jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think you have JS confused with TCL, the other language that Sun announced was going to be the universal web browser scripting language, right before Java happened.

Remember "The Great TCL War of 1994"?

Why you should not use Tcl
Richard Stallman (rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu)
Fri, 23 Sep 94 19:14:52 -0400

http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/0000.html
My friends sometimes have to download odd software from the net and their AV's have helped them avoid disasters.
In general I agree, but I also have a counter point.

I enjoy the European shows on Amazon and Netflix, much more so than the tiring Hollywood garbage.

Netflix does bring a decent budget for more Hollywood competitive production value to shows that feel distinctively less "US", which is a good thing for Europe, or at least provides a distribution platform to increase revenue for local shows.

Of course many of those shows also are produced for selling to a global audience, and French or some other local productions are more valuable for a European culture.

But the contribution is not zero or negative.

German shows were especially horrible (no, really, horrible) until very recently.
Drawn and computer generated images of that kind are legal under the First Amendment in the USA. I mention it because they are, in contrast, illegal in Canada.
Yes, I thought it was just reading material and didn't realize that you were sharing code. Sorry! Have restored "Show HN" now.
And yet, it didn't do that with the US. I'm frankly shocked that so many anti-maskers and covid-hoaxers are so adamant, because this was the perfect case for universal health care in the US. And yet, you hear NO ONE calling for it. It's like learned helplessness. There's almost half the population that actively rejects it, which is mindboggling to me.
I would like to see more regulations that apply only to companies over a certain size.

I'm a big proponent of capitalism but competition does seem to break down once companies reach a certain size. Just too easy for the largest players to buy out competitors with life-changing amounts of money, steal customers by offering huge but temporary incentives, or push through regulatory capture.

I think an ideal government would rely more on the private sector but would ensure a level playing field and foster healthy competition between companies.
The US has been union unfriendly since the 19th century when union leaders were regularly assassinated, and in the 20th century when striking workers were aerially bombarded and killed.
> Is a waiter with a really bad peanut allergy required to serve a guest a dish with peanuts in it?

I'm having a hard time constructing a scenario in which the only way to accommodate a guest with a disability to the same level as other guests is for a waiter with a peanut allergy to serve a dish with peanuts in it.

In this hypothetical restaurant, presumably the waiter cannot serve this dish to /any/ guests. And the ADA doesn't entitle you to have a restaurant make food to your specifications, as far as I know.
>> If you're an engineer you should never go work there-- the management is all non-engineer types.

> As an engineer, your manager WILL BE a former SDE. If you are a manager, however, then maybe your manager may not have been an engineer.

Totally untrue. I spent many years at Amazon, with most of my managers being managers by trade and half of them being openly non-technical.

>> All advancement is political and because of stack ranking its really easy to stab people in the back

> The type of "stack ranking" people refer to as being evil is not the same that's practiced at Amazon (it's barely stack ranking at all). And you saying that advancement is political, just shows that you're disgruntled with the company, this is just not true (for engineers at least).

If you are not a manager, you do not have direct visibility into this process and cannot make this claim. If you are a manager, then you're aware that every department is run very differently and should also be aware that some of them are very political.

I'm curious on what you think separates Amazon's interpretation of stack ranking from the "bad" versions, or how it is "barely" stack ranking at all.
>> Buying a house with a mortgage is just a market transaction. There is no moral dimension, and it's naive to inject one.

It is obviously immoral IMHO to voluntarily fail to pay for a house, or for anything else for that matter, if you bought it.

>> If the shoe were on the other foot, the banks would do exactly the same thing.

Then that would just make the banks the immoral party, instead of the homeowners.
"Itâ€™s Always Sunny..." should be, "It’s Always Sunny..."

Encoding/escaping problem?
With Cloudflare Tunnel you don't need a VPN on the client.
I have a possible solution but I can't figure out how to post it here without spoiling it immediately. If you tell me it's OK, or if somebody tells me how to post text with a black background (so you have to select the text to see it), I'll post it.
My thought process was like this. In order for a social network to capture the market, it should attract as many users as possible, because having your friends, relatives, coworkers etc. in a social network is why people use them in the first place. Therefore it will have to be free for users. Therefore it will have to make money in some other way, which will probably have something to do with user data and/or user attention. If they find a way to do that in a way that is compliant with the current EU regulation, the public sentiment towards making business with user data is such that this will likely be seen as circumventing the law as soon as the company will become successful enough. Which in turn will result in more regulation introduced to cover what you do specifically.

