jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Men have been trending towards specialization ever since we started seriously urbanizing. Specialization is important when you need a greater depth of understanding in one (usually) narrow field. Assuming that you have a maximum amount of "skill" or "talent", it then behooves you to distribute that in the most optimal fashion, within that context.

All that means is this: when you have a larger, more diverse, population base, specialization can be afforded. My corporate office has an employee dedicated to shipping and receiving FedEx packages. But the underlying structure can support that, because we have many analysts, etc.

Being a specialist is just different than a generalist. Do what fits you best. I know I like dabbling in a lot of different things (was a double major, English and CS, in college), so being a generalist works to my strengths. However, I know people who only like their narrow view, but like to know how deep the rabbit hole goes.

Also, some fields require specialization. Working crypto implementations? You'd better be damned specialized. But starting a company requires so many different types of work, that you pretty much have to be a generalist to succeed (or else have 15 people as co-founders who can immediately specialize).

One other thing -- even when there is a group of specialists, you need generalists to bring them together. All things being equal, I would probably prefer a team of generalists for a cofounding team (say, 2-3 people) versus a team of specialists.
I see. The screencast on their website made it seem very fast (which it may have been on a beefier machine than mine?), so I was surprised.
Makes sense. I think it’s harder as a remote manager to have a consistent pulse in how your team is really feeling.
We can and act that way... Unfortunately, for most people on earth their CO2 consumption will have to go up significantly for them to have an improved quality of life.

The large swath of population that doesn't believe in global warming is far less important than the large swath that is anti-nuclear. China, India, etc will need substantial energy to improve their quality of life and their populations are so large relatively to that of the West that marginal improvements in the Wests consumption will have little effect.
The point is, we don't really see a path to enough wind + appropriate storage in order to have a carbon neutral grid... but France performed the transition to a nearly-carbon neutral grid decades ago with nuclear, and the fully-amortized cost of French electricity isn't that bad.
He died less than a year after this article was written.
Thanks. That is a nice article.
+1 "generalist experience in n-tier web apps, likes to learn new things, and is active in the development community".

We're a small (5) dev team at the moment and most of us fit your profile. My big requirement is that you are scrappy and can complete a task without requirement too much help from everyone else.

Let me know if that makes the requirements a bit clearer.
Nicely put, it's better than the original quote!
Our premise is that Twitter is an amazing place to get human-filtered, socially-relevant content but there's a lot of noise. As of right now, our articles are just listed in reverse chronological order by tweet time, so there's not too much of a relevancy engine in place. However, we want the app to be as relevant as possible.

Basically, we don't have much relevancy secret sauce yet - but we're looking to develop some soon. :)
>we're not aware of anybody having been affected by these theoretical vulnerabilities. on the flip side, we have (literally) saved thousands of college kids from losing their theses

I like the idea of what your service does, but this statement just advertizes the success of one feature to back up the failings of another.

If you just want to offer file storage, just set up an http-only svn server and be done with it.

If you want to offer proper encryption, do so, or don't say that you do.
the alligator is hungry, he wants to eat the bigger number.
Download link: http://qsapp.com/download.php
It does not treat it as an illegal instruction. It keeps running their code just fine. This is how Imps fight.

The most basic imp is defined as

mov 0 1

It copies itself to one instruction ahead of itself. On the off chance it hits the opponents pointer, the opponent becomes an imp too and they both just circle around the core forever.

See elwin's comment below on vampires (for now, hopefully above soon).
thank you so much for replying
Facebook, Twitter and the rest shouldn't act like arbiters of truth. I think this is just plain wrong and a slippery slope for the entire industry.
I also live in the UK, but I have never used WhatsApp.

People's requirements and experiences differ greatly. WhatsApp may be essential to you, but it's not essential to everyone.
It's still on the front page of HN. Forcing people to allow data to go to Facebook if you use Whatsapp.
Others who are happy with the gains they have made, and think it's too risky to keep holding. I've got a friend who sold his bitcoin recently to buy a house.

Unlike companies which have revenue as a marker, the bitcoin price seems very speculative, and if you think others might sell at 40k, you might do the same.
A state actor. Likely China or Russia.
Combine your static site with intercooler.js or Htmx.
How you reached this conclusion is flabbergasting.
Research totalitarianism - at least it’s definition.
Why close? Just setup Matrix with bridges. I have mine bridges to Messenger, Hangouts, Telegram and I'm working on getting my Twilio bridge so it can do SMS too:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/matrix-one-chat-protocol-to-r...
Asian and especially Chinese car companies will eventually destroy American and European car companies just like they did with electronics. Nowadays everybody use electronics made by Samsung, LG and Panasonic and in the past people at least in Europe laughed at Asian electronics products.
Am I not the only one seeing this deployed as riot gear in the Ukraine and else where?
They talked about source, but no source could be find in the document neither on the website....
I have two of those; in fact, my house has all "perimeter" sensors and no motion. What you describe only works if the sensor is non-latching. A latching sensor will trigger the alarm as soon as it reconnects. AFAIK, most glass breaks are capable of latching, though most are not set up to do so. Changing the setting is trivial.

