jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Akvo Foundation http://akvo.org – Helsinki/Stockholm/Amsterdam/London

Ui Designer / Developer

Akvo builds open source software, which we run as a service. Our services are primarily used to combat poverty in developing countries.

If you are a UI designer / developer with startup experience wanting to contribute to make the world better, please read on!  We are seeking a skilled, self-motivated, pro-active and energetic UI developer / designer with data visualisation sense. Reporting to the lead designer, your primary responsibility will be to create and ensure a consistent, usable, and beautiful UI throughout our software platform, which includes web applications, desktop applications and mobile / tablet applications.  You have to be able to adapt to a fast changing environment where multi-tasking is a must. You will be required to design and develop functional user interfaces as well as keeping the brand consistent across the organisation and a range of different products. (Core and mandatory skills: WordPress, HTML, SASS, CSS, JQUERY)

Being part of a continuously growing team is essential to maintain and improve the quality of our work.  Akvo creates and runs open source internet and mobile services that make it easy to bring international development work online. We focus on project and programme dashboards, reporting, monitoring, evaluation and making data easier to share. Headquartered in Amsterdam, Akvo is a non-profit foundation that works with more than a thousand organisations around the world.  This is a full time position and a team work, so you will be required to be available during normal office hours.

We are looking for someone to be based in Helsinki (primary), London, Stockholm or Amsterdam. You must have a work permit already to work in one of these locations.  Please send your CV along with a cover letter to loic@akvo.org.  Looking forward to hearing from you!
> People working at facebook would love to publish this data, and let other researchers take a look...

Why would they love to do so considering this will end up being detrimental to Facebook's profitability and thus their compensation and/or promotion opportunities?
Signal, Telegram, Threema.
Who says we haven't seen any ? Maybe we're just looking in the wrong places.
There are plenty of reports, paintings, drawings, visions told by people who have been contacted by alien lifeforms, but the scientific community just decides to completely ignore these people, like they don't exist of that they are just telling some fairytales, or labeling these people as crazy.

Think outside the box. If there was an intelligent race of aliens who have invented travel that enabled them to leave their home planets, surely they must have went through some kind of spiritual evolution also not to kill themselves or destroy themselves while inhabiting that planet.

What if, and this is just speculation, this kind of spiritual evolution could also open up whole new possibilities of travel, through time and space, why should they be travelling physically in physical 3D -space, when they could be travelling between time and space, even existing between dimensions.

So we could already have access to these beings and other worlds, but seeing them would not require physical travel, but instead interdimensional travel, through opening up our spiritual side and looking inside ourselves, opening up this possibility for us to travel between dimensions too.

What if we are not seeing them is because we are still so much trying to kill ourselves and other nations, instead of focusing on finding inner peace and spiritual development that would allow us to meet these beings .. ?
"we need the source code to be certain."

The source and a lot of effort, or just a tremendous amount of effort.
As it pertains to "Enterprise" and Python, I think the most interesting project is OpenStack. I don't use OpenStack but it has been interesting that in conversations with Enterprise devs/managers OpenStack has come up several times. It turns out Enterprise is still really skeptical of the public cloud and are going through the efforts of running their own IaaS/PaaS internally. In my experience OpenStack seems to be coming up much more frequently than CloudFoundry.

And for the record, by Enterprise I'm not talking Silicon Valley Enterprises. These are strictly non-tech Enterprises that traditionally view anything software related as a cost center.
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> literally freezes my laptop for seconds

Yep. This has been commented on again and again, but many refuse to show
willingness to fix or even acknowledge the problem:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28092

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17285

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4452

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1064

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/260
It would be nice to see a breakdown of pros/cons for the various languages, the article doesn't really explain why other languages were excluded, it just talks about the benefits of Go. Also, I'd be interested if the same decision was made today, i.e. V8 has different performance characteristics than it did in 2016, and there are interesting ways to reduce/overcome warmup time.
Awesome thanks! I'm still not sure I understand tmux control mode but I have always used mosh and tmux together so I guess I just never noticed.
Delaware isn't business friendly; it's shareholder friendly, which is why investors prefer Delaware incorporation. Of more concern to shareholders than the prospect of big gains is the risk of waste and embezzlement, and preventing that requires transparency and accountability (both literally and figuratively) much greater than required by your typical fraud promoting tax haven.
Maybe they should do as when I learned and reduce the size of the data set.
It depends on whether the party considers your business useful to their rule or helpful in implementing their policies. For example, Wechat, Alipay, etc are all very useful.

