jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I didn't downvote, but when looking objectively I don't see why its so bad. Someone is buying something below market value and reselling it at something close to market value (selling tickets seems to be a pretty competitive environment)

Personally I think monopolistic practices of Ticketmaster are far more reprehensible.
Yes, but network effects are not limited to just social media and the internet as a whole. Physically clustering together smart, ambitious individuals produces tremendous side effects in opportunities and innovation that are difficult to impossible to recreate with today's technology. This might change but, for now, they are not on equal ground.

A good read on the subject:

http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
look you're welcome to your opinion, but by looking at longevity of memes on the internet and all the facts from financial reports, the dream's dead.
> Douyin (抖音): Chinese version of Tiktok

Tiktok is literally chinese??
Capnrover seems like the best option. I have the same perception of Flynn. Dokku is nice but I don't really see how you could use it in production since it's limited to a single server (there are definitely some cases where that's all you need but I can't imagine you'd need a PaaS for most of them).
Why I created it?

+ Lets face it, practicing coding questions alone does not develop skills required during interviews.

+ I developed a habit of thinking in my mind when I practiced alone, I could either think or speak. Whereas in an interview, interviewers expect you to speak up your thought process as you work through the solution and long pauses are not considered good. They judge you on your communication skills. Without live interview practice I could have never developed my communication skills required in an interview setting.

+ With Prepin, I could solve more harder questions than I would have solved on my own as interviewers guided me through hints, without revealing the complete solution. I got insight into how they used their thought process, when a completely new problem was given to them. This was hugely instrumental in boosting my confidence.

+ Being an ML engineer, I wanted AI to use my performance on questions and learn my weaknesses and strengths, so that I could master coding problems with the least amount of effort. Hence, I developed Prepin's unique Reinforcement learning based question recommendation engine. To study the effectiveness of the AI engine, users will be randomly assigned to experimental groups and control group and performance would be compared after we have a significant sample size.

+ After practicing on Prepin, I learnt a lot of subtle skills by interviewing others and getting interviewed by them. The interactive process of interviewing created the best version of me as in each interview I was trying to put my best foot forward without slacking. For example, when I would practice coding questions alone, I may or may not time it, or since no one was watching my code, sometimes I may not write clean code. Sometimes it is better to look from another's perspective. Prepin's coding interviews are designed to mimic actual interviews, where you and your peer and discuss the solution over a video call and a shared collaborative editor.

+ A major issue with some sites providing mock interviews is that they have limited set of questions, that are not updated with recently asked questions. Often a solution missing important edge cases would pass their evaluation. Over the years, Leetcode has created a huge bank of coding questions with an extensive set of test cases, which is updated regularly. In fact, in real interviews, one would find exactly same or slightly modified version of their questions. Hence it was a natural choice for questions and evaluation for Prepin.

+ Prepin provides enough flexibility for someone with regular day job, booking are open throughout the day at almost every hour.

+ I hope you like it. Leave your comments/suggestions in the feedback form after your interview.

+ Good Luck and Happy interviewing!
> I'm talking specifically about the banks and basic services like I listed.

I'm not trying to be mean, but what part of this statement should I clarify for you to understand? Should barbershops be subjected to the regulations of auto industry? It doesn't make any sense.

> "DDOS protection services" are not a "basic" service for the majority of private entities. So how is your new 1A written to prohibit DDOS protection companies from restricting speech?

I'm not talking about literally rewriting the 1A, I'm taking about regulating the tech industry.
I don't think you have given an honest answer.

Fascism is just a modern riff on imperialism, which is old as the hills. As such, it is definitely something that should be studied and discussed from every possible angle.

And if it is a mistake (it is), you should have faith that these college kids will, upon closer examination, outgrow the sieg heil phase, and come out with a better understanding of politics & history.

OR, just keep suppressing everything with credentialed word salad, Streisand the hell out of it, and make it so that even the Jewish kids are denying the holocaust.
While you're right about Madison's culture, I couldn't find crap for work there. MPLS has been much, much better to me.

The tech community there is much too insular: web jobs are nonexistent and everything else is pretty much biotech or through the university (Masters degrees then are a minimum requirement). I say this having interned around the town at a top design shop, with no workable industry contacts resulting from.
I would be very worried using any language developed and marketed by a single large corporation. It’s not only that they or the language might go away suddenly (hello Google!), it’s mostly that this corporation have a de-facto iron grip on the future development of the language and the developer culture.

