jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
A poem of his that I think better conveys the idea is "air and light and time and space" (http://www.organicmechanic.org/2005/04/three-by-bukowski/)

"baby, air and light and time and space

have noth­ing to do with it

and don’t cre­ate any­thing

except maybe a longer life to find

new excuses

for."

Now, people who have never tried their hands at writing (or any other tough creation process) should know that this is now always true. There are writers who just sit and go in one sitting (I had read that Gabriel García Márquez wrote One Hundred Years of Solitude nonstop, holed up in his study), but this is rather rare. Most writers go through countless revisions, reversal, etc.

However, the grand feeling of "this is the thing I have to do in life", of course, has to be there.
thank you for the post. i feel this pain for years.
I have similar experiences. A company I worked for shifted their headquarters from Sydney to Singapore. I found staff in the Singapore office either loved me or hated me, generally for the same reasons: they thought I was young, clever and refreshing in terms of using logic and simple reason, or thought I was young, immature and a troublemaker for not understanding the importance of authority and beuracracy. It was incredibly frustrating, and something other staff from non-Singaporean backgrounds (Asian and otherwise) experienced the same issues.
Was it something like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWTy9fE48og
Agreed, not useful, but entertaining. (Similarly, how about a webapp for simulation of various founder /funding scenarios?)
They may have made some significant changes, but the curriculum that I see on the site you linked still looks very similar. Relational database are taught in 4th year and the curriculum as a whole has little to no grounding in modern technology.

If you're looking to learn basic programming skills, it's great. If you want to be part of a cutting edge program, as the OP seems to, look elsewhere.
For Linux users there is also redshift application -- that is a f.lux analog.

http://jonls.dk/redshift/
If you needed further evidence, this suggests that there are ridiculous inefficiencies in matching up labor and jobs that you could make money solving. (In this case, caused by the dating site conundrum: there are more men then women, causing men to send out lots of messages without much thought, causing women to be very choosy in responding to messages, causing frustrated men to send more messages, causing women to be even more choosy in replying, etc etc. Though "must already be in a relationship" would not be a very mainstream criteria for dating sites. I hope.)
The east-side theory predicts the geographical distribution of property values and of low-income households. These maps plot the distribution of crime as measured by arrests. Poverty and crime are not the same thing.
This was a great article if for no other reason than that it just helped me diagnose my insomnia. Knew my symptoms but didn't know the name for my particular type. And F.lux seems like a great first step. Thanks
Well most people don't blog. We just don't have that much to say.
"The main reason is that at this point, BitBucket is simple attempting to feature copy from Github except using Mercurial in the background."

I am so tired to read things like that.

Issue-tracking at github is far behind bitbucket issue tracking (try to make complex search queries... you cannot link a commit to an issue except when closing the issue... tags are nice, but i dislike having to create a tag for each milestone/release).

Wikis at Github have only been recently backed by a git repository: as far as I know, wikis at bitbucket have always been backed by a mercurial repository.

It's true that bitbucket is a lot like github and that github has a bigger and more dynamic community (from my experience, github's infrastructure is also faster), but can we leave bitbucket alone and stop the bashing?
One is a new device, the other is used. Comparing them when they were new would be where I was talking about.. even today I'd suggest a moto-g over a 4S unless you have other apple hardware already.
The idea is that CFD providers like coinapult should be able to pay you more interest than a bank. Of course they don't and so you are right that just holding your $10 is better.
Relevent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8478427#up_8479909
My first reaction is: This would be really cool if I hadn't already invested the effort to learn LaTeX/XeTeX. Does this really provide anything beyond the really nice formatting?
At the cost of having zero Python libraries in your toolkit. More than any other language I'd say Python's success is due to the available libraries. Without them Python is a very average, boring scripting language with pointless limitations such as single-expression lambdas.
The underlying tech is QEMU, so probably equivalent or better.
All. That's the issue they've got. It looks like we're going to have to hide it for anyone that comes in via the App Store.