Their policy is trickling down gradually.

They recently inserted Commissars into a list of Hong Kong real estate companies. So even non-mainland chinese companies are not immune.
How easy is it to move your profile from Twitter/Instagram to another host ?
The issue is that even if you get the easement, it only has to be to the land below the high tide line. So either way, Khosla would be under no obligation to maintain, or even keep, the current road and parking. As all of the current infrastructure is above the high tide line. That's the essential problem.

Also:

>It's a mockery of public access if the only access is by sea

It's the high tide line that is the marker, not the low tide line. So access is always by land.

The issue is that the current custom is to access via the road and parking above the high tide line. That's what locals are accustomed to, that's what is being taken away by Khosla, and that's what the suit is about.
I don't drive a lot (only a couple dozen kilometers a week), but I live in a sunny area. I'd be happy if my car/truck/atv outside could just charge for "free" outside (big news to me, perhaps not to most) and never have to buy petrol again.
Indeed, it's worth mentioning we still have absolutely no idea how memory works.
heh, would be too fun. the gofer gang is still around if you're all in for text.
This case is about declaration of functions/methods, not variables.
> If you use specialist services to handle customs.

Sounds like the "better use the guy that knows a guy" system.

If you try to do it yourself, suddenly every rule starts to apply.
> It's a great example because this is a case where the majority is obviously the "right" decision to any true code hacker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Have you spoken to any professional language or API designers about this case? Would all "true code hackers" agree that copyright shouldn't apply to software at all?
That is only true in so far as that piece of software is somebodys livelihood or hobby. In many cases, people have rare uses for a portion of piece of software, so they benfit immensly from it being dumb and easy to use.

For example, as a programmer I occasionally need to prepare presentations, in which case I use PowerPoint because that's what the company bought. I use probably less than 1% of what PowerPoint can do, and I wouldnt lose anything at all if I were given a program that did exclusively that 1%. I would in fact gain some productivity by having to browse through fewer options. I have no intention and would gain nothing by becoming a PowerPoint power user.
I think we care about what's acceptable/unacceptable because we need a collective line in the sand for what would be self destructive.

I think if some concepts are not marked as non bargainable, they will eventually be common.

Torture and terror falls in this camp for me. If we agree there are cases it's ok to use them, eventually we'll have a neighbor tortured because of some other thing society abors.
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> someone making the 920375235236th standard CRUD oriented java enterprise site

People always think this when they think CRUD. The reality is, even CRUD can get quite complex. Even just laying out an HTML page properly takes a lot of knowledge. Understanding the 'zen' of CSS. The zen of HTML5. The zen of jQuery. What looks simple on the surface can get very complicated quickly. If you don't respect that complexity, then you'll find it tedious, and won't apply your problem-solving mind to it, won't abstract that difficulty away, and will find it unbelievably painful to maintain and add features to later on down the line.

I'm making what looks on the surface to be standard CRUD. A product info management app. Well, the product data itself are key-value pairs and the design calls for you to be able to edit which keys you're able to put in. So there's no set database schema, and I don't want to do anything like making a two-column table of values that has a zillion rows, so I'm using Postgres Hstore. Now I have to maintain an abstraction layer over that which has gone through a few iterations and might have to withstand a few more.

It makes creating views difficult because you don't know just how big everything's going to be. So I might spend a whole day laying out the list page, diving into the minutiae of CSS rules, thinking carefully about all the different types of data it's supposed to display and deciding where to put certain types of logic so that I can reuse it later if needed.

The thing about CRUD is that to really do it right, you have to also think carefully about the data domain. If you're not building flexibly, which takes up-front time, then when you have to move stuff it's going to feel really painful. I realized that I don't want the ability to add new SKUs to be accessible to normal users, so I moved it into the admin section.

It took five minutes and was as straightforward as it sounds. But if you're not all that great at web dev and/or don't respect the power tools at your disposal, such a move could take all day and introduce subtle bugs in your UX that you won't catch until next week when you're working on something else.

If you really are trying to re-solve a solved problem, like blogging, then don't do any programming at all, just fire up Wordpress. Absolutely solving solved problems again is going to be tedious. But if you're building a CRUD app, and you can't find something interesting about it, then you're not really applying your full mind to it. There's a reason you're being asked to build it, because the functionality they need isn't being offered elsewhere.

