jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>It makes American trucks cheaper.

Cheaper relative to the foreign competition, but the prices of American trucks are not reduced by the tax.

>It seems like you wanted to show off your knowledge of the chicken tax and just threw it in an answer to whatever thread came up first.

Maybe, but I'm sure there are a lot of people here who don't know about the chicken tax. It is relevant to a general discussion of trucks.
I think it's worth pointing out that the current objections to Generics in Go have nothing to do with them being too complicated for programmers. The summary is [1]:

> The generic dilemma is this: do you want slow programmers, slow compilers and bloated binaries, or slow execution times?

Here "slow programmers" means, "do you want a language without generics". Both quick compilation and quick execution are first-order goals of Go, so people are loathe to give them up.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX...
Not to mention being 'on the level'.
There are some things that I wish I had done differently for sure. Namely looking at competitor price points and understanding the impact that would have on the business.
Avoid upsetting customers by allowing them to keep their current price and only charging new customers the higher price.
No, it's called enterprise software, and it's driven by "appeal to the enormous egos and matching budgets of leaders of companies that are held back more by their own bloat than by anything resembling competition." This is just standard practice for the enterprise software sector in general, and after everyone's spent their billions and the next recession is upon us, they'll probably axe most of these utter failures to produce business value. But all the consultants will just blame someone other than the client being dysfunctional because that's just the fastest way to get kicked off a contract.

Consulting for enterprise customers tends to be a lot like marriages - you can be right, or you can be happy (or paid). It takes a unique customer to have gotten past their cultural dysfunctions to accept responsibilities for their problems and to take legitimate, serious action. But like marriage, there can be great, great upsides when everyone gets on the same page and works towards mutual goals with the spirit of selflessness and growth. Yeah....
Call your Congressmen and Senators [1]. If you write to them, do not use a form letter.

In one or two sentences, explain who you are and why your opinion on this is relevant. Ask for their position on the issue. Then, conservatively state your views. Avoid extreme or outraged language.

Last week, I reached out to my senators and Congresswoman about the CISPA bill [2]. The issue found a place on one Senator's evening agenda and prompted a follow-up from the Representative. An upside to this country's low democratic participation is the undiluted return on making the effort to reach out.

[1] http://whoismyrepresentative.com/member/view/M000087/

[2] http://gizmodo.com/the-new-cispa-bill-is-literally-exactly-t...
I had anxiety years ago, with panic attacks whenever I was on a train for more than a few minutes. I was also constantly afraid of having contracted fatal diseases.

No more. I did a lot of different probiotics (Mutaflor, some generic L-bacillus stuff, homemade kefir, Kombucha,...) in the last years, and anxiety has completely gone away. Here is some possible explanation: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/reading-between-the-head...

I know such comments are often downvoted, so please drop a comment if you do, and contribute.
I feel a lot more people started using their usenet and torrent tracker accounts again. Especially if you are in Europe or the East you sometimes have no chance to even pay for the content you want to watch.
Can you clarify what "remote for now" means? Should new hires expect to have to relocate in a few months?
Try http://www.eclipsecolorthemes.org/ (note I used it with cdt and had trouble with dark color themes making some elements nearly invisible) but other then that its sorta nice
I'm guessing that: a "document" on Twitter is a single tweet;
a "document" on Facebook is a wall-post or equivalent;
a "document" on GMail is an e-mail;
a "document" on Google Calendar is an appointment.

Therefore, the comparison with Google’s web-wide index in 2001 is a little misleading (in terms of the amount of data), given that the average size of a web-page is greater than all of these.

Of course average size of a file on Dropbox is likely to be larger than a webpage. I wonder what percentage of those 1.5 billion documents are files on Dropbox.
I've been satisfied with the simple (perhaps unsexy) strategy of writing answers to people's problems.

If your site solves a problem, there's probably a lot of forum posts and yahoo answers questions and blog posts about the problem. Google the problem from the user's perspective. For example, something like "how do I make animated gifs from videos?"

I registered an account on about a dozen forums and answered all the similar questions without spammily forcing my solution. Same thing with yahoo answers and blog comments. It doesn't even really matter if you get inbound links or not. With a few days' effort, your site will be mentioned as an answer on all the top search results for the problem.
We're short of space for twitter messages. And maybe IRC topics.
Hi Stavro, how long has it been since you made the changes?

I've seen a couple of times similar behavior where a site disappeared from google's results for a couple of days, after some content and theme changes but everything was back to normal after that.
In any case καλή τύχη.
http://gephi.org/
That's an interesting point. I guess the distinction we want to make is between creating private APIs that would lock people in, and enabling them to use appropriate standards and publicly-available modules. So integrating with (say) WebGL for graphics, or making it easy for people to mount their own EBS volumes or access S3 (we're running on AWS anyway) would be good, whereas insisting that the only way to display plots of data was to call our private API would be bad.

