jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> simply because it is so far remove from the actual engineering workflow.

Err, what? Fizzbuzz is NOT a riddle. It's intentionally meant to be a stupid simple test, and everyone has written stupid simple code at some point. Even as a "senior engineer" you'll have to write dumb business logic code, even if it's only occasional.

If you really struggle with fizzbuzz it would almost assuredly be a sign that you would really struggle to write quality software in a timely manner. It's also a sign that you really aren't familiar with even the basic control flow of your chosen language, which is similarly worrying.

The only part of fizzbuzz that's "removed from the actual engineering workflow" is MAYBE the modulus operation, which I'm willing to bet most interviewers probably won't give a shit if you goof on the syntax a little and write "%" when you should've written "%%".

And even then, a perfectly acceptable fizzbuzz can be written without using mod if you're not familiar with that basic arithmetic operation.
I agree with you, since unfortunately the only real way to enforce the ADA is through private citizens filing civil suit.

Regardless, a lack of more effective means for enforcement does not absolve Berkeley of failing to follow the law, especially when they had internal resources to make their material accessible and chose not to do so.

Edit: apologies, misread your post and that is an interesting approach. Another way is to make the university pay back a portion of the federal funding they received, up to whatever amount they estimate it would take to make the materials accessible.
What set of tradeoffs do you see as being better to follow then?
La Quadrature du Net [0] is a collective of privacy advocates, like the EFF for the EU. They run an active Mastodon node at mamot.fr.

[0]: https://www.laquadrature.net/
This does not correlate to my experience working in Los Angeles and Silicon Valley. SV programmers get paid very well, as well as programmers working in L.A. for Google or Facebook. However, among those high paid programmers there were some really high performers and a lot of people who were good but really just like the people who were just getting paid much less somewhere else. One thing was always true, once someone got a really big pay check they were quite convinced that their work was very special.
Correct. The summer of 2019 was no wind. Today’s problem is ice.
$0.05 to $0.10/kWh seems like normal pricing.

Average US house uses ~1100-1200 kWh (I don't actually know this, based on googling, assuming most places in Texas are standalone houses) per month.

If prices are $3000-9000 per MW, then ~40 to 60 kWh/day (let's be generous, people are explicitly turning on heat for this extreme cold) for a week...

Even $2/kWh (which was exceeded days ago) would demolish peoples' budgets.
fair enough. "closer" but still significantly different is a support for your position.
You should click the link. There's a lot other commands available and features on this tool.
This isn't a failure. This is the quickest vaccine rollout ever. The way you do statistics for this means that the overkill speeds up how quickly you can verify effectiveness. For example, if you do a booster after 6 months, that adds 6 months to your study time. If you try to thread the needle to make the smallest possible vaccine, you need way more testing to prove it works. The approach taken is why we have 10% of the US vaccinated now instead of having a vaccine approved in 2 years.
i think his theory is that HNers and redditors have a more elitist attitude about themselves and their tech skills, but will fall for the same basic traps as their grandma. (or, thats what it sounds like to me)
The biggest difference between Nexus S and Galaxy S is that Google is responsible for updating the software on the Nexus, and Samsung and the carriers are responsible for updating the software on the Galaxy. This is a massive difference, IMO, and swamps the minor differences, like NFC and the curved screen.
Where else in wisconsin would you suggest to be a good place to work? Or is that just a pipe dream of mine?
For a top end phone, I'd recommend something which has been promised to receive 2.3 quickly, which as far as I'm aware, is limited to the Nexus 1 and the Nexus S.
Mine kept playing as I hit the back button and went back to HN. Going forward again stopped the music. Also in Chrome.
I assume his idea is "hey hackernews do you like my startup please sign up to try it out" and then (edit: after signing up) the login page will have a "server error" when you try to view the idea and that way he doesn't have to build a product and won't attract suspicion. "oh sorry you hammered my server, it'll be back later today".
Good idea, as long as it is only to demonstrate proof of concept (or in this case, opinion). Better be pointed to your own failures like this than wait for someone with more malicious intentions :)
Ah that makes sense. I have seen those roads before.

However I've also heard that in crowded situations it's actually faster for everyone to have just two separated lanes (no overtaking). Because the constant lane merging slows everybody down.
> Everyone I know who has been in a crash hasn't been due to improper training, it been because of ignoring rules that they knew very well (speeding, texting and driving, etc)

How can anybody not know that texting and driving is a bad idea? That's just stupid.
A three lane highway is similar to a UK motorway. A road has six lanes, three (plus an emergency "hard shoulder") for each direction seperated by a central crash barrier.
You can say the only reason you can be efficient at work is you don't think about it when you're home. We're all different, we have different needs, no one can demand you change how you're wired ;)
i have a question for signal users. what happens when signal will be used by teams to organise the capitol building style attacks? or a disinformation campaign by a crony government? or racial message storms that make rounds on whatsapp (why they introduced the 5 forward limit)
> Wouldn't repealing Section 230 mean more censorship and restrictions as the liability would be too great to be on the hook for what some random account might decide to publish, no?

