jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
As a pro, at least, dual booting with Linux is still straighforward. I guess other OSes can't compete there.

I have to admit that otherwise its not all roses in Linuxland. Fedora for example, a couple of versions ago switched their upgrade peocedure to the awful download now, reboot system and wait for updates to complete. Basically upgrades feel like Window upgrades now. Maybe that's the way they want to "force" users to swith to Fedora Silverblue :)
Don’t worry, very serious people are working on life extension technologies. So the generational evolution you are describing will soon be a thing of the past!
I always feel like the problem is very low grade yet pernicious affinity fraud.

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

The current cult of meritocracy tends to make things even worse.
should have added ", mostly empty-superficial noise, by someone who has yet a lot to learn".
Yeah, we had an MAU, but I’d forgotten the term.
Minimum wage laws are unrelated to unions, and prevent corporate rent seeking in welfare states.
Ah, that was the specific part I was responding to in my original comment
You can never be forced to join a union. Federal law forces unions to represent non members. "Right to work" means non members can force them to do it for free. Other states let unions force non members to pay for what the union is forced to provide them.
I don't understand all this whining about recipes sites. I have never had a problem with them and I am using an 8 year old creaky laptop.

And Nigellas' or the Hairybikers sites are not encumbered with adds.
Thanks for checking us out! Any user can invest in any other user's index, as long as it's public.
This is awesome!

Is there a way to get the LaTeX source with the completed calculation (so that you can copy/paste the whole thing in your local LaTeX installation and, well, hand in your homework)? (sort of a "middle" tab)
Thanks for the link, we'll definitely check them out.
One of the few things I like about my 13" MacBook Pro is that it isn't wedge-shaped, and the exterior design minimizes the number of lines and shapes a user sees from the outside. The chassis used in the Framework laptop is busy in comparison. I hope they decide to simplify the external design - this one is too busy, so I won't buy it.

I don't like the way Apple is so user- and programmer-hostile, so the Framework laptop does have that going for it. I'm interested in this concept!
I think you may be right; after all, thinking critically about my story above, I did spend quite a lot of time learning about analytics and quantitative numbers. It could be this gave me an intuitive sense of what works, which I could then apply to the more creative thinking. I don't know. Either way, I'm grateful to make a living the way I do.
DES was abandoned because its key size was too small. It also has a block size that's too small for safety, which is why we don't use Triple DES or Blowfish as bulk ciphers either.

Ever since Biham and Shamir published the differential cryptanalysis, we've known that NSA didn't backdoor DES, but rather helped strengthen it against that attack. Concerns over a backdoor had nothing to do with it.
Psychiatrist may be clever; but they fall for cognitive miser traps continuously when they apply the DSM at too high a frequency.
and how easy is for spammers to remove the "+sitename" from email address?
The original story in Russian, here http://www.svoboda.org/content/article/26913247.html This is a translation.
Does this signal a tech bubble? :) It's like those Bravo shows about flipping houses. Very neat idea.
Fully 100% of the Mailinator users that used our service were doing it to try to take advantage of a generous trial system. That says nothing of those that were trying to DoS the service. And the parent was essentially advocating for hijacking an existing account to avoid going through legitimate channels. If you don't want to abide by the ToS, then take the principled stand and don't use the service. Maybe even let the company know about it.

Plus addressing and filters are free and every email provider I'm aware of has them. If newsletters bother you that much, there are options other than a service designed for abuse.

Doing MX lookups was annoying so we solved our problem another way. We managed to cut out virtually all abuse without appreciably affecting conversion. It just sucks we had to leave behind the few that legitimately wanted to trial without a CC on file (although if they contacted us, we were happy to oblige). And it sucks we had to spend engineering effort trying to deal with abuse, almost all of it originating from a single, well-known provider (Mailinator) -- not the best use of time for a bootstrapped company.

I guess the next stage in this vicious cycle is a service that gives out free credit card numbers that can authorize but can't be charged (or maybe just a stolen CC database).

edit - Clarified some points due to inadvertently submitting early.
You're right, and I hit on that at the end. Problem is twofold:

(1) You get the most by being a very early employee -- like #1 - #5. It's a hockey stick distribution here. The later you get in, the exponentially lower your stake will be.

(2) The most successful startups are outliers.

Getting in that early means you do not have a large team or a long track record to look at when making your decision. The big bucks will come from the coffee shop hobo or ramen-snarfing grad student outfit with 1-3 full time people (all founders), barely any capital, and no track record. People will laugh at you and they're probably right.

Probably.

But if they're wrong, you will laugh more later.

If it has success written all over it, it will look "hot" and "cool." That means there will be a ton of competition for those early positions. You will be edged out by someone with a Magna Cum Smartypants degree from an Ivy League school. It's also probably going to be so capitalized (since it looks "hot") that they'll just skimp on the equity and pay more, which invalidates the thesis here and makes it just a regular job from a purely financial risk/reward perspective. (It still might be worth taking for the experience and fun factor.)

