skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't speak for most devs with a side project, but for me specifically, market validation and marketing don't feel like real work. I know it's real work and it's necessary work, but they don't feel like it. They feel like goofing off on the internet without the fun. I don't get the immediate gratification of posting on Hacker News or the satisfaction of coding up a new feature.

Then there's the added fear of being really bad at a new skill. It doesn't help that the iteration cycle of market validation and marketing is extremely long compared to programming. You could be screwing up for months and not have enough clear data to know you're screwing up.

To clarify, this is not me complaining. I realize I need to get over everything I've listed, press forward and learn a new (lucrative!) skill. But I can't be the only dev who feels this way about marketing.
Lots of servers run Linux. Lots of data to hold ransom on lots of servers running Linux.
This sounds very interesting as another metric (like weight on a scale, as you put it) for someone trying to be conscious about their health. Is this something that a person could do cheaply at home with over-the-counter diabetic testing supplies? Could you be more specific or link to something about a protocol for e.g. measuring the effect of a meal on blood glucose and how to interpret those results?
Wouldn't driving down interest rates at that point have pumped up the housing bubble even more back then?

Ultimately there's only so much you can do with interest rates.
If you dig this you should check out the DEFCON YouTube channel. Deviant Ollum, who’s mentioned in the article, has done several incredibly fascinating conference talks about his exploits doing physical penetration testing. And that’s just the tip of the ice burg.

Warning: this is a multi-hour rabbit hole. https://www.youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference
Oof. No, farming them for meat means breeding them which practically guarantees their escape into the wild as an invasive pest.

I could see the argument for keeping a fixed one as a pet because there's no risk if a fixed one escapes... But even then, that would still create cottage industry of breeding them, and that's bad.
I meet your age limit so I hope I can ask why is it a problem to have ethnic enclaves? Are they not doing fine in their own communities living their own lifestyles?
3 Countries Considering Launching Their Own State Backed Cryptocurrency
Fake news. There is no virus on Linux..
Still,

(1) Having easy access to the last several generations' literature is very nice!

(2) Knowing the modern form of the language is often a huge help to learning the ancient form, so losing native proficiency in modern languages would still be a hindrance to understanding older texts.

(3) People can try to slow down language change in order to at least slightly reduce the magnitude of this effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_planning
Any sufficiently advanced scientist is indistinguishable from a magician
Most people don’t understand Pair Programming. Most people don’t understand most Agile/XP practices though.

They will often write lengthy blog posts about how said practices don’t work while also illustrating they never did them well in the first place though.
Another aspect to consider is how many languages a learner already speaks. Mandarin is far from simple but I'm having a relatively smooth ride learning it as my L6.
Not to mention noscript breaks well over half the web for most folks. Very few people have a web experience primarily serviced by plain text.
A shame. For vegetarians/vegans they're one of the few pets that can be nice, social animals and don't have to eat meat. A pet would be fixed, so there's no risk of escape into the wild... But pets have to be bred so the risk is still there.

Maybe some system where rabbits could be certified as "imported fixed" and tagged as such? So only intact animals could be legally imported?
Because it’s not. Comparatively within Washington, sure...but nowhere near Oakland, South Chicago, Baltimore, Compton. I grew up in Stockton CA and while I live in Seattle now, Tacoma still feels like a pretty nice blue collar town to me.
Also in Esperanto (volapukaĵo; kind of harsh toward a fellow IAL, I think).
Linux ransomware has been around since the fall of 2015. Nothing special, mate.
In which case you just roll them back to a pre-infection state, since you have history.
Michelle Mone Selling $250M Property Estate in Dubai for Bitcoin
As a developer, my laptop could blow up at any point and I’d lose very little of importance. Maybe an hours worth of work at most.

My real concern would be them grabbing secrets, not losing any data.
Bitcoin Donations to Mozilla: 17 Days in (Reduced total amount of donations)
Old English is a fairly poor example because it was basically replaced by another language through conquest.

