the story I guess?
A "I only want to see [5] posts a day from Freddy" function would be good.
Very much still a prototype compared to SimCity.
Thin clients for VDI for one, and the trend does seem to go that way. With current generation hardware, a good 1U server can support 50 - 100 desktop simultaneously.
Sure they could, someone just needs to write the compiler for it. There may already be a project that does this anyway.
IMHO, the most challenging part of this would be that Lua doesn't have as many libs as Ruby and Python. So the compiler would have to do a lot more work rather than be just a syntax converter.
Yes I have. And my quip was not to criticize his views, but his frequent bluntness in expressing them.
To begin with, this article makes its argument that the NSA is involved with the Kim Dotcom situation based on two flawed arguments:

1) The use of the term "selectors" implies the use of PRISM because PRISM uses the term "selectors" for search criteria. If you look at the other recent leaks, it shows that "selectors" is a generic term used across multiple tools by several, if not all, of five eyes intelligence agencies (try popping "gcsb selectors" or "gchq selectors" into Google). It's possible that they used PRISM or one of the other NSA tools, but they could very well have also used any of their own tools.

2) The phrase "REL TO NZL, AUS, CAN, GBR, USA" means "related to fives eyes". Google provides plenty of additional examples, but it seems that "REL TO" means /releasable to/, not /related to/. In order words, personnel in the other intelligence agencies are allowed to see it; it doesn't imply that they have worked on it. See [1] for an example, but again, lots of other examples in Google.

The document says on page 13 that the FBI asked OFCANZ for assistance in carrying out an arrest warrant, OFCANZ then requested GCSB to "gather intelligence" on Kim Dotcom and his associates. In addition, on page 4 it states "No information concerning Mr. Dotcom or Mr. van der Kolk which GCSB obtained as a result has to date been shared with the Five Eyes." The authors of the Ars article and the original article are both trying to make the point that the NSA is spying on Kim Dotcom, but there's no mention of the NSA or that GCSB was using NSA tools anywhere in the leaked document.

Finally, I'm not sure who leaked these documents, but they didn't bother redacting anything - there's personal information all over the place. I see names of the police staff, and (though they're hard to read) the defendants' e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses, passport numbers, driver's license numbers. That's not cool.

[1] www.transcom.mil/publications/showPublication.cfm?docID=04A4D891-1EC9-F26D-0715CB3E5AF1309B
To the extent this was responsible for his early departure from Microsoft, it didn't work out in the end. The article also says GE dropped this after Welch left.
There’s an argument around growing / shrinking a market here. Have you ever experienced morbid fascination? Some people get addicted to the experience of horror (I don’t mean the genre). This arguably creates a new demand for something that even those demanding it would not otherwise have had any interest in.

I think you’re right about the dangers of giving authority over what does and doesn’t get censored, but there are also very real dangers on the other side of this. You don’t make consuming heroin normative, because you don’t want to make it easy to fall into an addiction by accident for those who are more prone to do so. The more harm the addiction causes to society as a whole, the more prerogative you have to protect people from accidentally becoming addicted.
Kudos to turning a bad situation, with a positive attitude and a sense of humor, into traffic!
So it's okay to use oil when it pollutes somewhere else?

I live in the northeast and I find it very interesting when someone has an anti-fracking bumper sticker on his or her car. It essentially says "oil is okay as long as there are no problems near me"
That outcome is solely because Trump was president and in that case is the government.

Blocking someone else from speaking is also a form of speech, there is no right to be heard outside of the government silencing you.

If not then I have a right to use your property to tell you what I think and you're unable to do anything about it.
I think there is something there. My 13 year old sister does not want a Facebook. I got her to get a g+ thinking 4 way video chat would be just her thing and she posted for a bit but she and her friends prefer Skype); the AIM of today. Ten years of that sort of success and whatever is HN then will be talking about FB the way HN speaks of Yahoo now.
It's not like permissive licenses are a crazy hard concept to figure out. It's not like Fermat's last theorem where there is a large challenge in discovering a proof. Sure it may not be labelled as "Open Source", but there would be something similar. Also I believe there is a good chance that software would be more free due to copyleft licenses potentially not gaining momentum.
Can you put an index on an optional column (or a function of an optional column)? Also, nice title.
In many cases your internet provider/government is your #1 concern.
Funny, I'm just the opposite. I'd rather have the basics than nothing.

Mostly I've used VsVim and Viemu. They're both pretty decent. (Viemu is better though, it's got everything I normally use except for :norm. VsVim is missing column mode and the vap doesn't work.)
http://archive.org/web/

Not daily but does the job
Health insurance companies in the United States don't exist to help people with medical problems. They exist to make as much money as possible.
Hear what you're saying. Flippa has a "webapps" tag for auctions that relate to sites like this. If sellers apply the tag, there should be significantly less wading (ie it will appear in https://flippa.com/tags/sitetype). Hope that helps.
Almost everyone using gold does it for it's symbolic value. Those uses cases involve tiny amounts compared to the monetary one.But that symbolic use is so old and it fulfills such an important need of humans that it's momentary value is guaranteed. Albeit something "like more worth than most materials".
I work at a coding bootcamp and we recently used Mithril to teach one of our JS units. I was skeptical at first that it would be properly understood by novice developers... boy was I wrong.

