jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Do you have the stomach for it? Maybe this lady in the article is just better at playing hardball.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but it seems to me that making ends meet is the way hardball is played. The woman in the article looks like she just relied on running the clock out in order to get the game declared a tie.

I have little sympathy for the banks. But I have little more for folks who choose not to meet their financial obligations.
Thanks for the update.

I posted this reply on your site, but I will duplicate it here for the sake of HN readers:

> BTW --nouse-osr makes all three tests run faster.

As I tried to explain above: OSR at it is implemented now impacts code quality depending on which loop OSR hits. Which in turn depends on heuristics that V8 uses. These heuristics are slightly different in newer V8. As a result of these changes V8 hits inner loop instead of outer loop. This leads to worse code.

Code that benefits from OSR is the code that contains a loop which a) can be well optimized b) runs long b) is run only few times in total. The Sieve benchmark is opposite of this and as a result it doesn't benefit from OSR - you get bigger penalty from producing worse code and no benefit from optimizing slightly earlier.

Not using OSR for Sieve also hides the other issue with mortality of typed array's hidden classes. I say "hides" not "fixes" because one can easily construct a benchmark where the mortality would still be an observable performance issue even if benchmark itself is run without an OSR: https://gist.github.com/mraleph/2942a14ef2a480e2a7a9
Yeah, that certainly works, but one of Python's particular strengths (and in particular what the original article was about) is a teaching language. I certainly understand what you're doing there, but I wouldn't want to explain it on day 3 of high school CS class. :)

The slightly cleaner thing here would be to take advantage of both strings and integers implementing Show. I'm thinking a bit about whether that would actually work well enough in a teaching language; possibly. (Although if I'm remembering my Haskell well enough, you need to enable existentially quantified types to make this work, which, again not really day-3 material. Probably works fine in like Rust, though.)
I don't see how this is relevant. There is no reason to believe that the hacker needs to get at your app server in order to access your DB server in the first place.
This article contains tips for new lawyers; nearly all the tips would apply equally to just about any new employee.

Example: "Doing good work means not only creating a strong work product but anticipating the next step. If you are drafting a responsive pleading, you should be thinking about the discovery you will soon serve to support the claims or defenses. If you are researching whether a particular contractual provision is permissible in a business contract, consider drafting your own clause. [¶] You will stay busy if partners can trust you and your work product. If you do a good job on an assignment, they will come back to you again and again." (Emphasis added.)
the problem is - where do you put it and who takes on that burden?
>How did people coordinate this...

I think you might be referring to a time when kids could play unsupervised and before independence-building play was replaced with wall-to-wall no-trespassing signs and overseen by a system that makes sure each minor transgression is forever leveraged into multiple, life-harming punishments.
Yeah, this hits a little close to home. My own (mis)adventure is pretty well documented[1], so I won't bore anybody with details, except to say: I'm living proof, and very nearly dead proof, of important parts of what Rui says. It's so easy to let your health go by the wayside, pushing yourself harder and harder, and thinking "I'll lose the weight next month" and then "next month" is "in six months" and then it's "next year" and so on.

I very literally almost died, and while there are a lot of factors in having a heart-attack (weight,genetics,stress,nutrition,etc., etc.), there is no question in my mind that three of the big contributing factors for me where A. stress, B. nutrition and C. weight. And sadly all three of those things are things I could / can control, unlike genetics.

Seriously folks, if you're out of shape, if you don't exercise, or if you are the living embodiment of that old joke about "the four food groups for programmers" (salt, sugar, fat and caffeine), please, please stop, wake up, and start taking nutrition seriously.

And don't think "I'm young, I'm only in my 20's, I have nothing to worry about". That's bullshit. You'll be 40 eventually (if you are lucky enough to live that long) and what you're doing with that mindset is letting "20 year old you" fuck over "40 year old you". It takes decades for the bad nutrition, lack of exercise, too much sugar, smoking, etc. to do their damage, so even if you don't see any outward signs now, the damage is being done, and the piper will need to be paid eventually.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8550315
Slander of Title (as seen in the SCO case) is generally codified in state law (e.g. Nevada; see http://www.trucounsel.com/index.php/slander-of-title).

