jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Back in ancient times, my first software job was with an crusty old fashioned company. We were required to be in before 8am, many people arrived as early as 6am. Dress code was also very strict (but more lenient than it was historically)

My second software job was with a company that was just as old but much more modern (not startup-ish). the boss required the team to be in before 9am, daily team meeting was at 9.

My job now has flextime with core hours between either 10-3 or 10-2 (can't recall which) but very few people arrive after 9am. All other jobs I've worked have flextime with similar core hours, there was only one job that had a true "no rules" approach.
No, don't ruin HN also. Already saw Reddit get rekt
This is nonsense. Housing regulations in England are so bad that I absolutely wouldn't consider buy a property built in the last twenty years even before Grenfell happened and proved that thousands of our apartment blocks are death traps.

The crisis that hundreds of thousands are now suffering is being unable to buy or sell an apartment because they can't prove that it's not a tinderbox. As bad as prices are they are actually a secondary consideration.

This is a problem caused by a lack of regulation.
I don't get it. By what metric would the UK be the second poorest if it was a US state? By GDP it would be the second richest.
https://posthog.com/ is one i've been playing around with lately.
Why should I be called upon to remember exactly which year ... for that matter, this is not the sort of thing that can generally be pinned down to one year, although it's possible it was that fast. Fashions can change rather rapidly.

But let's focus on the meat of my argument here: do you deny that the big thing use to be "global warming?", in the '80s and '90s? If not, this article is evidence that it's now "climate change".

But to partly answer your question, even the massaged global temperature data stopped showing warming ~15 years ago. For a while, of course, nobody thought much of it, a year or three's pause means nothing. Hmmm, maybe it was around 10 years into that? It did take a while for the short term trend to become evident, then after taking enough flack on that....
To make a comparison like that you would need a larger sample size than just 2 games. There are many other factors that can affect sales.
or even throttling that one client, plugging 10Mbit hub between this clients box and router could do the job as a poor mans bw limiter.
It would probably have been 2% better, because they spent 2% of their programmer time on it.
If all that time, effort and brainpower had rather gone into making it a better game, they likely would have done a whole lot better in terms of reach and ultimately, profit. However copy protection was the standard method in those days, so one can only speculate on what might have been.
I have a bunch of text files in folders on google drive. The cool thing about google drive is you can sync it and it propogates to any web enable device.

Keep your life to three to five major things and this works really well.

Also, Don't go more than two or three folders deep. If you do you're organizing wrong.

I also scan or photo all of the paperwork I get throughout life put it in Google drive and throw the original away.

Also, you can put all your photos up on google drive. (Just not very private photos..)

Note: security/privacy concerns if you do this with personal stuff like medical or financial docs.

There's ways to encrypt it all on google drive just don't really have enough important info there to care.
I thought about getting a Peloton because I like to bike every day, but it gets a bit cold for me to do so. The deal breaker on Peloton for me was that they locked down their platform. I couldn't install Zoom or any other apps that I wanted, I had zero control over the camera, etc... I really wanted to do PR/Code review on my bike, but if I can't even install Zoom then that's definitely a no-go.

Why was any of this necessary on an exercise bike that is otherwise great quality?
To add more color to the Buddhist view, this is often described as a pain/suffering distinction. In this view, pain is inevitable and out of our control, but suffering as the attendant mental phenomenon can be curbed with training.

This view is summarized in the doctrine of the two arrows [1]. When asked if he still felt pain, the Buddha said he was struck by the first arrow called pain, but not by the second arrow called suffering.

[1] https://tricycle.org/magazine/second-arrow/
Yeah, I'm an Orthodox Christian, but suffering & death are explicitly framed in the Bible as a totally unnecessary, true evil. Hence why the story begins and ends in a literal Paradise (unless one chooses otherwise). "The last *enemy* that shall be destroyed is death." 1 Corinthians 15:26
"In his preface to Fear and Trembling (1843), Søren Kierkegaard (writing under the pseudonym, Johannes de silentio) says he hopes no one will read his book. Further, he predicts his wish will be granted because of the reading proclivities of his contemporaries, whose one requirement of a book is that it can be consumed during the afternoon nap."

LOL good thing he did not write it in the present day...
Also, found this quote interesting

"In his recent and acclaimed book, This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, philosopher and literary critic Martin Hägglund challenges the details of Kierkegaard’s account head-on. He argues that while Fear and Trembling makes the single strongest case for the compatibility of religious faith and meaningful engagement with the world, the case ultimately fails."
Exactly this. There are many patterns that can be constructed by drawing a regular array of circles, then connecting various intersection points with lines, then erasing the original circles.

