jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Neanderthals were humans.

What an ignorant statement. Neanderthals were a Hominid in the genera Homo that co-existed at some point with Homo Sapiens.

Whether or not they were a subspecies of H. Sapiens or a separate species within the genera is an entire field of study. (i.e. Siberian Tiger and Bengal Tiger vs. Siberian Tiger and Lion)

If it were as simple as your claim, this article and the research that is it's subject would not exist.
It will definitely keep me avoiding marketplace offerings. All we do on Azure is spin up VMs / K8S deployments / Connections to on Prem.

The one time we tried to set up SendGrid "from the marketplace", it failed horribly.
Apple expended a significant amount of resources designing this bespoke boot chain so that it isn't locked down and does in fact let users run completely unsigned operating systems (as long as they have physical access and give consent with their local user credentials). In fact, the design goes further, allowing individual installed OSes to have different security levels, thus allowing users to get the benefits of both a completely opened up OS install and a fully Apple-vetted, secureboot install.

They aren't going to backtrack on all that. That'd be silly.

So please stop the FUD about Apple locking their devices down; this is a Mac, not an iPhone :-)
Honestly it's worth pointing out that these figures are based on employee surveys. Basically employees who have more flexible work accommodations are more likely to rate themselves as high performers compared to employees who don't.

Also when you try to actually click on the links to follow up on the claims made in the article, see the methodology and raw statistics well surprise... surprise... the links are either dead or just go to some corporate page.
As a non-white, non-European, it blows my mind how many Europeans believe that they invented ethnic conflict.
Doesn't most human DNA contain neanderthal DNA (with the exception of some Africans, from what I remember). Doesn't that imply viable offspring?
A think the last post about CSS Positioning in A List Apart was very good.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/css-positioning-101/
A story like this still doesn't make me want to pick up hitchhikers.

I used to live in the metro-Detroit area and there have been at least 3 or 4 cases in the past year where people have been robbed at gunpoint by alleged hitchhikers. This is what makes me think that this country has gone to hell.
Funny how so much history could be decided by chance: If the economy bounces back by August 2011, Obama probably wins another term. If by October, he goes down as a one-term flame out -- another Jimmy Carter.
You can destroy your Chrome Notebook and then walk to another and pick up where you left off. That’s not true of Android and, by design, IT NEVER WILL BE.

Counterpoint one: If I treated an Android device like a Chrome OS device, i.e. using nothing but the browser, it pretty much would be. Counterpoint two: All that Android would have to change to satisfy that requirement is to default to storing data on a "cloud" filesystem.
That might work. Shoot me an email and I'll fill you in.

It's basically creating and maintaining internal applications for a small-medium sized company. Some examples of the type of work are automating product ordering, automating sales lead generation, automating billing, and lots of web development too.

It's mostly in Python right now, but they just want a good person and are OK if he/she learns Python on the job.
It's a good day for rape.
The world is smaller than you think!

Stockholm is 823 mi, Berlin is 712 mi and Paris is 541 mi from Edinburgh.

http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=EDI-TXL,EDI-CDG,EDI-ARN

And the reason why you can get cheaper flights is because the budget airlines sell excess capacity at deep, deep discounts as a marketing measure. Most of the people on those flights aren't paying less than 25 quid.

If you're flexible with your dates and times and/or can plan trips way in advance, the budgets are great. If you're not able to secure one of the 1 quid flights, you may well find a traditional carrier offers better fares.
The one criticism that I don't agree with is, "The DoD likes it." The DoD is a huge place. Sure, most of it is extremely bureaucratic and planning oriented, but there are a few hacker friendly corners (DARPA, anyone?) here and there.

I also don't agree with his criticism of Ada. Yeah, Ada isn't a good choice if you're building a web app that needs to be out next week. But Ada wasn't ever intended to be used for that sort of software. Ada was designed to build absolutely reliable software. I'd rather have the Space Shuttle's control software written in Ada than Java.
Instead of taking the attitude that gosh I hope apple will approve this app, try to think i wonder if they are smart enough to see how awesome this is. That way when they reject it, it will because they are too stupid to see how smart it is, and you can take it to a place that value your work. Fuck apple.
Let's not forget this omits SpaceX, which will land humans on Mars in 2030s if not 2020s already. They're also working on low-cost Starship version intended for Moon missions with NASA.
Sound like you may need a technical cofounder. Even better would be to learn to code or at least work alongside developers with systems/business analysis for example, so you can have a sensible discussion with them. The gap, if you have no idea how the tech works, tend to be very hard to bridge otherwise.
You mean the one that's so laggy, there's often a 2 second delay between pressing the hotkey and the screenshot happening? And if you're low on RAM, it'll freeze the whole computer for 15 seconds and not even take the screenshot (potentially crashing Chrome in the process)? Yeah, I love that one! It also seems to hijack the Print Screen key, making it subject to its own instability.
So I read up a little. To tax deduct the nonprofit must have registered as 501(c)(3). Is this the case here?
Wow, those are the ugliest desktops I have ever seen.
There is presumably some volunteer work of some kind done directly for PSF, which they can direct, but most of the Python development work isn't done that way.