Does that make sense?
This is factually incorrect. If we fail to raise the debt ceiling, we still wouldn't default unless our tax revenue failed to cover our interest payments for the year. As it stands, our tax revenue is somewhere between 3 and 5 times the interest payments we pay in a year.
They are not very old either, at least not compared to Lisp (60s), scheme and the MLs (70s/80s). Haskell is quite brand spanking new in comparison to the old guard.

What C# lacks for me in FP, case matching, has little to do with purity. The FP story involves purity but is not dominated by it. List comprehensions still work in C# even though you can theoretically side effect in your select and filter functions.
IndexTank is a hosted service, you don't have to build, configure or manage your own search infrastructure.
Etherpad may actually hinder more than help writer archeology.

Would T.S. Eliot's widow have had access to his drafts and correspondence if they were in Google Docs and Gmail, respectively? Or worse, what if they were in the now defunct Etherpad?
To be honest it just looks like a wordpress blog with content from http://www.freshnessmag.com/ (e.g. http://www.freshnessmag.com/2010/11/22/steinway-sons-x-bmw-7...)

I don't get the USP..
It's not unusual for "silicon" to be used as an all-encompassing term for computers and computer hardware.
Sounds much better being a datacenter tech for $15/hr compared to flipping burgers for minimal wage. Where this datacenter is located it's $7.25/hr...
> Much as I enjoy writing high quality software, it's irresponsible to spend time or money producing something higher quality than is justified by the needs of the business.

I think it's more irresponsible to produce something that the customer isn't going to be able to use for many years or that needs a patch before it's even released.
Renting is a choice. Choosing a particular apartment at a given price point to rent is also a choice.
Why not post it right here? Most HN users are developers.
While I agree that gas stoves put out more VOCs than most people would imagine, the fact that humans have been cooking inside on either wood or gas stoves for many hundreds of years, gives testament to the idea that it can’t really be /that/ detrimental to human health. Sure it would be better without them, but I’d imagine that the health gains would be marginal at best.
And yet, they continue to grow, faster now than they've ever grown before.

How do you explain that?
So you're saying that because China or Saudi Arabia needs human rights, they need to send a government lackey to represent them on the global stage, and that will result in even a tiny positive effect?

I would be happy to do so if the representatives were Loujain al Hathloul and Rushan Abbas, not the jokers that these countries send to sit on the council. And I know we all will be dead before that ever happens.
Volunteer at a soup kitchen, donate to a homeless shelter, donate food, clothing. The long term change that needs to happen is that we need to get back to paying slightly higher taxes and hiring more social workers.
Aren't the odds such that even if you got everyone on earth generating keys, you still would be extremely unlikely to even find one?
Cryptohack[1] is also great - it's a more gamified, CTF-like platform.

[1] https://cryptohack.org/
In somewhat related news, rootless Docker support is no longer an experimental feature. Has anyone used it and liked/disliked it?
Seems that she is gone : https://www.facebook.com/onattyso/posts/10218465482460142

I love this quote : "There is still so much more that can be done. Those of us who work in tech hold so much power and promise, but we spend these resources working on projects that don’t seem to matter. We build farming games and make people pay for virtual coins. We try to clone the success of photo-sharing applications. We lure people into addictive behavior with software instead of trying to make their lives better.
What if, more of us decided to stand up like Salman Khan and make our lines of code count?"
Sitecore, Sharepoint, Dynamics, EF 6 and WCF in-house frameworks, and plenty of third party solutions on the Windows ecosystem.

All the cloud based deployments I have done, other than a couple of serverless microservices on AWS Lambda, have been done on Windows and that won't change for the foreseeable future in what concerns the kind of customers I work with.

In fact, it is a bit ironic that instead of getting advises from cloud experts, I am the one with my lower skill set in the domain, to have to explain to them what is to be expected for production delivery.
It seems that those places are not taking Scrum seriously (as much as I hate this expression)

> just weird conversations about when feature X is fully ready in which sprint,

What stories compose that feature? How are you going to plan the following sprints? (are there other stories or only those?). Prioritize.

> features that were done getting new "improvements"

Yes, you can split stories into 2, or create a new story for something that you want changed/improved. Create a story, put it through the system and do it

> and getting sprints replanned in the middle of execution.

It happens. But it shouldn't be frequent.

> Oh, and the famous feature requests disguised as bug reports for the features that didn't make it out of the backlog.

Well, that's not really an Agile problem, that's scope creep (and shouldn't be allowed)

It seems your problems are due to people implementing "half agile" or just using the buzzword without the important elements. Especially in small teams.