I can't tell you what it means for US law, as I don't know what laws surround this. I can tell you that the lack of safe harbor laws has stopped me from making certain technology products in my country though, as the risk is too great.

Give people an upload mechanism and inevitably it will receive material that could land you in jail. Maybe it comes from users, maybe it comes from bots, it doesn't matter. If you're on the hook, it's a no brainer to not get involved if there are no laws protecting your platform from liability.
The only feature I don’t see WhatsApp adopting is Signal’s strong privacy focus. I guess we’ll see how important privacy alone is as a feature.
Yes, tried that last night. Moved code to VPS.

Its nodejs app, what are advantage or running in containers?
> Does that matter in the slightest for whether or not to condemn the actions?

It doesn't. It's also not the topic.
Religions founded in the last 200 years http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Scientology,Wicca...
I'm a co-founder of WakeMate and this is the first I'm hearing of an AppSumo bundle involving us. Also as of right now there is no premium service. All analytics services are currently free.
First Google Wave, now Delicious. I was using both of them. That Delicious will probably shutdown is bad enough. But WHAT IS WITH ALL OF MY CAREFULLY TAGGED BOOKMARKS? Even if I can export them somehow, what I'm gonna do with them?

Now that's exactly why I am -- and always was -- against webapps and my data being in a cloud.
Thanks for the suggestion. I will read up on their learning style more.

As for JP101, they do have some videos but they are mainly teachers standing in front of the camera teaching some things - like it would be in a classroom. It's not really what I envision.

Did you feel that you learned and retained things better when presented with video stimulation?
Some of those designs will probably mess with the touchscreen sensitivity of the Nano. My last company had some custom made touchscreen devices where the paint on the plastic bezels was messing stuff up with sensitivity.
50 bucks for this is still a very good deal, they probably are not actually making money on the USA produced ones. They will probably offshore later to get the profit margin back. Just a guess.
I'm postulating that any modern CRUD app framework has Monads, Monoids, and other categorically inspired structure, even if they don't call it that or have a way to abstract over it.
This is going to be so much fun when the owner of foo.bar brings their domain online :D
Let's keep it real. With automation we should already work less and retire earlier, which was promised by 70s/80s politicians, it's not the case, at all. Working hours and retirement age are going up virtually everywhere, making us live longer won't change any of that in a good way
Hey just a quick question regarding the book,
Is this beginner friendly like I do have knowledge of C++ but I would love to expand my c++ knowledge by doing projects
Mine run 24/7 on low for a few years so far, one is going on 3 years and the other is about 8 months. No issues other than periodic cleaning and filter replacement. Main hint: keep a spare filter before California fire season.
It's a shame that such a beautiful operating system is being paired with that ugly font.
> EMMC doesn't care about what the weather is like in your neighborhood.

Yes it does. Higher temps will wear out all semiconductors at higher rates.
I wouldn't be much surprised. The amount of things people do _not_ notice is staggering. When I do usability tests there's almost always something that doesn't get noticed although I thought it obvious and/or important.

Personal anecdote: I managed to buy paper for my printer and only noticed upon arrival that it was the wrong size. The product photo looked right to be. I did not bother to check the details - or even the product title. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, regarding "if the person isn't drunk": There's a great short talk called "the user is drunk" which makes one much more sympathetic to such seemingly unexplainable comprehension fails that sometimes drive product designers mad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk&feature=emb_titl...
It's definitely a neat feature, and when someone does use their region's language it does a halfway decent job of translating. We just encounter far too many false translations when it's on, as most people there just type in English, and the link being repeated every time is just added noise in the window.

All in all I really do like it. Especially being able to pop chats out into other windows. That, and the scroll-back, make it absolutely one of the better ones I've used, and nearly everything it does has been useful at one time or another. It gets used heavily, and there hasn't been one word of setting up a different system (eg, IRC) that I've ever seen. The translator's behavior is just a burr on an otherwise good finish :)

edit: a thought; maybe you could come up with a language detector, to ditch false positives (by default; having an override is nice, and I liked the click-to-toggle)? Certain letter combinations don't appear in some languages, some accented characters, that sort of thing. Or have you looked at Google's language detecting API? No clue how they respond to volume.
"I spoke to one of my friends about this issue today, a girl in the Computer Science major".