You can probably improve (ensure is to strong of a term) the effectiveness of outside volunteer development in a number of ways, though, such as improving community communication of priorities and improving processes around accepting, reviewing, and providing feedback on contributed code.
Those paper things endorsed by a government, with armed forces, a central bank, and a whole legal system with another armed enforcement department, and ability to pass laws, and raise taxes and pay employees in that same paper; those mere paper things?
"i thought you said some other guy had done it already on github and all you had to do was tweak it."
"na. it didn't work the solution ended up being these 2 solutions on stackoverflow that i copied and pasted together."
"you're a genius."
"thanks"
Only in a noisy environment; can’t have vocals. I tend to use electronica which is something I’d not normally listen to.
I have sorta tried this.

Razer makes a macro keypad which they call "orbweaver" and it also has a nifty thumb switch which I suppose they intended to be used for the wasd movement in games. Unfortunately, it's designed to be used with the left hand and I mouse with my left hand. I would dearly love a macro keypad exactly like an orbweaver but which was designed for use with the right hand.

So I also now own an unbranded "ambidextrous" macro keypad. Besides the fact that it is great example of how ostensibly ambidextrous devices being really not that great for left handed people, I mostly used it for gaming but as I am not much of a gamer it doesn't get used often.

I also migrated from a Mac desktop to Linux. I had a very nice application for macros on MacOS called ControllerMate but I've yet to find anything remotely similar for Linux.
I don't know about logik.com specifically, but 2 critical problems in discovery are summarizing network graphs, and named entity extraction. Network graphs are, e.g. you take the Enron email dumps and you query for who emailed whom on what days, what people use statNet, SenSage and vertica for. Named entity extraction is distilling all the noun andpronoun phrases that could refer to one person or business entity.

http://csde.washington.edu/statnet/

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2385-bootstrapped-profitable-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414211
Unicorn, Thin, and Passenger are all mainly written with C/C++ as far as I know.
You’ll need to download Safari to view this demo.

Ahahahaha.
UMLet is by far the most efficient diagramming software I've used. It's very flexible, I've never actually created UML diagrams with it.
Don't you think AGPL licensing will slow adoption? Nobody seems to be able to clearly define what you have to open source if you use AGPL'ed code.
Lighten up guys :)

This is an old site and is pretty popular in the creative industry.

Not because of the technical accomplishments but because of the ideas. It should judged as that.
It's just not going to work in competitive environments with no immidiate benifit for the user.
A very good set of tech talks on a range of topics, especially of interest to ruby developers.
Consumer Reports ~2015 (little dated and wouldn't include latest gen laptops)
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3012211/apples-macbook...

This site includes a few different sources, and shows more or less the same reliability:
https://www.geckoandfly.com/6311/the-most-reliable-laptop-su...
Isn't it ctrl+alt+v? only seems to work in a few cases, not as a generic. Between OneNote and Word it only works in one direction IIRC, and I can never remember which way. around.
Wouldn't there be clear differences between a service company and a product company then?
Tech lifestyle options and programming languages are topics where plenty of objective truths can be established. Why else would anyone want to waste air and keystrokes?

Do a thought experiment: come up with a topic that is purely non-objective. Now observe that your topic is 100% bullshit.

Subjectivity is what people hide behind when for whatever reason, they are tired of being intellectually honest. Subjectivity/ideology is to our age as religion/morality was to the Middle Ages.

Edit: When I say "objective", I don't mean "certain". That might be one reason people like subjectivity so much. It allows them to feel certain where looking at things objectively would make them feel uncertain. Evolutionary psychology tells us that certainty is often adaptive in and of itself, so this is just yet another case of our evolutionary legacy subverting our search for truth.
Trains in the UK are a nightmare when they're delayed.

I spent seven years working from home, making a trip from my home to company-HQ every few weeks. The train information board would also say "Train Late: ETA $(current time + 1 minute)".

Even if they knew in advance it had to be 30+ minutes behind schedule it would always say something like "Time: 13:30, ETA: 13:32" or so. Then keep updating. It meant you never had any idea if the train would genuinely turn up in a minute, or if it would still be lying to you an hour later.

