jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> people need to spend more to bring us out of a recession.

every time i hear that i'm surprised what a fairy tale! Of course politicians forced to say comfortable "we need more spending" than the suicidal "we need more working", yet it is obvious for any sane normal person what only increased productivity and efficiency can get us out of this small hole-in-the-road current recession and the really big crises looming tomorrow - healthcare, energy, education - and the day after tomorrow - social security. Look at who's leading the recovery - the companies reporting large profits without much increased sales, if any. I.e. increased productivity and efficiency, less waste. The waste in the business is still extremely large, yet much smaller than compare to heydays of 2005-7. Instead of being wasted, at least some part of these profits would get invested and thus would spread around in the economy and help overall recovery.
Still keep wondering how to fix settings.py so that its more usable and so that we could keep more settings in the database, guess it will never happen to everyones agreement..
"Fill in the blank" (it's a Unicode ... if it's not showing up for you). i.e. tar xzf /usr/src/packagex.1.2.3.tar.gz; diff -u the/file.c.orig the/file.c; etc.

Granted, tar & diff are the two steps which could most stand to be streamlined (and are by your git approach), but at least they're nothing earth-shattering.
The best way I could describe its practical long-term effects, (once you've come down and realized you haven't broken your brain) is that your previous knowledge has been helpfully flagged as invalid, allowing you to acquire new knowledge in a less stupid, more nuanced manner.

I am curious about whether or not you have ever tried living in another country with a different language and culture for an extended period of time, and then returning to live in a more familiar culture. That too can have the effect of flagging previous knowledge as invalid, allowing you to acquire new knowledge. Perhaps you have done this as well, but I'm not sure about that from what you say about yourself here. As G.K. Chesterton put it, "The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."
I'll be finishing up my CS capstone's course requirements. Two weeks to graduation! :D
Well, their minds must seem tiny to someone with such a big head. ;-)
Look I get the technical reasons why, but as a computer user I don't care. I want someone else to have already done that work for me. Why would I make such an insane request?

Because there are other solutions available where that laziness is allowed.
First, yes, Square is going after what you might call a "consumer". Second, Apple counts millions of small businesses among its customer base.
Yes, and they would be angry at the people who make their apps for doing that for no apparent reason, the users who are more tech savvy will recognize that this is a ploy to harvest their data by forcing migration to platforms with fewer privacy restrictions, there will be big public backlashes on social media, people will boycott these new app stores simply because of the hassle, the companies will be forced to reverse their decision and put their apps back onto the App Store, and it would be an expensive waste of time.

One can even imagine that if the app getting moved is sufficiently widely used and utility-like, such as WhatsApp or Messenger, or even Facebook itself, the courts might start antitrust investigation into Meta, and that company would face pressure to keep those apps available on both their own Facebook Store and on the official App Store (where the majority of users are). After all, antitrust provisions apply not only to Apple, but to all companies.
Just one of many pro-nuke propaganda pieces prepping our minds for the next stage of war, actual nuclear war. The more we discuss the merits, the more "acceptable" the outcomes seem to become in the popular zeitgeist.
What's that weird unit MM? What I could find is an incorrect (multiplied not added) use of the roman 1000 used for money-millions. That would be pretty cheap in this context.

Maybe its something like Mega-huMans?
In part that’s because large scale ballistic weapon defense has generally been viewed by experts as destabilizing and accelerating the arms race. It’s a little technical why that is so, but interesting to read — regardless of one’s ultimate views.
Discredited amongst the truly high-end for whom Matasano is a household name, sure.

Trust me, though, the Booz Allens and Deloittes are still making tons of money by churning out 25 year olds with Masters degrees in "IT" and GSEC certifications, billing them as "security experts" and parking them in John Q. Federal CSO's office at $600/hour.
One thing that's surprisingly not mentioned at all in their FAQ is the actual process of preparing the stuff. Do you have to use a blender or can you get away with just stirring it up with a spoon?
I definitely agree that working with SML first can make learning Haskell a lot easier. There's a Coursera course from the University of Washington on the subject of Programming Languages, which teaches SML, Racket, and Ruby, and does a great job of helping the student adjust to the different mindsets for each language.
I had a professor in college whose field of expertise was designing cockpits. She liked to say that if the pilot pushes the wrong button and crashes the plane, it's your fault as the cockpit designer that it was possible to make that mistake.
> I had been using it for a while, and assumed it had been around for ages, based on how it seemed to be so oriented around a unix file system and using the command line.

