jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've seen the phrase "all the research" thrown around quite a lot in this thread. Would you mind linking to a few studies you refer to?

Mainly, I'm curious about how they define productivity. An office full of people performing completely independent tasks is almost certainly less productive than having separate offices; the advantage of open offices comes when everyone's work is interrelated. In an open environment, whenever I need to make a decision on implementation, I can easily ask someone intimately familiar with the area my code effects, and vice versa. The result is that people are more likely to make the better choices for the long-term future of the code base.

I'm also curious if there are any longitudinal studies that address moral. I wouldn't be surprised if people in open offices feel less like a cog in the system. I could also imagine it's a lot harder to develop a hatred of your coworkers and your boss if they're working right in front of you.
The chip is so low power that it can be powered off energy
capture from the body, as Andreas Eieland, Atmel's Director
of Product Marketing for low-power products, demonstrated at
CES earlier this year.

The human body generates more bio-electricity than a 120v battery, and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with the Atmel SAM L21 32-bit ARM MCU, the machines had found... all the energy they would ever need.
Also has happened in China: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_space_rationing_in_Beijing
RSS would be nice as well.
Trawling through older or less popular links is better without having to click on paging links. One of the things I like about HN is having easy access to both the link and the comments link via the feed.
I think you may have misread my comment. I was saying that it isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Women buy heels for their aesthetic effect, not because they are beholden to a 500 year old meme.
Just created a prototyping tool: http://www.appsketcher.com and in the process to launch it. Do you think it's of any interest to one from ux/interaction design area? I don't have a position to offer (hopefully next year) but would like to say hi.
> Well, I admit I haven't written much in Java in years, but doesn't that mean they only capture a small part of their lexical environment ...

They capture only the immutable variables. Wether that's a good or bad thing in itself is open to discussion, but that's clearly not the only problem with anonymous inner classes. Most people end up never using them where you would have passed a function just because it's so long and boilerplatey to do so.

> You are absolutely correct. Thank you. (That means you can do it in C with almost no trouble.)

Yeah that's right, and part of why i consider C being a less retarded language than java.

> See my other comment about "nitpicking" for my commentary on that

I read it, didn't really understand where you were going. You're first saying that joel is incorrect about some details in his article, but i've yet to see which ones. I see him overgeneralizing, sure. The point you then develop is that the fact that he is over-generalizing will harm newbies programmers.

This has been discussed a thousand times before in other contexts, but suffice to say that i profoundly disagree with that kind of statements, and that i find it weak to even go there.

First, you have no real proof of that, so even mentionning it, saying you are sure of it, is weak, you're basically saying "what you're written is gonna harm people", which is a pretty serious accusation in my opinion, without backing it with any facts at all.

Second, i really don't believe that even if it is true and you can prove it, the responsibility should be on the writer. No individual has a perfect knowledge of it's field, that's why it is your responsibility as an engineer to question the facts, and to demand hard data before you say something is true or false. If you fail to do that you have bigger problems than what Joel Splosky is writing on his blog.

In the end, and to explain more generally why i find your critique to be quite unfair, is that, while i agree that Joel is over generalizing, that things are far from being as simple as he is saying they are, the general idea , that i'm gonna sum up as "Having first class functions should be a basic building block of your language" is not only valid, but seriously needs to spread to the whole programming community.

It was because of such an article that i learnt functionnal programming in the first place. It probably wasn't this article, but it wasn't a lot better, maybe even worse. It doesn't mean that i think functionnal programming is the silver bullet to parallelism.
If this is designed for generated build files, why isn't it a library? It seems to use files as a shit IPC.
Yeah, doesn't match the power of firebug. Wondering what if MS packages some modified version of Firefox as their default browser for Windows? This way everyone would be happy. Quite unrealistic but if they can do some kind of modifications to suit them, I would not mind getting anything which isn't IE.
Out of curiosity, What types of applications are you running where HT hurts performance?
So, how common is the 3D Secure code on websites? I thought it was a local/European annoyance, since I haven't run into it outside EU webshops?

For instance, I've never had to put in my 3D Secure code on Amazon, BackBlaze, Syncplicity or ZumoDrive. The problem is that at least here in Finland, the only company (representing all the local banks) offering credit card processing practically requires 3D Secure unless you implement everything yourself (e.g. can't use their CC vault) - and no, unfortunately the US subscription API services don't work here, unless you somehow manage to get a merchant account in a UK bank.
When making a payment? I love the idea of forcing two-factor auth for online banking, but if it was required every time I wanted to spend £5 at a bookstore I think it could get pretty irritating.
Maybe you could borrow parsing code from Apache's Harmony? That's under a very liberal license.
Groupon is going to be a fascinating case study on the defensibility of a web property. I'm really interested in seeing how this plays out.
There's a great big gold rush taking place right now for sites like this. Another one that's getting a ton of play in Ontario right now: http://www.wagjag.com
In an investment bank you get a lot of conversations like this:

Manager: WTF are you doing?
Employee: Making money
Manager: Fine, carry on

So there are a ton of exotic languages kicking around (and even banks where some ubergeek has gone off and created an entirely in-house language, and then implemented some key system in it).

