jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That would be great. Question is what do you do about the huge GDP contraction that will happen? If they (the gov) reduces spending then you and me will go bankrupt or go steeply into debt (it's an accounting identity). The better approach would be to redirect spending away from military and into say, debt relief, housing, and health care.
Is this actually reality in the US though? Pretty much everyone I’ve known who went to jail said you could just keep to yourself and you’d be fine. Most people in jail aren’t hardened criminals.
So you don't eat vegetables any more?
"Below freezing" is when it goes below 32°F, "below zero" is when it goes below 0°F, and "ing cold eh" is when there's not a difference between C and F anymore.
Not only light on evidence, but essential practicality-free. There's no "there" there. Literally nothing useful will come from this.
It's expressing a constraint that wasn't entirely set until the end of the period of time the game is set in, as the power of the nobility and church consolidate. It would be more interesting if it allowed you to play with some of the tensions between the church and the nobility. Want to marry your same-sex spouse? Throw your weight around a la King Henry VIII and establish your own church.

https://theconversation.com/a-thousand-years-ago-the-catholi...
Wish it supported wildcards. I'm not comfortable putting in my phone number for the exact reasons the author states.
I am not an expert either, but I may be able to comment on a few things.

> Also many new and unproven companies raise amazing amounts of money, for, at least seen from the outside, downright silly business proposals (share your credit card expenses, anyone?).

Judging by the current climate in SV, I can safely say that silly businesses are not still not really getting funded. Blippy for example was forced to pivot. Investors are still looking for businesses that are either going to make lots of money now, or engage lots of people and make lots of money later. Many people outside SV scoff at the 2nd clause, but with 1B people online and 3B cellphones in the world, and instant distribution channels like the App Store, it's not so absurd. Just as a general rule, if you see something seemingly stupid get funded, they probably have something else going for them -- crazy traction, awesome customers, or past entrepreneurs as founders.

> Apart from the valuations...taking huge amounts of money "off the table" in subsequent funding rounds.

It's true that a huge amount of the raised money went to the execs, but that stock was sold, at the established price, by the "executive officers, directors or promoters" in question - one could argue, [as Andrew Mason himself does](http://www.businessinsider.com/groupon-ceo-andrew-mason-tell...), that it was an intentional way to get early liquidity. Obviously that price has now gone up; it was their choice to sell. Founders often argue that raking back is a good thing because it prevents people from needing to sell perfectly good businesses to get liquidity. Just playing devil's advocate.
Check out the --watch flag, which will give you the same "just reload" workflow you have with JS.

Using `text/coffeescript` script tags works, but isn't recommended because you're effectively programming through an eval(), and debugging becomes more difficult.
> trip to the grocery store

try sending money to someone in north korea. how many hours does that take?

> actually interested in them as currency

it is still a currency.
I can't wait till the whole world is using Bitcoin and we no longer have to spend money on militaries, banks, and investment companies.

At least I assume Bitcoin obviates all of those things since I keep seeing them brought up in comparison to Bitcoin's energy usage.
Like having a Facebook account?
> the phrase “literally retarded,” is clearly contrasting against the figurative use.

There is a current fashion to use "literally" as an intensifier, rather than to mean "not figuratively". Google "literally misuse" for a wealth of hand-wringing articles.

I'm pretty sure RicoElectrico is using "literally" as an intensifier - after all, companies don't have thoughts or minds, cannot be IQ tested, and therefore cannot have intellectual disabilities.
I signed up for a Gab account purely out of curiosity. There was literally nothing but misogynistic, homophobic, racist, antisemitic trash content on the entire timeline.

I'm honestly not sure what I expected to be honest. I signed in once, scrolled a bit, recoiled in disgust and haven't been back.
> That's why I think the government should take action.

And do what, exactly?
I was looking into their whitepaper trying to find a counter argument to this. My conclusion is basically this:

The probability of being awarded a transaction is proportional to your reserved space 'plot' compared to the globally reserved space.
Assuming it takes off, and enough 'overprovisioned' storage has been added to the pool, then it makes little sense to buy hardware just to farm storage-coins. The tiny increase in probability just wouldn't pay off.
That's a good suggestion! Especially having a "sanity check" against a popular colour which should increase robustness when new images arrive.
Robustness is such a tricky subject, especially when the loss, i.e. the cost of returning a wrong image is fairly high. For fashion items the occasional odd colour is OK but accidentally returning naked people can be devastating for a product.

