jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My first job, luckily. The office was a pretty aggressive and political place, lots of people screwing each other over. He had a way of getting things done while still being one of the nicest people I've met. More importantly, he was liberal in sharing his thoughts.

It also showed me you don't have to be an asshole to get ahead. He had already moved up very fast, and 10 years later is now the head of a 5000 person organization. "What would Navneet do?" is still one of my internal checks when I'm struggling with something. I'm pretty convinced management is an apprenticeship business and I had a great mentor early in my career. I had some lousy management later, not sure how well I would have coped without the earlier exposure. I've developed my own style and incorporated stuff from other people, books, and blogs. I'm probably fairly different in style and personality to him today, but I think that one year laid the foundation of me being at least competent.
I guess it doesn't necessary have to be filing patents, but rather checking whether you'll be infringing any.
Rust is where you can write code that relies on a custom allocator. Or a program that doesn't allocate memory. It's usable for the really low level stuff. Because of this everything must be explicit. Nim is implicit. It doesn't require you to declare a main() function, for example.
For your point 1, there are some kinds of negligence or neglect which are criminal. And putting other people at risk is certainly ground for stigma.
Thinking about it, I see now that OP is focusing on the quality of the volunteer, while I am focusing on the quality of the organization. Perhaps OP and I are simply not even on the same page for commentary then, though we appear to be in the same book.
If unvaccinated people pose a threat to the vaccinated, what exactly is the benefit of the vaccine then?
Or take a look at marcel: https://marceltheshell.org
You nailed it! Thanks! It is public now!
yes, there are people that want to the right to not serve gay people at chik-fil-a.

Substitute the word 'same-sex' with 'black' in that famous example you mention and it should become obvious why laws like that are needed (and were needed 50 years ago).
> I'd like to find the time to do more (and work on improving my on-camera interview style).

For anyone interested. There is a great breakdown of how this works, gear, lighting, interview style, sound, etc @ https://vimeo.com/101128416 (interview section starts at 2:30). The guys entire channel is packed with useful bits about photography, how to get exactly what you need out of the scenes, sounds quality, etc. Could literally spend hours and hours getting tips and tricks in there. If you are at all interested in this type of stuff, well worth checking out, and the quality of advise pretty much speaks for it self.
TLDR Transitioning to an app and biometrics from smart cards and smart card readers.
I would like to see some of the features that GNU C has, such as zero-length arrays, typeof (which you mentioned there already), fopencookie, etc. A preprocessor command to include binary files is also a feature I thought of wanting in C, so it is good if they will add that too.
Hello :)

I'll definitely finish mine one day then. I was more interested in the IP layer when I did mine and learning about routing. TCP seemed a bit too complicated and not that interesting, but it would be cool to have at least once gone from a raw socket to HTTP.

I know exactly what you mean as well. When using technology there is a comfort in knowing that you could conceivably implement it yourself if you absolutely had to.
Don't underestimate the placebo-effect of having a Dyson, regardless of it's physical effects. This is what you can do with a premium brand.. only a Dyson is like a Dyson
You don't need to track down every transaction. You just need to flag the fraudulent/stolen/illegal coins on the blockchain and require exchanges to confiscate those coins as they come through the system.

Blockchain is a public ledger of every Bitcoin transaction ever. It's trivial to track these things. It's trivial to identify downstream coins from upstream illegal activity. Far easier than with traditional currency.

The exchanges will play ball because they want to continue exchanging (making money). The Bitcoin hodlers will play ball because it makes their investment more legitimate and reduces the supply of coins, increasing the value of their stash.
I wonder whether there are any examples not within the startup world but building your own personal “brand” (for want of another word), or competitive edge if that works better.
The reason for the bailouts was to avoid mass unemployment and mass foreclosures. These would have happened had major automakers or major banks went bankrupt.
One doesn't exclude the other. Facebook is incredibly valuable.

If they wanted to, Facebook could target directly 1:1 to decision makers on their platforms with their own data. It would probably be creepy though instead of just doing a blanket all of DC type promoted post.
I like that Rust's String is not trying to be smart. It makes it predictable and easy to reason about.

Because Rust has &str as the lowest common denominator for all string types, "non-standard" strings aren't difficult to use.
That's a great point. I agree that it's dishonest if you're just changing the price to put pressure on investors. I do think that if you have an aggressive growth plan that requires 1.5m, but you can come up with a less aggressive plan where 750k is enough, then that lets you ask for 750k while hoping for 1.5m and keeping your integrity.