And not just programming languages either...
A bar, that navigates.
Maybe order one F35 less and give these guys a bit more budget?
You mean why they don't vote what others that know better think "their own interest" should be?
I really like Brendan, I think it's sad that he was let go from Mozilla and I switched to Brave as soon as that was possible.
Public sector jobs often have an explicit "London weighting" (or HCAS), it's set at 20% of salary up to a cap of about £7k, and decreases the further you get from central London. Some private sector firms do similar apparently, but I've never heard of it in the tech sector.

Other cities don't usually get similar supplements, even places like Cambridge where housing costs can be really high.

Property taxes are called "Council tax" here, they're probably the most regressive tax in England (the rest of the UK have slightly different rules). The amount of tax depends upon both the local area and the value of the property in 1991. Everyone who's house was work more than £320k in 1991 pays the same rate. This means in Kensington, London someone in a swanky 250 sq.m. £8million house pays £2473 per year...as does someone in a £million apartment on the next street. The person a few streets over in a grotty 20sq.m £300k studio will be paying £962 per year.
They've moved it to Gitee: https://gitee.com/ant-design/ant-design
Some might argue that you should provide evidence and arguments that support your allegation that’s she’s selling influence.
^ all of the above is Open Source software, developed by non-profits. If you want to support, here the relevant donation pages and code repos:

- Learning Equality => https://learningequality.org/donate/ and https://github.com/learningequality

- Kiwix => https://www.kiwix.org/en/support/ and https://github.com/kiwix

- And of course the big papas https://www.khanacademy.org/donate who make all this great content available in the first place!
The critical path is microfluidics and machines to make lipid nanoparticles. It's likely these paths are ramping as quickly as possible.

There's no use of intact animals to make these vaccines. I don't think there are any use of animal cell cultures in any of the mainline vaccine paths (though there are some human cell lines used in the adenovirus, etc, vaccines that many people consider problematic).
I doubt anyone in a position to land a spaceship would be convinced that the earth is flat. And just because something isn't 100% true doesn't make it useless. Newtons laws are very useful in most real life situations, even though we know them to be wrong.
You are making light of some serious constitutional violations.

The ruling says quite clearly that they illegally arrested him. They also illegally searched him if you watch the video, but for some reason neither court addresses it. Perhaps that wasn't brought up in the original complaint. Also, they didn't neglect to give him his phone back like it was an innocent mistake. They illegally seized it to search for evidence of a crime.

Making a federal case out of this is the only avenue for justice for him.
This exists, at least for Word and likely for Excel as well
It is also horrible,hard to understand and not useful for most tasks you will use source control for
In UI terms, it's any sort of visual clue for the user to do something. A button might be drawn as a "raised" thing inviting you to press it down; a window corner that has larger and visually obvious "drag handles" where you can grab it to resize the window; that sort of thing.
You've just made his point: you're so used to living in the bazaar that it seems an inevitable fact of life.

Through the lens of the Peter Principle, command is itself a competency. If you have sufficient authority, (1) is easy. His point is that unless you have someone with that authority, (2) is inevitable. People have risen to a position where they need the solution libtool provides, without the competency to force the right solution.

This wasn't always the case.
The video of Igor's talk at Recon 2014 is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2_-VXz9E-w
I guess that the float formatter has more work to do that the string one.
That's a very idealised view of Microsoft's platform. In particular, they have a habit of periodically declaring new technology winners that aren't compatible with the old ones, which then become legacy. Remember Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation, both of which were Microsoft's officially-sanctioned ways of developing GUI apps with C# and both of which are now legacy APIs in maintenance-only mode?
Yes, let's keep the Ad Hominem going.

What someone believes or not should not disqualify their work or published results. Period. The work should be evaluated on its own merits.

Unless the idea is really to form a cabal and only allow research on topics that don't question anything, which seems to be what several aim for (and of course, it's easier to get a grant for those)
IMO, the problem with GitHub is the community. For some reason the Ruby community rubs me the wrong way, in a way that the Java, Python, Lisp communities don't.

While I can respect Ruby and RoR technically, it's not so far above other products that it can make up for the fact that I'd prefer not to interact with the community on a day to day basis.

