jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> What is utterly fascinating is that the Wright Brothers two well funded competitors, Alexander Graham Bell and Samuel Pierpont Langley

I've seen this conclusion drawn about Langley before. And it seems like a great anecdote for underscoring the idea that motivation is key.

At least, until you consider some other facts:

- Langley had a long and pretty distinguished career in physics before looking at aviation, indicating some innate dedication. And he did research in flight (and had success with models) for 12 years before he ever became a well-funded competitor to the Wrights.

- Langley was almost 70 years old at that point and he died three years later. I'm not sure why that isn't the go-to explanation for why he didn't keep going and participate in industry.

- Langley also apparently is recorded to have remarked to Rudyard Kipling that he didn't think he'd live to see the airplane happen, but that he was certain that it would happen. This is not exactly the mark of someone whose only motivation in participating was an attachment to personally being first.
Also, DO and Linode provide phone numbers and addresses for their respective companies.
I predict 2015 may be the year that autonomous vehicles go big.

I'd be interested to hear what you define "go big" as.

It's going to be years before driverless cars are seen at all regularly outside the areas Google (and others) are testing them in, and at least a decade before they are common enough to start having a real impact on the road. The economics of car buying alone will show you that: eg, how many 5 year-old cars do you see on the road? And it'll be at least 5 years before you can buy a driverless car, right?.

I hope there won't be much red tape getting these cars into action

Really?!?!?!

I had to pass a driving test to be allowed to drive. I hope something similar happens for driverless car implementations. While I'd trust a Google-coded car, I'm not at all sure I'd trust one coded by <insert a company with less experience at building high-reliability machine-learning software>.
IMHO both Python and PHP could do the job well.
Let the developer use their favorite language as they will work more efficiently with it.
bitwig is better imho, on the single point that it doesn't lock user to a specific OS.
Also, what if their name has nothing to do with slack? what if they called it hashtagstartup because thats the topic, and what you would tag it with?
Yeah, I always wondered why people complain about cubicles. To me, they seem much preferable to open spaces. For introverted people, this is torture.
I prefer my Palm phone[0]. It is so tiny I can't really DO anything with it unless it is a legit emergency. But when I do need it, there is wifi, cell, browser, google maps, and gps. The "life mode" is fantastic, no calls or notifications at all until you unlock the screen. Combined with a really short battery life when the screen is on, it is the perfect daily driver for me and my outdoors lifestyle. Also charges in like 15 minutes.

However, I have a regular mega phone with wifi only for lounging on the sofa, so I still have that problem when I'm at home :/

[0] https://palm.com/pages/product
Plenty of major streamers would tell you them switch to YouTube did more good for their careers than twitch.

ValkyRae, CourageJD, DrDisrespect, Anish Giri are some just off the top of my head.
People who don't want free speech are usually the ones complaining about how other people exercise their free speech in ways that counter their own message.

Like voting on comments, for example. That's free speech too.

That said, HN is definitely not anything even remotely resembling a free speech platform, in concept or execution. It's the recruitment platform for Y Combinator, and all decisions are made here to optimize for that.
My company employs people in Europe, and across the US. The highest paid Europeans still make less than any of our associates in the midwest.

And we have unlimited vacation & sick time, so I'm not sure what advantage the 28 holiday thing is.

I completely agree that the U.S. is better suited for high income earners.
Agree. Vue and Svelte get this right as well (assuming you use SFCs properly), except they don't have bizarre preferences for one-way data binding everywhere or typing className instead of class.
That is not an answer.

Did anything besides fetch happen at that park?

I am asking to get at intent. It still appears the same to me. I have no new information.
This fourteen could be related to the

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in struct sockaddr.
I doubt that you are alone in your reaction, but the robots' appearance is driven more by function than by form. This dance exercise goes some way to redress the balance, with movements that are more fluid and graceful than the jerkiness typically displayed by robots. Yes, weird, and perhaps alien. But of course unnatural: nature has provided no precedent or template for robot designers to follow.
Yeah, that's complete bullshit.

The "smart guys" have been working on Wall St. for decades. Maybe there weren't as many high-profile funds, but they were there. They were there (and blamed) when LTCM collapsed, they were there (and blamed) when the dot-com bubble came, and it should be no surprise that they are still here and being blamed for the current crisis.

The notion that smart people are to blame for the financial crisis is like saying tobacco farmers are to blame for lung cancer. The quants aren't the ones making the laws in congress that have torn down regulation for the last 30 years. They aren't the guys demanding huge increases in leverage (even in the case of LTCM, where a few of the high-profile quants did get excessive, it still wasn't their call). They aren't the guys who lowered interest rates or started the housing bubble. They're the guys who just see an opportunity to make money and they take it. If a guy cuts off your leg, throws you in the ocean, and you get eaten by sharks, are you really going to say that your death was the result of a vicious, man-eating shark?