I simply don’t use any such languages.
If you're an IRC fan then you might also be interested to know that the matrix team has made a pretty good effort to ensure that matrix and irc can play nice together, vs discord being hostile to any sort of third party apps as mentioned, so if your main criteria is wanting to extend longevity of irc, matrix is certainly the better option.
Surely it's important to pay attention to what is actually said in discussions. What was being said is that taking a train seat with zero marginal cost to the train owners is parallel to downloading a song which has zero marginal cost to the band or record label. Both are taking something with no marginal cost.

The point was that stealing that train seat really is stealing. That means that the argument "there is no marginal cost" is not a sufficient defense of music piracy. It does not exclude some other defense of music piracy.
> We already accept written textbooks. We should do the same with videos.

I think that the point of textbooks is to lower the required subject matter expertise bar for teachers, leaving them to focus on teaching the material.

Unfortunately, when a teacher is merely familiar with the material rather than understanding it deeply, they will find it difficult to explore multiple (valid) ways of explaining it to students until it 'clicks' for each one, which means students often fall back on rote memorization and mechanical competence.

A video of a good (even great) teacher is no more interactive than a textbook, so if the student doesn't happen to 'get' the explanation as it is presented they are going to fall back on memorization and mechanical competence in exactly the same way.

There are interactive learning environments with extensive libraries of content that explore material in multiple ways as needed (as indicated via assessments) by students, but AFAIK they are all proprietary.
Your "hunch" is wrong. Here's the letter sent by LTC worker organizations immediately upon learning of Cuomo's deadly order on 3/25 to discharge recovered elderly Covid cases to nursing homes:

https://paltc.org/sites/default/files/AMDA-AHCA-NCAL%20State...

Any fool by that point in March knew that the virus was highly transmissible. Nursing homes and LTCs did not have extra staff or isolation wards, sanitarium-level protection — but they could have. Funds wasted on the Mercy ship and Javits Center, which were barely used, should have been spent on isolation.

Civilian mask mandates have nothing to do with this, but even with N95s, nosocomial spread is a problem in hospitals, never mind nursing homes. NY intake was mixing known-infected with unknown-status/no-symptoms patients. This too was not a case of being "caught off guard". It was negligent or worse, and it relates to vent overuse.
>> A potentially more productive view is that the fed cannot support the bubble indefinitely.

The interesting thing is whether "cannot" means the point when they literally can not because the market and inflation wont bear it...or when they wise up to the tinder box they have created. The problem with the latter is -- which administration would allow this to be under their watch. Once a problem is bad enough, you might as well just kick the can a bit more until you literally can not.

(yes, i realize the Fed is independent but there is still quite a bit of control)
They do recommend eating polyunsaturates over saturated fats. That isn't doing us any favors.
That may work with you, but what makes you think it's the right approach for communicating to everybody? Public health reminds me a bit of behavioral finance, in which we admit that people don't act rationally in all cases and give advice accordingly. You can argue it's a cop out, that it's paternalistic, that is morally wrong. You'd be at least partially right about all of those things, but what if people achieve better outcomes?
For the general public, wine of red color IS the red wine, so the whole question would be moot. Unless you're very non-general knowledgeable person - either formally trained or self-taught - you not only wouldn't see the difference, you wouldn't realize there's anything going on at all. Is it wine? Is it red? Then it's the red wine, period.
>> They might go down less, but if the bubble is going to burst, you'd still be better off keeping your money out until then and only buying once they're cheap.

Not if the sure-to-follow inflation from a collapse devalues your cash faster than emerging markets and value equities.
Texas is shockingly green when it comes to power. The windmills have frozen and it is the winter when there isn't as much sun. Most people are on a contract with fixed pricing, but some startups like Griddy are hurting people's wallets. We will likely see some retail electric company bankrupcies. Some of the electric providers are paying customers to move to someone else on Monday.

The Joke is all the Californians who immigrated brought the blackouts with them.
"Stick to what you can afford and what you know about."

Nice powertrip. My turn.

I am a CFA w/ a Series 6/7/63 that has degree in Finance/Accounting/Stats and has written automated trading bots.

This was NOT enough experience for Fidelity to let me trade options (ironically, after I traded options for their clients working for them for 2 years in my youth), but my friend who listed no experience and a high net worth got margin and options trading enabled in his account.

There is a VERY fine line between "for your own protection" and "so that people who already have resources have more options."
> In total, 276 healthy adults were recruited for this cohort between May 17th and June 19th 2020. (...) The majority (n = 196; 71%) were health care workers

This number seems low. I think the title is poorly worded, to me it concludes more of that healthcare workers in Canada developed antibodies before being diagnosed with COVID-19
> Uber and WeWork are just two high profile examples.

Uber does not have bad unit economics in its core rides business. It makes profit on rides, and it loses it on trying to expand into food delivery. You can easily see it if you just look at their financial reports.
This publicity release mis-advertises what is new here.

