jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Well, yeah. Did you expect them to give out $10,000 just to know that somewhere in the world a better algorithm exists?

I agree that $10,000 seems rather low, but you could presumably license the algorithm to other parties. The sucky part is that it appears to apply to all applicants instead of just the winner.
There would definitely be people who could argue standing, however. You could start with their opponents in the general election. More likely I think would be their primary opponents (probably initially at the state level). The Supreme Court could attempt to evade this by calling it a political question outside of the court's jurisdiction (they've done this in denying challenges to gerrymandered maps, although those are different in being acts of the states, rather than contesting an irregular election), or they could in theory deny cert and let a lower court's decision stand, although I think that's unlikely.

(IANAL)
People are working on customizable select
1 https://open-ui.org/components/select.research
2 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=112184...
That site isn't very useful since it only reflects what the author thinks is important. It doesn't show actual standards compliance. He chooses tests and assigns scores according to his own priorities. So it's misleading to call it "html5test."
If it holds up, then that should kill off the constant suing of web site owners for libel in the UK even when a given site is hosted outside of the UK. The UK's current libel laws are due a makeover but in the mean time they are being used to suppress legitimate comment and free speech.
Would you be willing to work 50% fewer hours, for 50% less pay?

Most employers are willing to soak up the waste, in order to have access to their staff throughout the work day. And most employees are eager to get the extra pay, even if they aren't spending the extra hours productively.

As an entrepreneur, I would love a 20 hour a week job that paid $40K a year -- it would provide financial stability and free time, allowing me to bootstrap businesses indefinitely. Most people aren't looking for that type of position, however. They're looking to maximize take-home pay.
I just played with that test for fun, it is pretty easy (OK, so HN technical users probably aren't the target here) but I do like it.

Without giving it away and spoiling it... it does well at covering the general things you would want web devs to intuitively know.

I'm more interested in how you monitored this stuff... setting up the test would've been pretty trivial, but getting good data out must've been harder.

Are you recording failed attempts too? So that should someone fail on the last step but have succeeded at the prior 2 steps that you still have the ability to contact them if their CV is good enough too?

Great idea, I like it.
Bluetooth is just a short-range wireless technology. People use bluetooth to control their pacemakers, is there an issue with that too?
I think he did what I did: sorted by fatalities, found the top 3 which were 9/11 and added them up. He was missing flight 93 which would bring the total to 2997. Here are the relevant incident summaries:

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtd...

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtd...

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtd...

http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtd...

Wikipedia has a bunch of random news articles as sources and even it's own entry for casualties saying 2606 at WTC, 125 at Pentagon, and "About 292 people[citation needed]" killed by "burning debris and falling bodies" on the street.
They've moved away then, since I last used it, earlier versions were pretty compatible. QB64's aims are good, but it's still incomplete itself, and I had stability issues with it (and to be honest, wasn't particularly keen on still using the old QB IDE anymore either).
I always start "backwards" by writing some example code.
It would be interesting to see the comparison done again with a subset of e-textbooks actually designed to take advantage of the platform (and not just be an exported PDF dumped into an azw or epub), like some of the better iBooks examples.
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It doesn't recognize JSON input. Could you please do this, auto-format it and show the diff similarly to Graphtage?
Ah, a lottery on a blockchain. Why not!

Except, unlike a national lottery, you can't trust the issuer and the value of your prize fluctuates even after you win.
Date formats are pure fun.

['en-US','en-IE','en-GB','en-ZA','de-DE','es-ES','nl-NL','pl-PL','ru-RU','cs-CZ','sv-SE','fi-FI','lv-LV']
.forEach(lang => console.log(lang + ': ' + new Date('2020-02-04').toLocaleDateString(lang, {day:'numeric', month:'numeric', year:'numeric'})))
en-US: 2/4/2020
en-IE: 4/2/2020
en-GB: 04/02/2020
en-ZA: 2020/02/04
de-DE: 4.2.2020
es-ES: 4/2/2020
nl-NL: 4-2-2020
pl-PL: 4.02.2020
ru-RU: 04.02.2020
cs-CZ: 4. 2. 2020
sv-SE: 2020-02-04
fi-FI: 4.2.2020
lv-LV: 2020.02.4.
Not if you traveling by the speed of light
Price gouging is when you're you're trying to maximize value extraction for minimum effect.

People can deal with propping up a profit for someone going out of their way to get something done as cheaply as they can. Where they get annoyed is when you have the help there, but hold it hostage because you aren't feeling like people are willing to pay you enough. Not once on showing justifiable expenses has anyone ever argued at me being unreasonable.

Further, there's a point of diminishing returns where individual action is best avoided or at least organized to increase effectiveness.

Have your town pool money to hire tankers to run down instead of filling your pickup with gas cans. Force multipliers.

