jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I like building things involving computers. I started programming as a hobby in the mid 80s when I was 12 in BASIC and 65C02 assembly. I don’t think I’ve done a pure hobby project since graduating from college in 1996.

I got bored with “programming” about 4 years ago and I belatedly discovered “the cloud” and started moving into more architectural roles I enjoy being able to do the full stack [1] and jump back and forth between the different parts without having to worry about either the infrastructure gatekeepers[2] or having to wait for resources. Any resource I need is just a yaml file or script away.

I also enjoy the force multiplier affect of being able to lead projects.

[1] full stack: front end, middleware, databases, CI/CD, CloudFormation templates, network configuration, etc.

[2] yes at a larger company I would expect to have access to a Dev account to play around with and get my infrastructure as code templates approved.
That's the most surreal, when you try to fix it and the behavior never changes.
While it's true that Google is starting aggressively they are still using the slow-start algorithm, not ignoring it. If your physical layer is tin cans with string sure you'll get crowded out, but then the connection will degrade in the same way it would if they were using the default window size.

Microsoft on the other hand should really use slow-start.

I think it's difficult to argue that the profile of the underlying network hasn't changed since the last time an RFC was standardized on this issue. The problem is revving the magic numbers in the standards periodically to reflect changes in topology.

While you can say that Google should stick to the standard, unlike other net neutrality issues this isn't a change available only to a few large companies. Anyone with control of their stack can make this configuration.

The issue in net neutrality is to ensure that changes which are economically feasible for only a small group of companies are not enacted so that they cannot form a defacto monopoly.
No SUV's and trucks are wildly more dangerous to pedestrians.
There's a translate tweet button right on twitter, isn't there?
1. I'd like to see your source for this.

As far as ICE companies competing, most of what we've seen so far is fairly limited and there is good reason for this. Their whole profit model is built on the dealership model and serious investment into electric cars is going to, essentially, nullify that model of doing business. Moving to electric cars is not just an incremental changes for current large automobile companies but an entire paradigm shift in how they do business.
> The entire piece is about examining broader causes without blaming a particularly group.

I'm not sure I would agree with that. It seems more like the piece is about blaming both sides and saying that they have the solution, but the author hasn't done a good job of explaining to me _why_ they should be trusted or listened to.
It states that Fox News (politics and science) is viewed as biased and opinionated by most editors.

There is no similar warning on The New York Times.

In my opinion, they are both equally biased and opinionated, but in opposite directions, left and right.

So this pair of ratings shows the left bias of Wikipedia, and its editors.
Carbs and protein are water soluble while fats are lipid soluble, and your cells preferentially burn water soluble molecules before lipid soluble. There can be tons of energy in the form of fat available, but to access it you will first burn up your available protein. This protein is necessary for things like cellular repair, muscle growth, etc. You need to sacrifice this to access your energy stored in fat - an acceptable tradeoff when you're freezing in the middle of winter, but certainly suboptimal. Carbs on the other hand will burn preferentially before proteins, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Carbs can't be stored for very long, but they can be readily converted to fats for storage.

In the past, it wasn't so much that carbs were rare as calories in general were rare, and carbs were merely the most desirable. If you're an athletic hunter gatherer, you want as many carbs as possible for fuel so you don't have to switch over to your small reserve of fat and give up your proteins along the way. On the other hand in the modern day it's easy to get more carbs than we can burn in a short period of time so we have a lot of excess calories that get added to our emergency supply. Since we actually have to go through a good bit of effort to starve in the modern world, we never switch over to our emergency supply and thus it never depletes (ie we get and stay fat).

Of course you crave carbs after eating mostly proteins and fat - as far as your caveman brain is concerned, you are starving and need real food. It's just an unfortunate reality of our modern civilization that most of us don't have the metabolism to support a caveman's diet.
That list of movies includes "startup.com", which is the quintessential documentary about the insanity during the dot-com boom.

Those guys burned through millions of dollars, paid over a hundred employees, and didn't have a single product or revenues.
You guys are awesome. I literally just embarked on building an RSS reader that fits my personal taste and was wondering to myself how to get page content filtered through Readability. I was envisioning weird hacks, but this is perfect.
I suppose one could do a quick guesstimation using this http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
HMAC does nothing to prevent iterated brute force cracking, the kind of cracking that most benefits from GPU acceleration. There is virtually no security benefit to using an HMAC construction over the bare hash function itself.

Listen to 'jrockway.
Google didn't create Google TV out of the kindness of their heart. Google created Google TV to make a profit. Just like you see ads on top of Youtube videos, you see ads on top of and around television using Google TV.