From the publicity release: Now, a new analysis says the commonly accepted explanations are at least partly wrong. The accepted view: Bicycles are stable because of the gyroscopic effect of the spinning front wheel or because the front wheel "trails" behind the steering axis, or both.

From a Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics): In 1970, David E. H. Jones published an article in Physics Today showing that gyroscopic effects are not necessary to balance a bicycle.

In fact, Jones' article addresses the steering axis question, as well.

What appears to be new here is the mathematical analysis. From Jones: I have not yet formalized all these contributions into a mathematical theory of the bicycle...
MarketWatch says it's bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/doj-indicts-founders-of-top...
The issues with monolithic schemes like this are like using your SSN for identifiers: Once the authentication is out there, it is a royal pain to get a new one if the old one is compromised.
If you're also enforcing complex, high-entropy passwords this is a good way to encourage users to write their password down on a sticky note under their keyboard.
Clojure sure does. Look at something like maven. It has lots of features but alot of people don't like it. All we needed in Clojure were some people to creat good abstraction over maven and boom! we have a great package system.

If you want to live on something like the JVM you have to use all its powers to the max because if you don't its weaknesses will be bigger then the its benefits you get.
Here it is:
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/usc_sec_18_00000242----...

USC 18-242

I called it a felony though the law only makes it one if a "dangerous weapon" is involved.
Crazy. DC government just passed a bill allowing the city to offer online gambling. Will the FBI also sieze dclottery.com?
> There's more than one aspect to a vacation.

Never said there was only one way to spend your vacations.

> Many people specifically take vacation so that they can travel.

So?

> The end goal isn't necessarily time not working

The point of vacation very much to have time off. What you do with that time off is up to you (possibly up to working at an other job), but if it's not time off it's not vacation.

> it's experiencing new things in new places.

And if you can negotiate to do that without taking vacations more power to you, but again vacation is time off.
The point that I was trying to make is that it's much easier to be influenced by a swarm of commenters and to unknowingly align your opinions with them. You're more likely to disagree genuinely with ONE article than with 150 comments all echoing each other. Alas, downvote me, please.
I use Iceland for all my hosting and intra-company email needs; if it doesn't leave Iceland, there's no way for the NSA to slurp it up.

Orangewebsite and 1984 both offer really good VPS deals as well, especially if most of your traffic is Hidden Services and Eepsites. :-)
Don't need an English major for that :)
I'm pretty sure the study which gave rise to the 10x myth has been debunked. I think the reason why this myth persists is because of engineers' conceit. Everyone wants to believe that they're the 10xer.

Besides even if some engineers were 10x as productive as other engineers, how would we even measure that? 10x as many lines of code written? 10x as many features released? Development work is extremely hard to quantify, so it's unclear what "10x as productive" even means.
Though Star Trek had its moments as well.
So I take it you are in favor of banning critical race theory in schools?

In favor of violent insurrection in an attempt to overthrow a free and fair election?

I don’t disagree that I am a member of a tribe. That’s not the problem. The problem is when tribes see their own behavior as default good because it is their own tribe and don’t hold themselves to standards that exist beyond any individual tribe.

Which is precisely what the practice of democracy is: an agreed upon set of principles that extend beyond any individual tribe and to which all tribes agree to hold themselves accountable.

One tribe, though, doesn’t anymore. That’s terrifying.
But the majority of them actively use it?
Yes, and if Facebook were to disappear, all of those places and all of those services would advertise elsewhere - if there is no competing platform currently, one would appear. That's the whole point. Just because it's convenient doesn't mean the entire economy in your country should rely on the good will of an American corporation.
It does in your profile.
Good riddance.

Getting a login wall when I try to check your working hours or menu is the surest way to lose me as a client.

Oh, and I might even tell the business how and why they're not getting my money... if the only way to contact them wasn't through messenger.
Ideally you would choose dependencies with minimal dependencies of their own (very few if any common dependencies), so you have a manageable number of versions and near complete freedom of choice of those versions.
> Something seems horribly wrong here, no?

Yes. The distributions are effectively forking these versions, and keeping the same version numbers. Leading to some REALLY awkward problems: https://github.com/ircmaxell/password_compat/issues/10

However, it's a tradeoff. It hurts some, helps others. After all, I'd rather have someone get security fixes than nothing...
Here's to hoping that it's about a complete rewrite of iTunes in Adobe Air.
I honestly took martial arts for a few years when I was 8 or 9, but it didn't really teach how to deal with bullies: They weren't harming me in a physical way (one punch isn't something going to hurt you, so you don't need/get to punch back), so the self-defense training didn't allow me to actually use the martial arts I knew according to what I was taught.

