jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
IBM's nosedive has nothing to do with Indians.

IBM has three problems that are coming home to roost.

1) They abandoned a large portion of their technology business, and became a consulting & services business. There is very little special about them now, they are almost a commodity business with a famous name.

2) They invested a very large sum of their earnings, not into innovation, R&D, science - but into financial deception and gimmickry. Basically they've attempted to deceive investors by projecting earnings per share growth through share buybacks, while the underlying business was rotting.

3) The consulting & services business they've chosen to focus on, rises and falls with the global economy. The global economy hasn't been great the last six years, and most of the governments of the world are struggling when it comes to spending and budgets. With global economic weakness, even big corporations have been restrained on spending for IT the last six years, there have only been a few bright spots.
Taken sounds bad until you look into it and discover the 99% all but forced it on them...
He is also listed on several mapping-related patents for Apple over the past several years.[1] It seems surprisingly un-Apple-y to allow someone in that position to publish articles detailing the flaws in Apple maps, speculate about where they get their data and how the quality problems might affect unannounced future products.

1: https://patents.justia.com/inventor/justin-o-beirne
I am looking for a CTO. Some one to help run my various businesses, you can see more at the job post here >> https://www.onestopdevshop.io/incubator-cto-job/
Just so you know, KDE does all this natively.
That is good for Samsung/Qualcomm/Mediatek/Apple, but let's be honest, it is a failure as a business. Despite of being used on pretty much 100% of all smartphones' SoC, they barely make any money. Also, their designs are lagging behind, M1 and probably Nuvia are example of that.
Yes, the externality is being paid for in that instance, which depending on your viewpoint is a good thing. But if that is the case that we only want to pay for your stupidity in drinking soda, than they shouldn't be pitching something that is for the health of the people, because it isn't.

Which brings us to the entire problem of a government run health care program. Anything deemed bad for us will be taxed and pitched as the fact that it is for the health of the people instead of to cover the costs of your choices on society.

And yes, I realize that a person who drinks a soda in a free market healthcare system still affects the cost of my insurance, however it is to a far less extent than when I am the one paying for my neighbors drink.
“The Pulse News Reader app, makes commercial use of the NYTimes.com and Boston.com RSS feeds, in violation of their Terms of Use. Thus, the use of our content is unlicensed. The app also frames the NYTimes.com and Boston.com websites in violation of their respective Terms of Use.”

Excuse my language but; what a crock full of shit.

The last line in particular is the kind of thing that makes me really mad about lawyer driven nonsense such as this. What, for example, is the browser if not a frame?

Ok, I can partially buy the first section because of the commercial aspect; but I still think it is a bit idiotic to insist things like that. I simply don't see how anyone benefits from such action?
I want this in the US.
>I really miss having a place (back then we even had ad dozen of them in a few km distance) with a huge selection carrying every component you might ever need

That sounds very atypical. I live outside a major US metro and I know of one good computer store in the area (Micro Center). I imagine there a few small places that carry electronic components but not sure how many. And it wasn't much different 10 to 20 years ago unless you count Radio Shack which wasn't really all that great.
https://pypi.org/project/libvirt-python/
I was a computer geek from about 1981 onwards, starting with Commodore PETs at high school. These machines were uniquely accessible. You could do surprisingly creative graphics using only the graphic characters hardwired into the machine (no bitmaps, colours or sprites). But these characters were printed right on the keyboard, and could be used in normal BASIC "PRINT" statements to do quite performant animations and such, without any advanced programming skill.

That was as good as it got. The difference between a beginnner dabbling with his first PRINT loop and an advanced assembly language programmer wasn't that great because the machine was so limited; you could go from one extreme to the other in skill in a year or two if you were interested enough. My natural response to seeing the "MISER" adventure, after solving it of course, was "I have all the programming skills to make a game like that" and did so.

And while then as now, only <1% of the general population was interested enough to get good at programming these things, another 10-20% was interested enough to hang around, dabble, try the latest cool programs that came down the pipe, or were made by the 1%. I had people playing a game that I made that consisted of one (long) line of BASIC.

Then, it seemed, most of the rest of the population (the other 80-90%) got computers too, Commodore 64s mostly where I lived. And still, even if only a tiny minority actually programmed their own stuff, it felt like a part of a vibrant scene, you could always show off your stuff.

With modern machines, even without the discouragement of locked down operating systems, missing accessible programming languages and such... there is just no hope of making something "cool" you can impress your friends with. So the tiny minority that does learn HTML5, Javascript, Arduino programming, what have you, is relatively obscure and seems to be a shadow of its former self. It isn't really. It's just that 99.99% of the computing power now in the hands of the population will never be tinkered with.
> If you are not a scientist who has actually conducted one of these studies; if you are not intimately familiar with the methodologies and the math techniques used in the analysis; if you've only ever read the headline and maybe an abstract of a study- then please don't give advice to anyone on the topic. Please don't spread "information" that X is better than Y.

