jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Just wondering about two things:

[1] If speed of the space-craft(craft) and solar-wind (wind) become equal that doesn't mean winds have stopped? That means they are same or slower than the craft. Right?

[2] The time that signal from craft takes to reach us, is that accounted for in their estimation of 'how much time in...' equation?

Dummy questions but just very curious.
Apple will not prevent ad-hoc app distribution on the Mac; doing so would prevent Adobe from releasing Creative Suite on the Mac because of their non-App Store-compatible licensing.

Won't happen. Or if it does, easy: time to leave the Mac.
I sort of agree, but a lot of us really are douchebags.
But are they readable? Relevant? Useful? They're certainly better than nothing, but there's more to good documentation than completeness and detail.
I thought they had them hashed and salted, but the crackers are using rainbow tables and brute force to crack them?
The most interesting point is that the question was made on Nov 30 2000.
Hey, Eli :-)

I'm working on it; I'll send you an e-mail. Things quickly turned out to be more general than I realized last year.
That the quality of someone's work doesn't matter because they don't care about it or expect it to be useful isn't a particularly compelling argument.
Or for a SQL database with Git versioning semantics:

https://github.com/dolthub/dolt
Thanks! Sometimes I worry that the text animation is too slow, but I think its a good balance currently.
> The fact that the Supreme Court decided not to overturn the decision of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that APIs are copyrightable means that binding precedent on every court except the Supreme is that they are

No, it doesn’t. Because the Court expressly declined to examine the question, the CAFC decision is binding only where it would have been without the Supreme Court decision, i.e., those courts bound by the CAFC’s interpration of how Ninth Circuit law applies. As it turns out, that is exactly zero courts.

The reason the Supreme Court often likes to find the narrowest grounds possible for a decision is to avoid making more binding case law than is called for; giving the lower court rulings on all questions not addressed (including those the Supreme Court explicitly avoids) the same binding effect as the actual Supreme Court holding would defeat the purpose, and it is very much not how things work.
All the taxes are always paid by the consumers, corporations don't bring money from home to pay taxes, they just pass it to consumers.
All weaknesses aside, I always liked LG for their adventurous attempts to challenge the market.
There was a "dare product" every year, something noone has done so far but with the potential to push things forward in the industry.
Unfortunately, the lack of sales (and marketing) caused those leaps to get smaller every year...

They will be missed. In a world of ever-increasing smartphone conformity, they were the ones reliably rattling the cage by placing a screaming punk of a product just in the middle of the worldwide white-collar market...
Interesting exercise!

Some pointers to related ideas:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
- https://docs.datomic.com/cloud/index.html
- https://opencrux.com/
- https://github.com/attic-labs/noms
- https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/files/us-leejin...
Rough year for the McElroys, huh?
ha interesting :)
"It could be months before scientists know for sure — and it could turn out the bones are from a turtle. The fragments were found near a hollowed-out turtle shell that might have been used to collect rain water, but there were no other turtle parts nearby."

Hm found beside a turtle shell, not gonna get too excited about this story.
This snippet from http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html comes to mind:

> During the years we worked on Viaweb I read a lot of job descriptions. A
> new competitor seemed to emerge out of the woodwork every month or so. The
> first thing I would do, after checking to see if they had a live online
> demo, was look at their job listings. After a couple years of this I could
> tell which companies to worry about and which not to. The more of an IT
> flavor the job descriptions had, the less dangerous the company was. The
> safest kind were the ones that wanted Oracle experience. You never had to
> worry about those. You were also safe if they said they wanted C++ or Java
> developers. If they wanted Perl or Python programmers, that would be a bit
> frightening-- that's starting to sound like a company where the technical
> side, at least, is run by real hackers. If I had ever seen a job posting
> looking for Lisp hackers, I would have been really worried.
Note that the story of the frog and the boiling pot is an urban legend.

Apart from that, I like the analogy.
why bakeries need websites

That'd be an example of 'stepping outside of your system'. Get your ass off the comfy couch and actually talk with bakers to find out their needs and ideas. That could be pretty surprising and not at all what you expected. It's refreshing to be inspired by other people, rather than trying to figure it all out by yourself. And when you finally gain insight in what they really want, it's time to create that document ;-)
Ok, now I have no need for tmux anymore. Thanks!
Everyone responding to this comment is arguing as if "good" and "bad" are provable facts. It's an opinion. You can't disprove it.
Six months in the "wasp waist" of the Bank of America building on Castro street (440, I think). Air conditioning and heating that never worked (our office temperature would go from 60 degrees in the morning to high 90s in the afternoon). Once a water pipe cut loose and sent a river down the stairwell we used. There were power outages (everyone in our small company had a UPS, and this practice saved us...), and there was a spectacular chimney fire in the Chinese restaurant across the street. Jimmy Carter visited the Performing Arts center one evening, and we were asked not to go out onto our roof / balcony and it seemed like a good idea not to make the fellows in dark glasses nervous.

