jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Ironic that people don't want to meet someone off an app without "sniff test" conversation first, yet are happy to meet strangers at a bar with no prior knowledge of them whatsoever.

I guess it's just a lingering bias that makes us think "dating app people are creepy" even though today the people you meet in a bar are probably all on dating apps too.
This is something that could be done before as well by just impersonating someone. The voice just needs to sound believably similar, which is not too hard with a sufficiently bad connection. And yet such attacks don't seem common at all.
Advocating for Nationalism is a typical example. Or restrictive immigration policies.

These seem to be considered by many to be synonymous with racism.
This is actually a pretty good idea. I think women would really go for it, since most of the 'matchmakers' are probably other women
The jackets have the letters sewn on rather than printed on, but I think the person who ordered them just said “give me whatever green letters you have” which was why they weren’t on brand, and also part of the charm.
Drivers can set their own rates, or at least to the success a bidding process would work. If the rate is to low, don't work. If there was a bidding process I wouldn't be surprised if you saw rates actually drop.
> you'd expect them to be driven out of the market by customers themselves.

Customers will frequently do things that are bad for them and bad for everyone, just because they have received advertising. That's why I think Uber is basically the antivaxx of taxis; they ignore regulations and break laws, putting people at risk and do everything they can in bad faith, but remain incredibly popular in some circles so I expect the law to drive them out, not "customers themselves".
I think by lowering your pricing you will attract more customers and make more profit.

It is an awesome idea but the basic product (i.e. non bespoke) needs to be cheaper. Although I know you look at the value you are adding, you also need to consider that another startup can easily copy your idea and outdo you on price.

On the value proposition side. Yes a designer is more expensive but they can design something custom to my brand. This can be done as a word template then I just type my next report into that and it's done for free.

As a comparison think about the autoresponder market. A $19 aweber plan should be sold for $1000 because think of all the envelopes / stamps you are saving? Well it isn't because of Getresponse etc.
We ended up with Slate because:

1. readme.io is just painful to use for larger documentations; very GUI-oriented
2. apiary is basically just annoying in every way (I really like the company so I tried 3 separate times to get myself to like their product)
3. I dismissed a couple of self-hosted options that use JS to render the information, since I find that idiotic

Slate struck a good balance between (1) syntax (2) ease of use and (3) good looks, although I wouldn't call it prefect in any of those departments.

Disclaimer: the end result looks surprisingly better than what you'd expect.
Why are you pointing to the unicode entry doc in an ancient version of Perl?

Also according to perlunifaq the minumum version you should be using is 5.8.1 which the documents for 5.8.0 would of course not mention.

Really if you want good unicode handling you should probably use 5.16.0 or later. If you want the latest version of Unicode there are ways of changing which version of Unicode Perl is compiled with, but it is easier to just use the latest version of Perl, which is 5.20.

http://perldoc.perl.org/perluniintro.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunitut.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunifaq.html
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlunicode.html

p.s. I noticed in the Python talk you linked that no one knew that the pile of poo symbol is in there because the japanese characters for luck and poo are very similar.
( I am unable to find a link to where I first read this )
The Japanese are also responsible for why we call them emoji (e means image, and moji means character. )
http://www.fastcompany.com/3037803/the-oral-history-of-the-p...
Thanks. Yes we tried to implement another way of sharing, not standard via url. Instead you can share notes via the key phrase on nooot - very easy to tell in person or via the phone.
the title for the post article is unfortunate, rain gets its distinctive smell largely from geosmin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosmin

