jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My, what a collection of old chestnuts.
* All his bugs are features: malleability and adaptability are English's strengths.
* Most languages proliferate their vocabulary to express all the needed shades of meaning, English uses Norman/German vocab to distinguish formality just as Japanese uses wago/kanji compounds.
* Basic English's claim to a limited vocabulary only makes sense if you ignore the many implicit phrasal verbs that are even more inaccessible to learners that ten-dollar words are.
* Relatively isolating morphology vs. more inflection isn't really a feature or a bug: it just correlates with a relative reliance on syntax rather than morphology to communicate. Interlingua is even more isolating IIRC.
* Every language has ambiguities.
* How is it possible to invent and impose an artificially created vowel system under the conditions where it is impossible to do something as simple as spelling reform?

Spelling reform is surely needed, but the ferst wun to spell rite shall lede us.

English has succeeded not only because it is the voice of global hegemony, but also the voice of global resistance.

International English can't happen as something people create in a lab and try to impose in the world. It comes when you have a dictionary and grammar of Standard Indian English and Standard Filippino English and Standard Nigerian English, where people are comfortable speaking English to a non-American or non-British standard. It will be pluricentric.
How do friend groups deal with members who might want to drop a potentially controversial in future viewpoint, let alone a politically charged opinion?

Any use of a non-e2e service as a replacement for an e2e service basically means either self-censorship or recklessness. The data is not going away, and if context changes can implicate everyone involved.
Well, it really _was_ out before in many ways, but not in such a nice one (formated html etc.). Btw, do you have a base64 online converter and read my code six days ago? Just "kidding".
NIH is a willful decision to create something that already exists and is fully known to all interested parties, but summarily rejected on the basis that it is ... wait for it ... Not Invented Here. Sometimes, an identical result issues from identical circumstances wholly independently and honestly--leaving the world with nearly identical objects that attempt to solve an identical problem in an identical way.

Casually suggesting NIH can be an insult to the intellectual & creative abilities of a team. Sometimes it is warranted. Other times, it is not. I believe most guys and gals in the developer community are astute enough to ferret out NIH and ignore it.

P.S. On the other hand, you have a very impressive set of github repos. Kudos. You have successfully made me both care and jealous that I never get around to open-sourcing anything because I never feel like any side project is perfect enough to let others see (and because most of what I work on is closed-source for clients). Sad.
I have not needed to add or fix a feature in a programming language but I have needed a ruby gem that uses native extensions (written in C) that are not available for my environment. I know enough C, but I have no idea how to implement this so I can't use it. Thus, instead of calling a few functions in a library I literally have to install another version of ruby, wrap the gem in some high level API, and expose the service via Sinatra, and call it via Net::HTTP. Not fun.

Particularly, libraries search their catalogs using the z39.50 protocol. Ruby 1.8 has a gem ruby-zoom[0] that does this using YAZ[1] however there is not a ruby 1.9 version. If anyone has a guide that explains native extensions for Ruby, please advise.

[0] http://ruby-zoom.rubyforge.org/
[1] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz
Yeah, I've read that before, and other articles like it. Does the feeling of 'this code sucks, needs rewritten' ever go away after inheriting an old, smelly, but working codebase?
We should all be thankful for both Gawker and Digg for being such spectacular counter-examples. Sometimes you learn from your mistakes, sometimes you get to learn from other peoples' mistakes.
I have 0 static IPs (that I am aware of) included with my service. Then again, I have a residential line and it's a fiber optic connection. I'm a bit cheap, so I pay $70 per month and get 50 down / 50 up.

:)
He also mentioned in his article:

> When studying CLRS or PP, it’s essential to solve the exercises at the end of each chapter. That will help you to solidify what you have learned into your brain.

That's what boggled my mind when I read this. There's no way that he read multiple chapters of CLRS a night and did all of the problems at the end of the chapter. I've done most of those exercises; some of them took a long while to get through.