Castro street is (and probably still is) Asian culinary heaven . . . except that my boss would only eat at an Italian place near the railroad tracks, or at the evil hot-dog place where all the employees hated their lives and let you know it, every order.

We moved to a set of offices on Landings Drive. This was when SGI was still around; we used to walk over to their cafeteria and just use it -- nobody seemed to care -- and I'd say "hi" to some of my old Apple co-workers who had also moved on. I learned how to punch down phones and install networks, and buy cubicles and get cheap $10 whiteboards from Home Depot.

Fun times.
I find myself reacting more and more negatively to "language-specific-experience-required" statements in a job posting for a full-time employee. It's fine for a contractor or consultant needed to solve a specific problem or set of them on a time-limited basis. For a full-time employee however such language is, in my opinion, an indicator that at least one of the following apply:

a) the company is looking for junior level talent with specific language experience so they don't have to train them

b) the company is looking for senior level talent but thinks it can't afford them using any time to pick up the syntax or quirks of the language

c) the company is looking for senior level talent but doesn't think it's even possible a competent senior developer with mostly X experience and no Y experience can pick up Y in an "acceptable" amount of time

d) the company is so invested in their "stack" that (even considering) deviation from it will introduce a net negative (to the process, culture, whatever)

These all have a common theme: the labor that provides the bulk of the value they are able to trade and profit off of is seen as a commodity, as fungible as the brand of paper used in the printers. The company wants a developer who works "out-of-the-box" without any investment and can be discarded/upgraded at any time for any reason. They probably also want the human line-item to display a near-maniacal enthusiasm for the work and loyalty in return.

It's not that they want people who aren't discerning: they probably don't care, as long as the people they hire can fake it.

Also, being "ridiculously in love" with a language doesn't mean one doesn't know it well. For me, it's the opposite: I'm "ridiculously in love" with C++ because I know it as well as I do (which isn't to say I'm an expert). That doesn't mean I'm going to turn down non-C++ jobs or view them as being less interesting, etc.
Fizzbuzz is incredibly useful to quickly smoke out people who have lied or faked or exaggerated their way into the interview.

However, that's all it's good for, which means it should be a single pass/fail question. Asking the candidate increasingly specific iterations of fizzbuzz would be a waste of time.
For what it's worth, I also use i3 under Arch. I don't think there is a canonical right distro or anything, but then again I've only ever used it under Arch so what do I know? Also like the sister comment, I also use dmenu & i3bar to handle the rest of my needs. I generally stay away from things like conky.

Good luck, although I generally found i3 a breeze to set up. Part of that is due to the fact it was already 95% of what I wanted in a WM. I didn't have to spend hours and hours customizing it like dwm or Awesome. Your mileage will, of course, vary.

I will say that the Arch wiki page on i3 is a treasure trove of info, most of which is distro-agnostic or at least easily translated into debian flavors.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/i3
Chomp was much more than the results interface though. There were filters and suggested alternatives to make your queries more specific. The closes the official App Store has come to this is the Trending Apps section in iOS 8, which still doesn't help me find apps I'm specifically looking for but don't come up in the first half dozen results of a search.
Just noticed something, when you click "Your Groups" and then enter your phone # it tells you to enter a pin. If you click off of that box while waiting for your pin the damn pin box goes away. Kinda annoying because now you have to do everything again
You don't have to look any further than the OS and applications you're using right now to see the heavy re-use of design elements and UI paradigms between competing applications. Without it happening we'd probably all be using significantly worse software.

Used to be the community was heavily in favor of look and feel being free game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_v._Borland

League for Programming Freedom (LPF) was founded in 1989 by Richard Stallman to unite free software developers as well as developers of proprietary software to fight against software patents and the extension of the scope of copyright [...] The single event that had the most influence on the creation of the League was Apple's lawsuits against Microsoft about supposed copyrights violations of the look and feel of the Macintosh as copied in Microsoft Windows.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Programming_Freedom
Congrats on launching guys!

I want it to be known that Solomon and Sebastien are awesome. They set us up with hosting for our project when we applied to YC several months ago and Solomon took several hours of his own time to really sit down with me to walk us through getting setup. Their system is really kick-ass and amazing. We were working with Django for our framework, and configuration for a project is really straightforward. It was awesome not to have to worry about server configurations at all and just focus on getting work done.
IANAL. Though you may have some legal standing in purchasing a legally distributed version of a movie and then downloading the same movie at the same quality/resolution or lower, you probably have a legal issue with sharing that movie at least as long as you are downloading it (as I believe most P2P apps implement).
http://www.centipaid.com/ comes to mind. At one point, they had an apache module to allow paid access to individual photos/resources. It becomes difficult as you need to load the card, sit on the cash, make sure it is available, send it out, etc.

