jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
To me, the morality of what they did is less interesting than the practical ethics of it. The assessment they gamed by accessing the test bank is meant to provide feedback for how well they are acquiring the material. Getting the answers from the test bank means they were more interested in gaming the system for the credential than they were in feedback about where they need to strengthen their understanding. That suggests to me that they're not really interested in the course material, and I wouldn't be interested in working with any of them in any context which used that material. That's an ethical failure. It could be a failure of the course and the educational system, rather than of the students themselves, but it's a problem, no matter who you assign the blame to.
This is something I'd be very interested in, I'm currently looking for a new place to live. If anyone knows of anyone doing something like this in the UK, let me know!
George is spot on. Also, in my experience, it's surprisingly easy to get a law firm to do this gratis depending on your network and prospects. It's cookie cutter for them.

(I've done the diy and professional routes both without problems. The diy co raised vc no problem and survived minor disputes.)
Why is this 2005, well known story in new links ?
A static icon change would achieve the same thing. You don't need animated icons for that.

To OP of this thread: It was another idle comment. The crux of the request was in boldface.
No, it's fine as long as you are serious and your product works. I would totally invest in you with my counterfactual VC fund.

Actually I'm also broadly interested in this topic and willing to talk ideas, feel free to send an email.
If you are also interested in OS development, Stanford has developed Pintos[1] which is designed to teach OS concepts: threads, system calls (and the security thereof), virtual memory and filesystems.

[1] - http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs140/projects/pintos/pintos.h...
Too late to edit but I messed up that sentence. It should have been "But the photos are not going to show anything the original photographer did not put in there."
render() returns a HttpResponse, so no need to do HttpResonse(render(...)) :)
It seems like a nice pattern. For popularizing this to Java programmers, I think the name "parameterized factory" might work better. Parameterizing a factory for nodes of an AST by the type of node returned (which might not be an AST node at all if it's fully evaluated) seems like a nice idea.

I think that over time, as you add new node types, you'd end up with lots of interface types, so you'd have to go back and clean them up after extending the language. But it will make the transition easier.

Also, real languages have multiple node types (expressions, statements, types, etc) that aren't interchangeable,so that might result in lots of type variables.
The entire diff being discussed isn't just about import.c, but a bunch of other things too. For example, to get it to do something interesting, you also want import-dkr.c. Add it all up, and we're talking 2000, not 200, lines of C:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/?id=72648...
Simple fix to this.

Charge a cancellation fee for any orders cancelled under 150ms.

That way it's no longer advantageous to quote stuff or float out fake liquidity.
I'm using it for scripting/configuration of my mail-client. Which is pretty cool.
How is the default header of `Content-Type: text/html` Any different form a default header of `Content-Type: text/plain`?

It takes you about 3-4 seconds to change it for your entire project.
I just slowly trailed off using it. I wish I could say something more defined like other posters in this thread, but I just stopped.
I first just never logged in on my computer (I think I may have Firefox private browsing and Do Not Track to thank for this since I had to enter my password every time I wanted to go on rather than just hit the URL). It wasn't as interesting at work for a quick break as Hacker News or USA Today, etc.
I still had it on my phone and would look at it when I was waiting for the bus, sitting at a restaurant waiting for someone, or in the washroom. But then I started using Twitter and Instagram.
All the news that I was interested in was on Twitter, and all the pictures of friends I wanted to see were on Instagram. So all that was left on Facebook was articles form Buzzfeed and ads. One day I realized that it was just taking up space on my phone's home screen. I deleted it so I could move Slack and Snapchat up to the first screen.
I still like Facebook Messenger, and keep that app on my phone. Its good to always have <i>something</i> to get in touch with friends with (especially when traveling).
The irony is that I deleted WhatsApp so I could move Messenger up to my phone's home screen. So Facebook and Facebook-owned companies are sort of replacing themselves for me.
Everybody doesn't know it. Agree about the reverse-takeover....
True, but litigation tourism is frowned upon so you'd better have a very good reason why you would choose to take action in English courts (Scottish law is different, Wales? no idea).
Small suggestion... you should make the vote option text a label. Very annoying when you try and click it but realize you cannot, and are forced to click the actual radio button.
"It'll just happen when you least expect it."

It's just something people say to console, not actually anything that's remotely useful or true. Magic never happens on its own. You have to go out there and make it happen.
I haven't actually used a Chromebook but I'm surprised they're struggling with offline functionality. Android does just fine on spotty connections - at least Google's apps do - I wonder why they don't have a few mobile experienced engineers help out revamping so their apps just assume a crap connection and deal with it the same way they would on mobile.
The final column isn't LoC written that day; it's LoC in total. Friday was spent refactoring (what we in the old days called "rewriting", before the hipsters made it cool); taking the code that was already working, and making it smaller, lighter, better.
As I said, there is a lot of risk and questionable reward.