Alarm companies have put quite a bit of thought over the decades into anti-tamper measures. I suspect the reason the "hole" described in the article exists is because someone felt the other AT measures would cover it adequately enough for typical usage.
Maybe they're looking at the wrong targets? I wouldn't in any way call someone with less than 7 years to be VP level - nor would I want them managing staff. That might translate to a beginning Director level at 7 years. But besides that - everyone's frames their opportunity as "Exciting Start-ups" that the phrase is numbing.
Actually it is pretty easy to get Apple's customer service to refund an app. Just say it didn't behave as expected and you would like a refund.
I'd like to suggest another tool for fighting mass surveillance: mass chaffing. Most of the time our internet connections are idle. And when they aren't, we very rarely use all our bandwidth. What if, instead, we each used a small amount of our resources to crawl the web. We could easily generate 1,000 to 10,000 chaff requests for every genuine one — completely drowning out any signals from our browsing behaviour. This is particularly nice because it highlights the stupidity of trying to find a few needles by searching every haystack in the world. Let's all make hay.
My wife is named Julia.

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And my brother is named Lisp, so it gets weird. :).
Yeah, i felt good about using this quote but was definitely not going to use something that I wrote myself. ... because that would be super-lame.
I skimmed the article and watched the clips but I don't understand what the problem is. Can someone enlighten me?
The idea of representing words as vectors and testing was originally a deep learning thing. See Google's word2vec which is famous for being able to do things like "king"-"man"+"woman"= "queen".
My cousin was born without hands. He is using his feets for most things. Today he is 22, he drives a car, handles computer and tablets... His typing is ok, so he could be programmer if he chooses to. And he wants (and probably will) to move to his own place.

He does not use special devices, just big mouse and large AT/IBM keyboard.
You're the one who wants to downvote me.

I didn't say anything offensive, just asking a question.

Learn the difference between other people saying something offensive and yourself implying some offensive meaning into a neutral statement.
Has the sensitivity of your n'ose changer at all?
Yes, that the married state is a boolean, is not immediately clear. However, I don't think that's why people don't consider the tree. For example, pose the same question in the form male/female.

1. Jack is looking at Anne, but Anne is looking at Eve. Jack is male, and Eve is female. Is a male looking at a female?

Although this question might even be less "boolean" than the married/unmarried one, my hypothesis is that more people will say A.

And, just a nice coincidence that my name happens to be Anne. :-)
> a single syntax error breaks everything

How are microservices usually communicating that avoids this problem?
If you donate at least 100 euros, you can be sure that there will be a device produced for you (it's built to order, not to shelf). Also, this amount you pay now will already count to the final price, so if you donate 100 EUR now, you'll pay 100 EUR less when finally ordering the ready device.

http://neo900.org/faq
Regarding the ios testing issues, would setting the iPhone emulator that comes with apple developer tools to the various versions have worked here?
I think it's a good choice to only allow non-radical options. Everyone knows that going full-tilt libertarian and making spending cuts that would never even conceivably pass would eliminate the deficit; it's more realistic and illuminating to see what can be done within the realm of the possible.

"Politics is the art of the possible." --Bismarck

"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable." --John Kenneth Galbraith
> That's just stupid. If the programmer doesn't understand English and the program is written with English identifiers, does that fail the test? What about APL and Perl?

It's called a comparative usability study. The same person looks at the same code sample written in two different languages, A and B (in random order), given time T to absorb each one (where T is much less than the time it would actually take to fully absorb the code), and then the references are removed and they are given tests on the properties of sample_A and sample_B (again in random order.) The score is not a measure of either A or B individually, but rather the ratio A:B, derived by the ratio of correct questions in sample_A:sample_B. A:B is then handed to a Bayesian neural network as a confidence score.

Thus, if the test-taker doesn't know English, they get the same (low) score on both tests—to the BNN, that is the same as "no new evidence."

Also, you wouldn't be comparing, say, Java to APL. You'd be comparing Java to Java + "an unless statement", or APL to APL + "enforced whitespace." You want to see the relative worth of language features, not the relative worth of our current languages, which have mostly been slapped together with no concern for UX. The result of such a study would be a set of UX suggestions, of language features that comparatively increase, or comparatively decrease comprehension.