Unix culture seems to be alive and well to this day, and still seems to get infused with new blood. So I wouldn't even have been surprised if something like git was made by a college student instead of a 40-something inventor of the most popular Unix-like OS.
It complements my weekly 9 meals of food and maintains my weight.
Australia has about 2/3 the population of California, 2/3 the economy of California, is far less diverse than California and yet six seems a healthy number of sub-divisions for Australia while California should be merged in with other states? That makes no sense at all.
Looks like somebody is trying to cash in their chips before the casino burns down.

Facebook is so massively overvalued that the only thing smart people can do is consider this period being close to the high water mark and get ready to get out while the getting is good. I don't think the swelling dot com bubble will be anything like the one at the turn of the century, particularly in the sense that I don't think many of these overvalued companies will actually fold, but I think it's safe to say that how ever it turns out, some folks are going to lose a warchest full of capital investment by the time this is done.
To distill 'gwern's comment even further:

He's saying that warrants and filings show that FBI had an insider positioned to subvert SR2's servers. If you have that vantage point, a worldwide traffic confirmation attack on Tor is a oddly elaborate way to scoop up SR2 vendors. Why not just use the SR2 servers to trick the vendors?

Observe that the relay-early traffic confirmation attack would be a technical effort unprecedented for the DoJ, whereas implanting a backdoor into a web app is already par for their course.

The Reddit threads 'gwern links to talk more about the implications of the timing. At first glance, it's an awfully big coincidence to write off, but there are mitigating factors.
"If nobody is trying to search your home, you don't need locks in the first place."
I'm a bit confused about your claim, then, because that sounds exactly like advertising.
I wouldn't worry. The same people who can't fathom how they'd survive 10 minutes without modern technology will adapt (some better than others) when push comes to shove. We wouldn't be here as a species if we didn't know that trick.
I suppose this is the 21st century equivalent of TPing houses or stealing the mascot. Unfortunately for this dude it's also a felony, apparently. (Though I have to imagine they will let him plead to something lesser.)
They make sense to do, but there are better bailouts.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YbtJGn7ida2IYNgwCFk3Sjhs...

We need a consistent approach across the board -- small businesses, individuals, etc. Pausing the economy makes much more sense than targeted bailouts to specific industries.
Too fucking right. The company I work for have gone from start up to a more established place - as such this has come up in discussion and it is know that it is very much accepted to swear and I do so on a daily basis.
That, and there is comparatively little resource scarcity. The government could easily steer the country into the economic ground, resulting in widespread suffering and eventual complete social breakdown.
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> (in the USA, the FBI is the largest distributor of child porn, with the goal of arresting people who look at it, for instance)

[citation needed]

Really, I'm curious where you got this fact.
As a gamer, I trust cat5 cables way more than wireless connections (I have both at home)...anything to mitigate the possibility of disconnection and higher latency.

I also don't have any numbers to prove this, but I'm fairly certain my download/upload speeds are faster on cat5 than wireless as well. It's really noticeable when I remote desktop another computer on the network -- on cat5 I notice very little latency, while on wireless I get constant fps lag.
The overriding unary operators article referred to in post was discussed on HN. See Charging Objects in Ruby (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022107)
OK? And what term would you use?
I'm going to do some travelling this year. I started remote freelancing recently, so this is pretty much perfect to combine with some travelling.
But you could likely get a cheap Windows netbook for nearly the same price, as OEM Windows 7 Starter will cost ~$40 OEM. So rather than $200 you pay pay $240, but you also get the ability to run Office, iTunes, FireFox, hook up printers, scanners, cameras. etc...

Is this worth an extra $40? It feels like it is, even if I rarely use any of these features. But there's probably also some value in being able to say, "This device is only for the cloud, period". But I feel like I'd rather get a tablet device (the Nook Color is already a mere $249).
Ironically, I also wrote a post on this exact subject a few months ago:

http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/08/how-to-retire-at-30-on-1-mil...

