jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> The era of $400k total comp software development is going to end someday and more accessible remote work is only going to hasten it.

Well, the same argument has been made before regarding offshoring and so far that hasn't seemed to have spurred any major declines in total compensation.
How do people stand listening to music on the highest volume settings? I'm in the lower third for music and lower half for youtube max.
Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13768856
The LibreOffice Draw app is capable and has become stable in the past year or so. I built a little papercraft Outside-In TDD training tool with it:

https://github.com/Nike-Inc/tdd-training-cube
Ah, the MPAA way. It's hard to get the "angry owner" tone out with one swear, one swear says "professional but kind of flustered". I don't like gratuitous swearing either, but I think I got it right with the copy there (at least for my aesthetic).

It's been a while since I read all of it at once, though, I wil re-read and adjust, thanks.
It certainly inevitable for the United States. Two of its biggest companies, Google and Facebook, survive on advertising alone. The number of IPOs is falling, and even those that have IPO'd (Uber, Slack) have bombed and aren't profitable.

What's the most exciting tech IPO of the near future? Pinterest, aka another ad-ridden hellscape that WSJ, Bloomberg and others have to talk about in glowing terms, until they too, bomb.
Most IPv6 routers allow you to keep the same behavior as NAT, e.g. simply do not allow new incoming connections to your prefix.

Not saying that you’re incorrect, but the problem might not be as big as you think.
Sorry, you're lying to yourself if you think your height is the issue.
While you're at it, you could provide power inbox tools to help recipients weed out potentially spammers/ dangerous/ flaky/ fake/ disturbed users using auto-reply chains(randomly staggered in time of course) that they could come back to later and see if the person replied sensibly to their messages. The more popular the person, the more messages they would be encouraged to create.
I was going to say yes, back in 2001. But thinking about it, it was actually an ADSL modem, not a router. My Windows 2000 box was p0wned in about 30 seconds!
I bet Residential ISP's turn to CGNAT before they roll out IPV6.
We read selections around our Thanksgiving dinner table last year and really enjoyed the experience. It really pulled everyone into the experience of gratitude, even the children.
I agree.

I used the old OkCupid for years and met a few new friends through it.

It tended to match me up with people already in my "friends of friends" extended circles, with good quality common interests and attitudes, and was great for expanding those circles. I thought it was one of the best sites on the net for getting to know new people. (Way better than, say, Facebook, where you exchange comments but never really get to know new people one-on-one.)

And with people I already knew, we would have fun checking out how well OkCupid thought we matched up.

I want back a couple of years ago, after a few years break, and OkCupid had removed everything that made it useful before. I mean everything. It just wasn't any use. Sadness.

Never been back since.

It's a shame there's nothing else on the net like the old OkCupid. It was socially useful and unique.

Hopefully someone will come along and replicate the good parts in a new site someday.
What I'm saying is a might as well have dated random people for a year, it would have been the same result. The dating sites sell you on 'matching.'

Oh, and if you think you're using it for free, think again. They are collecting all kinds of personal information about you
I thought from the article this has nothing to do with EU but with the local municipal transit board of London. This can happen across the world if the local licensing agencies are paying attention to behavior.
The developers of LibreOffice made a conscious decision to make their product look and feel like Office, since one of their goals is to help people learn these suites for functional skills, so their learning would then translate to the predominant package. I have this first hand from a conference.

Then of course Micorsoft created their ribbon UI and enforces protection against others copying it.

Personally, I don't find the ribbon intuitive, and others, perhaps a majority, feel the same way, but Microsoft has all that weight behind them.
As part of the debate team in high school, I had to do the same thing (prepare for both sides). I think it is an excellent exercise in critical thinking, even if you wholly disagree with what you're arguing for. Sometimes it even led me to find points I never thought of in the opposing side that I agreed with.
Has it been made at least as fast as office by now, or is it still slower at basically everything? Because the reason I gave up on it every time I tried it in the past is that sluggish tools turn what should be a "doing a thing" into a grind. Fine, if annoying, for incidental work, but impossible to not get angry with once it's a daily driver.
Yeah, I hope I won't have to get rid of the free trial or cryptocurrency payment, but I might...
There are apps/sites that focus on meeting

Dine: You match only by choosing a restaurant listed in their profile to meet at. They get a notification, "So-and-so would like to go to ABC with you". If they click "yes" the system puts up a list of times to meet.

