jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If they asked you for what you want as compensation, I would guess it was too much for what you bring to the table.

You never mention what exactly you did, but it sounds like JavaScript and nodejs from your username. I don’t know how often you switched companies but if you switched more than 2 times in your 6 years, there might be a risk of „you build it but you don’t want to maintain it“.

I also got a similar vibe from some of your comments. Some of them sound like „I know the concepts, I build my own better React“.

It’s really not something I would like to hear in a technical interview.

There is less info in this post than on your CV, so please excuse when I read too much into it.
It's almost like people with no education or training and a history filled with criminal activity can't be trusted to run financial institutions.

It's almost like there is a great irony in the fact that people who mistrusted government run banks sought an anonymous unregulated cryptocurrency and then immediately got ripped off because it's anonymous and unregulated.
I hope the US de-schedules weed.
The article just ended, felt like the author got half way done and just stopped.
I'm not sure how you're getting "object-oriented programming" from this article, except that it was mentioned in passing as an example of a paradigm that belatedly entered mainstream software engineering. OOP is orthogonal to the comparison the article is making, which is between imperative and functional programming.

I found the (imperative : recipe :: functional : equation) analogy to be apt, especially for the lay audience. I agree that it may not be up to the task of contextualizing certain language features (like referential transparency; "the cook will always make the exact same cake if you give it the same stuff"), but like OOP, many of those features are not inherent to either of imperative or functional programming, and not important in understanding the difference.
There aren't nearly enough categories in that survey. I didn't see "musical instrument" or "control surface for robots" (both of which are on my list).

iPads are general purpose computing devices. Like all GPCD's nobody uses them for more than a tiny fraction of what they could be used for. Its that they happen to be able to do your 10% that counts.
Commercial from SpaceX on Mars mission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6EruPdoXY
Curious to see if you know of any specific examples of recently founded companies that are:

1) Founded by just MBA's
2) Raised a lot (relative I guess) of money
3) don't pass your definition "creating something worth"
Well, I'm on board.
I knew the name, but until now I didn't know how impressed I should be.

Thanks.
It's a shame that this didn't get more upvotes when it was first submitted.

I enjoyed reading it, fwiw.
It is called obstruction of justice.
> Don't be too kind on the big websites.

I usually recommend latency-based dynamic load control for that. Once the website starts to reply 500-1000ms longer than the average one-thread latency, it is time to take a bit of it back. It is also a co-operative strategy between fellow scrapers, even if they don't know about the other ones pushing larger load on the servers.
The seagate hybrid drive is a scam; it scores worse on some benchmarks than seagate's own normal laptop HDD.

It also only uses the cache for reads, and not writes. Writes is where the magic happens! If I wanted more read cache I'd just get more system RAM.
It is quite complicated I think.

1. 60% increase in 'test drive requests' is not 60% increase in sales.

2. There are thousands of other sites which don't have as much money as Hyundai.

3. There are probably other cases where 60% increase cannot be reached.

4. When I am 'programming' it may happen that I bring a huge revenue to my client, but my client will not pay that for me. He will choose an other programmer if I am too expensive. This might easily be the case with marketing agencies I guess.

5. For me the most relevant question is barrier to entry into the market. I am a quite intelligent person and I might be able to learn online marketing deeper than currently I am involved. But how can I convince Hyundai that they should use my marketing agency? I am programming since I was 12 years old, (I am 36 now) but still I cannot convince companies in rich countries like the U.S. to give me interesting hard tasks. (So I mostly deal with local Hungarian clients, which are less 'rich'.)
2) you can manually close apps. Long-press on them in the multitask bar and click the "x" to close. Next time you go in you will get a clean slate.

3) iOS will shut down LRU'd apps as it runs out of memory. This is a non-issue.

