jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's worth nothing that the Datastore in question has undergone a Data Protection Impact assessment[1] which states that this information Palantir has access to will be in anonymised form and even aggregated.

In fact its non-anonymised data never hits the "Datastore" (Palantir Foundry) or leaves NHS Systems.

Morally sketchy extension to the contract? Yes. Illegal? No.

[1] https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/202004...

Edit: Corrected Palantir will have access to data, not be given it.
Yes it is definitely. I am in 30s and have never once had a woman hit on me though I am fit, sociable, and groomed well. Though my face is perhaps worse than the average person who may be non-handsome.
Now now, Palantir are perfectly capable of simultaneously being a tech firm and being evil, no therefore required.
The main issue is that having a full time employees in a state creates a "nexus" in that state, which means you need to file a bunch of tax things and deal with regulatory issues you wouldn't otherwise need to. At the size of coinbase, its probably pretty simple to deal with and doesn't cost much relative to their bottom line, for a 15 person company, it is much easier to deal with 1-2 states than to deal with 15. You can avoid paying sales tax in some areas based on how this works out when you are small but not when you are large. Justworks doesn't help with the whole tax nexus issue, just providing benefits.
Stop using JavaScript to render simple blog rants. Until then, I'll be using icon fonts, because I couldn't learn why I should not.
> Another great example is YouTube. They were not first, they just hit at the right time.

If you consider "bribe between rich people" to be "hit at the right time."

YouTube was hemorrhaging money on bandwidth and facing mounting legal challenges when the boardroom backscratch of Google buying it from Sequoia Capital occurred.

Google's subsequent subsidization of YouTube basically crippled the entire market segment of online video even to this day.
I think the issue comes up when someone proposes a zoning bylaw that prohibits AirBnB and other short term rentals. Objections to this might hinge on the "it's my property, I should be able to do what I want" thinking.
If masks don't prevent you from getting infected then why do medical professionals want masks? Everything I've read suggests that masks reduce your risk of infection, and that pairs with the common sense idea that filters in front of your respiratory tract entrance would reduce the risk of foreign particles entering and infecting you.
Great idea and I love the name!
If this violates their ToS, they need to rethink their policies. There a ton of reason you might have an encrypted file in your dropbox. Like sharing it with a friend or holding it there because you are moving files around etc.
To add to this, Clojure also has "trampoline" for TCO in mutually recursive functions.
In no way did I imply all art is useless.

What I did strongly imply is that spending $50-100k and four years of your life is a big decision.

Please, get a degree in whatever you like, but realize that you are probably in the minority for being able to receive education "for fun". Most people do it for an improvement in their earnings.

The issue isn't "my" view of education, but the mainstream view, pushed by the US gov't and all universities. I'm sick of the lie that a degree in Russian Lit or Communications will somehow prepare you for the workplace, or provide skills that will help you earn more. I'm sick of people being told to get a degree in whatever strikes their fancy, while strongly implying that any degree is good for them.
I'll get back to you when it's pay day ;-)
All this press about Dropbox is getting ridiculous. I'm almost suspecting it's a hit job, but I'm wondering why people like De Caza are getting involved.

Pay attention to the two following rules. They are, and always have been true. Write them down if need be:

1.) The government can demand files from any US (and many non-US) companies. The company is then legally-obligated to turn them over.

In the past, the government has even successfully demanded data without the proper warrants (read about the VZW/AT&T/Qwest/NSA fiascos).

2.) Your cloud data is always subject to security breaches and provider employee abuse. Encrypt accordingly (I prefer DMG and TrueCrypt).

Why is this news? Did people not understand this?
1, 2, 3, 5, 4

Arguably only the 5 (or the 4) is out of order. Simply remove it and order is maintained.
I have always had the image that debugging is like this thing that one has to do when one has fucked up.

But thinking of it after reading the last part of the article i realized that i actually find that debugging is quite fun, i have never really thought of it until now.
I have found myself, now two hours after clicking this link, finally returning to the comments because I spent so long reading his other posts.

Peter is an incredible writer and even in places where we have differing views on the world, it still was a joy to read his perspective because of the way it was articulated.

I recommend reading a post or two, highly worth the time. I actually went and ordered his book because I liked his writing so much, something I've never even remotely considered before.
It was created by http://www.thomasmangold.com/ for a Playstation 3 ad some years ago.
I question the validity of these pages
Free flow of information! Funny how things change when he needs to "defeat nemeses." Excellent find.
sorry false alarm, no bug :)
Can you recommend a design tutorial for programmer to follow? Is _Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ your recommendation too? Thanks.
Great info. Glass is possibly the first musician that I actually "listened" to as a child after seeing one of his Sesame Street clips [1].