HowAboutWe: You list only activities you'd like do together.
Software is not free - you maintain it with security patches etc. forever and a one time price is no longer viable.
There are many ways to try and measure the aptitude of a 13 year old without putting the idea of supporting state sponsored murder into their heads and forcing them to defend it. I would argue that the possible damage done to a person at a very impressionable age by asking them to justify murder outweighs the vetting process for a scholarship.
Hobbit, yes! While 1991 "lotr" and 1985 "the hobbit" are both tv playes, the lotr is rather awful and amateurish. But "the Hobbit" is a real masterpiece.
To me this is like telling someone that wants to grow carrots that carrots are just atoms arranged in a certain way. It may be true, but it's not helpful. There are a ton of factors that influence both calories in and calories out, they aren't just noise.

(This is just a response to your comment, I didn't come away from the post thinking the book treats everything else as just noise.)
> To Google, these images aren’t on your site, they are on - wpengine.netdna-cdn.com

I'm curious why the OP thinks that matters. The only thing I can think of is that you don't necessarily benefit if another site links to or hotlinks a particular image of yours (though I wouldn't be surprised if Google recognizes where the image originally appeared and does give credit). And it seems like any minimally reputable site that wanted to use your image would download and rehost it themselves.

> The problem is you have effectively orphaned all of your images to a worthless subdomain on NetDNA-CDN.com, no bueno if you’re trying to get some image traffic from Google.

How does that prevent you from getting traffic? If an image on your page comes up in image search, Google still shows your site's domain and links to your page for everything except the "View Image" button, and if someone clicks that, they just want to download your image and presumably don't care about your actual site at all.
Maybe because we have less calories than, say, a whale. They should have done the math.
Let's see if we get Python for Android development.
I love C&H (it is almost unknown in France). I read it when I was 20,then had kids and recognized them in Calvin.

Now I am more into Zits...
Does anyone by chance have an article on hand comparing the carbon footprint of BitCoins (or any other crypto currency) vs. physical money.
Physical money needs to be producef, distributed, collected, transferred, stored etc. I would just like to know the delta between both forms of currency.
In my mind at least, without such facts, I have the feeling that cryptocurrencies are much worde for the environment and wouldn‘t want to support them, hence why I want something factual to support/disprove this. Thank you very much and please forgive my mediocre English.
It’s good to see some of those ad money going back to OSS. Google owns its entire existence to technology and innovations created outside of Google.
Well said. I would also add that computing such a score requires the same kind of intensive surveillance that many people here on HN (including me) are morally opposed to.
The whole point of having that positive inflation is that it encourages people to not hoard dollars and to instead invest their savings in something else. There is a hope that the something else is something productive but in many cases it's not anything particularly productive.

Reasonable people can differ on whether capitalizing an internet currency is productive or not.
I'm working on creating a modern terminal interface with Electron where you can use the mouse to modify the command line, each command sends output to a separate "output block" (think Jupyter notebook), you have global autocompletion from history regardless of which machine you are sshed into or how many shells deep you are, and where every time you start typing a command the man page automatically appears in a sidebar.

This is surprisingly hard to implement. If you just run bash unmodified as the backend then you can't multiplex the output from different commands and therefore you can't display output from different commands in different blocks. If you run each command in a separate shell then you lose automatic tracking of environment variables and working directories... (There are other challenges but they are a little easier to work around.)

Does anyone have creative ideas for how to work around this?
What is the superior airline that you will be transferring your business to? Let us all know :P
Also, in the past, farm labor wages were high enough to fund an endless road trip including gasoline, cheap hotels, restaurant food etc.

To such an extent that it is how Jack Kerouac and friends paid for the journey in "On the Road" without thinking about it.

The same suppression applies to all wages from lab technician to programer from the twenty-first century to the fourteenth.
They made this bet in 2002, so we're almost halfway to 2029. Does anyone (other than Kurzweil) seriously think a Turning Test-passing machine is just over the horizon?

(And no, contrived scenarios with computers pretending to be foreign children don't count[0])

[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/10/did-eugene-goostman-p...
"Anecdote" is not the singular of "data."
It isn't uncommon (later in the evening) to come across sleeping homeless people in the NYC subway who also smell absolutely terrible. You often will see a few jam packed train cars, and then 1 empty car, and more jam packed cars. It is empty for a reason.
> or The Kurzweil Foundation if Kurzweil wins.

That modesty, though.
If only the story hasn't been repeating...Here's a similar article from 2013 [1].

Right?

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2013/09/05/how-some-high...
I like the idea, but I won't bite unless the network has an open protocol and some mechanism of guaranteeing it stays open at minimum.

No more walled gardens.
>That's a revolting little bit of writing. NL surrendered after being overrun by the Germans, which took 5 days, not three hours

Would you have found what belter wrote less "revolting" had he written that Dutch surrender occurred after five days? I think not.

>> The fact the US President goes on a big motorcade is what allows the Dutch prime minister to promenade himself on a bike ;-)

>And that just isn't correct.