I also agree fully that more traction/progress/revenue is very helpful to raising more money and raising it more quickly.
Yep, in spite of the progress made since October (when the site was entirely down for days at a time), there are absolutely still problems.

I also see you're a YC alum! If you're interested in helping out, or just to provide an error report on the problem you encountered, email me at brandon@hcgov.us.
Just because its whole foods doesn't make it inherently nutritious.

Additionally -- just because I eat all of the ingredients in a MealSquare every day, that doesn't mean that I can be health ONLY eating those ingredients every day
I think it depends on who you are and what you want from the web? E.g. I've just spent three years finishing a masters and being able to bookmark hundreds of articles which I used for research was invaluable. Sure, you bookmark in your browser, but I use three machines daily and numerous browsers. Having access to my bookmarks anywhere I was studying was very useful. I think the millions of users on various bookmarking sites is testament to the value of bookmarking.
use this: http://historio.us
A somewhat interesting take on the situation, but is (obviously) looking only from one angle. Yes, in Ellen's situation, she's 'investing' lost earnings in to that company. But that 'investment' doesn't mean the same thing to the company, and probably shouldn't be rewarded with the same equity value given to someone putting in hard cash.

Still, it's good for people to think through these issues with real numbers before making commitments. I am approached every so often to come in to situations like the one described, but have yet to find one where I believed in the idea/company/team enough to jump in.
I never got the whole bookmarking craze. Why is this useful? Google has every link on the web and you can easily search for things. It always seemed easier just go to google and search again then try to bookmark, tag and use another search to find a link you may never use again.
If you mention you HN username in your beta request, we'll send you an early invite so you can see for yourself :)
I'm not sure you can make that distinction. Capitalism is using capital to get economic power. The kind of practices described here are exactly that.
Delicious is not being closed down, this should be old news by now: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20101217/tc_pcworld/yahoower...

So there is no need to jump ship, unless you want to of course.
I often forget sites that I have previously visited (sometimes years) before as such I tend to bookmark as much as possible things that I will find interesting or useful at some point in the future.
Interesting site. I signed up with a test account, but I can't get the "Create a new bookmark" link to work.

The background is very dark and I almost couldn't see the search field because it's only one shade lighter. I couldn't figure out how to change my backdrop. I clicked a new color, but couldn't figure out how to save it.

I currently use Pinboard.in and so far think it was worth the $7.XX I spent to sign up. How do you differ from them? How will you fight spam links?

How do we know if you will never close down? Maybe you won't sell to Yahoo! but what about someone else?
I have to agree with you on this, nothing drives me more to distraction with modern web design than the tremendous amounts of wastes space on my screen. I do exactly what you do, zoom the page until the content fills the horizontal width of the screen. (Though often as not, I'm zooming in to the content to push sidebar adverts off the side of the screen like with this site http://www.geek.com/). I have a good solid 6-7" of wasted horizontal screen space ignoring the sidebar adverts, 3-4 if I add them.

All that being said, I do find that raw text that spans the screen to be harder to read...mostly because it's easier to get lost ending a line on the far right of my screen and returning to the far left (especially if the font it small, something that zooming the page up doesn't seem to have as much problem with).

I think a better middle ground are n-column layouts, like in newspapers, or most holy books. http://randysimons.nl/125,english/129,multi-column-text/
OT: I love the typography on your site, especially the little touches like the decenders overlapping link underlines.

edit: after some research turns out the link underline styling is a Safari thing. My point stands, though, the typography is wonderful.
Wonder if how close they managed to make the ghosts move like the arcade version. Someone reversed engineered how the ghosts chase you, each one chases using a different algorithm which ends up making the game really interesting to play.

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html...
I really like his sort of thing, but realize that, like anti-forensics tools, there is a risk to having and using destructive anti-tamper triggers.

If the police actually think you're up to something, raid you, and your "cybernetic boobytrap" destroys your hundreds of GB of actual random data, they may still try and prove that you're a terrible person and destroyed evidence in court. Then it's up to a jury, and a prosecutor bent on making you look guilty as hell.

I'm not trying to dissuade exploration, but understand what can happen if you actually deploy this sort of system.
The Shanghai American school also uses a Cisco VPN. Pretty great for the students since the entire campus is on a VPN.
As unwind suggested, they just get transformed down to global functions with unique names. Here's the actual C code generated: https://gist.github.com/def-/0fe87bf1d35102c62d3b#file-nest-...
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I signed up. Sounds like a good opportunity for those who want to help, but don't quite know where to get started.
We use make.
This sounds swell!

