jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I see this in the Irish trad and Old-Time scenes all the time. A lot of sessions have the one sweet guy or gal who everybody likes, but who is so bad, it's an empirically measurable fact. There's one Houston drummer whose technique for holding her stick is so bad, her 2nd beat each measure falls at random every time. You could take a recording in Audacity, put in the tic marks, and it would be glaringly obvious. I've encountered many musicians with no rhythmic sense and others with no sense of pitch to speak of. I've also encountered musicians who are very competent in one genre, but have not enough clue to know they're clueless in Irish trad. This weekend, I was playing with a wonderfully competent old time player who had no clue the emphasized beats in Irish trad fall on the downbeat and not on every upbeat. Doing the latter obliterates the occasional deviation that can add playful (purposeful) changes to the rhythm. It's like showing a Picasso blue period painting under a blue floodlight.

The lesson here: One can be very good in one area, but still very clueless in another, even a closely related one!
imho, Ubuntu's user experience (when your computer's hardware is supported out of the box) is now superior than both window's and mac's user experience. Mac's UX is not bad to the extent they have adopted a Gnome like desktop.
Where they strayed away from Linux, the UX is usually inferior, for example the very poor Spaces implementation and that bar at the bottom that doesn't have separate icons for the different opened windows of applications. When I'm on a mac, I'm always shuffling around piles of windows with no good way to organize them and change between them. I'm horrified when I have to press those side mouse button that makes it look like someone sneezed out barely recognizable small versions off all my programs on my monitor. It's like the computer equivalent, for finding a document in a pile of throwing the whole pile across the floor and walking around to find what you are looking for.
This must be true - since the electrical charge on our electrons is the wrong way around.
Wouldn't it be great if companies could just come out with a figure they thought you were worth to them, not how little they could get away with or anchored on what you were worth to your previous employer.

I have noticed a stigma, admittedly on low/no skilled jobs, of people asking for salary details as part of the interview process then accepting jobs without even knowing pay rate. Does this happen at all in software, I guess with new graduates some companies would give off the "we're doing you a favor in hiring you at all" vibe.
Any distraction is dangerous when you drive.

I suspect the next step is to forbid talking with the passengers, and then they will remove the radio.

All of this despites statistics showing clearly that hands free phones didn't improve the situation.

mad, mad, mad
'Re-education'?

Damn.
Over here, such headlines are usually reserved for statements from various ministers of the government. The way I read that headline is as if our minister of justice made a statement about Assange, and it would be a big surprise to me if she had done that.

So from this perspective it's misleading.
There are two approaches I use:
1) You find one of us (we're tweeting, we're on linkedin, we have blogs, we're on hackernews, etc).
2) We find you.

The earlier one depends on who you're aiming at, but go follow the people you want to work with, engage in them and if they ponder ideas try fleshing them out or producing prototypes and blogging about it... it will get their attention.

The latter one is a question of where we're likely to look. My preferred option at the moment is IRC dev channels for the specific skill I'm looking for, or a search of github for projects that are somewhat related and then approaching those people. If you do the github route then make sure there's a way that people can get in touch... leave a readme markdown with email address, and ideally a link to a fuller profile page (just not one that requires a login... don't link to facebook).

Also on the "we'll find you" route would be open source projects related to the area in which you want to work. Go fix bugs, lots of them... get yourself known amongst those teams. Want to work in a devops shop? Then fix Puppet and Cobbler bugs and make well-made Puppet scripts. Want to work in a rails team? Then go find some large open source rails project or rails itself and get known there.

This all falls into networking of course, but this isn't meet for a beer networking, it's doing stuff that we're mutually interested in... constructing the opportunities to cross paths. It works.
About 15 seconds after your business starts it will be swamped by adolescents asking for videos of people saying obscene things - to amuse and shock their friends.

Hmmn - that might be quite popular when I think about it although there might be problems in some parts of the world. Expect fatwas when people say bad things about various popular prophets.
But that will only be optimizing for local optimum. What you need is a shake-up from time to time and that means testing radically different ideas!
Yes, rape is terrible, and judging by your reaction, you're probably American. Was that a racist slur or just an observation?

Would it also be terrible to be falsely accused of rape, in an internationally public manner?

The problem here is that mine was the first comment to allude to the whole debacle being disgusting bullshit.

There weren't almost any comments in the thread, possibly because if you really wanted to discuss this, you'd have to discuss the whole thing being bullshit, and facing the bullshit-laden reality we live in is unpleasant.

HN doesn't want to discuss unpleasant realities.

