jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I also think that the people at that wage consider programming language choice as a means to an end rather than a core skill.
The same applies to mulch, rock salt, or gasoline etc.
I haven't used it, I use virtualfish which does a great job as well.
Consider that exactly the same argument applies to tax breaks for families and homeowners, who are effectively being subsidized by everyone else's money... and yet there's little to no political resistance to either.
Yeah, but you do have to try.

The political and social arrangement of the U.S. Constitution, for example, is worth trying to preserve. It will only endure if most of us, and our leaders, agree to follow it.

Most such arrangements are shared illusions that are doomed, unless we agree to follow them. It really boils down to that, because we are all fundamentally free to act as selfish savages of we want.
What are you building in Python!?
I like Tabs Outliner [1]. I like the tree organization, and you can easily move (multiple) tabs from one window to another (open or closed tabs), as well as naming the window. It has a bit of a learning curve, but the documentation is decent and the videos provide a good demo.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk...
Wow. Lots of information there, lots of things I didn't know about!

Part of me is appalled that a language as icky as Javascript is taking over the world like this. But I'm happy that any language at all is giving us this level of flexibility and standardization.
> I'm perfectly fine with brick-and-mortar houses

Brick is just siding. What's the frame made out of?

You can use wood, you can use steel, you can use concrete with rebar. Those are your only real options.

In the US, you will frequently see 2-3 story houses framed with wood and with a brick siding. I'm in one right now. Anything higher than 3 stories will be done with steel or concrete.

Wood is cheaper than steel and lasts for hundreds of years if properly cared for, which is why it's preferred for smaller residential structures.
Video conferencing is a premium product and a big money maker for them. The hurdle comes from needing someone to monitor the video calls while they are on them. So video calls need active monitoring while voice calls are more passive.
There is something called "Trenchless Technology" that is widely used in Europe but not so much in NA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchless_technology
Uh, not sure what's up with lkml.org -- I see some G+ +1 buttons but no actual text, in both Firefox and Chrome. Presumably the article is this:

https://lwn.net/Articles/637658/

in which case it sounds awesome!
Or, more realistically, he could pay shit all for a domain name (.io, .ly is so last year) 10 usd/month for a VPS, 3% to Stripe (which is criminally high, but there you go) and have access to the global market. He is more likely to get customers and he isn't constrained to change pennies.
On the counter argument: just because there were survivors from .dotcom era or 'RIP times' doesn't mean that there was no bubble.
Investing or startup funding should be buy low sell high at your comfort level.
Yes there will be survivors after all bubbles and good for you if you had picked them all.
Does this mean we get to link the kernel as a shared library?
Ahh GTA Vice City brings up some memories.

Back then, me and my friends in the building started the game at around the same time. We loved discussing the game every morning on the bus to school. Eventually we reached the RC helicopter mission and no one could complete it. After what seemed like forever, I managed to complete it first. Cue loads of awestruck friends and receiving "street cred". And then, I used to visit their homes and complete the mission for them :D

Now that I am nostalgic, I can't help but remember how much fun we had playing RuneScape.
I have used and loved this since it was a project from MIT CSAIL SIMILE (circa 2006).
Imagine the leader car having any kind of issue at all, thus bringing the pack to a stop. The lift would disappear and everyone would fall to the ground. With nets it might be quite a spectacle but still safe!
I have an admin, but it's not the "active" account. It's used only for installing stuff and general maintenance of your computer.

This is not only the proper way to use an admin account, but it's also recommended.

The fact that Folding@home supports only running the software when the admin account is logged in out of the box (there might be a solution to my problem, I just hadn't found it), it's disappointing and problematic.
I wonder if learning to play a woodwind instrument like the recorder or melodica is good exercise for lungs and diaphragm.
Friendly reminder that this will not necessarily build the same code from two different sources with the same AST. For that, you can use:
http://estools.github.io/escodegen/demo/index.html
If this is the case, what causes the light-headedness when you hyperventilate?
I wouldn't be surprised about behavioral responses in wildlife to reduced human activity outdoors. But anything substantial will take time. For example, if some village were abandoned, I'd expect that native plants and animals would move back in, over some years.