The author of this article claims that he failed "to structure time in a profoundly meaningful way" and perhaps I don't understand what they are claiming but that clip alone did the opposite in a profound way for me. It actually unlocked in my young brain what music is made of.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0
After reading the paper [1] regarding the empirical study on TDD, I'm pretty dubious about how well backed the conclusions are. If you look at Table 2, in the 4 case studies, 2 of the projects took longer with TDD (2.00x, and 2.64x ratio in man months to 3sf) but then the other 2 did better: (0.319x and 0.476x ratio in man months, 3sf). But all of this seems to be ignored in proving the original statement that TDD take 15-35% longer, which appears to be backed by what is described as "Management Estimates" [Table 3].

In fact, taking the geometric mean of the man month values (which, I think, but am not sure is the right metric to use when comparing ratios), we find the average ratio to be 0.947x. Make of this what you will, given the size of the sample.

[1]: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/ese/nagappan_tdd....
I find openWRT is a really useful firmware project and I use it in any situation where it is feasible. Bandwidth Throttling / QOS is often in demand. Wireless Bridging works well. A nice side effect of using openWRT is that you sidestep many of the "backdoors" that sometimes appear (intentionally or otherwise) in stock firmware.
I also helped create a page that can help find the current most powerful routers that support WRT:
http://rooftopbazaar.com/routerfirmware/
It is a fairly common practice in companies that do not have technical managers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_coverage).
Basically it is useful to measure the coverage of existing conditions (and insure stability) but clearly lacks the ability to test the conditions you forgot to write. Kind of defeats half of the purpose.
I think the goal is to help my child get the best outcome from life. Even though I think college today is a bad deal, I'm not going to go full Thiel - I agree with you that networking is the critical function of college, and there's exposure to a variety of fields. I think college is at its best as a petri dish for serendipity.

You shouldn't have to settle for shitty jobs in school, and focus on schoolwork is overrated. I honed graphic design, salesmanship, and web design skills from the three I had. The last actually was a distraction from school, but then "web" became a paying job for me when it wasn't in the school curriculum. The constraint of needing to work created a bunch of opportunities.
The quote is taken form the Whole Earth Catalog [1]. Jobs referenced it a lot the quote you are using is its first line. Its last line which is often attributed to Jobs is in fact the, "Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog
the other point of view is that that makes it nothing more than the new tcl, and tcl managed to lose its popularity.
Beyond that, I'm pretty sure Clojure got rolled into Lisp on Tiobe, which is why it had such a big spike a while back.
How much would you pay ?
Probably for being a bit too self-promoting. "Hey, go read what I wrote about this subject on my blog!"
Funnily enough, I gave up on Netbeans 6.9 because it was soooo slow to react to input !

It is a really well-thought-out, user friendly IDE (much better usability curve than Eclipse imho), but I couldn't stand the constant scanning it does for some reason or the other, and slows the world down.

Have to check if there are improvements ..
Frankly, I'd prefer:

%1 + %2 * 2

Over:

_ + _ * 2

With the former syntax, it's much more obvious what the function is doing.
Sure, but that has little to do with the reflection api.

PHP is unique among its class of languages (counting Ruby, Python, Perl etc.) in that it has an extremely dynamic runtime, but yet keeps the compiletime/runtime distinction known from compiled languages, such as Java.

I have a love/hate relationship to that. On one hand it feels stupid and restrictive compared to more thought-out languages such as Scheme, Javascript or ruby, but on the other hand it _does_ instil some stability in an environment that is quite chaotic in other respects (dynamic-weak typing has some confusing edge cases, just to name one). I'm not sure it's such a bad balance after all.
I just learned about Direct Primary Care a few weeks ago from the White Coat Investor podcast [1].

The doctor interviewed does a direct pass-through on lab expenses. MRI's get done for hundreds (not thousands or tens of thousands) of dollars, basic blood work costs single dollars (and I think one common test was under $1). It's a whole different world of medical care in which your medical insurance becomes more like every other insurance product out there - only used for significant events not the mundane day-to-day stuff.

[1] https://www.whitecoatinvestor.com/what-is-direct-primary-car...
Sure, I won't go as far as calling it outright fraud. But, it certainly is part of the business. And as the consumer, at the time of service, I really don't care why it happens, only that it does and that it costs me time and money and delays treatment.

As far as I can tell, it's a byproduct of an adversarial relationship between the 3 parties (consumer, doctor, insurer). Insurance doesn't trust the MD to do his job, so hires their own MDs to second guess. And on anything that costs more than $100, that second guessing is the default action - the insurance company's own MDs are only there to provide legitimacy to the initial denial. I say this because in ALL cases, my medical needs have eventually been covered, but not before committing more time and energy than should be necessary.

