jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps the author is in an alternate universe.

Unlike what the author thinks linkedin revenue isn't largely fueled by recruiter business. It is driven by where he thinks they are weak: linkedin marketing solutions, or in friendlier words "feed interactions". See the most recent microsoft earnings report:

https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https://c....

And unlike what the author thinks linkedin navigated the current climate around social networks pretty well. Not only they've succeeded in keeping the network out of the political environment, and showed strong growth in user base and engagement (see above report), they also ranked as the most trusted social network consistently according to Business Insider Digital Trust study:

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-digital-trust-study-from-...

I'm not going to argue the author does not have valid points, but the main argument doesn't connect with actual results.
You're trying to convict a gun for the murder, instead of the person who pulled the trigger. The Fed is just a tool in the hands of the <1% who control the economy. If it was against their interests, the Fed would not even exist in the first place. The Fed policies are directed at stealing from the poor/middle class and syphoning the profits to the very upper echelons of capital owners.
I mean this absolutely no thesis and it's money I can lose but been invest in companies that have solid, quality documentation.

As one of them cloudflare's done me a solid so far.
This 100%. Don't waste time on linkedin. Online networking? Sounds like BS, sounds like another self help book, or some dumb TedX talk that says you aren't successful because you cross your legs when you sit. It's all nonsense and BS.

There's a sector of society that is conned into believing the white collar koolaid and LinkedIn is the social network for that. Anyone who's really doing anything doesn't spend time there, ime.
I want to switch away from Python, at least for personal projects. I want to broaden my range, experiment with weird paradigms (Raku) or get code that’s a little faster (eg Rust).

The problem is that I use Python as a “glue language” and heavily rely on excellent third party libraries. I don’t want to learn how to write a minimum spanning theorem algorithm; I’m used to have it next to several other convenient graph utilities in networkx. There’s so much stuff for Python — where else will you find something like giotto-tda?

I’m not gloating about Python, I feel stuck.
No, I am saying when designing a new system their isn’t an automatic processes to discover faults.
I've almost every big data processing system out there and Spark causes no more pain than any other. Less than most. It's also a data processing system not a library so if you're integrating it into existing code (rather than writing code for it and running code on top of it) I'd argue you're doing it wrong.
Ugh...

> Having to translate a read or write operation into a specialized, picky, verbose, and often confusing language

Another "SQL is hard" post. Its better to use general purpose or non-data oriented languages to work with data?

> only to have it most certainly be translated once again by the database server to do the work, seemed inefficient to say the least.

The author talks about programming in Ruby. An interpreted language. Of course all code is translated (interpreters, compilers, JIT).
You still don’t get it. The original poster uses gift cards going for higher than face value on eBay as evidence of money laundering. I am pointing out that on eBay there is a demand for gift cards from buyers whose payment method is accepted by eBay but not accepted by gift card vendor. Those buyers may be located elsewhere in the world but want to use that vendor’s content or services, so they buy gift cards and use them as primary way of payment. eBay sellers respond to that demand by setting higher prices for gift cards.
What is the worst that could happen due to this change?

Watching adult content isn't really something that "filthy perverts" do, nor is it considered as such thing.

If someone with access to that data (IPS, government, etc) wanted to know whether you watch porn or not they could just look at your web history.
This is a very specific corner case, which doesn't justify the default settings
An interesting side-effect of this change in warrant law would be that domestic law enforcement would be authorized to access, remotely (and possibly destructively, since it can be hard to tell precisely how a remote machine is configured), machines that are not physically located in U.S. jurisdiction, since the anonymizing proxies can make geographical origin hard to figure out.

I imagine this interpretation of the law works until and unless a major government declares that tampering with their citizens' private property without the citizens' consent while it is housed within the government's sovereign territory is tantamount to an act of war. But practically speaking, that scenario is unlikely (from any nation with enough firepower for the U.S. to care).
I like it. i rarely read yelp reviews. i prefer the aggregate score(stars). i would prefer apple made their own system which accounted for 'device+number+ itunes id per vote' so i know there is some mitigation against fraud reviews and stars because it will map to a person.
There couldn't be four more lists to add?

A-he-he-he-he.
That's not really what Hacker News is for...why don't you go to http://stackoverflow.com and ask there?
Do you think anyone in the review http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920010180#reviews
downloaded the sample code and compiled any one of the projects with Xcode 4 or 3.2 with iOS SDK 4.x?
I am wondering how someone who does not even try to compile the sample codes posts their review to a programming book? I don't think they even understand Objective-C.

The configuration of all the projects are mess, so you have to reconfigure all the projects to compile.
I hope this problem to be fixed ASAP.