That's why if this is the strategy you want to take you are more or less doing what seed stage angels do. You are looking for feral unicorns that poop unpolished diamonds. If everyone else thinks it's a good investment too, the market will behave "efficiently" and you will not get rich. The market doesn't "want" you or anyone else to be rich. Rich people are outliers.

Google and Facebook are great examples by the way. They both looked stupid: "another search engine?" and "so it's like MySpace and Friendster but with no capital and some Harvard dropout nozzle running it?"

Edit: the reason your equity/stake drops off exponentially the later you get in is precisely because of the stupid unicorn factor. Really early stage companies have to offer you a fatter option package because you're an idiot to work for them and they know it. There is no other way they can compete for talent. If they're successful, those options turn out to be very expensive -- they come out of the founder's equity pool.
Haha this is a great idea. I know angel investing doesn't necessarily work like traditional stock investing but I'm noticing all the companies on the exchange start at the same price. Is this accurate or should they be valued slightly differently from the onset?

Also it would be great to see some more information for each company added to the listings, even some basic details pulled from Crunchbase would be nifty.
It's talking about "productized services". This post explains a bit more: http://knowingwhattosay.com/confessions
Amazon may actually be fair and enforce this legitimately, but I was once burned badly by the promise of "Unlimited Storage." Bluehost offered this, always with an asterisk*, and I assumed it was legitimate. So I tried to upload 20 gigs of home videos and family photos to share with my relatives.

Next thing I know, all of my sites are 404ing, and when I call Bluehost, the tech tells me they shut down my hosting service because I was "abusing their unlimited storage." Then they pointed me to the asterisk that says unlimited storage isn't really unlimited and is whatever they feel like it should be on a case-by-case basis. Then I had to sit there on the phone with them and delete all my recently uploaded files before they would put my websites back online.

caveat emptor
Do you have a citation for the claim that the margin of error for the measurements is larger than the measured difference? That seems unlikely. 0.04 degrees is plenty big for modern scientific instruments.
Well, it's a quick hack for private use, please be gentle.
http://pisets.org.ua/hn
Define "safely". If you write code for a hospital that handles this case poorly, when a premature infant is found abandoned in a toilet, you might end up debugging from the ER.
Unicode is incomplete, and this is the fault of people who it doesn't serve? Developers don't have the right to dictate how people write their names just because they have created a poor implementation.

The best solution is suggested in the other link: apologise for the technical limitations and offer a workaround. Don't demand that the world breaks solely to fit into your technical limitation.
This is a fun game and is very challenging. If you apply yourself you can be successful.

I would highly suggest picking up the book, Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195144708) by Larry Harris. To trade effectively you need to understand how the markets work and this book provides and outstanding tour through the markets, who participates in them, and why they do or don't make money.

There are innumerable ways to make money in the markets. Long term, short term, technical or fundamental, with retail platforms like Ninja or going very sophisticated and connecting directly to an exchange like NASDAQ using native protocols like ITCH and OUCH. Don't let naysayers distract you from your goal--for every naysayer there is always a counter point.

If you want some motivation, read through this IamA at reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9s9d7/iama_100_automat...
I fully agree. Facebook is tied to Microsoft and Yahoo, two sinking ships in the consumer psyche, birds of a feather flock together. I wonder if Apple will ever see the need to parter with a social platform...
Wow that's unbelievable, I thought they had that all worked out as well. What country are you in?
Counterpoints:

1) Javascript is the slowest moving language standard since Common Lisp

2) Node.js is a cool project that is heading very gradually towards adoptability for projects that aren't tech demos

3) JVM is mature enough to support other languages - can't say that about V8 and probably not for some time. JVM languages moving fast and in good/interesting directions.

4) Android

5) JVM startup time not an issue for web services, games, etc - only one-off shell scripts.

6) Memory use. Unless you're running on a mobile platform - who cares?

Projects like Node.js will have a bright future with small agile teams. But no more so than Clojure or Scala. And unlike Node.js, I think Clojure and Scala certainly have the ability to scale up to heavy-lifting tasks that require concurrency, real perf, and mature libraries.

I love JS in the browser. But on the server, I have yet to see anything that convinces me that JavaScript will ever really trump what the JVM offers.
It could have been an oversight, but I think that he also might have been referring to the damage to the ecosystem (i.e. 'natural' as in that it's a disaster that's affecting nature).
In all seriousness if you live in the area and are at all interested please contact me directly if you have any questions. I am not an HR person (Sr. Software Engineer) so you won't get any varnish from me.

