jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've been frustrated with Issues recently because it's incredibly difficult to find issues that show up in google results. When I search for errors and get a hit from github Issues, the link never goes to the issue itself. As far as I can tell, it always goes to the main issue view because the anchors are stripped from the URL. Here is a contrived example: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22class+UserTest+%3C+T::U::T...

With more and more projects moving to Issues (and being in the midst of everything getting updated for Rails 3), I've started running into this on a near daily basis.

I don't want to knock on github because the github guys have obviously been doing a fantastic job with it, but I really wish Issues didn't rely so heavily on Javascript.
The jargon metaphor was promising, but the bit about authority doesn't work. Soccer rules are intrinsically created by fiat; there is no pre-existing set of soccer rules that we have to discover through a contentious, challenging, and unreliable investigation over the course of decades, they literally are handed to us by an authority. Appeal to authority in such a situation is not a fallacy, it is the only proper basis for argument. I see what the author was getting at, but I think it fails to make the point. Did enjoy the "what's this all mean to the common man?" point, though.
The social signaling won't buy academics a lot, since research is what gets you status.

On the other hand, $30k is nothing to scoff at for a US academic - academics are paid vastly less than programmers (depending on the markets, I could get 2x-3x what I got last year). It's my understanding that Israeli academics are paid considerably less than US academics. So $30k could be a very strong incentive.

However, the only people who will really change their behavior are the 16'th and 17'th nicest profs at Technion, since they are the only ones who really have a shot at moving into the "nicest 15" category.
It's mostly that I already have a grinder which I use for other purposes. Having two grinders just seems silly.
Where is the "learn vim the hard way" guide (which this cleary states it is not)? Doing a bazillion examples with random code manipulations might actually allow me to get over the learning hump and remember something of vim...
I know, but I'm guessing that the recently-posted video of his that got the takedown notice is a cleaned up version of the video I linked. I'm currently trying to dig through the talk at the moment to get to the supposedly infringing bits.
I didn't know that cold brew even existed until I moved to Seattle, but its upended my world -- especially on hot, lazy mornings where I'd rather sleep the extra thirty minutes and grab a to-go cup from my fridge than go through the morning routine.
> Interestingly enough, many people can easily mistake untreated ADHD (or not adequately controlled) with cocaine and stimulant use, especially hyperactive type. Cocaine and stimulant use in people without ADHD obviously causes that issue (cocaine use), along with some other problems (euphoria, lack of empathy, megalomania, sleep problems).

This is true but I should point out that "normal people" taking stimulants won't necessarily get hyper. You might get more calm and focused too. Claiming that Adderall works differently on ADHD people is a sort of marketing technique to stop it from getting banned entirely (like it is in Asia), because otherwise even more people would be trying to use it as a study drug.

Somehow modafinil has a reputation as a wonder drug that works on everyone, even though the way it works is not very different.
I have also noticed that more than half of my recruiter emails seem to come from Facebook, i.e. that they amount for more than every other company put together.
Questionable UX in the flagship/reference Element client, and it's laggy/slow no matter where your homeserver is hosted. After so many years, it's still a curiosity and for-hackers-only experience that's pretty much just like IRC but with lots of lag. I'm about ready to to give up on it.

I still love the idea of it and I hope it actually gets good/usable one day. Until then, I can recommend it only if you want to be an early adopter, but not if you want a good experience.
Honestly the part on daily stand ups sounds like a negative to me.

Sick of repeating the same status update every day for no benefit.
No those are just tools, you evaluate an argument based on the chain of reasoning from premise to conclusion. Critical thinking is how you produce an apparent contradiction in an argument. Once you put this to the person articulating an argument, given all arguments are articulated by people, and they cannot provide a counterpoint to make the chain of reasoning logically sound. You have to reject that argument or else there is no point in arguing - there are no grounds to reject an argument.

That it is possible there exists a potential argument that links the premise to the same conclusion doesn't save the particular argument presented. Being right for the wrong reasons is still being wrong.
The way I talk about this is to frame what people call intelligence as the combination of memory (+ actual memories) and comprehension.

Your ability to 'just see the answers', in this framing, stems from having a lot of data points readily available and the ability to combine them together quickly.

There are definitely people who are better at remembering things, and piecing multiple ideas together quickly, but these are also skills that can be trained. I think it's likely that a lot of 'intelligent' people are simply people who actively (though usually not consciously) train these skills because they enjoy them.

In the same way that many fit people don't have to think about exercising - they do it because they enjoy it or without any particular goal - there are people who see an interesting problem and immediately start thinking about how they might solve it or how it's similar to other problems they've seen.