Most of the issues for me around multitasking center around the UI.
nice story. paragraphs would've helped, though.
Group discussions only kill creativity if your group is uncreative. Take a look at sitcom writers: You can have over ten folks in a brainstorming session and they can create gold. Then take a look at a casual business networking party — you'll see no creativity in the room. They key here is the attitude and goal of the meeting. If you have a group that's passionate about a subject where they're looking to break ground it isn't hard to generate creativity.
> The one and only purpose of a resume is to catch the eye of a reviewer and thus score you an interview.

This is extremely true, and yet it's amazing how many people don't know / don't want to hear that. Most people seem to think a resume is "them" put on paper, so it should be so thorough it should list every activity they ever attempted from kindergarten on (except the ones they are now kind of ashamed of, ten years later).

Your resume is not you. It's a tease.
there's definitely something to be said not only for carrying your book around on a light device, but carrying up to thousands of them around on a single light device.

Definitly. There's something exhilerating about bringing all your books with you.

There are practical advantages aswell. I'm going on a 3 week holiday to australia soon. Previously I'd have to deciede what books I want to bring with me (since I couldn't take them all). Now I don't have to think about it. I just take my kindle and I know I have all my books.
The user comment on php.net consists mainly of bad advices with errors in the examples.
Torrent in epub format. Open it up (it's just a zip). Edit HTML to your satisfaction, and re-zip.
I actually already use Google Apps for Business with my own domain name. For my mail backup, I use CloudPull.

My main issue is really mail storage with Apple Mail plus various backups.
Because car or no car the head still goes crack when it hits the road. To me it seems obvious to reduce a risk of fatal injury with something as simple as a helmet.
I went through that same process to view one recipe, then deleted my account - and then started getting unwanted marketing mail by pinterest every couple of days. When I tried to disable the mail\unsubscribe it asked me to login (to the account I'd deleted) to update my marketing preferences. They now get filtered to my trashcan.
Nice! How did you discover this method? How did it all began?
I like file and line numbers with my errors:

// No need to use this directly. See the e!() macro.
#[derive(Debug)]
pub struct ErrInfo {
pub file: &'static str,
pub line: u32,
pub msg: &'static str
}

impl std::fmt::Display for ErrInfo {
fn fmt(&self, f: &mut std::fmt::Formatter) -> std::fmt::Result {
if cfg!(debug_assertions) {
write!(f, "[{}:{}] {}", self.file, self.line, self.msg)
} else {
write!(f, "{}", self.msg)
}
}
}

/// Use this with `failure` crate's `ResultExt` like this
///
/// ```
/// $r = function().context(e!("Function failed"))?;
/// ```
///
/// Error context will then include that message, and the file and line number.
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! e {
($msg:expr) => {
$crate::ErrInfo {
file: file!(),
line: line!(),
msg: $msg
}
};
}
Maybe, but there are a lot of people living on the streets in Philly even during the winter. During the coldest nights they send vans around to coax people into shelters or at least give them blankets. I'm not sure that can account for the difference though.
> You forget that there are a lot of cases where elderly people can't print shit and need actual paperwork

I'm guessing you are referring to a scenario where you have configured an elderly person's printer to allow you to print directly to it, sort of like a one way fax machine? I can see how that could be useful for some people, but it's a very rare use case, and hard to argue for maintaining the cloud print service based on that.

There appear to be alternatives for this specific use case, like HP ePrint, or you could set up a VPN to use in these situations. You could also just use printer that hooks up directly to eFax: https://www.faxcompare.com/blog/signing-up-for-efax-with-you...
Cool, We did something very similar for a hackday not that long ago. http://picdeck.co

http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6071579/picdeck-is-a-tweet...
I think this may harm the quality. I believe there are many students here who contribute a lot and if you set the barrier too high, they wouldn't be able to afford it.
What crypto code uses floating point? DES and AES don't. I doubt most PRNGs do either..
How would they negotiate? They already tried and failed to negotiate a price. Why would it work next time?
If reddit doesn't have scaling issues, then yes.
His HP1630A ;)
>And subversives can expose diplomatic secrets, critics can expose scientific hoaxes, and governments can track conspiracies