While languages do evolve, it's a gradual process and they remain understandable for centuries. Shakespeare, Dante and Goethe are quite understandable to speakers of modern English, Italian and German. A speaker of Spanish or Italian can learn to read Latin texts even now with relatively little study. When the language of Julius Caesar is separated from modern Italian by 2000 years, the change process was so gradual that culture of the Roman Empire is still very visible in modern societies. That is not comparable to, for example, Mesoamerian cultures that were wiped out in a shorter period of time.
This view seems harsh to me because it seems to treat languages and cultures as 100% interchangeable. I can imagine what you described as an extremely important factor for many people, but you seem to view it as the only possible factor.

(I'm currently at a crossword puzzle tournament in a foreign language in a foreign country, when I could of course find many such tournaments in my own country... so I guess I've been spending the whole weekend enjoying an experience of appreciating a foreign language in a way that's in some tension with what you describe.)
Do we know who wrote this or at least which city agency? Or was it done by consultants or acquired?
Yes, aeleos was interested in that, and so am I, and it seems to be what this entire thread _should be about_. kndyry steered back towards AlphaGo. I'm not sure this merits any further disection.
Your chart shows that velocity of BTC is the same as velocity of USD M2. Is USD not a medium of exchange by this logic?

Bitcoin is a replacement precisely for M2 (base money + deposits), because with a fractional reserve deposits are as much usable as a medium of exchange, as the base.
Phones were owned by the phone companies and leased out to people, so of course they wanted to make the most durable phones sets.
At a certain point it becomes kind of pointless, as a suborbital rocket starts to make more sense than a hypersonic aircraft.
The whole point of security and good practices is to make harder for those arbitrary codes to be executed (or for whatever other flaws to be exploited, until they're fixed). Running a browser as root is not good practice. Doesn't mean that something bad will happen, but it's more or less line laying the cheese on the ground and expecting mice not to go after it. Even if you have none around, you just shouldn't risk it. At all. Unless you know exactly what you're doing.
One man's hate symbol is another man's freedom of expression.

https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/pepe-t...

If Twitter really bans Pepe the Frog I expect a huge backlash. Whatever mechanism exists to get some symbol recognized as a hate symbol will be exploited by trolls: The Twitter bird itself could be saying some very nasty stuff soon.

Unwanted sexual advances is also a slippery slope. Twitter is already banning/muting users that make sexual advances to a company mascotte: Tony the Tiger. So I can't imagine how this will look like in "real life".

About the hateful names, what exactly would this be targeting? Are "jewgoldstein" or "(((they)))know" hateful ban-able names?

I don't have a verified logo next to my name, nor can I write 280 character Tweets, so I don't have much to lose if these new rules turn out to be draconic. All the hate groups (think lowest of low: harassing family of suicide victims), all the violence, all the glorification of terrorist attacks: It is mostly water under the bridge by now, and posturing. The large number of bots and users guarantees that this will be some ML algorithm with a few false positives, that won't have much of a voice for you to care about it.
What are you, a park ranger now?
Sure, I can imagine it in red.
Good list of apps https://www.copblock.org/apps/
I've experienced this a lot (with myself, but especially with some hyperpolyglot friends who are or have been conversational in over 7 languages), and I'm kind of curious which way the causality runs!

My intuition is to believe myself and others when we say that "knowing about more ways things can work" in languages makes it smoother to learn and assimilate new ones. But I also wonder if there could be an effect of "people who enjoy learning languages enjoy learning languages"?
It is fortunately legal to hunt and eat them everywhere in Australia.
Running NoScript is a real eye-opener, even if you don't stick with it, because the about of bullshit that is pulled down from visiting a common website is incredible.
> If you count the number of transactions, then yes there's a lot in the mid-market range.

Do you have a source for this? And is it specific to Seattle?

> But most of that is buying and selling presales; it doesn't affect the supply, because it's not eating up any housing units which actually exist.

