jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We're a Java house and just launched http://www.jigsawbox.com using the Play Framework (http://www.playframework.org/).

Play is seriously, seriously good. We used to build on top of a fairly heavy but powerful stack of Spring, Hibernate and Struts2/Wicket (depending on the app). Although there's a lot of power there there's also a lot of tangled XML and you need to do a fair amount of gymnastics to get through it all. Server restarts are common and painful. Getting exception stacks that run 200 classes deep are IMHO a bad sign.

Play is a total breath of fresh air. REALLY well thought out, clean, simple, fast:

- almost no server restarts needed,
- runs very very quickly in production
- stateless, so zero downtime deployments are trivial
- great community
- extendable with modules

Then there are all the little things. Libraries to do things like encryption and image resizing are built in and just work. Everything just works.

I can't recommend it enough. It really does liberate Java from the Enterprise shackles.
I never saw the number, what was DPR net worth when this all came to a crashing halt? I assume 10's of millions of dollars

Also - was that money recovered by the FBI or could they not find his private keys?
What bothers me are things like this which appear to be marketing messages aimed at CYA types or to simply lather up grandpa and the media:

"The threat of people getting into our systems today is so great that every company in the world has to embrace the notion that not only are they going to get hacked, there’s a good chance hackers are already inside … and they just don’t know it."

...and this:

"This set of companies comprise a very interesting category because everybody’s going to get hacked, so now it’s just a question of how quickly we respond when we see odd stuff going on within the company."

Specifically "everybody" and "every company". [1]

The idea that "everybody" is going to get "hacked" reminds me of the early days of the internet when newspapers were confused by what a "hit" to a website was. Not only would they print whatever you told them but they didn't recognize that serving up a graphic file which created a log entry wasn't significant in the way they thought it was. So we can just change the definition of "company" to suit our purpose and goal.

The fact is not even close to "everybody" is going to get hacked at least in a way that actually matters. Correct me if I am wrong (you would know the answer to this better) but are there even enough bodies to take advantage of all the targets assuming they had the skills and motivation to break into the targets and do something with the information?

[1] Is this the Valley's idea of saying that they can define things in a way that suits their purpose in other words only what they think is a company is a company?
How about Javascript?
I agree. Simply writing my own scripting language once taught me a lot more than I would have expected. Now I use Lua, though.
Carl Sagan put it best:

"But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
Inflation is typically measured by the price of a basket of goods and services designed to be representative of what is actually consumed. If the shrinking or growing of offerings simply changes what is consumed, then there is no real inflation change. What is measured depends on the definition of the basket of goods (does it contain "Mars bar" or "62.5g of chocolate bar").

The definitions of baskets of goods used to measure inflation tend to be changed over time to represent changes in consumption, such as 27" TV to 32" like you mention. As the 32" TV would be more expensive, this would create sudden inflation, however, this is diluted by the large size of the basket.

The quantity or size of the product is not important for measuring inflation, unless it creates a change in consumption. E.g. do people now buy two chocolate bars to sate their appetite? Do people buy fewer TVs because a TV of twice the areal size can substitute two smaller TVs?
I wonder how much disagreement shows up online because the internet is so different for each of us... from just different interests to search customization.

We could both be completely right about our own experiences.

It makes sense too that if Pinterest is promoted hard enough to get an 'adequate' dosage to everyone, that some people are going to be overdosed really hard even before you begin to factor in differences in tolerance.

I routinely search with site filtering to eliminate it, but every time I forget it's like stubbing my toe and I feel dumb for forgetting the 19 character magic word required to get useful results. Doubly so because I often misspell it.

If the web were my shell I would have punched in "alias gis=..." long ago.
I get the motivation of what you're saying - but I'm going more towards splitting the back end from knowing too much. Do authentication in a proxy layer (can deploy as a sidecar if suitably containerized) and then have a bearer token between the proxy and the app server. Yes it's a lot of "architecture" for a newby but it generalizes well to the byzantine Oauth cases without requiring too mach app rewrtiting and this kind of service split is pretty do-able given a Paas.
Work done by private entities under contract to the government is copyrightable.
>And I am really tired of of screaming "workers rights" all the time.

That line sums up this entire site. Talking about workers rights is politics, and we can't talk about that.

Let's just invent things and concentrate on that shall we?

It doesn't matter what effect it has on people or society, that's for other people to think about.
> Well-known pro-democracy advocate Alexandra “Grandma” Wong, who was detained in the city of Shenzhen over the border from Hong Kong in August, said this was “the day that we are longing for”.