As it happens, I sometimes find that the same drawing can be achieved by a simpler construction path that involves (say) only midpoints of squares, which makes life a lot easier.
> What used to be swivel in your chair and ask a colleague or going to whoever you need to speak to is now

But your need for an instant answer often derails my work flow. I can get a lot more done now that I am not being interrupted as frequently and can address questions once I have wrapped up what I am doing or at least have time to write down where specifically I stopped.
Apple has been known to collect this information for a while now [1] but storing all this information in a database should not be required for this.

If you tuink about how much information you have on your phone, if somebody has access to it or to your backups, I think your locstion history is the least of your problems. But I do agree that it should not store this information, encrypted or not...

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-31021_3-20010948-260.html
Thanks. Yes the collision detection is pretty basic currently, just a bunch of circle intersection tests, so it could certainly do with improving. I'll make the enemy "damage" more visible on hit also, thanks for the comments.
I believe the article's author refers to this as culling.
If you appear to be intoxicated (staggering about, etc) you can be arrested for public intoxication, though you are not driving. Not sure whether they can compel a breathalyzer without a warrant in that case though.
The simple solution is select encrypt backups in your iTunes options. If my computer or phone got stolen, I'd have more important things to worry about than whether the thief can find a list of locations I've been. It's fun/interesting to see it mapped out though.
If the goal is to shop by color/style, I would filter out the cars that aren't available in the selected color. Showing the little gray boxes provides no benefit at all. I would also eliminate the pagination on the listings. Pagination almost always detracts from the usability of a site. In your case, it makes it much harder to compare vehicles within the search results. And, when you remove the pointless grayed-out boxes, the page will never be that long.
You’re right, but this is always the way. Accommodating people with differing needs/sensitivities usually helps everyone. non-fluorescent lighting, reduced noise, etc. The majority of people are affected by something but don’t realize it. If you fix it for more sensitive people you fix it for everyone.
I agree with the second top comment there:

The material is fine, this demonstration is hilariously bad. This demonstration could be done with a block of wood. Take a blow torch to a block of wood that size and pretty much the same result.
"-f lavfi -i testsrc - declaration of an input. The input format is lavfi, the input file is testsrc. This is duplicated four times to imitate four different inputs."

You can feed a single input multiple times in a filtergraph, so you can make do with only one. In this case, it hardly matters, but the input packet will be demuxed and decoded only once, unlike in the examples.
spacing out meals does not magically turn the body into a perpetual motion machine
> every sensibly done julia application.

Can you point me to some documentation on those best practices. My girlfriend - architectural acoustics consultant - is working on a project in Julia and is having a hell of a time managing dependency shift underneath her program (also she barely knows how to use git).
Super timely. Even on my linux box I noticed yesterday that zoom, even though I had "closed" the application, was still running `ps -ef | grep zoom` so I killed it.

After reading this, I've deleted it too. Super weird.
Actually the measures in Germany started on Monday, six days ago. That's when all the schools and kindergartens closed down, many stores closed, and those interventions also triggered the first significant changes in people's behavior. Of course effectively it was a gradual change over the week, with more and more stores closing and public spaces emptying, but that Monday six days ago was clearly the major tipping point.

So I would expect to see first effects in new infection numbers over the coming week, with nearly full effect probably visible some time during the following one.
Do you ctrl-w before or after the first animated gif meme?
Looks like this is moving from GTK2, not GTK3 ( latest ).
I know this story for perhaps ten years and it is one of my favorites.

> Can any of you actually relate a real-world

I know about 5 cases. I have been on both sides of this story. Plus there are similar cases outside of programming.

Lets just call it luck, shall we?
The web would be much less useful to me without RSS. But I don't use the features common to most RSS readers. I don't care about tracking which articles I have 'read' or syncing this information across machines. I subscribe to so many feeds that there would be no value in that.

There is no way that I could read all the content I am subscribed to. I just treat it like a stream that I monitor when I feel like it. My reader archives content indefinitely and indexes it so I can search it if I get curious.

I will eventually add more features but it works for me in ways that no other reader I tried ever did.
Yes, I did just that. Actually I would guess it was more like 2%.

This was the 90s, and the client was a big corporate programming consulting company. They wrote software for big corporations or the government. They couldn't get a website done internally.

The spec meeting was memorable, because they'd say "We want a form on the website that sends emails," and I'd say "Okay," and then they would look at each other, baffled. I realized later they expected pushback on every single item in the spec. We were just agreeing to everything without even thinking about it – their demands seemed modest to us.

So, we whipped up something that worked reasonably well with good old HTML and Perl, and even had some CMS-like features. It didn't take more than a few weeks.

I later met that internal team that was continuing to work on their ill-fated website project.

