jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is what I was addressing:

"what exactly is so worrying? A bad business failed; that's what's supposed to happen."

If all that had happened was a bad business failed, that would not be very worrying. I don't think anybody would be upset if MtGox had simply closed their doors and returned all their customers' funds. What is worrying is how many people outside of the business appear to have lost their property in the incident.

You can judge for yourself whether you feel the market is "functioning" — but if that many people lost that much money, it is absolutely not what is supposed to happen when a business fails.

You seem to be of the opinion that whether a market is riskier than most participants realize (and would be willing to tolerate if they did know) is tangential to how well it is functioning. That's a valid viewpoint. But it still makes sense for participants to worry when they realize how little safety they have in the market.
>To me it sounds like you never had a long-term plan for the treatment or your own future. You jumped in, blew your savings, and now you're stuck.

You think that the OP is to blame for not having a long-term plan for a scenario in which one's very close family member is diagnosed with a previously unknown disease and $150k is not enough to take care of that?

You think this is an instance of poor planning on the OP's fault?
That'd be great. Thanks - I'll keep an eye out.
"Classic" apps will be scaled (using the normal bicubic filter) to twice their resolution on Mac. If they were implemented using Apple APIs, there's a good chance that text will be at a higher resolution and will appear clear.
"But the basis is still in there somewhere, right?"

Only historically. US Liberalism, being the dominant political ideology in the US (despite its occasional protests to the contrary) is actually often quite conservative today, trying to preserve its changes from being undone (be that by literally being rolled back, or by being modified into something a liberal doesn't want). However noble or terrible that desire may be, it slots into the "conservative" side of the original meanings. US Conservatism is often about tearing those down and replacing it with something else, and while some of that may be modeled with a "return" to an older status quo (be it fictional or based in reality), a lot of it isn't; what's the historically "conservative" answer about internet issues, for instance? Both ideologies are rather strong on the control and quick to reach for the stick of regulation when in power, albeit for different things, but at the moment it's Liberalism that I'd associate with a huge, huge belief in regulations, and while conservatism is not "laissez-faire", the laissez-faire amongst us generally end up on the conservative side when forced to choose sides on the grounds that conservatism in the US at least tolerates the ideas of laissez-faire, whereas liberalism at this point openly mocks it.
Why do you choose to use Windows today?
Tell me how to vote for change, and I'll gladly do it.

In addition to being terrible, the current system discourages entrepreneurship and effectively taxes small businesses.
I am confused. If you feel there are much better languages than Haskell, how would Haskell be the "theoretically most advanced language"?

As far as what I have learned and how I have been studying, I did try "Learn You a Haskell" but found its explanations inadequate and sometimes confusing. Searching the web, I find a number of people feeling the same. Meanwhile, I find a large number of people agreeing with your experience the text is the best introduction. I think the fact the supposed best text is utterly failing a sizable number of people also suggests how worthwhile Haskell might be.
For many projects, I set up scripts for building (if necessary), running, deployment, etc. That way, when I return to it later I don't have to remember (or take the time to Google) the incantation to run some obscure framework that I haven't worked with in a few years. At the very least, I put some instructions in a readme.

Not sure if that's what chubot meant, though.
Press Release Driven Development is a thing.
Well, I'm sure he gave that list to the people designing the hardware, software, OS, marketing materials, etc...
it's actually pretty easy for a shop with its own servers and network team (in-house or outsourced) to come up with a network diagram that satisfies the PCI DSS 3.0 SAQ requirements.

> I think you are dramatically underestimating how many very small businesses, private individuals, bootstrapped start-ups, etc. would be caught by this.

This is not new, it has been part of SAQ A for quite some time.
I think this is an important discussion to be had. The question of whether ideas like "trigger warnings" should be implemented in academia have good arguments on both sides. On a few of these issues I'm not sure where I stand yet and I'm very interested in hearing intelligent discourse from both sides over the next few years.

However, I don't think this is a particularly good article on the topic. It's riddled with character assassinations and complaints that fall low on the oft-cited-by-HN Graham hierarchy of argument[0]. Ironically this comment falls nearly as low because of what it is making reference to, but that's an existential issue for another day.

The author's writing paints "Stepford students" in a herdlike way, and many paragraphs open with imagery taking shots at their character. I generally love a bit of prose in an op-ed or news article, though I seem to disagree with a lot of HN readers there. But I think casual, drive-by insults are a bad idea when you're trying to point out something like group hypocrisy or make legitimate criticisms of a social movement.