BTW: Tomas Petricek's "Real-world functional progamming" as well as "Expert F#" by Don Syme are excellent introductions to the language.
Seriously, is no one using Grunt? I know there was a backlash at all the Grunt like tools that came out at the time, but I assumed it was still useful and regularly in use / updated.
But where they hacked?
IE. From your own link.
The parent isn't claiming that it's legal to take something so long as you have intent to return it. Just that the standard definition of theft requires "permanently" as an element, and maybe taking something temporarily would be some other crime.

See the model penal code[1] "(1) "deprive" means: (a) to withhold property of another permanently or for so extended a period as to appropriate a major portion of its economic value, or with intent to restore only upon payment of reward or other compensation"

See [2] which mentions the "permanent" requirement three times.

[1] https://archive.org/details/ModelPenalCode_ALI/page/n207/mod...

[2] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-charges/theft-over...
It's definitely a take away for me as well, it shows that private control of communications is a powerful weapon, and it also is revealing how self-serving the politics of most people are.

The "right" typically, is in favor of less government, more private industry, etc. They typically feel the government intervening in the dealings of private industry is reprehensible. Yet look at what some of those voices are calling for now. Crying about "de-platforming"--no it's a private company making a choice. As expected, most people have no actual principles and really only claim to believe in something for as long as it's serving their own interest. If you suggested we have some mandates around communications companies and government access to them right now a bunch of "republicans" would be on board even though it stinks of state controlled media.

Also, it's quite interesting how much of the seriousness of these blows for this administration stem from their painting the "mainstream media" as an enemy. The POTUS has a significant communications apparatus available to it outside of social/new media/, but this administration has alienated those other sources so significantly they cannot even use them effectively.
IDK anything about the pentagon, but as for why Pence's call would have more gravity than Senators is fairly obvious: he's the second-in-command of the executive branch of the government. Emergency military mobilization is much more the prerogative of the executive than the legislative branch.
> Btw, another interesting ramification of both the trade war with China and the travel restrictions is that a lot of low/mid scale electronic manufacturing is being moved to Mexico.

That's a first I have seen manufacturers moving to a country with similar wage levels. Last I heard, wasn't a lot of manufacturing shifting to Vietnam, Malaysia and to some extent, India?
We all seem to agree that USA media orgs are for USA propaganda, the proper imposition of which benefits from experienced management.
Version 2 of the translation is also pretty bad, but in a different way. This version has logically-constructed sentences, but the actual phrase/word/term choices themselves are often far worse than Version 1. “Proper Japanese” sentences translate poorly compared to Version 1. Overall, this translation is much more playable than Version 1.

The neural network result looks better, but is less accurate, yet much more playable? That's an odd conclusion...
If anything, I would think “i didn’t lose my license to a DUI but I like to get some cardio” is a good thing, and any derision should be aimed at people who actually did endanger themselves and others by driving under the influence. I am very confused by your attitude.
Wow, imagine thinking you are REQUIRED to put your intellectual energy into labor in order to make wealthy people wealthier... truly wild.
Unfortunately, the US is extremely caveat emptor in many ways.

We have a legal system that greatly benefits rich people (companies are legally people).

Unions have the lowest numbers in our history.

Laws in different states like "Right to work" and similar kneecap workers rights.

And worst is the "gig work" which pays sub-minimum wage of 7.25$/hr or $2.35 for restaurant server work (and the min wage hasnt increased since 2009).

But if you're in software, it's a good life. Usually.
If anyone is wondering, this was probably caused by their "100000$ giveaway" and the signups flooding their servers.

http://blog.linode.com/2010/12/15/linode-100000-giveaway/
Not being able to feel pain is called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain. There's a great StuffYouShouldKnow Podcast about it: http://bit.ly/e0QWcg
by core competencies i meant the product and services that are generating maximum revenue and profit ... they're making $6B so naturally something is working :-) with some good real estates (may be email, flickr, yahoo finance, yahoo movies etc.)
I asked this question yesterday but it was kind of late and didn't get complete information.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014626
It looks great.

