jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was going to try something similar, something like a MIDIquest 'random parameter' generator running into a few analog/virtual analog synths (MS2k, SY35, mopho, whatever else i see on Craigslist). Probably the most straightforward way to generate "harsh" noise (there's blue and violet noise, emphasizing above 1kHz, according to Brian Shepherd's synthesizer textbook) is to run random parameters into a Yamaha DX7.

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reminds me: need to read Vertical Color of Sound: http://www.amazon.com/Brian-Eno-Music-Vertical-Color/dp/0306...

also reminds me: someday I'm going to listen to Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music
The first thing to do is make sure that you are actually not the dumbest person in the room.
Sometimes company trajectories stall out, and you'll end up pressing yourself against the roof trying to push that company back up. Physics will beat you. But! Your founders may get things going again.

As far as your actual questions...

1. There are better work environments, in companies with better prospects.

2. You probably can't change the culture unless you're a founder. But fortunately, your founders can change the culture. The question is whether or not they have the political power to do so in your new ownership context.
Is "compiling code" an IO intensive (IO bound) task?
That is if all your friends live in the same country, I have quite a few friends all over the world, and especially in Asia, people prefer specific apps. For friends in China it's WeChat, for Japan it's LINE. Other friends use Facebook, my family uses WhatsApp. Here in HK it's a mix between WhatsApp, Telegram or Signal.
I get a feeling that it is just a band aid because of unsanitized data and sloppy coding practices.

If you subscribe to the philosophy of sanitizing and validating user data on the edge as soon as you receive it and then stick to using whatever data type you decided on, this is much less of a problem (any mismatch in runtime would then be considered a bug).
Then bill appropriately or don't do the job. You aren't a slave.
How can hackers help? How might we create new technology to eradicate this? How might we create tech to empower the slaves?

I'd love for us to begin using our brainpower and super powers to dismantle these power structures instead of the next "uber for x" app.
Isn't there a way to have Homebrew monitor a "make install" operation so that Homebrew can manage (or at least be aware of) your own installs?
"DARPA is investing in radically new technologies... including chip-scale self-calibrating gyroscopes, accelerometers and clocks"

It seems they are trying to eliminate long term bias. More technical description of their approach here:
http://scpnt.stanford.edu/pnt/PNT10/presentation_slides/15-P...
> Maybe they would see what it's like to be taxed..and not vote to get everyone else gouged while their income isn't affected.

Should people from well-off families be made to see what it's like to live off a minimum wage income so they can not vote to make life harder for the poor?

If no, why one direction and not the other?
You can trade some accuracy for speed by calculating the straight-line distance and then increasing it by some factor to account for turns and detours. Converting zip codes to latitude/longitude is a trivial process if you have a database (e.g. MaxMind) or API (e.g. SimpleGeo). You can calculate straight-line distance between two lat/lon pairs pretty easily (http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~cvm/latlon_formula.html), and then pad this number to account for geography (e.g. 20 miles as the crow flies is ~27 miles driving).

If you can sacrifice even more accuracy, you can use 50-70 miles per degree latitude/longitude and just find results within a certain range of a given lat/lon pair.
If he's hit with AMT, he won't get the deductions.
You can't separate your self-image from meaningful work.

But you can learn to treat certainty as a warning sign both in yourself and in others.
That's correct but the logs affect P(people will trust Lamo's current and future stories). If he had told Kevin in May that the purported Bradley claimed to have communicated with Julian, then the same claim made now to Charlie has somewhat higher credibility.

Also just because somebody is untrustworthy doesn't mean they are lying about everything or even most of the time.
There is one coherent argument about large capital expenses for pass-through entities (LLC's, S-Corp, Sole Proprietorships).

Bob the business owner needs a new gizmo for his lawn care operation. It costs $500k. Normally he would need to depreciate this gizmo over some period of time (it depends on what you are buying) spreading the expense out over those years. If he has a net-profit over $250k then whatever he makes over that rate will be taxed at that higher rate reducing his ability to afford the gizmo.