While part of me is still hoping he's talking about Snopes, I know this is a reference to the University of East Anglia emails, which were about as much a blow to climate science as the Arsenic bacteria were a boon to astrobiology. I may have to adopt your "pretend he doesn't exist in real life" approach.
I'm sure some do, but YC is already in the news heavily. If you look at it as 80/20, I doubt 80% of the people first learn about YC through HN.
That link gets stupider each time I have to read it, which humorously enough is each time Card's name gets mentioned in any topic, it's a new abstract Godwin's Law.
Search for "javascript screen resolution".
Is it counting DOWN or is it counting UP. The seconds appear to be going up
Very interesting read, I had no idea that he played such a role in establishing MLK day. Articles like these really hit home to me that the civil rights movement was NOT that long ago.
Protip: Don't live far from infrastructure and expect it to be subsidized through tax policy.
Python, specifically winpython 2.7.x
You can see variables in the Variable Explorer and ipython is the default shell. Easy to install packages using the WinPython control panel.

Download it at https://winpython.github.io
Windows packages at http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs
The fine tolerance coil made of kilometers of superconducting wire. All the care and material considerations needed for tight tolerance device that has to survive being cooled to a few degrees kelvin. On top of that the safety considerations of storing energy in the gigajoule realm.
We can expect an increase in the cost of inputs for essential consumer goods to be passed on to the customers in the form of higher prices for those products. Dairies, meat processors, and supermarkets are not going to just sit there and take the loss.
I've used Benchwarmer in the past. Does the same thing, but with a few extra features. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/benchwarmer-new-ta...
The issues with Common Core as I've read are a lot bigger than a few oddball problems, or under-developed worksheets or testing. The problem is apparently instead of taking these core and mostly trivial concepts and finding ways to actually make them intuitive, in the name of "critical thinking" we've created this theater-of-the-absurd approach like what you see discussed above.

I don't have much personal exposure to "Common Core", but I've found when all the implementations turn out as shit, the blame usually lies with the specification.

My personal opinion is that a lot of this overloading on processes and bizarre approaches to presenting problems (and don't get me started on the form of homework assignments and tests) is because we're out-pacing the natural cognitive developmental process. For example, take the sample chapters that were on the front page a couple days ago from "Math from [Age] 3 to 7" [1] you can see a very interesting approach to building math skills. But even in that case, the author is rushing developmentally advanced tasks which are more likely to result in frustration and giving-up than engagement and learning.

Fundamentally, most learning does not occur while a teacher is speaking. The more absurd lengths the teacher goes to "explain" some concept, the less likely any child is to actually learn it. The more foreign the concept is by the time the kids get home, the less likely it is to be mastered.

I have a daughter in Kindergarten, but fortunately not one that follows CC. I just spent some time reading through /Math/Content/K/ on corestandards.org. Most of it is, IMO, complete trash and not at all aligned with how kids in kindergarten actually learn this shit. As a "spec" it's writing is sloppy, poorly defined, and highly ambiguous. If this is the starting point, I'm not at all surprised the resulting lesson plans are worse than nothing.

I also spent some time reading /Math/Practice and it struck me how all these things that CC is presenting as "Standards for Mathematical Practice" are not at all how children conceptualize mathematics, or cognitively approach the task of solving a math problem. Many of the stated practices are directly contrary to how children will naturally want to approach and solve a given problem, and I can imagine exactly how teachers faced with "instilling" these practices would get to exactly where we find ourselves.

[1] - http://www.ams.org/bookstore/pspdf/mcl-5-prev.pdf
"Others I know will literally lay on a couch for 10 hrs."

