jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Whenever I read this I think: It would be cool if sci-fi show writers read this and use it. So they create a bit of a fuss and awareness about the things the sci-fi docters (or engineers?) say, because they base it on real cutting edge science.

Wouldn't it be cooler if Voyager's Holo Dokter would say: "I'm trying a tailocin based anti Nano-probe cocktail" instead of "synaptizine" or something fictional.

I'd be willing to do some consulting for these shows ;)

Who wants to build a site where we can post these ideas and script writers can buy these little cool snippets?
I'm not sure that's exclusive with what I'm proposing but I definitely think that will happen and is happening even now. I'd be kind of okay with that world where the incentive to cure people is that we can extract more productive work years from them. It's kind of cynical but I think there's a lot of good probably to be had there as well and it's a step perhaps in the right direction anyway. Even if it's not that great on the face of it.
Electric bicycles are a thing.
That's great feedback. Thanks! I agree, icons would be helpful and could fit nicely into the aesthetic.

I love that CookingForEngineers site. The original name I had suggested to her was Recipes for Engineers, since that was the vibe the table/nested flow layout gave me, it's cool to see someone else doing a similar thing.
I implemented this by creating a wrapper over buffer struct, are there other ways to control size of buffers or files?
Much harder to do with the tools I have immediately to hand, and much harder to visualise the main results without special tools. The "fingerprint string" gives 90% of the effect with very little effort on my part.

However, I will investigate further the "tree edit distance" to see if I can bootstrap something quickly, just out of interest. Thanks for the reminder.
I wonder if there would be significant power savings if the next generation of web servers were powered by the next generation of ARM cpus (on linux) instead?

28nm, multi-core, faster and more efficient than ATOM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_OMAP#OMAP_5
That doesn't seem consistent with your first post. Overall, would you argue that older engineers do or don't suffer worse outcomes because they require higher pay? Is it the case that employers hire younger engineers instead, or is it the case that in the long run, older engineers get jobs at the higher pay they demand?
While from a purely practical standpoint you are correct, it makes me cringe to read it. I am always reminded of http://xkcd.com/137/
Access Code seems like a perfect program for someone in your situation (basically a 9-month coding bootcamp for folks from underserved groups - it's in Queens, NY - I'm not sure whether you have to be from NYC to apply) http://www.c4q.nyc/accesscode

Does anyone know of any similar programs elsewhere in the country? (Looks like the OP is in Georgia)
First some encouragement. You can totally make it in this industry. I know because I've been in worse situations: http://jeremy.marzhillstudios.com/entries/From-Homeless-to-a... So here are two things to keep in mind.

1. You need to make money somehow. Worst case scenario you go to work at something like LaborReady or Manpower. It's exhausting work but if you show up and put in a little effort you'll always have work. For a little while I was on a request list for companies that used Labor Ready. It doesn't take much to stand out from the crowd there.

2. You need to get exposure. This can happen through Github, OSS projects, and your blog. But most important find your niche. Become an expert in something that there aren't many experts in. I got my first real job because I became expert at Perl at a time when there weren't many people claiming to be experts in Perl. It can be a language, Framework, technology stack, whatever. After you're first full time job though you will gain contacts and a network. You can then play that out into career growth.

Nothing is guaranteed but you have options.
And what makes it hilarious is that the fake moustache is seemingly illegal.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/9wr/my_algorithm_for_beating_procras... i found this article and discussion useful
The problem here is that he set off the explosives detectors. Regardless of what color skin he had or what religion they thought he was, the second he did that, repeatedly, he was in for a lot of questioning.
The point to realize that America is not fucking Israel. We are not under threat the way Israel is. That is a country that is struggling for its existence; in missile range from Iran; surrounded by hostile forces on all sides.

In America, things are different. Sure the borders are porous; sure there is a low probability that the muslim guy down the street is a terrorist, sure there is a possibility that the war of 1812 could be repeated by the Canadians.

However, is the country really going to live its life based on insignificant probabilities? It has been 12+ years since 9/11. Surely, there is a time limit after which this insanity can mellow down.
When cheap hardware acts like it doesn't follow the spec, no one digs too deep, because it's always going to be quite frequent, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's very rare that it turns out to actually have been following the spec, and you had the spec wrong. That's the practical reason.
At this point, I agree with you. Right now it's a score based on a combination of publicly accessible metrics. With that said, I think they are still very early stage and their vision to provide robust growth metrics to the investor community is much needed.

Now, if they can pull it off or not is yet to be seen.
"kickstarter and cohorts getting fees while offering little value."