Essentially the issue is that under normal accounting rules he would pay the higher tax rate today, but it would take 5 years for him to fully realize that expense from a tax perspective. That could, at least in theory, make small business owners a bit gun-shy about making large capital purchases as their take-home pay would take a hit even though they bought something for the business instead.

Thankfully the legislation, as crafted by Obama, contains provisions allowing the cap on capital purchase deductions to be raised significantly (I think it would have put it over $1M). Thus you could take the entire expense in the year you bought the thing and avoid this particular tax issue.
Well, whether they've "earned" that money is debatable. And really immaterial to the question at hand.

As for using terms such as "rob" and accusations of not being "American" enough, let's save the ideology and inflammatory rhetoric, shall we?
Well, for a want of a lisp... In a way, Javascript is a "lisp in C clothes". Purely as a language, though; in practice, this idea has not been followed through.
I remember seeing Gamezer[1] on Google Trends 2010[2] and being surprised. It really struck a cord that I hadn't heard of a game/game company that was a top 10 google trend keyword. It's top regional is Palestine.

[1] http://gamezer.com/

[2] http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2010/ http://www.google.com/insights/search/#date=1%2F2010%2012m&#...
I think either your monitor or your eyes must in fact fu- I mean suck, because the big bulge (it's not exactly a spike) is for "fuck", not for "tits".

(And most of it does in fact seem to be for wrongly-OCRed "suck", unsurprisingly.)
Inflammatory title. The story is about investments in Gaza and the West Bank. 'Palestine' is not a country, it's a name for an entire region, including Israel and parts of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The author probably meant 'Palestinian National Authority'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority
Yes, as the first and only vendor of web-only OSs, Google predicts that the segment will rise. In other news, Microsoft predicts the rise of touch-friendly smartphones that don't render HTML5, and Apple predicts the rise of tablets with a single button on their face. In fact, all of these segments are likely to rise from "some" to "some + some more" in 2011.
I can list some. The Xen paper was done between Cambridge and MSR Cambridge.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=502034.502053&coll...

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=233269.233330&coll...

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=945445.945474&coll...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryad/ is fucking cool if you're familiar with MapReduce.

There are a handful of IPDPS papers I also know of but can't grab because I'm off campus and my VPN to Northwestern is acting wonky.
Really? Nice way to make a $ off adsense search..
The picture is an odd programming language family tree. Since when was CLOS a programming language, descended from Common Lisp? The Common Lisp Object System -- that's what CLOS stands for -- is just how Common Lisp does objects. You can make another object system as a library, if you want to. In fact, that's a pretty fun exercise.
(I'm a googler, but I didn't cut this deal , so I can't speak to the deal teams)

I was just in jordan and met a number of Palestinians (expat and visiting from the region) and I can only say that they seemed as technical as any hacker I've met in Cambridge or in the Valley. (this means that I met people as smart and as inexperienced as I've met in those places too)

They work under what we'd consider tougher conditions (less reliable power and rough and tumble internet connections) but that doesn't keep people from experimenting and learning.

As a funny side note, do you know what SICP sells for in Jordan? 11$! (the jd is pegged to the us currency)
"at the end of your PhD, you can have your product nearly ready and you will be able to charge your customers more in thousands of Dollars than in $9 per month."

PhD vs non-PhD does not determine whether you charge $1000/mo or $9/mo. It's what you actually build with your talent.

A PhD building a mobile service is still limited by the economics everybody else faces.
You don't think that the US government should be able to defend itself? That's an interesting opinion.
I have the new MacBook Air and am able to run two 1080p monitors just fine. I use the same adapter for gaming with my HP omen as well. It looks great. (StarTech)
Coercion? How crude and unlikely.

