jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I agree that social media and news media in particular can be an information torrent and very quantity over quality. The best that can be said about it is that it can be up to the minute timely, which is occasionally very important. And the news pre-internet was not much better than post-internet. It's always been a pretty bad source of nuanced info.

I don't think books are dead. I read books. I just think they are no longer the only game in town. For example, it was often said that through a book, you could step into someone else's experience. I had a great time reading Red Mars. Now we have VR and I have come closer to standing on the surface of Mars than anyone else in history; far better than imagining Kim Stanley imagining it. The huge expansion of new digital and interactive media is a lasting win for education and human knowledge. I think we all need a reminder of that in the trough of tech disillusionment.
Breaking free of gravity, moving industry
Beyond the planet's surface into space
Lunar mines and factories, Lagrange Point colonies
Total productivity and nothing goes to waste
Solar-sailing ships deployed to mine the asteroids
While Earth becomes a paradise, her ugly scars erased

Let's sing along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab_mH8R0KTM (lyrics: https://genius.com/Julia-ecklar-one-way-to-go-lyrics).

So reach for the stars, they're not that far! The only way to go from here is out!.
If we don't want to bake the planet to death we need to transition away from burning oil as an energy source well before the next century. There will still be uses in making plastics and lubricants, but cars and to a lesser extent ships and airplanes need to be getting off of the stuff. Short haul trips can go pure electric, long haul stuff probably needs to switch to biofuels.
I don't know what gt565k meant by "quality of posts". I'm not sure I can define it rigorously, either, but I can feel in experience that the quality of posts is in fact declining.
define many. What percentage? Think of company employees as software that has been installed, where the company is the OS. Package management has made it dramatically cleaner to install and remove software, but there isn't any such thing for companies and employees.

Over time, companies accumulate cruft... employees who underperform. Same thing with governments and their programs (not software).

One of the ways to clean house is to dump a massive chunk and rehire the people on an as needed basis, likely with higher pay. The company has still managed to get rid of the dead weight, and the employees who are genuinely needed get more money. Similar to doing a clean OS reinstall.

That's the theory anyway. Very disruptive but it can be successful.
I've noticed that when doing interviews with younger developers, you run into the problem of "They only know about the projects that they've worked on at fill-in-school" and they have no real world experience to base an interview on. I've even experienced this with interviewees that at companies I've worked for. I'm definitely a proponent of contract-to-hire because you can figure out if you really gel with the team. Plus there may be some things that the interviewee never thought of that you're really good at.
I am truly looking forward to a day where spending your free time in front of a computer isn't regarded as anti-social and a waste of time. The rise of esports can do exactly that. For the first time in history kids are becoming millionaires playing video games on a professional level. Countries around the world are slowly introducing athletes visa for professional gamers. Schools are launching esports programs. 30 million people watched the League of Legends finals in 2013 and they had 8 million concurrent viewers. The era where physical prowess was the only way for kids to prove themselves is slowly coming to an end.
Perhaps the solution is for the interviewer to tell you upfront "I don't know the answer to this as well, let's try and find a solution, together, but you start first"?
Found a place where I can finally get to see it? Why can't they just accept my money and allow me to stream it?
I should have mentioned you (arun_sriniv) as the co-developer of data.table! Thanks for all the hard work.
And yes, memory usage will be interesting as that is the bottleneck when it comes to large dataset. I am working on something on those lines. Will post something soon :)
I just posted a link to this video within a thread, but then looked and was sad to see that (based on my search) this hasn't been posted for 5 years. An amazing video, I think should be posted to HN at least once per year.
LedgerX - Digital currency derivatives exchange and clearinghouse that recently received our Swap Execution Facility and Derivatives Clearing Organization licenses from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

All positions are onsite. Company provides very good health/dental/vision and an extremely exciting product to work on.

* VP Engineering - New York, NY

LedgerX is hiring a VP Engineering to help run day-to-day engineering workflows, research and validate architecture choices, and drive new product implementation. Highly technical role, about half/half management/engineering. Strong C++/Python/RDBMS/high-volume transactional systems experience desirable.

* Lead QA Engineer – New York, NY

LedgerX is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance engineer to write, run and expand its internal platform test suites. Strong C++, Python and relational database skills required.

* Integrations Engineer - New York, NY

LedgerX is looking to hire an experienced full-stack engineer to build, maintain, test and improve integrations with third-party services and software, including regulatory reporting software. Strong Python and performance profiling and optimization skills required.

zach@ledgerx.com
"Not successful" according to conservative publication The Economist. A massive uptake in solar and wind power seems successful to me. They just need to iron out some kinks in the incentive scheme.
Is it necessary to use the word "rock star" at all?
True.

