skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
America provided enormous assistance to the USSR during WW2.

https://www.rbth.com/business/2015/05/08/allies_gave_soviets...

Consider the difference in the economies of east and west Germany. Consider the wall the Soviets had to build to keep people from leaving to western europe. It wasn't just a fence - it was barbed wire, guard towers, minefields, machine guns, etc. I traveled through it in 1969 for a tour of East Berlin. It was no joke.

As for the Marshall Plan, most of it went to rebuild Britain and France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan#Expenditures

West Germany turned to free market capitalism after WW2, and that's where the economic miracle happened, becoming the strongest economy in europe, despite having been quite thoroughly devastated and looted, and having lost a generation of men.
Airbnb socializes the costs by transfering them to the flat owners (cleaning etc.), and Uber to the drivers (fuel, maintenance etc.)
As a resident of Rochester for the last 3 years post-grad, the wasted human talent here is staggering. There are engineers from Kodak that were bought out of their pensions who (anecdotally of course) get passed over for adjunct positions at RIT, because they either don't have the degree or RIT prefers younger adjuncts. Many haven't moved away because of the sense of family among former co-workers, but are whiling away their early retirement.

The two major research universities are propping up the city's advancement opportunities, but doing so with tuition increases and recruitment of full-price paying foreign students, which makes the place more vibrant, but has also alienated many.

The largest employer in town now is the University of Rochester Medical Center, which provides many of the middle income and higher income jobs but is also making a habit of buying up 'distressed' hospitals.

The collapse of Kodak and exodus of money and talent has cratered the city public school system, which has a 47.5% on-time graduation rate. The only shining spot in terms of education is an Arts school, with great links to the still world-class Eastman School of Music.

Rochester itself is also a great example of 'white flight' in the post-Kodak era, though it began long before that.
It was definitely closer to the former than the latter. Things that are obviously profitable now were not hip or obvious, nor was the infrastructure to commoditize everything available.
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The re-design of the Bitcoin block header (2014)
Are there still scripts that will delete all Facebook posts? I'm not sure if that works any more.
I think the word you are going for it "NINA". I was a Real estate investor for a decade.'

NINA - stands for "No Income No Asset".

My lender joked it was "the liars loan". People would just state their income. I had a person who wanted to partner with me and he said he brings in 400k a year. We pulled his taxes and he had only reported 80k! He tried to tell us "I'm good for the 150k buy-in" but we weren't having it. I recall my buddy joking "We aren't lenders. You have to actually have the money you say you do."
The embargoed countries are mostly poor and don't have much gold reserves. And the US might be able to seize or destroy gold shipments in transit. Moving physical gold is far more risky than a wire transfer.
Webster doesn't mention any change in use, simply:

"care less : not to care — used positively and negatively with the same meaning <I could care less what happens> <I couldn't care less what happens>"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you see, part of outsourcing is a sleight of hand where the worker is twice removed from the work giver. it kills the worker negotiating power. if you consider a janitor hired to a company that works for a megacorp, he's bargaining against the wall "this is what megacorp can pay, so there's no way we can raise your salary" - and works both way: megacorp cannot rate, engage and more importantly retain the individuals that are sent in to work there irregardless to their skill/merits, so everyone is fungible and a career is impossible.
I remember covering Jonathan Livingston Seagull in grade school. Absolutely loved the story and the message, but what I remember most clearly was the girl who stated: who cares, it's just a story about a bird.
Who did you quote?
The introduction of similar oBikes in Amsterdam and Rotterdam prompted comments from my friends seeing similar bad behaviour. Meanwhile I live in Montreal, where with the Bixi bikes you need to return them to a station (spread throughout the city) and there's no problem.
Ship – a simple, handy network addressing multitool with plenty of features
I think screen sharing isn't really optimized for text legibility - it's still the same video calls, just using screen capture instead of webcam as a source.

When I've shown some code over Skype, I had to change fonts size to pretty large to make sure it was comfortable to read.

Also, bandwidth. Video streaming requires a lot.
Yep, I've been in situations reminiscent of this, and I know it's awful. I wouldn't wish it on anyone, and I'm sorry to hear it's happening to your friend.

But, I don't think it contradicts the point of the article. The most watertight contract in the world won't prevent a vexatious client initiating legal action if they really want to; the only protection against that is to be very careful about who you do business with in the first place, and to ensure at every step of the process that both parties' incentives and expectations are aligned.
I think what's getting me is a really superficial notion of what 'solving problems' means.

It's a leaking ceiling, a bucket under the leak ostensibly 'fixes' your original problem of water spilling out onto the floor, but now you've got the problem that at some point, the bucket will fill up.

