jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What do you think a side project is? I have tons of them, but none of them feel like work to me. I get great joy out of them whenever I work on them (which is quite a bit).

I suppose it's a bit of a catch-22. If side projects were like this for everyone, one wouldn't be asking how to motivate oneself.
So far I was fortunate that in most cases I am free to choose the tech stack for the products I make. I pay very little attention to "industry trends" (basically what FAANG tells us to do) and choose what works best for my business ROI wise.

As for developer pool - when I need to hire subcontractor I've never had problems finding one with enough qualifications in whatever area I would need. Btw all subcontractors I've ever had are remote since year 2000
Which is in south(western) Asia.
The same model I use in my soon to be released web server. :) Have a thread pool compete for an accept-lock. Performance isn't that bad actually. About the same as thttpd.
Once again, we'll have large amounts of people in need of re education to learn new abilities for jobs that might not exist today. It's interesting as well what automation might do to economies with large work forces supported by governments.
Well, I don't know what browsers you guys are using, but on my laptop running linux and firefox 22 with an Intel Core2 Duo, my browser became completely unresponsive for some seconds and then only responded extremely jerkily until I closed the tab.

I just hope this practise doesn't spread outside of artsy demos.
People measure different things different ways and then draw conclusion (or tweak measurement parameters until it supports their already pre-conceived belief).

Event based system can be more performant in some cases and slow in another cases. If there is not much opportunity for CPU to do any work, then event based system will often outperform threads. One example is proxies. I already gave haproxy as an example, so I'll repeat it here as well. It is single threaded event based by default. It is certainly performant. Why? Because in a simplified model it just shuffles data from one socket to another. Pretty straight forward. Introducing multiple threads and context switches might just thrash caches around and actually make it worse (I have seen that happen).

Now add some CPU work in there. Say make each connection compute something, serialize some JSON. Like in those benchmarks, they use a DB driver get a row, serialize it and return. Ok there is some work. Now it is more likely that multi-threaded will help. But again one can surely tweak CPU affinities, thread pool sizes, hyper-threading BIOS settings, db driver types to really change things up. Threads take up memory. Not an insignificant amount. Now I like green threads, Erlang's processes, Go's goroutines because they are lightweight. (At least Erlang's processes map N:M to CPUs for parallel execution on the host machine).

So I guess my point is you are right that event based are not always and strictly more performant. But I also think in certain cases it can beat multi-threaded code (thread memory size, context switches, cache thrashing). That benchmark there, I wouldn't take it too seriously just like I wouldn't take Language Shootout too seriously.
Like any other product you buy, there is a reasonably transparent and competitive market for personal insurance.

Unlike any other product you buy, the price of insurance may not be excessive, inadequate, or unfairly discriminatory. This is the law. Unlike any other product you buy, personal insurance prices must be filed with regulators who have the power to block the sale of any insurance product that does harm to the public. Unlike any other product you buy, an entire profession is devoted to the pricing of insurance. You cannot even propose to sell an insurance policy if your pricing scheme has not been signed off on by a credentialed actuary. Those credentials are not easy to come by, and actuaries are bound by standards of practice that preclude us from doing anything unethical.

If my employer asked me to violate an actuarial standard of practice, I would quit on the spot, and I don't know any other actuary who wouldn't do the same. And finding an actuary willing to throw away their livelihood would only be the first step in the process of attempting to charge a consumer an excessive rate. There are so many safeguards in place that bypassing them all doesn't seem like it would even be possible, and even if it were, the insurer would not reap any rewards due to the force of adverse selection.

I don't often post on HN, and I know that the actuarial profession is not very well known, but arguing with an actuary about the pricing of insurance is like arguing with a heart surgeon about where the aorta is. I can tell you with the authority of an expert that you are mistaken.
Or, you know, a cheap Sprint locked smartphone with the internals all spread out (~$100 + fake rock materials :-))...
Indeed. I think from the American point of view they seem to be so centered that it can fall both ways.

For the UK i see them clearly as hardcore liberal democrats.

I think that in the south Europe political landscape they would be orphaned as there even the center parties are not very economically liberal.
While I agree that APIs should not be copyrightable, the Supreme Court has been criticized for "legislating from the bench".

Avoiding the temptation to set bigger and more far-reaching precedents than is strictly necessary for the case at hand avoids giving the impression that the judicial branch is doing the job of the legislative branch.
Note that Uber wasn't fined. They were ordered to pay her attorney costs (which are high in part because Uber complicated the litigation) and damages to her.
Looks fine for me in Firefox.