I'm not sure this follows. If a Seattle resident would have been willing to buy a presale (to ultimately live in), but it is instead bought by a foreign investor, then the resident has a smaller pool of housing to choose from.
As a meta-observation, I think this is a great thread which includes a lot of relatively respectful, informed discussion about somewhat controversial topics... and not a lot of flames so far. That makes it a great opportunity to upvote comments that you disagreed with but found interesting.
A Nokia 3310 didn't have an 8 inch piece of glass on the front of it.
Subject not super meaningful.
Basically showing a tiny "Donate with Bitcoin" text below a donation form, to a randomized group of people, reduced total amount of donations by 7.5% in comparison to the other group.
The comments at mozilla.org are also worthy to read.
The extraordinary silliness of American college grading
Why was the stack implemented as a linked list? Could this be turned into a block allocated array to improve cache locality (get rid of an entire int). 64%8 = 0 so you won't have any alignment issues. You'd also avoid doing free() on every loop.

On a more general note if you're using the stack to queue up subsequent computation why not just opt for tail-recursion which will be optimized out?

Also why are you using f2py rather than just writing a C module? [0]

[0] - https://csl.name/post/c-functions-python/
Damn, I was hoping for an api for user to user communication. Looks great for bots though.
Except for the first #3 (counting is hard) I agree with all of these.

I just don't think it's practical to reissue millions upon millions of SSNs. We need a more permanent and secure system than SSN entirely.
Related: Speaking of word origins, here's a fun example.

How a Mistake Gave Us the Word 'Cherry'[+]:

[quote]

The Old North French word for 'cherry' is 'cherise'. English speakers heard the 'se' at the end of the word and assumed it was plural, 'cherries', and that the singular form of the word must then be 'cherry' (ok, they spelled it 'chery').

[/quote]

The Merriam-Webster article mentioned below goes into some more depth & gives other examples.

[+] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/cherry-history...
The Plan 9 compilers work exactly like this, every compile is a cross-compile. It's extremely convenient because you can do all of your builds on your really fast machine for all of your other machines or if you're using a slow machine. It's one of the reasons I can live happily with a raspberry pi as one of my main workstations. All you need to do to build for a different target is change $objtype.
Of note: the Mayo Clinic uses the process mentioned in the article for the final disposition of donated bodies.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/body-donation/biocremation-resoma...
The idea for the electronic spreadsheet
Here is a slightly different perspective from having grown up here and attending University here blah blah etc.

The perception of the gentrification/growth is somewhat determined by socioeconomic class. I don't know if change like this is good or bad (many people would say it's neither). My seattle-born friends who don't earn much feel like it is to blame for their possible need to move, and difficulty enjoying their life when they have to increasingly worry about money.

My friends who earn a good amount in non-tech (but can still live where they want) are sort of just dazed and awestruck by the whole transformation but mostly okay, if not a bit cynical about it.

And people like my brother and me who have STEM degrees are just trying to keep our heads down, and benefit financially if and before things here boil over.
Becoming a new work won't be the same as in the original culture, just yet another case of lost in translation.

You might translate saudade to mean home sick, missing someone, missing a place, missing an event, not being able to do something, feeling blue, among a few other possibilities.

However none of them actually express 100% the same meaning as a native Portuguese speaker might be feeling when he/she says that word, because there is a mix of feelings and situations related in that single word.

Or for example, the ways an Eskimo might describe a frozen landscape.
Is any sufficiently primitive magician a scientist?
Adobe products used to run the credits during application startup.
I think the thing that affected me the most is trying to solve all of the problems with ever more code and cleverness. I actually think the less code you have as a startup the better, I suppose this is a small expansion of "Do things that don't scale". Avoid writing code.
It will come back as WebAssembly.
Your observation is valid, but there can sometimes be quite a bit of angst and suffering in this process, both when parents choose not to pass on heritage languages (that their children wish had been passed on) and when children choose not to speak heritage languages (that their parents wish they'd continued to speak). I've experienced this within my own family and heard about it very often in other families -- even where the languages in question aren't endangered in the least!

Sometimes the parents or children involved found this to be quite a hard and quite a stressful decision, and the people on the other side of the generation gap don't always feel entirely comfortable with the decision.

But you're right to point out that this doesn't have to involve any sort of coercion or compulsion; it's often just people making choices about what they think is best for their own families at a given point in time.
HTML has become a presentation layer, it keeps evolving, and is too constraining to write blogs.
Librestd: a library to create C++ RESTful API services
You might be interested in that self-mummification process that some Zen monks in Japan used to do.
Firefox has some sandboxing on Linux, though it's quite recent.
> This is so paranoid as to be absurd. Your contention is that an article in an obscure literary magazine about an author from 100 years ago is to be used as a means of distraction about this scandal? This article stands approximately zero chance of diverting the news cycle in the least way, and its 'collution is not a bad thing' line as you describe it has no relevance to Clinton, because it's explicitly about the powerless, not the powerful.

