jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
25 isn't exactly on the high side - I get 33 and I would be very reluctant to go to fewer.

Even in the UK some employers can be very "macho" about vacation - regarding holidays as something for wimps. I had someone trying to recruit me for an investment bank a while back and he got quite upset when I refused to consider the 22 days they were offering.... he more or less accused me of being soft for wanting so much holiday time! Given that they approached me I regarded this as a very odd way of trying to attract new employees.
Thanks but mine was definitely a toy. I think I got it to around 100K pages or so but that's about it (seemed like a big deal back then).

You can see some of those posts here (http://web.archive.org/web/20041206230457/www.dotnetjunkies....). Quite embarrassing to see the quality of my output from back then

Basically, I did the following

- Pull down dmoz.org's datasets (not sure whether I crawled it or whether they had a dump - I think the latter)
- Spin up crawlers (implemented in C# at the time) on various machines, writing to a central repo. The actual design of the crawler was based on Mercator (check out the paper on citeseer)
- Use Lucene to construct TF.IDF indices on top of the repository
- Throw up a nice UI (with the search engine name spelled out in a Google-like font). The funny part is that this probably impressed the people evaluating the project more than anything else.

I did do some cool hacks around showing a better snippet than Google did at the time but I just didn't have the networking bandwidth to do anything serious. Fun for a college project.

The funny thing is a startup which is involved in search contacted me a few weeks ago precisely because of this project. I had to tell that person how much of a toy it was :)
Of course. But Stallman was quite eloquent and had a well-adjusted social network. Arguing that Stallman's neurological wiring made him completely unaware that, for example, having bad personal hygeine was off-putting and anti-social is ridiculous. He must have been told this literally hundreds of times by people he trusts.
Don't give companies that does this money.
hmmm wonder why wouldn't google just roll their own.
I think we can all agree that RMS has been too abusive to corporations. Corporations that now push back in the form of twitter lobbyists.
> Do a (paid) take-home test

I want every company on Earth to understand this: if you're asking candidate to do a "test" at home, please provide a small compensation/reimbursement. Otherwise it feels like slavery. They can ask 10s of candidates to come up with a solution for a problem for free, and then they use the best one in their projects.
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I didn’t claim to be an expert. He’s not abusive because he can’t take care of himself. He’s abusive because he’s mean spirited and takes advantage of being excused for it because of his celebrity. I was never afforded that. Take your expertise and shove it up someone who isn’t a nobody.

Edit: I regret saying anything please carry on praising the guy who treats people like garbage because people enable him. I’ll just go back to doing my best to triangulate my emotional reactions with empathy so I can survive and have moderately healthy relationships.
Every time I see a big thread I smile knowing dang is going to have to write some comment about how they're working on things
What makes you say that they are in decline?
I don't see how this conclusion could follow from a bill limit feature not ever being implemented. That would only make sense if this was about them removing such a feature.
Rubicon has created a virtual marketplace where thousands of small, local haulers can bid on portions of huge national contracts.

In other words, it's like Uber - a scheme for getting more work out of low-paid employees.

My own garbage goes out in two wheeled bins - a large one for recyclables, and a small one for trash. Those are picked up by a robotic arm on the trash and recycling trucks. The recycling goes to a large automated sorting center, where DC magnets pull out ferrous metals, AC magnets pull out aluminum, and air and water flotation pulls out paper and plastics. The garbage trucks go to a transfer station where garbage is compressed and sent to a big landfill about 30 miles away. The older landfills nearby are now parks. That open space behind Google HQ used to be a landfill. For a decade or two, new landfill sections are piped for methane, which is used to power generators. The older landfills have completed decaying and the generators have been removed.

It's all heavy machinery, automation, and centralization. Works fine.
Hey, I know how it feels. I'm generally much more confident that I used to be, but I definitely have gone through stages of shyness that have lasted for a while. Im a 27 yr olds designer/ developer/massive code geek.

For me, what really really helped and now I can't get past 2 or 3 days without doing it is exercise..

I'm not sure if you include exercise in your weekly routine but seriously man.. it saved me. I started with cardio circuits purely for a mental boost, and energy spark and it sorted me right out. After a while I became more confident in myself and then moved on to weights an it really helps!!

Good luck.
thx... I think the reason I get a bit heated is because I come from an arts background actually. There are a lot of slippery slopes in industry, and I am on one. It disgusts me when I see that my peers are just tumbling over one another to reach the bottom first, just to put another $5/hr on their rate whereas I used to work with people who didn't care if they spent their whole careers as penniless musicians so long as they got to experience the feeling of genuine pursuit of passion.