Thanks,
> In a off-the-shelf service like Amazon, you as a customer are welcome to suggest a change of penalty to your Amazon account manager, and unless you're something like the US government, you will probably be directed to other cloud providers or your own internal IT organisation!

What that suggests to me, is that the time has arrived for an external organization, one that sells loss-of-business protection against such failures, needs to become involved. Such an organization, should enough cloud customers subscribe to it, would become an influence upon services like AWS. I'm not sure I 'like' this idea, but the premise that a customer is using the cloud service at the whim of whatever the provider decides is best practice needs to be revisited.
I've used your brilliant XML-RPC in one of my consulting assignments. Thanks.
Never, but I only upvote 2 or 3 stories a day. Comments, I'll admit I occasionally upvote them before finishing them if they make a very good point in the first half. Occasionally I've wanted to take it back because they made a completely unnecessary snarky remark at the end of it, but not often.

However, that does lead me to point out that I think the upvote/downvote arrows and the user's name should be at the bottom of a comment instead of the top.
"Don't use this to cheat" - how quaint. There was once a time when there was an economics of scarcity in information...
If you want to add them: https://github.com/codejoust/codetyper
I just haven't had time since I wrote it.
(easter eggs: tab key + pressing enter twice).
Thanks for the heads up, i'll give that a go :)
That is true, but I really wasn’t able to get from the article what exactly someone could do with just my name and number beyond calling me while knowing my name in an attempt to scam me.
I just love this:

> “The copper of mine, give it to Nigga-Nanna – good copper, in order that my heart shall not be troubled.”

> “May Samas bless your life. ... In order that your heart shall not be troubled, give good copper to him.”

“May your heart not be troubled..” It’s just a small sample of letters, but it seems people from 4000 years ago had better empathy than us.

Why do we not show each other this kind of courtesy any more? Why do most of our interactions today seek to upset someone or become upset instead of seeking accord?
Sakharov wasn't persecuted for his scientific views. Just because he became an anti-Communist (and a pretty crazy one).
A floating point number with an infinitely sized mantissa could represent it exactly, which would require infinite memory.
Well For China it’s far from shit unfortunately. For one thing those can afford going abroad are still pretty much top 15% in big cities, definitely top 1% of entire population (ok that number is way too big). I can safely tell you dictatorship doesn’t affect those people that much. Also China has seen 800X increase in middle class over the last 20 years, it’s hard to convince us that the government is shit
https://www.nist.gov/pml/weights-and-measures/us-retail-pric...

Some states, yes, even for a minor glitch in pricing.
> Example: Let's say that, for whatever reason, you have a vector struct containing 3 doubles, and another 64 bits of arbitrary data. Now, if you want to add those vectors together, keeping the arbitrary data of one element

What? That's just a _mm256_setzero_pd (set the whole register to zero), _mm256_maskload_pd (load the 3 doubles, ignoring the 4th load), and then _mm256_add_pd (4x double-precision add).

For more details: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...

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AVX had mask instructions, but they took up all 256-bits. AVX512 mask instructions are exciting because they only use 1-bit per mask. A 64-bit mask can cover 64-bytes (aka: 512-bits) of masking.
Maybe just worry about getting amazon to pay taxes in general first.
Example:

Every single ad on facebook (and every single other social media business) should be in a searchable database along with the targeting purchased and all the statistics on the number of times seen and all demographic information available to aid the targeting.

It's a regulation. Is it a good one? The idea behind it is so that lies cannot be /broadcast/ in secret. That the Nazi party could broadcast inflamitory lies targeted at the mentally infirm by paying social media companies, ie facebook, to do it, in secret, while remaining anonymous is a problem.

Facebook's own policies as the dominant player are offering zero part of any solution other than to increase their share of the advertising spend. Really. Total focus of all their policy is just that. At the expense of, well who exactly?

Television is regulated. Newspapers are regulated. Radio is regulated. Secret facebook broadcasts are not. This is better because it makes facebook more money and worse in every other way we can imagine and some we haven't yet.

Good to see everybody declaring their interests in this thread though!
Wait a second, granted you may not have expected to be charged $700, but why have a doctor do something so simple? Why not just do it yourself or have a friend with tweezers do it?
Speaking as someone who lived through this period during the formative years of my programming career, the author has completely missed the most influential language of the time and, in my mind at least, the number reason why Perl lost.

Yes, I'm talking about Java. It's easy to hate now, but Java back then replaced all the server-side Perl programming that I did in the space of about 3 years, from 1994 where CGI programming was king to 1995 and the applets craze to 1999 when I was still regularly having conversations with people about the benefits of Java vs Perl to 2001 when you were actively hurting your career by not learning Java (not least because it seemed like the only people hiring were doing enterprise Java with horrible things like EJB and CMP/BMP).