(wedmondson@restaurant.com)
I'm not understanding the padding/margin argument. They are separate things.
This is actually one of the insights that I think are pretty common with LSD. Your brain is made up of various subsystems (visual processing, time perception, language interpretation, language generation, motor control, etc.), but subjectively they all seem to be a singular "you" unit.

With LSD it's really demonstrated to you that the "you" part is in some ways separate from some of the other parts but in other ways not separate. It's a feeling and an experience that is very hard to describe to someone who hasn't also experienced it, although I have heard some people have a similar effect with really deep meditative states.

Either way, you're not likely to change into a completely different person after an acid trip. You just think about things a little differently is all, and even that wears off after a while.
To put that in perspective, you synthesize quite a bit more:

"10,000 to 20,000 IU of vitamin D are produced in 30 minutes of whole-body exposure, in the skin of most vertebrate animals, including humans."
as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D#Synthesis_in_the_skin
Forgive me for bringing some political thoughts with me into this thread, but your post really resonated with me and I think you are a perfect example of why we should work towards a basic income. Imagine how many people there are who are just like you, who can't afford to pursue their ideas due to financial or social constraints, yet have the potential to solve global problems (or at least contribute to their solutions). We are wasting so many brilliant minds by forcing them to grind from 9 to 5 in order to support themselves and their families.
It’s better for the designer to know the strengths and weaknesses of the medium rather than the technical nitty-gritty.

As in, random variations in styling through jQuery is fine, but multiple, pinned backgrounds for IE6 is bad. (The designers I work with have it backwards.)
If the headline is not copyable, how would I cite an article in a newspaper? "The second article down in the left-hand column of the front page of The Sun on 2010/11/27?"

Copyright prevents copying the expression of ideas. If an idea is expressible in only one or a few ways, copyright is not appropriate.

The smaller the expression, the fewer ways exist to express the idea.

Where do you draw the line between a "creative" headline, and a headline that just expresses the idea as concisely as possible?

Surely some individual phrases in the article require "a lot of time and creative work" - can those not be quoted elsewhere?

The US Copyright office has this one correct:

"Several categories of material are generally not eligible for federal copyright protection. These include among others:
...
Titles, names, short phrases, and slogans; ..."

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ01.pdf

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I'm struggling to see the usefulness of this technology. If an attacker is within 10 meters, it is simply too late. The average human can cover 10 meters (~30 ft) in 5 seconds or less. Not to mention, detonation of a well designed explosive at 10 meters is still going to severely injure or kill a lot of people.
Early in college I read the first edition of Jeffrey Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions" over the course of a long car trip. Still one of the most literate, humane tech books I've ever come across. Pity that the world hasn't yet heeded his call to bury the word "regexp".
I think it would have had a reinforcing effect if there was an immediately visible change. It may not have been reinforcing something so great, however.
What I meant was: a list of the suggestions avalaible without buying it
On reddit, I'm seeing people hoard coins because they believe the metal it is made of is more valueable than the currency it represents.
+1 to pressure cooker for a few mins + cold water bath. I tried all the tricks normally stated for hard boiling eggs, and always had half the eggs just refusing to come out of their shell. 100% of the time with my instant pot they just slip out of the shell.
How many healthcare workers get literally murdered on the job? Anyone that's had been a cop for more than a couple of years will personally know a colleague that was murdered at work. Not to mention the constant number of victims they will encounter. Outside of certain fields most healthcare workers aren't dealing with dead and dieing patients everyday. For many cops in some cities there are multiple fatality call per shift.
You are measure a 3d projection on a 2d plane. There has to be distortion somewhere. Most likely they use the mercator projection which has places further from the equator appear bigger than the ones near the equator.
exploding batteries, Mission Impossible style :D
Sometimes the simplest idea seems like the best solution. Perhaps not having the entire container in my desk drawer (half open) is not the solution.
Try:
http://www.ct.gov/csc/lib/csc/pendingproceeds/docket_409/inl...

I found it as one of many papers by Frey at:
http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/?page_id=594
Absolutely. The Millenials are like the Silent Generation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation
As I understand it if security is done correctly then "stealing bitcoins" amounts to breaking strong cryptography. At this point nothing indicates that the elliptic curves or the cryptographic hashes (SHA-256, RIPEMD-160) used in Bitcoin are at risk.

Under the assumption that the crypto used in Bitcoin is safe, there's, for example, nothing an attacker can do to spend the coins in offline wallets. Not even a 50%+1 attack that'd be sustained for days...

If anything, the recent fiasco with Gox (which is more than shaddy) gives me lots and lots of confidence in Coinbase to do "the right thing".

Now I'm not saying they'll never get pirated or anything like that. But Bitcoin implemented correctly seems to be very safe and there are many people out there who have bitcoins which are "sleeping" safely on offline wallets in deep cold storage.

