jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For some young people, it might ressemble to a "bad cold", and some people might even be completely asymptomatic, HOWEVER:

- in France 50% of ICU patients are under 60

- this is really the wrong message to pass

- for some people around 30 this more closely resemble to a very bad flu, with extra bonus symptoms

- you are not getting very accurate numbers from Italy right now: only people dying in an hospital are counted, but some are dying at home (the symptoms are very fast evolving at the end, and the medical system is surcharged)

Now I don't discuss that for probably at least 98% of contaminated, (and maybe even more), they will live. But this is certainly not a bad cold, by any fucking standard. For anybody.

We don't halt the world for "bad colds".

> As panic sets in, if you've got some cash to invest in the markets and a long time horizon to draw on it, this may be the money making opportunity of a generation.

Most people have other preoccupations; but if you want to be seen as are seen the people who made a fortune during 9/11, by all means focus on that.
I'm not sure why this article suggests that you should use jammit when a very nice django specific implementation does the same thing. If you are using django do yourself a favor and skip jammit in favor of django-compressor here: https://github.com/jezdez/django_compressor

If you want haml templates in 1.3 or 1.4 use my fork of djaml here: https://github.com/kitanata/django_haml

For all the other asset specific stuff use node packages like less and coffeescript. There is no need to include any rails or ruby code in with your django projects. Good alternatives exist.
> This is not what the current scientific work is saying. We have plenty of time, assuming of coure proper action is taken in the next 10-15 years.

This is the nub of my argument - who says we have plenty of time? based on what? based on "simply do not have enough information to predict"?

The permafrost specifically is an unknown. We know that it can happen, we know that it will happen if left unchecked, but we don't know if we can stop it, or how much it will take to stop. It's starting to happen already - it's melting and venting now - and it's a positive feedback system.

And again, even if I agreed with you about how long we've got, 10-15 years is an eternity in politics and doubly-so if any action is going to come from public pressure. You saw the pressure for and lack of result of Copenhagen, didn't you? The bungling of every other irreversible issue such as managing fish stocks, biodiversity, etc.
Duplicate from 25 days ago ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840732

... where there are many, many comments.

Comments there are closed, however, so new discussion requires a new submission.
Nevertheless, you kick ass. You are from Europe (me too), from "secondary" country (me too), one founder (me too), you did make it to the interview (I didn't).
> I would love to read a blog post on hiring a GM-type. How? Whom? When? Why? How much? What responsibilities?

The best guy I know at this is a mentor of mine who runs one of the most profitable architectural/construction firms in the Middle East. He looks for people who can get things done on their own without too much guidance, always pays over-market rates for pay but makes the bulk of compensation based on net profit, and he primarily recruits people from bars where expats hang out. First thing he does when he reaches a new city is go to an English or Irish pub where the expats hang out, and gets lots of info there. He does lots of recruiting at bars, asking around for who knows who that'd be good at something. I'll ask him more next time I see him, and shoot you an email if I get something interesting and write it up.

Most of the people I've worked with I met and got to know beforehand... if possible, if you're a consumer-facing business, it would help to start building out a community around your business before looking to hire. Someone like 37Signals get much more enthusiastic and higher quality candidates than some random shop.

Beyond that, unfortunately, I haven't been in that position too often! Or rather, I was too stubborn to let go of the reigns when I was. If you have specific questions though, email me about your scenario and what you're doing. Maybe I can share some insights or introduce you to someone who could help.
56K connections certainly made an impression. You still see "(56k warning)" or simply "(56k)" in topic titles in forums. Really, anyone still using dial-up in 2010 probably just assumes everything will be slow as dirt by default.
And I thought Dropbox photos folder was the lazy man's photo hosting thus far... +1 for the minus team!
Time to build an anti-drone SAM
> Either way, someone's trying to give them data for free.

And why shouldn't it be free? I, the Comcast customer, requested this data. Why should Netflix have to pay for the last mile when that's what I pay for already?

Why does Comcast get to charge for both ends of the pipe when they only own one side?
woo hoo! another priceless, unmissable cultural experience to pour my time into!
For writing, I am almost done with this book and it is great:

Writing That Works; How to Communicate Effectively In Business by Roman and Raphaelson

Stresses clarity and writing how you talk.
How is this different from NEC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical_Electromagnetics_Code

Well here you go: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5...
For me, it is.