I built a vehicle reservation system that was "standard CRUD" but they wanted this dashboard style view that took up half the dev time that I thought was really interesting and turned out great. The rest of the CRUD came out easy, we have lots of tools at our disposal for generating that sort of thing.
Dada, Dada über alles
I used to write, until my edits were regularly reverted by people that had no clue about the subject(s) at hand. I then realized it wasn't worth the effort - I rarely refer to Wikipedia since.
How many of these service members are openly gay?
The modern world is using largely the legal technology that came out of the French Revolution, a combination of: nationalism, democracy (on the surface) and oligarchy (below the surface).

Regarding the American Revolution, it is interesting to note that tax rates immediately after were higher than during British rule. Even George Washington part-took in the centralization of the American state afterwards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion . (The Whiskey Rebellion demonstrated that the new national government had the willingness and ability to suppress violent resistance to its laws.)

Of course, the idea of a centralized state (with imperial ambitions if it has enough power) is thousands of years old.
Which is why no restaurant claims to offer unlimited free bread.

There is no "but". If it were actually true that a small number of users consume so much bandwidth that it causes "tremendous loss of profits", then ISPs should drop the "unlimited bandwidth" claim.

But they want to keep that because it's just so nice for marketing.

What they really want is to claim "unlimited bandwidth" without actually offering it.
I think he grades page 59, #10 too generously (You can see where an hour of my early morning has gone)

"PREDICTION: keys for encrypted communication are
available to government authorities."

Kurzwell gives this a "Correct" - I would suggest that is "Essentially Correct", if not "Partially Correct" - My guess is that he thought Clipper Chip (or some other key escrow variant) was going to take off (he wrote this in the 90s) and that is clearly not the case. Key escrow never went anywhere.

It's not clear to me that the various government have the encryption keys to most encrypted communication - in particular, my understanding with BES (Kurzwell uses RIM key access as a justification of his "Correct") is that encryption is done on the Company's server, and decrypted on the end device. No government access to the keys.

Kurzwell goes on to talk about the "additional layer of virtually unbreakable encryption codes with no third party keys." in #11, but the two predictions, #10 and #11 are somewhat at odds to each other. He's trying to have his cake and eat it as well. "Almost everything is encrypted with keys that are available to the government except for that data which is encrypted with keys not available to the government". He was looking at the trends in clipper chip and made a partially incorrect prediction. He should just admit it - no shame in missing this one - he's still "Essentially correct"
Not sure what you would use these for.

Also, why is Python spelled out normally, but RUBY is spelled like an acronym? And where is Perl?
Pointless. The combinatorial explosion with abusive domain names is vast. Sure, you can buy up foosucks.com, but what about fooreallysucks.com or foosuckshard.com or foo-sucks.com, foosucks.org/net/us/uk/me/mobi etc etc etc?

Also, what does this have to do with wikileaks? They never buy novelty domains like those, except for that collateral murder video, which, as you may have noticed, wasn't posted on thearmysucks.com.
Definitely a good reminder to not buy a dishwasher that look s identical to the cabinet next to it, yes.
I wonder if your comment is on top of Woodrow's because of recent activity on the subthread. It makes sense to bump more recently commented threads to the top, because users are more likely to be looking for new content there.
Just checked my Windows event logs... as I also run a supernode and yup, one Application Error at 2010-12-22 15:51:10 from Skype.

Tech data shows version 5:

Faulting application name: Skype.exe, version: 5.0.0.152, time stamp: 0x4cb31516
Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bdbdf
Exception code: 0xe0fafafa
Fault offset: 0x0000b727
Faulting process id: 0xd20
Faulting application start time: 0x01cba1ea3b70b5ef
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\syswow64\KERNELBASE.dll
Report Id: 4b2781d7-0de3-11e0-bbdc-005056c00008

I didn't upgrade voluntarily.
There's quite a lot of anecdotal evidence in support of both. Lemons for colds are more a relief than a cure according to [1]. The way I tend to look at, people have survived/healed themselves for thousands of years prior to the advent of modern medicine. Some methods are not that effective while many others are even if due to a placebo effect.