Arguably there may be other causes of action, but for a lone a DMCA takedown notice sans any accompanying threats, I believe Federal law would preempt and you're stuck try to meet the bar of intentional malice or negligence.

(IAANAL, but I listen to a lot of Jay-Z songs so I know a little bit.)
Google cannot afford the legal liability of taking decisions on whether a DMCA notice is valid or invalid.

They will take down everything specified in every DMCA notice even if it is obviously bogus, because not doing so opens them up to a lawsuit. (a lawsuit alleging malafide intentions or a lawsuit for harm if they should make a mistake in deciding which part of the DMCA notice to honor and which to ignore.)

It is up to the harmed party (the owner of whatever was taken down) to challenge the DMCA takedown in a court. Once you win in court, Google will restore whatever was removed.
I'm quite happy with an edison board for $50. Is that overpriced?
In regards to them using a law firm in Texas, it may be due to favorable courts there for intellectual property holders. The first article I found about this talks specifically about patents [0], but I wouldn't be surprised if the courts were similarly favorable for other matters of intellectual property.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/01/east-texas-courts...
They used to be notorious for frivolous lawsuits. I personally found it amusing how badly they got played by Beats, as documented at http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h... and elsewhere.

My personal favorite example of absurd litigation was their threat to sue Blue Jeans Cable, documented at http://www.bluejeanscable.com/legal/mcp/. The response from Blue Jeans is seriously awesome.
>Can you really build a server box that uses less power than a 1-2A USB device?

Not sure, but I think the point was that its "greener" because you can swap out individual parts over time using the same case and ultimately producing less waste. You may also argue that individual components are easier to recycle.
Related, the story of Fabreze as told by Duhigg on Fresh Aire.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/147296743
I’ve evaluated a bunch and there’s no clear winner: luxon is probably my favorite that I’ve used, but it’s missing some crucial locale stuff. I’ve never used it, but I think js-joda looks the best in paper: it’s based on the API for a fairly popular JVM date library which I used a lot.

One issue, though, is that the “correct” date-time representation is often use-case dependent.
By uploading the hashes rather then the actual phone numbers.
Yeah, I just feel deeply uneasy about this and I can't really put my finger on why, perhaps it just feels too flippant. My sister died 20 years ago and i feel like if i were to upload her image I would run the risk of overwriting my own memories of her somehow? I'm sure others feel differently but this isn't for me.
Most of iCloud backups are encrypted with your PIN — the one you unlock your phone.
Some more sensitive data are backup only if you choose backup locally
IIRC if you turn JS off in the browser, the "noscript" blocks on sites get executed. But if you turn NoScript on, the "noscript" blocks aren't executed.
I think the full screen pop up (on mobile at least) asking for 3 USD a month to support "high quality independent journalism" rubs the salt in the wound a bit. I too had to stop reading it.
For anyone in NLP (Natural Language Processing), this is a goldmine.
Zeo actually doesn't use an eyemask: it's a headband that stays on your forehead.
It seems that describing yourself as a mathematician or calling something you have written for a mathematical paper is becoming increasingly popular.

A math paper is something that has been published in a peer-reviewed math journal. Calling a set of notes that could have been written by a high school student for a math paper is just silly.

Three times in the last four months I have had conversations where someone calling themselves for mathematicians turned out to think that having majored in math and now doing stats, programming, or teaching calculus makes you a mathematician.

Next time I apply for a position I think I'll consider adding "chef" to my CV. After all, I have been cooking regularly for years !
Not so fast. One of the top programming languages is C++. However C++ by itself, is in fact several rather different programming languages.
History. It gives you context, which is half of everything.
Gabriel,

With a few months of back data at Sand Hill Exchange, we've found our results often shockingly accurate.