Girl? Shouldn't that be "woman" if you are concerned about gender treatment in language?
The funny thing about it, though, is that most of their problems during this time came from the fact that they were getting traction. I think these probably pale against the problems one has when one is not getting traction. Yes, not having users lets you keep building the product... but this is of rather less comfort when you're simultaneously wondering if anyone is going to use it.
Agree with others here that this is post is a bit... dramatic. But I think of this as a shortcoming of the English language. The fact that a gender-neutral pronoun for a person doesn't exist (or exists, but isn't widely used) is forcing this to be an issue.

Options exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#English), but none of them are widely accepted.
Web fonts seem like such a boondoggle to me. "Solutions" like SIFR are just not an area I've had the time to explore.

How complicated is this new Ubuntu thing? I went to the webpage, and the font examples are AN IMAGE, I can't even select them! How are they "brought to the web?"
lots of folks go for "they"
I think you misunderstood the article. He knows exactly what the components allow him to accomplish, he just doesn't know how exactly they work or any of the math behind them. This is directly analogous to the situation in every other programming language: very few programmers know exactly how every library that they use works. This is good, because in practice there isn't time to learn the intricacies of every one of your dependencies.

To be clear, this also has very little to do with Haskell. kan-extensions is a library, it's not a part of Haskell itself. His point is that if you had a kan-extensions package in some other language, it would be a hell of a lot more difficult to use it in your program without learning the math yourself. And again, the key point here isn't that you can gloss over what the library allows you to do, it's that you can gloss over the complex abstract mathematics that went into the creation of the library. You can get the benefits of free monads without taking a course in category theory. That's definitely a good thing.
I love the seamless gif banner, how do they accomplish that?
It's not "free as in lying around on the ground", it's free as in "freedom". You have to agree to Canonical's "Terms of Service" to use Ubuntu, so you are a licensed customer of Canonical's.

In this case, the license is the GPL, none of which has anything to say about privacy. Maybe this is a failure of the Free Software Foundation's to not include privacy protection in the GPL. Though even if they were to create a GPLv4, the Linux Kernel is still only licensed under v2, so distro implementors have no obligation to use a more restrictive license.

AKA, "the cat is already out of the bag".

In the OP's case, they additionally are are customer of Microsoft's, who explicitly stated they share this kind of information with their vendors.
You need a better dictionary, or to stop making things up. The Oxford Dictionary, for example, defines purchase as merely "acquiring something".

Legally, freedom of contract means the specifics of what is to be exchanged in a purchase are more or less unlimited.

Even colloquially, many purchases happen without "money" changing hands. Paying with a voucher, for example, would seem to be a form of payment that doesn’t involve actual money.
Just a simple example. Years ago you would use social media channels such as Facebook to promote your project. But at some point Facebook realized they can monetize this and decided to drastically filter your posts unless you decide to pay them. However, people noticed that the filters on FB groups are much less strict so they started to create groups around topics related to the project. In this way they attract people who could potentially be interested in their project because they show they're interested, and not because someone tries to convice them or spams them etc. This is a simple example of ethical growth hacking. Ethical, because nobody gets hurt, and hacking, because at the beginning it was a bit nonstandard (I believe it's mainstream these days).
> Is it really as settled as you present it?

One of the most interesting findings from Scarborough & Dobrich, which looks like it was replicated by the study you linked to, is that the number of books in a child's home is a much greater predictor of later literacy ability than the amount parents actually read to their kids. A couple things to note though:

- Intrinsic motivation plays a big role in this. E.g. if a kid enjoys have books read to them, it will probably be beneficial. But if a kid would rather be doing something else, then reading to them may be actively harmful, in that it may actually make them read less on their own later even though otherwise they would have eventually come to enjoy reading.

- The way you read to your kid matters. E.g. asking questions about the book as you're reading is more beneficial than just reading, and even the way you phrase the questions makes a difference. That Hart & Risley book I linked to above has some data about how the cognitive benefits of asking questions depends on their grammatical structure.

Also, for what it's worth this may be related to the audio/video gap. I.e. talking to kids has a huge benefit for them, but playing recordings or videos of people talking has essentially no benefit.
I find it wonderful that the first mention of the constant on HN was in a username rather than in the title of a post.
I think what they're trying to say is:

Grievance - Racial minorities (specifically, black people) are unfairly discriminated against by law enforcement.

Just because, in this case, this tragic situation was deemed a legally acceptable use of force, doesn't mean that racial minorities are not generally discriminated against by law enforcement.