The people to blame are the usual bunch. It's congress, the white house, and the executives-- most of whom are not the "smart guys" that are being blamed.

Quants are a scape goat for a bunch of people unwilling to accept that what happened is not easily traced back to a recent event, but rather requires a longer look back and a more nuanced answer. It's a lazy answer to effectively say, "Wall St. gave $70 trillion to a bunch of mathematicians who were just too darn smart for their own good, dontchaknow." Washington got hooked on Reagan-era deregulation, where each time they let the banks go a little further, they got a little more campaign funding, and around and around we go.

There are tons of bubbles and crashes in the history of stock markets. Each time people think things are different, and they're always wrong. This is no different than every other time: greed and corruption.

(Disclaimer: I work for a hedge fund.)
There's a whole industry around this - seeking out terminally ill people with life insurance policies and buying the policies at a discount while the client is still alive.
I would venture that a lot of us have the ability to pick up these concepts rather quickly. In addition, for those of us who are self-employed, it is beneficial to manage our retirement accounts.

I also traded at a options trading firm while in law school. I loved it.
> Wouldn't use expect the cool kids to all be using Twisted then?

No, because Python with Twisted isn't the same as a platform built for the evented model from the ground up, its a library for a traditional threaded platform built to handle the evented model.

> I get the impression that most web devs wants to keep up with the latest tech, and by most counts Python is old now.

I don't think the desire of devs to be working in something that they perceive to be in demand and growing moreso is restricted to web devs.
For years I've heard the argument that Mathematics should be Maths (being Australian). That's the first time any one has made a sensible argument (to me) for the alternative.

I've never heard anyone call Gymnastics "Gyms". :P
I worked on the web version as well as an upcoming iPhone version of this over the summer.

Check out: http://helioviewer.org/ for the web version, and http://helioviewer.org/wiki for info on other related projects.
Well, not a substitution cipher in which each substitution is of equal length. :-)
Yes, but if a language provides a mechanism whereby what look in other languages like property accessors can actually be implemented as method calls, then in that language, 98% of programmers ought to--like true scotsmen--expect that it might be a variable and then again it might be a method call.

Case in point: In Ruby, foo.bar and foo.bar= are never property accessors, it's just that sometimes there exists code such that foo.bar returns @bar and foo.bar= sets @bar.
I haven't had a look through the code yet, but I presume this using some sort of web/flashsockets based changing of the DOM depending on what is done on the server so you can change and see what is going on with the client?

Edit: Having had a look it doesn't seem be doing that. Using some sort of series of ".scoop" files. What are these?
Note that the source study driving this blog post is from a left think tank, the Center for American Progress. Their policy goals can be fairly characterized as adopting in the U.S. more European-style employment regulations on wages, benefits, leave, and termination.

There's some evidence Americans are working fewer hours; for example figure 1 on p. 9 of this survey shows a slight decline in hours worked from 1975-2003:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1233842

When considering such issues, the important question to ask is: do you want people to be forced to work fewer hours (as in some other countries), or simply to have the option?

Because if you want to maximize your leisure time, you can make certain career and consumption choices to do so. For example, if you wanted to live with only the amenities people had in the 1970s or 1950s, you could choose to work significantly less than 40 hours a week in the 2010s.
"Buy a brand new PC in a Commodore 64 case with bluray and more"

FTFY.
That would protect against passive attacks with known keys, but it would do little to stop MitM attacks, since your freshly-generated certs haven't been signed by a CA.

Is there a way to add a unit-specific salt to a cert?
It seems so, I'm not seeing this with Internet Explorer. The Book Preview does not work at all in Opera :-(
Location: Latvia/Riga (Europe)

Remote: Yes (willing to travel for business purposes)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Django, AngularJS, React. I mostly prefer backend but can do full-stack too.

Résumé/CV: Will provide through email

Email: karlisba[at]gmail.com
4K on a 13.4" panel? https://www.sven.de/dpi/ says that comes out to a crazy 337 PPI. Current Macbook pro is 226.
That is awesome feedback! We will 100% try to incorporate both of these things. You're right that we only support Canada & the US, but should make this more clear from our landing page.
>Indeed, it has been banned in two different countries--Thailand and China

I'm so glad our representatives are looking at China for a model of how things should be. Hey, China is doing it, it must be OK.

You can make all sorts of arguments about banning BC, but don't use the fact that it's banned in oppressive countries as one of them and then expect me to respect your opinion.
Perhaps their newer products have gotten better but I've traditionally found Google's documentation to be case studies in how _not_ to write docs. Typically, they seem to be writen for ppl who understand the product and/or situation. You know, the type of ppl who don't need the docs.