(been there, done that)
The theory of universal deletionism states that sites with extensive volunteer moderators will invariably tend towards bureaucracy and deletionism regardless of what regular users want as mods get bored and want to feel important

You should see how excited the moderators get when they decide there's a new rule against some new kind of question
I like the first version better because everyone knows what infix * and + do.
I was talking to my sister and her husband the other day. They recently moved to Singapore and have 12gb/month data plans. I don't know what they pay but as they're both casual users I assume they didn't get anything outrageous. Made me very jealous as I pay CAD$20/month for 1gb with Rogers here in Canada. I guarantee they're not paying $240/month for that plan.

I checked the SingTel site[1] and I'm guessing that they each have the $39 or $56 plans, $30 and $45 in Canadian dollars. That's their entire plan including voice, data, and everything else. I wish I didn't know how good it is in other countries. Fucking useless CRTC doesn't do anything about Canadian telecoms colluding and price fixing. The telecoms here have no interest in competing with each other.

[1] http://info.singtel.com/personal/communication/mobile/mobile...
You're making the assumption that all S-corp distributions amount to "hiding wages". Most accountants will tell you that IRS regulations disagree with you on that point.

I see that you didn't respond to the reverse-loophole point on FUTA taxes. Why should a company pay unemployment insurance taxes for founder-employees when these employees can never claim unemployment allowances ?
BTW, are you ever back in NC?
I paid out of pocket for mine, but breakeven for me was 5 years because I previously wore one-day contacts ($$). For most contacts-wearers breakeven is around 10 years.
Isn't most of the country obese? And don't we breed crops to look good over being nutritious? Aren't large portions of the population without reasonable access to grocery stores?
On a similar note: many hospitals can and will negotiate your bill after the fact. A family member has had procedures performed that cost in excess of $20k, but was able to negotiate the bill to less than $5k. Although I am not sure if this is the norm.
Convincing your boss you need to pay $1500 for a software license for some core software is fairly easy and all companies have procedures to handle it. Convincing your boss that you should donate $1500 to some open source hacker in Russia who wrote the web server you use is much much harder and there may not even be procedures in place.
I can't decide whether I love or hate the idea of this generation's "amublance chasers" being the "airport security line chasers".
No, because sometimes they need a plausible excuse to act on other suspicions.

When working security, agents can sense something is wrong but not have it articulable enough in legal terms to act on. When the suspect says "why are you searching me?" it's a lot easier on everyone to say "the detector beeped, you heard it" than "I've got an uneasy feeling about you". (Not legal, not warranted, just easier.)
The server can invalidate the token at any time.
This is a very sane approach, and I agree wholeheartedly.

But when the only thing holding you back and locking you in is your own company's internal vendor-specific tooling/infrastructure, the argument doesn't hold as much weight.

fwiw, I have never received an Excel spreadsheet from a vendor/partner/customer that I could not open and work with in LibreOffice, re-export to Excel and send back to them.
The lack of women in tech has never been caused by discrimination. Even if there’s been some discrimination, spending time and energy trying to increase the participation of demographic X in field Y is something I have a hard time understanding. It’s already been made abundantly clear in the West for at least a generation that if you want to pursue something constructive, you will receive welcome and support, regardless of your background. In my professional experience, I’ve never encountered even a whiff of anti-woman or anti-minority sentiment. I’ve worked at tech companies of various types and sizes occupying various niches, and the atmosphere has been unfailingly open and tolerant. I’ve spoken with colleagues who had no reason to hide their true feelings, and none of them has ever expressed a sexist or racist opinion.

I’ve read several ridiculous articles lamenting the obstacles that, supposedly, only women and minorities face when trying to get into computer programming. Sorry, but the only things stopping anyone who doesn’t live in abject poverty from becoming a coder are (a) lack of interest, (b) lack of persistence, and/or (c) lack of aptitude, in that order.
i was thinking of doing something similar for image segmentation.
Perhaps you could contribute better by citing examples where Google does care about blind people instead of calling an actual blind person's argument ridiculous.
You don't need to KYC as it's just a mobile wallet — same with all the other crypto wallets out there. I'd be surprised if Signal integrated features in the future that require KYC.
Don't waste your time. "Climate skeptics" website operated by a conservative non-profit.
And some people think that it's as simple as calories-in vs. calories-out and completely ignore the effect of hormones on our hunger and energy levels and the root cause of why we tend to be sedentary and overeat. The main culprit is insuline, we've known this for decades. If you can keep your insulin levels under control by restricting carbohydrate intake, and increasing natural dietary fat intake and eating moderate protein your body will naturally tend to suppress your appetite and you'll eat less and become leaner until you get close to your ideal weight.
Aren't you really just saying that sometimes the juries get results that you wouldn't agree with? If you think something is "real doubt" and they don't, that's not an objective fact.
Why is it against GDPR if somebody agreed to it and agreed to their Privacy Policy [1]? I don't understand the claim in this tweet exactly. I think some context is missing.