They were too elite to use something like Perl. They were working on a web server. From scratch. In C. They proudly showed me how their web server could serve a web page. They had even worked out how they could show a preformatted table of numbers, by printing it inside a textarea.
I'm not really sure, I'm guessing you could get at least a small group of people to come. I'd consider it if it had a high proportion of geeks, seemed well managed, had good infrastructure (things like water rights, proximity to an airport, Amazon service, fiber to the home, good schools, etc), and wasn't too expensive.

I don't think you'd have to make it free - you could probably make a tidy profit off of getting services hooked up and then subdividing the land, and still providing people a better place to go.
wouldn't be the first time I've seen a shell script outperform an overengineered solution
If everything is under your own control (no layoffs), I would say the sweet spot is between 2 and 5 years. There was a post on HN talked about how after 2 years, your salary will be held back compare to switching. I added a maximum of 5 years before you MUST change job in order to stay relevant in the industry.

Changing too often can be perceived as unloyal, but changing not often enough can be perceived as unable to adapt to new technology.
Remember that you will spend more time debugging, documenting and testing your code. And this is if you work somewhere that doesn't expect you to spend 10+ hours a week in meetings.

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And you will also write a lot of code you throw away; sometimes you need to solve 90% of the problem the wrong way to discover the right way.
The feedburner feed was spelled wrong (fedburner)... that was sorta dumb of me, sorry!
right, and the standard user of orange tic tacs only eats one per occasion.
I hit this on HN a couple of years ago:

http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2010/12/16/adding-delay...

I also wrote about it. It's real. Many customers are not happy if you make it seem too easy.
The question is, what do you mean by "correctly"?

When we look at the Checker Shadow Illusion, our brains are automatically "parsing" that image into a 3D scene and compensating for the lighting and shadowing. The reason you see square B as being lighter than A is because, if you could reach into the image and remove the cylinder so it's not casting a shadow anymore, square B would be lighter than A. Our brain doesn't think about color in terms of absolute hex values. Instead it tries to compensate for the lighting and positioning of elements, assuming that they're similar to what we would see in real life—a challenge which, by the way, computer vision systems have always struggled with.

That sounds pretty "correct" to me.
I live in Michigan and the state grants private police, "misdemeanor arrest authority while on active duty, on their employer's premises and in full uniform." http://www.michigan.gov/mcoles/0,1607,7-229-41626_42413---,0...

Edit/ I should mention, in my post, that there is some licensing required to become a private police force /Edit

I worked at a biopharma that had a private police force.
I regret the PhD. To be precise, grad school won't just not make you richer, it will make you poorer.

Forgetting about the money bit (ha!), lets talk pure knowledge. I learned a lot more on the job than I did in school. In my specific case, I wouldn't have gotten those jobs without the PhD. However, I firmly believe there are high learning jobs that can be had without a PhD.

In CS, a PhD gets paid mid 6 figures. That is also what the average mid career developer gets paid. Go figure.
For doing any kind of regexp heavy task, perl is definitely the best tool.
I read the comments first too, more often than I like sadly. Although, I sometimes feel like my perception of the original article is biased because I read the comments of a few people before I've had a chance to form my own perspective after reading the original article. So I consciously skip the comments sometimes, as tempting as they may be, and read the original article.
Perhaps the problem is that it was, in fact, adaptable, meaning that if all the supernodes your client knows about go down you're no longer able to bootstrap.

In fact, I found I was able to reconnect faster after the outage by deleting the shared.xml file that stores known supernodes - presumably connecting back to Skype-operated bootstrap servers.
Thanks for the feedback - we will look at the bug you mention now.

To change your backdrop there is an option 'change your backdrop' under 'create a new bookmark' - we can make that stand out more. You can then use some of our sample ones or upload your own - once clicked or uploaded it saves it automatically.

The first way we differ is that we are free, I appreciate people may be willing to pay for their service but for now we are free and all users who sign up now will not have to pay. Secondly is that I guess we are a bookmarking site aimed at more creative types. Pinboard is a great site functionailty wise and speed wise but you could argue it lacks in appearance. We hope that we offer a lot of the functionality Pinboard do but also you can bookmark in a nice looking site.

We have modertators who will look to fight spam and if we eventually add a fee for the service this should also prevent it.

I should rephrase - we will do everything in our power to ensure we won't close down.