For example, even before we experimented with a profit incentive, our users forecast big increases in valuations on Slack (http://blog.sandhill.exchange/post/101804376238/sand-hill-ex... ), Beepi, Mattermark, and Reddit, all of which proved true.

Our community also outperformed journalists: http://blog.sandhill.exchange/post/101679447223/parsing-the-...

I won't tell you what the smart money has been betting on in the past few months, but it will be great to see how this pans out. Here's the January predictions of relevance: http://blog.sandhill.exchange/post/109527449373/january-2015...
"During the relatively quick passage of the amendments, the Australian government made the usual argument that metadata needs to be retained for long periods in order to fight terrorism and serious crime"

A side effect of International trade.

TPP is signed [0], data retention laws are passed and corporate streaming services are released in Aus [1]. Snowden lets us see the behind the scene negotiations. [2]

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/10/trans-pacific-p...

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/netflix-v-s...

[2] https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/press.html
I think you're reading too much into the statement. "the more cycling is encouraged and taken up, the safer it becomes" doesn't read to me to be excluding infrastructure changes like you describe, and I think the author would agree that it can go the other way also (the safer it is due to infrastructure support, the more popular it becomes).

I will agree that the paragraph is set up strangely. "Fewer people on cycles, however, doesn’t mean fewer accidents" is an odd statement when you are measuring accidents on a per mileage basis.
> You'll learn their code styles and neat tricks that you never considered.

I agree, it's a good thing to be the dumbest person in the room, BUT a good engineer or developer does not only shine in the work he/she produces, but also in making sure it's clear for his/hers coworkers.

Clear and documented code beats smart code and hacks, and often you can bundle it in a library making it optional to truly understand the workings of the library to use it. (Unless performance is that important or you are doing HFT-alike things)
Doesn't the star next to each entry mean it is in your bookmarks somewhere?
I've tweaked my Apache configuration but don't seem to be able to trigger a rescan--the cipher list doesn't appear to change. I guess it's cached for a little while, but the UI doesn't make that clear.

Also, it's flagging the following ciphers:

ECDHE-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
DES-CBC3-SHA

These are triple-DES though, rather than just single DES. Is that considered weak these days?
All natural human languages are noun based having subjects and objects (in the POS sense). Verbs never stand alone.
"The internet and related stuff is good. Not asian-amazing but for my understanding, far better than in USA. A LOT of internet penetration, more than in other latin-america countries."

I don't get this. It's a myth that the US Internet isn't good. It's competitive with the 5-15 top countries in the world (not with Japan or South Korea). The biggest problem with US Internet is the cost, but Americans also have among the highest disposable incomes on earth.

What's the basis of claiming that it's "far better" than the US? I've understood the exact opposite about Colombian Internet speeds and reliability. From what I can find, US average speeds are 4 to 5 times faster than average Colombian speeds. Eg:

http://www.netindex.com/download/2,24/Colombia/

http://www.netindex.com/download/2,1/United-States/

http://qz.com/198988/colombian-internet-is-some-expensive-in...

My brother lives in a small town in the middle of nowhere in the US and can get up to 100mbps via two different cable providers. It's not inexpensive ($139/month), but it's available. The 30mbps package is closer to $75.

Or, take Vermont: you can go up there, with extremely low population density, and get 1gbps for $60:

http://www.vermontel.com/gige-home/current-promotions
"with power comes responsibility". C allows you to do many low level stuff, it's your job to deal with it.
You're correct. Actually, he was correct, too.