So the more popular a television show, the more ads Google gets to show around it, and the more money Google makes. How much of that money gets shared with the networks that actually paid for television show and the costs of distribution? None. And that's the problem. The networks are putting up all the money and Google collects when it pays off.
Matt made assembly language and multithreading entertaining to learn and accessible for undergrads, which was no small feat. So those of you bashing his teaching need to step off
>They are building for the COMING generations

I honestly believe that a period of stagnant growth awaits facebook in the not too distant future when a new generation will be reluctant to join as it will be that 'uncool website their parents use...to spy on them'.
"For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians; your mother commands me, and you command your mother."
-- Themistocles (allegedly) to his son
You might consider checking out http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm. It doesn't give programming puzzles, but from what I remember it was part of the inspiration behind the python site you mentioned.
I second searching for "googlevoice"
I'm knee deep in encoding hell right, I'd love to hear more about how you patched it to work with 1.9.2
@tylerstalder left this in the comments of the post:

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...

It's an excellent deck from a Google UX Engineer that describes the scenario you are talking about with sharing with "everyone except for parents".

The problem that the deck illustrates is that the breakdown isn't just Parents and Everyone else. Each person has 4-6 different groups, each with its own level of appropriate or relevant content. The trick is designing to account for each.
> And suffers greatly reduced usability as a result.

How so? I cannot remember a single issue I had with my phones because of it. It's true I was, about once every phone, confronted with a daunting 2-choice menu asking me where would I like my photos and recorded audio to be stored.

> If anything, MS is the first smartphone maker to do removable/expandable storage right.

You are most likely kidding.

> Like someone else mentioned, you're adding a disk to a RAID

And that's a concept my grandma would easily grasp...

No. It's not a usability issue. It's a design flaw that has to be disguised as a feature because they had to launch the product.
I resisted haml for a long time because of this; "HTML is good enough, why change it?" and then I found out that it's really, really useful.

I'm currently dual-maintaining a theme in Wordpress and a Rails app; the former is PHP with your standard interpolated HTML, and the latter is haml. Guess which one is harder to maintain? (Hint: It's the Wordpress theme, by about three hundred miles).
How odd, I have removed flash from my machines completely now for over a six months. I wonder how true this statement is; or if it is like the 'fudged' windows 7 sales numbers?
If it was in their corporate DNA to name something like the App Store the "Software Store," they would have died out in the 90's making a Windows clone.
> The moment I watch a gun video, I immediately get shown Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and The Blaze instead of all the cooking videos etc.

I know recommendations are based on many factors that differ between us (such as location), but I can't reproduce that behavior. If I watch hickok45 or Paul Harrell in an incognito window, I get recommendations for more of their videos along with a few from Demolition Ranch, Forgotten Weapons, and other gun channels. I see no political videos in the recommendations.
Didn't Iceland literally have a clown for a mayor or something?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3n_Gnarr

Comedian technically, but eh.
Strong disagree. During the tenure of GW Bush, I saw the mainstream media attack him daily in a way I had never witnessed before. It seemed to transform from debate to contempt and hate.
Idle detection and shape detection worry me. When used in combination they could be made to force you to watch ads, ads could autopause when you stop looking at them or are afk. I also wonder how much worse browser fingerprinting can get with them.
I'm not saying this argument is incorrect, but I think it is complicated by the fact that teachers are public employees.

The article mostly touches on private industry and the economics reaped within that sphere. Your argument is salient, but there is probably room for both the argument in TFA and this one.
> Maybe it's because a lot of users have absolutely no idea how much work it takes to write an app.

I think part of it is the trust proposition too. Why do people pay {BIG NAME DEVELOPMENT COMPANY} {>$1} for an app in the desktop world? Support and upgrades.

What are the two things that the app store has more or less excised from customer expectations w/ regards to a purchased app? Support and upgrades.

Best of breed (aka Panic) aside, obviously. But you have to admit there are a lot more fly-by-night app developers than on desktop.

Edit: It'd be interesting to see how "each feature costs $1" IAP would play out. (Odd parallels to the arguments cable companies are having re: a la carte pricing)
> EDIT: currently I always rebase our feature branches before submitting the PR to try and mitigate this and make sure review happens quickly after that. it doesn't fully solve the problem but it's the best flow I've found.

I rebase after the PR has been discussed and "approved" for merging. I feel having the individual commits during discussion time are useful for context, so long as team members are earnest enough to use them. Usually good commit messages can answer every "Why did you do it this way?" question before it even gets asked.
Most of the "Don't" points use extremely unclear wording, too. Example: "DON'T: Avoid text being on top of that clickable stuff as it becomes unclickable..." Uh, don't avoid that? A couple are also "DON'T: <statement of fact>" which is confusing. Given the audience this is aimed at, those DON'Ts are probably doing more harm than good.
Early stage companies (pre series A, perhaps even pre Seed in your case), cannot afford market salaries - especially in cities like SFBA. Startup compensation includes equity to make up for a below-market salary. Your "risk" is your opportunity cost - is that 2% over 4 years worth the $300-400k you could could have earned as part of a market salary somewhere else?