I also wouldn't be surprised if 2020 greenhouse emissions were less than in 2019. And indeed, it might take some years to recover the rate of increase.

And perhaps, if PV replaced old dead coal plants, there might be long term emissions reductions. Similarly, if working from home becomes the new norm, that will also cut emissions dramatically.

Even so, the population decrease will be too small, in and of itself, to have much impact.
Well, this got lost in translation. "Cuddling with each other" ("miteinander kuscheln") in this context is a German idiom that means strangers standing really close to each other.
It would make an already dangerous sport even more dangerous. Also, just because it may be theoretically possible it doesn't mean it is practically achievable. Think about what would happen if the driver can't approach the loop that turns the car upside down with enough speed, or within the angle range that's needed for the car to stay on it because of another car, or some problem... Basically any small mistake would be fatal.
Not to mention some serious sampling bias. The reason for stress could be cultural or geographic. To say it's because they're coders is silly.
Replacing undamaged body parts is orders of magnitude easier then replacing something that's been in a crash. Most bumpers or fenders can be removed in under an hour and install time is similar. (Source: I worked at a body shop while I was a teenager and I used to build AutoX/Drift/Rally cars after that) You can charge insurance insane amounts for parts if the value of the car is high enough that it's not going to be a total loss. That "cost" is separate from the actual cost of the parts/labor. Along the same lines MRIs really don't have to cost $10,000 regardless of what your hospital puts on the bill. When you can go to the phone book and get the same MRI for $500 from many sources.. but you're not going to be price shopping when you're in the ER with a broken leg. What's the real market rate?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhN7kPU9rI&feature=relmf...
It's a mix of cultures but heavily tilted towards the culture of the headquarters. I think established businesses like Amazon attract people who fit into the culture of the company -- sure, it's an American company, but it's very different from Oracle or Twitter or Morgan Stanley.
The accenture release is interesting: http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id...

"Transitioning employees, located in China, Finland, India, United Kingdom and the United States, will initially work on Symbian software activities for Nokia. Over time, Accenture and Nokia will seek opportunities to retrain and redeploy transitioned employees."
It may be a bit old, but I just read it, and thought I should share it with all HNers.
Höchschti Zyt gsi zums usefinde :-) ich freu mich uf all Fäll wenn e rechti Gruppe zämechunt.
Air purifier manufacturers use odd shaped filters to force lock-in. Those proprietary filters are also expensive. And of course they're constantly going out of business, since it's consumer electronics, so there's no guarantee at all you can even buy that filter a year from now. (And it's not like the purifier itself is cheap either! The Blue Air purifiers I see people on here talk about start at two hundred bucks. Ten times more than a box fan.)

Furnace filters, on the other hand, are standardized and have many vendors. I wouldn't be surprised to see 20x20 filters still being made a century from now.
> I sometimes drive an US-designed car with, I assume, an US-designed automatic transmission

regular Automatic transmissions (not CVT) have been commoditized and are usually subcontracted out to dedicated vendors that make transmissions and sell them to auto manufacturers all around the world, so the nationality of the car vendor isn't going to tell much about transmission quality.

For example, the largest market share of car automatic transmissions belongs to (Japan based) Aisin, which sells transmissions to Ford, Toyota, BMW, Skoda, Chevrolet, Suzuki, Volvo, Hyundai, and many others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Aisin_transmissions

A lot of the bus and truck transmissions are made by (US-based) Allison and they are sold all over the world and have the largest share in duty engines.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Transmission

There is large variability in perceived transmission quality, depending on everything from how the software controls it to form factor (real wheel or front wheel) to issues of reliability and build quality, but there are excellent US transmission vendors as well.
No you can't. A bid/offer of 0x1/0.05x25 could be what you see (i.e. 25 shares available at the offer price of 0.05 and 0 shares available at 0 - no one wants this shit) on these garbage-quality companies. So there's no one bidding on it.