http://astro.unl.edu/classaction/animations/coordsmotion/day... (show yearly average)
If you're going to argue we can trust ZFS because it's been in production use for a decade, it's shittily disingenious to try and paper over the fact that OpenZFS is a fork that diverged from upstream 4 years ago - almost half that timespan. And where is the development effort from that "10 years" going?
Heavy, scary and extremely effective at making most people run the hell away from anywhere it's hitting the ground
It's going to wind up being how cheap can we make this drone to loiter with 1 missile attached? Cheap enough? Cool, just let the litter the sky, anyone dumb enough to try flying through will have to avoid detection or face instant death, so it will boil down to black stealth bombers only flying at night again, but even these will be drones.
AR's optics limitation is not cameras, it's the display. That's a tough optics challenge because you have to block incoming light (very hard) and display the data very close to the eye (hard) in a form factor that is appealing (very hard).
Yeah — That is called guided access mode. I use an Apple API that requires you to double gesture to bring up any menus or leave the app. This has actually proved sufficient for keeping my kid kid in bounds. You can always 4-finger pinch and leave my app though.
The post is about how the state is able to abuse it's position in the pursuit of people who oppose it's agenda. Craig's position is that the Alex Salmond trial is just a continuation of what happened to Julian Assange.

Craig Murray is a supporter of Alex Salmond. He was in court last week then the public were allowed in after the prosecution had made it's case - the witnesses for the prosecution had their identities hidden. Despite his obvious preference in outcome his writing on the proceeding were, in quality, light years beyond was published in the mainstream media, https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2020/03/your-man-fin... It's certainly worth a read if only to see what quality news reporting looks like.

Remember that the trial is not over. The jury are deliberating their verdict and were sent home on Friday. The court will reconvene on Monday. Consequently certain statements could be considered as contempt of court. You might want to consider that if you comment here and live in the UK.

Disclaimer: I read Craig Murray's blog regularly and believe Scotland should stand on it's own two feet.
7.5cm longer tibia? Just look at your naked legs and imagine it. I think this would be very noticable.
The mask guidance is confusing as well. I get they are trying to preserve masks for medical staff. But, they also say it's mainly spread by coughing, sneezing, and resulting spray of bodily fluids. Surely even a scarf around your face would have some benefit? Yes, I get that the virus is small enough to pass through, but some deflection is better than none.
There is this writing style that seems prevalent around certain programming circles, particularly the JavaScript, Python, and Ruby communities. It’s informal and somewhat hammy—- perhaps to seem friendly and more approachable. I imagine it’s pretty fun to write this way. Do people find it easier to read?
Eggs are only a problem in the US. In Europe they aren't cooled as they weren't washed after collecting.
I think it's a trade-off. Tariffs and the like will make us less efficient as a whole, but will shift money back towards labor. Right now I think we're tilted too far towards efficiency which is leading to wealth accreting in the hands of a wealthy fortunate few owning massively successful companies.
Now during Ukraine-Russia war after storages of Soviet weapon were opened in Ukraine, some series/years of AK assault rifles were dismissed outright as unusable.

Quality and reliability weren't controlled for in USSR. Only sheer numbers.
Murdoc
Interesting article, like the model proposed to categorize the different types of cloud services.
Asking what kind of feedback you wish to receive (or are asked to give) is important.

When asked for feedback on a 90% completed project you simply shouldn't comment on the big picture, that's set, the feedback is about what small, tactical changes can be done to improve the invested effort. While at 30% things are more strategic... are you missing an essential part? can it be restructured?

I think this post exactly encapsulates the pattern my wife and I have settled on after 15+ years of lively (sometimes embittered?) discussion. Now, we've learned to always ask: "are we editing, or scoping", or "tactical or strategic"? Asking what sort of feedback someone is seeks is essential to non-frustrating communication and having your review received properly -- in a manner that is actionable.
For those interested in a pretty ok movie, Marooned (1969) is about the rescue of astronauts unable to de-orbit after spending months in a space station.
I did something like this for the 37signals homepage a while back. Used versions of the site from git:

http://signalvnoise.com/posts/3007-37signalscom-homepage-evo...
> it could make the whole project less expensive

I'm sure a company that's richer than many countries is really, really concerned about the cost of development.