However it's just a blank page until I enable Javascript. So I'm not all that interested to begin with.
An alternative take, which I'm sure won't be popular, is that now, with an interpretation taken to the extreme, a megаcorporation can basically steal your (let's say a small startup's) platform (in case you refuse to sell it for ethical or some other reasons), by re-implementing it and investing much more resources which you don't have, to make it more attractive to customers.

I'm ok with either decision, but, depending on how this precedent going to be interpreted, it could have far reaching consequences, maybe unintentional/undesired ones too.
As a point of order, I think people want an efficiently run government, but your point about delay being valuable still stands.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31061802
what conceivable use could you have for xlib?

you’re going to have ten thousand hard problems related to just CSS. do yourself a favor and at least use a high level cross platform gui library.
Ok, we'll take your word for it and put 1996 up there. Thanks!
@uuyi thank you, starting with a small reasonable task or things that take ten minutes seems to be a good trick. I will try this.

Whenever I start my day, I try to finish some of the complex tasks right away, thinking the rest of my todos are easier. Then I would find myself spending time on other things distracting myself from being overwhelmed, and ended up achieving nothing or incomplete work
> no one knows they are sick for weeks before symptoms

Weeks? Regular colds and flu have incubation periods of just a few days. Diseases with incubation periods measured in weeks tend to be the more serious ones that don't occur often enough (thankfully) to be used as a good comparison point.
> Where oh where is this happening?

broadly gestures at Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe

not-so-broadly gestures at Ukraine

> The El Salvador experiment failed

A few growing pains != "failed"

And from that same site:

https://restofworld.org/2022/ukraines-tech-community-rallies... <---- Bitcoin donations serving as a critical part of the initial lifeline for Ukraine's self-defense.

https://restofworld.org/2022/were-still-very-afraid-of-failu... <---- It ain't just me saying that cryptocurrency is a solid bet to unshackling the Global South from the Global North's financial hegemony.

https://restofworld.org/2021/stablecoins-find-a-use-case-in-... <---- People in Nigeria using stablecoins in the midst of local currency inflation and restrictions on accessing foreign currency.
> we didn't know it went back that far then.

Who "we?" There was this export control back then, mandatory weak crypto, the Clipper chip initiative etc. If you wanted to say "a lot of people didn't care" well they don't care now too. Snowden raised the level of awareness for a moment, that's true...

Here's one article from 1995 about the process against Phil Zimmerman, the original author of PGP:

http://virtualschool.edu/mon/Crypto/LostInKafkaTerritory

Edit: The Clipper Chip, 1993:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
To add to that, some of the smartest "good" ideas come from "bad" ideas that people rejected out of hand, sometimes from unusual sources. It pays to do brainstorming thoroughly.

The best software engineers know when to solve a problem without using any code at all, like the classic "just do it manually" for a complicated task that is worth more than $x per task.
There is no need to rekey or do anything similar. Chats are available locally on the device, WhatsApp may simply implement a side channel to access those (they could already have one to satisfy agencies btw)
> You know that guy standing in the back by the lathe is the apprentice when he's eating sparks from the grinder.

Where/how can I donate some protection gear to them?
Amd Twitter will be slammed in a bipartisan effort because everyone hates them equally, left and right.

Can't say I'll feel sorry when section 230 gets absolutely destroyed under Biden - these companies more than earned it.
Roblox is incredible in some ways. I have 4 step-kids, and during the first UK lockdown, 3 of them played regularly in roblox with me (I don't live with them, and didn't see them for 3 months).

Some of the games are immense - full on theme parks, weird physics games, movie tie-ins, "total wipeout" physical games, all sorts. There was a really accurate Natural History museum at one point. It's so incredibly diverse, that it's hard to get a real handle on it unless you play it.

It seems to have got real traction with some of the kids in terms of the effort they put into programming their games, and hopefully it'll be a gateway to programming for some of them.

I think kids spend too much time playing games, but Roblox is pretty good, and they even make an effort to censor the chat - which can never be 100% but it's better than a lot of places.

FTR I've played minecraft with them a lot too, but the issue is that ends up being a fighting game ones the boys' hormones kick in (sadly!)
Latching on to your comment; I wanted to say, US truckers (and car culture as a whole) do some extravagant stuff with their vehicles as well. Airbrushing, lots of chrome and lights, etc. Mind you, a lot of that is still within reason as they're used daily for work.
For some it's art, for others it's an accident hazard. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against painting the trucks, but these wooden "crowns" would lead to the truck being declared not roadworthy in any Western country. At best, they only increase the truck's weight and fuel consumption, at worst they can fall off and make accidents worse...
"ordinary innovation", "a common sense standard", "dramatically broadened the standard of obviousness"

Surreal. I looked for related articles, and I found:

Court cases threaten weaker patents and could hinder technological innovation, http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/BUSINESS01/705010325/1066/BUSINESS01

Supreme Court ruling could squeeze Big Pharma, http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/01/news/companies/patent/?postversion=2007050209

Supreme Court Patent Ruling Won’t Affect Us, [patent holder] DataTreasury Says, http://www.digitaltransactions.net/newsstory.cfm?newsid=1343

I'd say that anything that is that vague and imprecise is a net loss for us. It empowers lawyers to find creative interpretations, and thus, it helps big cos.
As soon as you pay out to said official, it's a bribe. Besides, who would you expect to respond?
Fair enough. Sinatra and Chef are good examples of "ruby code" DSLs.