So you could come in, place a bid at 0.025 and the updated OB would be like 0.025x1/0.05x25. If there's any autoquoters from the adversaries, then ok immediately they might throw some more offers up at like 0.045x100, since the interpretation of some bids coming in means that they can fill the orders at the tighter spread
Have you tried -l or -k?
It's not exactly a case of downloading an India version when you arrive there. In order to do so first you have to register an India App Store account. And in order to do that, you might need an India cell phone number and credit card.
Best strategy with a >10yr timeline is 100% S&P 500 in a free or low cost index fund combined with minimizing taxable income and backdoor ira if applicable.

Then Just about anyone can retire with >=1.5MM and be doing ok. Of course double this number if you are in VHCOL but otherwise it’ll work just about anywhere.
This is as short as I can make my understanding of what you are saying:

A bare git repo is a server side git repo while non-bare is client side.
Obviously this is a bit reductive, but isn't an MS openjdk build essentially C# minus win32 Apis?
Anyone attempted to write a COBOL code generator in a more comfortable language? Or isn‘t code generation the problem, rather the reading/modifying legacy code?
Hey, without cars we would need no lanes.
they should make the new installer magically appear in everyone's dropbox.
That it runs too fast now. I've not heard many complaints about hash functions being too slow recently. It stood out as a not particularly sage comment (to somebody with the benefit of hindsight).
It wasn’t. All this talk of a coop is ridiculous. A bunch of idiots pushed through lacking security and wandered around the building for a short period. No power was seized. Just an angry mob that was allowed to get out of control.
Saved you a click: It's to prevent friendly fire during a shootout.
Tell you what: you give me $100, I'll give you back a cooldude coupon. I have sole discretion as to whether I'll redeem this coupon when you hand it back to me.

Question: Would you say you can redeem this coupon? It's possible I might decide to give you back your money, after all.
Or everything from everybody.

We just don't know.
Burry has been predicting the fall of TSLA for months. On Sep 22 he compared its market cap / total revenue (17.84) and -$69M EBIT to the other top 32 global auto makers (0.35 and $100B EBIT).[1] Even back then the market cap / EBIT of TSLA (-6,353) looked crazy compared to that of the global auto industry w/o TSLA (8.08).

Then Tesla released its 3rd quarter earnings (which moderately surpassed Wall Street's expectations) and the stock has since risen dramatically. Burry's argument that TSLA is overvalued appears cogent based on Sep 22 data and more so today.

Burry deleted hundreds of his tweets from 2020.[2] He should stick to picking stocks. His #FauciFraud nonsense was irresponsible.[3]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20200924024110/https://twitter.co...
[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20200523143011if_/https://twitter...
[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20200410021906if_/https://twitter...
Suppose Bob publicly claims to possess the Sci-Hub db.

Alexandra challenges this publicly by sending a bunch of randomized small "slices" of the db to be hashed.

Bob publicly broadcasts the requested hashes, and Alexandra publicly claims they all match. (Also, assume the hash-checker is publicly available and anyone who dares can use it to check their own copy of the db and verify Bob's hashes.)

If this is the extent of Bob's network activity, can Bob get in trouble in the U.S.?
I am fairly certain the only CRT I ever owned as an adult had 1600 vertical pixels. Basically I've been dealing shorter screens for fifteen years. It's nuts.