In the same way that anyone can implement a training regime to improve their fitness I think anyone can implement a training regime to improve the number of data points available to them (read lots!) and their ability to combine that information together (solve puzzles, especially theoretical/not personally applicable ones like "how would I get that boat free?").
I'm not normally one to argue in favor of HN as a political venue, but I'm not up for Erlang Day. Changing the subject is exactly what the police state wants.

They institute some bogus rule. We grumble. They hold firm until a shiny object comes along to distract everyone. Then the bogus rule becomes the new normal. Nine years and a few dozen iterations later, here we are.

So you can try to change the subject, yet again, if you want. But don't expect help from me. I'm fed up. I'm done with my apolitical pose on this issue.

There is going to have to be a continuous, consistent effort to turn back the police-state tide. Civil disobedience, letters to people in power, and an unrelenting focus on getting things changed. It will be uncomfortable, it will be boring, it will be quite tedious, it will probably come through on HN no matter what anyone does, and it will be better than the alternative.

But if the greater HN community decides to retreat into Erlang and pretend it will all go away by itself, well, enjoy that. I'll go somewhere else for a while. Big internet out there.
I guess the reason why this happened was because we didn't have JSON then, so XML looked like the best available option to many people at the time (except for those few who knew about s-expressions).

Now that we have JSON, there is no longer any excuse.
I've used RapidSSL for domains I registered through Namecheap, since they offer them for around $10, and had good experiences thus far.
I, too, would like to see Mozilla become more agile and cutting-edge. I still hold respect for them, though, as the organization that taught the masses "IE != The Internet".
Check your hosting company, they may have a deal to resell certificates and may provide installation for you. I got a certificate significantly cheaper than listed on the GeoTrust site.
Or keep the book and hire competent teachers. And then pay those competent teachers the salary they deserve for training the next generation.
I've always felt the site was just to slow because of the amount of elements and images on a page. While the new design looks okay it really doesn't nothing to address this major problem. For someone on a sub optimal connection or using an older browser I'd imagine myspace would be a horrible experience.
It could be a huge problem and the correct response is still and always an immediate "let people do what they want".

If you want to educate people on alternatives, or offer treatment systems, or whatever, that's fine. But ultimately and finally you need to let people do what they want. Anything else is a consent violation.
And it would make a poor hn story
> If you can do neat stuff but have never proven your capacity to do so, then it's unlikely you'd be hired.

And as far as this goes, this feels fair.

There are tons of opportunities to show your chops, whether a code jam or CTF or hobby project or whatever (and yes, I know hobby projects aren't for everyone, so find something that is). A skill is only valuable on the job market once you've proved it actually exists.

The larger problem that you're touching on is that some companies have streamlined their application process in such a way that any way of demonstrating your capability that isn't a university degree or prior corporate experience is disqualified without consideration, and that I would agree is a serious problem.
> WFH disproportionately is worse for early in career people

Based off working with a bunch of younger co-workers (the average age of my co-workers is in the early/mid 20's) I'd say it's worse for people whose primary source of social interaction is work. They didn't have social contacts they could lean on outside of work.

Without the office, they were alone.

Those with spouses, or friends outside of the office, all did pretty well, and aren't clamoring to go back to the office.

Personally, I have a spouse and a number of friends who I continued to interact with outside of the office. This saw me through the coronavirus better than any house or a yard could have.
Which ones
I think everyone should be made to watch "Male Restroom Etiquette" before returning to offices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw
The numbers are horrible, and Google is growing revenue almost twice as fast as Bing (27% YoY vs. 14%).

In the last quarter, Google growth in revenue from the same quarter last year was almost 3X Bing total revenues.

http://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...
Two things - Windows license down 4% year-over-year(!) while macs rose 28%, and $728 million loss this quarter alone competing with Google. Thats a run-rate of $3b loss just to compete with Google - at some point one has to think this assault - plus competition from Apple and facebook - will finally start hurting Google a lot.
>I'm kind of baffled that peer code review isn't the cornerstone of this industry.

It is. In safety critical situations. In situations where millions are at stake for a few hours of downtime.
I completely agree. With a service like this, I think someone would know instantly whether or not they were going to use this service in the future, and having the option to do 3 designs just delays the inevitable - that they will pay. BUT, having 3 designs also gives people time to forget about the service.

In my opinion, instead of $19.95 per month, I would rather buy design "packs".

- $19 for 10 designs

- $49 for 100 designs

- $99 for 300 designs

- $499 for 100,000 designs (you're good to go plan)
I'm all about not interrupting my work with smalltalk. If it helps, I'm doing it.

I may be more friendly to SCRUMM zealots next time I find one :)
The infographics you see are made to order specifically to perform well on social sites and generate links for whoever commissioned it. Although it's technically feasible to make them interactive and a lot more interesting that makes them non-portable and defeats the only purpose they were created for.