Well, its semi-useless enums suck, but other than that I'm quite happy with it.
The 2015 Dell XPS 13 sputnik edition is similar and will have full support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS out of the box. It's still in the last stages of development & bug fixing from what I understand though: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46...
Thank you , last question , are they reliable ? ( I am installing them right now , but I think as you mention them , you can answer this question better ) Because I use SSH in my work and research all the time , I am kind of tired of putty and its bug's.
Another suggestion: Stop thinking of Reddit as a community and start thinking it as a bunch of different communities. The average quality of discussion on mainstream subreddits like worldnews is pretty low, but I find it to be quite good for niche communities (eg. the games I like to play).
"In fact the root of the problem was default Sinatra dependency 'rack-protection'".

They were doing the input sanitation, but it wasn't the very first thing in the processing pipeline, since "best practice" was to pipe everything through 'rack-protection' first.

Homokov was first to state, this was really a black-swan type bug which 99.9% of the time makes it into production. Apparently, they were doing the "right thing" and still got burned.
Suddenly the idea of him having the power to prank call anyone in the world seems a little less cool.
"If you've been working hard to ensure your wife and children don't want for anything in life, why in hell should the government take half of what you've earned and already paid taxes on?"

To avoid the creation of an aristocratic class.

The founding fathers had this specific aim in mind. Details here:

http://budiansky.blogspot.com/2010/10/adam-smith-thomas-jeff...

A relevant quote from the article:

[Thomas] Jefferson cited Adam Smith, the hero of free market
capitalists everywhere, as the source of his conviction that (as
Smith wrote, and Jefferson closely echoed in his own words), "A
power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The
earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the
preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such
extension of property is quite unnatural." Smith said: "There is
no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive
men to have to dispose of their goods after death."

The states left no doubt that in taking this step they were giving
expression to a basic and widely shared philosophical belief that
equality of citizenship was impossible in a nation where
inequality of wealth remained the rule. North Carolina's 1784
statute explained that by keeping large estates together for
succeeding generations, the old system had served "only to raise
the wealth and importance of particular families and individuals,
giving them an unequal and undue influence in a republic" and
promoting "contention and injustice." Abolishing aristocratic
forms of inheritance would by contrast "tend to promote that
equality of property which is of the spirit and principle of a
genuine republic."
It's prominently mentioned in the article with a link to the manufacturer's page with full details.

You did at least read the article before leaving comments, right?
Been using this ever since I met the guys at Startup School. Awesome dudes, awesome product. I use it daily. :)
I'll second Man on Wire. Artist-hacker decides to tightrope walk between the towers of the World Trade Center without permission. Such a great story, and a true one.
Not quite that easy. Notice that the following sentence is often different. What I suspect they do is have a set of characteristics they look for, like winning team, number of starters coming back, all starters coming back, won conference, made NCAA, made final four, won it all, etc...

And then they have a set of sentence structures they can plug in for these. This allows you to actually generate a different story for the exact same team -- saying really the exact same thing.
whitehouse.com owners would be happy with your proporsal.
A few weeks ago I spent a few hours volunteering next to him at the Planetary Society's booth at the National Science & Engineering Fair. He's doing a great service for the Society by drawing big crowds. I must say, though, that it looked absolutely exhausting. Hours of signing autographs and small talk with eager fans. He went well past his allotted time and he was likely starving by the end.
"They still have elevator operators for the elevators at the US Capitol building."

Some years ago, I was shown how to operate a (enclosed) freight elevator by someone who apparently thought I was kind of dumb not to know how they worked. I don't know how common the setup was, nor how old or typical it was, but among the features it lacked that modern passenger elevators have - it didn't travel to and stop at a floor automatically; you had to start and stop it with a control at the right spot; it didn't open and close the doors automatically; you had to pull on a strap, and close guards separately, and I'm not sure I even recall any locking mechanism.
I don't have experience working for FANG but here is what I think you should do:

1) First appreciate that you are in a GREAT position, 99,999999999% of people do not have your options.

2) Absolutely quit. Your life is short, making the most of it is not being bored to tears.

3) Do not get a job immediately, you need to figure out what you want to do so you don't get stuck in a boring position again.
The way to do this in my opinion is to get stimulus you would not normally get. Travel, try out completely new technologies, learn a weird hobby, try going to a silent retreat for a few days, climb a mountain etc.

It sounds like you still like to code so you need to figure out what motivates you. Is it working for yourself? Do you just need a different work/life balance? Do you need to try and help save the world?