Most people holding bitcoins and most companies like Coinbase only need a fraction of their bitcoins "online" to be able to operate. And even for those bitcoins I take it Coinbase is taking security very seriously.
In my experience, it really is down to lifestyle choices. I've never been really overweight; the closest I've come is about 200lb (90kg), but I also had a 40in (100cm) waist. What helped is I did diet, then I got a septoplasty for borderline sleep apnea, then I joined a volunteer search and rescue organization in which I hiked every weekend. No special diets (just calorie restriction), no special workouts (just hiking in the mountains regularly).

I inherit high cholesterol (above 220 at one point), but I've managed to lower it through diet alone by drinking a lot of fruit juice (but I also have to watch out for diabetes . . . ), and I've also got it lower through very heavy exercise alone (but I also have to watch out for skeletal/joint injuries . . . ).

As I've gotten older, I've noticed more and more that what I eat has a noticeable effect on my mood, alertness and just physical feeling of well-being. I've also noticed that every time I exercise now, I feel really good afterwords.

I don't think that diet and exercise are a panacea, but they could at least go a very long way to alleviating symptoms and preventing illness. I also think there is way too much pseudoscience and BS going on around exercise and diet that it makes it that much harder, and a lot of programs (high intensity workouts like CrossFit and exclusionary diets like Paleo) are completely irresponsible and very likely worse for people in the long run. It also doesn't help that most of these programs are faddish and very dogmatic, with no tests to back them up.
Perhaps rather than a simple geo-fence, you have to physically trace an unlock pattern (visit a pre-determined set of locations in a specific order).

The only problem is that if you KNOW how to unlock the devices, you're required to unlock them. So really, you have to NOT know how to do the unlock (geo-fencing doesn't help--you'd be expected to tell them about the fence and how to pass).

The point of the third-party 2FA is that you can tell them exactly what has to be done.
Well if you treat light like an object (if you consider its particle like properties), and deform space-time between the components (or more like deform space-time around the light, so it is of regardless where the components are in euclidean space), wouldn't that theoretically achieve the same thing as making light "move" faster between the components?

Though the way I envision that the components would have be connected by or lie in some kind of vacuum. I mean, these have to be the in the family of tests NASA will have to be conducting on particles before "moving" ships through free space becomes some kind of reality, right?
I'm not super keen on that either, but if Assange's statements are truthful (and compared to the average person involved with politics he's ... err ... not exactly known for dishonesty) then the fact remains it never influenced the Greens and the media coverage of this issue is completely out of proportion. In addition, the individual state party candidate should be the one queried on the decision, not Assange or the national Wikileaks Party effort. Ideal situation? No. Still the strongest player for enforcing useful and transparent decision making in Australian political systems? Yes. Of course, they will learn from this media storm for next time.
i once needed a job so bad and was asked to solve a Rails challenge. i never did Rails before but i learned it and solved the challenge in a week. i also thoroughly documented my learning process and decisions. However i was rejected for being too fresh which i understood, i learned a lot during that week and even though i didn't get the job i feel that i achieved something. so i also don't see how you can lose with a contract-to-hire approach.
If you get nervous under the pressure of an interview - how will you react when $CriticalSystem breaks during $BusyPeriod?

Do I want to hire a person who is great when things are going well but who goes to pieces under pressure?

Learning how to be interviewed is as useful a skill as learning how to code.
My current company does this. It seems to work pretty well, but it has some of the same problems as other methods. In particular, the standards applied to the solution vary greatly from "Does it work and run at most 40x slower than expected?" to "It heap-allocates things that could be stack-allocated, so we should pass".
> 2. Communication and publication can’t be censored. Wikileaks, the Arab Spring, and Snowden’s revelations all depend on governments being unable to prevent mass dissemination of information.

I'm a little scared that if things are allowed to continue, the NSA will get such deep level access to the web, that they will be able to censor information anywhere, in real time. They already say they want to be the "anti-virus of the Internet" or something along those lines. If they will ever be able to do what they claim now, then they'll probably be able to censor information, too.

I don't know if they actually have that capability or not, but at least that's what they say when they lobby the government for new laws and bigger budgets.

So think about what happened in DoD, where they said employees can't read TheGuardian because their computers don't have the clearance level required to learn about those things. Now extend that to the world (given that they have the capability).

How hard would it be for them to say "sorry, world Internet users - you don't have the required clearance level to view those leaked documents", and censor the information for everyone. What happened with the Snowden leaks now, simply won't be possible anymore in the future, if their power over the Internet becomes that great.
Well, my wife would have. But she was born and raised on the other side of the Berlin wall.
Online drug sales from sites like silk road, for one.
It would be even nicer if the mainline version of Minecraft would adopt the Python API they implemented for the Pi edition.
Picobsd maybe?