What could work is what many (most?) European startups do - pretend to try to capture the market, get acquired by a large company before shit hits the fan and when it predictably fails it's not your problem anymore.
You mean channels like Erlang-style message passing? Where the send is async, and the receiver can pick things out of the queue out-of-order? That is indeed hard to deadlock. It's easy to get other pathological behavior out of them (endlessly-backing-up messages being the one I hit with some frequency) but deadlocks are hard. I think they're doable, but it takes work.

Deadlocking Go-style synchronous channels isn't hard. In practice they're practical to use because they're not particularly hard to not deadlock, either, but I can certainly deadlock them in code if I tried. But I'd be using patterns I'd normally be suspicious of.

(By contrast, conventional mutexes are hard to use without deadlocking, because as soon as you have more than one you have troubles. I use mutexes a lot in Go, but my rule is never take more than one at a time. As soon as you are tempted, do something else. IMHO, the conclusion from the 1990s and early 2000s is wrong... it is not that multithreading in general is impossibly hard, it is that multithreading with multiple mutexes is impossibly hard. If you stay away from that, rather than "impossibly hard" it is merely a challenge, but one humans can rise to meet. I think there's an unjustified residual fear of multithreading to this day that stems from this misunderstanding. And I mean "threads" just as multiple independent simultaneous execution, without regard to any particular technology used to implement them.)
Yes indeed:

https://www.regtransfers.co.uk/info/worlds-most-expensive-nu...

9 out of the top 10 are in UAE. Top price 7 million.
The counter argument could be that this defines free time as measured by its opportunity cost against something else, and not as just what you enjoy. I tell people all the time that what I'm doing isn't procrastination, it's sacrifice.
And ideally, you'll wrap them too. In what is often called "Anti-Corruption-Layers". Often very simple Proxies or Adapters. Consequentially, this makes testing (in isolation) far easier too.

Which also means you'll choose libraries that are decoupled by design because the others are really hard to write such wrappers for.
I was thinking about lojban (http://lojban.org) when I read this. I mean we do have programming languages, which are unambiguous. Why should we not alter our "natural", i.e. legacy based, communication when dealing with computers?
>You're just repeating FUD

And you're just spewing out the FDA report, which has already been debunked for making false comparisons (e.g. likening the kind of radiation one receives while flying with X-ray radiation of the backscatter machines).

>without having actually looked at the numbers

It doesn't sound like you're very well versed on this stuff either, yet you have no trouble running around defending what is likely the biggest rights violation the TSA has engaged in so far.

>If these machines aren't necessary

It's been stated by several security experts (including airport security personnel) that existing techniques can detect more threats then these silly backscatter machines. These machines are only in airports because a form TSA head works for the company that produces them now.
I think there are genuine needs for something like HNI. For instance there was a thread there about good quiet coffee shops for hacking. Its very India specific and I would know the frustration where that thread comes from. I do not think that such threads would be very well received here at HN, in the sense that it is unlikely to float up to the front page.

Its the notion of helping oneself to the brand without earning it in anyway that I find disagreeable.
For the people wondering why they don't see this setting, it has a karma threshold. I don't remember what it is, but it's something triple-digits.
Sneakers (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/8710). The film's aged a little, but it's nice to watch a fairly funny hacking film that doesn't dress up hacking into 3D flying GUIs, Hack the Planet or hacking a TLA with a gun put to your head, while getting head.

Brewster's Millions always cheers me up around Christmas, as does Trading Places (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/9749), both of which are slightly business related (although not exactly real-world related).

Someone else posted the pursuit of happyness (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/7605), when I stick that on it comes across as a bit schmaltzy for me but has a good message.

A beautiful mind (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/1112) is another great film about an incredibly smart but tortured genius who makes a massive contribution to economics.

Catch me if you can (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/1798) is based on the true story of a fraudster who ripped off banks for tons of money and did all kinds of amazing things with it. It's a great romp and I'd highly recommend a first watch.

Life is beautiful (http://www.themovietracker.com/movies/5583) is hardly an uplifting film but is incredible and if it doesn't make you thankful for what you have, then I'd question whether or not you have a soul.
Why the downvote ? I believe it is pretty much agreed on that letting lehman brothers fall was a mistake - of course, saying it afterwards is easy.
It's often the foolhardy and the ignorant that tackle problems that are supposedly impossible. And sometimes end up succeeding.

Wisdom is certainly something to take from, but embodying the limits imposed by someone as a roadblock to onself isn't the way to innovation.
We struggled to find a decent, reasonable value-for-money solicitor in the UK. We used one firm to advise us on a contract, via a recommendation. It was a terrible experience. The partners dealt with our deal (£375 / hour) and they totally failed to answer or address any of our concerns/issues, delivering the weakest advice. A total waste of money.