Why did Java beat Perl? Well, there's a lot to that -- but at least part of it has to do with that fact that Java was simpler and didn't have nearly as many tricks up its sleeves (also known as the write-only problem). This is similar to the argument people today make when picking Go over other options like Scala. I also don't think it hurt that Java came out of Sun, which on the one hand was extremely influential because they sold the hardware everyone with money used, but on the other wasn't influential at all because they were "big iron" to the web's "why would I buy a Sparcstation when I can just put a PC under my desk?"

Fundamentally, though, Java was very successful at becoming the language you wrote code in if you wanted to be taken seriously as a software engineer building web applications and you didn't already have 5+ years of C++ experience. Perl programmers didn't get the same respect, and so Perl died.
I bought some themes directly from them last month. I did it a little because of the support, but mostly it was because I wanted to help a company I believed in that was creating something I like.
It doesn't seem at all clear to me that it was "spin" when there were cases of floor mats getting caught under the pedal, incidents of driver error, and physical problems.

It also is striking that the analysis could not provide an example of a single error condition that would cause the crash scenario. It's only a high level analysis.
"The second report (rapport complÈmentaire d'activitÈs 1999) deals with the ECHELON system
in much greater detail. It gives a view on the STOA study and devotes one section to explaining
the technical and legal background to telecommunications monitoring. It concludes that
ECHELON does in fact exist and is also in a position to listen in to all information carried by
satellite."

"According to a former employee, NSA had by 1995 installed "sniffer" software to collect such traffic at nine major Internet exchange points (IXPs). The first two such sites identified, FIX East and FIX West, are operated by US government agencies. They are closely linked to nearby commercial locations, MAE East and MAE West (see table). Three other sites listed were Network Access Points originally developed by the US National Science Foundation to provide the US Internet with its initial "backbone"."

"...leading US Internet and telecommunications company had contracted with NSA to develop software to capture Internet data of interest, and that deals had been struck with the leading manufacturers Microsoft, Lotus, and Netscape to alter their products for foreign use. The latter allegation has proven correct (see technical annexe). Providing such features would make little sense unless NSA had also arranged general access to Internet traffic."

This is from the EU Parliamentary reports compiled in the mid to late 90's. You can find that and much more in the EU online library under "Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System" and the SOTA reports...

Again not saying it's OK, but FFS this has been going on for a LONG LONG time, people really need to get some perspective and focus on what actually matters. The NSA won't stop "spying" it's what they are for, who and how actively they are doing it should be the main issue here.

On the PS part, well duh, the numbers are completely irrelevant it as was the arbitrary statistic about being in a train accidents vs terrorism.
Bring up a dumb point get a dumber reprisal...
SpaceX and Telsa Motors are both exciting companies, and both founded/run by the same person.
True! Although the methods I'm proposing would capture those, too. (Without quantifying connections and family, the reason why wouldn't be captured, but the difference itself would be.)
> HTML, XML, and ZIP files aren't going anywhere (or there'll be a collapse of society so thorough that print books are unlikely to survive, either)

I strongly disagree. The amount of technical overhead required to render a simple HTML page, or to even read XML from some storage medium, is immense. Even if you store this on tape, you need a tape machine to read the bits, a computer to automatically translate these bits into characters (according to an obscure translation table which is stored also digitally, someplace else), and then you need a parser, a renderer, a display or a printer to even get close to the possibility for a human to read it. For all of that, you not only need electricity, but the devices required are usually broken after a few decades, and manufacturing them requires a technical overhead (and also an amount of electricity) orders of magnitude larger than simply using them, not to mention all the raw materials required to produce a display, a CPU, etc, which may simply be unavailable to future generations.

Now imagine humankind after a complete societal collapse. Culture A finds, in some basement that survived the apocalypse, a collection of basic medical books. Culture B finds, in another basement, a hard disk containing Wikipedia. Which culture is more likely to survive?
I know this is primarily a forum for American capitalists, but am I the only person here who would feel utterly ashamed of myself for spending 70 million dollars on a house? I'd feel outright embarrassed to admit it to any of my friends. The good you could do with that sort of money... And then to just blow it on a house.
If markets are conversations, then why do we allow basically a single company (incidentally Google) to moderate all these conversations?
I've only read a couple of pages of the tutorial over my lunch break but it reads well, looking forward to finding some time to dig through the rest of it.
actually both projects are still online on github.

https://github.com/cn-nytimes

https://github.com/greatfire
Thanks! Yeah, that's the idea. Sounds like the pricing table could use a little work.
Aren't most commercial payloads insured by third party insurers? Why is the Air Force unable to do that?
>The court skirted that question, and instead focused on whether it was fair use

Because the federal courts already ruled that APIs are eligible for copyright [0].