I'm going to check this out. But looking to Google for advice on docs is like looking to Google for advice on design and/or UX. You don't bother. There are higher quality sources of such info.
Or report "number of years of experience lost"? I'm disinclined to dismiss the lives of older folk as valueless, as so many are doing these days.
I have no expertise in any area, but I would like to put down my thoughts for posterity (and feedback).

I think we will see governments in the coming week or two start doing broad randomised samples of the population for antibodies and realise that many many more people have been infected than previously thought.

Meanwhile fears for the economic consequences will grow larger. Also (hopefully) countries like Germany and the UK will not see Italy levels of death and misery.

Around the mid of April when spring in the Northern hemisphere is really kicking off people will have been socially distancing/quaranting for 4-6 weeks and will be really tired of it.

These factors will start to lessen the public support for social distancing and life will start to return to normal. Big events will probably still be canceled, people will not travel for holidays etc but economic activity will start to pick up in some sectors.

Some sectors like hospitality (which employs many low skill workers) will continue to see very low demand until July/August (or possibly even longer). If the important summer season doesn't deliver, these industries will be doomed. While many other sectors will get a swifter recovery.

A litmus test for the general economy will be sales of new iPhones this fall. I suspect it will be slightly below last year, but not like 50%. If it is, my predictions were completely wrong and we are probably much worse off than I expected.
Don't think that will happen. China will clean up the root cause of the virus quickly (wild animal markets). They seem to have the outbreak under control now, are ramping up production again and are in excellent position to help other countries dealing with the crisis now, which is exactly what they are doing:

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/africa/jack-ma-donate-mas...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-doctors-and-supplies-ar...

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-serbia-ch...
> tachycardia when I was a child

You might have been misdiagnosed based on the information available at that time. Children have different statistics on various body parameters at various age groups. You could compare your reports with recent research to see if you actually had tachycardia

> resting heart rate still tends to be in the 90s

It is within the normal age but on the higher end, but you should get your blood pressure checked. I do not know your age, but it might change once you go above 25 or 28. When Rhr drops with age, it is a sign that your metabolism is slowing and you should start measuring body-fat.

> any sort of elevated risk should I get infected with COVID-19

There is no real correlation or evidence. But in your case if you have mild fever and feel nauseous - that would be the first red flag. It may be just because you ate something, but if it is Covid19 or any flu causing SARS then the other symptoms like dry cough and higher fever may follow in 8-24 hours. You may not even see mild respiratory/breathing problems or severe fatigue or low blood pressure until 48-72 hours. Seeking medical attention and getting good diagnosis and prognosis quickly should be a priority, many people go to the emergency after 120-144 hours and then end up on ventilators in a matter of 4-6 hours. The survival rates on ventilators are not good enough.

Note: I'm not a medical professional. I have known these things out of my curiosity in medicine and accidental experience in hospitals with some talented doctors and intensivists.
Netflix gets to do whatever because there's a pandemic??
> If that is the case I would expect the death rate nowhere at no point to be much higher than normal or during a heavy flu season.

In Bergamo, obituaries in the newspaper went from little more than 1 page per day to about 10 [1] (sorry, link in Italian), so yes, it is much higher than normal. And this was about ten days ago, now I guess it is even worse.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQaQBqH0txs
Same. Bought a PS4 just for that one game. I would do the same for a GTA VI. It’s worth every hard earned cent.
I don't agree with this.

I _hated_ Scalia while he was on the bench. I fundamentally disagreed with him on a significant amount of his opinions.

Their actual opinions though are of such a different quality to me. Scalia's opinions I could absolutely follow the logic, and at times I found myself sometimes dispairing as I became convinced he might be right on an issue. Essentially, Scalia's logic usually felt on point to me, we just had deep axiomatic differences in how the law should operate and how the constitution should be applied to laws.

Thomas, though, I sometimes have a hard time understanding the argument he's presenting, and sometimes have a "how do you even believe that" reaction to his opinions.

Again, I think I disagreed strongly with Scalia opinions about as often as I do Thomas opinions, I just think they were for very different reasons.
That's one way of viewing them and I think quite valid. Another lens is that they have a product that can be customized to meet almost any need, but as a result what you get out of the box, or with a poor implementation, is severely lacking. This also drives what you observe - Having an extremely flexible framework rather than a finished product in your sales offering means your salespeople get to run amok promising the absolute earth. Of course SAP can do what you need... it can do anything*

So therein lies the issue - Evaluating a fully customizable software product that will be critical to your business is very difficult to do before it is actually crafted into what you have in mind. So the procurement and implementation processes are often an uphill battle against magical thinking where people are imagining a certain wonderful outcome but without careful, critical attention what you'll end up with is a heap of shit.