A large part of staying healthy I believe is being preventative. Many 'normal' activities can actually be coined as cures to common ailments. Staying active, sleep, eating healthy, not over-eating etc.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/common-cold/in...
Hi. Good question. We actually have both use cases. In the case where we require reliability and guaranteed delivery we publish to multiple nodes and standard channels that persist messages in the case of subscribers disconnecting or overflow in what can't be buffered in memory. In the other case we just publish once and can use ephemeral channels. We scale clusters depending on usage but start with a minimum of 3 and use nsqlookupd to find topics in the cluster. In the case of things that can't handle duplicate deliveries we offload deduping to simple things memcached.
> I seriously don't understand people who take paracetamol and tons of other over the counter stuff for that. When it comes to allergies though...

Isn't that exactly like the grandparent comment's "allergies etc are not too difficult to bear in most circumstances"? I, like you, have bad allergies and I can't live without Singulair+Zyrtec. But...

I've had three colds and one bout of bronchitis this season, and I took OTC meds including painkillers because I had unbearable sinus congestion/pain and headaches each time. I also ended up doubling down on my usual meds for allergies+asthma since that got worse too. Colds aren't all mild with no complications. I don't begrudge people seeking symptom relief.
Posed this question to the creator of NSQ, Matt Reiferson just a few minutes ago. His response https://twitter.com/imsnakes/status/559827559806808069
I can’t say I’ve noticed that - I saw most Tarkovsky movies in the late 80s before I knew about these details.

When it comes to Stalker (which I recently rewatched) I’d imagine the sound would add to the strangeness.
I relate to many of these points as inner thoughts, however it's important to play Devil's advocate and remember that the stars really have to align for your ideas or work to spread and gain recognition. It's not enough to make something great, you also have to communicate about it effectively and other people have to be personally interested in it, too, which is beyond your control. Your best ideas might be useful to you but seen as boring to others. And you shouldn't assume that the reason is that you are ahead of your time. The explanation is probably much simpler. I sometimes think to myself, "I've released a lot of open source code that's really simple and useful and better than any of the alternatives I could find. Why doesn't it get more traction?" In some cases, it very well might if I could get people to just look at the source code, but I struggle to write a compelling README that convinces people to even bother doing so. You have to accept that you might be strong at one part of the process but weak in another. Sure you could be a genius that excels at everything and are so far ahead that no one understands you. But no, you've probably dropped the ball somewhere. Take a step back, examine people's perceptions of your work, and work backwards to fix the roadblocks of success. Love it or hate it, marketing plays a big role here. Even something as simple as having a good logo can double the number of people that pay attention. And don't try to convince people that your algorithms are amazing. Convince them that those algorithms solve their problems.
the Sc-Ti shafts were nice. iirc, the scandium only alloys were more prone to dents or even bending.
How about get your masterpiece working and post a Show HN instead?

(I generally prefer a product to comment on than a plea for customers).
> Yes, we tried that, but they kept creating new coins out of thin air.

At a rate that is targeting low inflation and is geared to maximize employment. Right now it's de-facto paying for a lot of people not getting evicted who can't work through no fault of their own. Where is the problem?

We can argue all day that monetary policy could be improved- I think money creation should on a constitutional level be guaranteed to take the form of universal basic income- but the form of monetary policy that needed to be baked into Bitcoin for it to grow properly is just insane. Give half the wealth to the early adopters, and let the rest of the world serve them- That's not a vision that you can defend on ethics grounds.
however as the pandemic has shown us, we may as a whole starting to realize how much your location doesn't matter in technology jobs which will go a good way to freeing up more space for affordable housing in metropolitan areas.

the real reckoning to come is all these tax authorities looking to make up the losses from the exodus and use of facilities in town. a lot was built up not to just serve the population but to reward political friends by making sure they had the properties and contracts to build and even run businesses in town. that gravy train for the tax coffers and political campaigns won't go down without a fight.

one faster way of building out new housing is not rezoning existing areas of housing but going after areas that are not currently zoned for any housing. especially true are larger commercial districts that have collapsed or seen sufficient change to where most businesses up and left. plus removing the requirements that only union labor can be used will help as well in addition to allow hiring people who need work but are not attractive to union employers (most of these rules were originally put in place in the North stop cheaper labor cost black worker construction companies from getting a foothold - go look it up)
> Why is this always framed as a problem caused by people looking for a place to live?

It would have been hard to win friends or votes if anti-housing people 50 years ago disclosed what segment of "people looking for a place to live" bothered them so much. It's no coincidence that this all starts around the 1968–1974 period: https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-franci...