Even now, my laptop defaults my 4k display to 1080p Retina mode. So I get 5 more lines of terminal on my old display, but the text is not as easy to read. I get the same number of lines on the new display if I go down one font point, and it's still more legible. But I'd really love to be able to scroll logs in an 180x160 terminal window, instead of 200x75.
Um you can't prove something didn't happen .... when in fact it didn't happen. How is this not common sense. It's not suddenly fraud when the worse president in American history loses an election.
Yeah, writing boring HR software pays a whole lot better than game programming because one brings you joy and the other makes you a nihilist.
You would look even weirder holding one eye level, and rotating the other 90 degrees.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=+%28+x+%2B+y%29+%2F+2+%...
Some AGPS devices cannot determine their own position from a satellite signal, whereas others can as long as they have received an almanac from a server in the recent past. It depends what you mean by "actual GPS". Some implementations are completely incapable of acting in a standalone capacity.
The message I get from his article, is not that "scaling to amazon levels is easy", but "scaling amazon size ideas down to a size where they are easier is possible".

Isn't that part of the startup culture? That simple scaled down approaches are not only credible alternatives to "big business" but are in many ways better alternatives.

Bigger question: how many people have been motivated to try something by this pied piper of the globalized/information age?
> Assisted GPS is better than normal GPS.

Really? My Garmin device can locate itself without entailing the possibility of communicating my position to a third-party. There is no possibility that my checking my position can enable anyone else to know it as well. That's not true with AGPS.

That is one pretty significant way that standalone is superior.
I feel like I should reply with something; but there's not much to reply; your post says it all :)
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I think that's true for the technical crowd, but much less so for the general populace.
Okay, how do you properly install a python environment? I always run into trouble trying to get a project to run with Python and pip. It's either a build failure or just a complete pain to manage the virtualenv.

What's the easiest way to get this running?
I use Lightsail mostly to dodge Route 53 fees, since it comes with DNS management and I have a lot of hosted zones. However I'm also not a business and couldn't care less about the CPU throttling.
Things getting cheaper to produce via efficiency is (a negative) part of inflation. It's not a separate phenomenon.
Which is amusing because Rackspace is now overpriced garbage as far as I can tell, or a wrapper around public cloud.
I remember Linode being hesitant to dip below $20 because the thinking was that it would diminish the quality of support. That thinking was reinforced when you started with $10 (if I recall, it’s been nearly a decade) and we started getting large numbers of refugees burned by experiences with your support organization. Neighboring comments tell me it’s still a problem. We consciously didn’t want to grow $5 fast because we didn’t have capital to throw at any problem that developed. We, the market, not just Linode, also knew competing to the bottom on price largely relegated shared/cpanel/etc hosting to $0.99 commodity status and we weren’t keen to kick off such a war for obvious reasons. (That was quite prescient, looking back from outside in 2021.)

Anyway, yes, you eventually reached a position where you dictated the pricing structure, slightly annoyingly because it was a product that looked remarkably similar to ours (down to the incentivized Linode Library clone that’s getting praise elsewhere in this thread). I wasn’t talking about changes you forced. The entire product top to bottom was referenced against Linode’s work to grow you to a position to force those changes. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. I’m also not going after you for it; I’m only responding to fantastic product idea.

It’s just odd that when competitors would ask me my thoughts on the “Linode clone” at 2011-era conferences that’s something that’s news to you. Is that really not apparent to an executive? If not that you did so, at least that seemingly the entire incumbency, not just Linode, thought so?
Keep in mind this post is lolspeed porn, not a compelling argument against using a GC in your new project. If you're successful enough to have these problems, you can afford to rewrite in anything.
You have to use P3P if you want to set third party cookies (or set cookies from within an iframe) for IE or Safari.
There's a huge problem with the current Wikipedia community being almost outright hostile to new editors. Edits that are either poorly formatted or poorly written are often reverted rather than improved, and the edits of unregistered editors are very likely to be reverted. Mostly, this is due to the desire to fight vandalism, and fairly strong xenophobia.