In contrast, however, I give you Cucumber scenario files. Yes, Given/When/Then are methods but it's still a very elegant DSL.

I'll do some poking into prolog and forth-based DSLs. You've peaked my interest.
There were tons of people who were walking around 10 years ago thinking Smalltalk ran on "traditional" bytecode interpreters, when the majority of VM instances used back then running were JIT VM. There was also widespread ignorance about Lisp implementation and performance. The sad part: the degree of misconception is still surprisingly bad. (Much the same held and holds true for Lisp.)

The Interpreter/VM distinction had become hazy and lost its meaning years ago. I think people still hold onto it only as a means of excusing poor language performance.
We actually used Animoto for ours:

http://www.springbase.com/video/controller-vt.swf?file=/vide...

Or what about http://demogirl.com ?
It's not really a bribe per se if you offer a bounty to the public and an official responds. It probably violates privacy laws and such though.
As much as I agree with you, if you're writing a public missive about the future of your company, it doesn't make sense to publish the draft, much less the draft you wrote through heartbroken tears. There's a professional context to consider.
there is no type hierarchy

A type hierarchy seems to get misused almost as often as it's well used. The net benefit of it is much less than what the inventors imagined.
You are absolutely right. That will be covered in the next article.
I think you've misunderstood my position. That candy bar thing is stealing, and stealing a seat on the train is stealing too. This is not abstract or anti-common-sense.

The parent to my comment had made a hypothetical more complicated by adding a special case (about the train getting full) and I suggested he reconsider without that complication.
I'm fairly versed in functional programming and LISP (having grokked PG's "On Lisp"). (Un)fortunately, I have yet to touch Java -- it always conjured images of C/C++, and that was sufficient to keep me at arm's length (I'm a python robotics hacker day-to-day).

My question: How requisite is Java know-how to using Clojure?
That is a very good question, I am sure Gawker has its hands full trying to fix their leak and make sure that all its employees change their PW first.
No. Even if some new protocol was finalized today, it couldn't be widely deployed until 2015, which is after the end of the world. Also, there's no way to create a protocol which has larger addresses and is completely backwards-compatible; IPv6+NAT64+DNS64 already exists and is as backwards-compatible as you're going to get.
Of course I can't prove any of my theory, but there is something wrong when a 3 month old site with no traffic or revenue sells for $50,000.

For the sites I sold, the transfer was super easy. For the wordpress site, I ran a script to swap out the affiliate codes to the buyer's codes. The domain transfer was a GoDaddy push which took 3 minutes. I exported the database and used a login the client gave me to upload it to his hosting.

For the ebook site, I again logged in using credentials given to me by the client on his hosting and I uploaded the files, created the databases, and the site was online in 15 mintues.
How about this: if focus is in a password field, then you get a visual signal somewhere in the chrome--e.g., the color of the location bar changes. Something that HTML+JS just can't do.
You know, everyone talks about testing, but I betya almost nobody does it.
Powers are not "reserved" to the federal government. They are granted. This is an important distinction because the federal government does not innately have any powers so it does not make sense to say that some power is reserved to it in this context. It is the same way with states, but since the states ceded some of their powers (which had previously been granted to them by the people, who are considered to be the ultimate source of the powers by the predominant philosophy of the founders) to the federal government it makes sense to say that the states reserved some of their powers.

Also, the mandates you speak of should be looked at for what they are: loopholes. The federal government was not granted the power to explicitly set (for example) the legal age of alcohol consumption, so it used the loophole to effectively give itself that power. So the guidelines should never work. When the federal government tells the states to follow guidelines, they should be allowed to say "shove it" without being punished because the federal government was never given the power to set those guidelines in the first place.
So does housing(0)=a cave? We've been improving ever since.

I understand your point that for a buck we get more today than previously, but really what is happening is that the wages for the bulk of people are stagnant or shrinking relative to the measure of inflation (which over 20 years really hasn't changed that dramatically, especially when it ignores gas prices which have gone up 300% in nominal dollars in 15 years) while the tippy top are seeing their wages grow relative to that same measure of inflation.