That may actually be a good thing for maintaining the high quality of discussions on other, more pleasant subjects - who knows. But on the other hand, spreading awareness of bullshit being bullshit would do us all good in our role of ordinary citizens of various governments.
Imposter syndrome means you’re growing.
I'll bag on the commerce clause from here to next week and back, thank you very much. The original meaning of regulate was "standardize", so most of what They claim to be doing with it is overreach. As far as intent goes, it was supposed to eliminate border friction on interstate trade, so Delaware couldn't charge a $1 tariff on a widget imported from New Jersey and two bits on the same thing from Pennsylvania, or other assorted trade-barrier nonsense.

I think it would be completely warranted to have a constitutional amendment that controls how the federal government manages the treasury. It should not be giving money to the states except by apportioning the funds by census populations. If the Wisconsin drinking age is 18, too bad. As long as you are paying for highways at all, you have to pay them 1.817% of that money, because they have 1.817% of the US population.

That would prevent an awful lot of political lever-pulling in the form that you mentioned. You couldn't tie federal highway funding to anything other than the actual upkeep of the highways. And you couldn't make school lunch subsidies contingent on serving corn at least 3 times per week, or declare ketchup a vegetable.
Oh come on. The title alone makes this not worth reading. There is a valid point here, but it's obscured entirely by interjecting the image of fascists to center stage.

This is also a second-order story about old news at this point, so it'll be wiped from the front page in 3... 2... 1...
> School is not about teaching and education, it is about training obedience, apathy, resignation and of course baby sitting. It is an institution from the 19th century, developed for a society of farmers, factory workers and dutiful drones of cannon fodder.

All of this! I can't understand why people don't see it. I'm not one to argue change for change's sake, but we moved away from being a factory worker economy a long time ago, and even longer still has it been since we've been agrarian.

People wonder why we are falling behind in R&D, well it's quite plain when you see that the lessons of school aren't for independent thinkers, it's conditioning for obedient/subservient drones.

You're GD right that our current school models were designed in the 19th century for farmers, then factory workers. Something needs to change, otherwise we can expect stagnation at a minimum, but more likely regression as a society.
>This combat was just as racist as any action of American foreign policy conducted under Obama.

Really? What did this "combat" resulted to in actual terms (mean tweets aside)?

Because even for immigrant deporatations at Mexican borders, Obama had a much larger number of such. Same for police shootings.

I also like the hypocrisy and gal of playing actual bombings and murder of peoples and destruction of countries the same as the toil (and what toil exactly? in what numbers? with what impact?) of "internal enemies".
And here... I was so stoked "finally, I'm going to get a modern primer on creating GUIs with Swing." Might be nice to add something in the title that this is about dance and not creating GUIs.
Regardless of the above statement, this is such a silly argument.

You have to experience something to have an opinion on it now?
Considering that Brazilian scientists described the government's strategy as an "institutional strategy to spread the coronavirus"[1] and they're reporting a lower death rate than France[2], you have to figure something in Brazil is working in humanity's favor. It can't make up for (probably) the worst policies in the world, of course.

[1]: https://english.elpais.com/americas/2021-01-29/study-finds-t...

[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
You explained the fundamental philosophical divide in software development today. One group sees development as a process of production. They still think of developers as people who produce code. The other group sees software development as a process of problem discovery and definition. Programming is an exploratory learning process that, at its best, refines and condenses human concepts and symbols into concrete representations automated by a computer. In my opinion the latter group will always outperform the former (barring massive resource discrepancies) because they have a more powerful theoretical grip on their activities.
London is very well connected in a bunch of ways (bus, tube, ferry, overground, DLR, tram, train, boris bike...) and in the centre is a lot more walkable than you might think, to the point of not really needing any of it in certain areas.

The reason we call it shit is because (before COVID) they're pretty much all pushed beyond capacity during the commuting hours, or practically all the time between the main tourist spots. Commuting in London is a truly hellish experience.

And that includes the commuter trains that are frequently delayed or cancelled while ticket prices increase above inflation every year.

The best thing that happened from covid is skipping the commute and saving the £300 a month it took to get to the office and back.
I agree with everything you say (although I read this article differently), but historians should be careful to steer away from Hayek's "scientism". History's underlying mathematical assumption -- an assumption that is almost surely correct -- is that society is a complex system, and therefore cannot be subject to predictions (or very few, qualitative predictions) in the long run. If historians feel quantitative analysis gives their explanations any sort of definitiveness (and "proving" the inevitability of past events is exactly the same as prediction), they will fall into the same trap as economists.

A different perspective -- absolutely; a quantitative theory -- no. In fact, quantitative theory, at least in a sense similar to physics, is nearly impossible even in subjects that are much closer to physics than history. The simplest non-linear differential equations defy quantitative study, and history (and even economics and biology) are nowhere near simple.