4) Find something new to do, you won't be certain the new "job" is for you but that's fine. Don't be afraid to try out new stuff, eventually you will find something you enjoy.
Any recommendations for tripods/cases?

iPhone 11 Pro here.
Is moldbug your mayor/ceo?
While a lot of what the author notes about the issues with security are reasonable complaints, it sounds like the real problem is that the author is burned out because of how all of these underlying issues are dumped onto him as his problems. The real problem is not all of these real world issues that end up effecting him, it is that his work relationships and responsibilities turn these technical issues into personal ones. His response is not to really level with his boss and negotiate a better work circumstance, but instead to vent about how it is the fault of the technical integrity of the entire industry that he has to deal with his boss, his clients, and his workloads. The real problem with the industry is that too few people in it manage interpersonal expectations and boundaries. Instead, it's all too common to hear people in this space to transform interpersonal issues into obnoxious technical gripes, and that only enables the interpersonal dimension to erode further.
Yes indeed, I've read with enthusiasm :)

Thanks for sharing, I want to congratulate you and your wife because I assume as we get older big changes like quitting job, moving to another country or even moving to another house is getting harder to decide. But I guess hard choices are mostly fruitful in the long run.
This and sensor technology ie. MFT sized 12MP older sensors perform worse results than more recent 16MP MFT sensors which performs worse results than even more recent 20MP MFT sensors.
I don't think they are unhappy. I think they see an opportunity, and this is a setup for an upcoming post where they announce the new product to fix the concerns.
Agriculture is an interesting problem because the government has to ensure that, during a future crisis (both natural disaster and national defense), there is enough food production to supply the population and control prices. So, you can consider some agricultural subsidies as a form of defense spending.
So something like RIM? Oh, wait, they ditched the idea. Or like SAP? Nope - same thing.

The co-CEO idea is great in theory, but obviously lacks real-world backing, for obvious reasons.
I think the catholics have all but perfected the anonymous dialogue...
No, they are governed by laws and they appear to be obeying those laws.
>How is a piece of paper any more valuable than a hash though?

You can pay your taxes with it. It's really just that simple; that's what gives fiat its value. Your government accepts it, thus it's backed by the productive capacity of the country.
I did a quick tweak of React's JSX transpiler to output mithril-compatible code [1], as the above was the sort of syntax I was using JSX to get away from!

return <html>
<body>
<input>
<button>Add</button>
<table>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><input type="checkbox"/></td>
<td>task description</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>

[1] https://github.com/insin/msx/
> They can be the result of a pagefault when the program tries to write on some memory

How do you think malloc works? There's no malloc system call.
I feel a terrible unease about these companies. It's not the bloated valuations, but rather the motivation for running companies in this way. The plc has many critics, as a model of risk sharing and financial transparency it's got huge holes right through it as Enron (and other car crashes) showed. But who has a clue about what's happening in these companies, and who, and what (banks, pension companies, taxpayers, plc's) are being taken for a ride?

Caution...
> Aside, I agree on the List monad thing. I never ever use the list monad, why would I.

I use monad library functions on lists happily, and use the do-notation, particularly when I'm thinking in terms of non-deterministic computation and search.
Awesome project! Bookmarking for sure. Dumb question: after signing up, am I getting some access to a privately hosted repository(pypi.codestasis.com)? How is the mapping between personal/pro plans and features done? Are different plan levels using different repository?

Btw, might have overlooked, if I'm purchasing for my org, I would like to look at the commercial license. Can you point me to it? Or put it online if not currently available? I'm not using your service at this moment, so feel free to ignore the request as well.
I don't understand why more companies don't do remote work as a strategic hiring advantage. I will leave my current job to work for you if I can work remote, and you can pay me less than the going rate in your office's expensive metro area. Why are more companies not picking up on this, unless it's totally irrational on their part?
> except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype

Do you have a source for this? Curious to read more about it.
If a year into this thing, you can’t manage to get headphones for the whole team, I have no idea how you manage to release software.
Likely only if/when someone complains to something like OSHA or the local Dept. of Labor. And that follows on whether you can handle looking for a new job.

If your name comes out, you might just loose your job, and most people in that situation aren't going to be able to pursue legal action regarding retaliation or the like unless they get lucky finding the right lawyer. Or, you could potentially cause the company to go under/get shut down (rightly so) which equally leaves you seeking a new job.
Unfortunately I'm not sure it's trainable. It seems much more correlated to an individual's personality and drive.

The traits I see in engineers who I consider to be 10x:

Growth mentality. Always try to do things the "right way" rather than just completing a task. Educate yourself via internet/books to understand all points of view on an issue, and tradeoffs of each approach.

Setting a high bar for your work. Never solely focus on getting the job done, always question and focus on what the best way to get the job done is.

Extremely self critical. Don't get attached to your work. Always criticize yourself and question whether decisions you made were correct.

Objectivity. Always quantify objectively to yourself why you made a given design decision, why
did you name your variable X vs Y? Could you justify the merits of your approach to others without relying on subjective points?

Focus on business value. Optimize for what drives business value. Don't pursue projects that are technically interesting that don't provide long run value, for example.