[0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Graham%27...
Removal of Tattoos by Q-Switched Laser: Variables Influencing Outcome and Sequelae in a Large Cohort of Treated Patients [full paper]

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/fullarticle...
> There's also the behavioral cost, I've noticed more and more people simply don't the code in code reviews anymore. Most feedback I get these days is stuff like "that's not supposed to be snake_case" or "a single space should be put between methods", and sometimes a glaring logic bug will crop up after 3 or 4 people who "approved" the review will gladly and openly admit _they_ _did_ _not_ _read_ _the_ _code_, and I think this is related to us overstressing the importance of all this tiny "form" misshaps and disregarding the "function" bits because it's harder to write a roadblock that checks for them.

The goal of linters should be to ensure this doesn't happen. By turning non-compliant code into a test failure no reviewer attention ever needs to be wasted on formatting issues (which I fully agree is a complete waste of everyone's time).

* If the tests pass, the formatting is correct. Great, reviewers have nothing to complain about.

* If the tests don't pass, the formatting has to be fixed before the code will be merged. Code that doesn't pass the tests should never be merged in the first place. As a result, reviewers don't need to care as it has to be fixed anyway.

Reviewers that still feel the need to point out formatting inconsistencies are likely just disinterested in providing genuine feedback, and would not have provided useful feedback regardless of the presence of linters.
In geno-cide, it is the group you are killing (the genos), not necessarily its individual members. Sterilise them all and you will have successfully killed the group when its last member dies of old age, even though you never killed any individual member of it.
Unless they're being force-fed, then yes, they are choosing it. It can be hard to lose weight, especially if raised with poor dietary habits, but it's not like people can't lose weight unless a magic diet pill is invented for them.
"Look Around You" is satire from Peter Serafinowicz… Educational is a bit of a generous description.

That said, Look Around You is hilarious.
Do you think cigarette smokers are choosing to have tar in their lungs? Its the same argument - albeit there is a lack of common knowledge about what harms food can do to your body. Thats why we should promote eating healthy instead of taking drugs
Why would apple's servers be whitelisted but not google's? Considering all the google devices/software out there (eg. android, chrome), not whitelisting google is probably going to cause more issues than not whitelisting apple.
This is interesting because it was NetBeans' Ruby and Rails support that led me to try it out in the first place.

I could take this further, but it's not really germane; I think I wasn't very tactful in expressing my idea in my original post; the response is quite understandable. I'm not trying to state that TextMate is the wrong editor, or that there aren't a bunch of people who love it. I just personally think that it occupies a space between an IDE and a editor where a relatively(!) small audience exists.
It's been about 4 years since I checked, but at the time, Davis was significantly cheaper than Central/Harvard or anything downtown.

It's about a 20-25 minute subway ride on the red line from Davis to downtown. Judge for yourself if that's too far. It's definitely more removed from things than the Harvard/Central/Kendall area, but that's nothing compared to some of the commutes that people are willing to put up with in the Bay Area (where it's an hour, with no traffic, to get from San Francisco to Mountain View).

The other thing I liked about Davis is that there seemed to be a burgeoning micro-startup scene there, with a lot of tech minded people working out of coffeeshops. Granted, that was 2006-07, so I'm not sure if it's still there. But there were many more young people than in, say, Central Square or downtown.
In this interview he says he didn't work on it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1900200
K & R, V2. Mandatory reading for anyone who programs, IMHO. Still modern at 22.
Okay, but if you can afford not to work ("I work when I feel like it") you're not in the middle class, you're upper class. Compared to solidly middle class people, your life is also much better.
* You can't really compare a simple plaintext note taker to Evernote.
* The Simplenote sync is very unreliable. I lost content numerous times. For plaintext notes I now use nvALT on OSX and Writeily Pro on Android with files being synced via Bittorrent Sync.
good to know...was doing something in 2013 that couldn't be vectorized (lots of portfolio simulation calcs where each element in dataframe depended on previous elements, ie portfolio value + market return - spending based on moving average of portfolio value) and it was pretty horrible, trying to use Rcpp and whatnot to speed it up!
"since it's released under the commercially-friendly Apache 2 license"

I do hate the proliferation of the idea of BSD-style licenses being "commercially friendly". You can do one hell of a lot of things commercially with GPL software. It's only under very specific circumstances that you are obliged to release source for GPL software. And as (I would wager probably) ~99% of NLP software is used internal to a company and never distributed as such, the differentiation between licensing models would never actually come into play.
>But why did the ACLU not mention the content of the flashcards?

Because:

>Nothing justifies the illegal detention

So the content of the flash cards is not relevant, but instead an attempt to justify his detention, to make the reader think the TSA made an honest mistake when, in fact, what they did was not an honest mistake.
Frankly, yes. But since I can do nothing about a person's luck, I do what I can for the person themselves.

And I do that by simply doing the same things which were done for me. When I can afford to, I will freely give money to someone who is down on their luck (I've paid many a utility bill these past few years). I recommend people for jobs and guide them on getting the skills which will pay. I open my house to people who need it, letting them stay as long as necessary to get back on their feet.