Ideas are very cheap - worthless actually, if you can't execute them into a product, let alone a product that users will actually pay for.

I don't know your current salary, but it should be a hell of a lot more than $100k in SF. So yes, 2% is low, especially given that it doesn't sound like there is an MVP or demo product existing - i.e. you would be building this as your role. Whether they like it or not, you're technically a cofounder, however as you're receiving some salary, you're not taking anywhere near as much risk and shouldn't receive as much equity as them - assuming they're not paying themselves.
How is that ?
Time and time again, immigrants often have that great entrepreneurial spirit (here in Japan and abroad). I'm certainly being overly sensitive, but I just think it's interesting that this article pointed out that the 2nd or 3rd wealthiest Japanese citizen is Korean in light of the anti-Korean citizens sentiment bubbling in Japan this past year.
I know you probably have your answer by now, but this site always helps me out when I have that question:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com
Oh, you're right. Good point.

This is the same country who assassinated a former KGB agent a few years ago with Plutonium. The assassin was identified by British authorities. The Russians didn't realize that when you carry a vial of the stuff, you leave a "trail" wherever you go, which can be detected weeks later by special equipment.

Russia rejected Britain's extradition requests, saying it was "unconstitutional" (when in fact the Russian constitution opens the door for extradition, just when they want to).

Meanwhile, the assassin is now a member of the government, and his position grants him legal immunity. There is no chance he will be brought to justice.

With a government like that, it's not hard to see how organized crime may infest it, even at the highest levels.
What happens if he makes a mistake, though? He can't really see what letter he pressed, can he?
Some quotes regarding how Netflix handled this without interruptions:

"Netflix showed some increased latency, internal alarms went off but hasn't had a service outage." [1]

"Netflix is deployed in three zones, sized to lose one and keep going. Cheaper than cost of being down." [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/61075904847282177

[2] https://twitter.com/adrianco/status/61076362680745984
I recall there was a post a week ago saying that Rails 3.1 will go with CoffeeScript. Maybe they received lots of negative feedback on that shot, so they fall back to plan B.
Is it pronounced "led-ing", then?
The Android and iOS mobile clients don't currently use HTTPS for transferring meta-data, but do for file contents.

ecryptfs isn't a suitable alternative to my suggested solution which would involve all Dropbox clients having the capability built in. Of course, people who are really paranoid can use their own layer of encryption on top as well/instead.
Yeah, I think it's a fine line. For example, the Washington Post wrote an article about my last company. We included a link to the article on our media page (where we listed every mention in the press), along with a tiny WaPo logo. Several months later I received an email requesting some unreasonable sum (~$4k, IIRC) to continue use of the logo.
> Hm, good question. COPPA is pretty old so I'm wondering if "digital consensus by creating the account" is good enough or if you would had to send some more formal document (letter, fax with signature).

I would doubt the need for a physical artifact—I mean, even the IRS accepts digital returns.
This is why I don't give registrars (or other actors) enough time to register a domain behind my back, so when I want a name, I do no prior research in advance of buying the domain, and buy it 'on the spot'. The same idea can be applied to something like Amazon where shoppers often research the items they want to buy, only to realize a week later the prices have all been hiked when they go to buy.
Enterprise, Finance, Telecoms, Internet, embedded. It's pretty ubiquitous. Even the chip on your bank card uses it.
That looks like a great resource! Thank you!
Uh, yeah. Jerry Yang when he was a VLSI student at Stanford, and I was a lowly semiconductor designer at Motorola Japan used to talk about these things, so ... yeah: I was being sardonic.

EDIT: He used to say to me: "[WhateverMyNameIs]! Nobody is going to pay a penny per newspaper article or a nickel for a song!". And I'd say: "Jerry! Nobody is going to pay to advertise on your personal curated bookmark list!". Turns out that one of us was right. And it wasn't me.
Might want to rethink that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...
The argument that 330+ million people should feel responsible for the outcomes of tens of thousands of elections they cannot vote in is absurd.

You might as well say that someone in Germany should take more responsibility for the actions of the Catalonian separatists. It is on its face ridiculous. There is literally nothing I can do about, say, the governor of a state not stepping down when he loses an election.
Interesting, thanks!