I guess that's why I take issue with the advice that is given in the article. It is kind of unrealistic for any 30+ professional with a family, children, etc. to study this much for an interview.
If a doctor posted a plan for passing the medical boards would your first thought be "Wow, look at that massive medical monoculture problem!" That seems like a ridiculous stretch in my opinion.

It's more like an oncologist posting that every doctor needs to revise cancer treatments for a month before applying for a role in a hospital without realising that other doctors have spent 10 years specialising in different areas of medicine, and then the hospital being amazing at treating cancer but wondering why they're absolutely terrible at mending broken arms.

In this analogy cancer is advertising, and broken arms is privacy.
+1
I set Matomo to respect Do Not Track and you can opt out of the Tracking in my Privacy Settings
Huawei has already made some 'careless mistakes':
https://www.zdnet.com/article/huawei-denies-involvement-in-b...
Why can't comments on Hacker news follow etiquette of staying on topic?

People here respond to the top comment directly with a point that's not even closely related to the top comment. And then everyone else follows.

If you're making a new point that's not gaining from the chained comments feature or directly conversing/adding on to the person above you, just create a new comment.
>And where do you get the cash? This scheme is part of how you convert illegitimate money (usually stolen CCs in the case of eCommerce) into cash.

why not just buy it from amazon directly? does ebay/paypal have looser anti-fraud systems than amazon?

>You set up a bank account and amazon seller account you control in someone else's name. Then you use your stolen CCs to buy the "book" from yourself thereby converting credit card details into money in an account you control.

That doesn't work because if you funnel a bunch of stolen credit card purchases into that account, it will quickly get flagged for an unusually high chargeback rate.
> Intuitively, I feel like weighty hits tend to drive the nail into the wood, whereas fast hits just bash the nail about. That might be more about accuracy though?

Yes, if you're using your arm, there's a tradeoff between speed and accuracy. If you're using a nail gun, not so much.

I was just saying that it looks to me like measuring what happens in energy seems correct, and measuring in momentum looks like a conceptual mistake.
The problem is that coding challenges are OK if you are hiring for an entry level position and need to make sure that the fresh grad can actually write some code at all (surprising amount of them does not).

However, what exactly are you hoping to achieve with this when hiring a senior engineer who is likely to have 10+ years of experience in the field? With verifiable references?

You are only wasting everyone's time. Sorry but I am really not going to spend a month preparing for a single interview where I have no guarantee of neither an offer and not even knowledge of the team/project I would be working on (Google recruiter calling me seriously thought that this is normal - you apply "blind" and only after passing through their hiring "torture test" of 7 or how many interview rounds you get told which position may be "the best" for you. I said "No, thank you" and hung up.)

The issue with this is that you are both testing the wrong skills (senior engineer really shouldn't be doing basic algorithms but system design, leading teams and managing projects!) and that this is "senior engineer" position is likely senior only in name because the recruiters want to attract more competent people. In reality it is an entry level job ...
Thank you! Have you found anything that would indicate any level of actual similarities between S protein and syncytine? Beyond both of them being of virus origin and starting with letter S?

I couldn't find anything stronger than "german doctors say" which means nothing.
Yes, thank you for explaining that. I meant to add a note that Prolog isn’t esoteric too, but I was getting close to bed time so left it at what I did write for the benefit of GP’s (and others’) horizon expansion.
Telegram store your message and conversation history on their servers, whereas Whatsapp run somewhat like SMS - they pass your message on to the destination and then forget about it.