There's a great AMA on reddit about it -

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/d7e24/my_job_was_to_ga...
This is a more recent version of the same course (CS 193). Fall 2010 being newer than Winter 2010 caught me out too, but it made sense when I thought about it in the context of the academic year.
> But try telling that to your average Green Peace liberal who just wants to abandon technology because it's "killing our planet" or some such.

Why do you feel so concerned about Greenpeace when they don't make the laws anywhere (not that I think you're representing their position accurately anyway)? They're not the lobbying heavyweight that fossil fuel industries are.
alot has tags, and much more.
https://github.com/pazz/alot
It's not like this is the first time it's ever been cold outside. The New England Patriots play a lot of football, yes? They often do so during the winter months, no?

It's exactly what you'd expect from the laws of physics, which is precisely why even if the situation you suggest is the case, the Patriots still knew that the balls would deflate due to the aforementioned extremely predictable laws of physics, and they still cheated.

If they didn't know, then incompetence is no excuse. They cheated because they didn't know about the ideal gas law? They still cheated.
NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. http://i.imgur.com/A5IFIBF.png Source: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Yes, actually, I have.

So this story isn't ridiculous because it applies to a niche that it never mentions?
I remember a few years ago I saw a 7000 acre piece of land in eastern CA for sale. The price tag was $7M. How hard do you guys think it would be to convince a good group of people with diverse skills to go out there and start a small city? All initial people get a piece of land for very cheap or free. Later movers get smaller pieces, etc. Like a startup with equity.
It may be that the popularity of TDD was fueled by this, if not its existence directly.
I don't know, maybe it took quite a bit of time and thinking to realize that the problem was simpler than it seemed. Maybe Charles was playing games to occupy his eyes and hands while he was thinking about the problem.
I wonder if someone could use carbon to make an emulator for old apps that ran them seamlessly in OSX ?

Originally I assumed this is what the classic support would do.
It depends on what you need. Personally, I use Vultr for all small projects until I know what I need. I like knowing exactly how much I'll pay each month, and I can bump up the specs quite easily (more CPU, RAM, or add-on storage). Linode and Digital Ocean are very similar, so pick whatever seems good to you.

I don't like AWS because the billing is more complex and I'd rather my app run out of resources than get a huge bill if I get uncharacteristic load/behavior. Once I'm out of the prototype phase, I reevaluate the platform given my needs.
I'm not familiar with CA's public records laws to say for sure, but I'm familiar with other public records laws, and have submitted ~1k requests throughout the US.

Technically, yes, you can request records from FOIA and sell them. Though, many public records laws are very specific about whether you are requesting as a for-profit org, and can deny your request on that basis. If that isn't the issue, then your request can be rejected for being voluminous, so generally you have to find a public interest argument for the release of records. That public interest argument very, very likely doesn't exist in the case of the info being sold here. It ends up being a major PITA to get large amounts of data.

So, orgs instead go down the contract route. There's really no need to go through the hassle of public records nuance if your contract includes access to those records.

(This is a super deep subject, so I'm just scratching the surface.)

https://mchap.io/that-time-the-city-of-seattle-accidentally-...
I have very strong doubts about that as an explanation.
The executive branch of the US Government got rid of passwords a long time ago as part of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) of August of 2004. Almost all agencies within the executive branch switched to using Personal Identification and Verification (PIV) smartcards, which have X.509v3 certificates issued by the Federal PKI (FPKI) and RSA private keys. The US Department of Defense was already using Common Access Cards (CAC) which were very similar to the PIV cards, and after NIST standardized PIV as NIST SP 800-73, the DOD updated their CACs to be PIV-compliant.

WebAuthn/U2F are all newer than the migration to PIV (and they are compatible). I maintain PIV/CAC middleware called CACKey ( https://cackey.rkeene.org ) and I’ve been thinking of adding WebAuthn support.

The DOJ should be a part of the executive branch of the US Government so they should not be using passwords, and their statistics for HSPD-12 compliance looks pretty good: https://www.justice.gov/archives/us-hspd-12-piv-card-issuanc...

So, why they had passwords is interesting, but it is (in my experience) an anomaly.
The more logical claim reads more like "employers will logically try not to employ unprofitable labor", meaning that the wage paid to a worker will generally be no higher than the variable profit enabled by that worker.
IMO an average household. Going into more detail than that is a slippery slope towards profiling and discriminatory pay.
From the pdf intro you can download off the authors site :

"
Those who claim to care about a livable climate for the future should strive to understand the mechanisms by which industrial capitalism has already made our climate the most livable in history.