At the end of the day, we pay more money (and time) for worse outcomes than most of Western Europe and the wealthier nations in Asia.
Cool stuff, I enjoy seeing more and more of these free illustrations popping up. They can make a serious difference in the look and feel of a landing page or a blog. My favourite one recently is Scale By Flexiple https://2.flexiple.com/scale/home which is very similar to undraw.
Exactly. I think it's just that's there's a market for stories of how our heroes were flawed so just a modern biography of Houdini wouldn't sell without that angle, as innocent as it seems to be in his case.
Per my answer above: the situation where nobody can be trusted is horribly unstable, because evidence-based or impartial policymaking or even justice becomes impossible. This tends to result in replacing trust relationships with force relationships, and the society devolves into warlordism or dictatorship in order to restore order and control. You can't expect people to trust an election where all candidates are disreputable, so they vote in a dictator.

This is why the unreliability of news organizations is such a serious problem.
You can tell Signal that.

Settings -> Privacy -> Disable "PIN reminders" under "Signal PIN".
It is similar to Yahoo groups but it can also be used like a secure reddit. So you can create a network, like Hacker News, invite who it is you want to join your network and then post (just like Hacker news) interesting articles that people in the network can then comment on. We also offer the users the ability to share files. So we hope we offer something different, and better, to Yahoo groups.
Sounds awesome. Looking forward to the upgrades.

[If you're planning on a web-based version of shoes and want feedback, I'd love to help however I can. My e-mail is in my profile.]
How's this different from The Fridge? http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/23/the-fridge-facebook-sharing...
I also got the impression that it involved VPN in one form or another, for what it is worth. Guess being a techie alters your perception of things ...
> Apple plays a great value game. That they are considered some sort of BMW of electronics is laughable. They are the Toyota of electronics: Great products, but if you really think they're exclusive...

In some markets such as the UK, BMW models such as the 3-series outsell all the comparable vehicles from 'mainstream' manufacturers (e.g. Ford Mondeo, Vauxhall/Opel [GM] Insignia, Toyota Avensis, Honda Accord), so comparing Apple and BMW as examples of false exclusivity isn't necessarily that far off the mark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DeLarge/Top_10_best_sellin...
If I had 60 cars scattered around the city, well, I'd want that phone service.

Security issues are not unique to i-names, and I think the abstraction layer (removing a domain name from your login) is important and useful.

Disagree if you must.
What we do know is that fixed function ASICs can be can be 10s to 100s of times more power efficient than general purpose (Von Newman) computing.

So noting they have described defies the laws of physics.
I came to the conclusion a while ago that IOC containers are a real "two problems" solution. I still heavily use constructor injection in my code, but I wire the constructors by hand. Keeps you honest and actually forces you to think through abstractions more clearly.
I still want one that makes the sounds of the vehicles in The Jetsons. Why aren't loadable and customizable sounds a thing?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those Google Forms? I don't think I'd trust my credit card information to one if it's reminding me not to enter my password in one!

This "hack" appears to just be abusing a conference organiser's pre-arranged rate for hotels near the area. I'm assuming the Google Form submits your information to the conference organiser, not to the hotel. They should (but apparently aren't) cross-reference the attendance list before passing the approved reservation to the hotel.
But you have to wonder what he did that allowed Juanita to take him to the bank during the divorce.
If you don't trust Kim Dotcom to deliver, there's always Tox.

https://tox.im/
I have always worked remotely. My company works this way, my employees work remotely.

IMHO it is not hard or difficult per se, but you need to design your company around it, like with other things.

It is also an area that needs more study in order to develop fully.

Probably if I had a conventional company and I had to transform or convert it to remote, it wouldn't work. There would be vested interest against the conversion on some people, some people would not believe it is not possible(people tend to believe that if you don't look busy to others you are not working) or managers will fear their employees slacking.

When you create a company that makes money from day one remotely, you have not this problem, as you organize around it and it is not optional.

In some ways it is weird. If you go out of your house to get your children from school because you did not spend 1 hour commuting to work, 1 returning from it, society could believe you are not working at all.

They are often surprised to see you have money, and much more money than they have.

But I suppose it is not different from an old farmer watching people sitting in a chair in the city call it "work".
You're right, but I meant for bitcoin mining specifically. it's incredibly resource intensive, so it's not something you have to check for all the time, just when something seems to be behaving this way suddenly (and spinning up lots of instances, etc). When there's an obvious huge resource spike, you can just check to see if it's bitcoin mining.

If they want to be neutral and not do introspection like this without permission, they can ask the user on sign-up if they want "Protection from mining processes" where sudden activity spikes will cause them to do introspection and shut down an instance if it seems to be bitcoin mining.