We have subsequently found another solicitor to advise us on a shareholders agreement. Found them by chance, but they've been fantastic. My advice for a startup in the UK looking for advice would be:

- You don't need a major name or magic circle firm. Our firm was a "top 100" with 3 offices and 75 lawyers in London.
- You don't need a partner, a senior associate with relevant experience is fine (in our case IT, shareholders agreements) and the fees are a lot less (we paid £230 / hour)
- Independent experienced advice is invaluable. It's absolutely a worthwhile investment. Really helps you know where you stand, what you are justified in pushing back on etc.
Freedom Writers
He's not the first musician to do this. Although there's some appeal to the "free-beer-sell-peanuts" business model, I can't help but feel that if it caught on, the logical end-state would be all musicians giving away their music for free, and they'd have the same problem attracting attention as when they could sell records for a profit.
You meet your peers. You don't know who are meeting when you sign up. So you bump into ex-Yahoo employees starting cool startups, a Zynga employee, etc... To me, that's extreme serendipity :-)

The VIP stuff (meet Drew Houston and Trip Adler) is just the icing on the cake.
Restaurants are still open.
And the version most pertinent to us developers: "Weeks of coding can save you hours of planning."
> are having trouble really connecting with smaller businesses

there's no pricing, making it look expensive

Adding more visuals could definitely help, ie two timelines, comparing ads shown in a traditional Tv vs ads using Taiv.
I agree about the looseness in C++. However, the details of move semantics are not complex. For instance, reading first item of Effective Modern C++, “understanding type deduction” shows it’s pretty much the same as type deduction templates have used for decades. If one understands the aspects you mention above, good coding practices can easily be put in place and code reviews enforce.
You can't assume the top line effect size is real without critiquing the study design in detail. A lot of experienced drug developer think the data suggests that HCQ may be marginally effective, but Azt + HCQ seems promising. THere are others who are more skepticl

Check out this analysis: https://twitter.com/AppleHelix/status/1240495937522368512
> We’re in uncharted territory here [...]

Small point of disagreement on this one. There may not be a 1:1 correspondence between what’s happening now and any exact historical event, but I would have hoped that traditionally Western nations would have studied countries affected by SARS (et al.) and learned from their successes/failures.
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I've also got a 0-2 year experience embedded software role that doesn't have a job description yet: it's basically [0] with less experience.

iRobot is hiring a bunch of other software engineering positions as well. See all open positions at [1].

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Also interested, maybe if this takes off it will push advertisement infrastructure closer to hardware?
Food shortages aren't going to happen as long as seed companies are still creating GMOs to cheaply grow crops in places that they have no right existing in combined with world superpowers are still subsidizing the hell out of agriculture for bread & circus reasons. You'd lose the small independent farmers growing organic avacodas or whatever but the big staple crops aren't going at risk at all from climate change.

Not to say our food production couldn't collapse from a superbug decimating a monculture of wheat or something, but that happening would be completely independent of how healthy Earth's climate is
If they chose just one "truth", wouldn't they be targeted even harder?
Maybe. I recall shortly after sept 11th 2001 when there was general panic in the US, some guy there was arrested for possessing a book. He'd just taken it out of the library.

Here in the UK there are deliberate 'chilling effect' laws which are meant to discourage trying something by making them sufficiently unspecified as to catch anything the government wants to (heard about these on the radio 4 programme 'file on 4', it was about export restrictions).

Western governments are vastly better but they can do the same filthy tricks when it suits them.
No it adds ", Crimea, Russia" to the end of "Simferopol" in Weather.app but does not on the iPhone in US I just tried here.
You clearly aren't an active, engaged user on Twitter - quite the ignorant take you present.
How does it handle the Crimea question?
I had no idea what Go is. For people like me:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)
Definitely give Hyper-V a shot. I've been using it at home and work since Windows 8. I had a lot of issues with VirtualBox and networking (I could never SSH into a VM from the host working, for example). In Hyper-V, all you need to do is setup a virtual switch and the host and VM can talk to each other just fine. Hyper-V just works. I've got Linux and Windows VMs and have never had a problem with either (as far as virtualization goes). I use it less frequently now that Win10 has WSL & WSL 2, though (although WSL 2 uses a lightweight VM on Hyper-V).
Actually that page linked loads in a ROM for you.
It seems to work perfectly on Firefox 4 for my snow leopard machine.
Just a quick thing to point out. The rabbit is out of the hat (or whatever is the correct proverb for it). As with all technologies seen in years past, don't fight it on "legal" terms, and I don't mean legal as in suing the crap out of them (the Sony method), I also mean pleading to the community (the Valve method).