Another problem is we've got 4 products and only one is listed on the Shopify app store. If they log in via product A's listing then buy product B, it seems we must use Shopify's billing for that too.
No one here said anything to the contrary.
I personalny blame american culture (and protestant work ethic hidden behind it). Add some capitalistic rat race to that and You will get richest society on earth in which almost no one can stop for a moment to take a breath and maybe even do some parenting.
Meanwhile here in Poland my wife was able to take year long parent leave (two times - one for each child). Some may say this is sociallism - and I would say that it does not mean it is a bad idea. It makes socially acceptable for parents to take a break.
Cool feature. I tend to keep my history but within some groups I have had to clear the history frequently (mostly I don't want to remember them in the future).

btw telegram seemed to have an short outage today
> UTM was created for macOS and only for Apple platforms

And it shows, the UI is beautiful. Will try this out.
Well in academia, and generally in research, interviews are about 1.5 days of solid interviews, plus an hour presentation. In normal times, add a good dose of jetlag.

I once interviewed at a place that was almost two solid days of 30 minute interviews, one after another. By the end of the second day I completely didn't care about anything they wanted to ask about or what they thought about my responses. I think this stamina crushing test was actually part of the evaluation. Not kidding about that.
I used to have an add-on that did exactly this. Don't know if it made the Web extension jump.
what's wrong with just using the jets we already have.

Two words: metal fatigue. Every airframe only has a finite amount of hours it can fly before its structure becomes too weak. Fighters in particular that regularly perform high-g manoeuvres. So they have to be replaced anyway.

The war in Afghanistan saw Western militaries burning off airframe-hours at a phenomenal rate using expensive fighters designed for neer-peer conflicts to drop dumb bombs, when you could have done the job for a fraction of the cost with simple propeller planes like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
This makes me wonder though, do they slow down because the signage that used to be posted has been taken down and they're now unsure of what to do in that area?

Many of the "driving problems" I've seen involve drivers in areas where they feel comfortable. Eg, the last bit before home. Part of me wonders if after a period of time, the same behaviours would resurface as people became acclimatized to the lack of signage.
Another such, for astronomy, is Galaxy Zoo: http://www.galaxyzoo.org/ .
Its just such an odd place to be in at the moment from an international point of view.

It just feels as if something is missing from the discussion.
Half of the voter base has not even heard of Parler, let alone would be silenced if it was held to minimal standards of accountability.
What are you suggesting by "the vote didn't matter?" Just because they might believe Trump's lies about the most recent election doesn't mean their emotions are justified.
More seriously, why can't we get Trump in front of a doctor who can involuntarily commit him.
I guessed this before clicking, but its still interesting to know it exists. My next question is are they like invasion stripes on an aeroplane - i.e. they are changed before an operation so the enemy can't copy them - or are they coded depending on factors like rank or specific training, like the shapes on UK police cars?
If "organized crime" was good enough for the mafia, why not here?
> that they'll follow half-heartedly if at all

At that point it’s bad company culture right?
The thing I've seen, read and heard for years is "agency". Buzzword, but "having some ability to affect outcomes", so whether "I've moved the photocopier because people couldn't get to it where it was" or "I've moved the marketing team because they needed X" - as long as people feel they can make a difference, are listened to and their skills are used - they're more likely to be happy.

And this, presumably mean "great company culture" too.
Wow, TMG was a new one for me. From the Wiki article on it:

"Douglas McIlroy ported TMG to an early version of Unix. According to Ken Thompson, McIlroy wrote TMG in TMG on a piece of paper and "decided to give his piece of paper his piece of paper," hand-compiling assembly language that he entered and assembled on Thompson's Unix system running on PDP-7."

We are not worthy, friends. We are not worthy.
> Like Donald Trump, But For Nerds

Tweet controversial things confidently and erratically to build buzz, then just pretend you never said it, and be defended to the death by your horde of passionate believers who know it’s obvious what you really meant to say.

I don’t think Musk is actively as malicious as Trump but the Twitter playbook at least is quite similar.
Because it is too powerful. You can do something like this:

<div class="main"> oh <div class="sub"> hello </div> </div>

This is valid HMTL but it is not a valid structure in any context that I could imagine, because what is the "oh" supposed to do there?

To prevent these (and other) mistakes, the way you can build up the structure should be restricted in a meaningful way and certainly not allow text and random positions and similar things. You could then describe this with a subset of HTML, but there isn't really any reason to choose it, except for "I'm used to it". Better choose your native programming language. And if it is not better than a HTML subset, maybe consider choosing your language.
And if you hold the same opinion just not in the open?
This is the best Ask HN I've seen in a while. Fantastic.