Do you have a good article backing this -

> I think the messaging shouldn't even be "breast feed if you can"- it should be "breast feed if you want".

Preferably a solid journal article, or an analytical news article. The top ones on Google are just emotive.

Nutrition from womb to 2 years is vital, it's probably the most important deal-able issue in the world today. I'll assume that advice is only for HN users who have clean water and access to good baby formula and the IQ's and education to do it properly.

I don't see why formula is not as good as, if not better than breast. But evidence is breast is best as far as I can see.
I feel bad that writers of quality programming books don't get paid more for their efforts.

Yet I too am guilty of finding ebooks for free, maybe I'm a hypocrite.

The problem with paying for books is its like £30+ up front before you find out if the book is any good or not. And lots of programming books are very badly written.

You might make more money by making a series of Youtube videos than writing a book?
The city deserves a "bug" for that. Computers might not be able to distinguish between those easily, but I'd bet most humans (especially ones not from Portland) would have no idea either. Addresses are not set in stone -- it's easy enough for them to fix and avoid the entire issue.

edit: I've had my zip code changed within the last few years. That causes the same amount of pain as changing any other part of the address and is done without much fanfare.
My antivirus says: "Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website."

May be it's a false alarm, but I thought I had better share it here.
I think most statically typed languages should be good for this.
Disclaimer: k8s beginner here.

As far as I understand, local storage provisioner is for the node local storage; the storage doesn't follow the workload to whatever node is the pod scheduled, but schedules the pod to the node containing the storage device. It doesn't allow for pods to access local storage outside the node.

So for worker nodes using storage on the master node, isn't it better to use either iSCSI or NFS?
Looks like the Syrian Army was caught with its pants down, the vehicles staying still in the open. They didn't expect the Turks at all. And they were right next to the border. It is possible to minimise such damage by moving often and using cover and camouflage.

Unlike planes, tanks can work just fine in the dark or in bad weather. Smoke screens can be deployed to conceal movement.

Artillery and planes need good spotting too, which means that targeting a moving and unpredictable target is hard.

During the NATO campaign in Yugoslavia the Serbs effectively hid most of their armour in forests and churches, so it is possible even to hide from even the most high-tech adversary.
This is a great find. Thanks.
Initially I would start with something like TeamTreehouse to get your feet wet and learn the basics.

Also I would learn HTML and CSS first (if you haven't already) then dive into javascript.
You did though. You claimed the terms were meaningless.

But if you study, you find out they they have very specific meanings.

Calling C pointers "references" is just the tip of the misunderstanding iceberg.

But if you prefer to wander around in ignorance, by all means. Just don't be surprised when your incorrect comments are constantly corrected.
No, I love working on a mac (hardware and software).
Typically I would never disclose you are looking for another job . . . things might be chummy with your boss(es) while you're all on the same team, but once they know you're leaving they could can you on the spot, lock you out of your workstation and send you on your way.

This could result in a loss of pay between hey I might leave, you're fired, and finding your next gig. Plus it is a little harder to find a job when you don't have one. Keep things positive. No: Our code sucks, we need to do things the right way. Yes: If we improve this our clients will have less downtime and it will reduce churn and increase LTV.

In the mean time while you're looking you could start a movement to improve things at your existing company. Maybe it would help out your friends and girlfriend's employment outlook. Most companies are receptive to hey we can improve things for the clients/subscribers by doing this, this and this.

Good luck, stay on the down low.
No way, not until you're ready to give notice.
I would, great exposure, lots of new customers.

More revenue than your typical day.

Plus lots of people to spread the word about how great your app is.
So it does provide practical protection to use NAT in that you've reduced the set of valid attackers from "anyone on the Internet" to "people with the ability to affect the upstream router in my ISP"

That (for most average consumers) is a vastly reduced attacker set.

Security is not binary, it's a scale.
It's personal preference, but I prefer React ATM.
The live part would be really useful if the police decide to confiscate your phone before you have a chance to edit and upload anything.
I don't remember it verbatim, or even what exactly the code was doing, but something like:

// And now ladies and gentlemen, we need a volunteer from the audience!
// Yes, you there, please come up.
...allocate dynamic memory...
// Now our lovely lady from the audience will enter this mysterious box!
...do something with allocated memory...
// We spin the box around!
... do more stuff ...
// And when we open the box, we see she has vanished!
... deallocate memory ...