Let's be honest here. Most people are using jQuery to write new applications. Shouldn't we mostly be benchmarking jQuery and some common plugins? Maybe prototype as well. And benchmark the most common functions etc.
I believe your problem statement is accurate but incomplete. There is a central vim coordinating authority (vim.org) that is (poorly) integrated with a (rather clunky) knowledge base (vim.wikia.com).

I think you should consider discussing this on the vim mailing list (maybe you have, maybe others have).

It's a glaring deficiency of the vim ecosystem, I agree. Every single time I use vim.org and the vim wiki, I hear David Cross in my head saying "THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY". The fact that David Cross is in my head then concerns me for several minutes and I forget about Vim.

I'd love a way to update a wiki via a dvcs. Then it becomes a help file as well. Here's a project I would be more interested in:

Design a next gen Vim help file / wiki system that would allow for local help file access to extend naturally into user contributed wiki content. Integrate scripts into the above. Allow all of it to live in any of several popular DVCS's. Ensure that the scripts that live in it can be independently sourced using Pathogen, etc.
Someone should write a tool that scrapes these results and automatically files bugs at the associated bug trackers for open-source projects.
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it." -- Donald Knuth
Having read that (and assuming it's accurate) I really wonder how anyone in their right mind can see EC2 as a viable hosting solution.
Ah, thanks. I misread the wikipage, and didn't realise.
The taxpayer could have gotten a lot more for our money. The bailed out banks' should have been nationalized, recapitalized then sold off.
> Stop computerized millisecond trading

This has absolutely nothing to do with insider trading...
Teams are dysfunctional for so many reasons. It may help to explain a bit more about what you’re experiencing.
I'm in a camp that thinks compilers should also take care of the original

unsigned average(unsigned a, unsigned b) {
return (a + b) / 2;
}

At the end of the day it's all just text. There are plenty of steps before any of it does anything at all.
Unfortunately, not even VueX, the official store management library of Vue, is compatible. There is a huge performance bug [1] that makes migrating larger Vue2 codebases impossible. Pretty disappointing, but noone seems to care.

[1] https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/issues/2102
I have definitely thought about that and for the most part we'll be sourcing directly through major companies like 1-800-flowers, anthropologie and etsy. And I love the criticism, only way to improve a mvp :)
Can you tell me what you were doing when it silently exited? Can you put up a gist of whatevers in your logs/ dir?

To change the skin/theme you can put the following in your user behaviors:

:app [(:lt.objs.style/set-skin "light")]
:editor [(:lt.objs.style/set-theme "codemirror")]
Updated the title - thanks
SurveyMonkey organically (no funding) grew to like, 60 people - then went out and raised $100M+ in funding, I guess its a huge market
Agreed and turned off.
They took a hit in EU for it as well. You probably were referring to their sino-servers but they do get a hint of what we see over there. Before Blitzchung they were already facing some PR problems for their bans within OW and WoW for anyone who happened to type anything related to winnie the pooh in chat.
> some protocol native.

That being IPP everywhere (also knows as AirPrint, "Driverless Printing", Mopria(?)).
Is that driverless or a universal driver? Maybe the distinction doesn't matter...
Good thing I just updated my LinkedIn profile. Wouldn’t want hackers to think I have gaps in my resume.
I don't understand really any of this. Finding vulnerabilities in your competitors products is in fact a donation to those competitors and, more importantly, their users.
Management prefers to cut the cost of having to hire good security engineers, and wait for it to blow up first;
For a while, I thought decentralization could help with this problem. If people just published websites and there were no central social media, you can better control what content is seen and not seen. But then Google came around and aggregated these websites and made them searchable and now has it's own algorithm for maximum engagement.

Sasha's idea of delaying the spread of information via a timer is very interesting. It can get people a chance to second guess their posts and also give a chance for something in-between to publish or not. If every retweet was delayed then the network spread slows down a lot which might have really interesting consequences.

But ultimately I believe the problem we have is we have chosen the mall over the public park.
>any company would have to be crazy to want to depend on any new Google service for anything important

If the company has an equally good alternative available, chances are Google wouldn't have launched theirs in the first place.
I almost think they let their engineers launch products just so they can’t quit and go to another company.
Re: "Lisp isn't more productive just because..."

Whether Lisp or functional programming is "more productive" in general or just in the hands of a few is a controversial topic. Example debates:

https://wiki.c2.com/?IfFooIsSoGreatHowComeYouAreNotRich

https://wiki.c2.com/?GreatLispWar

I personally find functional harder to debug and haven't got past that bottleneck yet. Yes, maybe I'm "doing it wrong", but can't find "right". Somebody else once told me, "functional makes it easier to express what you want but imperative (traditional programming) makes it easier to figure out what's actually happening". That rings very very true for me. In terms of productivity, it looks the second is trumping the first. In another forum, the "solution" was "just don't make bugs". Doh! Even if true for an individual, it may not scale to a bigger team.
I feel that autonomous cars are extremely oversold and cannot operate in many real world conditions like snowy roads and places with obscured road signs.