Mithril is an awesome framework. A breath of fresh air really.
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Or employee ownership is allowed to expand as a means to grow a biz. True, that won't fill all the gaps. But it's certainly an option worthy of more attention.
There's a game called Hnefatafl, also known as Nordic chess. I've created a platform similar to lichess to play this game with others online: https://litafl.web.app/ There are still some rough edges but please check it out and let me know what you think. - P.S. Anonymous games / ratings do not work at the moment.
Might be easier to find a cheap low-spec VPS on e.g. https://lowendbox.com/
I'm currently on a post-university gap year and making a couple of iOS apps, having been doing so for the past few years.

The first app [1] is pretty niche but a technically interesting challenge nonetheless; it's a fast auto-checkout bot to be used on Supreme [2]. There's other apps just like it but they all seemed to cost upwards of $50, so mine's available for around $10.

[1] https://autocart.page

[2] https://supremenewyork.com
The complete vehicle customization possibilities were what drew me to it, but it's incredibly full of great stuff over-all.

I've also found the developers very friendly and welcoming to new contributors.
You can't signup using custom email ids, you have to link either yout fb account or twitter, gmail and linkedin. That's a big turn off. Otherwise the app is fine.
You can avoid this by making it a deep dark secret that you are firing the lowest 5% --- or that the reason why certain people are put on a PIP, subject to a "resource action", or "has found new opportunities outside of XXX" was due to the the fact that they fell into the lowest 5% bucket. I've seen this work at a past company at least reasonably well. A few people knew about the policy, but it wasn't something which was top of mind by all of the engineers, to the point where it started adversely affecting the company culture.

(BTW, I'm not saying it was a good thing; and I'm glad I'm no longer working there. But if you don't worry about silly things like ethics, and only worry about maximizing shareholder value, it's a strategy that might work for a while.)
More than just the escaping. You should also clean your environment, providing the child process with a bare minimum of information it needs to do its job.

Otherwise you leave yourself open to future security issues, especially if you keep API keys or DB passwords in ENV.
This is rich. The whitest moissanite is still going to be obviously doubly refractive, pretty limited in cut options (make terrible step cuts for example) and is generally an inferior substitute to the vastly cheaper common CZ. If you are upset that the value of diamond is all in branding, then run to moissanite, which actually IS sold exclusively by a monopoly until this August...
Maybe we can simply re-start the thread tomorrow. I don't think it has any special "power" compared to usual threads :)
whoishiring bot here. I agree that it would be far better to post these only on business days.

But if these posts don't show up on time on the first of the month, others will post them and they will be upvoted. Moderators would have to kill loads of posts until the appointed time.

Moving the thread is definitely a solvable problem, but I'm not sure that it is worth the extra moderation work. Furthermore, neither your whoishiring bot or its caretaker is a moderator.
I like this. Polarization is a pretty good characterization. People are just not treating neutral views as neutral anymore.

Food for thought: perhaps people treating everything as fake news is an unfortunate adverse effect of all the messaging about the dangers of not recognizing fake news.
There's a similar concept in Rust, where filename strings are OsString https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ffi/struct.OsString.html
, which can be converted to the Unicode-like String.
Anyone used this before?

My own experience: I had a lot of data to process, which I thought was the use case for a tool like this: but it took a long time, and seemed to have to process the data in order to ingest it properly.

What underlying storage/tech is used? Is it all just web-stack?
I personally really enjoy the automatic line breaking behavior of prettier as it frees me from having to make this entire class of purely stylistic decisions but still have code formatted in a reasonably legible manner.

But I also have wished on multiple occasions that prettier was just an opinionated preset on top of a much more configurable core, which would make it less of a taboo to add options for what are obviously massively divisive formatting preferences.

Case in point, all the most popular issues in the repo are some form of people asking for options or changes to the current behavior: https://github.com/prettier/prettier/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

And let's face it, that whole idea of a 1-size-fits all JS code formatting tool to end all formatting debates? That ship has sailed a long time ago. The debate just moved to what prettier options to use: https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html

I think the real value of prettier these days is that we can debate as a team once, decide on an option, and then have that decision be enforced automatically moving forward. A configurable core + opinionated defaults can serve that use case just as well.
Because you'd have to ensure you're going a minimum speed before that section of track.

Means you can't continue I'd you're slowed down for a yellow flag or someone threw you off your line.

The physics works, it just doesn't add to the race other than spectacle.
I guess the only limiting factor in dual booting would be a lack of skill to set up dual boot. It's quite intimidating at first. I have been dual-booting for ~8 years and I have had my fair share of blunders but nowadays setting up a dual boot pc is very easy especially for the tech savvy (people who are running a k8 cluster) people. I cannot even recall if there was any time where I could restore atleast windows part of the os.
That tonic, used by British soldiers, is not available. You can get something with less than 1% of the concentration.
I've been running K8s since it's first stable released. It worked wonderfully for a 30 micro-service stack of node.js and Scala applications for a financial services company. I would never want to manage that many services in ec2 or ecs instances.