Down the street in Qatar, they routinely have Enterprenuer This and That coneferences and contests for recent college grads. I would love to see well-wishers and gov't officials face scrutiny in the form of super obvious questions regard bureaucracy and self-censorship as you described above which are hilarious.

Again, I am still not sure if I see the value. I think about it daily.
Don't be stupid, be slow [1]

We take shortcuts when we feel the proper solution takes too long to implement
If you purposely take a shortcut, write why you take it, how you take it and how to turn back in case of troubles.

Slowing down also allows you to share your problem with your team, your friends or your rubber duck
Again, don't forget to write somewhere what your rubber duck told you, don't waste his time asking him the same questions over and over again.

[1] https://ventrellathing.wordpress.com/2013/06/18/the-case-for...
>If you're going to limit yourself to the statically checkable part of the language then you might as well just use a language that was designed for it.

Or not, because that would still catch misspelled variables (the problem the OP complained of), and running a static analysis tool a little bit easier than rewriting your entire project in a different language.
I am a practicing Salafi Muslim, but also a Ruby on Rails developer of 7 years.

I have noticed this about the Ruby on Rails world. After working in Rails jobs at 5 different companies in 2 cities, I've met and worked with scores of other Rails devs, but I've only known only one other Rails dev who was even Muslim, and no one who was Salafi. Some would be disheartened by this, but I take it as a source of pride.

I was not born into a Muslim family, but I embraced it later in life. So I love Islam a great deal and consider it to be the best thing that has ever happened to me. But I do not get into debates about religion or God with co-workers or on the internet, because I don't feel it's appropriate. When I'm at work, I'm not there to proselytize; I'm there to make great software and earn money. And on the internet, it's just too pointless. If I'm talking to you about Islam, then I'm not doing it for fun -- I'm doing it because I want you to become Muslim. I find it very unlikely that someone who never believed in God in their life would start believing just because some stranger on the internet talked them into it. Rather, the end result is always a flame war, and that doesn't really encourage good manners.
Total lines of code kept increasing until he was able to refactor everything on Friday and cut them back down to 300.
As that’s stored on a hard drive somewhere, you can probably stick that on a flash drive and throw it pretty far.
> hence why I have been always poking at the fact that facebook, google, and their like, are not the threat. the threat has always been government

It's fascinating how this view is typically American, while the exact opposite is more common in Europe.
And Shadowbrokers showed the danger of when their code and exploits get leaked.
> One problem is that some older IT workers who get too comfortable with their skills risk falling behind, especially in the era of artificial intelligence

I am 38, I am in the gap they point out, and I almost fell in it because for too long I thought deep learning was a hype that would eventually die out. I had to have a client force me to look into it to realize that half of my skillset in computer vision became obsolete almost overnight, and the other half is eroding quickly.

We think we know better than the youngsters and in several fields, that's painfully obvious, but let's not be oblivious to the fact that tech still evolves and that half of our job is catching up with it.
I do t think the person who wrote the article or the average hm user know much about environmental permitting or indigenous consultation. Or building much either.
I see your point and it’s true and reasonable. I would just add that at some point calling something unreasonable without educating yourself (or refusing to educate yourself) on the proposal is a form of bad-faith argument.
Age discrimination in hiring is real. Companies get around it by saying, "Oh, we can't possibly pay what someone with your level of experience expects."

Usually even before a dollar figure has even been discussed.
It also makes it easier for them to go to government and say we need more visas to bring in workers because there aren't enough here.
I remember a job posting asking for 5+ years of Android experience in 2013 (Android 1.0 was released in late 2008).
A lot of farm labor (aka fruit pickers) and food processors.
https://community.intercoin.org/t/signal-another-centralized...
The reality is that when it really comes down to it, the institutions are fundamentally unethical. And this is no surprise because governments are essentially very official mafias.
Nice, FDW(s) are underestimated always.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell
Old news: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
The frequency of matches can be so low that people begin to swipe YES on almost all matches, hoping to see who bites. On an app like Tinder, it inadvertently or intentionally makes that easy to rationalize.

This is A strategy, but it practically ensures being in the less attractive bin and never even shown to people in the other bins.

Regarding rude waste of time, people adjust their standards, just like in the physical world.
Isn't that stupidly limiting?
CentralGood.com is a marketplace for nonprofits to find great tools and services to support their work.
If recompiling older sources were as straightforward as running older windows binaries in recent versions...
Zuckerberg dances to the tune of the greybeards just as I do. Did Zuckerberg code the backend of facebook? Hell no. He hired people to do it. What programming technologies did those people use? Styles and methods passed down by greybeards. Techniques learned at Stanford University. Techniques learned from Hacker News.