Everyone I know is able enough to administer their own gizmos. If someone asks, I point them to the zero config option that will require zero tech skills. Computer maintenance is mostly unskilled drudgery nowadays, not wizardry.
Oh boy, YouTube embeds! I went through checking the Lighthouse score on a few of my pages a while back, and the ones that had videos were performing pretty badly.

It turned out that embedded YouTube videos were pulling down something like 1mb of JS, just to show the thumbnail, before the user even clicked Play.

I ended up making a static thumbnail with a hover-over "play" icon that would replace itself with the real embed when it was clicked. Got the Lighthouse score up and saved all those unnecessary downloads. But it was pretty amazing to me that while one arm of Google is pushing for web performance, another is building this YouTube player that auto-downloads a megabyte of JS just to show a thumbnail.
I agree, I was responding to this part of the parent comment:

> And gamification through badges is pretty standard exercise fair. My parent’s senior community even has gamification via small prizes for how many days you go to the gym.

I was just pointing out that Peloton does gamification through badges and that it includes an equivalent of days going to the gym.
Ah yeah, I forgot about that one. Interesting two of their issues were both related to analog sticks.
You have to take into account that both the 100m oil barrels/day, and all the carbon that is being released in the artic was not in the environment/carbon cycle. And those volumes are several orders higher than the amounts that recycling takes out.
The grandparent used “driver monitoring” to mean “the car monitors the driver to make sure the driver is paying attention to the road”, I believe.
iirc the extreme TL;DR of that was this:

rewrite your windows mobile 5/6 apps for windows phone 7? ok, its a brand new platform, i get it.

rewrite wp 7 for windows phone 8? ok... (there may have been wp7 mango that needed tweaks but my memory is too fuzzy)

rewrite windows phone 8 for 8.1 ? cmon now

rewrite windows phone 8.1 for wm 10? no
I generally agree, but heading north on I-5 from LA to SF is bumper to bumper traffic constantly swinging between 50 MPH and 75 MPH. Normal cruise control is worthless here because you're never going the same speed long enough to be a net benefit. I would absolutely love adaptive cruise control plus semi-automatic steering in that one scenario.

Stick me out in the middle of nowhere and I'm perfectly content driving for hundreds of miles straight. I don't find myself in that too often now, though.
I have yet to see proof that tech is any different than medicine or law, where societal barriers were demonstrably the only things keeping women from equal participation. The centuries of discrimination, both blatant and subtle, were very substantial.

Also, the pseudo-clever "nuh-uh, you're the real sexist" stuff is the kind of bullshit that I only ever see from anonymous accounts. If you want to make (idiotic) personal accusations, own your words.
Not disagreeing, just clarifying. . .do you mean that the last 2 presidents and Bloomberg should have been/should be more involved in grooming folks within their respective parties to take their places?
I didn't know this. Can you tell me how the adware firms earn money? I am asking out of sincere curiosity.
The public markets definitely are for venture investing that was their origin and still is a main function today.

I guess it all depends on what you call venture investing. I don't think that Sergey and Brin could have IPOed 6 months after founding Google - the public would have found the idea of investing absurd. So instead they went to VCs who can actually realize value in a "idea" and are willing to invest at a reasonable valuation.

Raise enough VC money and you can advance the company forward enough so that the general public see value in your company (usually revenue). At that point you can IPO and actually get a decent valuation.
Can you provide the source about the part " Microsoft actually has affiliate agreements with these companies to take a slice of the profits"?
Jorge Cham is my hero. What's the most logical step after getting a mechanical engineering PhD from Stanford and a post-doc at Caltech? Become a cartoonist, of course.
And of course the stock price shoots up after this iwas announced
It could be the dawn of a new era for Microsoft. The company's stock didn't do anything exciting in the last decade but to Ballmer's credit he did keep the ship afloat.
I love everything about this. Now TBH I don’t think I’ll ever use it as I’m heading towards web UIs so my wife can use washy I’m creating. But it’s super cool!
Just plan for whole bottles / bags and have at least 2 in the pantry. Then record when you run out of a box and buy the replacement.
Bollocks. Cities like Amsterdam and Barcelona are historically constricted by nature. Not everybody is born with wealthy parents, a home to inherit or a job that will pay for one. Those cities won't grow much bigger than they are, nor should they. And those that are born there have more right to live there than tourists have to monopolize the space. The only thing AirBnB does is to line their own pockets at the expense of the locals. Hotels were a thing long before AirBnB turned social housing and regular apartments into a source of income for those wealthy enough to buy up the property. It's un-ethical.