A lot of tech feels like a very spiritually empty game, and I resent it for becoming this gruesome when really programming is a beautiful pursuit. I'm trying to be patient, there is a company that has expressed interest in me that is much more into embracing proper design paradigms and new approaches to back-end code. At my current gig we are handcuffed by lots of legacy code, layers of bureaucracy, "Senior Devs & Architects" who are really at about junior level, and people who are difficult just for the sake of slowing down the average pace of work.

Living with this for 2 years has been maddening & I am relieved that I have enough on my post-academia resume now to escape it one of these days.
I'm at Hack Reactor now. The grads don't seem to have any trouble finding work after the program...
Is anyone else somewhat annoyed by the wink-and-a-node style this post is written in? It's like, "Hey look how scrappy we are, willing to push the limits like this, but oh, that's not appropriate for you, you had better play it safe."
With IDLE a quick Ctrl-P will bring up the entire previous block input, including indents, all at once.
No, I don't care for iPads either. My fear is that HN is a wonderful but fragile community. You offer a mix of knowledge and irreverence (I'm pretty sure I vote you up here more than I vote you down), but those who see you winning attention for snide but insightful comments are more likely to copy the snideness than the insight. I like that civil public discussion is still possible here, and want to keep it that way.
This is delicious!

Rare Properties of 93

Cake

The n-th cake number is the maximum number of pieces a (cylindrical) cake can be cut into with n (straight-plane) cuts.

Unfortunately, not everybody gets the frosting. If you cut pizza rather than cake, you get lazy caterer's numbers.

..., 26, 42,64,93,130,176,232,...*
You can set it to transition over an hour, so it's a lot more subtle.
I have been reading about this for long time, and one of the good sources are Michael Cusumano works. He assert that a hybrid model is the most strategic approach:

http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/papers/197_Cusumano_ProdSr...
If C++0x is much closer to javascript CoffeScript to C++ is possible.
I used to have that app. I had a couple fun interactions using the reply feature.
You're right but that is irrelevant, it's a somewhat contrived example anyway. It's not like I spent a lot of time trying it out.
I think his impassive, detailed, technical description/narrative will chime with a lot of people here, in a way that it wouldn't at other communities.
You are right that PotY is supposed to be about impact, regardless of for good or bad (though since this has caused controversy in the past, they've shied away from awarding it to "baddies" like Bin Laden in recent years).

However, I'd disagree with placing Deng Xiaoping in the same list as Hitler and Stalin. He's arguably the architect of modern China, and such a towering positive achievement is only mildly dented by his responsibility for the Tiananmen massacre (IMO).
I haven't known Assange to walk out. In fact, I'm listening to an interview between Assange and a BBC interviewer right now that basically constitutes hostile badgering and an utterly inappropriate line of questioning, including repetitive "How many women have you slept with?!?! Are you a sexual predator?!?!" questions, and Assange is taking it rather gracefully. I would have stopped the interview much earlier on if I had been asked the same questions in the same way. The interviewer interrupts Assange's answers and otherwise behaves himself badly, apart from the wholly inappropriate questioning.

Interview here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9308000/9308216....
Fighters and interceptors can, bombers can't.
Your Fursona is adorable, though, uhh.. what species are you?
I'll note my hypothesis is exposure. Thought being that the elder in Milan have had years more exposure to the pollution than what I understand to be the more transient working class of China. (Specifically, the area hit.)
Not working for Adidas at German exchanges :/ http://stockjump.sos.gd/?symbol=ADS1.F&currency=EUR&name=ADI...
Everything doesn't have to be for some overarching good. It has to be fair. it's not fair for people to have to lose money on property they bought to help the poorest of poor americans. Giving access to middle class americans to travel more is a noble ideal. Not everything that we paint morally right like taking property people bought and forcing them to rent to poorest of poor american is fair to renter and we shouldn't create a unfair system for the renters cause they have rights too.
I try to pick up a Donald Duck weekly in every country that I visit. It is fun to see how different Kalle Anke is from e.g. the Dutch Donald Duck.
What happened in Q1 2020? Almost 2x drop in failure rates is quite substantial.
Even from a perspective where morality and empathy don't apply, why side with a monopoly whose quality has hit a noticeable ceiling?

The unionization efforts seem like events that could disrupt Amazon outside of anti-monopoly legislation. To me, that seems like a good thing for most tech workers working outside of FAANG (as long as they don't hold Amazon stock).
I think we're all lucky that not everyone's goals are just to improve their own life, but that some people want to improve society too.