Similarly, just because this case wasn't a clear-cut case of gender discrimination, doesn't mean it isn't still a valid problem in this industry.
Please don't skip over the parent comment just because of how heavily it's been downvoted (which is mysterious). Very reasoned analysis.
"Resort" is probably a better analogy than "prison." Most people wouldn't choose to leave, since the accommodations are so nice, but for the expense.
To add to her being unsympathetic, she played politics and she played it badly. One might argue that she felt a need to play politics because she was coming from behind (being female) and that her political salvos were more penalized because of her gender (which probably was true) than they would have been if performed by men, but it makes her not an innocent victim. This shouldn't matter, insofar as she's not on trial, but it's another bias-inducing factor.

The suit was not at all frivolous and, assuming Ellen Pao is rational, the fact that it existed at all is an indictment of the Valley. People don't sue ex-employers lightly, and she had John Doerr as an ally. So what I wonder is: what happened to fuck up her career so much that suing, with a mediocre case against a company that can call dozens of witnesses whom it employs, seemed the best option? It seems to suggest that the sleazy back-channeling that the Valley is constantly accused of is really there.

(The idea that she was doing it for the money, because of her husband's finances, I find absurd. I could be wrong but I didn't see it as remotely likely that she'd get $16M, even if she won.)

This is the story that piques my curiosity, because if I were her, I would have taken the severance and John Doerr's recommendation (and a contractually-mandated positive reference) as the ticket anywhere I wanted to go. What was done to her reputation that made that not possible? (Or am I completely wrong in this analysis?)
One could argue that part of that is just "shaming" her for doing something that they would be less likely to fault a man for doing.

On the other hand, mixing business with pleasure like that is a risky move. But so is rejecting advances from a more senior / more established person.

If we assume Pao was always Machiavellian, she might even have had the affair because she thought it increased her chances of making partner.

When people are sufficiently self-actualized and machiavellian, they often play some fairly complex strategies. This lawsuit, even though she lost, is perhaps the third best option for her, since she's had millions of dollars of free publicity and can surely leverage that to start her own fund, be more prominent on deals, etc.

edit: The above is based on the assumption that she lost the case fair and square and that she knew that was a possibility going in, and that she's looking at her best options every day (like rational actors do). It is not intended to be insensitive to the emotional side of it, since surely it was very difficult and upsetting to go through (and to be in the limelight over something that is gossipy and not part of the professional or public identity she likely intended to have).
because every real weapon known to man is detectable from a metal detector, and the majority of improvised weapons still use metal detectable parts.

Lets not get hyperbolic. I found a real weapon with less metal than my jeans in about 2 minutes with google.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/isotope/492829645/

(Presumably a terrorist could do it with no metal, but a prisoner has limitations on materials available.)
After you make them, sure. But trying to predict mistakes before they happen can be difficult to impossible.
At the risk of sounding cynical or aloof, I think the times when rational debate shaped the political climate and real-world policies of this country have long gone. It might be time for intelligent people to take a cue from Fox News and (dare I say?) start manipulating emotion to get what needs to be done, done.
That logic is flawed. Excuse me for making this comparison: dictators started out as children, you can't really be for one and against the other.

Your logic is right one way: big businesses started out small, but not all small businesses become big.
The half a million users validates their techniques, no matter how much armchair quarterbacking.

The code repos were never in danger, and they've been killing it in the market because they are racing to add awesome extra features, not racin to the bottom.

I don't disagree that they can do more in their db operations, and that it's fine for us paying customers to demand more, but the reality of startups is that it very much is a race and features, for availability or recovery or other, are viciously prioritized and many things don't happen until something breaks.

If you don't thing Github cuts the mustard, svn on Google Code probably won't have problems like this...

Disclaimer: I'm personal friends with much of the Github crew.
Seems this is dedicated server technology, not virtualization, except we can boot up the server using API?
> This outage did not affect repos as far as I have heard.

Well, I'm just going by TFA, which stated:

"Newly created users and repositories are being restored, but pull request state changes and similar might be gone."

Repos were affected.

> The fact that github can operate at all in a degraded mode very much indicates their competence. Many architectures can not operate without the entire db.

This is a curious statement to make after you started off by recognizing that git handles itself. The only parts of the repositories that broke were the parts they tried to glue to their database.

It's nice of you to give them a pass. I'd say DBAs are pretty horrified. I suppose it's kind of like how the average person can watch CSI where they say, "I'll create a GUI interface in Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address" and think it's just fine.
How about projecting different patterns?
That just shows an empty white box for me (FF 3.6).

The right arrow button to look at the different links has poor discoverability. The first link is shown twice on the main page, and there's no real indication that there are any more links.
[edit: slowness was caused by twitter being open in another tab!]

Licorize is an interesting idea, but I feel needs more work before being unleashed on the general public.