In reality if Dropship is illegally accessing a person's private files without "sharing" or making it public, fix that. The approach is quite novel in that you can create a one-off dropbox account, make it private, and claim someone "hacked" into your account to acquire it as it would appear Dropship's methods cannot be proven different than a hacking attempt, which means the uploader is not "responsible".

However to counter people's points, dropbox has no choice but to demand that any copyright violation even in private files is forbidden, otherwise they are hit with DMCA, the US laws give them zero wiggle room here.

Dropship is a nifty loophole in the DMCA rules allowing dropbox to become the legal rapidshare in the US, probably involuntarily and taking on legal risk they don't want in any way.
Previously, I used to read the comments first and then the article.
Now I'm reading the article first and ignoring the comments/vote.
Productivity is a factor of efficiency and effectiveness. Efficiency being the measurement of how fast things get done, and effectiveness a measure of how well things get done (meeting the requirements, including all features, number of bugs/issues that crop up, quality of code).

This is essentially the same thing you are saying, just broken down. Still, it's difficult (not impossible) to measure one programmer against the next in terms of productivity. Using these metrics it is quite possible to measure a programmer against himself over time.

The problem is that measuring the necessary factors affects the level of productivity being measured.
I really miss comment points on book recommendations. I can't tell you how many books ive purchased over the years based on a highly rated HN comment.

I second what others have mentioned that it would be good to re-display comment scores on older posts. This way we could at least see the community consensus after some time has passed.
What are some of the advanced features you might provide?
Unfortunately employers (myself included) like to have different programmers working on different tasks, where it can be difficult to measure non-equivalent tasks.
He created it in 2004. The only thing FB received during 2010 was criticism about the way they handle data.
In his example, morality is WoW, and the analogy is sound. By disrupting the low level activity, you prevent high level processes from emerging.

Try to degauss your cell phone, just to see what happens...
Nice, thanks. This is why I asked. That approach had not occured to me.
FAQ: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

On down voting: (From FAQ)

Q: Why don't I see down arrows?

A: There are no down arrows on submissions. They only appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold.
I thought that Bezos himself said deleting books from people Kindles was "stupid";

Here we go: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jul/24/amazon...
Comparing the .NET user base with the PHP user base also says a ton about its technical prowess. PHP is the Visual Basic of web development - it's considered an entry-level language and has a lot of problems. That said, Visual Basic paid a lot of my bills between 1991 and 1995.
Theres actually a relatively simple explanation when you look at the neurobiology. First of all toxo is a parasite that can infect and damage the brain so it makes sense that it could affect behavior. Secondly, the response of fear to cat urine or attraction to female mice is mediated by the same pathways in the brain (the limbic system, which governs emotion, and is closely tied to olfactory input, specially in mice). Making the mice feel attracted to cat urine is actually not that farfetched when you stop to think about it and notice that its just a matter of "flipping a bit" somewhere in the wiring. And since this adaptation leads to a large fitness increase it makes sense that it would be strongly selected for that that the modern version of the parasite would have very specialized mechanisms to take advantage of this quirk in the rat brain.
In Portugal, between same bank takes a few seconds, between different banks, usually next day (sometimes same day, but not common from what I have seen). I just sent some money to Germany and took a day to arrive in their bank account. On the other hand, I received a bank transfer today from the USA which was issued on Tuesday (2 work days, which is not bad)
>Pretty much every study of in-car touchscreens' effects on drivers reaches the same conclusion: They're a serious distraction.

I think serious flaw in these studies is that B case is users without distracting displays in the cars. But B case is people using their phone to pick the next podcast or change the album. To me google car is less dangerous because i am not using my phone to look for traffic patterns, change music ect.
Bill proposals rarely count as on topic for HN. Most bills never go anywhere.
Ubuntu should be pretty happy that this list of tiny nits is all that he could come up with. You're upset because the new logo doesn't match your old Ubuntu logo tattoo? My heart bleeds for you, man.
Main problem with C++ is non-technical. Based on some experience interviewing a dozen people a week for several months, C++ programmers tend to routinely overestimate their proficiency with the language, while C programers tend to have the opposite self-assessment. To put it differently - on average C++ devs are cocky, eveyone is a guru and C devs are basically modest.
He'll never have the joy of standing in the rain/cold/wind chatting to his girlfriend from a payphone.

He will have other joys. Joys that perhaps you will never have.
Reread your blog posts aloud

One of the more important points in that list IMHO. Also, don't write and publish a post before going to bed; you'll read your post again in the morning, and yes, you're going to alter it (yes, that's actually me sometimes).
> Perhaps the end of cheap oil could do it in a generation or two?

Maybe. But electric cars should be ready in a few decades at most.

(Disclosure: I really like trains, do not own a car and have even worked for Deutsche Bahn once.)