If a site has a vibrant community with a popular (or even household) name, handles funding transactions, provides a stable experience when you get traffic, and basically lets you worry about the project itself more than the technology of running a crowdfunding campaign, I believe that's worth a 5% cut.

Saying: "Come fund my new project on Kickstarter/IndieGogo/other crowdfunding site" has a lot more trust behind it than saying, "I set up crowdfunding on my own website, donate here."
> When will we say enough is enough and do something about it?

Sadly, much later than most people think. Look at how long things have gone on in history, before people realized how bad it really was. In hindsight, it's easy, but when everyone just seems to be accepting it, it's not so easy. E.g. Germany in the 1930s.
I also started taking Zoloft (50mg once a day) this past year. I've had zero side effects, besides becoming way more mellow and less anxious. It's weird as hell but it's definitely changed my life for the better.

I wish I had started it earlier.
But who gets to decide what "porn" is? If I upload a video talking about my opinions and I'm not wearing a shirt, is that porn? By which community's standard do we say something is "pornographic"? There are certain groups in America that say women showing their ankles is arousing, do we go with their standards?

EDIT, Cont'd:
For that matter, what if the act of sex is the actual message? As in, two people are having sex and they are doing that as a direct message towards some political entity?
We can generally agree, paying $5 for a desk is dumb. Sorry, typo, that's $5k, not $5. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2015/10/01/epa...
The interest on personal loans is also deductible, if used for (a) education, (b) buying a residence, or (c) for business activities of the individual.
The fallacy there is the idea that "one node" does anything useful, rather than optimizing itself in a way that you have _no idea_ what it actually codes for, but at the emergent level, you see it contribute to coding for wing detection, or color detection, or more likely actually seventeen different things that are supposedly unrelated, it just happens to be generating values that somehow contribute to a result for the features the various constellations detect.

(meaning it might also actually cause one or more constellations to perform worse than if it wasn't contributing, and realistically, you'll never know)
I think all entry names in encyclopaedia would fall under collection of facts that is not copyrightable... Same goes for recipes. I don't see how list of words existing and being used would qualify as work under USA copy-right. The entries themselves though are likely in many cases protected, but likely not all.
Why was this comment downvoted? Does GNU/Linux not largely reimplement proprietary Unix?
The parent comment said nothing about being able to go on dates. I don't know where you read that. It could really be Tinder's fault. I've used it over the last few years and while my profile hasn't changed appreciably, I noticed way less success with the app over the past year alone.

As for self-development, I agree with you that men tend to be unwilling to learn a lot of the time. But from what I've seen from women, they also don't really want to learn. It's how people are.

Tinder is, for the most part, heavily reliant on first impressions with regard to looks. If you are a man and you are seeking women on Tinder, you better have your shit together when it comes to that, or you're not going to get anywhere.

This means high-quality photos, clothes, haircut and so on. I'm not saying this is a lot, because dating can be expensive anyway. It's more so that men are not really encouraged to invest in their looks and wardrobe as much as women are.

If you're getting matches and you're not converting them to dates, well, that's another thing entirely.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.”

- Alexander Fraser Tytler
Does the GPDR override the data retention law? I was reading some stuff about VPNs which suggested it might.
I recommend ProtonVPN
If you would link to examples, that would help me understand what you mean.
Authy is absolutely not acceptable for privacy applications like VPNs. Authy stores user information on third-party servers, when there are plenty of 2FA apps that work locally on the user's device.

The fact that Authy refused to delete user accounts (before they were acquired by Twilio), even when they promised to do so in their terms of service, is also very concerning:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9103606

https://web.archive.org/web/20141011062757/authy.com/terms
I guarantee you the drug dealers and smugglers in south east Asia and South American kills more people, and there must be an international organ smuggling business years ago. And we all know officials and local government is behind it. It’s a crime anyway why bother mentioning it over and over again? Is that not a crime in China?
I've never asked fizzbuzz, but I have asked people to count the number of upper-case letters in a c-string. I feel like this is of similar difficulty, for people who claim to know C/C++.

When I asked that question, I was looking for fluency. A candidate shouldn't have to think about it. They should write c >= 'A', instead of floundering because they don't remember the ASCII value of 'A'. If asked, they should be able to iterate over the string without taking strlen first.

This is basic stuff, but you might be surprised how many people with years of software development experience on their resumes can't do it. Moreover, I found that a good performance on this easy question was highly predictive of good performance on harder questions. Not that this didn't stop me from asking hard questions. :)
Set up screensaver to lock mbp
No, I wouldn't consider that alone a great enterprise. It should be determined based on some objective and measurable criteria. Everybody who develops an app is not a great entrepreneur, and everybody who is nice alone is not a great entrepreneur
> folks are on it!