Zuckerberg himself played the tech tune sung by greybeards before him--LAMP was not invented by millenials. LAMP was not popularized by millenials. Zuckerberg's Facebook was a LAMP project.

Of course people showing up at newbie events are newbies!

The people pulling the strings sit in boardrooms, academic boards, they have office hours, people come to them!
As a millenial who is very familiar with capitalist exploitation of myself and my peers, I am 100% in favor of unionization, regulation, and association.

It's the boomer and Gen X tech people that I talk to who are the most opposed to unionization, talking about labour relations, etc.

Gen X techies in particular have this strange and incomprehensible hatred for unions.

Anyway I absolutely would like to change the rules of the game through collective action. Doesn't seem like it's in the cards though--the tech industry is under the thumb of a much bigger neoliberal agenda--and the string pullers in tech are either:

1. Billionaires who oppose collective action for obvious selfish reasons

2. Strange Gen X anarchist cyberpunks (or something?) who oppose unionization because they think it's somehow associated with communism and goes against the hacker ethos.
Okay, maybe it happened because it was something cheap, a 30$ Brita Filter, I bought at Canadian Tire and ran into issues, I've contacted them and got the cheque with full refund. It really depends on Customer Service, I would buy another Brita product for sure.
I have a feeling that in SF, high end bike frames are a Veblen good.
Not sure whether it's gambling or not.

But when you look at the half the crypto from the top 50, most of them I don't think they will ever have any realistic level of real world adoption.

They all sell some pipe dreams of future DeFi this or future IOT smart contract, etc. Sounds pretty much like just cherrypicking some niche area of use case just for the sake of differentiation, yet somehow it's worth billions of dollars in market cap.

How about just focusing on delivering a p2p crypto payment that is actually cheap, fast and preferably eco-friendly like what Satoshi envisioned in the first place?
Miners are being turned off at these electricity prices.
The point is that uncontroversial (i.e. the cop was definitely in the wrong and basically everybody agrees) cases exist, but nobody talks about them because there is no controversy because there is nobody prominent to argue the other side because it's indefensible.

And a system where the cops in those cases end up with unaffordable "malpractice" premiums and have to quit would be a benefit.
To be fair, I did do a blind taste-test indicating I can tell the difference between mineral water brands: https://www.gwern.net/Tea#water-experiment (Spoiler: they all taste bad or indifferent, and Evian tasted the worst.)
“we're left with the largest pandemic in a century“

Sure, but not actually doing any worse than Western Europe.

Also, those same conservatives actually did invest billions in vaccine development and production capacity in the US.

Literally twice as much as the EU did, and the result is a vaccine rollout that at 5x the rate.
One example i recall Graeber using for such jobs are call center cold call marketing. Rooms filled with people who sit there all day calling number after number with the hope that whoever answers have any interest in their product.
This is “just” refactoring but done at the architecture level. It is IMHO the right way to work with legacy systems. I have seen that approach being successful many times.
Did you just compare Stallman and the FSF to the Abolitionist movement, and paid software to slavery?
Not comparable. If television censors didn't do their jobs, the FCC would have revoked their station licenses.
If you only want to read a language, it can work to make Kindle reading in it your regular bedtime reading, after booting up to a minimum level from Duolingo or high school classes. The app's dictionary lookup and autotranslation are mostly good enough -- not up to a custom interlinear translation, but accessible at a tap. You can ramp up from relatively easy and familiar books like Harry Potter in translation.

At least I'd call it a success for French and Spanish for me. I did check out books with facing-page translations, but there's just less choice of works in that format that I really want to read.

(I'd rather recommend out-of-copyright works on a free reader, among other reasons because you could hack it to try specialized UX like an interlinear translation, or connect it to your favorite spaced-repetition system -- but I'm not familiar with anything with UX as good as the Kindle on a tablet. Suggestions appreciated.)
ProBuilder and ProGrids (I think ProGrids is still 'experimental' but easy to install) do all of this for me.
What does Musk have in mind for Twitter? All speculation I have seen has been about free speech issues and similar. But can it be that he sees some kind of cross-pollination opportunities with his other companies? It has been his trademark, to use SpaceX to launch Starlink satellites, or put a Tesla on top of a rocket like a marketing stunt, etc. What can he do with Twitter once he controls it, in relationship to his other companies.
And what did Stallman or FSF have to do with that? The FSF won't even defend GPL violations in court. Others have had to organize efforts to do so.
>Was really nice.

Not so nice for people behind you who couldn't view the performance at all as a result.
You still need an air freshener with ventilation.
Well, it's true the meaning of the word has evolved into a slur. At least some of the people who used to be called gypsies in English don't want to be called that.