With tools like huggle, it becomes trivially easy to scan hundreds of edits an hour, and reverting is as easy as pressing 'r'. The problem is, vandal patrolling with huggle is really boring. You're on the lookout for things to revert, and can quite easily misinterpret someone changing a number ("512" to "568") as subtle vandalism. So, someone comes along, fixes a figure that was wrong, and within 1 minute, their change is reverted. It presents a really uninviting face to the uninitiated.

As for xenophobia, the wikipedia community is almost paranoid when it comes to outside influence. This distrust isn't unwarranted, as there have been many instances of various groups plotting to have wikipedia reflect their reality. What this means, however, is that external calls to edit a particular article will likely wind up at AN/I (Administrator's Noticeboard / Incidents, basically where you go to tell on people), and the first thing any new editor would be greeted with would be a notice saying a diplomatic version of "we're on to you".

Policy itself isn't the problem; it's the community. Policy both reflects and shapes community dynamics. However, Wikipedia is a "Jimbotocracy". Jimbo can, has, and will continue to, overrule the community and do whatever he wants, usually in the form of banning / unbanning / stripping or granting of privileges. In addition, ArbCom, the "Supreme Court", if you will, defers to Jimbo. While Jimbo doesn't set policy directly (although he reserves the right to), he does heavily influence it. His views on what policy should be are often taken as passed down from the mountaintop on stone tablet, so it matters what he thinks and why he thinks it.
I also had an Iranian friend.

I would agree with being unreasonable. I have an undying belief in people. If someone says they are going to change the world I believe them. No one else will.
Here is my take on it, if it was your idea and they invested in it they gave you a shot they intended to make money off of their money and your sweat, it did not work out and that is that you have no obligation to them. You both took a risk and it did not work out. That being said, they gave you the capital to take a shot and there are a lot of people that would be very grateful to get that shot.

So it is really contextual, where these guys scraping up their savings and the rent to give you the shot if so they took a bigger risk in investing in your idea than a guy that has several million lying around in the bank. To me that would affect my decision on the subject.

At another level it is kind of strange that they feel entitled to revenue from a new venture with new people who had no commitment to them. It is totally independent other than the fact that you are involved.

For me, if someone bet it all on me by scraping together what they could and I made it on a separate venture, I would try to restore them to where they where before they made an investment in me. Now that is just me, there is no right or wrong here. If it was a professional investor that knew the risk I would tell them to fly a kite. Finally, I would not give them stock if you are doing well and can spare the cash I would pay them back their investment and not a penny more. They have no entitlement to any gain that this company has produces and it actually robs someone that did take a chance on this go round of rewards. Because quite honestly, one of the others like a first employee is far more deserving of those shares than someone who took a chance on an independent venture.

So for me, if the investment was made by someone who took a big risk I would pay them back what they invested, no more. They are not entitled to it and should be extremely thankful for even that.
There is no nickb on the current leader board any longer.
Here is a dump I made sometime ago but just posted. I am torn on what to think. These companies know more about their products than the general public, and thus are more qualified to talk about them, but there's that little cynic in me saying they shouldn't. Take it with a grain of salt because some of them are legit.

http://www.christopherwoodall.com/blog/?x=entry:entry101221-...
Weird to see all this hate in the comments. Ads aren't the devil. More options to paying for something of value is always beneficial.
It's been a long time since my last college English class, but I enjoyed Derek Walcott:

"...I loved them, my children, my wife, my home;

I loved them as poets love the poetry

that kills them, as drowned sailors the sea."

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177932

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Walcott
The most interesting thing about reading these cables is how the US comes out well - reasonable, rational, and analytical - not the nefarious evil satan that it is portrayed by our enemies and domestic extremists. This snapshot of the inner workings of American diplomacy actually make me feel much better about how things are being managed, and should undermine efforts to portray some nasty plot to dominate the world. I don't expect our government to act in international affairs with complete transparency or without ulterior motives, but I do expect that they try to act ultimately for good and that there be minimal self-enrichment. I so far see little evidence of serious breaches here.