As for OP, I recommend you consider data analytics. That may seem counterintuitive, but the analytical work is a great place to escape into, mentally. I really, REALLY enjoy it, and I can generally use whatever tools I want for the hard stuff, and then just spew out some Python/R for a notebook deliverable, or whatever format they want. It's really liberating to have so much control over the workflow, it's entirely unlike any other tech work I've performed.

Downside, there is a little "work" involved, but I think that you might not actually mind it. It seems you are frustrated with some part of your industry.

We can talk further if you'd like, I'd love to hear more about your story, however much of that you'd be willing/comfortable to share.
I think you misunderstand where I'm coming from. I agree with the goals of leftists - and with many left criticisms of late capitalism. My criticism comes from wanting those goals to be achieved more effectively. In other words, I think the left has successfully identified many problems in our society but lacks the tools to fix them, and I think I have an idea of what those tools might be (systems thinking primarily).

I don't particularly care about your recommendation to self-crit. I spend enough time trying to criticise my own mental models as it is.

I could cite some individual leftists that I think are doing great work in the space if you would like. I know the phrases I use are over generalising here, so feel free to imply the word "some" in front of the nouns.
As info for others, here are the annotations,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/using-sal-...
> Be it Billy Gates, Bezos, or one of the many Midwestern Financial Gurus—-their use of 901c3‘s are basically tax dodges.

Do you mean 501c3? How are these a tax dodge? How does someone end up financially better off than just keeping and investing their wealth if they choose to donate it or deploy it in a donor advised fund?

> Gates foundation gives back less than 1% of the wife’s fund to the nation that birthed him, and provided a comfy launching pad for that privileged life. (I get you need to help developing nations, but America is dying. I have never seen so many homeless.)

If you think America is dying, boy do I have news for you about the state of most of the world. I also deploy most of my personal donations outside America, through GiveWell and Watsi (and more targeted donations independently).

America has a lot of problems. I live in NYC and can empathize with the dissonance of seeing the homeless sleeping in the cold on Madison Ave. I don't want to diminutize that, and this is something I also care about.

But the blunt fact of the matter is that America is far better off than the countries Gates focuses on. It's not even a fair comparison in terms of poverty and healthcare. Gates deploys his wealth primarily in regions that have never or only rarely "birthed" billionaires like Gates, in your words.

It is uniquely selfish to criticize billionaires for hoarding their wealth while also insisting they focus their charity on one of the richest countries in the world by median.
One day my dad brought home a reference manual for TRS-80 BASIC. It had all the statements in alphabetical order. I read it front to back and spent a couple years scrawling programs on paper, until finally the IBM PC was introduced and he bought one. I wrote a bunch of BASICA programs, including half a text adventure in a horrible mess of spaghetti. I spent hours with printouts spread across the floor, tracking bugs through thickets of GOTOs.

Then Dad got Turbo Pascal and I discovered the joys of structured programming. For my first project I wrote Conway's Life, and was shocked when it worked perfectly the first time. I never wrote another line of BASICA.

I went to college, thought I didn't want to program for a living and got a degree in anthropology. A few years later I had all kinds of crazy ideas for software running around in my head, plus I was tired of being broke. I bought a machine and some books, learned sql and classic asp, and got a job easily because it was the height of the dotcom boom.

After a few years I discovered that writing endless data entry screens wasn't that exciting, and started learning some real computer science. Still working on that.
Where is Amazon's?
Just a guess... but I'd say they wanted to make it tablet-friendly.
Thank you for taking full responsibility.

Everyone makes mistakes, so what matters is how you deal with them. This was the right way to respond. Thanks.
ha, I had just emailed them with this idea - great minds think alike ;)
What the hell? Why is everyone taking responsibilty and giving amazon a free ride? I'm a firm believer that only victims make excuses, and it's admirable to take responsibility, and maybe they should have more redundancy in place, but the way aws has been advertised, most of us felt this kind of thing should never happen even without a 100% uptime guarantee.

So, take 100% of the responsibility, but I wouldn't think any less of heroku if they only took 50%.
By remembering how much they get paid...
> If you can get a laptop/tablet that can do the same thing that this Chromebook does

That's not remotely true.

When my grandparents and parents ask me what computer they should get, or my in-laws ask what they should get their kids, I'm going to seriously consider Chromebooks. If they need to run Office, or Minecraft, clearly it's not a fit. But for the tweeting / facebooking / gmailing universe, a Chromebook is a very nice box.