If you were ill you'd want the doctor who told you both "here's how to cope" and "here's how we cure this thing," not the one who stopped at the first.
I think it would be possible but only if the government database itself provides the necessary functionality.

One possible way it could work is that the government provides a website where a user can enter their name and SSN and receive in return a digitally signed document stating, in effect, that a person of this name has some SSN on file. That document could then be submitted to a company which would only have to validate its signature against a signature published by the government service.

But this still has problems. Presumably you would want to be sure that the person submitting the verification actually is the person with the name and SSN (as opposed to someone who stole or otherwise obtained that name/SSN pair), so the government site has to somehow verify that before generating the verification document.

There's also the issue that many people can have the same name so just having a certificate that says that there is some John Doe who has an SSN doesn't necessarily tell you that the John Doe submitting the application has an SSN, it could be a different John Doe. Though perhaps this problem could be solved by the previous paragraph.
They offer a service to paying customers, of removing content from all the affiliated sites.

So they have more capability than they suggest. Not perfect, but much better
Likely won't happen to any meaningful effect. Think about the options in the first world - Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Some of those countries have less friendly tax regimes and less stability. The US is still the friendliest to the rich.

The rich threatening to live is just that - a threat.
Counterpoint: corporations are creations of the government, and a polity (and its government) ought to do whatever generates the desired outcome they want from these creations, including bringing in more tax revenue, if that's what they want. Ain't no corporation without government. They serve us. Or should.
Agreed, anti-virus runs with elevated privileges, and downloads rules/code from a central source.

So any compromise in the anti-virus client or the server it downloads from can cause serious security issues. There's been numerous reports of bugs, exploits, and really stupid behavior like man in the middle attacking all certs, and "forgetting" to check if the certs were valid. Similarly false positives can cripple a machine. Some anti-virus companies even put malicious entries into the anti-virus databases to try to trick the competition from banning clean files.

So there is a security cost, CPU cost, memory cost, I/O cost, and reliability costs. It's far from clear that anti-virus makes sense on any platform. Sure the major vendors are pushing FUD to keep the income stream going.

Obviously compromising an anti-virus company would be huge win for an attacker, so it shouldn't be a surprise they are common targets, in particular NSA and GCHQ have both targeted anti-virus companies.

In my experience users of OSX and Windows have MUCH less functionality out of the box and need MUCH more of the dreaded google for software and download from a random site, thus the higher need for anti-virus.
These use cases are also "fun" if you add timezones as well into the mix!
My formula was 50% (of every deal - set aside for taxes and social security (that includes pension) - 25% savings/rainy-day-funds, 25% spending money... Keept my bacon alive until now. Even when pandemic beginning in my 3rd year would probably not have been survived without state funds (as it cost me work that would have been planned to last most of the year)
Elsewhere in this thread he links to David Teter's OPEN-RISOP as his source. [1]

The quality of OPEN-RISOP is generally pretty good, and the author worked at Sandia National Labs about 10-20 years ago. Targeting at least is pretty consistent with what I'd expect as high value targets. OPEN-RISOP's counterforce + countervalue scenario only tallies about 60M fatalities (~20% of US population) from the original attack. chakalakaps must be assuming cascading failures of infrastructure & food production after the initial attack (a la Threads [2]). While this is a distinct possibility, it's far from a given - and this is also one of those areas where being prepared (eg. having a year of dried foodstuffs stored, or a small personal garden) can give you a distinct survival advantage.

[1] https://github.com/davidteter/OPEN-RISOP/tree/main/TARGET%20...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Srqyd8B9gE
So we should make roads more dangerous instead of using speed limits? That seems backwards.
I think "heroku-like" is a good generative metaphor. As for the market existing or not I think there are way more variables at play than that previous comment seems to account for and there's so much room in the cloud solutions market as it continues to grow. Also I could always see an exit where Amazon see's traction and acquires Stacktape to compliment it's existing solutions and fend off other "no dev-ops" solutions.

Good luck, product looks awesome!
hi, there's a mistake in your cheatsheet.txt for 5 % 5
Wonderful. As a heavy Lyft user, I'm looking forward towards the same in NYC - NJ area.
It would be nice if Lenovo provided the option of the classic Thinkpad keyboard. I'm considering going with a used Thinkpad as my next laptop for that reason.

Laptop choice seems to have become a monoculture of Apple clones. If Purism would provide that keyboard option I would find it hard to resist.
> If they no longer have a formal relationship with the
> artist and no longer have the artist's original works to
> have the Content ID system compare to

Google threatening to remove their ability to identify copyrighted music, simply because they can't negotiate the business terms they want? For future releases, sure, but for content they can currently identify, they plan to say "Nah, we're going to pretend we can't identify it any more"?

