jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Start an "ideas" folder (write them down or they drift away) and get your degree (from anywhere, not necessarily from Columbia. Once working, most fields do not care about the pedigree of your degree unless you want to be a Supreme Court judge or advisor to the president, etc.). A degree opens doors that are closed without one. And getting one after you move forward and start you career and LIFE (esp the wife and kids) is just not possible for most people. It seems like an onerous diversion now but in the end you will look back and value the time spent learning and the people you meet in college. While you are getting your degree you can probably pick up consulting work like you did for your parents and continue to practice and learn what is taught in school (and think of more great ideas). When you near the end of school you can break out the ideas folder and see how many are done and how many no longer make any sense and mold the remaining ideas into viable business/action plans. Your friends from college may want to join you too.

tl;dr: A lack of degree will limit future options; learning is easy when you are young and harder when you are older; get your degree now, the world will still be there when you are done; write down your ideas.
The selection consists solely of current Uber drivers, excluding all drivers who chose to stop and take an alternative job. As well, drivers in the act of driving are less likely to admit that they do not want to be doing what they are currently doing, due to cognitive dissonance.

Additionally, there likely exists a framing bias along with a false dichotomy, if they were asked whether they’d rather Uber or take a “normal job”. There are of course plenty of alternatives that are not “normal jobs” (whatever that is exactly).

Anyways, anecdotally, I’ve had drivers who were not happy with Uber and continued only out of lack of current options or plain inertia.
My ISP is unlikely to be a problem. I literally get higher speeds downloading from servers across the world in Australia [1] than from CloudFlare's benchmark. Something around CF's side is funny, not mine.

I'm looking at the network tab, it seems like they send a ton of small requests instead of a large one... which might point in the direction of the problem.

[1] https://syd.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/iso/2022.04.05/ar...
As a property-owner within the Sound Transit regional taxation district, I am far happier to pay for public transportation than many of the other things my tax dollars get used for. I don't particularly care whether Link rail riders pay their fares or not. More people riding Link means fewer people driving, and that's good for everyone.
> As we're watching the neo-liberal global world order collapse with the war in Russia

How do you imagine that happening? Does it look like to you that the west is going to loose so bad that all the investments loose their value? Or you are banking on a nuclear winter?
For Unreal from thier website - "A 5% royalty is due only if you are distributing an off-the-shelf product that incorporates Unreal Engine code (such as a game) and the lifetime gross revenue from that product exceeds $1 million USD; in this case, the first $1 million remains royalty-exempt." - much better than Unity's pricing. The > 100k annual only give you Unity Personal whereas you can full powered Unreal at much greater threshold.

https://store.unity.com/compare-plans
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/license
FWIW, you shouldn't really put thermal compound on the NAND flash, just on the controller. NAND does better at higher temperatures. [1]

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00262...
Fair, I was only offering the perspective from Germany.
"Slave owners" did not have high AWS bills, Stock Based compensation, Sales and Marketing and so on...

"Uber Technologies Operating Expenses 2017-2021 | UBER"

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technolo....

"Uber Announces Results for Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2021"

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
I genuinely have no idea what this appeal to ancient cultural authority is meant to convey, especially since virtually everyone was destitute and had no human rights for the overwhelming majority of human history.

That a preindustrial society existed for 5,000 years with very little change has no bearing at all on how a multinational business ought to be run in a modern society. In fact, I would argue that technological advances became possible precisely because we blew apart many of these entrenched power structures.
Yes, I actually like the change—I think they finally got it right this time. (The Riot rebranding was a mess.) However, it’s still frustrating when trying to communicate with people who aren’t following Matrix-related news. In my circle of friends, “Vector” remains more widely understood than “Element Web,” so that’s what I’ve been using.

Anyway, my point stands: Element Web/Desktop feels fairly unresponsive compared to something like Telegram Desktop. It looks so much nicer now, the UI layout is great, and it’s far more powerful than Telegram—yet, I can’t help but feel like I’m swimming through molasses even when dealing with moderately-sized groups. Try clicking around on different groups rapidly; you’ll likely find that you have to wait several seconds for the UI to update.
It’s quite a peculiar issue when it does happen (which is rarely), in that the only way I’ve found of resolving it myself is by dropping the line at that modem. I’m always hesitant to have the line inspected in the UK because there’s every chance OpenReach will come around and balls it up further.

I’ve been doing this manually for the past couple of years without any negative effects that I’ve seen. I’d say it tends to happen maybe once every two to three months, which makes me think it’s more likely an issue further up the chain. A&A are pretty spry at resolving issues but often I just drop the line myself to sort it out quicker.
So, fun story. I did not know this at the time, but I then (and now to much lesser degree) had pretty significant sensory overload/over-sensitivity issues particularly with light. I vividly remember being taken to Cary Town Center by my parents and for some reason feeling an overwhelming sense of relief, though I did not understand why at the time. Going back as an adult, I realized it's because the place was a freaking cave.