Price gouging laws are there to hedge civic stability. You can't organize people to solve a problem peacefully and efficiently if they're taking up torches amd pitch forks against those greedy haves. Everyone has to still be set, plus a bit extra to give to get community driven force multiplication.
ESA freely distributes all data acquired by the Sentinel program from here: https://scihub.copernicus.eu/ There are also multiple partner sites with the data, including cloud providers that can you a VM with the data files already mounted.

Software is a bit harder, for simple interferograms of two measurements you can just use open source Sentinel-1 toolbox ( https://github.com/senbox-org/s1tbx ) to align, diff, subtract geometric corrections based on an elevation model and convert the measurements to geographic coordinates. This will be enough for seeing large scale motion, like earthquakes. For better quality processing you need multi-temporal InSAR which can estimate atmospheric phase delay, height of persistent reflectors which will cause a geometric phase difference due to slight differences in measurement location (measurement baseline). There is some open source software available for this (e.g. StaMPS), but I can't vouch for its capabilities.
Arrow is the only Python library with date-aware ceiling and flooring methods.

I wouldn't have been able to design and implement Scaleway’s billing pipeline in 2013 without those.

More details at: https://kevin.deldycke.com/2020/10/billing-pipeline-critical...
But there are no checksums from the DVD, because there are no files on the DVD

I have actually tried it multiple times over six hours, and now I have burned three DVDs without files on them
Gambling and I know it.
Dropbox keeps your encryption key somewhere. They say that (a) the files stored with them are encrypted and (b) you don't have the decryption key. Conclusion: they have your plain-text key. Thus it is theoretically possible. I take their statement that their employees cannot view your files as "their employees are not allowed to view your files" with some basic precautions surrounding this. However, whoever wrote the code for revealing the plain-text key to the server when you request a file should be smart enough to figure out how to fake being that server.
pretty cool, makes me want to register one for myself
That's always just a treaty away from changing.
I mean, yeah, I'd love to liver in that world. Unfortunately, Uber has campaigned widely that their drivers are, in fact, independent contractors and not employees.

The drivers should be employees, imo, but the way the company is structured today, they are not.
I'm sure you can get a more in-depth technical explanation out of someone here, but to give you a high level:

Email today is very, very reliable. If you are not getting his emails the only reasonable cause would be that they're getting caught in a spam filter somewhere. Of course if you're receiving emails from him at all, that's pretty unlikely.

There's nothing he could send over (like an old sent email) that would prove what he's saying. Email is easily forged and he could cook up a fake 'sent' email in a couple minutes if he felt he had to.

Just sounds like he's unreliable. I would suggest you replace him post haste.
You have built successful businesses for other people. Now do it for yourself.
Ideally something that's scalable. I.e. you can make it once, and sell it lots of times.
I never said Python was perfect. I consider it seriously flawed in many respects. I'm not defending Python as a perfect language.

I'm just saying this "flaw" doesn't make any sense as such. If you want to tell me that with some perspective it's a flaw, show me the perspective, because I'm not seeing it at all. It looks pretty ridiculous on my end.
I agree that the VM can be a lot of work. However, some language features may need support from the VM. E.g. Scala and Clojure don't have full TCO support as JVM doesn't support that (yet!). If a languages uses an existing VM, it may need to work around the VM limitation. I suspect thats the reason Jython is slower than CPython even though JVM is much faster than the CPython VM.

IMO the big advantage of using a mature existing VM is the library. It should be possible to have at least a usable GC (say simple mark-and-sweep), code generator etc. without too much effort.
What do you have to start with?
- Your talent?
- Your experience?
- Your capital?
- Your connection?

Once you have a good assessment of yourself, we can talk.
I'll agree that while a project is being bootstrapped, peer code review could be cumbersome. Once a project has matured enough, some amount of code review, done incrementally, shouldn't be a burden. At that point, if you're typing out reams of code every day, you might be doing it wrong ( something code review could help catch [ e.g., "Library X does this; you don't have to re-implement it" ] ). The point would not be to circle back after 100 hours of work to review, but rather every (say) 10.

I don't agree that source code is not meant to be examined ( but maybe we work in totally different fields ). I regularly read source code from my coworkers, and they regularly have to read mine. Often, the developer who wrote the code is not available for questions, or isn't with the company any longer. My own code might as well have been written by another developer if I look at it after about a year. All these issues could be mitigated or muted by another set of eyes, either by sharing the knowledge ( "Why did Bob do this?" might be answered by someone else who'd reviewed the code ) or by asking the questions initially ( "Bob, why did you do it that way?" Bob: "Because of X -- I'll leave a comment in the source ).
Trevor, Let me know if your book will include a simple CRUD app written in CoffeeScript using Node.js. That alone would gain you a few more sales.
What exactly is regulated in case of ISPs?
One of the most bubbly signs (to me) is I hear people I consider reasonably intelligent saying it's impossible for real estate to lose value, especially in SF. Now's the time to buy, since it's only going to go higher.