Maybe it can drive around some of the roads in the US after it has been fed with detailed 3D maps of the whole area along with road signs. But how about in other places ? Could it ever drive in a place like India ? I don't think so.

Autonomous vehicles could completely take over in closed areas like Open cast mines , vast factories and on farms where companies could profit by cutting the driver out of the loop. From there we would see the technology slowly improve to start getting traction in the real world. Even then the vehicle wouldn't be fully automated , it would be a more advanced form of the cruise control we have today with it falling back to the manual driver especially in crazy places like India.

Also we'd need laws forbidding people from jumping in front of self driving cars etc just to f@#$ with them.

This is also a trend with automation stories in general , with several publications already predicting doom and gloom and claiming that most people would end up unemployed because of automation of their jobs. The fact is we don't even have an AI good enough to impersonate a tele marketer yet and it's decades away at best.

I'm not denying that thesis in the extremely long term but AI and machine learning are in a very primitive state for any of this to materialize any time in the next two or three decades.
That second one is in the article.
Not necessarily local. In fact, Bell's theorem shows that local hidden variables theories are not possible (to be technically correct, that all local hidden variables theories produce predictions that are at odds with experiment). The reason Aaronson's statement is cool is because it allows us to eliminate ALL hidden variables theories -- local and non-local -- on metaphysical grounds (i.e. by Occam's razor). Yes, you can produce (non-local) hidden-variables theories whose predictions are consistent with experiment. But if you could assign historical values to those variables that would be tantamount to performing collapse-free measurement and that is (almost certainly) not possible.
I understand where are you getting. But this is wrong battleground. Even most peace-full country, will have airport security with some sort of right to detain people. For example they could claim his passport is fake, and detain him until he proves his identity otherwise.

This case does not really solve anything. With more similar cases, parliament just passes new law: Airport has special security rule, is not US soil until you pass some checkpoint whatever.

Real solution is to go after causes where it really hurts. This guy got $5.000/hour. Now imagine someone who spend 7 months in jail at this rate.
I've done emacs org mode on git, and it works. I've thankfully never had to do a manual merge, I wonder what org mode thinks of git merge commentary inside the file. I imagine you'd have to drop out of org mode and into text mode to fix the merge.

I've also used a wiki as what amounts to little more than a note taking app, and it works. There are a couple wikis that can speak git as a backend store.
The summary of an article can matter a lot these days. If someone says "TL;DR - not a power grab", it may make someone who would otherwise react against it do nothing.

This is a significant increase in state power. I hardly oppose any summary which gives any other impression.
This made me laugh, WTF does "purpose of software development" actually mean? That phrase is itself a misunderstanding waiting to happen. :-)

Yeah... Ok, I probably deserved a bit of a snarky reply -- I missed the 32-bit requirement for silverlight in the release notes (apparently their sandboxing for 64bit is broken). Just for that oversight, I'll take my lumps.

I do think, however, that you're thinking in a binary way about this. It's possible to add new features and fix bugs at the same time, ya know. It's possible to prioritize stuff even in a beta... you don't just pile on the shiny new because you slapped a "beta" sticker on it.

It's a beta release, not an alpha, and the eighth beta release. Right on the durn frontpage is says it should be stable enough for normal use in most cases. I would classify youtube as one of those cases.

As soon as the 7th release came out, it was broken in an obvious way vis a vis youtube video on some platforms. They had months to fix it. Mozilla obviously decided that WebGL bling was more important...

...and that's fine, they can do what they want and yes, it's a beta release and webgl is cool, but I still think their priorities are screwed up.
My awful Spanish translation:

A principios de hoy, nos dimos cuenta de que el número de usarios conectado a Skype empezó caer. Esto no es normal ni esperado así que nos pusimos a investigarlo.

Skype no es como un red de telefonía convencional ni red de mensajería instantánea - en cambio, para que todo vaya bien depende de millones de conexiones entre los computadores y los teléfonos. Unos de esas computadores se llaman "supernodes" - funcionan como una agenda de direcciones por Skype. Si quieres hablar con alguien y Skype no lo puede localizar inmediatamente, tu computador o tu móvil intentará localizar un "supernode" para descubrir la manera de contactarle.

Normalmente hay un montón de supernodes disponibles. Hoy, por desgracia, muchos no eran conectados debido a una problema que afectaba algunos versiones de Skype.