Maybe I've just hit a weird sample, but I've heard other people outside of my circle make similar comments, yet I've rarely, if ever, heard it said about other communities (except maybe the Slashdot community).
One such instance:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21378471

I remember commenting on a different article but the one that it points to now is a different article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384151
I hope that is not true. I think it is more a matter of organizing your thoughts into something you deem presentable to an audience. Maybe the Dunning-Krueger effect explains the generally low quality of many blogs - Potentially high caliber bloggers are overly self-critical and don't publish, for others the converse.
I'm really interested in seeing if some of my coworkers would be interesting in something like this. What sort of games would you recommend?
First, I'm not in the tech sector, so take what I say with a grain of salt as industries are different. That being said, in Germany that seems to be a rather good quota of returns from my experience.

Regarding the companies rejecting you right away, my experience is that a lot of times it is either some particular key word that is missing or some other little detail they don't like. Hard to tell so as I don't know which companies rejected you.

The more important question is whether these have been your dream jobs and employers. If not, just keep in mind you do not need dozens of job offers but the one you really want.

May I ask why you want to change jobs? Seems like you are rather appreciated where you are right now.
As long as coins are designed as a store of value rather than an actual currency, they will have limited use-cases.

People need to get over the concept of inflation. Inflation is GOOD.
Googling found a wide range of figures for 1953 US GDP.

One said $2449[0], one said $9573[1] and one said $16499[2] in chained 2012 dollars.

Computing the figures from the Census's 20th century data[3] supports the $2449 as the current-dollar figure.

[0] https://countryeconomy.com/gdp/usa?year=1953

[1] https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/GDP-...

[2] https://www.multpl.com/us-real-gdp-per-capita/table/by-year

[3] https://www.census.gov/prod/99pubs/99statab/sec31.pdf
Not sure about the url, but he does lots of youtube as the “tech lead”
Yep. SSL cert warning on Safari for iPhone.
"Fear and greed, mofo."
All major browsers do this.

Firefox: http://tbpl.mozilla.org/
Safari: http://www.publicsource.apple.com/
Sounds like these guys are doubling down on the IAAS model, 'premium bare metal'? Certainly there are a lot of people who'd like to run on bare metal, with a more configurable network, but how realistic is it at this time?

>>You see, physical switch operating systems leave a lot to be desired in terms of supporting modern automation and API interaction (Juniper’s forthcoming 14.2 JUNOS updates offer some refreshing REST API’s!).

This. Network hardware vendors have no incentive to make their devices more easily automated, and in fact face disincentive not to.

Doe anyone remember the excitement and promise around Google App engine when it was first announced, and before they changed the pricing model to per instance? The ability to put your app on the cloud, and scale up to the free tier, then out from the free tier on a paid plan if that's what you needed.

That model entirely disappeared. I miss it. Is anyone doing that now?
help me to interpret this: amongst 60 comments of this article, nobody mentioned China despite the fact China had fought against jp for 8 years (since 1937, or 14 years since 1931) and (arguably), pinned down jp Army, given the original jp's plan was "conquer China in 3 months".
Review systems need "page rank" or at least some way to filter based on whether you, personally, found a review helpful.

I don't care if a 10 year old rated an app 1 star because they didn't like the colors, or a new computer user was confused by an interface. I want to know if people like me -- with my experience level -- found the app difficult.

Movie reviews follow the same thing, it's hard to look at overall ratings. I want to know the opinions of people like me.
"How they were caught" involved thousands of consumer complaints and lawsuits that continue up to the present day. Tens of thousands of unintended acceleration incidents also go unreported and unlitigated because the damage is not major enough to be worthwhile. The government auto safety regulators investigated and then closed the investigations many times due to clever manuevering by Toyota's lawyers and government-relations people. They also lied to Congress (which they have since admitted to when the DOJ investigated their cover up and fined them $1.2 billion. This story is far from over.
You're the only one in this thread talking about human automatons, outsourcing and broken corporate structures. I'm explaining why a healthy corporation would want to use a simpler and easier to understand system over a more complex, harder to understand one. Nothing more, nothing less.

The thing is, the level of intelligence to maintain the software has to exist somewhere.

Yes it does. Nothing I've said suggests otherwise. But, let's say you can lower the amount of intelligence required to actually understand the system. Not much, just from "exceptional" (by which I mean 10x or the top 1% of programmers working in the field) to "average" (by which I mean the median level of intelligence for programmers working in the field). If you can do that, you lower your risk over the long term. If someone leaves, you can easily hire a replacement and get them up to speed.
I exclusively use Sublime Text editor for some time now. But this Atom editor by GitHub is very interesting. Will definantly try it.
Probably the worst place to attempt to meditate. Try doing it in a room with no wifi, nothing distracting, a room that has nothing to do with work.
> working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution ...