this is just the mechanism by which rain's smell is particularly intense.
Getting SF type pay in a place with rural US type cost of living makes it quite easy to afford decent health insurance and your own personal retirement savings. Not everyone can be a contractor, and there is a lot more planning and responsibility with managing the larger pool of money yourself and getting the key things you need, but saying it's very unattractive is extreme. In fact, I'd be more comfortable with funding my own retirement by setting aside money out of higher pay than hoping the government is in a financial position to make good on it. I've seen a lot of aggressive reductions of pensions in the past 10 years and for people taking lower pay to get those pensions over a lifetime of work it's been grossly unfair and life altering. At the same time they are nearly powerless to do anything about it, if it's your money it's a little more stable (assuming you don't have it in the bank of an unstable country that could seize it).
I was an auditor at Arthur Andersen, how about you pay attention to the fucking world around you before you start spouting off like you've got something to contribute yourself, eh dipshit?
As far as the blocks go: that's a feature, not a bug. Since everything revolves around the 960 grid system, which doesn't support blocks side by side, you can't do it within the editor.

But, as imply, that's useful in a lot of cases, so it might be something to look at.

You're comments are great, btw. Thank you.
I actually studied ninjutsu (Togakure-ryu) for a several years in the late eighties. The core of real ninjutsu is adaptability, not the movie-ninjutsu that apparently supported the "ninja coder" silliness.

"Like a mad Klingon" would be "Fire-style" in ninpo terms; direct, forward focused; make yourself into an "irresistible force", or as close to it as you can manage.

A real ninja coder would be someone with a wide repertoire of techniques and tactics and a deep understanding of his craft, and who constantly adapts his approach to the needs of the work.
Please stop trolling. Microsoft did a ton of shady things. For instance: Colluding with SCO to spread Linux IP FUD [1]; suing Lindows around the world, even“ex parte,” and getting a ruling from some a Dutch judge that every day someone could download Lindows from the Netherlands, Lindows owed MSFT an additional 100,000€ for trademark violation [2]; the whole Java Embrace, Extend, Extinguish thing; forcing OEMs to not ship PCs with Linux installed if they wanted standard OEM discounts on Windows; the whole federally-convicted-of-antitrust bit; etc.

And I for one LOVE the walled garden as it provides me with demonstrably higher-quality, malware-free apps that don’t just rip off someone else’s IP/icon haphazardly the way most Android apps seem to do. The walled garden does NOT prevent end users from installing web apps to the home screen, sans Apple approval. It is also NOT anticompetitive, unless you know something no one else does.

[1]: http://news.cnet.com/2100-7344_3-5172426.html?tag=nefd_lede

[2]: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Microsoft-Kee... and http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/03/62644 and more generically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=465335
Yes but you have to form you own opinion. Try it and see.
I can't count the times I've wanted to throw my phone against a wall exactly because of this. They are usually very good at UX but this one throws me off _every_ time.
Citizens care.

I've left Australia. I don't really plan to go back. Most of my friends are doing the same.
> Drawing and writing from your elbow makes all the difference and suddenly you can keep going forever. And your lines look cleaner.

Does this truly work?

I remember stumbling on a page that advocated using shoulder and elbow movements to control drawing utensils, for the reasons you describe. I recall it looking pretty sketchy, "one weird trick" type, but I figured what the hell, it's cheap to try and my handwriting sucks. So I tried and tried, for many hours (EDIT: [0]), and observed that it's not only much more tiring than "normal" way of drawing/writing, it's also extremely imprecise. Sure, I can sort of draw a straighter line this way, but I can't control where it goes or stops with enough precision. And everything has to be bigger, because again, precision for normal-scale letter writing just isn't there.

Or maybe my body is just broken?

(Also tried this with a mouse, with the same results - everything takes too long, and keeping the arm unsupported is tiring.)

--

[0] - I dug out my old notes; it was exactly 8.5 hours of focused, deliberate practice of drawing letters using arm and forearm for control, over the span of a month, on top of any writing activity I'd otherwise be doing. I may also have spent additional 1.5 hours on the aforementioned practice, but the notes aren't sure if that really happened (I tracked it in two systems, there was an entry missing in one).
They'll probably patent the whole site to be able to sue competitive sites.
It's amazing to see the Olympian gymnastics routines the tech world is going through right now to try to make the Cybertruck anything but a hilarious testament to Tesla's hubris.