Amusing, I guess, but it really didn't contribute understanding to the code. This was in the middle of a gigantic avionics simulation program that was almost entirely uncommented and extremely hard to understand in the first place. The same code base also had an MP3 recording of this song checked into it:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Frank_Hayes:Threes
If you can't wait for it, you could use PureScript and fork Thermite [1] to add react-native support :)

[1] https://github.com/paf31/purescript-thermite/
They actually had a pretty good one in android 8 and 9, but in either 10 or 11 they made it into a monstrosity. Where they used to fit symbols there are just ludicrously large numbers. Even swipe down to get history barely works, because it often ends up in the middle state where... The input box is twice the size for some reason? Instead of the previous swipe right for more operations, there is a tiny button far from your thumb.

Google should really stop fixing things that are already perfect. The old calculator did its job, well, and even had well polished animations. The new version is simply worse in every way, for the sake of... Rounded, larger, harder to click buttons?
Hey hedius, forgot to say in this thread ... thanks for your work on JRuby. It works great.

One small suggestion ... would you consider adding extra-extensions (breaking backward compatibility with Ruby)? You've already done it here and there, like for threads or for string processing (although I guess it wouldn't have made sense otherwise).

What I'd like is for some way to get the AST of a anonymous code block ... as I'm dreaming of something like Linq in a JVM language.

What do you think?
In this case, I mean not shared web hosting in the VPS sense (one server, many customer sites) but web farm or web cluster (your site on many servers).
Not the case here.. in Chrome on Linux in /new/photo clicking the box after clicking "Set a click-through link" highlights either nothing or the last '/'.
I thought they were too. After logging in, I see I can download over 200 hours of presentations from WWDC 2010 in iTunes.
Hi guys, thanks a lot for the organizing of this event. I will definitely be there.
Just a rebranding! (The technology's gotten better as well, of course - we didn't used to use firecracker at all)

https://webapp.io/blog/layerci-has-rebranded-to-webapp-io/
If you don't look at the price, it's the most stable and predictable service and protocol in the existence of the internet (maybe after the internet / IPv4). It's uptime is 99.987%, last time it was down in 2013, and the cool thing is that even if it gets down, it has self healing property in the case of network separation / sybil attack.

https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/bitcoin-uptime/

I dare you to find another internet service (or even banking service) with the same stability.

Also the same software that I downloaded in 2013 still works (although I'm not using it, I have the option to not upgrade).

There was a bail in last month in my country (Hungary) as well: all people who stored their money in Russian banks lost their money over $100000, just like in Cyprus in 2013. They did't even know that their bank was Russian owned. I'm not playing the game of russian roulette with my money anymore.
You've been out of school long enough to have a different perspective on it if you go back. You don't have to do a degree, in fact it's better to just bounce around the local CC or online courses doing one "fun" extracurricular at a time. Taking the class makes a little commitment and the structured environment gives it more weight so that you have a "thing to wake up to in the morning".

Some good courses to try that you probably missed while aiming for the software career: philosophy, the arts, history, physical sciences, shop classes, sports/dance/martial arts.

Ultimately the goal is to find the thing you can study forever, or some kind of stewardship role that you're comfortable with. When you solve a lower order of struggle in life that frees you up to work on a higher one. But you have to grow into that kind of thing. Life never really gets easy.
I wasn't aware it was a sliding window. In that case the method Paul mentioned is probably a good enough solution.
Is it possible to write a server which supports both versions?
GO FOR IT!

1. Plans are for investors, to keep teams on track, or documenting wild guesses. You're not taking on investors, you're flying solo, and you don't need to document your guesses (yet).

2. Founders are great for analog load balancing and as a support system. If your wife is supportive, keep moving. If she's not supportive enough, start a local HN meetup or tap into other existing groups.

3. I can only imagine trying to budget with 4 kids that $200/mo might be hard to come by. Plead your case on kickstarter, and be sure to tell HN.

In conclusion, GO FOR IT!
Checkout venturehacks' interview with Sean Ellis.
The site seems to be down so I can't link it.
It should be one of the popular posts called "how to bring a product to market".
So: your costs for the first year will be $2760-3600. That shouldn't be hard to raise.

Here's what you do: put up a web site describing the product, giving a demo, etc. Make a sign-up button (with the $9.99 price), but when people click on that, give them a message that sign-ups are currently unavailable, and take their email address to notify them when they are.

Now, spend a small amount (<$25) on Adwords. See how much you have to pay for the relevant keywords, and what your conversion rate is (considering clicks on the "sign up" button as a conversion.)

This will allow you to verify that a) there is a market for your product, b) you're able to reach this market via Adwords, and c) your pitch is compelling enough to convert.