However, it is possible that even in a complex system, there should arise some temporary structures that can be described as linear processes, and therefore subject to some quantitative theory, but it will be short lived. Complex systems undergo phase-changes that tend to break and reform any structure. On the other hand, it can be argued that those phase changes are rare, and that human society is self-stabilizing on some global scale, so that the system -- at least for the moment -- is stable, and some quantitative analysis may apply. But I'm pretty sure no one would classify any specific society (i.e. a small subset of humankind) as stable.
I agree. However, I would also rank "optical illusion" pretty high in the list of deciding factors I process after I watch a commercial. What else? What they say? The actors or their logo? Or, their logo burned onto my eyes.
They still did not give up on scaling technical excellence.
I was thinking more like rear-facing machineguns.
At my University you had to be able to explain and answer questions on your assignments before they gave you a pass. So while it was possible to 'borrow' an old solution, if you didn't also study and understand the code before handing it in you'd quickly be found out when you failed to answer even the simplest questions about how the code works why it looks the way it does.
This was not too long ago and I've had first hand experience with this. Companies will readily hire foreign interns if they are interested. In my case, they hired me while I was out of the country and they paid for my visa and relocation. This is more prevalent with larger companies with the resources to do so, so you might not see the same possibilities with startups.

If you feel like you're competent enough to be hired as a full-time software developer, why do you feel like you should be looking for internship positions?
The right is obsessed with its own money; the left is obsessed with other people's money.
Wow, thanks for sharing this. This deserves to be on the front page! We're lucky in 2010 to have a glimpse into what it was like to create things in 1986.

Also, I loved this bit:

October 23, 1986

Everyone in the office has been playing a lot of Tetris – a Russian submission for the IBM PC. It’s a classic, like Breakout. But I don’t think Broderbund is going to publish it. The knaves.
Four warehouses on a test basis and that’s the positive spin from the startup making the claim. Please apply some well-earned skepticism.
Just mention pilot wave theory and someone on this site might reply with a very detailed explanation of quantum mechanics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_wave_theory
It can be implemented as background UI thread, with message passing.
Because apparently you don't need to keep stuff running in Azure patched, I guess?
Learning new features is not hard; putting these in practice usually depends solely on their support by the compiler.
You may be in luck:

- https://www.cinc.kitchen/

- https://github.com/lukesmithxyz/based.cooking/ (which the submitted site may be derived from?)
This makes no sense to me. Modern build systems have reproducible results based on strict inputs.

Modern CI/CD handles tasks that are not strictly reproducible. The continuous aspect also implies its integrated to source control.

I guess I don't understand the post if its not just semantic word games based on sufficient use of the word sufficient.

Maybe the point is to talk about how great Taskcluster is but the only thing mentioned is security and that is handled with user permissions in Gitlab and I assume Github. Secrets are associated with project and branch permissions, etc. No other advantage is mentioned in detail.

Can someone spell out the point of this article?
I think you need to lay out the plans much more concretely and have a proper plan for transparency.

The crypto world is full of scams and misinformation. Technical people are unlikely to trust the coin if transparency and oversight stay so vague.

Scanning through this discussion, quite a few red flags have been raised by users. I assume your intentions are good at the outset. But when the money comes rolling in, even the most pure plans can be corrupted.
It doesn't take much law to make cryptocurrency secure for a person to hold: just protection from home invasion and torture. It can work quite well in otherwise highly dysfunctional societies.

Other forms of property ownership are much more fragile, and require a much more sophisticated legal system.
The Safe Browsing protocol does have a theoretical vulnerability whereby a malicious provider could create hash buckets on demand with the intent of guessing user URLs. This change would protect users from this theoretical risk. Also, it prevents Google from getting free info about user IP addresses and other info visible via a direct network connection.
Yep, the 30 years war was one of the bloodiest. most devastating conflicts in human history, and had more political twists and turns than a George RR Martin novel.

It might have killed over 8 million people.
More worrisome than that is that they pledged very specifically that they weren't going to do that and that companies in their position should not do that, a stance I agree wholeheartedly with.

Then they did that.

They had a halfway decent reason for the first one (the racist site they censored was claiming their continued existence was tacit endorsement by Cloudflare, a lie) but once they crossed that line they didn't go back.
It still shares the same amount of information, it's just being shared with Apple instead of Google. If it was a privacy problem before, it remains so.

Apple’s business model is not based on exfiltration of personal data, in fact their business of selling hardware is only boosted by adding privacy features.
This is a forum frequented by US folks and to my continued surprise, checks still seem to be a normal mode of payment. A US client snail-mailed us a check about a year ago - we first needed to figure out what the process is to cash that. And it took a month for payment to go through.