As for shows, didn't Netflix's "Gypsy" take flak for the name?
If you are surprised why the “Personal Appeal” banner is consistently doing so well – well, it looks like this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTe... and the alternatives look like this: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTe...
They email every six months.
Interesting, I thought all appeals to the USSC required moving through the federal court system first.
Alex Jones got deplatformed a while ago and somehow he's still on the news every other week. I'm sure the current POTUS will just do fine.
Can you share any evidence of that?
A tolerant society that doesn't "tolerate intolerance" (your words) is an intolerant society. We are heading toward authoritarianism.
antitrust never worked.
The ability to use Twitter (or the newspaper) is not a presidential power.

Certainly it is true that it is hard to run a campaign without a media presence. That has been true for hundreds of years. Competent candidates have entire teams, if not the vast majority of their campaign, figuring out how to effectively contract with private media entities (whose freedom is protected by the First Amendment) to get their message out. That incompetent candidates exist is not a reason to change this system.
You blame the BLM protesters without acknowledging that outside agitators were involved. So your argument is meaningless.
I wish I could just buy blocks like these for my son. Bandai Spacewarp-type-things are a little too much yet, and the marble toys we have are pretty lame in comparison to this.
You're ignoring that a lot more work needs to be done in GNU Emacs, and that's another program under RMS's stewardship, and one where he could be much more obstructive.

The only outstanding threat to fork that I know of is coming from a GNU Emacs maintainer, to I believe fork GNU Emacs. Again. Oh boy, again to support C++ development! How could I have forgotten that?!?!?!!!

But you're right, arguing with RMS on this is likely to be completely unproductive. But it is morally necessary before potentially disastrous forking of GNU Emacs and maybe GCC.
Doesn't the California state constitution make this distinction? At least for beaches?

Rivers are more complicated than other geographic features because what you do upstream can affect me downstream so it makes sense to have some more rules around them, or even treat them as public.
I second this, its a great read by Michael Pollan, he's brilliant. I like his gonzo approach of trying the drugs and reporting on them.
I like how this was stated, even if people can nitpick the examples.

Did this concept come from "Finite and Infinite Games" or your own reflections?
Seems weird to choose just one of { C++, Go, Java, Javascript }. None of these languages is really a substitute for any of the others, except perhaps for Go and Java.

Go certainly cannot cover all C++ uses, nor Javascript/Node.
But I mean like a literal like TurboTax question what was your asshole score last year
I see law the same way I see a computer program, and court as a computer.

The current legal code is never wrong in what it does. It simply executes and terminates. The courts define interpretation and execution semantics for it.

If you do not like the result, you've just failed at implementing the correct legal code.

It's futile to blame laws and court rulings. Caveat to some extent obviously, since laws and courts have informal specs, it does mean that two different court (in my analogy computers) could end up on slightly different results.

But most importantly we should focus on changing the legal code itself if we don't like the results.

If anything, the bigger issue with laws and courts is the cost of execution. Just to know what outcome the current legal code results in given a concrete situation takes years, lots of money, tons of appeal, etc. If we could make that much cheaper and quick, it would greatly improve things. Think development feedback cycles. Imagine it took you years to test your code on a few scenarios? That's what happens with legislation today.

So back to the article. It's not up to the courts to decide the desired behavior. It is only up to them to define the result of the currently described behavior. And it might seem in this case, the describe behavior maybe has a bug with regards to the desired behavior of some of the users...
What you're describing sounds more like a mugging. He was talking about armed robbery of a convenience store. Is it possible to hold them up at gunpoint, forcibly take some of their card-processing equipment, and exfiltrate some money or credit card numbers that way? Probably, but that's not exactly the path of least resistance.
My recommendation:

https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Who-Reversed-Himself/dp/014038965...

Pair it up with 4 D toys on ios:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/4d-toys/id1143791442
I used his drafts extensively while he was writing it, and had built and epub from the files for my own use. The day I could throw some money at him, I did. If you've been using vim, have the modes and chords down, but would like to eek out some more power and customization, buy this book. It explains vimscript much better than any other resource I've read to date.
> "5-20 minutes" - Sure. That does depend on where you are though.

> "You have no idea who is picking you up" - 99% of the time this is a moot point.

> "Often times they wont even show up if you aren't at a hotel" - I've never encountered this in my entire life.
I had the opportunity to hear Skinner lecture at Cambridge, and he is easily the best public speaker I've encountered. Made all the more obvious by the fact so many historians at that university are stuffy antiquarians. Skinner was kind, humble and brought subjects that I would normally find boring flourishing into life.
Find a company that is as less ambitious as you. A lot of "work load" in traditional tech sector businesses comes from either the ambitions of the company or ambitions of the higher-ups (nothing wrong with either btw). There are plenty of non-sexy, service-sector, small businesses out there that wouldn't mind having a dependable IT resource. But even if you found somebody like this, I wouldn't be forthright with this motive. Nobody would hire a self-professed slacker.