It's not much, but it's something (and more importantly, it's something I actually have the power to do). And in my limited experience, it's helped.
"the interviewers need to get better at asking probing questions on the fly, not just scripted questions they've had months to come up with."

... or the interviews need to last for years.
8K is unlikely to surface in consumer desktops and laptops within the duration of Microsoft's usual OS upgrade cycle. Does this imply Windows 10 will be supported for longer? I supposed it's either that or Microsoft finally intends on pushing the resolution envelope.
Wow... when you put it that way, you wonder why we aren't making more progress than we already are.
It certainly is sparklier, but it looks "off." Which is fine. It's not a good diamond substitute. It has its own charm.
You're aware of core.typed? If not, take a look -- it provides type checking / induction on Clojure code.
I've been using a free version of irccloud.com and as far as web-based IRC clients go, it is fantastic. The paid plan is rather expensive though. $5/month for access to an IRC client is a bit much. I have a DigitalOcean VM from which I connect through irssi; I access that using Chrome Secure Shell. That's my basic setup.

And $5/month per user for the team plan would quickly add up! So irccloud for work would simply be too expensive; and that's just the client. Private IRC server (as a service) won't be cheap either. Or could run it myself but then I'd also have to maintain it myself.

Slack hits the sweet spot. There's nothing to maintain, the barrier to entry for non-technical people is low. The apps are great and so is the web version. It evokes the feeling of IRC and adds convenience of instant messaging (e.g. @-mentions, notifications; irccloud does mentions and notifications too which makes it really good).

So yeah, Slack is a cage, but a golden one. With a comfortable plush sofa and freshly brewed coffee. I can hang out there with friends and do some work...
My two cents on other solutions:

http://jex.im/regulex/

has beautiful railroad diagrams, but limited functionality otherwise.

https://www.debuggex.com/

also has railroad diagrams, and a ton of other functionality
Is there any significant difference between this exchange and the upcoming Winklevoss exchange?[1]

Both claim to be "regulated," but it doesn't look like the Winklevoss version will offer SIPC protections either.[2]

[1] http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/winklevoss-twins-aim-...

[2] http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579346/0001193125132...
I dunno why the downvotes, the email address works
Read the 3rd review. "USAF approved". Apartment it's common for US military to wear.
I understand there may be legacy issues from other languages, but in a new language... why on earth would you not take the time to make %p the lower case am/pm and %P - AM/PM?
The advice was good; however, you can take a path that is not sensible yet succeed by sheer willpower, huge amounts of luck or to a lesser extent great ability.

Advice like this is intended to maximize the probability of success. To put it into a HN familiar example, don't be a single founder because single founders are x% less likely to succeed. The fact that single founders can and do succeed all the time does not make the advice bad, it just shows it to be the generalization that it is.
Obviously, the simpler the product is, the easier it is to maintain. But as the product gets simpler and simpler, it becomes valuable to an ever-smaller pool of users, all of whom have differing needs. Obviously it's not as simple as "just build it simple." There's a delicate equilibrium that must be maintained.
I agree that manufacturing in-house is great for hardware startups. I've seen it work for several. The insight they gain into the details of design, and the speed they can iterate at, more than make up for higher local labor costs.
So back to the original question, what about macro32, the VAX emulator built into VMS on alpha and itanium?

Where you have the source, you can build a native binary. Where you lack it, perhaps the emulation is sufficiently robust.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX_MACRO
Thanks for creating this. I use the USDA nutrition database in my cookingspace.com web portal. I am interested in all things food (work in a community garden, maintain a 100 year old irrigation ditch for a historic farm, and cooking is a major hobby). Thanks again.
No, it is not cheap. At least in Europe. That is why I don't understand how they have so many customers.
Earlier news about Riot.js: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6653024
I think it was a missed opportunity, most people who are that poor that calories matter are usually not the ones who do smart planning with their financial resources.
That makes no sense. It could also be because he is paying you less. You should read the article.
The theory goes that the drugs impact the user and since the user becomes a brain damaged criminal afterwards, society will eventually need to deal with the user's shit.

There is some truth to this for some drugs, but not even close to most.
I appreciate the response. I've done my fair share of cold emails, however I find that there's a threshold that I cross above often in which I won't receive a response.

It's tough to build credibility in a few short lines, but I appreciate the "shared interest" suggestion. I hadn't considered that this even counted. Thanks!
If you search "Smart Spot" in Google I get this article at #3 and not the actual website at all. "Smartspot" returns the actual website as the last item on the list. You should up your SEO game!
Well, Perforce in its default state may not scale sufficiently, but at least two of the companies on that list have managed to make it work (presumably with a lot of investment, though). :)

I didn't know Amazon was using Perforce. I interviewed someone from Amazon recently and he indicated they were on Git for most things now.
Location: UK/Western Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Possibly

Technologies: Python (data science, GIS/mapping stack), HTML/CSS/JS (some front-end)

Résumé/CV:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-arderne/
https://rdrn.me/

Email: chris@rdrn.me
Matthieu Ricard - Habits of Happiness http://www.ted.com/talks/matthieu_ricard_on_the_habits_of_ha...