I think even mid 80-90s malls had much more natural light, but Cary Towne Center was built in 79 and I think even if they turned the roof into a sheet of plexiglass that the layout would keep large sections dark. The food court for example is on the first floor and is lined with shops, preventing easy windows of any kind.

Maybe they can use a series of mirrors?
Step 4 contradicts basic physics. What you are doing wrong is that you are confusing power with energy. If you lift the weight slowly you need less power because for the same work (= energy) done you can do it in twice the time. But using less power over longer periods of time will result in the same energy consumption.
> Chesa Boudin was only fourteen months old when both his mother and father... were arrested... Perhaps because of this personal history...

Even if the author is correctly inferring Boudin's private motivations, what does that have to do with the quality of Boudin's policies? Introducing this type of guesswork undercuts the rest of the analysis.
The trick would probably be getting your energy back after you've pumped the old oilfield full of water. Most oil fields aren't gushers, especially after they've had most of the oil sucked out of them.
They were thinking "I would like to make even more money".

Wifi networks are competition. By stealing their spectrum, they make the mobile network more appealing, so less people will bother using wifi at all.
If side-loading is generally discouraged to the point where it's a hassle, then it's a less attractive entry point for malware authors... so I'd expect the result is that there are ultimately fewer malware instances installed.

If side-loading becomes easy and normalized though...
and then 10 years later web scraping is fully legal and CFAA cannot be abused to go after them.
At 8 and 10 I'd spent time on beaches in Denmark on holiday that were all clothing optional. I'd seen plenty of people of all ages fully nude. It was perhaps a novelty for a few minutes, and then it wore off.

If anything, I'm a bit worried at what growing up in puritan countries without even visiting places like that and getting nudity normalised does to people.
I love this except the use of the default black line length of 88. One of the things I appreciate about gofmt is being trusted with deciding on line breaks.
Spot on George. There is a difference between "incorporating your startup" and a "startup incorporation." But if a founder simply wants to file a charter to get inc.'d, the article is helpful.
This is similar to Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenos_paradoxes#Achilles_and_th...

The paradox lies in "infinity" and "never". Achilles will overtake the tortoise when he's one atom away from the tortoise, and similarly at one point your corner removal will reach the atom level, where you can no longer reduce it and maintain a square shape.

At atom level, when your squares consist of three atoms in a L pattern, you can't reduce it further without distorting the squares

Assuming, of course, that atoms are the smallest particles.
There... are... FOUR... lights!
- API to run some form of background task as needed
- Revamp notification, maybe notification centre
- API to change home screen icon.
- API for NFC as it is rumored to be in iPhone 5 hardware
- Spotlight API for app content searchable under spotlight
- AirPlay 2 - api to push screen to AppleTV and convert iphone/ipad as controller, make it easy to support this functionality in games
- API for social liking and following, Apple'own social networking build into iOS 5 and Lion
- Apple Messages/Chat, telco independent sms?
This isn't quite right; when you divide up your problem, your "quarter circle" doesn't look the same after each iteration, and so the sizes of the squares cut off don't follow a geometric sequence. In fact, I'm sure that the area of the figure does approximate the area of a circle (because no point inside the circle is ever removed, yet every point outside of it will be removed eventually).

The problem lies not with the area, but the perimeter; the figure's area turns out to be unrelated for this problem.
Love it! Think that's just what I need, as it takes me around 20 minutes to walk each way to the gym, so I want to be as efficient as I can whilst I'm there.

There's also some stuff I could do from home the days I don't go to the gym by the sounds of it. Thanks!
I so very much agree with you. And once you make a small self sustaining site, you can then think of stuff that need not necessarily bring in money instantly but can be exciting to work on.
> The US technically has "no person without health care" because you can get it in emergency rooms

No, that's "no person without emergency care".

Also, in my broad painting, it was implied that the taxes have already paid for the care. Which is not the case in the US.
> Others believe the answer to #2 is yes.

Others believe the success of our program to teaching pigs to fly will greatly improve as we build taller towers.
+1. I don’t get it either. Maybe the ability to use Markdown?
It’s fine until you have a list of blog posts etc that you want to generate your static site from
Also, it's 97% of political tweets from US adults that mentioned national politics from June 10, 2018, through June 9, 2019, not 97% of all political tweets (many of which are on behalf of organizations).
I think this is the way to go if you're not one to change the HTML very frequently. It can be a repetitive process to update HTML for each page if you've wound up with lots of them. If that's not so much a concern, go for it!
Kind of a half-assed estimate but summing up web/mobile vs everything else (excluding QA) from the counts from this article https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/tech-tips/the-american-ci... gives us about 13% of software jobs being non-web. I lump in mobile with web since a lot of mobile apps are cross platform hybrid apps using web stuff.