I want to stress that this code is massively simplified to avoid obscuring the main plot. There's so much we skipped: the code in the blog post actually computes pretty terrible results compared to an even moderately tuned pipeline :)
XenServer (The product from Citrix) or Xen 4.3+ support vTPM. Not sure which version of Xen that Amazon uses, but if/when they upgrade to 4.3 it should have built-in support for vTPM operations.
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Are you seriously putting your GPA on your resume?
You are missing the point. C is only for system programming which is insecure by definition.
> Nowadays most people I see of that age group are happy with a YouTube video on their smartphones.

YouTube is a fantastic resource for any hobby or subject. It's like a world wide university.
If you type LICENSE into the filename box, Github provides a dropdown of licenses to choose from.

https://i.imgur.com/opCBKHT.png

With that in mind, it would be nice if the Put A License On It site could open to the create screen with the filename filled in with LICENSE.

This can be done using the following URL pattern:
https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/new/master?filename=LICENSE
I'm scratching my head on this. The service has been terrible so far. Whether it's getting lost because Google Maps misdirected them, or delivering cold food because they don't have insulated boxes, every delivery I've had has problems. In their defense I get a discount every time, but I've stopped using them as a result.

Is it the scheduling software or sub-contracting system that makes them so valuable?
So, how does one exactly start the process of signing up for a service, and yet force to be billed for some "unknown" tier of service which you never commit to? They just pick and decide what to bill you over the phone against your wishes?

Sounds like this is being over complicated just to complain about how terrible ISP's are.
> Additional Tier 2 Requirements:

> A limitation on the amount of securities non-accredited investors can purchase in a Tier 2 offering of no more than 10 percent of the greater of the investor’s annual income or net worth.

Do these modest limitations on non-accredited investors only apply to Tier 2 offerings? I.e., can a non-accredited investor put 100% of net worth into a Tier 1 offering?
I wrote a painting app with layer support a while ago for Android that had to use similar tricks (the app is coincidentally called Fresco: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.seanw.fres...).

Each image layer (like you would have in GIMP or Photoshop) takes a couple of MB to store in Java and given the roughly 16MB Java app memory limit you didn't have much memory left to play with after creating 5 layers. I found that apps that used C and the NDK had no such limit; you could allocate huge amounts of memory compared to Java without any issues.

To take advantage of this, I wrote code that would let me allocate C memory, copy a Java bitmap into it then free the Java memory. To make all the app features work without crashes due to Java hitting the memory limit, I would shuffle bitmap memory between Java and C as needed, while having to implement several algorithms in C that I would rather have done in Java. For example, the undo/redo feature needed to store bitmaps of what changed when edits were made so this was mostly kept in C. One tricky issue was I couldn't find a way to get the Java APIs to render image data that was stored in memory used by C; you had to copy the data back into Java first.

I found the above frustrating in that if you're writing an image manipulation app, it means there is a massive incentive to avoid the native Java UI libraries and write your app entirely in C as you don't have the same memory limitations for some reason.
Here are two blog posts with summaries and good links to various studies (I know these are bad sources, but they make the point and were easy to find).

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/gende...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-ga...

The 77 cents on the dollar myth actively shifts attention away from the real issues with gender roles and western culture in favour of a simple outdated narrative that isn't going to help anyone.

It's a useful shibboleth though, the people using it are either well meaning but uninformed or interested more in attention/marketing than actual equality.
How do you objectively measure the productivity of a programmer?

Or of a secretary / office assistant / whatever they're called these days (the person who's job is to make life easier for other people, so that said other people can get more of their own work done)?

If it was possible to objectively measure productivity, there wouldn't be any of these huge arguments about pay fairness.
Be careful... some followers think the simultaneous tweet was a kind of virus!
"Unfortunately, I don't have time to learn this system and work my way through your review process. I think I'll have to buy [insert (possibly proprietary) alternative] for now. Best of luck with the project."

For the record, I have written a couple patches and released open source code before. I say this after years of trying to convince all my friends to switch to Linux, and finally coming to terms with the fact that even I still have to keep a Windows boot for certain occasions.
Yes, thanks for that. I should know better by now. Once while living in Germany I asked someone in my German-peppered-with-english-words-for-german-words-I-didn't-know if they were concerned about the amount of preservatives in some sort of shelf stable cheese food.