Of course I heard the same lines in 2006....
> “Requiring Lyft drivers, including those who drive just a few hours a week, to get commercial plates would essentially treat peer-to-peer transportation the same as a taxi,” said Lyft spokesperson Chelsea Wilson, noting that it would undermine efforts to allow ride-hailing by other state agencies.

If someone is paid to provide you a service then they are not a peer, at least not in the context of that service.

Peer to peer would be car pooling.

George Orwell was worried about government corrupting language, but money and arrogance make corruption open to everyone.
They get paid less because they work in a much smaller market. Does it also upset you that stage actors make less than AAA movie stars?
As others said, #1 is false. You can look at your data whenever you want without letting others do the same, even if they have access to the data. That's what asymmetric (or even symmetric) cryptography does.

Apart from that, did anyone ever think Dropbox was completely secure? The mere fact that they perform deduplication, which is not possible if they can't read your data, should have tipped people off to it. Not to mention showing the files in the web client, sharing, etc.
Yeah the commenting system the way it works right now, goes through the json array once to see if there are any @replies, and to find which were RT's were a hassle because we would have to do a bunch of string comparisons (since Twitter's search API doesn't return the relevant data). So we were thinking right now to both keep the data loading as fast as possible and keep our API calls limited, we would leave them in but throw them at the bottom of the comments.
(Caveat: my dns is hosted by my registrar; I am currently happy with them and not looking to switch.)

Recaptcha would protect my account how? If you mean I have to pass a recaptcha in addition to providing my username+password when I log in, then (a) I don't see that this adds much security; and (b) the presence of the captcha would put me off using your service.

I like the idea of sms authentication for making dns changes.

Does where name servers are make any difference? Surely what matters is where your company is based? (If you have a good answer to this, you should put it in your faq.)

Something I'd like to see as an option on this sort of technical webapp, is that as an ALTERNATIVE to the webapp I can ssh in and use a curses app to change settings, using a private key to authenticate myself, and disable use of the webapp for managing my account. (You might implement this using a suitably restricted curses-based web browser, that's not the point. The point is that I don't need to manage yet another password for a service I will not login to frequently.)

Not being able to register domains would be a minus point.
Go out to a nightclub and pop some ecstasy. You'll get over the social anxiety pretty quickly.
About those comments: they need work, I'm seeing a lot of straight retweets in there with no changed/added content. I would definitely filter those out, they're just retweets.
Also, "Click here to read more" needs to be on the next line, it's very ugly this way.
How is suicide not an attempt at self inflicted euthanasia? I'll watch your video (thanks).
> UBI appears to be a form of social net which might encourage people to not work.

UBI is actually the only form of social net that tries its best to limit this.

(And it's not an easy problem to solve - a redistribution arrangement like UBI inherently involves some sort of "means testing" and must be phased out as one reaches the breakeven point where one starts "paying into" the system.

People who tell you that this isn't a thing and that UBI "gives money to everyone, or to the rich" are totally clueless. They fail to understand the basics about balancing a budget, never mind actual, non-trivial economics.)
How do people start new ventures like this without falling afoul of past non-disclosure agreements?
Yes. I made a change above to rectify this and removed the "stealing" aspect from my proposal .
>> cache, paging, virtual memory,cpu pipelines, algorithms or other things pretty fundamental to CS

Algorithms is the only thing you mentioned that has anything to do with Computer Science. The other stuff is Computer Engineering.
I've worked with a number of bootcamp graduates and I've found the experience extremely refreshing. There are perspectives, skillsets and domain expertise that can come from having transitioned into an engineering career later or from other fields, that more conventional computer scientists often don't/can't have. Whilst there are situations where pre-requisite CS knowledge is crucial, my experience is that there are equally many where that doesn't factor heavily into your ability to effectively work in a technical role.

I don't mean to be disrespectful (but will risk doing so as I thought the original question was negative), but ironically as an employer I would place preference over the ability communicate effectively and respectfully, unlike the way the question above was asked.

N.b I'm a "vanilla" CS grad (although wouldn't claim to have an in-depth knowledge of the areas you've listed twice).
Actually I like that solution, but try to show it to any degree of scientific standard. You need to have a good working definition of consciousness, then you need some experimental procedure, etc. etc.
I'm not sure quality has gone down as much as the need for programmers has drastically expanded. Now pretty much all businesses have the need for custom software to some degree, and many of those businesses do not have a big budget.

What do you get when you have millions of businesses who need ten million dollars worth of software but can only spend 100k? You get lots of shitty developers coming out of the wood work to meet this demand, and you get what you pay for.