EDIT: plus, bitcoin mining is the same operation over, and over, and over, and over again. You don't have to "catch" it doing a particular operation. A brief sample taken at any time will show the VM doing the same exact thing. (tons of SHA hashes.)

I'm not an expert though so perhaps I'm missing something!
I've got a 2 year plan that starts tomorrow - since I've decided to quit university my plan is to bootstrap a business that would make a profit of atleast the same amount that I would have had to pay for the degree (4400 eur) in the same amount of time that I would have had to spend learning (2 years).

I'm pretty positive about my chances, though this will be my first attempt at `doing business`
Modern PHP isn't the PHP of 2004, HHVM or not.
Stupid way to compute F(n) recursively - exponentially stupid. Far more efficient to run forward - that converts exponential complexity into linear complexity. Or if you insist on using the stupid version, cache the results.

An otherwise interesting article, ruined by that stupidity.
You could set your author email address to an empty string before committing.
The one thing I was wondering is how long does a ruling take to go into effect?
What I meant is that I need some time to _not_ be productive. Like, actively not being productive. Literally wasting time for the sake of getting some peace of mind and true relaxation.

If your personal life is filled with productivity tools and optimizations, at what time in your daily life your are _not_ worried about productivity? If this time is zero, I think it's kind of sad and maybe even unhealthy. It's just my opinion, of course :)
Joe Beda (k8s/Heptio) made this same point in one of his TGI Kubernetes videos: https://youtu.be/M_rxPPLG8pU?t=2936

I agree 100%. Every time I see "nindent" in yaml code, a part of my soul turns to dust.
This fine is just for their Dutch operations, which is far smaller than their global operation. I estimate this to be about 1% of their expenses in NL, so in your analogy, this'd be a $2k fine.

Also: the crime isn't that bad. They did reported the breach on their own accord, and acted according to the laws at hand. The report may have been two weeks too late, but it was there. Their preventative measures and reaction were deemed good enough, just not timely. A crippling fine wouldn't have been appropriate, given the verdict.

The company could have avoided the fine by doing exactly the same thing they did, just a little faster. The fine counterbalances the cost-savings they may have had by having fewer people work on this. A future manager will probably see the fine, and decide just to put a little more resources into this, so the report can be on time. When that happens, the fine has served its purpose.
A lot of media has been repeating the statement, which I thing is just plain stupid; “AirPods are a new platform”. Because even though they are a great product, a pair of earbuds simply cannot be a platform just because someone looked at the total revenue and compared it to the first iPods.

This however is a great write-up showing how the wireless connectivity that powers AirPods might be turned into a platform in the future, if Apple wants to broaden its tech rather than keep it as a competitive advantage.
The problem is deadlines in and of themselves, it quite often leads to student syndrome[1].

I've seen it from the small up to the very big project. And I also believe it's also a little self feeding, after cramming so much for the first deadline you feel you deserve a little break, right?

We need to develop far more steady working practices harnessing intrinsic motivation rather than drive through fear derived motivation of deadlines and other anathemas of healthy work ethic.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_syndrome
I loathe every time someone brings up the quirky neat trivia of brown M&M’s - it always results in ten comments trying to error-check the lore and one comment about how they loathe the whole exercise.
Just reading the abstract, is it me, or did the authors revel in spewing a ridiculous amount of jargon instead of using the opportunity to give a simple and clear statement of the fundamental finding of the work to a general scientific audience?

"The epigenome and three-dimensional (3D) genomic architecture are emerging as key factors in the dynamic regulation of different transcriptional programs required for neuronal functions. In this study, we used an activity-dependent tagging system in mice to determine the epigenetic state, 3D genome architecture and transcriptional landscape of engram cells over the lifespan of memory formation and recall. Our findings reveal that memory encoding leads to an epigenetic priming event, marked by increased accessibility of enhancers without the corresponding transcriptional changes. Memory consolidation subsequently results in spatial reorganization of large chromatin segments and promoter–enhancer interactions. Finally, with reactivation, engram neurons use a subset of de novo long-range interactions, where primed enhancers are brought in contact with their respective promoters to upregulate genes involved in local protein translation in synaptic compartments. Collectively, our work elucidates the comprehensive transcriptional and epigenomic landscape across the lifespan of memory formation and recall in the hippocampal engram ensemble."

I think back to a historical abstract:

"We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). This structure has novel features which are of considerable biological interest."
Heritability? How? Remember that gamets (egg/sperm) are not affected by this, so passing these memories onto the next generation is not plausible.
You have to put your data somewhere... are commercial database vendors or nosql solutions that much better?