Personally, I think even that estimate is too high; I'd be surprised if the true number wasn't somewhere closer to 5%.
Pi-hole is great, but it's not going to help if the designed purpose of the device is to send data to external servers, or if the device bypasses the network's DNS server, especially with the advent of DoH.
Ugh this has happened to Whole Foods too. Evidently they started making the change before Amazon but it's getting worse. I'm still bitter they closed my neighborhood store, but when I make the trek to the next closest one only to find a handful of the items I regularly get are out of stock is frustrating. And it's usually not perishables which I can understand.
That... would be interesting.
Quit living in the past! ;)
Here we go! I'm sending everyone I know who is trying to learn Swift to this resource. His other videos on developing iOS apps with Obj-C are great.

I can't wait until all of these video's are released.
I recently discovered 99pi and was very impressed with the production quality and content. It is short enough to retain the crispness of its format while maintaining a high content-filler ratio. The recent episode on Doug Engelbart's vision of computer interfaces was fascinating [1].

[1] http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/of-mice-and-men/
But, it's a fictional story. I can make up a fictional story to demonstrate anything, regardless if it's true in the real world.
They are certainly not going to bin themselves, we have to do it for them.

Uninstall flash, and refuse to reinstall it. And see if your nontechy friends and relatives will let you do the same to protect them as well.

There are a lot of sites that have multiple streaming options, but when flash is installed it's what they default to.
I think the idea of banning it is stupid, but its interesting to read his letter. He doesn't seem to really be confused about what Bitcoin is or how it works, contrary to the common trope that the government only wants to ban things because it doesn't understand them.
Maybe it's just me, but expecting recruiters to research your sexual orientation seems a bit over the top. Why don't you just work with local recruiters.
Apparently, they raised $415K investment http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/relaxation-resource-calm-co... I wonder how they will pay it all off
Online gambling is banned in the US. Would a Bitcoin ban really be out of character?
He's "weary" of the use of bitcoin? If an elected congressperson is going for a publicity stunt, they should at least have someone proof their letters before looking like a doofus...
I'm sorry you don't consider it friendly. Personally, telling them why their pitch didn't work felt friendlier than just assuming they had no interest in improving and ignoring them, which is the other tenable option.

It would be unfriendly for me to send recruiters after friends without knowing if the friend is actually a match for the company or not. At least in my opinion.
They actually leave me quite hopeful because they reinforce my view of the world and are popular.

What I'm reasonably convinced of is that when millennials and younger cohorts start to tip the electoral scales in 15 years time, there will be an outbreak of harmony and consensus on an awful lot of things, and people like Curtis will have shaped really quite a lot of that.
Me be like
how going back to the code that i wrote 2 months back almost crushed me
> fixing the password security would've required breaking everyone's ability to commit to the PHP codebase

Can’t you have a scheme that is like bcrypt(md5(password)) and since you already have md5(password) in the database you can migrate to bcrypt?
> that's like saying that the internet isn't decentralized because lots of people interact using facebook

Yes, and I do say that. Decentralization is a lot less interesting if most people just end up centralizing anyway.
EVE has a history of incredibly bad performance issues, in part due to their extensive use of python for networking, simulation, etc. They seem to struggle with it on an ongoing basis, so it makes sense that in some cases they would move logic from python to C++. Their networking stack was at least at one point heavily Python.

Some engagements in EVE will literally involve thousands of players in the same system all interacting with each other in big groups, so it becomes extremely important to be able to push a truckload of packets and events and process them with low latencies.
It's not just a better Java, if you ask me. Scala, like Clojure, aren't really pure Java replacements, fixing some of the bugs and awkward syntax details. Both try to steer the programmer towards different ways of programming. They're better, and more.