Google wanted to overturn the ruling that they were in violation of copyright and argued they used Java's APIs fairly under copyright law.

The court will not answer questions not put to it, and Google (I presume) felt they had a better shot at getting the court to agree it was fair usage, rather than arguing copyright should not apply here.

0: https://www.paleudislaw.com/federal-circuit-rules-that-apis-...
That was a great and satisfying response.
Transparency. There's a lot of important shit going on without public's approval. Do you want to live in a world where important things are decided by a bunch of corrupt politicians with no oversight?
If I had brain cancer and had a book to write, I would almost certainly err on the side of brevity.
My personal opinion is to "open-source" (or, more technically correct, free) it.

If I say anymore, I'll get DNed. :)
It's not really "in" the browser. It's more try Node.js using the browser.

That said, they've done a sterling job of it.
Lucky you. I live in a top-floor apartment so don't have the luxury of a garden and I'm isolated by myself as I live alone.

It's not the same for everyone.
Maybe you're hung up on what "boring" means? That could be really life fulfilling things like connecting with friends, trying hard at work, financial planning, relaxing, etc.
My employer sold their office because they were saving so much money having everyone work from home
I edited the title again to not confuse popularity with TIOBE ranking.
Does this breach only affect users in the EU, or also in the US?
'protection for moderates or conservative' I see this opined frequently, but what specific views are in need of protection here? Real question because it usually seems like a smoke screen for troubling or racist views.
I follow boglehead strategy. I’m riding this down and will ride it up. It’s an interesting ride but I’m not going to try and time anything. Still investing 70/30 s&p and bonds every 2 weeks. I’ve got lots of time left though (age 35). Time will tell if it was the right call!
I'm on an iPhone but I did anyways.

Here's the link - http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2838-were-relocating-everyone...

Look at the date - April 1st.

Context.Context. Context.
If it has been used by millions users, it cannot be bad code on every front. For example, maybe the architecture sucks, etc... but this came after you already had many users, so you could not change it easily: that's inherent to most projects out there, and the ability to deal with it is one of the most valuable skill you could look for in a prospect hire.
I'd like to see more content producers adopt this model. As a long time TWiST fan, I gladly donated.

I actually wrote a short blog post about this model and twistlist.co a few hours ago: http://ryanhoover.me/post/4768633874/please-take-my-money-mr... /unashamedplug
What does it matter if your interest is common for people with your background or not? I would be just as happy if I knew I were the only one in the world that was interested in something, or if I were one of millions with the same interest. Trust yourself and your own mind.

Having said that, I know or have heard of several people that have gone from EE/CS into neuroscience. One of my friends is a programmer and EE graduate like you. He spent quite a bit of time studying neuroscience and taking biology/chemistry prereqs as a grad student recently. Jeff Hawkins (Palm, Numenta, wrote a book called On Intelligence) is yet another person that fits the pattern. Does this mean anything important? I don't think so, unless you're contemplating changing careers. I think it's just that this is a relatively new but promising field (I know it's over a century old, but bear with me), just like molecular biology was the hot thing to get into during the 50s if you were into physics.
I think this is because some people run on "manager time" and they like being able to poke in every hour or so just to check up, or bug you with something different that's so urgent it just popped up.
Because the citizenry are complacent. 60 years ago, my grandfather would've led the charge to hang these traitors from the nearest convenient lamp-post. Now, I'm too busy waiting for the next American Idol to be bothered with the whole messy business. Vote from the rooftops, its our only hope.
Imagine all the things that are as of yet unknown that we will miss. This dwarfs the knowable to infinity.
Children own many iPads and iPod Touch devices. Most of them have cheaper cell phones than iPhones (or no cell phone).
Pretty crazy, and a great argument for device-level encryption on mobile. I really hope someone gets it together and exposes Linux's encryption support on Android devices. I think it'd be pretty difficult to grab the key from memory with a device like that, but you should be able to turn the device off or pull the battery when you get stopped anyway if that's a concern.
Reminds me of Umberto Eco's response when asked why he kept such a vast library and how many had he read: He responded (paraphrasing) that "the key wasn't how much I've read, but how much I've yet to read and learn".

As far as I'm concerned abundance is great because there's just so much to learn and be surprised by in the world!
Incidentally, D.J. Bernstein argues that hashing an additional randomness source sometimes _can_ hurt: http://blog.cr.yp.to/20140205-entropy.html

I guess it would be difficult in practice to make a malicious hardware randomness source, but it's an interesting perspective; to have confidence in your algorithm you should carefully restrict where the randomness enters it.