In the 12 years I've been doing this, I've just noticed that all the good software developers are working at the places with big bucks, and all the shitty developers are picking up the scraps.
No, you're right. MasterCard is grossly misrepresenting (i.e. lying about) what they are doing. It's opt-out, not opt-in.
I would generalize it more: people don’t seem to understand the domains they’re getting into. I know devs who are expected to do a lot of Linux work who flounder on the command line. I know devs who write “services”, but don’t know how to administrate the server their service runs on. I know devs doing database work who can’t write JOINs.

I think this is partially because of how democratized the field has become. Any asshole with a computer and some time can write code. I don’t think this is fundamentally a bad thing. But after a certain point, it stops being a hobby for some, and turns into a job. The line is blurry, but at some point you have hobbyists writing software-as-a-service with no knowledge of things like security. I don’t want to gatekeep, but I also don’t want dilettantes getting my identity pwned because they took a JavaScript course and thought that qualifies them to write a SaaS product.

Admittedly, it never hurts to understand the computer at a fundamental level. I think anyone who does automatically has a leg up on anyone who doesn’t. I expect my mechanic to know how engines work, even if they just change my oil. You certainly can change oil without being a mechanic, but you lose out on some depth of knowledge.

So yes, I think there’s rampant dilettantism in the field right now. Short of licensure and/or some laws with teeth, I don’t know how to prevent it. You can nail a lot of legs to a dog and make it an octopus, and there’s still apparently money to be had there, so the octopus keeps moving.
I don't think even Einstein fits by that definition. An instrument as a hobby hardly is a contribution. Da Vinci is probably one of the closest I can think of by that definition and even he said something like "tell me if anything ever was done" since he felt like he never managed to finish anything properly
I think these calls to action are preaching to the choir. I don't even use Facebook and my eyes glazed over when seeing this.
It’s the BBC News site, not a top-tier zoology journal. Given the one thing rarer than the Sumatran rhino is popular press readers who know what “extirpated” is, “Extinct in $location” is entirely appropriate phraseology. #KnowYourAudience
To me, the one on the left is better (with a few tiny changes)
. Font choice is better, it is more legible and actually it has better balance overall. So I think author "fixed" it too much :)
Same, they've been absolutely wonderful. I think I've had monitors set up for like 5 years now, never really log in, just get the email and respond. It's solid.
They better get rid of the javascript error affecting IE8 which cripples the home page. (That explains the BETA stamp.)
What editors do you use that have lower latency? I've found that Emacs is surprisingly low latency.
I was in your spot. I’ll give you my answer, but the search for meaning is highly individual.

I got married and started having kids. It’s worth it.

Also there’s religion. A sensitive topic.

While I’m certain I found the right religion, and everyone is else is going to Hell, I don’t know you, and so I don’t know if I want to spend all eternity in heaven with you. Sorry.
> Congratulations. You just discovered "the price of something is what someone is willing to pay for it", not its actual utility.

There's a some truth to this comment, but only some. Your comment also accurately describes a ponzi scheme.
This is interesting. I have been following along the project for a while. Hopefully they make more HL projects in the future.
I imagine the eggs used in the Polish study that outperformed backyard were organic and free range.
My contention is that the mere knowledge that you are reporting income is actionable information to the government and the IRS has no way to guarantee it does not get out.
You laugh today…
This is in line with my pet theory on why Disney even bothered with a sequel to the original Tron.

They claim Tron became a 'cult classic' and hence a sequel was a good idea. It's a 1982 movie, how did it suddenly explode into popularity in the later 90s/early 2000s? The widespread file-sharing of the movie, of course.

I don't have a citation to back me up here (hence my 'pet theory'), but here's your data point of one - I downloaded Tron from a 'shady' source a few years back, and became part of the 'cult following' it has.
The sole author of Impropmptu, Andrew Sorensen, is also currently the best live performer. Some chosen samples:

A study in Keith: a poignant piano part http://vimeo.com/2433947. When the code is evaluated (usually one function at a time), you can see the code block flash in a pale yellow/green color.

Stained: This one comes with visualizations. Simple yet psychedelic. http://vimeo.com/2502546.
> Malthus was wrong and will continually be proved so.

Malthus was wrong at some points in history, and right at others. The Sumerians, the Pascuans, probably the Mayans and some others proved Malthus right several times.

> You can blindly just accept human ingenuity will drive things forward as long as people are allowed to keep the bulk of the reward for their efforts.

No, this is so fantastically wrong that I don't know where to start. This is so utter bullshit I'd want to cry.

Human ingenuity can't replace resources. We've been awash with resources for a few decades, but that doesn't mean that times of scarcity won't possibly happen again.

> It might be a leap of faith, but it's a better one to take than living with a doom and gloom mentality.

No, I'd rather live with the truth, how uncomfortable it is. Blind faith is a terrible poison to the mind. As said George Bernard Shaw :

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.