It's rare for most problems you face in the workplace for the difficult part to be actually solving the problem. It's solving it in a way that doesn't just create three other messes elsewhere, in a way that somebody else can come along and understand how the problem was solved and in a way that doesn't hamstring you in the future.

Some of these quotes are really baffling. I mean, he must be being facetious or something.
"If you’re educated, you’re in command."

I'm not college educated, I've made a comfortable living as a coder. It took over ten years of self-teaching in my 20's while working a FT job but I knew this is what I wanted to do. So I agree with the statement but there's more than one way to become educated. Academia is just one way and possibly not the best way.
One of the gnarliest code bases I ever worked in was a very large C project where the inner core had been run through a f2c transpiler. Over the subsequent decade the surrounding code was a hodgepodge of people taking their own interpretations of autogenerated C code because folks didn't question why the code looked the way it did and thus they did their best to maintain the same look and feel. Oh and no one really knew how that original inner core worked, there were no docs, no oral tradition, and it was over 20 years old.

While I was still working there we accumulated enough major change requests to the application that finally got the go ahead to throw the original code base out and start from scratch.
I've worked for little companies and big companies/institutions.

Unless you have some magical political pull, your leverage is nil. The reality is, getting to the point that the fortune 50 or .gov is suing you means that you were asleep at the switch -- getting to that point means that the business unit you are working with has acknowledged defeat (a huge step) and is going to blame you and hurt you no matter what the contract says.
Weight loss and pain looked like cancer. Real reason was hidden for years
I think that would very much depend on when: Sun's primary problem was bad management so an early 2000s change might have enabled them to compete against Red Hat — treat usability as a concern, wrap all of those cool kernel features in a non-joke userland, sell support, etc. Sitting out package management for a couple decades really hurt them and that's a relatively cheap engineering commitment. It's interesting to imagine ZFS and zones bringing containerization a decade earlier, but every time they came up the reaction from most of the sysadmins I knew was roughly “call me back when they have apt/yum”.

A coworker who used to work at Sun maintains that they really needed to go private to avoid years of chaos from waves of layoffs when they were profitable but not enough to satisfy Wall Street.
I've lived under Capitalism for over 30 years, and have first-hand experience of how bad it is.
Not deleting data is a crime under EU law, which is interesting.
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they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes.

Not sure I follow. Why can't chrome just detect whether you entered a URL or not? If URL, load without sending to Google. If not a URL, send as search to Google.
Pretty sure the fortran was itself a port. My apocryphal memory is that the original is for some custom system, which wikipedia tells me was "MDL". The fortran was the result of it being carried to more common systems.
> The more you speculatively execute the less you actually execute

True, but there are lots of graph-type problems where it is very useful. As explained in the paper I linked to?
You are quite correct, and indeed they surrendered a considerable number of potential users by refusing to make their app easily usable on a tablet or other SIM-less device.

Which is a very interesting and rare example of prioritising one aspect of UX by completely sacrificing another.
There are definitely moves in that direction on desktop as well, for sure. Microsoft, Adobe and Autodesk are some of the big names that traditionally made expensive business software and increasingly rely on subscriptions (and bulk licensing for larger businesses, though in itself that's nothing new). No doubt there are many smaller players trying to follow the same path, though I find it interesting that other smaller players are starting to compete based on not having the downsides of a subscription. It seems the market is big enough for both variations, at least in some areas.
s/IBM/SAP/
I didn't delete my account but I let it go dormant about 4 years ago. Don't miss it a bit. Social media is all about making you feel bad.

Its a platform for people with low self esteem to dream about what their lives could have been. For older folks to remember the past. For the average guy/gal to keep tabs on old flames.

And most importantly a place for jackasses and rich people with various complexes to show the world how great their lives are.

And Facebook is great at figuring out your weakness. For me for example, Facebook became a window for re-imagining my life in college.

No thanks. The trip down memory lane is fun every once in a while but the old picture catalog in the closet has morphed into an insidious entity, always beckoning you back. My phone vibrates, someone posted a new picture of you from 5 years ago and 50 people like it. Remember that day? All those people. Dont you?

Fuck that, I'm done being screwed with by a platform designed to give you your fix.
Of those description, whatsapp is the one that's actually the classic "how capitalism is supposed to work": provide a comparable or better service for a lower price.