It likely made me LESS likely to strike back.
Code like this:

open my $fh, ">$file" or die "...";

will append to target if $file contains ">target". Code like this:

open my $fh, '>', $file or die "...";

explicitly tells Perl what the mode and what the filename is, so there can't be any confusion.

Using lexicals instead of typeglobs means you store the filehandle in a lexical variable instead of making it globally accessible in your package.
For the purposes of my example assignment, I am required to provide all answers rounded to the nearest dollar (hence the call to round().) For a one-off (or ten-off) series of calculations the use of floating point is a non-issue.
Exactly - how can we be sure that our feelings aren't in fact real or just the cause of some paranoia?
This would be like cutting out a cancer that, while killing you eventually, is presently keeping you alive.

Anyone who thinks that eliminating the national debt will fix our financial woes does not understand how our current debt-based economy, built around a central bank, works. If the national debt were retired in this way, our financial problems would become much worse than they already are.
No offense, but I think all these are BS, and if no one is reading or linking to you, they're unlikely to apply. Blogging so that you might manage to get five people using improbable search terms to find your site is a waste of time.

But you still should blog if no one reads it for the reasons some other commenters have alluded to: to develop your own mind. That's essentially why I blog: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/27/signaling-status-blogging-aca... and read other people's blogs.

That, and so I have a repository of already expressed ideas I can leave in the comments sections of other blogs and HN, so I don't have to reinvent the answer every time.
Anyone can track anything (*that remains in it's orbit) from the comfort of their home:

http://www.heavens-above.com
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
For short periods of time.
But it is in fact how the majority of home buyers operate. "Can I afford it" translates into "can I afford the monthly payments", not "can I afford the total purchase price".

I saw this vividly when I bought my first house. It cost $61,000. My mortgage was at 9%. Two years later, mortgage rates had dropped to 7%, and my house was worth 90,000 (state appraised value). If I had bought the exact same house two years later than I did, I would have had the same monthly payment. That stayed constant, and the interest rate change drove a change in total price.

Part of the reason is: What is your alternative? Typically, renting. What's rent? A monthly payment. So if you're looking at a buy vs. rent decision, a big part of the decision is monthly expense of renting vs monthly expense of buying.
Indeed, existing automated theorem provers do spend a lot of time discarding true statements as "insufficiently interesting". In general, the longer a statement the less interesting it is. The easier it is to prove with simpler statements, the less interesting it is. And if it's superceded by a more general rule it is less interesting.

For example, an automated theorem prover can easily prove many statements of the form "A or not-A or (any long statement)". Those are all uninteresting tautologies that should be discarded.

It's interesting to theorize about improving these heuristics with AI methods, there is some work along these lines like ENIGMA-NG.
One reason may be that there is sort of an existential question hanging at the edge of moral actions, namely does anything really matter? Moral action is the epitome of the belief that at least something matters, and matters a whole lot. And perhaps it is precisely through moral action that we get an experiential understanding of moral value. So, if through 'moral competence' we disengage from moral action, then we may lose the very reason we seek to make a moral difference in the first place.
I can't even access it.

"Error code: 16
> This request was blocked by the security rules"

No idea why. Maybe they don't feel the need to serve thier website to foreigners?
Gates described his private jet as "his guilty pleasure"[0], how buying a Porsche and a jet were his "biggest indulgences"[1].

He also said "I don't have that many things that are extravagant taste".

Am I the only one who thinks the super wealthy might be much more convincing (and less annoying) if they walked the walk as well as talking the talk?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-enjoying-his-guil...

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-spending-biggest-...
> A "reputation archive" company that keeps vouched copies of potentially harmful dirt on "the powerful", available on demand.

Sounds like you've come up with a business plan even more harmful than Facebook.

When I did some volunteer work with a Progressive organization I found out that there's an underground of people who do exactly this work. Their archives are private, though, and I can't speak to their vetting process. When I learned about it the only thing I could say was, "This sounds like professionalized character assassination."
I honestly get annoyed how many platforms say for JSON "yeah, just use the native object querying syntax" while for XML they're all about XPath queries. I have to google how to XPath every time I use it.
Fall Guys doesnt heavily use server authority, hence why various hacks exist for it.
Probably this was written under a very strict release deadline and it worked ok at the time (less items for microtransactions). The problem lies with the management that never picked up the issue once it became a big problem. Pretty sure that any developer in R* is capable of optimizing this parser.
Many people outside of US don't know what "data cap" means. So, for them bandwidth do grows on them trees.
On the Moon the first controlled powered flights were likely the Surveyor and Luna probes - they had braking and landing thrusters controlled by onboard avionics.