[1]: https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-cd4b415950204a46819478b...
Netflix has a long way to go before their quality is even as good as the "HD" channels on a Cable network.
I suppose one of the values academia has is providing a garden for information from past generations to persist and be understood. The stuff that got invented in the early industrial revolution could have been produced in the antique greece. Or perhaps wollops of it was - we will not know because what passed for academia then were basically a bunch of mystery cults who guarded their insights with murderous zeal (pythagoreans etc).*

In the pre-internet age, without international academia, there would have been no community with whom to share discoveries so they would benefit all. Einstein would have been a historical nobody without people to understand him, etc.

So to me, you will have to suggest other at least somewhat curated and open mechanisms for living information to persist. Perhaps internet and mans curiosity alone is sufficient to provide this but I don't know...

*From what I remember from one popular historical source or another
I write (and read) about 20,000 lines of C(++) a year, and have for the last 20 years. I've never seen that done.
"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know" Emerson :-)
#1 is being a consultant. #2 is being a teacher. #3 is being a consultant. #4 is being an author. None of these involve making money off the software. They all involve side businesses with about as close a relationship to the software as I have to the cereal I ate for breakfast this morning. If I'd starved to death, I wouldn't be working right now, but I don't say I eat cereal for money.
Such a "spec" would not be able to describe how systems interact: protocols, failure modes, SLAs, etc. In other words, the kinds of things you want specified when engineering a system. These are also specs
More interesting than link bait. http://kukuruku.com a site that is doing translations from Russian to English of articles originally appearing on http://habrhabr.ru. Most of the articles are solid technical content that would otherwise be inaccessible to non-Russian speakers. Here's some previous discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7770887

On its own, this would be great, but the issue is that these translations are not necessarily authorized in advance, and the attribution was not originally present. But there is now an 'original source' link at the top of each translation, and the translators feel they are adhering to the use policies of Habrhabr.

I was dubious initially, but at this point I'm mostly convinced that their intents are good, and I appreciate having access to these articles that I otherwise would not be able to enjoy. I think they are open to suggestions of how to improve their approach, and hope they eventually find a solution that satisfies all parties.
This is a great suggestion, especially if we accept the authors suggestion that hiring agents are only interested in exceptional foreign programmers, not the merely competent ones.

Also, what's a good ratio of exceptional programmers to competent programmers within an organization? Not all important code needs to be written by a clever architect.
> used to extend LPMUDs

It would be probably better to say it was used to implement LPMUDs (still is, BTW). Driver without a mudlib - written in LPC - was not very useful at all.

> special wizard's staff

A driver of the MUD I worked on had a special set of objects used for introspection/reflection: you could inspect object state, set it's attributes and evaluate arbitrary code "inside the object". These were invoked as normal global commands IIRC. Now I wish we had it coded as a wizard's staff, too :)

> almost Emacs-like interactive environment

Also similar to image-based Smalltalk or Lisp. It's a pity that it wasn't used to build a Smalltalk-like graphic environment, but in its text form this environment was awesome, too.

> the text editor it came with (an ed clone) was terrible

OMG, please don't remind me of this. I had to learn ed, because on our MUD we had no FTP access for some time and it was a tragic experience. I was only able to live with it thanks to MUSHClient, which did a great job at handling large amount of text and I mostly just copied the code to notepad and then pasted it back after modification. But, on the flip side, I could never understand why people don't like Vi - it's so much better than ed! ;)
Yes, and both camps accuse me of being a lover for the other. As a professional app developer (mostly iPhoneOS, a little Android though), it's more my glare is leveled at the strong deficiencies in BOTH platforms.
During a dialogue, trying to run the sentences of another person through some kind of mental compiler and tell them about every error/illogical statement they have made.

Seriously, dont start doing that. I makes you look like a smartass. My experience is, a lot of business people say stupid things with a purpose just to move on, even if it is totally illogical, but it is their initiative that helps them to get out of an otherwise difficult situation.
Or just moving to the UK (or another country with a public health system).
256 IS a round number, how do you write it in binary? 100000000, that looks like a round number to me!
Yes. I hope in the future there are more games of a similar length to portal & braid. Thats about the maximum I want to play a game. I'm in the middle of GTA4 at the moment, and the game is completely fantastic, but I'm getting to the point where I am hoping it will start wrapping up and giving me closure, but I just unlocked the whole map and don't even have all the weapons...
If I understand what you say correctly, you don't like when geeks act out the geek stereotype. I feel the same way. We like computers, but that shouldn't stop us from having a nice conversation, being funny and attractive to others (intellectually and otherwise).
In ASCII. This equation is famous, and crafting proper crop circles requires some familiarity with computers for the GPS and line art. This crop circle, while clever, is not particularly astounding, and is in fact proof against extraterrestrial crop circles.