> “Because I was detained in Shenzhen, my ballot has become a wasted paper. This breaks my heart. Please help add oil for me and vote. All the Best!!! Be Safe!!!” she wrote[.]

加油, which literally means “add oil” when one is at a petrol station, is better calqued as "give support" in this translation.
US credit card fees aren’t capped at all from my understanding. Merchants pay something like 2.3% IIRC.
The problem is that the government gets to decide what's super secret and what's not, so you'll get a gradual erosion of information as more and more stuff gets marked as secret, even when it's just embarrassing or difficult to handle.

A similar thing happens with FOI requests here in Australia - there's an exemption for material which is 'commercial in-confidence'. Now pretty much everything that the government produces is marked as commercial in-confidence, and it's back to the old system of suing the government to release information.

Far better to have people leak stuff and then be protected under whistleblower / freedom of the press laws if it's in the public interest (with presumption that it is in the public interest, so the government has to bring a case to prove that it's not).
That's just semantics. You can stop terrorists by killing them.
A completely open market will favor the introduction of single-source monopolies - such as making all electronics in China. It is ostensibly more efficient to do things this way, but there is a massive downside. It's fragile, it's over-optimized to specific environmental conditions.

For an example of a shock that exposes these problems in the U.S./China trade, if oil prices rise, everyone loses. The producers will have to absorb higher export costs by raising prices. Subsequently, sales fall. Recession on both sides.

Trade barriers are a way to encourage local production, which will not only diversify the economy, but insulate against resource shocks. The problem isn't in raising them, but in lowering them later on when the market needs more efficiency; at that point, the fat incumbents will lobby hard to keep their protection.
Well then he has been at this for a lot of years, and perhaps now knows how to do it. :-)
I can't really figure out what this purchase is about, if it has indeed gone down.

Google usually acquires tech companies. Groupon is a marketing company with a good business model. What would Google want to do with this? Integrate into Gmail/Google Checkout?
As optimistic as you might be, I have to imagine the odds of that happening are exceptionally small.

While you could point to the pulling of downloads, and pulling of GitHub accounts as a transitional 'rebranding', I just don't see what incentive Apple has to open source a system that is useful to bigger players and generates a lot of revenue.
Hmm, that's not a bad idea! Current sprayers would obviously be inefficient because they rely on wipers to spread fluid widely over the windshield, but I'm sure that could be changed. (Such as a top pressure-rail for dispensation)
> Using it to demonstrate how (class-based) OO languages work should be standard in any course that has CS in its title.

I'm not sure if you meant to put it that way, but that is a horrible standard for "any course that has CS in its title". I would not like to walk into a course on, say, intro to AI, and have a session demonstrating how class-based OO languages work using C.

For the general thrust of your point, cbd1984 pretty much covered everything I would have said in response.
> And as an Iraqi, I wish they had the balls to bomb their headquarters.

Please don't do this here. It breaks the rules at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html badly, and it also badly discredits any good information in the rest of your comment.
According to TIME magazine, the point of online polls is Moot.
Full Stack Developer with more than 5 years of experience in software
engineering.

Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

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Not directly related but, I was at a security related convention and overheard some people talking about an image that when occupying <3/4 of a frame will crash any digital camera. (Phone, DSLR, IP Camera) Does anyone know anymore information about this image and effect? I imagine it's a bug in some low level firmware of a common IC for digital photography DSP but, I'm very unfamiliar with digital cameras. It also could have been complete bunk because I've not heard of it since and it wasn't being showcased at the convention.
Most every major railroad has a police force.
Hyperterminal?
The client side shorten request to bitly.com exposes the bitly credentials.
Alternatively, you can use the Data URI Scheme like so:

>>> "<h1>Hello, World!</h1>".encode('base64').strip('\n')
'PGgxPkhlbGxvLCBXb3JsZCE8L2gxPg=='

Paste this into your location bar: data:text/html;base64,PGgxPkhlbGxvLCBXb3JsZCE8L2gxPg==

Works in Chrome 10.0
Being well-read has more to do with reading the classics than the more modern authors (which the author does seem to half-acknowledge, though I'm not entirely sure what point he's making).

You find out which are the classics as you observe them enduring for decades, and then centuries. Dickens will always be with us. So will Hemingway, I suspect. JK Rowling? Unlikely.

The fact that someone like Lionel Trilling is no longer read simply indicates that, no matter the critical acclaim at the time, he was not, in fact, destined to become a classic, imho. And yes, "classic-ness" is not something that an author will know about themselves during their lifetime. History is the judge, and history only judges dead authors.
That is very sad. My kids particularly liked the Sarah Jane Adventures.
I would like to know too. Snapchat was ephermerial messages, stories, and filters? Tik tok is reels?
The conclusion I came to was that there’s no magic wand, and the only “real” solution is more housing. LA is a very desirable place to live, and the city has failed to deliver on the necessary new housing to economically support the demand.
It is a pain in the ass, nobody really wants to work on it, it creates a maintenance risk, and Googlers are paid super high salaries.