You can't tell how much the person is getting out of the experience just by looking at them. They could just lie on the couch for ten hours with their eyes closed and be having one of the most profound experiences of their life. In fact, someone who is using the drug for introspection is almost certainly getting more out of the experience than someone who is using the drug to explore the world. Most serious psychonauts recommend taking the drug laying down in the dark while blindfolded to get the most out of it.

I mean think about it, you're about to have one of the five most important experiences of your life, on par with death or the birth of a child.[1] Do you really want to have that experience while in a movie theater watching Harold & Kumar?

[1] source: http://csp.org/psilocybin/

"Even at the 14-month
follow-up, 58% of 36 volunteers rated the experience on the psilocybin session as among the five most personally meaningful
experiences of their lives and 67% rated it among the five most
spiritually significant experiences of their lives, with 11% and
17%, respectively, indicating that it was the single most meaningful experience, and the single most spiritually significant experience. Furthermore, 64% of the 36 volunteers indicated that the
psilocybin session experience increased their sense of well-being
or life satisfaction either moderately or very much, and 61%
rated that the experience was associated with moderate to
extreme positive behaviour change."
What are living costs like in Chile?
Forget what company it is for a moment. Buying private shares of a pre-IPO company whose financial details aren't known is a very risky form of investing. On IPO day you could quite literally lose 90% of your investment before being able to sell it. You say you're not a stock whiz... so if you don't know how to trade the public stock market where information is plentiful, what makes you think you can do it on the private market where you are an outsider?

Take one guess what Goldman Sachs and their buddies will do when this thing goes public.
The US doesn't need to monetarily attract new startups, it just needs to get the visa/immigration nightmare the hell out of the way.
Have you even come to Chile? You should either come or read more, because even though the mining industry is huge, by no means everything IT is related to mining. There's a very healthy and continuously growing startup/entrepreneurship community, with big organizations pushing to help them along, including the government, with programs like Startup Chile. BTW, GoaP is coming to Chile next week: http://geeksonaplane.com/destinations/santiago/ (I'll be participating in some of those activities).
I think what Newport is saying is that you have to work smart harder in order to get smarter and more hard-working. It's after the hard work and learning that the inspiration comes. The paradox is that if you want something to "come to you" you have to go after it first.
If they don't, past experience suggests they'll end up with smartphones that no one in North America will want to buy.
Seems like there are a lot of Nokia people doing a lot of rationalizing about whether Nokia's the top or bottom in their new relationship with Microsoft. Exhibit A:

"In this question [Kai Öistämö of Nokia] revealed that Microsoft has actually partnered with Nokia to include Nokia Maps in all their service platforms."

Sure it did.

Regarding the UI customization, this is just delusional-slash-magical thinking that is par for the course with makers of commodity products under the thumb of their commodifier-master. They're always thinking that their "value add" is going to make them stand out when in fact it makes them like one more art student with dyed hair in the oh-so-individual clone army: interchangeably weird.
yes but your trivial "1 step" is actually - build a world class, global scale search engine that is at least as good as googles. There is no sign whatsoever that they are even trying - search in facebook is pretty basic IMO and frequently fails to find stuff I have found before using the same keywords

If they build a space ship, something that they are also "1 step" away from doing they can eat Virgins lunch too!
I like to listen to music that was clearly personal when it was originally written. I use genius a bit, because the only alternative is songmeanings.com, and genius is clearly better, when it has the content I'm looking for.
This is terrible advice. Video game pros have extremely short careers (the runtime of the video game or until their body gives out). They typically work 12 hour days, and as soon as its their job, the game isn't fun. At the end of their career- when they are perhaps 30, they are left with no skill and no job and not nearly enough money to retire.
The measurement seems to be strongly tied to glucose and hydration. I'd be interested in results after eating low-carb meals (e.g. nuts or steak) or in a state where glycogen stores are depleted (after exercise, fasting).
"cache" would be a much better term to use, as there are specific DMCA exemptions that protect caches:

http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise36.html
I'd love to see Moxie review this!
People are paying $125/month for 1GB memory and 10GB space? I see how AWS is making so much money, those prices are just insane.
That is very impressive. Almost as fast, or maybe even faster than me answering on IRC!
Consensus about the timeline and validity of transactions. What does what you said have to do with anything?
If lawmakers believed such a law would help the political goal of improving social mobility and true meritocracy (rather than hereditary) then such a law would pass, and universities would simply have to follow it. To answer your question, they wouldn't give that right up but rather have it revoked.
Has everyone already forgotten the LIBOR and FX price fixing scandals?