Not only is it the ugliest thing that's ever existed on four wheels, it's poorly thought out for its market segment. Range under load was not even mentioned, why do you think that is? Good luck towing anything with the base model without a supercharger visit every hour or two. Luckily my door panels and windows* are bulletproof though, because suburban California is basically a war zone right?
I thought it was a joke, too, until I came here and started reading comments.
an AI could only own the copyright of its own work if it was conscious and sentient. Programmable emotions can only get you so far but they will never turn an AI into a human so they will never deserve to own their work no matter how much they are programmed to care.
The only test I ever took which needed a TI calculator was the AP calculus exam. I borrowed one from the school, and it was a bit of a pain to figure out the UI during the test, but overall it went fine.

The calculators are a completely counter-productive and distracting tool for “learning” which have contributed to a watered down curriculum with more mindless button punching and less thinking than before. Anecdotally some students never recover from the mistaken idea that math class is about learning how calculators work.

There is no reason to assign problems which require a calculator in high school mathematics courses, and for anything that would benefit, there’s a huge advantage in using a computer with a full-sized keyboard and a general-purpose programming language, or even a smartphone with a web browser. Do your basic plotting at the free desmos.com, with the added bonus that sharing plots with classmates is trivial because you can generate a URL.
I agree wholeheartedly.

Somewhere out there (prog21 ?) is an article stating that the one in desperate need of electricity (the computing device) is subject to the one in a position to provide it (the user), and I agree with that sentiment.

I'd even like an IETF-standard-like T-shirt that says 'The user's will MUST be obeyed as faithfully as possible unless prevented by unrecoverable circumstances' or something like that.

Click-through EULAs and dialog boxes are another symptom of the 'elite-developer-itis' our industry can sometimes exude.
On a 30-year time horizon it would be more reasonable to use the S&P as a baseline as you can increase your short-term risk appetite. Since Nov 1989 that's a 15.82x return (incl. dividends)
I think this is the crux of it. We need to decide at what point an AI becomes "a person" capable of owning things.
> What's best for your genes is not necessarily what's best for you

That brings about all sorts of meta-questions. I mean, for starters who's to say that's true? Is what's best for you really whatever makes you happy, or is what's best for you what's best for your genes?
You can become a programmer from a non-programming computer profession. I was a sysadmin for a decade. Now I code all day and get paid for it. I'm in London too if you want to come talk at the London HN meetup next Thursday.

I suggest your issue may be you don't have the patience for a lot of non-practical beginner type programming tutorials. Reading a book about Sally and John sends you to sleep. It sends me to sleep too.

Here's what to do:

Make something really small that's useful to you.

> Myself, I am a telcoms/Network Engineer with knowledge of VoIP systems and Cisco.

Great!

* You need to SSH into boxes and run IOS commands right?

* Do people hand you spreadsheets with stuff to do?

* Maybe check if there's port capacity on a switch or something similar?

I'd make the smallest possible app to do that.

* First have it log into a box, run a command, and print the output

* Next perform some filtering, so rather than printing the output, it will check for something and tell you directly which ports have capacity.

* Next make it loop through multiple boxes in a text file

* Next make it read an Excel file with the switch names.

Python can do this (Paramiko does SSH, the xlrd & xlwt modules read and write Excel), and is also currently the teaching language of choice. It's more interesting than Java and more straightforward than PHP.

After that, I bet you've got some horrible annoying EnterpriseThing that outputs some ugly XML, right? The lxml module has a cool feature called xpath so you can extract the thing at '/report/stats/item[1]/' and do reporting on it. You can make save it as JSON and use OpenFlashChart to make a cool flash chart of the results.