How is what belter wrote wrong?

Certain cities/entities/nations in the US and elsewhere in the West declare themselves to be "nuclear-free zones". They have the luxury of performing such virtue signaling because other places aren't nuclear-free.

>Really, your comment is in pretty bad taste.

Why not just call belter's comment "problematic"? I think that's the go-to pejorative description nowadays.
We can't safely assume that universally due to selection effects the data for these kinds of studies has.
Is it possible some didn't? It was politically and economically useful to underplay or even ignore the risk from Covid. Once started on this path, governments at any level had to undercount and ignore to avoid being so screwed up that the mob would see. Even with the most level, honest approach it was impossible during some of the Covid time to know how many people had it, how many died from vs. with it, etc.
I guess you'd need a source for the relationship, which understandably might not really exist in an accessible manner....
Sorry to be nosey but what was the cause for your marriage falling apart? Just interested, thanks
I can beat that by 3 orders of magnitude. My father told me I owe my life to a broken $0.25 condom. So I gave him a quarter.
I have the game on my android phone and like it, so I put it on my wife's new ipod touch. I am amazed at how much better the graphics and gameplay seem to be on her ipod. The graphics seem much more detailed, and the controls seem more responsive.
you can nest jails quite a lot. Although i have not tried it (and cannot find proper sources on the max limit of the amount of jails you can inside a freebsd system).

might be fun to give it a try though.
I think it's way easier to stay aligned when you see each other in person at least sometimes. Maybe it's possible with remote but it seems like a big effort then to orchestrate what comes naturally when everyone is in the same physical space.

Plus 50% of people appear to hate the forced team building Zoom social events that get dreamed up to (poorly) address these issues. Me too.
So, cruel experiment.
Sounds like positive correlation to me.
This is common, it essentially means “don’t cache this”.
I now exclusively use US-International No Dead Keys. I just use the right alt key + qpys to get äöüß. I hate having to switch layouts and switching layouts accidentally while typing. Those key combinations are not worse than []{}\ on the german layout.
Might I ask what’s SPOF?
This is exactly what we're doing for UpOut. We'll hopefully push LA by mid-summer (I have a few friends who want it there). You can follow the specific tags/users (like #indieconcerts or #sushi) that you're interested in to get a stream of the best stuff to do.
Huh. Anybody have any idea what the FCC restrictions are on stuff like this?
That seems to be essentially what inkjet printer manufacturers have been aiming for. Printers are just a shitty loss leader for ink.

I would prefer someone make a printer that I could afford that didn't suck hugely.
> Ultimately any physical interaction can be abstracted into math - ultimately, in precisely the same way as software being executed by a computing system.

I agree on this point.

> I keep coming back to a recognition of every argument against software patents ultimately reducing to an argument against the concept of patents in general.

But I completely disagree on this one.

I think the 'software is math' argument is not convincing against patents (and I have a background in mathematics, so you would think I would like such an argument ;). But there are plenty of other excellent arguments against software patents in particular, that are not valid against other kinds of patents.

Patents make sense when progress is fairly slow, people read patents, and patents are granted for actual innovation. Then you do want to award a patent for the rare actual invention - it helps speed progress!. These 3 conditions used to be true, more or less, for patents in general. But today none of them are true for software patents:

1. Progress is ridiculously fast. The entire industry changes in just a few years. And patents last for decades!

2. Software engineers do not read patents. Both because there is no actual benefit to doing so, and because legal counsel always says "do not read patents."

3. A huge amount of patents are granted every year, and the quality is very low. We constantly hear about ridiculous patents being granted and enforced. (And yes, I know that headlines and Slashdot summaries are misleading - you need to read the claims. But even when you do read those claims, in most cases the ridiculous patents are still ridiculous.)

So I am against software patents, as they are harmful to the industry in their current form. That is more than enough of a reason, regardless of whether software is math or not (it is). Whereas, patents in general may still be useful in other fields, and my arguments against software patents are not relevant to them.
"Guerra is part of a Rice team [...whose...] goal is basic research on providing broadband in the TV "white spaces" — empty channels that the government recently cleared for use by unlicensed Internet providers"
> you are one of the very small percentage of people that can "make things happen" in Lisp or any other language

Although I'm flattered, I have to ask: what possible basis could you have for making that assessment? My track record certainly doesn't support you.