The benefit of making sure no-one else can benefit from the technology, on the other hand...
I don't see how it confuses people. In CS, the important thing is to specify the contract between subsystems. To your program, a preemptive scheduler's contract is it will run your threads in any order it wants. The point is not whether it's truly random or pseudo random. The point is there is no guarantee of ordering. You better deal with it. You cannot rely on the threads running in certain order. That's non-deterministic. It's a basic notion in concurrency.

Note that I never said the scheduler is non-deterministic. It is the order of your threads' execution that's non-deterministic.
And a canonical URL in your header.
Perhaps, but as far as I know, farmers don't feed antibiotics to vegetables.

Oh, and how does staph not causing food poisoning make vegetables worse?
Comparing Windows with the Lisa, the Macintosh, the Xerox Star or even Smalltalk 80, or MS-DOS with CP/M, you arrive at the inescapable conclusion Microsoft has always been really, really short on good poets.
It's because they have r/NSFW on the frontpage sometimes so the service they use blocks reddit
If you're interested in running a successful company you'll prefer whoever is most competent (technically, socially, etc.), regardless of where they're coming from.

If someone you think is a 'know nothing' gets hired instead of someone you view as technically skilled, you've learned something about that company. Maybe you don't actually want to work there.

College isn't a magical pill, what you get out of it is proportionate to what you put into it. If you're motivated enough to teach yourself to program, you're probably motivated enough to learn a lot in college as well.

Being self taught and being college educated are not mutually exclusive.
Yahoo cares about products that make revenue, which is why it is dropping things like delicious. I think Groupon would have had a different priority within the company.
Not the original poster, but here's some stuff I really wish AWS had:

a) Ability to map an elastic IP to an ELB. The CNAME thing it uses now has way too many drawbacks [1].

b) Ability to make an RDS instance a slave to or a master for a normal MySQL instance. This would make it possible to use RDS as a backup to our ordinary DB infrastructure using normal MySQL replication (and eventually, vice versa)

c) Retention periods for EBS snapshots. You can get this yourself by writing a few simple scripts, but it would be really nice if snapshots could simply be labelled "delete after 90 days".

d) A cross-availability zone, synchronously replicated EBS volume. This is probably fairly specific to our use case, but it would be neat if AWS natively provided something like DRBD.

[1] http://blog.pagerduty.com/2010/08/31/load-balancers-need-sta...
The other day we went to an arts event/party. Most of the pictures are trapped inside Facebook. The artists couldn't comprehend why I didn't have "face" at all. This same crowd would've uploaded the pictures to Flickr only a couple of years ago.

Staying out of Facebook isn't enough.
Also they generate your PIN by running your account number through a DES encryption round. This method is known to be vulnerable to attack:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mkb23/research/PIN-Cracking.pdf
Why is it that this post is not dead, but the author's description comment is?
Everyone has an e-mail address (it's a requirement to be able to create a Facebook account) and pretty much everyone is on one of the IM networks.
w3c should create open standards for social networks.

i don't think these companies are going to do it, and this seems exactly what w3c is meant to do. so why not? seems more productive.
I've always wanted to do things like this, but the potential illegal uploads freak me out. Even if I wouldn't end up liable for anything in the end, I'm sure it could still cause me a big headache.
"Google built chrome, a new web browser from scratch", or "It is not just a usual (IE), try this google's new chrome browser", which context do you prefer, esp when they put 'what is opensource?' column in detailed page?
Ask 37signals if they will sponsor it?
Has anyone tried to make a real-time version of an image board like 4chan? I know there are image-based chats (http://dump.fm/chat for example) but none of them are threaded. I guess what I'm really after is a "threaded chat" where you can sticky a topic and have it float at the top of your chat dialog with auto-updating replies. Anyone know of something like this?
He's the de jure head of state. The de facto rulers of China are the "princeling" descendants of revolution-era party leaders (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princelings).

He is certainly one of them, and perhaps the most influential, but he is certainly not powerful enough to be "the ruler".
Hmm, yes that would probably work... Not sure though.
Argh, thanks for the cache link. I'm still on heroku free-tier :\