Libertarian bullshit and 'the market' have done enough damage. See also: commercial healthcare.
I'm working on a python script that downloads web serials as ebooks. It's set up to check if a new chapter has been posted, and if there's a new chapter that finishes a book, it outputs the book as an epub so I can read offline.

To add a new story, I just write a function that takes a webpage and returns the next link and chapter content. It's low enough overhead that I can easily add new stories.
My sense of smell is 100% gone as this is written
One needs no formal test it is blatantly obvious when the smell is gone
You don't need to read the contents of a checkout form when the company just gives you the data. (Companies upload their customer lists, so Facebook can compute “conversions”. But, of course, Facebook doesn't let companies download the data Facebook has, and compare on their end… that would be a violation of privacy!)
It seems to me that they were comparing the tactics, not the entire institution, or justice system.
> I seem to recall that if you had the right kind of car you could mark yourself available for wheelchairs and other things. I was forever picking up people with walkers and helping them in and out, though I know some drivers never ever wanted to touch a passenger unless they were dead drunk and had to be dragged out of the car and deposited on the front lawn of the destination address. (Been there, done that.)

Uber had/has WAV (Wheelchair Accessible Vehicles) on request.
I think all the time on readability is worthwhile. It sucks to go into an unfamiliar codebase, and that includes your own code you haven’t touched in six months. Making maintenance and usability easy comes first. Once the code is understandable, you can start working on correctness. If you can’t reason about it easily, you can’t get trustworthy correctness. Just like a pyramid implies with readability/understandability at the bottom.

That’s different from style nits, and also why automated stylers and linters are so worthwhile, so your tools handle the stuff you don’t want people wasting their time on.

Unfortunately, most reviews stop there, but at least it’s the right order in a Maslow-esque pyramid.
Are there any benchmarks of Bevy ECS v2?
I’ve been writing a lot of react over the past several years (JS/TS), and I strongly agree with this take: hooks, especially hooks like useState really are an attractive nuisance that, by making it easy to have local state in components, end up spreading business logic all over the view layer and coupling all the wrong things together.
> But surely we can come up with a better comparison than one of the most evil secret police regimes ever to exist.

So we have to be thankful that we are "allowed" to spend our life's saving on fighting a lawsuits against a trillon dollar government ?

For every such case there are probably 100 other people who folded. There is no difference between those cases and cases where stasi might have done the same thing. It is 100% same.
This is exactly what I found with Libreworlf: I'd love to use a Firefox fork simply because I loath what Mozilla's been doing, but I'd rather not be forced into lots of pro-privacy anti-usability settings.
I've got some ideas if you even want to chat.
Paul Tyma's counterpoint from 2008, that thread-per-connection is scalable to tens (and maybe hundreds) of thousands of threads, using recent Java & Linux NPTL:

http://paultyma.blogspot.com/2008/03/writing-java-multithrea...
I stopped reading when they said it is only 1.7% efficient but expect it to get up to 12%. That's almost an order of magnitude! It seems unlikely that their prototypes are so bad that they can get an order of magnitude improvement easily. And if it takes years of work to get to 12%, well, everybody else is claiming great performance in the nebulous future, too.
I'd say Apple news is interesting in that:

a) it was a stereotypical tech startup, and Jobs is the consummate entrepreneur. Lots to learn from their history.
b) they are the biggest tech company in the world
c) they are still leading innovation in mobile, and that is an unavoidable market opportunity for tech/social startups and developers.
I go to m.gizmodo.com, which makes it partially useful, and the stories are readable if clicked from there. Of course, when you try another gizmodo link it fails.