I did seem to suffer from bad luck on the days I travelled, due to land-slides, rain, wind, or power-failures on various parts of the line. I usually kept waiting, but some days you could tell there would be no useful service. (i.e. They'd offer buses instead of trains, and that meant a 2 hour trip down, a working day, and a 2 hour trip back was just written off because a bus might take 4-5 hours to make one leg of the journey.)
Of course the get cracked, but as you say: all DRM sucks anyway. So they set a bar based on how difficult they can make it to circumvent vs. market share. In that calculation it becomes easy to decide to ignore Linux - small desktop userbase and a much harsher environment makes it extremely unattractive.

It's never about locking it down fully - they're not quite stupid enough to believe they can prevent copying. After all they know perfectly well that most torrents are not originating from copies ripped by average consumers.

DRM is about a perceived tradeoff between the cost of DRM and how much copying they can stop by making it too cumbersome or difficult for a reasonable proportion of regular users.

It doesn't even necessarily have much to do with reality, but just as much to do with sheer fear.
Some of the Microsoft Office suite have collaboration features (OneNote is good for this in my experience) I'm not sure about Excel

As a developer I've often used Excel for modelling algorithms, as a log analysis tool (everything from plotting filtered log entries over time to creating complex pivot tables/charts) as a mathematical scratch pad

Before twitter changed their auth protocol excel could be used as a pretty good twitter client[1], and it's still quite effective at web scraping

the list goes on...

[1] http://chandoo.org/wp/2009/02/05/twitter-from-excel/
Last week, I helped a vendor fix a bug in closed source software after reversing binary diffs. I would have definitely welcomed shared source!
Java's problem is a problem that Go won't escape from. Java is a language with baggage tacked on. It's standard library is bytecode-compatible with java1 classes. With a small wrapper class the applet that I wrote in my introduction to Java class 14 years ago works perfectly fine.

The configuration problems you mention are the result of these libraries' need to be compatible with older versions of Java.

If you write your own data structures in Java, there is nothing preventing you from fully utilizing Java 8 features. It makes everything unusable in Java 7 of course, which is not considered an acceptable sacrifice by Oracle and it won't be for decades.

The same is true for C++. When it was designed it was a magnificent advance (and it hasn't fallen for the particular "enterprisy" traps java has fallen for). But then the language was redesigned, and redesigned. RTTI being the first major clusterfuck that they decided to make partially binary compatible. Exceptions being the second, and now lambdas being the third. You may disagree on what exactly is a clusterfuck and what isn't, but I hope you can agree on the deeper problem : baggage. Various things matter more to other developers (like pthreads, winsock, ...)

Writing a program from scratch in C++11, not using any of the old libraries ... is almost as pleasant as using rust. But most libraries can't update, because they'd lose too much doing so.

Go is on it's first design of it's standard library, and everything works reasonably well with today's standards ... this is of course not so much a feature of the language as it is the result of when it was constructed.

When the winds turn again, and they will, Go will look as antiquated as Java and C++. Actually, given how well C++ has handled this in the past, it will probably look more antiquated than C++.
True, but the minimum might also be dependent on the various caches being primed from previous runs of the same code - a condition that will not appear during normal use.
> The push function works like this because it uses an obscure feature called function prototypes. Which is rarely mentioned in any tutorial.

I think the push function behaves differently mainly because it's a builtin. It is possible to use function prototypes to make your functions act like builtins, but the reason that isn't mentioned in tutorials is that most Perl programmers are less than impressed with prototypes. Except when passing code blocks as subroutine references, since prototypes allow you to omit the comma after the code block.
> I just take issue with his (and especially his devout followers') claims that electric cars are any sort of "fix" apart from air pollution in densely populated areas. They're a band-aid at most.

Oh come on. Electric cars are a fix, just not a total fix. Cars are going to be replaced by new cars anyway, and replacing them with electric instead of ICE is strictly, objectively better for the climate problem, as it cuts emissions down and increases energy efficiency. Would it be better if we had less cars and more public transit? Sure. It's also a completely orthogonal problem. Also, what would be even better than more of current public transit? Fully electrified public transit. That is a possibility now only because of development done for electric cars.

I'm reminded of "Copenhagen Interpretation of Morality" - the view that if you as much as touch or comment on an issue, or worse, try to do something towards fixing a part of it, you suddenly become responsible for it all, and judged by not coming up with a complete solution.
> Andrew Schapiro, a lawyer for Google, argued the company’s privacy policy “expressly discloses” its practices

At what point does society strip blanket privacy policies of any actual standing
I open a link in a non-incognito window. In what way have I been identified by the peer host?

My point is that incognito does nothing to hide your identity, and therefore "incognito" is a misleading name for the feature.
> Also ssh supports "from" stanza, which allows you to limit networks from where you can login.

Additionally, sshd supports "Match", which can limit where any or all of your users can log in from.