How do you want to differentiate yourself in this crowd market (personalized news feeds), given bigger players like pulse, flipboard, which are free.
Now go on Mechanical Turk and offer $1 to people who upload a photo...
What happens when Google says they won't donate to Wikipedia unless the Google article represents them more favorably?
That's called a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_path_sentence
Well, I didn't read the argument like that. More like that the homicide rates are a legacy of the process of colonization; in a country that was first colonies and then a nation expanding across the North American continent, sometimes meeting hostile original inhabitants who were mercilessly and violently overrun, there was violence, and that violence necessitated self-defence, which in turn means the people traditionally rely on guns they use themselves, not the authorities and legal process - because the authorities weren't there.

Plus that in Europe, the powers-that-be have largely wanted to avoid revolutions, which means that the public's access to firearms as well as right to self-defence is restricted and police, gendarmerie and similar organisations have true monopoly on (lawful) violence. America, in turn, is a child of revolution and is revering the overthrowing of powers-that-be who were perceived as tyrants.

That's just my understanding of the history how the United States has come to this situation, not a value statement that it's how things should be.

(Just for comparison, compare to other countries colonized at the same time or earlier, like Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, Honduras, Colombia, Nicaragua - they all have much higher homicide rates than the U.S.)
The article is very light on details so cannot comment concretely without more context. But at a guess, I think this might be for physical card transactions since it mentions swipe machines specifically.
Just wondering why Matlab ?

Why no Python ? Why not C ? What about Lisp ? And Haskel ? Hey did I mention D ?

I can agree that JS is not the best suited languages for this task but, JS is extremely well know so it is perfect to explain something.

Matlab... Humm is not so widely know...
Hi,
Yeah, we saw that thread and it was really interesting. My co-founder replied there too https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=9206182&goto=item%3Fid... .

At this point, I can only tell you we have a plan to launch this very soon.
Note that this is only the Zigbee Light Link master key. A lot of devices use the Zigbee Home Automation specification which has a different well known master key (in that case it's in the standard which is freely available).

The ZLL key is slightly more interesting because you can factory reset (and effectively steal) devices in someone else's network, but that does require physical proximity to the device.

The master key also means that you can make your own device to add to someone's network. Most ZLL networks have a simple push button adding process, so you just need to be close to the button for a few seconds in order to add your own device to the network, after which you can control any other devices already in the network.
The reality is that the vast majority of software developers does not stand out enough to get any benefit from fending for themselves.

It's funny to see this idea repeated throughout this thread that we're all special snowflakes that can negotiate better deals on our own.

Even more funny if you look back at the many threads about negotiating salary and see the huge number of people on HN that never even negotiate initial offers but just accepts what they're handed.

My own experience is that some of us can negotiate outstanding deals, but from managing teams for the last 20 years and being part of salary negotiations and ranking developers for most of that, in almost every company I've worked, I've seen seen software staff get lumped together in big buckets of (from the company's perception) entirely interchangeable developers and set raises across whole blocks, with the only salary differences generally being banded by narrowly by position other than for a tiny (5%-10%) portion of top performances.

Odds are you are a commodity to your employer in terms of salary and performance.
"So, if it was known in previous semesters that a test bank was used, why such a large statistical aberration this time around?"

What evidence do we have for the large aberration?

Are there older reviews of the professor available online that say his tests are easy or that he reuses old test questions?
It'd be fun if, every once in a while, a post was just dropped on HN pointing out a time-limited niche as it begins. The result would be somewhere between a flash-mob and a gold-rush: hundreds of competitors popping into existence in the same space over the course of a weekend.
a gawker commodity posted something slanted for the sake of getting traffic? i'm shocked.

seriously, at this point ( ok way before this point ), gawker could have the inside dirt on anything and i wouldn't believe it.
I just want to make sure you know who you're replying to. Joshu is the guy that wrote/founded delicious.

Perhaps "in some sense" you feel that that data belongs to all of us, but it's not really your place to decide. Delicious had terms of use, and you violated those terms. Your argument sounds a bit like the "the internet is public domain" cookbook lady from last month. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now.
"JavaScript: The Good Parts" by Crockford is excellent. It convinced me to minimize the use of JavaScript and thereby avoid the perils of the programming cutting edge (e.g., node.js). He also showed me how, in JavaScript, to add two numbers by calling a function that passes back another function that I can then call to add the numbers - just what I needed!8-))

But seriously, I used JavaScript with abandon years ago and found it laughable then. Crockford's book taught me that JavaScript hasn't changed much in the intervening years - still a hoot as a programming language. You can get just enough done with it if you stay minimal: try to do too much and you'll end up down the creek without a paddle.

FWIW here's a good article that discusses pros and cons of functional JavaScript.
http://bolinfest.com/javascript/inheritance.php