Markets are inherently shady, and there is no such thing as a 'fair price.'

If you can fix a market, you will. That goes double if you can fix it even more effectively with a price-fixing cartel - especially a state-sponsored one.

(Arguably this is what QE really does, only QE is quasi-legal.)

The only protection is good regulation. Markets on their own tend naturally to criminality and/or instability.

Karpeles was typical in that he was playing a variation on the usual games. But he wasn't professional enough to play them well.

Also, I'm not quite seeing the logic of promoting a currency system that has been proven to be trivially hackable.

(Although I suppose if you can get enough people to believe that next time will be different and your exchange will be the exception, there's certainly money to be made.)
Do you think that as Linux gets used in medical, military and home contexts perhaps lives may really be at risk?
Part II here: http://justsecurity.org/21409/doe-v-cisco-legal-issues/
You'll get more detailed user opinions on the soylent forum.

I go through 3 bags a week. I'm on my second of 1.4:

The sugar crashes I would get in previous versions are significantly reduced in 1.4.
The artificial vanilla flavor made 1.3 tastier; 1.4 is easier to prep but its blend of oils and lack of grittiness makes it smoother and slimier.

Unmodified 1.4 digests slightly better than 1.3 for me.
1.3 digested best for me when I added psyllium husk.
I'll be adding that again next batch to test.
I think IRC suffers from a public image issue due to poor UX. I had someone tell me the other day that the reason they think Slack is better than IRC is because the chat is prettier, as if that isn't completely user replaceable.

It also has a higher barrier of entry, since you have to find and likely install a client, find a server to connect that client to, and know what channels to join in order to find conversation (assuming your IT policy isn't blocking IRC ports, and the irc server doesn't require ident auth). Most IRC client UIs are still inspired by irssi, high in utility and information density, but low in glamor. Monospaced fonts are typically the default.

Slack doesn't require any of these things, you click a button on a website, enter your name, and are put right into general chat. The UI is carefully designed and aesthetically pleasing. Since entire groups are topic specific, you don't have to go looking for the specific room you want. Slack removes the burden of choice.

There's not enough being done to resolve this problem for IRC. IrcCloud has tried to solve the client problem, putting it all in a browser, eliminating the networking aspect, and making the UI as pleasing as they can, but there's nothing to be done for the discovery issue that doesn't also hamstring IRC power users.
20 years ago today, I was getting ready to head back to my final semester of my undergrad in CompSci. I had just completed my last course that used the IBM 370 with Modula-2 (the base language for UND at the time). The Internet for me was mostly mailing lists and USENET. I so wanted a NeXT cube but there was no way I could afford it. My last papers were completed on a Mac SE/30. No class I had touched a GUI. The one class that had Lisp was a nightmare because the VAX had too little memory so the REPL became batch processing with 2 or more students working at the same time. The only computer I bought was an Atari 130xe to replace my old 400, and all it was used for was electronic fun with the joystick/paddle ports (or the occasional MULE game).
That's correct. Last time I tried it, Reddit was borking HTTP POST requests made through Tor. Now they seem to redirect everybody to HTTPS after login and the problem is solved.
I'm not sure if the misspellings are intentional, but in case they aren't:

suscribe -> subscribe
beliving -> believing
acqueiring -> acquiring
undestands -> understands
simbols -> symbols
destryed -> destroyed