Google has a NIH problem in many spaces, but the decision to scrap the ancient internal system and go with Workday (despite Workday being a nightmare) was clearly the right one.
Like chronic back pain and medications for that? Or MS and the cocktails of steroids which can reduce the pain long term? How about our penchant for using advanced sedation before putting people through surgery, and pain relievers after?

Yeah, it’s a damned shame we medicate people with those things. /s
Agreed. OOP is obnoxiously convoluted at times and—I feel anyway—never fully delivered on its promises of reuse. I've been using Elixir for about five years now and I never want to write another line of OOP code. I don't care what language it is in.
My god, it’s like Perl but somehow worse. How do you even keep track of what’s going on?
As someone who isn’t a neuroscientist I thought this was the default position?

Is it really true, as the article states, that the field has largely dismissed the brain’s EM fields as irrelevant?

If so, this is the sort of thing that causes “armchair theorists” to feel frustrated when they offer seemingly obvious cross-domain insights for further exploration and are dismissed as naive.

On the other hand 30 seconds of browsing Google Scholar shows references to a conscious electromagnetic information theory dating back to at least 2001.
Full text - https://archive.is/a3Mst
Cynical me says they are building up an audience, and then they'll start injecting ads into the streams.
source? I thought the next step was 40G?
"Fossil doesn't have any concept of patch management via email, which is fairly central to most OSS projects I'm involved with."

Don't you use 3 sites, one you write that try to optimise away from this ghetto process?

I had a look at your accounts, some of your projects have 0 followers, and your average follower count is around 0.9. You can calculate your average commit and contributor volume on your own, or maybe write that into Kiln.

If your download count just increased to 1, that's because I accidentally clicked between the headings and got a .gz file with an attachment header from the server (wtf?).

I think the most important thing in the original article is the serious point that there are plenty of us out there who have to know and use all of the SCMs and tbh, they aren't really that different. All the ones I use in OSS do one major job: SCM. Even as you put it on your blog "the enemy of git and mercurial" (wtf?) subversion actually does a good job at this. For a long time it was king, too. In fact, I still miss the svn/trac combo, but Zeds point about this being a shit to setup and consuming way too much by way of server and admin resources is spot on the money. Not wanting some commercial venture to host it for you / or not liking their specific feature set is taste, but it won't stop anyone that matters from using your code, or submitting patches.

Man I should never come to HN, clearly.
More interesting is the article linked about Yandex, the leading russian search engine, I had never heard of it.

http://searchenginewatch.com/3634912
For those wondering what the 22 laws refer to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_22_Immutable_Laws_of_Market...
Cars have the same exact problem. I can't just buy a "car". No, first I have to pick the kind I want, and then the manufacturer, and the size, and the color.

Why can't they make just one "car" and stop this fragmentation of the transportation market.
Oz, what's your email?
If you think that reading list is comprehensive, wait til you see what the autodidact layman has to read ;-) Don't let your curiousity and learning potential be bounded by a formal curriculum.

PLs are immensely interesting and rewarding. Have fun!
It's like Windows vs Mac where there is no Microsoft Office to force everyone to say, "Hmm, well, I really just need to use Microsoft Office."
Do you have any references to back up this statement? From everything that I've read, it'e incorrect. Take these well-known programmers: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/emacs_hand_pain_celebrity.html
There are a few major electronics parts markets in Shenzhen, primarily Huaqiangbei and Luohu Commercial City (I've never been, I just hire someone with EE experience to do it for me). Most of the big name IC manufacturers' parts can be found between those two. When you are manufacturing anything in large quantities, part reliability (a better word would be authenticity) and availability are major concerns that are usually dealt with by someone upstream with experience in supply chains. When negotiating contracts I am always up front about how and where all of the major components will be sourced depending on a variety of factors.