Clearly every point in the chain matters, but it always surprised me that a company that puts so much emphasis on security and privacy thinks it's a good idea to keep your messages in the cloud:

"Unlike WhatsApp, Telegram is cloud-based and heavily encrypted. As a result, you can access your messages from several devices at once"[1]

[1] https://telegram.org/faq
Great to have some innovation on the frontend for once. We're getting closer and closer to a place where we can write flexible, performant interfaces without the heavy frameworks and tooling of native frontend dev.
Yeah, but liquid water is probably required.
PC reading, I've not tried it on mobile, but I always enjoy the layout / setup of the Gates Notes. Very clear to read and navigate.
#3 will be solved by Stellar.org (at least, that's what I believe).
Technically because it uses filesystem API available in Chrome which is non standard. But really - because they don't get it...
It's becoming annoyingly common ("earth porn" for pictures of nature, etc). Your use of "Jings" however has brightened up my day. Crivvens!
There have been aftermarket speaker setups to emit the "choosh" sound of the wastegate opening marketed to the ricer crowd for years.
> It depends on who you ask but Telegram and Signal are just as popular.

It depends on the countries. Some countries in Europe use Telegram and Messenger a lot (never heard of any where Signal is popular), others are virtually a WhatsApp monoculture.

Not that it matters much. Using phone numbers as ID makes things relatively portable: it makes it much easier to adopt a new app, but if Whatsapp shut down tomorrow everyone would be able to easily find each other on Telegram/Signal. Very different from rebuilding a social network from scratch.
It doesn't seem to do anything after it gets a 404 back from the github API on an incorrect username.
It's a convenient narrative, but if you ever tried getting a cab in the Sunset in 2005 you'd know that at least in some places Uber dramatically improved the ability to get equal opportunity transportation.
The limit is siding length. Eventually you have to park the thing somewhere. There are some super-long trains used by bulk carriers on dedicated track. The Union Pacific ran a 3.4 mile long container train once, from Texas to LA. Double-stacked containers at reasonably high speed. There were locomotives spaced throughout the train, all under control from the head end. There's a video.[1] Worked fine, but got political attention due to long grade crossing blockage.

[1] https://youtu.be/jdIzRFOaTCY
In not sure if you chose to comment on this ;)
Space Hurricane Of Plasma will be my next 90's retro band.

'Book the SHoP cruise!'
Yes. I'm talking specifically about the "separate personal and work accounts" case. It may very well be a TOS violation as the TOS is written. I'm saying I'd be surprised if they treated it as one.
Well apparently not, or Uber would have won this court case, I think.
I agree with you, but the issue is that the Uber driver doesn't have control over it. If the driver were in charge, they would make their policy that the ride starts on arrival of the passenger and ends on departure of the passenger. But Uber doesn't do that -- they start the ride when the car moves and ends it when the car stops at the destination. So the driver loads and unloads on their own time. They aren't compensated for differences in accommodations per passenger.

I try to make up for this by telling the driver to start the ride the moment I arrive and not end until I leave, but not everyone does that.
The only thing it would result in is a faster rollout of the vaccine to low-risk individuals with money to spend. Distribution is currently [/supposedly] roughly correlated to risk and public exposure in the early phases. High-risk people with money would just have to spend money they otherwise wouldn't. So this type of plan would come at the expense of high-risk people without money.

This proposal is literally about putting high-risk people at greater risk - and by extension, killing them - so low-risk people with money can feel a little better about eating at a restaurant and drinking at a bar on a Friday night.
You never read alt.fan.warlord?
Misteaks. . . and how to find them before the teacher does. . .: A Calculus Supplement, 3rd Edition

http://www.amazon.com/Misteaks-find-before-teacher-does/dp/1...
Adventures of a Mathematician:
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Mathematician-S-M-Ulam/dp/0...
It's good we have a culture of accepting failure. The fumblebrag comes from a different aspect of the culture: The culture of being a complete douchebag, pretending you're always "crushing it," creating the appearance of success, and taking yourself way too seriously. This tension is present in everything I read on HN.
Possibly a student who will return, and there's no telling whether their computer is hosting Chinese government spyware already. It seems like it would be a good idea to target anyone who has travelled over seas for additional screening, so not being in China may put them at even more risk.
When has it been a common courtesy to pick up strangers on your way to work?