Suddenly you're the guy that got info about 60 switches this morning. And made cool capacity charts. People will love you for these simple ideas, and it will make it easier to work on your more complex ideas.
I mean no offense when I say this, but you're a great example of a "smart but clueless" employee dishonest startup founders prey on. At $500/week, you are making $26,000/year. Assuming you're a good developer (and now manager), you could probably pull in $120,000 working for Google or Facebook, which means you're losing $94,000/year (!) in opportunity cost (not even counting health benefits or other minor perks). You said nothing about equity, but assuming you will own 1% of the company after four years, and assuming the company exits for $50mil, your equity will be worth $500k, while you could have earned $376k working a stable job (again not counting health insurance, plus Facebook gives equity too). Considering that a potential exit opportunity is associated with large risk, the expected value of working for such a startup is miniscule, compared to opportunity cost.

You are not acting to your own advantage financially or emotionally. One option you have is to renegotiate your salary with the founder, and considering how hard it is to find great people, and how little he pays you, I have a strong feeling he'll budge. But if you have options (and it's your market now), do you really want to work for someone who has no ethical standards?

BTW, we're hiring: www.rethinkdb.com/jobs.

EDIT: just read your comment that you do not have any equity. Run, don't walk.
Cool, the post describes how to build a Nondeterministic Outsourcing machine to solve your programmer problems... just fork a whole bunch of jobs trying to solve the same problem and then pick the one that turns out best!

Sarcasm aside, I like the "I AM REAL" suggestion to auto-filter out the guys who reply to every single job without reading. It works well on Craigslist too, to reply with a special subject tag.
While the video is cool I wouldn't expect to see it here. Are we going to start sharing advertisements? I don't like doing the job for marketing people.

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Parameterized modules don't have constructors. That doesn't matter in a trivial case, but it does when you want some complex state set-up which you don't want to repeat every single time you "instantiate" a parameterized module?

Also, Reia has inheritance. Parameterized modules don't.
Does the preprocessor generate raw (i.e. conventional) CSS, which it then convinces the browser to evaluate or re-evaluate as necessary, or does it actually apply the styles itself with JS? i.e. something equivalent to jQuery('.heading').css("color", "red").
It depends how you set up the forwarding.

Casually looking at strings /usr/sbin/sshd on my devserver reveals that there is a mode to create a tun device, which sets up a more traditional VPN-ish thing (basically, your computer sees a new interface and routes certain sections of IP space to that prefix. sshd sucks in these packets and forwards them as is). This results in two layers of congestion control, which (IIRC -- I'm not a TCP guy) Congestion Control Algorithms aren't set up to handle very well.

The more traditional mechanism for tunneling though (the one most often referenced in the posts and things I've seen) is a layer 7 forwarder. Basically it creates sockets to listen for connections on either ends on a specific port, recv's data as a traditional network user, and then turns around and sends the data over the multiplexed transport to the end server. It essentially strips away the congestion control on the first hop (because you're just going to localhost anyway) and there's no TCP/IP packets in TCP/IP packets thing going on anymore, just your application stream in their header transport thing. It's less flexible, but is good enough if you want to set up a simple proxy or something and doesn't have the same pitfalls.

If you need the flexibility, something like OpenVPN might be good (though I haven't used it myself).

And you might also want to look at stunnel as an ssl tunnel alternative that lets you have more control over what certs go where without archaic and dangerous /etc/ssh/*_config meddling
Why isn't the source's headline "Microsoft fails to patch privilege-escalation vulnerability within 3 months"?
Thanks. The Teitelman work is what I cite as the introduction of aspects, but I didn't realize it was more than just a pattern back then.
I thought at first that this would be testing ZFS' fault tolerance by striking drives with a hammer.
What a terrible linkbait headline.
Because all the instances spin up with a fresh file system, but you can specify the environment variables in the AWS console.
Also: adding features that expand the range of potential hacking attempts.

I'm looking at you, wireless credit cards and cars with cellular phone connections.

Airgaps are not the be-all and end-all, but they certainly help.