There's also
"AuthenticationMethods publickey", "PasswordAuthentication no", and "PermitRootLogin no", all of which one should also be using -- ideally, on top of (both host- and network-based) access lists / firewall rules preventing access to 22/TCP from everywhere except the hosts and/or networks you've explicitly permitted.
And it’s a donation supported engineering project! They’re currently pulling in $154,000 a month in donations!

It is a huge inspiration to me for how open source could operate.

https://fund.blender.org/
The problem gets compounded as you chain more operations together. Financial calculations often involve long sequences of operations and that is where you can see the true effect of what I am mentioning.

With numbers that are large enough, a 1% or 0.1% difference means a lot of money. And if you have an automated system making decisions based on those numbers that can translate into financial ruin, legal problems, etc.

Leave the ad hominem aside, btw, noone wants to hear about it.
For a point of comparison, in the state I live in in the US, you’re looking at 2-4 hours to a lot of vacation destinations. Many of which don’t have fast chargers along the way. In a normal pre-Covid year, I’ve driven upwards of 8-15 hours one way to go places, multiple times a year.

Public transportation is available but far less convenient, and charging stations would add possibly hours on trips that length.
I was a student of Carl Woese, who studied mRNA in the 60s and 70s. He made the yuuge discovery of archaea being, not only the third domain, but closer related to humans than procaryotes. He wrote letters to Francis Crick too, which have been published.

Another interesting person who was thought to be kooky was Douglas Engelbart https://hackaday.io/page/9869-the-mother-of-all-tech-demos-a...
I didn't say you were an Austrian, though I must admit I'm intrigued by what you think they are saying that is useful and nobody else says (even arguments favouring gold standards are not unique to Austrians; a priori praxeology, perhaps, but I would have difficulty concluding their a priori praxeology was "any good"). At a stretch, maybe Hayek's free banking, but then others have described natural experiments with free banking but just reached somewhat different conclusions...
Well, in the good old days people didn't abuse users with unwanted tracking and fingerprinting. Pages used to be just that: files someone uploaded to the internet. People came up with tracking techniques here and there but they weren't so pervasive. Now most pages aren't pages, they're hostile applications purposefully built to extract as much value out of you as they can by any means available whether you want it to or not.

If all you did was publish an HTML+CSS page, your innocence is self-evident. Anyone can look at your page's source and confirm it. If you link to Google's javascripts though, that should put you into a completely different category of suspicion.
> When we did campus recruiting recruiters told us (the alumni engineers) to mark candidates resumes with a star for women or URM, two stars for women + URM, and "ND" for asian males - "Negative Diversity".

Here in America that's completely illegal.

> The reality was probably that for liability reasons HR didn't want us talking about this openly.

That's a very polite way of saying they knew what they were doing was illegal and they didn't want to get caught.

> Recruiter bonus policies, which included a diversity bonus for each diverse hire was also publicly accessible.

So at the end of the year, there was absolutely no incentive for HR to pressure someone into hiring a lesser but diverse candidate to reach their quotas and cash that bonus. Totally unbiased.
Are you sure? Most gun enthusiasts at tech companies are in the closet. Had I known just how much my bosses hate guns (all the way up to the CEO), I would have kept my mouth shut about my hobby.

It would be an amazing coincidence if none of your coworkers were interested in guns. Around 30% of Californians have at least one gun in their home. Naively extrapolating: that means if you have 15 coworkers, there is a 99.5% chance that at least one of them owns a gun. Even if only 10% of bay area techies have guns, the odds that at least one of your coworkers has a gun is still over 80%.

When my hobby became publicly known at work, I suddenly discovered I had quite a few coworkers who liked guns. They were quiet about it at work because they were afraid (rightfully) of hurting their careers.
OK, Clang then.
https://outline.com/TtrWGF
This is on top of already existing systems though. I don't think many people ever doubted that giving everyone an extra $12k per year or whatever made out of thin air would help some people, but in real life, the money has to come from somewhere. Plenty of people don't want to pay the increase in taxes that would be necessary to help the homeless publicly like that. Many people believe that more targeted spending is a more efficient and possibly a more effective way to help the homeless. Converting current public aid to just cash payments would probably be less effective.

It's not illogical to prefer giving food and housing to cash. Somewhere around a third of homeless people are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Many have mental problems or just very bad financial skills. Many don't have a way to keep that money safe. If you give homeless people money, there's a very good chance it'll be blown on drugs, booze, or lotto tickets or just stolen. Some people it will help; some it won't. Whereas if you take that same increase in funding proposed and instead, say, expand housing programs, fund food banks, or provide mental health treatment, you know all that money is going to help people. Plus it can help people in ways that they may not help themselves otherwise.
Because they didn’t contact the user through the channel the user authorized the sales rep to content them through. Same as if (in the old days) they looked up your home number from the phone book and called you at home instead of at the work number you gave them.
This is like saying "Here is google, please do not keep re-submitting old topics."