The "solution" had better be an orderly accounting and distribution of remaining assets, managed by a trusted third party.

Please, please don't try to resurrect Gox or any rebranded facsimile thereof.

Mt. Gox, be gone!
How about the 6 women on the jury?
The jury was six men women.
More tellingly, on an average two-hour flight, you'd receive about 100 times the radiation from a single scan.

But, by using the transitive property, you're more likely to die from radiation at flying altitudes than from a terrorist attack on said airplane.

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to include the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effect...

Which comes from:

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nucene/radexp.htm...

Which explicitly states its references.
It doesn't matter so much what you tell them so long as you are willing to reject a lowball offer and ask for more. If they are going to negotiate with stupid tricks and use information you give them adversarially, feel free to drag out the interview process at their expense. Once they make the offer they've revealed their intention to hire you.

If they had made you a fair offer the first time around they wouldn't have to worry.
Actually, hell really is frozen over, at least at its core:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)#Ninth_Circle_.2...
> Peter Rez ... calculated the risk of getting cancer from a single scan at about 1 in 30 million

His odds were for a single flight, but I wonder if the scanner radiation has a cumulative effect?

Surviving a plane flight has no impact on the likelihood of the next one, so taking a lot of flights would edge the odds in favour of dying from the scanner cancer.

But then there`s the wide difference in the type of death.
Nope, it doesn't change path. Path changes are after the hash. Although when you hover over the arrow pointing to the next page it shows different path, it's probably for browsers with JavaScript disabled. Clicking this link is also intercepted by JavaScript.

EDIT: sorry, it actually does change the path on Chrome. It doesn't on Firefox.
Interesting:

"After a flurry of last-minute lobbying from representatives of content providers including the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)..."

Well, I am glad they listened to so many diverse groups. I mean, the MPAA and the RIAA? That ensures the legislators heard every possible viewpoint on this issue.
Rolling Stone had a great article last year, and their opinion was that once you boiled everything down, it sure did seem a lot like front-running.
I know that people who use MacOSX love with passion a software call "papers". Some people use mendely or zotero.

I am a Linux user and I use an opensource software called bibus.
http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/
It works crossplatform and it also serves as endnote alternative for citations, in case you need one. It does integrate with pubmed but not in the perfect way (somewhere in my todolist it says "fix bibus-pubmed interaction").
Let me see if I have this right: the CEO of Nokia very publicly declares that he is going to bet the company on WP7 weeks before finalizing a deal for WP7.

Didn't the very public declaration, which IIRC caused resignations by engineers working on Symbian and Meego, radically weaken Nokia's negotiating position?

I must be missing something because it is unlikely that the leadership of a major corporation would be that unskillful at negotiation.
From HN meetups, which is most of my exposure to the Tokyo tech grapevine, I have heard good things about a gigantic multinational advertising firm and an assortment of finance companies. Tokyo's a big place and every industry you've ever heard of, and most multinationals in those industries, has some presence there.
Apart from fact that for most devices USB specs do not specify exact format of data send/received by device, many manufacturers actually ignore specifications of standard formats (eg. HID) and invent their own/implement standard formats in various weirdly broken ways (see Wiimote for example, or any reasonably modern USB "modem-like" device)
Shabam!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1794800
I think so provided we're only talking about adding, editing and deleting content. It's also worth noting that UX has been receiving a huge amount of attention with the Drupal 7 release and is an ongoing topic of serious interest among module developers.
I was impressed to see that none other than Shuji Nakamura of Nichia championed them. When you get Mr. Nakamura (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuji_Nakamura) excited about something, you know you're on to something.
I went to an inner city Los Angeles high school. You wouldn't believe some of the individuals that can pass as qualified teachers. People that they themselves were never taught correctly, and went straight into teaching after college. This of course is the double whammy - poorly academically prepared people, with little real world experience - so they fail students on both counts.

And yet...the most annoying part of this experience was the attitude of the other students. I despised my high school mostly because absolutely nobody cared. I think it's hard for people from better areas grasp this. People really do tell the teacher to fuck off. People really do just talk amongst each other, listening to music, while the teacher tries to talk over them. And because no one puts in any level of effort whatsoever, you can get an A by simply just showing up.

I don't doubt we need better teachers. I don't doubt it at all. All I'm saying is we need better teachers at the youngest grade school levels to reach children while they are still, I guess reachable. And more importantly, we need a better way of educating parents to get their kids to care.

Then, we can really start holding teachers accountable.
By that definition, the killer apps for me are keyboard replacements, home screen replacements, flash enabled web browsers and the Android OS itself which allows me to modify/replace stock functionality. That freedom to do what >I< want to do with my device is the reason I went with Android.
Missions? As in proselytizing?