(I have a family member with a car that not only has a cellular phone connection, but has enough things adjustable through the "entertainment console" (instrument panel brightness and length of time before lights shut off, among other things) that I'm pretty sure it's not airgapped. (It may be communicating via a simple protocol, but, although it's better than no security, it's not the same thing as an airgap.) Quite frankly, it scares me. Not so much for me or my family personally, but the potential consequences for society in generally. I can far too easily see someone being assassinated by, say, having the ABS lock the brakes on both left tires and release the brakes on both right tires next time someone is driving down a (non-divided) highway, for instance.)
Since these developers are from Taiwan, English is prob not their first language.
What I'm about to say isn't to deny that inflammation might trigger or contribute to depression. In fact, anyone who thinks depressed people are just self-indulgent whiners and that there is no biochemical basis for depression are simply living in the 1950s.

My wife has clinical depression. To describe depression, as this article does, as just not wanting to get off the couch is hugely insulting to people with clinical depression.

My wife isn't alone in wishing that there was another word for "depression" of the sort arises because your team lost, your dog died, you got passed over for a promotion. Those are disappointing and can be a problem in the short term.

Clinical depression is not just not wanting to get off the couch. It is a profound loss of hope, and the inability to even connect with your previous mental state of what it was like to have hope or find things interesting. The present appears fucked, and even after racking your brain for some way out, every path looks even more dismal. Situations in the real world are often complicated and can be interpreted in more than one way, but to a depressed person, the most terrible interpretation is evaluated as being a very likely outcome. And, just like 9/11 conspiracy theorists construct self-consistent theories by bending facts and through selective filtering, clinically depressed people often build an elaborate, self-consistent understanding that, yes, they and their future are completely fucked.
Looks like someone is lifting xkcd's "Online Communities" map in the background of that picture of Schmidt (or paying homage, I hope).
I think it will be.

"Today I'm excited to announce the next evolution of Messages. You decide how you want to talk to your friends: via SMS, chat, email or Messages. They will receive your message through whatever medium or device is convenient for them, and you can both have a conversation in real time. You shouldn't have to remember who prefers IM over email or worry about which technology to use. Simply choose their name and type a message."
There are some great documents here, although I would still consider creating a relationship with a good law firm -- you will need them as time goes by and often they won't charge anything/very little for these initial incorporation documents anyway.
Or furiously scribbled, illegible notes from your advisor.
Good to see a response on this from someone at Slack. However I'm now somewhat confused.

If you accept that Anshuman should have been updated on the 2nd bug and it was only after multiple unanswered requests that he blogged about it (a completely reasonable reaction I'd say), why did you then (I'm guessing you're the same Rhuber as the one commenting on the 3rd bug) say that he had gone against the spirit of the site and had him removed from your bug bounty programme?
Talking about Juicero I remember its pressing strength was "enough to lift two Teslas" as per its founder. Really difficult to find something as over engineered as this now-defunct product.
I wish I knew about ego and humility.

I ran into my own version of "curse of the gifted" ( http://www.vanadac.com/~dajhorn/novelties/ESR%20-%20Curse%20... ) where I was finding myself re-inventing every wheel imaginable. IDE? yep, made my own. SCM? yep, made my own. Game engine? yep, made my own. [tech x], made my own. Were anything really good? in their own way, but they sucked more in others.

Why? my ego was out of control with a massive dose of "Not Ivented Here"
That's on the right track, but I'm not sure piggybacking one of the networks will work–almost as if they need to do it and promote themselves ... maybe even work out deals with the venues ... if a lady checks in at a bar, she gets a free drink–if a dude checks in, he gets to meet ladies ... just thinking out loud.

Or maybe everyone who is single can wear a shirt with a QR code on it :)
Note: A Fully working web startup that you want to launch is not a fully working web startup.

What about S3 or a bunch of VPSes to test the idea and then go to the Investors with a working startup?
I've thought about that it a lot but also as a way of using text classification to divide up the stream based on context (international, business, hacking, software development, research).