Armed with this information, it should be easy to raise a few thousand bucks. In fact, e-mail me the results, and we can talk.
The amount of money and media attention around "startup" is eventually going to lead it to its downfall. There is no quick "make money fast" schemes in life. The reputation that the tech sector has created after the dot-com era was created purely on sweat and hardwork ( not mine but the veteran engineers in SV whose shoulders I am standing on). Now the vultures seems to back and many tech products on the markets seems to have a over-inflated valuation because of this dumb hype.

I am keeping my options open since I know this is going to lead to a crash in the next few year.
This was discussed on HN recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8612860), but the current post seems different enough to be treated separately.
It forgot one thing : historically all large deficits and sovereign debts have been solved by huge inflation.

However returning taxes rate to Clinton era levels + some more taxes (not much really) + a severe miltary spending cut would solve the deficit according to this game. That's the way I'd go, but I don't hold my breath :)
The sort of feedback loops you're talking about aren't really that difficult to analyse. They're just complicated.

The difficulty is that, as you refer to, the political climate makes it difficult. The specific difficulty I see is that it's politically impossible to try a policy out and then tweak it quickly if it turns out to be necessary to do so. Accurate and timely data collection to be able to do so is also a big issue, and it's one I'd rather see more budget allocated to.
Roughly ~$8 million, without any distribution cut to speak of (other than bandwidth costs).

It'll be interesting to see what his newly incorporated studio does next, as he seems to be expanding fast and putting resources toward a sophomore effort already.
In related news, C++ was invented to increase programmers' salaries:
http://artlung.com/smorgasborg/Invention_of_Cplusplus.shtml
The BLS does a TERRIBLE job of managing the unemployment stats. The birth/death model just does not work at cycle changes. For a detailed look at these issues check out Mish's many posts at http://bit.ly/9yjUjN

Additionally, there is something going on beyond a flawed model. From zerohedge.com => http://bit.ly/b5AJsz

"Readers may be surprised to discover that beginning in April, of 2010, continuing through today, there have been 22 out of 23 consecutive upward prior weekly revisions! In other words, the BLS has a definitive mandate to underrepresent the "current" weekly data and to allow it to catch up with reality once it has become "prior", and thus no longer market moving, when in reality should the BLS present true data it would have likely missed estimates on more than half the occasions it has "beaten" and caused ridiculous market spikes like the one experienced earlier. Furthermore, combining all individual weekly data, demonstrates that the BLS has underrepresented initial claims by roughly 80,000 year to date."

Check out the post for a nice chart.
To write awesome papers, I used to create a draft, then edit out needless words and find more succinct ways to say things. If I was short on length, I'd repeat my initial brainstorming step and flesh out more content. By pruning and then adding content, you end up with a paper that is denser and stands out next to other filler-filled, font-inflated, 2.2 spaced papers.
Isn't it the first time in history that a software author makes money like only athletes, writers and artists usually do?

Are we going to see the emerge of "software agents", who will help programmers make money out of talent much like "Literary agents" do with writers?

That would be nice, wouldn't it?
It's significant that a large portion of gifted kids come from households where they're the smartest by far. My mother designs curriculum for gifted education, and over the years I've seen that part of the difficulty in raising a gifted child to being a healthy, successful adult is knowing what to do with them.

Richard Feynman was building complex electronic booby traps in his room when he was seven. Before turning ten he had nearly burned down his house with a homemade transformer in his ad hoc laboratory. Most parents would see him as a problem that needed to be fixed, or be so confused that he'd end up being ignored. Many parents can't see the world from the perspective of a gifted child, realizing how slow school seems, how frustrating their peers might be. Many parents wouldn't consider sending their kid to math camp, or Robot One, or having them apprentice for an electronics engineer. Since the adults wouldn't consider it fun, it doesn't occur to them, unless they're very close with their child, that their kid might love a month doing advanced math, or learning physics early.

I believe that gifted kids are fragile. They need strong reinforcement at home telling them to do what makes them happy, whether the other kids dream of being scientists, or a cellists, or a astrophysicists, or not. Since smart kids are also very aware of themselves, they're also very sensitive to the expectations of their parents and teachers. A lifetime of being told how exceptional you are can lead to severe depression if you wind up simply average. Someone with those kind of expectations lumped on them can even become very successful and still spend the remainder of their life lamenting the potential they had, judging themselves for not becoming a first chair, first rate, phd everything.
I'm interested in hear more about what your job is like. Would you email me to chat a bit?
Our registration/login/download/stat servers for all our iOS apps (Free Books + Free Audiobooks + Classicly) are all hosted on Heroku, and have been completely down all day. Not good.
I think you've got that backwards. Google are the ones who will probably regret lowballing Groupon. Google's track record in social anything is abysmal. What makes this half-assed attempt any different?

What Google's entry into this market means is that it will basically kill off any other Groupon clones, and merely solidify Groupon and Living Social's dominance.