They heard Präservativ when I probably meant Konservierungsmittel. Hilarity ensued.
Don't start programming at all. I am going to be brutally honest, programming is not for everyone. The fact you stated you want to start programming and you're entrepreneur is a flag for 'someone who wants to learn to program in order to become some millionaire'. These sorts of people are not successful in the field. Worse, we have bad enough people in CS already don't poison the pool with even more people who bring nothing to the software table.
Check out SoundManager 2. It's awesome. http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/
Ok:

a) Shitty jobs will offer shitty salaries

b) Employers who have shitty employees will feel a senior is worth 50k. Why? Because their "seniors" are juniors at best and are doing the recruiting.

c) Location. If they are the only game in town then guess what. The offers are obviously not from tech companies.

d) 100k is a mid-level position (at least in nyc). All depends on how well you do on the interview or how much you can show off of your work.
I would advise AGAINST diving into SICP until you are familiar with turning text into a program with at least loops, conditionals, and basic functions.
I use one bash history (and fasd history) per tmux session: https://gist.github.com/unhammer/abef48d8f6452c74e3513c68485...
Agreed. The courts are not respecting the science. They are pandering to public outrage.
From what I read, the "Personal" $0 tier still has "small businesses" listed, and the little info tooltip for Docker Desktop also explicitly mentions "small businesses."

This can be found at the very bottom of that page:

> Docker Desktop can be used for free as part of a Docker Personal subscription for: small companies (fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10 million in annual revenue), personal use, education, and non-commercial open source projects.
I once showed my kids a video of how hotdogs are made, and they suddenly stopped eating them.
Something in common in these stories is that the people involved want to live out in the woods, or near them in the urban-wildlife boundary. Yes, fire is going to make that a thing for the rich – in California. Or just true hippie types who revel in impermanence, and (truly) owning almost nothing of monetary value.

The big thing that California needs to plan for is the water shortages. The states' cities are going to need desalination. Most of its people live in the cities or denser suburban areas like Santa Rosa and are in lesser danger from fire. There are "soft" effects too, like feeling like you're under siege every autumn, and a general loss of quality-of-life, but the water issue is going to be existential.

Oregon needs to consider that a great chunk of the state is dependent on logging for livelihood, and the changing climate is going to dramatically reshape those forests (if not just burn down half the stock of trees). The PNW has a much larger rural population than California by percentage, and for that reason, they will be increasingly exposed to weather-whiplash-induced wildfires, drought, and heat events.
While there may not be HTTP-specific ASICs, there certainly are SSL/TLS-offloading ASICs and general TCP-processing ASICs, found on higher-end network cards, in routers, etc.
That's entirely untrue. There was a large outcry after the announcement of CentOS Stream and many people moved to Rocky and Alma. Everybody knows rolling release is not "enterprise" and "production ready".
Seems somewhat perverse to do this in python, and never once mention list/generator comprehensions.

I get that this isn't a guide for using functional programming in python, but rather a guide for using functional programming in non-python languages, shown with examples in python. But practically, who's the audience for that?
Configuring the W540 you mentioned identically to the base model 15" RMBP ($2000) costs $1850. RMBP is ~ 1 lb lighter and .4" thinner, has a faster SSD, and gets about 3 hours more battery life. W540 has an optical drive, a removable battery, and a workstation graphics card. (Surprisingly, though, raw performance of that seems to be pretty similar to the Iris Pro 5200 in the RMBP, based on my minimal research.) In any case, $150 doesn't seem like an unreasonable difference to me, particularly considering Apple makes actually usable touchpads. (Reviews seems to indicate that the W540 touchpad is as bad as such things usually are.)
I'm amused that your comment is getting voted down, ostensibly by people who don't agree.

I'll go much farther than you did and say defeatism is for losers. I don't mean that as a judgement, but as a statement of fact. You'll never get ahead when you don't see a point. Life is mostly a mental game.

A serious problem for a lot of people (beyond the poor) is that they spend far more cognitive time thinking about how to justify and feel good about their circumstances and decisions than how to improve them. Change comes from within and change is hard.
You use your friends phone. Friends are supposed to help your. Of course, if you get a job needing a phone, you take one. But again, I never had one job requiring a phone. You can tell an employer "i'm broke, i can't afford a phone right now". People are human.
I don't think most of these people get their paying customers from this sort of publicity.
"Synchronizes with cloud storage services (at this time only Dropbox and RemoteStorage are supported)"
Shouldn't submissions and comments stand on their own merit? What does it matter who submitted it?
I thought the authors questions were pretty good, slightly less impressed with the next two (although I would also identify with the first guy more, so maybe there's something to this whole thing).

The thought I came away with was that it was probably actually a pretty easy interview for him, not because they threw him softballs, but because there's a genuine lack of political sophistication and knowledge from the interviewers, and by extension their audiences.