And the number of zero-day exploits, viruses, keyboard loggers is way smaller for a Chrome OS machine. And the update process is a painless reboot. And I'm not helping them try to read data off of a dead hard drive (because it's in the cloud.) And if they want a second or a third, all of their data is visible on all of them. And the battery is great, the wifi works great, the build quality is great. Get them hooked up with two-factor protection, and their accounts and data are pretty well protected.

You're viewing the Chrome OS machines and their competitors, from a tech-savvy super-user standpoint. Many people don't need, don't want, and are hindered by that flexibility and power.

The maintenance cost on a "full OS" is higher than the maintenance cost on a Chrome OS. Period.
I don't like Assange. However my belief is that the kind of stuff he is leaking is similar to the kind of stuff that governments manage to figure out about each other through spying anyways. Therefore the risk of injury is not as big as the government would have you believe, but the risk of public embarrassment is huge.

And incidentally, if you really believe in the first amendment, his actions should be entirely legal. At this point he is part of the press, and the government has no right to limit his free speech, or the freedom of the press. OK, so I don't like him. But there is a well-known principal of constitutional law that the important precedents are set by people who are hard to like. Because if they were nice people, they wouldn't have been in court in the first place. But by defending the rights of least likable people, we defend everyone's rights.

If you want to compare it to something, compare to the publication of plans for making a hydrogen bomb. The government tried to sue to stop publication, and failed. Now you can find discussion of the subject on wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller-Ulam_design. Which matters more? The Constitution, or the release of information that could kill tens of millions of people? The actual ruling of the court was that the Constitution mattered more!
I cut cable in 2003, restarted in 2007, cut again in late 2008.. but I fit that profile. Between Hulu and Netflix, I'm covered for everything except live sports. And since I'm not a sports guy and only watch with friends, I meet them at a bar.

Problem solved, $50+/month saved.

And when I cut the cable the last time, I asked them how much it'd cost to deactivate my cable modem. They immediately gave me a 33% discount.
Perhaps off topic, but what is a cable? Is it just an email? Or is it some other form of communication specific to the State Department?
The problem at the moment is that it is essentially free to squat on millions of domains. It's just a matter of getting organized, using grace periods, advertising income, so you don't actually have to pay any money to hold millions of domains.

That can't be right.

Even if you set the registration price to say $1,000 I think you'd solve a lot of problems. People wouldn't just buy 20 domains just incase they might put something on 1 of them.

Sure, you'd still get people squatting on names, but to a far lesser extent.

Currently, people just buy up a ton of domains thinking "Wow I'd like to develop that someday". It's antisocial, but it's encouraged by the nominal price of registering domains.

</rant>
I'm not a scientist but this article got a really valid and good point. I only know about this Ruby-lib within the scientific context:

http://www.wedesoft.demon.co.uk/hornetseye-api/files/Hornets...

One thing that hit me though. The author of the article maybe should consider a little effort. I mean...libraries for scientists should probably be developed by scientists (the target group), which means it's an excellent opportunity for the ones that identify the problem to get something started. No code falls down from heaven. Supply and demand.
Author seems to not realize that several keys show alternates when held.
If he's actually sending images from Google earth through email, he's guilty of copyright infringement, deserving of both civil and criminal penalties.
rapgenius are a bunch of douches, and i cant take them seriously no matter what.
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There's a semi-regular HN meetup in Tokyo, but there's nothing scheduled for this week. You can take a look at the upcoming meetups, though unsurprisingly the majority are Japanese-language events.

http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/
http://www.doorkeeperhq.com/events

You could also look up Meetup.com.

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Well... https://archive.org/details/classicpcgames
A closer analogy would address a group controlled by a few which has the resources to install people (whom believe that are doing good things) into positions that have access to your private keys. It's more like there is an automatically updated encrypted manifest of your house available. The bunker analogy is bad unless you think we should meet in the middle on infosec. At some point, this same conversation will be about hardware inside our heads, we already use these devices like second brains.
A well known hoax. For that matters, the quoted source code is a part of Carl Shapiro's submission to IOCCC 1985 [1] which produces a maze. This alone is enough for debunking the story, right?

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/1985/shapiro.c
Everybody's talking about the time situation here, but what about the fact that the world's clocks will gain a second and the site announcing the fact isn't even signed and secure. It seems like the message should definitely have a cryptographic signature and that the site should be reachable via https.