Work with intensity. These people legit code 8-10 hours a day straight. They aren't coding for 30m then browsing the internet.

Never give up. Regardless of how technically challenging or impossible a task seems, they will work tirelessly to find a solution.

Self managing. Can operate 100% independently without constant manager intervention. High level direction still important to align on business goals of course.

Ownership. These people take pride in their work and feel a sense of ownership over their code. They don't need to be asked to step in when something they've worked on has an issue.

It's not about specific knowledge at all, or training.

People could learn to follow these principals, but it's much easier when it's in your nature. I have not seen anyone really change their trajectory from median to superstar before, but I'm sure it's possible with a mentality shift.
> Can you explain how technical disagreements about implementation of technology make FSF "on the wrong end of the movement for years"? FSF has valid reasons to be wary of potential threats to software freedoms, and they are extremely dedicated to their mission of providing and protecting said freedoms.

I’m pretty sure that almost everyone involved thought that the IR approach was technically superior. This included the people writing the code and the people who wanted to use the code. The FSF’s dedication to the cause caused a bunch of users to move to LLVM, which is not GPL.

As for the copyright assignment, the amount of paperwork and annoyance when I tried to sign up was absurd, so I gave up.
We don't know exactly when the data was exfiltrated, just that it ended in early 2019. It could have been taken at any point before that time.
Do you know what the trade offs in terms of cable vs design reliability are for USBC vs Lightning out of interest?
AFAIK redhat took over the maintenance of java for the releases that are not anymore provided by oracle:
https://developers.redhat.com/products/openjdk/download

I do not know why microsoft dupplicates this effort.
Let's put an exemple of what PG is saying: Ellon Musk

Ellon Musk is from South Africa, he was not born in America. He has created an enormous amount of wealth in the US.

It is as simple as the US won't have self landing space rockets today without this man. Tesla would be bankrupt today, like Fisker.

It seems clear to me after reading comments here that Americans feel entitled to the position of world rulers they enjoy today. As if the wealth they enjoy as hegemonic power was generated in America and not all around the world.

Do you believe your salary is American generated? It is not.
You print dollars that the world needs to use because it they don't sanctions are raised to them, or the US just invades them.

But as PG is saying, the world using the dollar as world reserve could change overnight.

You take your privileges for granted.
Opps, just realized I misspelled it, it's called Fischertechnik, not Fishertechnik :-)

Also as an additional point: one reason I liked it much more than Lego is that the system for connecting the pieces is much better. It doesn't fall apart (as Lego is prone to), so it's possible to make machinery that actually does stuff.
> "When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of schoolchildren."

> - Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, 1985

This is of course an invented quote, but it tells you where the head of the person quoting it is at.
>Why would companies here go out of their way to hire cheap labor of questionable skill outside the U.S.??

http://www.accenture.com/
I honestly think he just wanted to play Destiny. That doesn't seems far-fetched to me at all.
I'd go so far as to say the CEO mentioned in the story with their 70 "great" programmers who would hire another 30 "great" programmers...

A. Doesn't really have 70 "great" programmers, certainly not 100% of their team. I just don't believe that.

B. Actually needs 100 "great" programmers, and none that are just "good", in order to succeed fabulously.

C. That the CEO in question could accurately and consistently identify greatness in advance of hiring.

Sorry, it's just not a believable situation.
Quite a few seem to have the exit flag now. Only glanced through the first 500 or so, but it looked to be about 50 which had the exit flag
Thanks, it's very helpful. (And yes your website works well)
flebron, you do not seem to be reading my posts and I am getting a bit annoyed.

Again, for the third time: you cannot "assume" that reading the digits of a number takes O(n), but reading the digits of two numbers to compare them takes O(1). That is absolutely, obviously true. Your response, that you can "assume" the latter is true as part of the model of computation is just wrong, plain and simple. There's nothing else to say about it.

The original claim directly implies this, and if you can't address that point, then just save us both the time and don't respond.
I think that you are using a the more general meaning of vertical integration, but in this context it means putting the payload on the rocket while the rocket is standing upright and not on its side.

SpaceX is dramatically more vertically integrated as a company than the ULA (their competitor for government launches).
I worked on the Google Twin Ports initiative in Duluth and am also shocked that Al is on this list. He participated in a the production of a video in support: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2i_piWVXuc

Please let me know what you hear back. If we need to raise hell about this issue I'm in and know a number of others in MN that will help...
+1

I should have made clear that by 'sane' I meant anybody who cared about the responsibility that comes with intellectual property. Can't find the reference, it turns out that by releasing something in the public domain you give way for prosecution in case of bugs and other nasty use of your software.