Am I correct in thinking that the cheery use of passive voice means you're under quite a serious NDA?
By far the best part of being a self-employed contractor is never to have to deal with HR, ever. Ever never.

Also remember that HR are not your friends, they don't work for you, they don't understand your job, or you as a person; they work for the company; their job is to:

- make sure the company doesn't overpay for "resources" (a "talent buyer" if you will)

- make sure said resources, once hired, stay in line and don't make waves of any kind, and terminate them as needed, as silently as possible.

We tend to think of HR as an adult version of the nice and benevolent elementary school teacher who first helped us understand the world; the reality is they are more like cops. Bad cops usually.
Relevant xkcd...

http://xkcd.com/1367/
Huh, interesting. This makes me think about domestication of animals: it's not just about us training or imposing our will on animals, but it's also about animals understanding that they can use us as tools, as the article puts it.

I say this in jest, but it sort of makes you wonder about who is using whom. Oftentimes, I notice how pets (esp. cats[0]) are looked after 24/7 by their owners, groomed, given food, shelter, etc. and pretty much do nothing but continuously solicit pleasure. Traditionally, we like to think of animals as serving humans, but in a case like this, isn't the opposite true?

[0] I note that cats are not fully domesticated animals. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/11/man-cat-...
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That's how most companies work. The risk diminishes as the company becomes more established and recruiting becomes easier. Houston wrote the prototype himself and became accepted to Y-Combinator on that platform. Before attending he met Ferdowsi and they went through Y-Combinator and iterated on the design and built a great product, they made the viral Digg video and released to a waitlist of +75,000. Before another employee was hired YC was in the cap table and 7 participants had funded in the seed stage (included sequoia).

I am not sure if the group dynamic functions as peers, in that decisions and features and such are developed by discussion and there is mutual respect. However, I think Houston and Ferdowsi are more responsible for DB success than others and thus have a bigger slice of the Cap table.
wow... this is really a nice coomand
The question they asked is difficult to interpret, i.e. hard to translate between specific answers "I think the top quintile possesses N% of wealth" and an intuitive understanding of how skewed (or not) a distribution we're talking about.

I have a strong quantitative background, and I have to do some calculations to interpret these numbers. And these guys are interviewing average Americans and inviting them to pull numbers out of their ass. Cognitive biases are going to skew these numbers horribly: people will sooner say 80% because it "sounds" like a much more "reasonable" answer than 99.8%, even if a little math would show that it wasn't.

For example, I'd like to see the study done again with people asked the mathematically almost-equivalent question: what do you think is the average wealth of the top (resp. second, etc.) quintile. (Almost-equivalent, because you have to tell the respondents the total amount of U.S. wealth for them to be able to convert one answer to the other.) Without that control I think the results are worthless.
I read an article (or maybe comment somewhere?) once - and sadly, my search-engine-fu is not strong enough today, so I can't link it - that talked about two kinds of depression, two kinds of "beasts".

Once was called black I think. It's the one people think of, when you say depression, and how movies portray it too: sadness, despair and the feeling that everything is bad, and everything ever will be bad.

The other one, however, is supposed to be more tricky. It's gray. It doesn't make you feel sadness or despair or any other thing. It makes everything gray. It makes you numb, it makes you not care about anything at all. The world doesn't do it for you anymore, and if it were to drown, you would not care.

The former is like being hurt. The latter is like being dead. The former is hell, the latter is great endless emptiness.

...

I'm not sure how accurate it is, especially considering how people find it easy to see themselves in text that could be about anyone - see horoscopes and stuff, but I think it's important to know, that depression doesn't have to look like person is sad or anything. I think what you are describing sounds a lot like "grey" depression.
All those "web apps" that were meant to be coming to the desktop and the flurry of excitement when browsers started adding the ability to add shortcuts on the desktop to a "web app" seems to have died down, and with good reason I think! Some people don't want to be sat with a browser open all day. Given that browsers are turning into mini-OSes themselves, it's irritating as they don't fit into the OS window management system easily (like awkward popups/alerts).
> Maybe in really limited embedded systems.

Given the incredible complexity of C++, I would much rather see Rust or Go come to those systems rather than C++.
We have data to contradict this argument: Over 400'000 people have enrolled in an online Scala course with a success rate twice the industry average. "Almost vertical learning curve?" Please!
Additional coverage:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/23/fed-unlim...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-news.ht...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-reserve-announces-major...

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/fed-takes-actio...

https://www.ft.com/content/b71f0c32-6cfb-11ea-89df-41bea0557...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2020/mar/23/market...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-fe...