Amazon's era of sales tax evasion is mostly over. And if anyone is monetising copyright infringement it's not Google (who are somewhat conscientious about this after some lawsuits) but Tumblr (literally made of copyright infringing photos)
Why Microsoft's Snapdragon Windows 10 Cellular PC Is Walking Dead
"PHP can do anything, what about some ssh?" -Mark Karpelès

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https://web.archive.org/web/20100701145902/http://blog.magic...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Karpel%C3%A8s
An introduction to managing secrets safely with version control systems
There's a school of design thought that the FOUT (flash of unstyled text) is worse than delayed text loading so they hide the text and reveal it once the web font is loaded). Browsers even put in a default delay before using the fallback font to appease this point of view, but hacks to enforce it even on slow connections still exist from time to time.

https://www.paulirish.com/2009/fighting-the-font-face-fout/

(Personally I think it's insane, especially when many of these sites have ads which reshuffle content much more violently than any FOUT. Also now you have hacks to enforce the old behaviour: https://css-tricks.com/fout-foit-foft/ )
Ahh yes... the days of the Software Wars. http://mshiltonj.com/software-wars/ (last update 2003) - it might be interesting to reimagine that in today's world. From the 2006 map, Oracle's assimilation of the lion's share of the "south" (MySQL, Sun, Java) and the battle between Apple and Google in the "north west".

That said, consider the flip side of the heterogeneous aspect. You were unlikely to be able to run software on two different platforms that could communicate in a meaningful way. It was duct tape everywhere. There was no "cloud" that one could get significant computing resources on. You could pay (much more) for time on a shell at uunet or another isp... or buy your own for $$$.

A 250MHz Octane MXE with 128MB RAM and 4GB disk has a US list price of $47,995 in 1998. That's $72k in 2017 money. Making consistent technology stacks has reduced the cost to the point were we think very little about the hardware anymore - and by making those decisions unnecessary it has allowed for improved portability of skills and not worrying about the abstraction of the hardware (until it leaks).
You lived in a country that was under Party rule of an emulation of a Marxist-Leninist vanguard state which operated on the functions of private property, money and was clearly a class society, I'm guessing, unless you lived in revolutionary Catalonia.

I am currently living in a country that's still under capitalism and I'm experiencing how bad it is right now.
Nature of things unfortunately.

I did my internship at Nortel. A decade later and having worked from small shops to IBM and beyond, nothing comes close to the quality of people/code that I saw at Nortel.

From another perspective:

It is up to you to carry the torch now.
You can hold multiple people accountable, but I'm pretty sure Google should be less accountable than the outsourcing companies.

If you want to hold major companies accountable for the outsourcing companies they hire, fine, make a regulatory push for that, but you have to fix the outsourcing companies first before you can seriously argue for that or you're just making major companies pay for the problems of outsourcing companies.

Would you seriously argue for taxing people for buying from animal-cruel farms without actually doing anything to those animal-cruel farms?

That's the problem. Outsourcing companies are not FIRST in line to be fixed according to this article.
I'm the author. I'll be happy to hear your feedback on it :)
While this looks like a well developed feature, I despise the concept of coding in a phone interview too much to not worry about this enabling more of it just because it's more convenient.

Especially for research-heavy positions, the amount of nonsense exercises really makes or breaks a company impression for me.

case 1) Have a serious technical conversations with questions testing my understanding, asking about my projects, ideas and interests.

case 2) 3 minutes of smalltalk while the interviewer reads out some points from my CV so I can repeat them back. Then 'alright, let's do a coding exercise'. Learn nothing about the team, their process, their vision in the phone rounds.
If you consider rotary motion as wheels, there are some bacteria that have flagella that rotate to propel itself, complete with molecular bearings.

That said, biological evolution tends to get stuck on local maxima very easily (see convergent evolution of eyeballs), and wheels are kind of hard to evolve because of the difficulty of making large bearings biologically.

Not to mention wheels kind of suck unless you're on pavement (look at tanks, etc)
The flip side here is if the large company goes belly up - like Kodak did - the "outsourced janitor" might still keep their position at the company they are working for - they will end up working at another customer location.
> Isn't the root cause for the NK situation is that we don't have a peace treaty?

That plus the fact that China has been enabling NK long enough that now there is an actual problem without a clear or easy solution. Buffer states are useful because they allow for proxy wars rather than outright wars and as such NK served a useful purpose for China. But now the buffer state has become a big problem and this in turn may cause China to wish they had moved when they could have.

The peace treaty that could have come to pass between North and South Korea had a good chance of succeeding around the year 2000, GWB then totally killed any chance of that happening because of a perceived need for 'Evil' to be defined so there was a tangible enemy.

We all know how that ended up and today the chances of a peace between the two Korea's are about where they were in 1953, except that now the stakes are much, much higher.
Indeed, Wikipedia also defines it this way. Compiling from Nim to C is moving from a high-level of abstraction to a lower level and so Nim is a compiler.
There's really not much to know! If you find a good supported kernel on similar projects like LineageOS / CyanogenMod then you're already that much closer to a working device. The rest is packaging, testing and occasional patching.