As an interesting side note: There are cases where you want to use a check in Germany as well. There’s what’s called a “Bundesbankscheck” which is a check vouched for by the Bundesbank and it’s cash-equivalent. So instead of carrying large amounts of cash you can just carry one of those. Relevant for cases which require immediate payment.
Thanks for the kind words :) It is indeed both terrifying and super exciting and interesting to figure out what is going on (and how to stop it).
Games that lean on conversation, Assassin's Creed for example, will sometimes have Dutch subtitles. Those helped me when I was younger, also enabling English subtitles in series and games.

But tbh a big thing is the exposure at a young age, I tried to do the same thing with Spanish series but a new language simply doesn't stick as well as it did 15 years ago.
Keep at it, or sell it. See if you can partner with some politically-oriented websites. Maybe find more "marketing"/politically-oriented partner(s) who can help? Don't kill it though!
I started two companies and I am not sad to see the days of renting rack space, buying hardware, and sys-admining everything yourself disappear, anymore than I'm sad to see that I don't need to build my own power plant to run my stuff, or farm my own food.

The innovation in the cloud space in the last couple of years has removed an enormous burden from working on ideas. You could waste enormous time just setting up an email or web machine in the past that these days is just a click away. Knowing how to configure BGP has little to do with most people's ability to deliver their core product.

I don't know what brogrammers are. Maybe he's talking about what I used to call tech-carpetbaggers in the dot-com boom. Essentially, every area of human endeavor starts out with the truly passionate, the truly dedicated, and later becomes mainstreamed if successful. Some percentage of those who arrive later will have other motivations, and won't care for the same reason you do. It's not unique to tech. You see it the gaming community ("you're not a real gamer!", "fake geek girls", etc)

As tech becomes easier, and the barriers fall, more and more people will be able to participate. Geeks and neckbeards will become a minority. I don't think we should mourn for the era when tech required priestly dedication. We should be happy another 4 billion people are now getting access, and greater and greater numbers of people can translate ideas to products efficiently.
I read your comment before the article, and was all set to agree. But then I read the article.

The people who come here looking for riches and playing at entrepreneurship are not "working for a paycheck". They are people who crave social standing, who crave money. They don't want to be comfortably middle class; they want to be elite. There was a giant wave of them during Bubble 1.0, but come 2001 most of them went back to wherever they were before. In the last few years they are thick on the ground again. They are very different than the people who came to make a difference, who came to create for the joy of it.

I don't see the current crop of them as any worse than the 1990s invasion. But they're sure not any better.

I also think this guy definitely does recognize how lucky he was. He opens talking about "more than I ever could have dreamed" and ends with feeling like he was lucky enough to witness "the very birth of rock and roll".
> I was told that in Japanese (which I don't speak), you might use a different word for "one" when saying "one cat" versus "one house" or "one country,"

True, but partially. CJK languages have a property that a numeral alone is not enough to quantify noun and a special "counting suffix" is required.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_counter_word
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback, and yes we are very alpha.

Plans... we aren't selling to anyone. In it for the haul!

We want to make it easy for users to migrate data out, and in. We want users to be integrated to their social-graph! Of course!~ We are working on making the development of specialties and building of positive and supportive relationships more fun and engaging as well. Please tell your friends!:-)

@martey - PrivPolicy... it's basic right now, yep. I guess we could make it 'look' better, any feedback on the content?
I use Rubular all the time, and it inspired me to build http://strfti.me.
Yeah, right now there's some issues with the dataset I've got. Dashes not being dashes, etc.
"upper-income" is way too broad of a term

If people really want to compare, then they should rank their wealth as a percentile.

ie. instead say, your income is in the 20% percentile (meaning you have more annual income than 80% of other people in the nation)

It's probably a nice problem to have but I cannot imagine working at a job that paid me $250k a year, I'd keep asking myself how the hell I am worth that much - I'd put 10% of it as cash in a safe and open it once in awhile and freak-out just looking at it.
From a statistical standpoint, it'd be interesting not to talk, as the article does, in terms of raw percentile, but based on region, normalized by the cost of living index.

A couple making $250k in Medford, OR would probably be considered fairly well off, but in NY, NY that would not take you very far at all.
"We" don't do this, copyright holders do. Computers are a disruptive, and destructive force for old business. People talk about "finding new business models" to sound PC but the honest truth is there are no new business models for easily replicable content. It's probably just not going to be a job to be a writer any more. Or a journalist. Or a studio musician. Those are going to be hobbies. That's not a value judgment, it's just the way things are.
Holy crap this is cool!
Panasonic Toughbooks were the only laptops that survived the oil rig workers that frequented the shop I used to bench tech at back in the early 00s. They were awesome rugged with touch screens years before others.
But isn't it invite only?