I was really responding to the claim that you can't retire on $1m in that post, whereas the post I wrote today is more about the idea that you might not need to "retire" at all...
It basically reduces down to "sell it, then build it."

I'm ashamed to say that I've actually done this a couple times (didn't learn from the first one, apparently). We skipped the process that Jason talks about, built something, and then tried to market it in various trial-and-error ways. Surely we could find someone who would want it at a price that would make us happy?

We tried different media, different target markets, biz dev, etc. Only to find out that the idea was just a stinker. That takes a whole lot more time, money and emotional investment that can be hard to walk away from than really digging into some potential customers before you start coding.

It's much, much easier to scrap a crappy idea before you've built it. It's almost impossible to scrap a good idea once it's been validated.

I would say that among the people I know who have been very successful starting companies, a very healthy majority sold the product before building it, intentionally or otherwise. There are a few who find the right market with their gut instincts - my hat's off to them, because I've tried that and failed miserably.
That sounds much more reasonable.

I appreciate what the author is saying, but his thesis isn't really well supported:

> Here’s the reality: if you’re not the type of person who can create freedom without a million dollars, you probably aren’t the kind of person who will get a million dollars.

... What? I'd be willing to guess that most people with a million dollars (which isn't really all that much money these days) probably have not put money second and freedom first. I know plenty of doctors and lawyers that are worth as much and work very hard. I don't know anyone who travels around free-spiritedly and is amassing large sums of money.
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Who with cash is going to buy all of these businesses and take on their debt? Apple? Microsoft? Some PE firms?

Or is your proposal to default on all the debt for those industries and buy the companies in a firesale? Tourism would actually disappear in that scenario...
I prefer the term Quarantine.
No, I know very well what I'm talking about. I see (and hear) those cars every time I go out to the street. Old, new, large, small.
I'm genuinely glad to hear that you've found a mission-driven workplace with a healthy, supportive work culture.

In my experience, I've found that many mission-driven workplaces use the righteousness of the company's purpose to justify pressure tactics paired with low pay. This is a commonly-reported experience at non-profits and even for-profit companies like SpaceX.

I'm now at a crossroads where I'm seriously considering working for companies that don't create particularly useful things for society, but where the culture is better to work at. The ideal would be to find a company with both a good purpose and a positive work culture, but I believe these are hard to find.
It's as if the author took some of the marketing points that the two platforms used against each other and then used that as an argument for what programmers want?

Garbage collection is so simple. Once you're over the fear of feeling overwhelmed by having to "manage" memory it's really a non-issue.

Real multitasking? No thanks. I can't come up with a "real world" problem that the current implementation doesn't solve.

I'm actually from the "developing world," and I must say his argument is a bit of an insult to me. Sure, I we don't typically make as much money as an American or a European, but we buy the things we like... And if that happens to be Apple hardware then that's what we buy.

I can't argue with his Android points since I've just started coding on Android.
Its funny. PG likes conciseness. But the only way you can get heard on HN these days is by being verbose.
Why is determinism important to you? Why do you think humans would be any freer if they were governed by dice than deterministic laws?

I believe the human conception of free will belongs to an ontologically different category of concepts to physical determinism. That one is implemented in terms of the other is besides the point. It's like trying to argue about Turing completeness on the basis of quantum mechanics.

Consequences are what matter. I believe the most common practical impact of this free will pseudo-debate these days is in criminal trials; "my bad childhood made me do it", "I'm mentally ill", "look at my brain scans" or whatever. But these things need to be argued within their own categories. Either you argue at the level of morality and free will, and treat prison etc. as a punishment; or you argue at the level of determinism, and treat prison as a deterrent and corrective. You can't mix and match categories to suit your purposes, and argue against punishment on the basis of determinism.
IPython is great. Also, if you do any django work, you'll probably love shell_plus, which is an enhanced shell that uses IPython and automatically imports all the models of your installed_apps. shell_plus is a command extensions provided by django-extensions:

https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions
what keys do you suggest for Dvorak? let me know..
What a nuisance. It will take me an hour to transfer my stuff that I want to save. Er.
This was very interesting, look what I made after 5 mins of tinkering: http://earslap.com/projectslab/otomata/?q=06020n0j89796949
This seems like a great idea for background music for a game. Repetition shouldn't be a problem at least.
Assuming Slack has some interest in preventing user confusion, that may not be a viable option.
All good points.