I have tried DataGrip briefly with Postgres – my first impression was that it's a competent tool for things that are generic across all RDBMSs, but limited in RDBMS-specific management/administration functionality. Not far off from what you said :)

If you have time, what about DataGrip do you find to be "a lot nicer than SSMS"? Which features should I (a DataGrip noob) try using?
Then it's disturbing that they're so non-standardized. I personally wouldn't want to spend a bunch of time becoming an expert in a skill that only applies to one company's physical servers.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25359003, which was several hours earlier and is also on the front page).

I think we'll copy this title to the other thread, though, because it's more accurate than the bland self-serving title of the press release.
In his inimitable style, Theo de Raadt, extremely annoyed by a 2007 effort to GPL a driver that OpenBSD reverse engineered with much sweat, notes that RMS has been perfectly fine with GCC having code to run on, and built binaries for, closed platforms....

This GCC stuff is very much a shades of grey situation in practice.
$1b+ in payment was processed, which is far and much different than $1b+ in profit. We don't know what the margin is on that.
What I am saying is that free schools end up with the easy students. It is not as easy as "anyone can go there" since we have the principle of proximity (närhetsprincipen). People living close to the school will have a higher probability of getting a place. In which areas are the schools of Engelska Skolan? Academedia? Kunskapsskolan? Look in areas above the 80th socioeconomic percentile.

In a system where each school gets a fixed amount of money per student, this puts public schools at a disadvantage, yet the results do not reflect this. We have a school system that leads to more segregation, more costs (like the recent debacle about cities having to compensate free schools for rather inane things) - but we get very little for it.

The equivalence ("likvärdigheten") of the Swedish school system is at an all time low, and it has been getting constantly worse since the early 80s. The free school reform has done nothing but accelerate the problem.

I don't mind free schools at all. I don't even mind that they are making money from it. What I do mind is that none of the promises of the free school reform has been delivered on. I am old enough to remember the promises of less segregation. Better schools driven by passionate teachers (these do exist). Schools where gifted students flourish.

This seems to never have been evaluated. None of these things have happened.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-19/wind-sola...

The limiting factor is exiting infra. If you had the option between the two in a greenfield project solar/wind would win hands down
I usually have the opposite phenomenon. I go traveling for a few weeks sleeping in different places with no issues whatsoever. But then when I'm back home I find myself waking up in the middle of the night not grasping where I am for a few minutes.
Well, years ago I owned a car that when me and my girl were in it (about midnight) would frequently turn into a motel!
> we're going to lose the people who know how to design and manage petabyte scale hadoop clusters.

Why is that different from "lose the people who know how to design and write accounting systems from scratch?" That was what happened when packaged accounting systems showed up. I'm not sure why you would want to preserve knowledge of Hadoop if other technologies are more efficient.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt
Ha, back in that same era I was working at a small game company that was in discussions with Papyrus about doing some work on the Indy Car Racing game - probably a Playstation port. It never happened - I think it was determined that it wouldn't sell enough to cover the development costs. I don't remember much else except we played the PC game ("research") and it was super difficult - you needed a lot of skill not to crash at every curve. I also seem to recall that the polygon models for the cars were based on manually edited text files. Good times.
Yes, you can use dask’s lower level APIs, like futures [0] or dask delayed, and it’ll just pickle the python objects. Dask provides a group of collections APIs, like dataframes [1] and arrays that use more efficient serialization methods.

[0]https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/futures.html

[1]https://docs.dask.org/en/latest/dataframe.html
> So don't do it unless you're sure you dislike yourself.

This is, in my opinion, a terrible reason to stay away from LSD. You're effectively saying avoid anything that may have bad results. Not liking yourself has never been a prerequisite for being curious. I've seen people have panic attacks on roller coaster rides that almost certainly altered their chemical balance for a significant period of time with permanent fear of heights tagging along, but once you start staying away from things that are on that scale of 'danger', at what point does it become relative to now say, "Stay away from playing sports, unless you don't like the way you function". I realize this is a slippery slope fallacy, so I'm not asking you to consider that exact scenario seriously, I'm just asking you to consider there could potentially be worse consequences to having that mindset than taking LSD.

I'm not advocating taking LSD, at all, mind you. I ignorantly (having never taken LSD) presume the social consequences of taking 'real drugs' outweigh the potential benefits.
You would be surprised at how difficult it is in any company (large or small) to make a change on culture. That is completely driven top-down, and normally the "spiral" you speak of is more inline with a individual contributor (non-manager) trying to "change" the culture, even if it seems positive to the individual, in an even more toxic relationship.

"Signs of a quitter" should never be used as an excuse to continue with a toxic company. You should also not be surprised at working 70-80 hours a week, going "above and beyond" then being let go for a Sr. management bonus :)

Loyalty is pretty illusive now days on the side of companies it seems. It is still an employers market, despite the "we can't find talent" laments.