You are argueing the point on "real wages", which I see you point, but really the problem is that "real wages" are increasing very quickly for a tiny fraction of people, and not for everyone else. How you actually define real wages doesn't matter so long as it is the same for both groups you are comparing.
alanctgardner@gmail.com, feel free :)
> According to a Tor blog post, someone during that period was infiltrating the network by offering new relays, then altering the traffic subtly so as to weaken Tor's anonymity protections. By attacking the system from within, they were able to trace traffic across the network, effectively following the server traffic back to their home IP.

This is network-wide. They did not and could not target just Silk Road 2 and its users, they sabotaged the anonymity of every user and service on Tor.

A title 3 wiretap requires trust in both the government and network operator, which users of Tor may be avoiding for entirely legitimate reasons.
Certainly enabling them. On the other hand, preventing the Government from disallowing them from free speech might be worth that.

That's a different thing from giving them a platform to talk on, though. From a natural rights viewpoint, the KKK should be allowed to say whatever they want, but nobody has to give them a platform to talk on.
Nice Idea.. Question: How the songs would be streamed? say, I add a song to the playlist, then I have to keep connected until the song I've added is streamed from my phone? or playing from youtube or other services?
That's very impressive; but what are the accessibility implications? Can a vector icon have ALT text, for example?
Yeah, but you don't redownload them every time you run them.
Sometimes it doesn't have a sense to install terminal for card payments. However it's a very rare exception.

In most cases not-only-cash policy makes good business sense. Especially when the competitors from the same street or at least competitors from the same industry have such terminals.
i speculate AT&T can't support everyone at 2GB without massive infrastructure upgrades. which certainly impacts their pricing strategy.
I wonder how much of this policy has to do with tax evasion? It's hard to avoid reporting credit/debit card income.
I always use the Ctrl + Period (.) and Ctrl + Hyphen (-)
The process has gotten a lot easier and Leiningen has made things way easier. lein-swank is just dreamy and comes close to providing all that nifty class-path handling functionality that something like Eclipse provides for Java. A lot of great work has gone into things like swank-clojure and Leiningen and it's amazing that the Clojure community has pulled together such a great set of tools in such a short period of time. There are languages on the JVM coughScalacough that have been around for a lot longer and really seem to be lagging behind in terms of tools.
You can't hide when you're actually online.
Ionic approaches this problem with stencil. So the ionic components can be used by not only angular projects, but also react / vue / vanilla js
The company I work for would be a great fit -- we specialize in conducting remote technical interviews as a service. It pays pretty well ($100 USD per 90-minute interview). The work is very flexible and you set your own hours, so it works for people aiming for 5-10 hours a week or people interested in more than that. Although it's not a traditional software development job, the work still requires a significant technical skillset.

If this is the kind of thing you (or anyone else reading this) might be interested in, send me an email and I would be happy to talk further about it! My email address is in my profile.
>agrees to buy

were they coerced? did they already paid? or pledged interest? :)

>Wish I could invest in these guys.

sounds like you already did

>in-depth video

of a non functional Ultralight/Experimental traditional fixed wing aircraft
20 years ago, the local pay for that type of work was $17.50 including benefits. This was in a not very high COL living area relative to Silicon Valley or the like. I look at the pay over there every few years and it has always gone down, while the benefits and career advancement have vanished.

It has always been a PITA to be the low person on the totem pole, but these days the pay isn't there, the benefits aren't there, and the treatment can be rather appalling.
I believe vyos supports WAN balancing (and/or failover).
And parents point is that if congress or the federal government comes knocking, Google can point and say "we offer a compliant kids account, the customer choose to break the ToS and lie to us! we can't do much against that!". Whereas if they allow something deemed "bad" on the official kids accounts, Google gets the blame. So it's easier for them to just do a safe-as-possible kids version, picking "safety" over usability.
Sounds like it didn't work very well for the task of finding significant bugs?
Every country other than the US is shit when it comes to tech salaries. I doubt unions have anything to do with that either way.

If you use the same argument then how do they make the world's top luxury cars with "average and below" union workers?
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Posting for two companies in Schematic portfolio.

Torch : Short haul Freight Platform : Full-Time CTO in Chicago

Stealth : E-commerce Returns Platform : Full-Time CTO in Austin

Both companies funded in the past quarter. Capitalized well into next year. Must be onsite (not remote).

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May I ask how is any of the data you collect of any use if there is zero verification that said data is from actual people with symptoms?

I was just able to enter a US Zip code and normal temperature 98.6 without any verification. The site doesn't even check for location. I was able to enter data for a "US citizen" from Europe. Then clear cookies and do it again.

Verification of data is a huge thing if you want to make any kind of decision based on that data.