I think Obama realised it too by the end, and did a reasonable job of not coming off too patronising - except for the movie bit. He could have emphasised that all of their viewers have a voice, but it only counts if they use it.
Coal power is part of the problem in the first place.
Yeah, I noticed this too and he has many very flawed arguments. It looks like he just wants to spam as many comments as possible and confuse people.
I think we’re already there? Maybe we’re better off looking for a cluster orchestrator orchestrator.
" Currency of my country lost 250% of its value over last 7 years. "

The problem is not your Central Bank, it's almost assuredly a total dysfunction of government and the civil services - which will have effects more far reaching that Central Bank problems.

The solution is not BTC.

It's to use something common and trusted, temporarily, like USD or Euros until there is enough credibility in the system for external parties to accept your own currency.

Or - to overthrow your government, install leaders with integrity and hope that international bodies accept the change, because if they do, you'll be in a much easier position issuing your own currency than having to issue debt in a foreign denomination.

Put another way: it's not a currency problem, it's a governance/management problem that exhibits itself in currency problems and other things.

BTC will not really help you have a better managed government.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you with an answer! Also no snark detected. Here is a nice overview by the SEC but it's really light on the details.

https://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/regsho.htm#_ftn4

You can also look through FINRA's regulations here:

https://www.finra.org/rules-guidance/rulebooks

The wikipedia article on Regulation SHO is also fairly relevant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_short_selling#Regulation...

It's pretty long and tedious and not really targeted to your question though. I'll try to remember to post a better resource here when I find one.
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease
It’s not as black and white. What about GC, compacting objects and the other myriad of optimizations the JVM does?
I do want to mention that I am not overly knowledgeable on these topics, only really interested in compiler technology, but a program compiled with PGO will have to add code for each specialized function, won’t it? So perhaps not every sort of application would win by PGO AOT compilation; a structure over the running code, and manipulations over it are a great and powerful idea.

But I do agree that Scala in the early years did have some ugly artifacts from compiling to the JVM and trying to remain a “good citizen“ there, not sure about current trends.
When are people gonna understand that almost everything this guy's saying about crypto is correct.
I'm having trouble parsing what you wrote, but I assume you mean that the paper specifically looked at top 1% as defined by earnings or net worth?

My point is that while we frequently use the 1% as a reference for discussions on inequality, the driving force of wealth accumulation isn't that some people make 350k+, and people understandably get caught up in those semantics.
Follow up article in months..

Go's Simplicity is its weakness for XXX thing.

I find these constant take one aspect of a language and paint the world with it to be unhelpful and distracting. However based on the comment section HN eats it up, no wonder people keep writing them. Its like Instagram for nerds I guess.
"the operators go out on the air using strong transmitters built from bits and pieces of equipment stolen from factories or bought on the black market.... Under Section 206 of the criminal code, officials confiscate their equipment and impose fines of up to one month's salary."

Unauthorized radio transmissions are not exactly welcome in Western societies either:

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/unauthorized-radio-oper...
Just think of the average online discussion. Not HN, but other fora. Its not a pretty place. The impersonal nature of typing at each other, makes it easy to rant and be extreme.
I lost my rental car keys somewhere at Disney World. The rental company was completely useless, so I asked for help from the Disney hotel we were staying at. They sent their private locksmith over to the car, and he spent over 3 hours trying to make a key that would work using the keycode. Ultimately he was unsuccessful because the key had an electronic component. He did get the doors open though, and his professionalism and dedication were top-notch.
Agreed on all points. One of the main metrics I use to assess maintainability of code is 'how many places do I need to edit to make a change?' (within the same file or worse, in other files too), 'how easy is it to find those places?' and 'how easy is it to make a change in one of those places but overlook another needed one?' On pretty much all of those counts, a single switch statement will tend to beat an inheritance hierarchy.
Google employees are not “abused”, and if anything, they’re coddled and spoiled. The idea that their employees need a union to protect them from abuse is laughable.
> I would rather live in a country where an individual can save and invest to become a billionaire.

Steinbeck has a dynamite line about this. It's a goofy point at any rate because there is no evidence that you can realistically _save_ to become a billionaire. It's typically inherited.

> Where is the growth and innovation in those countries?

Literally everywhere? A fun exercise is to read about some burgeoning Canadian or European tech companies and contrast them with eg Uber or WeWork.

> I want to live in a country with opportunity, not one of equality

Without public schools and healthcare, most people get no opportunity.
There's often a send that "this is what my employer have me to work with, I'm getting on with it". Perhaps there needs to be some effort to poll for issues rather than rely on interrupts.