I also baked a 25+service AI platform onto 4 virtual machines, running kubernetes, for deployment in an air-gapped system without a knowladgable operator. It was an excellent choice for that project because of the auto-healing capabilities.

I have also run it at a small startup where we had a combination of static nginx sites, ruby on rails sites, elixer sights, node.js app, and even a c++ app. (it was at a crypto company if you are wondering why so many disparate languages). Having a single deploy pipeline for 5+ different languages and architectures was awesome. I would have killed myself if I needed to support all of those in their native environments at the same time.

There are lots of good use cases for k8s, and honestly it's not that hard if you already have system admin skills because you understand the problems it solves and how it works. Most of the folks I have seen struggle with it are developers (and likewise, I struggle with OOP sometimes - i don't mean to diminish developers skills).
Thanks for your viewpoint.

As far as I understand, outrage culture is about shunning popular folks for their imperfect human morality. Could you (or someone else) elaborate on how this is related to this, well, let's call it erosion of neutrality?
Which of these would you recommend for someone who has been programming since 2 years but wants to improve their fundamentals ?
Consider the complexity of bee brains, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi...

The scientist is quite clear that the QFT connection is largely speculative. However, you've hazarded making the same kind of "nonsense" association that you are critiquing regardless of how much more "plausible" or "simpler" you think it is.
He was just quoting the wired article which did indeed question the laws of physics.
As you say it's not surprising that the US is involved in a most of the stories but other than the Gulf Oil Spill and maybe Wikileaks I wouldn't say they're ''about'' the US. Gaza for example is primarily an issue between Israel, Palestinians, Egypt with the US along with Iran, various Arab countries, the EU, Turkey, etc. as one of many important players.
Okay I admit to skimming after the tenth paragraph or so, so if I screw up my response I apologize. The article just seemed very wordy, but not so substantive.

<snark>But am I to understand that the beef here is that wired is _not_ publishing something that others think they should? So now not only do we need a world with no secrets, we also need a world where the mob can demand that others publish whatever we ask?

I know the counter-response will be something like "but they made statements for which we have no support and the chat logs could either prove or refute those statements"

To that response, all I have to offer is that there is an active criminal investigation, not carried out in the press or the mob but by due process, and that news sources all the time say things from anonymous sources and such. I don't like it when they do, but I don't think demanding that every news source that uses an anonymous source release their name is very realistic either.

I understand that this is an emotionally-charged issue. And folks want to know. But you can rest assured that it will all eventually come out. If that's not fast enough for you, then perhaps a little more patience might help.

This whole thing -- the subsequent events to WL and Manning's arrest, including the title of the article here, has the air of a bunch of assholes kicking around folks just to keep their emotions stirred up and readership levels high. It's become the chatty, gossipy topic-of-the-week. If you can't find a juicy enough Wikileaks story, then run a story about the story that doesn't exist. What did they say about cable news during the Monica Lewinsky scandal? It's all Monica, all the time. Wikileaks makes folks crazy, and I have a feeling various news outlets are going to be yanking our chain with this for some time to come. There's money in it, no matter what angle you use.</snark>

Feel free to correct me if I've missed something.
AI is the sexiest, most romanticized and misunderstood fields in computer science. Certainly, it never ceases to generate boring article topics for Wired.
"We suggest four ways in which American society could be made more genuinely meritocratic.

First, current forms of discrimination could be reduced or eliminated.
Second, the wealthy could be encouraged to redistribute greater amounts of their accumulated wealth through philanthropy in ways that would provide greater opportunity for the less privileged.
Third, the tax system could be redesigned to be genuinely progressive in ways that would close the distance between those at the top and the bottom of the system.
Fourth, more government resources could be allocated to provide more equal access to critical services such as education and health care. "

The "North Carolina Sociological Association" sounds socialist. Color me surprised.

A system doesn't have to guarantee results in order to be fair. Some people work a lot harder or smarter than others and that is the ultimate source of any wealth discrepancy.
This is very close to the independent project I've been working on lately: http://chir.ag/ktype - my aim is to make an iPad app to help people with speech disabilities communicate better and faster. I can't wait to try out VerbalVictor. If anyone knows Dr. Pauca personally, I'd love to get an introduction. The article mentions that lots of people have contacted him lately and I'd rather not bother him if he's busy.

> ...he said, "and if it doesn't work out, they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do next. We still need to do more to help professionals understand what's available and what might be best suited for individuals."

That is also part of what KType is. I am hoping to catalog (in Wiki format) everything out there related to this topic. It doesn't matter which solution works, as long as something works. Everyone is doing their best to make something that works and it does work for a subset of the users, just not everyone. If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to update my reference page with more links/resources: http://chir.ag/ktype/research:reference
Incidentally, the rubyblock text-object uses matchit under the hood.
Whenever humans congregate in sufficient numbers a society is formed. This has been going on for at least the last 10,000 years. This has nothing to do with wealth as far as I know. At least, not in the sense that the term is colloquially used.