> And you seem to be a theoretician who has never had to maintain any Lisp code.

For the last eight months, I've been writing Clojure for a living. I've written quite a bit of CL before that. I still find it harder to come back to any Lisp project after a month or two than to come back to code in any other language.
"Well, all true Scotsmen like haggis."

Or, for those who cannot draw the correlation: "Well, all true Lispers like parentheses."

Never mind that pure functional programming is an ideal that even Lisp does not live up to. Think I'm throwing B.S. around? Try doing I/O in Lisp without side-effects.

Now that we've established that Lisp is not at the top of the blub-curve, maybe we can get on with:
1. Writing functional languages people actually use.
2. Advancing the state-of-the-art in programming languages from being mired in a single-threaded monolithic server past.

With respect to my second point, much progress has been made; but it is still underpinned by single-threaded programming language design. What we need is someone who truly groks multiprocessor, multi-threaded, heterogeneous run-time environments; and from that knowledge can write a language to take advantage of such an environment.
When you get templates working, it does feel pretty good - you can get an approximation of the power of functional languages, all the while knowing that your code has been directly mapped to assembly.

I don't know if it's as good as writing some neat functional code, but for me it's still fun!
Having read tome's comment above, I went and looked up "orthography". :)
Complexity is often a natural outgrowth of success. Man-made complexity is simply a combination of things that we figured out how to do right, one layered on top of the other, until failure is achieved.

A great line... Reminds me of:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." -- Brian W. Kernighan
Original iPhone = 163 PPI.

25x more pixels (5x the resolution, count the block) = 815 PPI.
Reminds of Hunter Thompson. He eventually got to the point where when he gave a speech or public appearance, he didn't know if the people wanted Hunter Thompson or "Hunter Thompson," and I think he began to have some difficulty distinguishing the two.
Depending on the kind of website you are making, you could ditch Internet Explorer 6 a long time ago.

Only three percent of all visitors used IE 6 when visiting a website for a academic conference (social science, German speaking countries) I made. Also, Firefox was nearly three times as popular as all versions of Internet Explorer combined. And that data is now already half a year old.
Maybe in the U.S... in parts of South America and Europe the administrative overhead of hiring new people (and the hefty penalties for firing) means that hiring has to be really, really well justified.

That of course makes for a less mobile market, a stagnation culture (IMO), and less entrepreneurism I suspect (though getting a state-paid job that can realistically mean 20 hrs/week of actual work and doing jobs on the side is very common).
An overconfident PhD trader with no social life almost certainly will make more money than an appropriately confident mother of two just returning to the workforce after a 5 year break.

You seem to be assuming that rationality with regard to risk/reward assessments is the only thing that matters as far as increasing profits. It isn't. Technical ability and effort also play a major role (as does a gut instinct, for some types of trading at least), and the institutional incentives already mitigate much of the risk of trader overconfidence.
Well the more traffic a site has, the more resources we need to process that traffic. 500,000 daily page views is currently the max we allow to ensure our service runs smoothly for everyone. This limit is higher than most other analytics services allow, and easily covers 99.9% of the sites on the internet.
This is such a bunch of crap. I know people here won't appreciate this - but I had to say it.

Just because you can string up words that sound good doesnt mean they make any sense.

Being famous is not vocation or job, it's a side effect. Or are you suggesting that all entertainers, athletes and politicians are only doing what they do because they want to get famous?

PS: How do you measure the value gained by those who use your software and so on, and so on? Seriously!

Note: plinkplonk who actually had something to say is way down on the comments.
Weight may be, but thinness isn't. My X230 thinkpad is the same weight as a macbook air, but thicker. More ports, better cooling, and infinitely easier to do replace/alter anything to do with the machine.
I still try to use the nose as much as possible. Call me oldfashioned. :-)
I don't disagree with this, but it's a shame we don't address the suffering of humans who've lost their jobs, or small businesses having to go bankrupt due to this crisis, with the same degree of urgency. I get that the Fed doesn't have the power to provide "liquidity" directly to the people right now, but they should. This is socialism/welfare for the rich, free markets for the poor.
Author here --

Something like this? https://www.imore.com/mac-mini-mame-arcade-cabinet-project (Looks cool! Some time down the line I'll have to try it out)

The first thing I did with the setup was to learn about the differences between Helm 2 and Helm 3. I had used Helm 2 in my previous job and wanted to get some hands-on experience with the latest version by installing and modifying some helm charts.