A courtesy, yes. But a common one?

(I'm actually genuinely interested - was this common at some point in history?)
I would say that the following comment is at least as good
as the one provided by Quora:

"Here are some tips:
Most guys have problems approaching strangers and seeming creepy. If you can strike up a conversation with girls, just drop a few comments that you're hanging out with "a really cool friend". It makes things easier when you introduce him later on.

When you do introduce him, drop a few conversation starters where there might be common interest or where he can demonstrate expertise. If he likes cooking, mention the mean casserole he whipped up for your Christmas party or something.
Remember that this is an interaction, and you should stay until both he and the target female are comfortable in conversation. Participate in the interaction until then, and when they are warming up to each other THEN excuse yourself to get a drink, say hi to someone else or whatever.
Encourage him to lead in the interaction. The more he does this, the easier it will be for him to seem attractive. Let him choose the way the conversation is going, when it ends, etc.
It may take a bit of work to get both of you synced, but when it happens you'll be the best thing that happens to his social life."
What I'd really like is a way to have trailers that I might be interested in fed to me.

Currently I read "little white lies" magazine but that misses a bunch of films I'm interested in.

I also have no idea where to get subtitled trailers for Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, etc.

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/
What’s the connection between monopolies and corporate rivalries? That comment just doesn’t make any sense.
I'm not sure on how to reply, because experiences with a Drobo seem to be extremely hit or miss and it is all very anecdotal.

My drobo with all WD green drives is as silent as my Mac minis and MBP are, while a friend of mine has one also with similar drives that's so loud it's very difficult to sleep in the same room with it (and yes, it rivals his Mac Pro in terms of noise).

I've not had a single problem with my drobo since I got it almost two years ago, while others keep having them fail repeatedly and replaced repeatedly until they give up and find something else.

I've also come across people that think their drobo is great and infallible, and then go and realize they have no backup for the file they just deleted off their drobo. And come across people like me that back up their drobos because a drobo is purely redundant, which doesn't cover cases like accidentally deleting files off it and losing the drobo to fire/flood/theft and more, only situations like a dead hard drive or two.

I love my drobo to pieces and recommend it to anyone that wants a solution they don't have to manage...with the caveat that it's their data and therefore their responsibility to take care of it, and a drobo can only be one part of the solution. data robotics customer support definitely has a bad reputation that is probably warranted to an extent, but not many NAS manufacturers, nor you if you roll your own solution, can do much when things go very, very wrong with your device for whatever reason.

(Note that I use my drobo only as direct storage. The drobo NAS solutions always seemed a bit hacky to me...)
Why not use ddg.gg? Even shorter.
I don't really understand the desire for skills to be in high demand.

Obviously, you want your skills to be in demand in some capacity.

But putting so much emphasis on whether some tech skill is a winner on a scoreboard can give people the wrong impression about other languages and technologies that appear to either be unpopular or dying. It's reassuring that Java and SQL are still in high demand after all these years, but newbies looking at these charts might make the assumption that they might as well not bother learning other things like Elixir, PHP, Rust, Ruby, etc., because they're not that popular, even though those jobs exist, will continue to exist, and pay well.

Also, it's disturbing that Scum is the 13th most demanded "skill".
I willingly concede that legacy/fiat money is better at stopping bad people/criminals/terrorists etc from having access to money.
I think Apple has good reason for this $100 said "tax." I would submit to you, that Apple vets apps and develops for good reason. I mean there is a process to maintain developers and apps. It cost money. This is how business works. And their expensive hardware is not a crime against humanity, but it is covering the costs of the engineering put into the software and hardware. It is quality. Now there terms of use are a bit on the deep end, but I drink the cool-aid. I'm sorry he is ending the project, but Apple has a business to run. Businesses are established to make profit. Nothing evil about this. It's not about breaking even, its about the profit. Look at the craziness android is dealing with, it is a mess.
You have an idea for how a fair and equitable job search is supposed to work.