MTurk does microtasking/crowdsourcing like that, and the income earned stacks on your affiliate income.
The majority of such programs are cross-platform.
I HIGHLY recommend Dotcloud. We have been using them for a couple of months and its insane how easy it is to get setup. The Dotcloud guys have done a spectacular job in making it painless to use their system. Ours was a Python/Django app and just took a few lines of configuration to get up and running.
Not happening because at best FTC can fine them. That is just cost of business to them these days. Its part of their move fast and break things philosophy.
Figuring out exactly what code to write is not the goal. Figuring out approximately what code not to write is.
This article could be a Tweet.
One more minor point: http should redirect to https.
Absolutely no sympathy. If the king of facebook is stressed he is perfectly free to abdicate. Literally every day of work he does is optional. He will never not be able to pay his rent.
If you talk to homeless people a lot of them have interesting origin stories.
I made this because when I was growing up I loved memepool (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memepool), and the recent news about Del.icio.us made me want to revisit it.

I picked the daily format because I think it is more fun and less overwhelming than just browsing the archive front to back or sampling it randomly. You can check the site once per day, and after a year you've seen it all (modulo leap year). Maybe it can also highlight trends in memetic content. Normal links are replaced with links to the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) on the closest date to when the link was published. This way you can hope to see the original thing of interest as it was at the time. Most links work or partially work.

The site itself is static. It is generated with Deno and make(1) from a copy of memepool's timeline scraped from the Wayback Machine. It's built with modern HTML + CSS, so it is easier to use on phones than the archived original. It uses JavaScript to redirect you to the correct page with a <noscript> fallback menu. The last two pages of memepool's timeline under /Date/ weren't archived by the Wayback Machine, and I recreated them from snapshots of the front page. You can browse the source code at https://github.com/memeback/memeback.github.io.
My experience is that opposite. I'm a generalist and every company I've worked for is looking for generalists. If you're doing boring business work, which most of us are, you don't need to know every crevice of any technology. The majority of software development is not moving the needle on crypto or search algorithms, it's crud business apps and reporting.
Sounds like your boss is building a case against you. He could say you haven't done anything in months, nevermind that he hasn't given you anything. So it sounds like you'll be looking for a job no matter what, so why not leave on your own terms?
"barely stack ranking" means stack ranking, which speaks a lot to the type of organization that would employ it against software engineers. It may be effective for certain types of workers--sales people, for example--but it's disastrously inappropriate for creative professionals.
Why not? Exorbitant means 'unreasonably high'.

Is it strange that when paying $1k in mortgage payments to 'buy-back' 240k of value, that paying $1k to 'buy-back' $150k in value can be called unreasonably high?

Especially when suddenly you can buy equivalent property for much lower prices, and lower mortgage rates. And suddenly rent starts to look cheap in comparison to paying mortgage + the cost of $90k devaluation in a 2 year span.

I can easily see how that can turn exorbitant. However, even that it turned exorbitant you're assuming. They may have felt it was unreasonably expensive in the first place, despite it being a good move compared to renting. e.g. if you live in a place like NY, some may consider everything and anything exorbitant, just a matter of perspective. It certainly seems true that the cost of housing as a portion of income and disposable income has been one of those things (like healthcare or education) that got cheaper over time, while other things (like most technology) got cheaper.
the "evil, scary China" narrative

A friend is studying journalism. Last week he told me about 90% of western media on China follows that narrative, and around 30% of international headlines in recent months have been about China. Sad. Then again, media in China on the west is not exactly impartial and well researched, either.
Sublime could possibly choke on these file as well. I've had issues with larger files with it.
This isn't prioritizing quite the right ciphers. The CBC mode construction in TLS has serious problems (MAC-then-encrypt instead of encrypt-then-MAC) and should be considered cryptographically broken. It's incredibly fragile and difficult to implement correctly.

You want to make sure TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 is negotiated, at least where browsers support it. (It's spelled "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256" in OpenSSL.) There's a small handful of others that are also acceptable, but between ECDSA certificates being rare and CHACHA20_POLY1305 still being standardized, that's the one you want. All the rest are legacy baggage.

Mozilla has some server-side recommendations here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS
Correct, reproducible, fast builds for everyone not running Windows
I had a crappy experience with their hiring. After delaying my application for months (while they worked on a 'standard test'), they eventually sent me a woeful programming task ("implement a single function in a language of your choice and describe how/why you implemented this way").

I did so, and submitted it. They then emailed me back I had been rejected without any feedback at all, and didn't send me any when I asked for some.
Ah, okay, that makes more sense then; I missed that in the article. Thanks.
JFK was an asshole.

Regarding "rape", perhaps Google [mimi alford]; it comes close.