That sounds like the mother of all punitive damages lawsuits waiting to happen.

Somewhere a scumbag attorney's wallet is getting warm, and he has no idea why.
Here in Australia, after my tax return is lodged, I receive an income tax receipt with a breakdown of where my tax dollars went.

It's only broken down by category though (e.g. Health, Defence, Education), except for Welfare, which has subcategories (e.g. Aged, Disability, etc).

There's an example and further explanation here on the ATO website: https://www.ato.gov.au/Individuals/Lodging-your-tax-return/I...

There's a certain sense of satisfaction in being able to see in slightly more real terms what my tax is being spent on.
Important to note that Gabe gave the product rights that the fired team were developing. Said team went on to have a successful Kickstarter (250% successful!), and then failed in actually delivering results.

In hindsight, seems smart to pull the plug so far in advance.

I'm sure the complaints about informal power groups, careful politicking being required and gaurded groups are true... if only because that's true in every office I've worked in.
A small note taken from this great article: Bezos started Amazon when he was 30. A nice reminder that you don't have to be in your early 20s to do a software startup!
As an American English speaker, I've always wondered this. I didn't find the video "hilariously funny", but I was smiling; they did a good job. I couldn't pick up any words, but my brain refused to believe there weren't any. It had that right tempo, cadence, patterns, etc. Nicely done.
Transparent huge pages (also new in 2.6.38) have caused about 5% degradation in memory bandwidth (measured by STREAM benchmarks and other kernels, independent of the use of software prefetch) on my machines. This is somewhat strange because huge pages should help this benchmark.
Nice. For anyone interested, here's how to do location-based user searching in github: https://github.com/search?type=Users&language=&q=loc...
http://www.olark.com

It works with existing clients like gchat, etc. I've used this on 3 or 4 of my websites and it works really well. They also have a free version for one operator.
It's hard to believe that anyone running such a substantial service really sees shutting it down for forensic purposes to be a reasonable coarse of action. It is generally quite unlikely that such investigations will yield arrests if you're playing the averages. I'm familiar with a number of substantial intrusions into services larger or more significant than the PSN that never resulted in any shutdowns. The only example that comes to mind that supports this precedent is the Euro carbon market shutdown, but that occurred because the exchange had clear indications that other customer accounts were compromised and they would have been potentially open to more theft.

I wonder if this isn't something more like: hacker discovered --> recovery team switches to hot redundant systems --> everything falls down due to systems/recovery failure or lack of testing.
Glad I asked! I was thinking about chromosomal rearrangements, which would be detectable using this method, but I agree with your point about nondisjunction.
I'm quite sure that IBM actually makes the processors, at the plant in East Fishkill, NY. In the history section of that Wikipedia Article, IBM manufacturing the chips is referenced several times, but never Sony.
Agreed - in the same way Groupon targets different towns, i wonder if this will target different 'kinds' of geeks...
I think that somehow a few special characters disappeared here; maybe they were eaten by some kind of text processor or something. I think the first line should be "C or C++", the second one "C# and Scala".
Note how the example is lower taxes: why don't we give lower taxes to a hundred thousand people and see what they do? But now suppose the proposal is higher taxes for a hundred thousand people. How do you think the hundred thousand people in the test group are going to react? Not too well, and probably not nearly the same way as if you raised taxes on everybody.

Isn't this one of the supposed advantages of having states, though? So that different laws can be tried out in different places under the same general societal conditions and we can learn what works and what doesn't work? And yet doesn't the Federal Government keep trying to subsume more state powers into itself?
Right, but my thought is "at what times would it make sense to join, and not append, but this optimization would be faster than joining"? I'm guessing not very many.

Because, yeah, the fact that str += "?" is faster isn't a big deal; that's the natural, ergonomic way to deal with it, because you're appending all of one string. Likewise foo + " " + bar + "?" is probably easier to write that way, than to drop them into a list and join (but even if not, I'd be curious if it's actually any faster; this article doesn't measure). By the time you get to joining large amounts together, concatenating a CSV or something, you're going to use join, naturally, and join is going to be more performant.

So to my mind it's kind of an open question, at what points is the non-ergonomic thing going to be the faster thing? That's what "taking advantage of (an optimization)" feels like; otherwise you're just writing code and letting the performance fall where it may.
I think its just them trying to fend off those people that are looking for anything to sue companies. Telsa gets these lawsuits all the time, but they have a bunch of lawyers to deal with it.
Or you could work hard and advance your career.