This is certainly something that could be accomplished with a similar setup running locally on my primary computer, but I like the reduced (mental) activation energy of always having it ready to go.
Funny that the talk says "we are not rewriting the browser", given the current projects at mozilla.
See CUIDs for a widely used and workable solution.
Having to wait 4 weeks for Amazon to send you a pair of shoes would be tremendously inconvenient, but all it requires is some forward thinking. Buy them before the child needs them so they arrive in time. If you can do that it's obvious they're not really an essential that Amazon need to be pausing shipments of bandages and disinfectant for.

Obviously this raises questions about paying for shoes, but that's a social welfare and government support for poor people issue, and discussions of that nature usually don't fair well on HN.
I first learned about this from reading Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline. If you're interested in this sort of thing, TFD is a worthy read.

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

https://www.amazon.com/Fifth-Discipline-Practice-Learning-Or...
Thank you, HowTruthful looks great, I hope sites like these become very common, not only to help preserve friendships, but to help distilled arguments, and ultimately clarify what we believe
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What leads you to believe that this is a new thing, and not the standard state of affairs for humans?
I think it works like this:

You think you see something amazing. You really want that. You are a human, with a brain, which is flexible and adaptable. So if you don't get what you want, you adapt and try to make the best of it, rationalizing further and further from the truth. The mind, if resolved, can adapt and see the better parts of things. A monk who lives in a post-apocalytic world could, for example, really enjoy a blooming daisy. Same pattern.

But then other things come along. And finally you move on.

Re: [oatmeal]...this is true love because it can be everlasting, but this is not the love script that we are bombarded with from every literary or entertainment form in our lives.

I would just say, in defense of fairy tales, that some nice morals are (a) it's good to be optimistic and (b) you should step up and win. It's good practice. Seems unrealistic or even unhealthy to promote such behavior sometimes. And there is a balance. But sometimes you should step up and win.

This is particularly because human infants cannot cling onto their mothers the way all primate infants can (a consequence of hairlessness and shorter arms).

Awesome.

...the optimal middle area...

What? That's wrong. Premature optimization. There's nothing wrong with more diversity, esp. regarding immune systems.

For as long as we project god-like idealizations onto our romantic partners and demand that they make us happy as the fairy tales describe, we will never truly love them as human beings.

Yeah, but clearly the qualities of steadfastness and adaptability in limerence can also be found in the qualities of steadfastness and adaptability in marriage. The difficult parts, in limerence and in marriage (though the latter I am just guessing about) are in those moments of honesty with yourself and reality.
I like the irony here:

Take a look at this paragraph.

"As you can see the Windows Live Network have done their best to make the privacy tools simple and easy to use and yet provide you with a sense of control over who can see what is happening in your activity streams."

It is just beneath the graph that is absolutely unusable and too hard to comprehense for well over 90% of the users. If Facebook had such privacy controls - everybody would bash them for making it overcomplicated.
Brutal self-honesty is enlightening.
This might be nice, but from what I can tell it does seem to work very well:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/21569338/Formulas-for-the-MFE-Exam

At least before, people could read this.
I remember looking at that matplotlib page for the first time and coming away thinking those graphs look a lot better and sharper than the default R ones. However, I found the reason for that is the images on that page are quite high resolution PNGs. If you make graphs of 200dpi or more in R, they look equally good. The annoying thing though is that you have to adjust all the margins and character size settings in R to plot at a higher resolution.
Strange that none noted that identity based encryption (IBE for the acquainted ones)solves this problem quite easily (more on http://www.voltage.com/technology/ibe.htm). Boneh and Franklin scheme was the first proposed one, but nowadays this is not only on crypto papers, but they are even RFCS for such schemes: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5409.txt. There are even some non-commercial implementations around: http://crypto.stanford.edu/ibe/.

Of course, not using such full blown solutions will mean that posterous' heuristics techniques will be susceptible to all sorts of attacks, such as man-in-the-middle, relay attacks and so forth.

On the other hand, looking for solutions that are resilient to more sophisticated attacks, mostly considering IBE schemes, is quite convoluted (it involves provable security models, such as http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=provable+security+signatu... ). There are even variations on IBE, such as certificateless, which require you to trust even less people.

This is of course, assuming you are not willing to inconvenience users by making them reply a email you send them after they tried to poste. Such email would contain a custom made url (the secret) that would enable the post to actually be posted. On the other hand, this solution feels more inconvenient than using OAuth methods.

Nonetheless, not all users care about security/privacy (those that do, will always have the usual login scheme). If you chose to go other way, good luck to you. After all, people still use MD5 for security applications nowadays.