It does not work like that.

Almost half of all jobs are filled through referrals by existing employees, so if you're cold applying to a company you're at best, cutting your chances in half and wasting your time.

You're also forgoing important information _for you_ if you don't know anyone at the company you're applying to. How do you really know what it's like to work there?

"The whole thing makes me feel increasingly insecure..." Don't get discouraged! There are tons of really great opportunities out there.
Because once those conspiracies are discovered, the people involved are banned from banking. Can you ban people from bitcoin?
I've not yet found a reliable way to experience statistics.
Love the choice of window managers and desktop environments in GNU/Linux. I love i3wm and XFCE. I fully utilize my screen(s) real estate (automatically), and everything I need is at my fingertips.
Demonizing single family houses seems rather dated in 2021. Single family home prices are surging in much of California too (while apartment prices and condo prices... not so much!), it's not just "everyone is fleeing!"

California was short on both types of housing - what has changed is that it is in even higher demand now! And if remote work continues after COVID, that will continue.

Add to that more efficient electric cars + more self-driving capabilities, and I think the demand pendulum will continue to swing back towards sprawl.

You also have a bunch of millennials still in child-bearing age ranges who are getting around to that.

You won't fix a single family home demand surge by replacing single family homes with other things.

"How will we make sprawl work better than it has in the past" seems a more useful question.
Is there Any data yet if people are contagiuos when vaccinated and infected?
Hahaha, point taken. Mainly as an experiment to see if heating my home office with an RTX 2080 that's taking a break from ML while I'm busy with other things can generate enough heat while offsetting my electrical bill to be a more cost-effective alternative to the dirt-cheap but terribly inefficient natural gas furnace.
This is not the normal use case of a remarkable 2, but I have found it to be the absolute best childrens toy ever. My 4 year old spends probably 2 hours a day drawing on it, making mazes out of the graph paper templates, drawing beehives on the hexagonal templates, doodling on cut-away diagrams of space shuttles and pirate ships that I found and imported as PDFs from the web.

It feels wonderful for him to use, as opposed to the iPad which makes me feel like I'm rotting his brain. After a half hour of using the ipad, he's irritable and throws a tantrum when it's time to put it away. With the remarkable it's just like a pad of paper, but I don't have to worry about him getting ink on my bedspread.
> You see something you want and you take it

Mantra of every bleeding heart capitalist since Adam Smith.
You mean the car gets in crashes when Toyota Lane tracing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVyRsdILbRw) or honda lane assist(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpgYCC8zG84) or the nissan propilot system (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFJ_4uEG6Og) is enabled. I am sure there are a lot of cases. Just have to ask these car companies to release data
Tesla’s product also requires driver monitoring. They explicitly say so, so your statement is clearly false.

Not excusing Tesla’s faults but the volume of Tesla’s cars on the road compared to Comma’s would probably explain the difference in statistics.
I agree with you, and at the same time, there will still be some people who are newcomers but adopted clubhouse at the right time and will become stars because of it. Maybe they weren't even newcomers, just good at what they do.

So while looking at it from a large numbers angle, yes, the power law applies and winners take all, digging into individual level stories, there will be people who will rise up thanks to the new app.

Not sure what that means, but I do still think there are opportunities here.
Bad advice can't mess up your life. Taking action on bad advice can mess up your life, but the advice itself can't do anything. I can't think of any examples of situations where I took particularly bad advice, but if I did, it is totally on me.

From that perspective; that I am in control and making the decisions in my life... I can't really say that any of the decisions that I have made have 'messed up' my life.

Whatever I've done, it clearly seemed like a good idea at the time. I probably couldn't have made the decision any differently.

(I find this kind of an interesting paradox, as my agency with regard to one thing, bad advice, implies my lack of agency with regard to my own bad decisions).