"What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment."
High taxes does not make an economy sound; a sound economy economy makes high taxes possible.
I agree - The Black Swan is great. It's a great read with an interesting viewpoint on the Finance world and investment strategies that are sometimes contrary to what the so-called experts say.
Ah... usually the "* HN: *" title indicates showing off something someone made or asking a question. I'll submit it to the site directly. :)
"Start by being a Billionaire"
-- Sir Richard Branson, on how to become a millionaire in the aviation industry)
<i>If the product is as good as you say it is, there should be plenty of money to pay well.</i>

It sounds to me like this business is currently failing, but your boss is "faking it" by exploiting you; he might just as well be paying you normally but keeping the doors open by draining his grandmother's bank account.

It might not be a problem with the product -- after all, the client list is growing swiftly.

Simply put, he needs to either find the money to pay for what he's demanding from you, or he needs to close up shop. He might need a loan or investment to cover the gap until you are cashflow positive, but in this case he is stealing from you instead.

It's not even an "investment" on your part, because he seems to have utterly no intent to pay you back. That's just stealing.

For comparison, in an honest situation, he would be either:
* paying you a normal salary as an employee
* paying you a higher rate as a 1099 contractor (to account for your reduced security and benefits)
* or paying you less but accepting the difference as your personal investment in the company -- so like any investment, if the risk pays off, you would be paid back MORE than your investment in the future. This would be formalized by giving you shares, etc. (and you should be able to calculate how/when you would be repaid).
eshao .a-t. eshao .d-o-t. es

http://eshao.es

Thanks!
TextMate is my favourite editor on the Mac, only recently have I been using MacVim on my work computer since as a startup they are unable to purchase a license for TextMate.

Honestly though, there are some things in MacVim I am now starting to miss in TextMate.
Oh, they make sense, I have nothing against the language itself. It's just a special kind of ugly to anyone who's not fluent in it. I dare say it's worse than even regex.
His conclusion is a little odd, but all in all an excellent summation of where we are.

I think we are fortunate that we have Google as one of the monopolies, as at the moment they seem to be willing to be vaguely non-evil, but have already drifted significantly from 'don't be evil'. As much as I like to rail against them, it could be worse.
> We have always been coerced into procedures that violate our privacy when we fly.

Detecting metallic objects isn't really a violation of privacy. Neither is seeing an X-ray image of mundane baggage. This is your body, we're talking about. And I'm not aware of any previous policy that allowed TSA to cop a feel with such gratuitous abandon.

> If we were not, terrorists would regularly board aircraft with guns and ammo.

When "terrorists" and other boogeymen reach the airport with all their destructive goodies, our security apparatus has already failed.
It's an incendiary quote (and title), and instinctively counter-intuitive, but the thrust of the article is that "no" can be very instructive and beneficial when you learn from it.

It's through adversity that people grow the most, not when life is going smoothly (although that's when the work gets done).
I’m very confused by the often very vitriolic criticisms from some avid fanfiction fans. Is MoR violating some kind of fanfiction etiquette I as an outsider don’t get?

Some seem to be very annoyed whenever they think MoR veers too far from canon which I don’t understand at all. What do I care about canon as long as it makes sense internally? Picking and choosing certain ideas from the existing material while dropping or changing others – even radically – seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do if executed correctly.
It provides incremental security at a cost to our civil liberties and taxes that is orders of magnitude greater than existing policy.
Well, the search results pages are technically part of the site too.
Yup.

You need a nearly-infinite number of primaries to cover exactly 100% of the human eye's gamut.
width: 100% - 2px cannot be done via PHP. That's why this is very interesting. 100% changes depending on your browser window size.
Policy A is explicitly intended to cause B and C.

Policy A also causes D.

How is D not part of policy A?

If there were a policy where vehicles were not allowed to be within X miles of the coast (to prevent pollution / damage to the flora), wouldn't it also be a policy against living that close to the coast? Sure, some people would still do it... just as some men are still teachers in the UK.
I don't know if they are, but I can tell you that the day Safari 5 came out, for few hours Readability was unresponsive. It wasn't working for me on any site.
Your example isn't grim. There's a grim facet, but there's a huge social bond that is emotionally rewarding you. If work sucks but you LOVE your co-workers and can't imagine life without them, you can be optimistic about next month: "Work might still suck, but my peeps are my life and my joy!".

If (for the stuff you care about) there is clearly greener grass on the other side, I think you're on borrowed time.
I was just agreeing vigorously with him.