If they did so, they would learn from such thinkers as Ayn Rand and Ludwig Von Mises how capitalism, by permitting only voluntary associations among men, unleashes the individual human mind—and that billions of such minds, free to associate and trade however they choose, will engage in stupendously intricate, collaborative planning for everything from how to make sure they can always get groceries to how to account for nearly any weather contingency.

Armed with an understanding of individual freedom and individual planning, the climate-concerned would suspect that any preventable problem in dealing with weather—such as widespread vulnerability to flooding—is caused by government interference in voluntary trade, such as taxpayer-financed flood insurance that encourages people to live in high-flooding areas.
"

I'm still reading through it, but it seems like a steady devolution into a patchwork of increasingly impressive logical fallacies with some half formed libertarian dogma slapped on top of it for style points.

Dude's also a hardcore climate change denier.

Just saying.
Not VPNGO. It’s one of the many fake VPNs that China either builds or acquires.

My proof is me staring at their Elasticsearch logging server right now, which has no authentication on Port 9200.

Have been trying to reach them for weeks. They are doing some less than honorable things on their network as well that you can if you spend a few minutes studying the logging system.

http://164.52.33.19:9200

EDIT: for those not familiar with Elasticsearch, try expanding the URI paths... http://164.52.33.19:9200/_cat/indices
Collective bargaining agreements are private agreements, aren't they? I meant that the legislature and regulators me not decide the wages; and your reference seems to directly indicate that.
You can represent most useful irrational numbers on computers via programs that calculate them to the required degree of precision:

You can represent pi:

4*atan(1)

e:

log(1)

Now I feel like you could make arguments about non-computable numbers, although I feel like you could still “represent” them.
Think about the lifestyle we have today. If I live on the farm and work on the farm then yes it's cheaper. But I'm talking about suburbia, in which most people live outside the city but drive into the city to work everyday. That's a huge energy cost that can only be paid for through oil.

Perhaps this statement is more clear: Due to cheap oil this is the only time in history where living outside the city and driving miles and miles to work everyday is cheaper then living in the city right next to work.
Thanks for that. I don't know much about Browsers and W3C, and maybe your idea works.
What a beautiful and fun idea.

Here's one I did that develops really nicely.

http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=062m4l6s8q2p610...
If it could easily find a preimage for a given SHA-256 hash value, then yeah.
If an entity that could harness sufficient computing power like the NSA wanted to take control of the block chain by throwing more computing power at it than is currently devoted to computing the block chain, then, yes, they would be in control of which transactions were permitted, and could undo very recent transactions that seemed to have been committed. Older transactions would be very difficult to undo, however.
Is there any way to interact with this programmatically via SetVariable calls made in javascript? I have some ideas for alternate input methods...
Oops. Apparently I missed that combo.
It's a sales pitch for hiredfor.com to disaffected, unemployed people. But they buried the lede under a bunch of gold bugging.

At the end, he gives you the recipe for your new favorite cocktail.

What is the HN score threshold for downvoting front-page articles? Because this garbage desperatley deserves it.
The target allowed long passwords.
The way I understand it, consensus rules. You could modify your client, but you'd have to get the majority of other nodes using your code before you could actually affect change.
The goldbugging bothers me, because often times people who say otherwise worthwhile things about these subjects are plagued by goldbugging. I suppose you have to disregard the ad and the cocktail recipe to think it's worthwhile though.
If you lowered your difficulty, other nodes who follow the prescribed convention for setting the difficulty will reject your blocks and any further chain built on them as invalid. Agreement on the formula for computing difficulty is required to have a unified block chain. If a bunch of nodes pick a different difficulty formula, it will fork the block chain, and there will be two different incompatible transaction records.
It would make sense for you to turn off your water, drain all the pipes, turn off the heat and go somewhere else for a few days.
UPDATE: we are now on 25.000 :)
MH17 was downed by the shrapnel from the missile, not the shockwave. The BUK missile's shrapnel number, density and speed was designed to take down, in particular, armored planes like A-10 (into the face, not from behind), so the plasma expansion speed to affect the shrapnel should be on the order of several Mach, something like jet exhaust for example.
Why should every crime go to trial? If the offender says "Fair cop, guv, you've got me bang to rights", why waste everyone's time proving that (s)he did it?

It's basically the same as setting up your conditions to take advantage of short-circuit evaluation. You don't put the time-consuming and resource-hungry part first.

Were there even the slimmest chance of acquittal, few defendants would utter that phrase without there being either a benefit to owning up, or an extra penalty for not doing so. This is what plea bargaining and TICs are for.

If there's a suspicion of false confession, meaning that the suspect may not be the offender, that should normally be sorted out before court, so that the correct offender is tried for the correct offence (e.g. wasting police time if voluntary, or some kind of intimidation/coercion offence if not)?
> In our defense, they keep adding new EU countries.

Best progress response I've seen.