I have a policy of not working for organizations that have either oracle or SAP in the core of their environment, unless my purpose in coming onboard is to move them off it. This limits me in many ways, but I know from experience I'm avoiding a significant amount of pure bullshit, enough to make it worth the rule.

*if you're willing to fund an as-yet-unknowable level of customization effort to reach your organization's particular nirvana.

tl;dr the future SAP has sold to Google may indeed look better than the Oracle reality they're currently living, but it doesn't necessarily follow that their SAP reality will be any good. Such are the perils of procurement.
If the effects of plastics and PFAS/PFOA/PFOS on reproduction are the cause of the fertility decline in richer populations then a fix for those effects (reduced use of plastics, more careful use of plastics, chemistry solutions) could cause a new population explosion. A big IF but a possibility.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/richard-stallman...

After one person wrote that "Giuffre was 17 at the time; this makes it rape in the Virgin Islands," Stallman responded, "I think it is morally absurd to define 'rape' in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17."

Minsky (and Minsky's wife) disputed the claims that he had sex with Giuffre. Stallman was not supporting child rape, he was objectively looking at how a local government can criminalize behavior that is not illegal in many other jurisdictions.

To be clear, Stallman was not supporting Epstein, and I am not supporting any of them, but Perens' point about Stallman being shunned because he was insensitive is spot on.
This is a library that can help you to implement similar experience on your own website:https://github.com/tautvilas/termpage
If history is any indication, then yes, he can. He had created the movement that has transformed the industry forever and motivated dosens of thousands developers to contribute their efforts towards Free Software.

And he did it because of the very qualities he is vilified now: persistence, pedantry, having strong opinions.
There needs to be a "movers" clause. Maybe it should be illegal to sit on IP over time without provably making progress towards said thing, or there should be some decay factor where part of your ownership goes back to public where it can be bought by someone else. The smartest and most willing and capable people should be the ones with the IP. and allowing IP to sit unused is an awful waste.
If Uber cannot afford to pay their drivers minimum wage, they should raise more money and operate at a loss for longer or raise fares or shut down. Any of those three solutions seem to work. And those are basic, there are others.
Easier to find financial labor familiar with std software
> without a password

Without a super secret invite!
Unless you squint hard enough count their cloud services, Google has zero demonstrated competency building enterprise apps. Their core competency may be a mystery, but we can rule out some things, and this is one.
For completeness here’s Git as a SQL Database (2018): https://opensource.com/article/18/11/gitbase
Is this significant in some way? I'm having a hard time understanding the significance.
> crush their spirit

As a kid I was reprimanded and shamed for my entrepreneurial endeavors, so I get this point.

Nowadays, I think it's already different. 20 years ago we didn't have Shark Tank and the rest of the entrepreneur-as-a-rockstar environment that makes the general population recognize the value of a young entrepreneurial spirit.
I have the same problem. COVID has made it much harder. I finally have some decent publications and was hoping to go to some of the bigger Cancer Genomics conferences this year to try to build a network but it's not the same when it's a virtual meeting.
Serial passage doesn't leave much signs apart from maybe those observed.
Eh, for secondary education it's more of a "breadth, then depth" minmax pruning exercise -
you go through 10 or 20 courses like biology, physics, economics, drama, calculus, journalism, etc. and then you winnow those down into things to pursue further, rinse, repeat...

By the time you're 3 years into med school or a graphics designer job, forgetting trig or how a Constitutional amendment is ratified is a feature, not a bug.
Swift actually does effectively let you get fairly low level in the unsafe API, but for sure it's not the intended use-case for the language.
Yes. I don't have a good solution either. In the end you need to somehow get the money to do what you want to do. That may be within academia or not. In my case, I am just doing freelance jobs and reserving as much time as I manage to do the research I want to do. I don't need many resources, and being able to access sci-hub helps a lot.
No, buying worked on many brokers.
We were lucky that we had symbols from PS2 gta3 and the android games. other than that it was a lot of reading code in IDA and massaging it back into c++. I made a little video about part of the process [1] but i never did part 2.

The strategy for gta3 was to replace function by function of the game until we had everything replaced. for VC we evolved our existing code base by, again, reversing function by function until we had everything done. Just not by dll injection this time.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22BeuOOERLo
I don’t know. I think MetaOcaml is strict about inspecting Code terms like Code (1 + 2) and Code 3 (as far as I remember it is not allowed). So no, I don’t think you can distinguish between them.
Awesome advice. Will keep that in mind thanks.