As a general overview here's the documentation on how to go about porting a new device: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device

For anything else, come over to Matrix/IRC and you'll receive all the help you need :)
Fair enough. I think TypeScript enjoys some "protection" from the obvious complaints because it advertises itself as (and it is) "just JavaScript", with types. Therefore the complaints I often see about other languages compiling to JS are kind of moot or very easy to dismiss. For example "it eventually leaks JS" is dismissed as "yeah, duh! it is JS".

TBH I do not have too much contact with TS other than its type definitions, so the experience I describe may not be relevant to TypeScript. I have repeatedly seen it for languages that provide a different set of abstractions than JS, though.
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Well there's certainly is a well documented case for negligence:

"I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers." -Rasmus Lerdorf
I've always thought that the mechanics of Tetris are pretty straightforward and it is always possible to arrange incoming pieces without any gaps. The main difficulty for a human player is coming from the increasing speed, not the pieces not fitting together.
I disagree. Large wealthy companies are working hard to directly employ as few people as possible. Part of what they gain from this is the ability to pretend that the companies they hire to perform this "non-core" work are entirely separate black boxes. It would be embarassing to Apple to be treating their employees this way so they hire an outsourcing firm to do it for them.

As large companies, like Apple, race to shuffle employees to these companies in order to save money, everyone gets hurt but Apple. The money gets locked away from the middle class and Apple pretends that they don't have any full time positions that lack advancement opportunities and decent pay.
In DPRK, we say America is melting pot - All scum rise to top. In DPRK, we take out scum.
This is a non-story. There won't be any physical gold actually backing the Yuan or any fixed gold exchange rate. The same limitation applies to the oil contacts. The only change they're making is to allow gold trading denominated in Yuan in a couple of Chinese exchanges. You can already freely trade gold in every other major fiat currency so nothing new here. And if you buy a large quantity of gold with Yuan, good luck on taking delivery of physical metal and getting it out of the country.
> People will not stop trying to establish domination over one another.

That depends on where in the world you are looking. There are plenty of places where people are not trying establish domination over neighboring countries. That something is in our nature does not mean automatically that as a society we can not transcend those elements. In fact, almost all of society is an effort at transcending those elements.

We've come a long way in terms of organizing ourselves, we recognize that war is a 'means of last resort' and there are plenty of people who would not support wars of aggression.
This doesn't work so well anymore. There has been an influx of millions of coders.

You can do it, but why? It's easier to just go through the college grinder and pay off your loan over the next decade. Plus you might meet a cofounder.
Well, do you also remove the data from the backups, the backups of the backups, and any "probabilistic models generated from the data"? That’s the more interesting question.
The same year this was written, I received a contract to sign right in the middle of work. Oh oopsie! We meant to have you sign this before getting started! It was not an ordinary one page bi-directional NDA, or terms of service, or non-compete. It was a five page sprawling pile of crap: me indemnifying a multi-billion dollar company, a non-compete worded in a way that on strict reading I'd have no other customers, they own all IP conceived, produced, or derived.

I redlined pretty much four pages of the five page contract, and sent it back. That triggered an hour with their in-house lawyer were I proceeded to call the contract idiotic nonsense. Basically it was an hour of me saying, go fuck yourselves, because the contract wouldn't have let me say fucking sue me. It would have let me say uncle no matter what. It was that much of a one-way contract.

In retrospect, upon receiving the contract, it's clear it was gross incompetency and also possibly intended to scuttle the work in-progress and take ownership of what had been produced so far. It was a vindictive contract.

What I should have done, is publish the work with a sane research/education license (non-commercial), and published this stupid contract and outed the company and thrown them under the goddamn bus for trying to push me under one first. Dicks. 6 years later and that's what I regret not doing.
When we invade countries and depose leaders who threaten to trade oil on something other than the dollar, it's not exactly voluntary.
You are obviously a troll, but I'd like to point out that the U.S. military difficulties in the middle east are not for lack of military might, but for the retraints the U.S. places on its military power to retain moral and ethical legitimacy in a post WW2 world.
If the U.S. instead decided that the lives of non-combatants in the middle east civilians mattered less than total dominance, any town harboring terrorists would be leveled flat with carpet bombs.
This is not an argument that the US military endeavors are always moral and ethical, as they are not, clearly. However, there is a far cry between what takes place in Afghanistan, and how, for example, Rome ensured the peace in their territories: Roads lined with crucifixes.
The download links at http://gunkies.org/wiki/Zork#Source_code are all broken.