His overall point was to contrast the actual behavior of elected officials with the mores of the time. Compare the epic freak-out over Clinton and Lewinsky to the reverence people have for JFK.
http://bazel.io/docs/FAQ.html - "What about Windows?

We have experimented with a Windows port using MinGW/MSYS, but have no plans to invest in this port right now. Due to its Unix heritage, porting Bazel is significant work. For example, Bazel uses symlinks extensively, which has varying levels of support across Windows versions."

In other words: it's a lot of work, and frankly, our team doesn't know enough about windows to be very good at porting it. We would welcome contributions to make it work on Windows, of course.
Unfortunately, the words “strong” and “weak” often don’t mean anything more than:

> Strong typing: A type system that I like and feel comfortable with

> Weak typing: A type system that worries me, or makes me feel uncomfortable

http://web.archive.org/web/20091227121956/http://www.pphsg.o...
He misss a fourth option: Apple replacing the existing top-box with their own, using TV over IP. Might not be the time for that yet, especially with the horrible broadband Market in the US, but once TV is a commodity you get over the Internet just like music, Apple might want to give it a try.
One tip that I'm experimenting right now is to stay at the computer only when I know exactly what I'm going to do. Thinking and breaks have to be done out the computer with old pen and paper.
Bad ideas "suck". Good ideas are golden.

With bad ideas, execution has to do "everything" and is "difficult" and likely a fool's errand.

Good ideas are difficult and rare but make successful execution routine, and the US is awash in the ability to do routine execution well.

Key is how to find good ideas and evaluate them. Can that be done? Yes, the US DoD has been doing that with astounding accuracy for 70 years. The US NIH and NSF also do well. There's even 'education' in how to do that: It's call a Ph.D. from a good US research university.

Here endith Lecture 1 in 'Ideas 101 for Entrepreneurs'.

In this elementary course, the author of the post of this thread didn't do well. Neither did KPCB VC Doerr who at

http://www.youtube.com/v/nBvuirDPHKA&hl=en_US

claimed that "Ideas are easy" and "plentiful" and "Execution is everything.". Neither did Union Square VC Wilson who at

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/04/how-to-allocate-founder-and-...

said "Ideas are pretty much worthless.".

For the most diplomatic view, mostly by an 'idea' they mean some nearly instant guess at a one sentence description of what would make a good description of a product or service to a customer, and the hope is that the business would be good.

Our society has a lot on working with ideas from 'intellectual property', 'trade secrets', patents, pharmaceutical research, peer-reviewed original research, military classification, and more.

Really what we have here is that the author, Doerr, Wilson, etc. either are so astoundingly ignorant that their understanding of ideas is somewhere below the fourth grade level for a poor student or that they have their own reasons for joining in the drum beat that ideas "suck". Either way they are embarrassing themselves in public. No good entrepreneur should want anything to do with them.
Seconded. Forcing or fooling myself to do something is a symptom of an internal split - one part "forces" and the other resists. Going to the roots of both parts (Why do I want to do this task? Why do I resist doing it?) usually helps.

There's also a good book about the usual suspects behind the resistance and some weapons against them. "The Now Habit" by Neil Fiore. Fear of not doing the task perfectly, unconscious resistance to authority, etc.
If you're going anywhere near a courtroom, or even anywhere near a mailbox where you would be mailing pieces of paper to a courtroom, you're into thousands of dollars. 10 relevant documents to be filed * 200 an hour = $2k, just to get out of the gate. Plus a couple hours of consultation, and a few 15 minute charges when they call you to confirm the spelling of your last name. Yes, they just did copy/paste on those docs, and yes, that's bullshit to bill you like that, but that's how lawyers work. The OP was lowballing it, even.
Have you tried the iPhone 4? It takes surprisingly good pictures.
So, in short: every Circle is an Ellipse; an XStretchableEllipse is a different thing from a mere static Ellipse; every Circle is not an XStretchableEllipse; and there's no such thing as an XStretchableCircle.
Every site that I have developed has allowed a space.
Ah, yes. Sorry about that. Your timing was very unlucky to catch it as I think that version of the headline only lasted for a minute or so before I changed it to the corrected one.
hmm. when i go to my local google the remove background image does not work properly.
but on google.com it works every time.
I always cringe when I hear "don't listen to your customers." That is absolutely the wrong behavior. If you don't listen to the people who are going to buy your product, you won't build a product that solves a real problem.

I listen to my stakeholders (potential users, potential buyers, current users, etc), but I don't necessarily do what they say. Most people try to give you a solution to their problem, you need to dig through their "solution" to find their actual "problem", then design the best solution (and like all design, it is best not when nothing else can be added to it, but rather when nothing else can be taken away).

Oh, and I completely agree that software should be opinionated. People are paying you to solve their problem, don't get lazy and push responsibility back on them!
"because no clear leader could be easily determined"

this should answer your question right there (imho). there always needs to be a clear leader.