What a disaster, but will they have the balls to go back?
I've been learning Scala and after being initially excited by Scala's _ notation, I'm disappointed by how often I end up resorting to the long form for expressions that feel simple.

Also, I think Clojure's syntax for the 1st argument, 2nd argument, etc. is more intuitive. I mean, the second _ doesn't refer to the same argument as the first _? That violates all my instincts as a programmer. I was completely baffled by it until it was explained to me, and it still seems very clunky, because it forces me to declare names for arguments more often than I would like to. In my opinion, the Clojure way is immediately obvious and more concise (because it can be used in many cases where Scala requires named arguments.) It's just better all around, for any expression more complicated than { _ + _ }.
My big problem with Wayland is that it doesn't look like it's going to support Window Maker as well as X does, if at all. Well, maybe I should rephrase: Wayland isn't going to be my problem until it supports Window Maker as well as X does, because I won't switch to it until that happens. I'm sure there are more than enough people like me to support a distro, like how there are non-systemd distros, the major appeal of which is that they don't use systemd.
Mobile has way more of what you call "Users" than what you call "nerds" and they all absolutely love fluid animated UIs and spend literally hours a day swiping away at them.

Users might not consciously call out screen tearing but they absolutely can tell when something runs smoothly. Just look at the reviews for iPhone vs Android devices in the early days when Android felt more like X11 with jank, frame drops and redraw glitches.

Then look how much time and money year on year Google spent fighting that jank. Money well spent.
And now that job is more or less done and the market can be open for competitors who operate more ethically.
monads for breakfast
My colleague is working on Making a RISC-V Operating System using Rust. It is a free online book.

http://osblog.stephenmarz.com/index.html
I agree. It probably got fixed into our instincts and our culture a long time ago.
>At least 14,000 trips involved drivers who weren’t who the riders thought they were,

any idea what the source of this info is?

And not sure what the timeframe here is. Is it 14000 since Uber started operating in london?
If you want to get an idea of the variations on a theme, have a look at military supply identifiers and classification. There's an enormous range of just about anything, including tape.

Another example is paper. And in the past, typewriter ribbons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Stock_Number (which despite the name is used by USA and many other defence forces)
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It's great for the VCs, since 20-somethings lack the experience to know when they're getting screwed and the connections to push back effectively when that happens.

It's not great for the 20-somethings, but in this model they're essentially considered disposable; burn out as many as you want, a new crop always comes along next year.
Nice, looks like some folks got offended by this comment. Wonder why:-)
I'd be interested to hear how this will affect MakerSquare. I saw the announcement and it seems like Hack Reactor is adopting a fairly laissez-faire approach. Have you seen any changes in the lead up to this? How do you think it will play out?
Downvote for the insult. I would have corrected him as well, but this was unnecessary:

> Only Americans seem to confuse these two words.
What are the statistics on investors/partners (usually 2 per firm) that attend demo day? Are most from the Valley?
On your first point, do you mean it would be better to make a content front page rather than a "sales" one?

You make good points, I'll certainly keep them in mind (and in the todo list).

Thanks for your encouragement!
Iteration through a LinkedList isn't slower than through an ArrayList, in fact a simple test shows that on java 1.6.0_22 on my Macbook it is about 20% faster, and on java 1.6.0_17 on Linux about 10% faster.

Have you actually compared performance before making that claim? I can't see any reason why it would be substantially slower on any platform, except maybe due to locality of reference issues because of the overhead of storing a pointer to the next element.

Compared to an ArrayList, a LinkedList is slow for random access as any treatise of the subject matter would tell you. See for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list#Linked_lists_vs._dy...