My argument is based on user experience. Both spotify and the 90s adware are on the wrong side of the line separating "understandably has ads" and "annoyingly has ads". No doubt that spotify is closer to the line compared to 90s adware.
Apparently I'm Dutch! I only work 10 hours a week. And it's really awesome.

My mother is really annoyed that she helped pay for my Ivy education, and is bugging for me to get a full time job. She jokes that I got my "Mrs." But other than that I love it.
This link is about the 2009 edition of the promotion, now it's a different coupon code and it works only for friday 26 of november.
thank you for confirming my suspicions
Evil Mad Scientist does a lot of things just because they are cool :) Example: fractal cookies! http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/fractalcookies
Is there an FAA distinction between fully and semi autonomous?
(b) inequality is the natural course of matters, but it's hard to argue that free markets don't even out inequality by allowing people to trade down their comparative advantages for goods that others provide.

There is a disconnect between the colloquial form of capitalism which is conflated with 'free markets' and a generous reading of marx's concept of capitalism: as in "capital -ism", or the idea that accruing capital is a social good in and of itself. Note that capital-ism in the most general sense does include the concept of 'crony capitalism' whereas free-market-ism shuns 'crony capitalism'.

Crony capitalism aside, it is unclear if capitalism necessarily creates (more) inequality, although it does underpin a philosophical motive to drive individuals to extract the most from their competitive advantage, that doesn't mean they will be successful at it.

'Mixed economies', while they sound nice and centrist, I think, tend to be the worst. Ultimately, it creates a vehicle by which political comparative advantage, which is zero-sum, and coercive (if you don't follow the law you can be thrown in jail) to economic advantage, which more easily compounds.
You're only seeing part of the picture. There are a lot of Windows shops out there globally -- not just enterprise-oriented .Net consultants, but all kinds of companies from small web agencies to specialized software vendors.

I've worked with some of these people on the web agency end of the spectrum. They're good at what they do, but they're absolutely not interested or specialized in anything sysadmin-related. For them, Unix is a hairy old beast and Microsoft is the company whose solutions are imperfect but accessible, and that has allowed them to concentrate on their job for the past 20 years.

As Microsoft adds new technologies to their palette, these users will pick it up. They'd never do it on their own as long as it involves steps like "just spin up a virtual Linux box on AWS"...

On HN, it's easy to start assuming that everyone speaks Bash as a second language, but that's very far from the truth.
Thank you.
What equipment/materials do you need to get started?
I dont think a spoon would be adequate. It's just a little too fine and clumps easily.

They supply a pitcher if you subscribe (or used to) and recommend making it in the pitcher and shaking vigorously. I use an immersion blender usually.

Additionally, I prefer it cold, so (if I'm not making a batch in advance) being able to throw some ice in with the blender to make a 'smoothie' is far more satisfying than going room temp.
It's not gone just yet. It has a few more weeks of life. I saw this headline and thought maybe there'd be a way to continue to use Facebook messenger in Adium. Nope. Only if you're building an "app" for iOS or Android.
If Borat is your version of high comedy then I feel sorry for you. That scene in the beginning where he calls his sister the highest ranked prostitute in the country really makes you instrospect. You can say Borat is some sort of modern Tocqueville but Tocqueville didn't spend the entire time pretending to be German and telling everyone about how they drink horse piss in Germany.
The 60-minute rule does not explain or justify your 133% claim with respect to four-engined aircraft - in fact, it is evidence against it: in practice, four-engined airliners, unlike twins, could tolerate more than a single engine failure.
I've done many charities, and noticed that most of the people are very caring but not very competent. I'll share an example

A group of 50 of us were planting young trees from seedlings which looked like weeds.

First step was to remove weeds, second was to dig the hole, third was planting the seedlings.

One group removed the weeds, another dug the hole, another planted the seedlings, and another removed the seedlings thinking they were the weeds.

In the end we drank a lot of bottled water, ate snacks, made a lot of trash, and very few if any trees were planted.

I think if the dozens of us just donated a few bucks, hundreds if not thousands of trees would have been planted by 5 competent people.