For example, if there is a tight deadline (e.g. designing part of a motherboard based on a new chipset where time to market is critical) then the first few revisions will be made up of parts sourced mostly from Shenzhen. If it's a niche contract (like defense/aerospace) then it depends on how fast I get the primary parts (e.g. rad hardened processors take a minimum of 3 months lead time so all parts are from manufacturers starting from the first revision). However, unless there is an extreme deadline or a manufacturer I loath dealing with (cough Marvell cough) the final boards sent to the client are made with manufacturer sourced parts, for which I have to start the procurement process the second I get the contract.
if you want to get rid of intrusive ads and tracking, you should use hosts file from someonewhocares.org

because ad block won't work on mobiles, and devices owned more by Google/apple than yourself.

if you want to block malicious scripts and plugins you should use noscript.

both will actually improve memory use and performance, not to mention getting closer to solving the problem in the first place
>This is not something about her capabilities, but about the limitation of current input devices regarding our hands.

I think it's more a story about our adaptability in general.

Many years ago, I worked with a developer who happened to be blind. While coding, he used an audio screen reader. If you've ever heard one, you know that they can be set to read incredibly fast, such that it sounds like absolute gibberish to the untrained ear.

So, whereas I couldn't even discern the words/characters being read, it made absolute sense to him. Much as I was amazed by it, I also know that he didn't start there. Years of practice, finding shortcuts, etc. made it as much second nature to him as reading code on the monitor was for me.

Of course, it also didn't hurt that he was brilliant.
She mentions being excited about the Leap Motion. That's not very accurate so she probably had to give up. There is better hand tracking software under development. This company's Kickstarter project got canceled when Oculus bought them: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nimblevr/nimble-sense-b...

And Control VR uses gloves but might prove to be very accurate: http://controlvr.com

The VR headsets are driving the development of this technology.
If you have the capability to bore a hole through the center of the earth, you would be so much more advanced than the current state of the art, that our puny earthling money wouldn't buy you anything you couldn't get in easier ways.
FoundersNetwork.com
The easiest way to do this is to determine how much value your work has added to the company you work for. If the software you've worked on has added a million dollars in extra profit to the bottom line, that is a good starting point to start from. Secondary business objectives could count as well, e.g. increased customer satisfaction, innovation, etc.

A problem for many people is that it's hard to compute their exact value, or they are afraid to have that kind of discussion.

If you're being paid $75k a year, and you've added a significant amount to the bottom line, I doubt you'll have a hard time negotiating a $10-20-30k increase. Same goes for a new job: give them examples of achievements, and show how you were beneficial to the business.

Negotiating a new secondary offer is a great thing to do; it gives you additional leverage. If there's a chance a value creating employee will leave, there is no reason not to give a raise. You could use that offer to negotiate a 25-35% increase, if you can show the value you've created at your current company.

To put it bluntly, most employees are actually not worth that much. They get hired at the least amount possible, and they execute strategies, for the most part, set by a few people who are paid significant amounts.

I also like this Quora post: http://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-jobs-do-software-engineers.... Check out the first answer written by Amin Ariana; it explains things well.
The Secondary skills distribution chart seems the most interesting to me -- it seems to indicate that Python users are more interested in other programming languages and general Computer Science (C++/Java, Unix, machine learning), while Ruby users are more likely to be focused on app/web dev (CSS, Coffeescript, Objective-C). This makes sense given Rails' popularity and libraries like scikit-learn, numpy, etc.
They’re not even enterprise! They’re an advertising company that believes they are changing the world. They are right, just not for the reasons they tell themselves.

Microsoft was an operating system and word processor vendor who wanted to be many other things. The only other thing that ever turned a clear profit in a decade was their hardware division, which I gotta say was well deserved. But all of their money came from tech, and selling that tech. Google isn’t even that.
It blocks heat well, or conducts heat poorly. Too me the second option actually sounds better.
California literally has the National Guard supporting food banks across the state right now: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/21/coronavirus-governor-...

I agree with your overall sentiment that we would benefit right now from inspirational leadership with strong messages of solidarity.

But at the same time, it's not all doom and gloom. There's a lot of good happening as well.
Have a look at (silica) aerogels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel they are in widespread commercial use.

As another commenter noted the shuttle tiles are not made of aerogel but they are indeed silica based.
Also, why would census data include a credit score?

This is fishy.
> perhaps to seem friendly and more approachable.

nothing makes me press ctrl-w faster that a web page that tries to be "friendly" (in an american pop-culture way) with me.
If you are lucky enough to have any land at all, kale is extremely easy to grow
What would it take to use this on a complete linux distro like ubuntu? Seems like it would be a respectable improvement.
Perhaps we are each talking too generally and need a bit more specificity. If we're talking about premium products in the sense of iPhones, new cars, video games and other kinds of irregular purchases like that then I expect you're right at least in the short term. But the relevant point of discussion here is what you tend to need from a supermarket in day-to-day household consumables and their respective economy/premium products which contribute to a household's regular expenditures. In the household consumables case, the premium products are definitely still selling.