(Feel free to add others here.)
I missed that.

Then it's an artillery vs artillery battle, and the side with the best artillery wins (ignoring for the moment airspace superiority), which only adds to the point that tanks are mostly obsolete, they're not part of the conversation at all. I do agree that tanks do look cool and that they create more jobs and help preserve more technical know-how in times of peace, but out on today's fronts it looks like they're not as needed as before.
Looks like prefix the id in the ptah with /wc/ and postfix it with /join though if I look at a real Zoom invite with both links it's prefix with /wc/join e.g. https://example.zoom.us/j/<numbers> is https://example.zoom.us/wc/join/<numbers> for the web link.
From what I see here in the Bay area, the social distancing is being followed quite well. Our family has not been within 6 feet of others in the past week, except once in a grocery store where it was unavoidable.

Two days ago in Costco, they were allowing only a certain number of people in the store at any one time.

Libraries, playgrounds have been closed...
I really want to try this out for the specific reason of testing to see cpu performance differences. The MacOS app is a massive CPU abuser with ~50-60% use in meeting or sharing on my iMac 4k, it makes demoing work much slower than reality and makes my work look slower than it even is IRL.
We would be certainly better off without advertising. We don't need people to tell us to buy things to function in society.
I’ve been able to buy flour but no active yeasts!
There is a misinformation epidemic on HN and lots of other places, and part of that has been the use of flu stats to tendentiously argue everything from "the current measures are an overreaction" to "REX-84 FEMA black sites New World Order". It's possible you are mistaking flags on such tendentious claims for flags on raw data presented without interpretation - the latter of which, I'll admit, I haven't really seen anywhere lately.
I don't think this will work well.

If you give them that leeway, they'll claim everything is voluntary.

"Oh, you can go into [random place in settings that changes every week] and disable each one of your anxieties. It will remain disabled for 72 hours"
In 2004, I had a friend who was in the UK on a working holiday visa and didn't want to have a 'normal' job, so he pushed the limits of how cheap he could live. He got a room in a reasonably good part of Bristol for £220/month and managed to live off 70p per day, shopping mostly at Sainsburys. Apart from the soon-to-expire food specials, there was also loaves of white bread for 20p, 2l lemonade for 19p, and rather cheap tinned food.
The only thing that jumps out at me is that the salary field should probably include a pay period. Sometimes it can be ambiguous, especially between a fulltime engineer and parttime support personnel. If you also add support for number of weekly shifts (within a range), you can easily do salary comparisons (important).

While we're on the compensation topic, it would be nice to include sick/vacation days, recuperation etc. Pension/IRA matching should probably also be included.
No, DNSCurve doesn't authenticate DNS records, it only secures integrity and privacy of your requests (and the responses). DNSCurve and DNSSec don't solve the same problem, they're actually complementary.
What makes you think this is not what happens in other languages? A recent article made a pretty good case for Perl being the most productive language ever but I don't see people ditching their current favorite language for Perl.
While adoption of DNSCurve would of course be wonderful for privacy online, it cannot be used right now to provide DNS record authentication. The root and TLD nameservers would need to enable support for it, otherwise you'll always be able to MITM the upstream NS record response and redirect all further queries to your own server. Given the politics involved in DNSSEC, and the current anti-crypto climate, I'd say the chances of a fully-chained DNScurve deployment ever happening are about absolute zero.
I just got one that evolved kneeling to last a few more seconds: http://imgur.com/mii9N8J
Some street vendors in downtown Washington, DC, used to have a sign over their table "Going Out For Business Sale". Whether they were hoping to lure the inattentive, amuse the alert, or both, I don't know.
I have been looking for a game to suggest to my 8 year old nephew. This looks simple enough for him to start on. But I am guessing he might need some help when recursion comes into picture. Thanks to others who have posted other suggestions.
Does anyone know how this compares to `htop`, which is also quite excellent? It sounds like `atop`'s primary advantage is that it records process information in-between screen refreshes?

Cool stuff, either way!
I don't know VirtualBox that well, the instructions in the post are unclear to me and don't work. Could someone elaborate this for VB-dummies like me?

Edit: Especially unclear is “Use an existing virtual hard drive file, the one you downloaded”. How do I do that?
1- Go see an expert.

2-Buy a good quality screen.

3- Adjust the brightness of it so it is always the same of the surroundings, so your eyes do not suffer from constantly adjusting.

4- For every 50 minutes of work, relax 10 minutes. That means closing your eyes if necessary.

5- Exercise regularly. People ignore how important is blood circulation for your eyes.
Very interesting.

As C isn't going away anytime soon, we really need fixes like this one.