Thanks for the feedback
Nice - thanks - i'll take a look
keep in mind that this is still early code. pretty much like diaspora. But it's awesome that you start with your xmpp friendlist right away!
I think I still have the 1st two years' edition packed up in a box in the shed...moved from home, to college, thru 3 apartments, then 3 houses, and now in my shed.
Never opened the boxes, but they survived many, many cleanouts. Don't really know why.
To be fair, there is no magic in Rails, just a lot of 'defaults'. If you look at the code, its all very clear how those defaults are enabled, and there are clear methods for overriding them. The 'magic' thing started as a sort of marketing spiel to say "look at all these things that you don't need to worry about configuring, because they are all set to sensible defaults" but became 'mysterious' in some people's minds.
You have to consider what those surveys measure, i.e. people who WORK there, not people who HAVE worked there. Thing to remember about top-tier tech companies is that anyone who CAN get a job with them can also pretty easily get a job somewhere else. This means that people who are unsatisfied don't stay very long.
If you pin it to start menu, and have an Admin console setup via the settings it will appear in the Start menu jump list to open as admin. Though doing it this way you do get the flicker as the non admin terminal spawns the admin terminal.

The admin terminal story on Terminal was a bit of a mess last time I looked, I think for security reasons. Has anything changed?
>The main barriers to me personally are not billionares, but myself and my goals.

I believe this feeling is misguided and here is why. You would be richer today if there was more equality. But instead you are held back by the same forces that those at the bottom 50% are.

Even the rich managerial and technocratic class that you and I are part of (upper middle class) are poorer than we would be if it was more equal.

So in other words, you have been screwed too by the system. But because you don't feel screwed (despite evidence that you have been) is why it continues to keep going.
anigbrowl is right. I'm sorry—I know it sucks to be the first to post a submission and then see a repost 'win'. It's on our list to fix that by sharing credit and karma across multiple submitters. We'll get there someday.

In the meantime, the lottery at least evens out if you submit lots of good stories.
neat! It's seems my client doesn't understand these though. YAY for federated protocols! :)
I think you have a poor understanding of why the average LinkedIn user cares about their job. Most people would quit immediately if money wasn’t a concern, so the idea of spending time posting about their career for fun comes off as extremely fake and inauthentic. Your motivation is different from normal which is why you don’t get it. Are you self employed?
With updates like Yosemite you now get a almost daily crash thanks to Apple.

Maverick was perfectly fine.
Try running both at the same time, maybe deconstructive interference will not harm your Wi-Fi
"Inflation benefits you unless you're in the top 1 percent."

Not really - inflation generally means wages go down relative to wages and those who spend a higher portion of their income on 'stuff' are generally worse off.

Inflation is targeted at 2% to keep a tiny bit of wage deflation in the economy, and to stay safely away from deflation which is a little scarier.
When I joined twitter a few month ago to promote my scientific publications + open source software projects, I set myself a number of clear rules:

1. Don't engage with or comment on political / social issues.

2. Don't install the app, set a time limit on twitter for all devices.

3. Follow other scientists with few exceptions.

4. Flag posts as irrelevant to me that express anger or controversial political opinions (I especially don't need to know anyones take on the Corona situation).

So far it has worked pretty well, I've got invited to give talks based on initial visibility I generated on Twitter. The open source software project I'm working on came to the attention / got engagement / retweets from relevant people. I reconnected with people that I met a few years ago and it even generated a few leads for job opportunities.

It is also really useful to keep track of scientific progress in a field and seminars / workshops I might want to attend.

The algorithm basically works against you though, even if you follow a few people that post / retweet a lot, they can come to dominate your newsfeed. I also came very close to engage with social / political content, simply because popular content that gets shown to you is often the most controversial. I ended up banning a few mainstream politicians, whose tweets kept getting retweeted by people I wanted to follow and that has solved the problem for the most part.

Overall so far twitter seems to create more opportunities than issues for me, but I notice that I spend way more time there than I initially planned.
Yes, but the +3 had a built-in disk drive (3 inch).
Ok, but we have a similar setup that runs on GCE instances. Deploying involves building an image and pushing a button. We don't really have the need for an Infrastructure team.
I can almost use this on my phone...but since I can not paste my highly randomized password, from my password database, into their website. Why not? I don't know, I think paste is disabled by Javascript. Who the hell would think that is a good idea?
But I do not understand how a NY prosecutor can subpoena a Japanese business?

If you offer services to, or engage in financial transactions with, a person in Jurisdiction A, Jurisdiction A can enforce its laws on you. You should not in any way be surprised by this fact.
> if the terminology in your code is different than the terminology of your domain that it’s a code/design smell.

Hence the idea/label of Domain Driven Design [0].

IMO like unit-testing it's valuable but you can't hope for 100%. There will always be some concepts that are unique to how the data is being packaged or calculated which aren't part of the business-domain, but hopefully they'll be safely locked down beneath domain-centered abstractions.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
You've got to appreciate the irony of accusing someone of commercializing cap table management, right?