¿Qué estamos haciendo para mejorar la situación? Nuestros ingenieros están haciendo nuevos "mega-supernodes" lo cuanto antes, que con un poco de suerte va a hacer que todo se normalice.
I don't agree with this kind of singular thinking.

Capital should go wherever returns are best. If you have a steel company and you are at the top of the cycle, investing in steel plants or doing acquisitions in the steel space will be a destructive use of capital.

Let's say you are Google and you do indeed believe that startup valuations are getting too high to warrant acquisitions. Maybe you pull back and look for other opportunities. You have $33B in cash and 10-years are only yielding ~3%.

You're better off redeploying that capital to somewhere that will be truly accretive versus chasing bad deals or sticking in treasuries. Maybe right now the current R&D ideas just aren't appealing either. So you decide to sit tight in that area and go do a real estate deal where you can get a good IRR.

Study Henry Singleton, the founder of Teledyne and see how he chose to allocate capital wherever he could get the most value at that particular point in time.
I am really sick of these articles; why cant we just focus on talent. Put the best people in the best positions. It should not matter if they are male, female black or white.
"I just scanned through all the applicants we have received for advertised 'making' positions. To date, we have yet to receive a single female applicant"

When I see statements like this, I wonder what they've been doing to reach out to women. Usually the answer is "nothing" or "well, we asked our friends" ... in other words, they're not investing any significant effort.

EDIT: downvoted. I know you're shocked.
I somewhat agree with this. It doesn't actually matter what their skill in X and Y are. What sets generalists apart (or really anyone who claims to be cross-discipline) is not that they have some skill in X and Y (and Z etc etc), but that they have skill in connecting and using X and Y together. And potentially, they've gone one more level meta and are skilled at seeing potential connections between X and Y and other things they aren't actually skilled in.

A dabbler (generally.. ha!) lacks that ability to connect X and Y. Though you can certainly be both. You can be a generalist at work, but then in your hobby time enjoy doing a bit of everything.

As a thing you do to enjoy, there's no real superior thing between dabbling and being 'a generalist'. Do whatever pleases you. But in a work environment, there certainly is a difference.

Unless you just happen to want a guy to split his time at work as UI designer on one project, and as a programmer on another (that have nothing to do with each other what so ever), then you'll probably want an actual generalist, than a dabbler.
Can we put numbers on this? Even ballpark numbers. Because I'm thinking that if you have one system admin, one frontend dev, and one backend dev, that will cost at least $200,000 a year. That assumes that the cost of each person is at least $66,666 a year - that is how much they cost, not how much they are paid. I think that's a very low number, both in terms of number of people and in how much they cost.
There's only so much variation you can have once you've decided that most of the surface area of a phone is going to be taken up by a touch-sensitive screen.
AdWeek. They want your pageviews.
I interpreted that last video more as a status game, actually. The guy, immaculately dressed with a posh british accent, creates a status differential by talking fast and flawless, by touching her a lot. This makes it very unappealing for her to flat-out contradict him. She's just giving him socially acceptable answers.
Yes thank you. If we need a picture..

http://theplanninglab.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/...
laughs -- As for myself, my (new) laptop dual boots currently, but linux has been a real drain on battery life as the current crop of sandy bridge laptops include two video cards, and I haven't figured out how to turn off the unused one yet.
Most important thing I can say is just to get on and do. When you don't have to go into work for someone else every day, it's really easy to get distracted with day to day stuff - don't let it happen.

Aside from that, enjoy yourself. If you start waking up every morning and you're not enjoying what you do, you're doing the wrong thing.

Good luck!
This guy uses OSX: http://twitter.com/#!/hipsterhacker

You need OSX to revolutionise social, and engage your target markets in the mobile sphere. That and the other reasons the guy above uses OSX. Get traction, get OSX.
This would be defensive move to prevent UberMedia from completing the acquisition.
I wonder if these images are damning.

Apple copying Dieder Ram

http://theplanninglab.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/...
My initial reaction, I have to admit, was roughly yours.

I read on, hoping to find some kind of innovative notion, some x factor that would be a real game changer, annnnd I smacked right up into this:

"Founded by Morris and Lane Moore in 2008, Rubicon has created a virtual marketplace where thousands of small, local haulers can bid on portions of huge national contracts. This fosters competition between haulers, driving down the price of service."

Sure, people who use their own private vehicles to haul trash and recycling for a living are going to love taking portions of national contracts away from union workers with benefits and company vehicles, for about five minutes.

How many of these workers will live in their hauling vehicles?
And without the vaccine, even more people would have died. So it was good. Could have been better, but still better than no vaccine.