> I would suggest you are too much of an engineer to use an "inferior" tool like C++ or Java because you know there is something "better"

A true engineer solves the problem under the constraints that he is given. I have a this tendency to try to change the constraints -- or the problem. Those can be advantageous personality traits for some tasks, but they make me a damn poor C++ coder.
TipTheWeb handles this chicken-egg problem: http://tiptheweb.org/

Tips identify content just by URL de-coupling content attribution from the authors claiming their tips. This also us to work for tipping content on YouTube, Flickr, and GitHub, etc. without requiring the site to be directly integrated with TipTheWeb.
Its a cautionary tale. One to take to heart as well. It was an interesting exercise to watch from inside the 'plex as Jaiku moved from startup -> acquisition -> dead pool. I think to be fair it seemed that internally at Google there was a lot of angst as well but given the comparison with Twitter, then and now.

"We are the Google. Turn over your founder's stock and surrender your engineers. We will add your features and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapted to service us. Resistance is futile."

:-)
What is the TL;DR regarding his reputation, I haven't particularly followed his career...

Would it be safe to assume that he tried to overly apply his CFO mentality to tech/eng?

I have had way too many CFOs like that in my past...
... I, on the other hand, see there an excellent opportunity for lead generation in the document shredder business.
vjeux's presentation only applies to a very specific use case at his org namely FB. I should not imitate him just because of the fact that it fitted or served FB right. We should think on our own and figure what works for us and not blindly follow FB's or any other org's lead.

Re productivity, if it works for you, good for you but please don't attempt to reinterpret/bend the rules that are well established in the industry just to avoid criticism. For me, it's just an act of intellectual dishonesty.

React does violate the principle of separation of concerns and "we're working on a component not a document level" is not fooling anyone.

We should alert and educate people on this issue and then they can decide for themselves if they would go ahead nevertheless or stick to their guns. That's all!
> I'd wager that the amount of code I have to write, including tests, is less than in all other practical languages. Often much less. That is very valuable.

It would take a very gerrymandered definition of "practical" to say that Python counts but F# doesn't, and I'm pretty confident F# would win that comparison for most problems. (If you'll allow me Scala, which is my language of choice and the one I use full-time at my job, I'm very confident it would win the comparison for the vast majority of problems)
> it still needs to serialize that data from I/O to the request and that is both blocking and slow.

That's incorrect. See edit to parent post (sorry I couldn't reply earlier).
I'm reading this as less of a gripe in GA not having a ROI report and more of complaining about marketing attribution. Marketing attribution isn't a super-easy problem to solve.

But complaining that GA doesn't know that a person saw a Facebook ad at some point before ultimately subscribing (and interacting with more ads along the way) is a bit like complaining that your car isn't also a boat and plane.

If you want comprehensive analytics, you need to spend time developing a comprehensive measurement plan and then spend time doing the reporting. Expecting any tool to do precisely what you want, despite the tool neither claiming nor even desiring to do what you expect, isn't a plan.
i can't edit so i have to reply instead:

for anyone interested these two explanations i found when googling around again today are very good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omrnRshzHhw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKjbau2Hlrs
Such as C#'s dynamic objects, perhaps?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee461504%28...
Thanks for clarifying. Do you think that people will sit listlessly in front of their televisions if they don't have to work to provide for basic necessities? Even if not everyone would do that do you think that the majority, or a even large minority would?
This is a one-time promotional rate for first-time customers and requires 4 passengers.
Wow! I was trying to create something like this for knowledge representation, last week. Ended up reading some of the CLIPS manual, then deciding to roll my own, as usual.

Wow. Programming is so faddish! I know this, but it's still surprising. What other problems that we're struggling with have been basically solved, in some currently unpopular corner?
Perfect excuse to dump more money into the "War on Drugs" and to increase our domestic robot military force.
They're still right where they were before you switched branches unless you've committed them before you switched branches, of course!
No, he's always involved. People behave as though he is there even if he doesn't get directly involved.
> Hard to win technical arguments with Scala geniuses that like using complicated language features.

This is an interesting point. Perhaps part of the reason my current employer has been successful with Scala has been that we never were integrated into that part of the community.

We hire non-Scala programmers and they write Scala without any training, and it generally turns out OK and ends up converging in a pretty boring style without any fanciness
You can show up at a bank and demand your balance in central bank money aka cash.

The equivalent for Bitcoin would be that Paypal has to send your balance to you on the blockchain. But they do not do that. They will pay you in dollars. How much dollars? However much they like.
I rounded up to be generous.
Yeah, the gtech was a battery vacuum too, but placed the motor/impeller right next to the entrance of the device, no long pole. I wanted to love the Dyson because of what we paid for it, but I left me a bit meh. My folks have a corded Dyson now and it is a good machine, but I really feel the shark just wins. Man I am dull :p
Did you mean "market share" (as in, notional share of all transactions) as opposed to "market cap" (as in, the sum of all bitcoin supply, multiplied by the current price)?
How can you attribute the benefits you're seeing to cutting sugar, when there is a ton of evidence saying exercise gives these exact benefits?