As I'm currently taking a look at Android development, I wish there was a simply "better Java". Something that doesn't stray too much from imperative C/Algol/Pascal-like programming, but doesn't require me to use a huge, bloated IDE just to cope with the language features. Better variable declaration, better modules, uniform access principle etc. Fantom looks interesting but -- again -- tries to be more than that (own library, multi-VM etc.).
I bet the people at Fox News recently watched this wonderful PSA on hackers http://vimeo.com/11328554
I kinda expected to be invented by some girl named Eunice.
Blatant contradiction:

>Title: 10 Everyday Items Hackers Are Targeting Right Now

>9. The Human Body... computers can help the disabled walk or play videogames. And it could be just a matter of time before humans are "augmented" this way.
The plural of anecdote is NOT statistic. One example of someone using a job bidding site to show their ignorance isn't indicative of anything. On the other hand, many non-programmers writing specs make the mistake of not asking/checking their assumptions. That mistake is not limited to any subset of humans, in my experience.
I always called it Model View Controller... MVC
Hopefully, adding "Australia is rapidly becoming an international laughingstock" to the list of reasons to drop this stupid law will convince Conroy. I doubt it, though; "it won't work", "most people oppose it" and "it's on shaky legal ground" don't seem to have convinced him.
The implementation idea is much like FIDOnet, but with flash drives rather than modems. nice.
The jury isn't the last word.

How much of the Exxon Valdez judgement survived appeals?
They could have shut off the host, but kept the image file. I just can't see 16GB of storage space worth that much to a hosting company. It's likely that most of that space is empty space anyway. $110 for 2TB on newegg -- that would store 120 customers who may have accidentally have expired credit cards. It's not that expensive for Linode and the word-of-mouth value is probably worth so much more.
From the title I fully expected to find out they both had studied under the same Shao-Lin Kung Fu Master. But many years ago, they had a falling out, after their master was murdered and each blamed the other for it. One dedicated himself to the pursuit of Evil. The other would walk the path of Light. Legend says they will one day meet again, and a great fight will occur, and only one will be left standing, and on that day, the world will finally learn what truly happened to their master.

Or maybe this is just me.
I was curious to see what a HN curated TV channel would look like, so here it is. I scraped 1024 links, grepped for YouTube and manually created a playlist out of the links I found. Source: http://pastebin.ca/1881446
Error 500 - Internal server error

An internal server error has occured!
Please try again later.
The market is small (compared to consumer stuff), margins have to be huge, only the biggest customers can afford to sponsor it, bloated development projects on a schedule end up ... sucking. Similar to development tools, come to think of it!
I can understand the school's request of trying to standardize their students on one platform, though I feel the parents' pain.

I wonder if there's a cross-platform solution for all of this. If not, perhaps someone should build one. And perhaps, online. I think I smell a startup opportunity :)
I would love to have bionic eyes. That can zoom in. And view various wavelengths (a la Predator). And take photos. And record video. Wow.
A lot of the "didn't even try" is buried in your "elected not to" phrasing. Yes, they didn't check out the damage visually, which is another way of saying they didn't even try to assess the damage. At least part of that decision seems to have been driven by the fatalistic idea that a rescue was impossible and so it didn't really matter.

Also, I reach the opposite conclusion you do from "a long history of debris strikes". To me, this says that they absolutely knew there was a problem, and had known it for a very long time, but merely got used to it and dismissed it due to the ridiculous idea that it's OK to ignore if it hasn't killed anybody in the past. That history makes them look worse, not better. Same thing happened with Challenger and the O-ring leaks. The leaks were a serious problem and smart people said as much, but the concerns were dismissed on the basis that previous flights hadn't exploded so the leaks must not be serious.
I am not sure why you think you should just replace dlig with clig? Did you want the discretionary ligatures? Which of the contextual ligatures do you want? In my opinion it is the discretionary and the historic ligatures that are distracting and gaudy. I you can not think of the specific ligatures you want from the discretionary/contextual/historic why not just stick with the basics provided in liga?

This is going to sound crazy: Does anyone know the name of the js/css development website that has three or four panes and lets you mock up things on screen. There is probably more than one. I can not think of the name right now for the life of me. I always see it linked to when people are doing demonstrations here on HN.

I put up an image here of your defaults with your fonts and mine:

https://imgur.com/a/x44Wq

My default font is Minion Pro and you can see the extra discretionaries in words like "spurred, directed, testing, etc." The one goofy css test that I found did not let me choose any web fonts so I could not check your garamond but I did check my local Garamond Pro. and all of the same discretionary ligatures are present in my local garamond.
Anecdotally I would think "old money" would be more against taxation than new money folks. If you were born into money, and never lived poorly I would assume that you'd have a hard time empathizing with the plight of the less fortunate. Also, holding onto your mountain of cash that someone handed to you is different than someone with an earned high income. It would seem to me that old money people would be more active in reducing taxes on investments (which they've arguably succeeded in doing) and new money folks would be more concerned with income taxing.
Relevant: http://xkcd.com/1105/
Fair enough. Is it more accurate to say, "If you don't know where the hole in your security is, it's hard to know if it's been compromised."?
The way I see it: location, mostly.

SF has some of the best salaries for developers. Contrast that to India, where a "good" salary for a full stacker is about $15k per annum(!). Shit's ridiculous.