My contention is nothing of the sort. I do not believe this article could be or was intended to be a distraction or diversion. I'm also unsure of how you extrapolated that. It is, as you say, an obscure literary magazine.

The main relevant takeaway is that I believe a significant portion of the readers of this article - or just the headline - could walk away with the association of 'collusion with Russia might not be so bad'. That's it. You could add the parameter for "power", as you describe, but I believe enough of the reader population will abstract that away, and simply recall the simpler association.

I also provide context on why this association may be more valuable to have, for certain parties.

What I think you could say is "absurd" is how my original comment consisting of: a correction to another user's comment, my summary of the article, and relevant points of context has been treated. It appears at the bottom of the page, below a comment with the full content being "Yawn, this is really getting old and tiring, I didn't really there were so many bigots on hn.", with text slightly darker than the near-white text of that comment, and mine is the only comment that is hidden or collapsed by default. I'm unsure of how Hacker News text shading and comment visibility is set, but are my statements not relevant to the article at hand? I was here for meaningful discussion. (For that last question, Brakenshire, I don't expect you to reply.)
It is quite common among normal users trying to use more secure OSes.

Not sure if this is still a thing, but I remember Apple forums used to have people asking how to do that.
Yes, although I'm not an emacs user.

I've been trying to pick a "meta language", eventually given up but I cannot remember why, I need to pick it up again.
Could you cite any resources so I could learn more about these points you brought up?

Particularly I am interested in the trends you related to, and also the effect of a minimum wage.

I would be interested in any economists who could also elucidate how capitalism tends to sort out these economic "bubbles"

Thank you
Importing animals of any type into Australia isn't easy since they don't have many of the diseases on other continents, nor would they likely ever approve this for non-native species.

Rabbits are a huge problem in regards to protecting the native marsupials.

Australia's attitude towards rabbits is completely different than areas where they're native because they are such pests.
For much more on this, with many other examples, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_etymology
Ask HN: Why tech companies haven't changed their Benefits yet?
Working from home, better health care benefits, flexible hours and more vacation days (versus unlimited time off). These are all the benefits people are really looking for in 2017. Why are companies still offering free beer on tap, in-house yoga room, hipster coffee bar and unlimited time off instead of the benefits mentioned above?
I think that this really does teach something valuable about social media and what humans actually are. I think we are seeing the death of Social Media here, at least in its current shape. One hopes that some technologist will learn some lessons from this and build something better.

Of course, I'm just a youngster and some of you oldies would just be seeing history repeated, I guess, but what I have in mind is the truly global nature of societies and peoples.
I love how the article switches between OxyContin and opioids throughout the article, particularly when talking about deaths. It's a clever way to include drugs like heroin, fentanyl, etc in the numbers to inflate them and make the story more gripping.

Of course it's silly to hold OxyContin's manufacturer responsible for all opioid deaths.
Yeah, nowadays they do, but it was the first example that came to mind because I definitely used F-Droid for this purpose back before they did.
Cemeteries are also places where people's remains could eventually leak into the water table.
A fascinating profile of a poet with whose work I was not familiar. Thanks for posting it!

If you were also unfamiliar with Bishop and would like to read some of her works, the Poetry Foundation has a bunch of her poems online here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop
Privacy practices of "Swipe Left: Privacy Practices of Online Dating Apps":

After clicking on this article, Google, Facebook and LinkedIn will know that you are interested in the privacy practices of online dating apps.

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use:

Facebook collects user data to create profiles that...

Google...

LinkedIn...

Data Retention:

Facebook...
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--Sending HTTP requests to Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn results in the collection of this metadata and possibly data by your national and possibly foreign government surveillance organizations...

---Data retention by your national surveillance organization...:
There's an eco-friendly cremation process that was developed within the past two decades, where the body is flash-frozen using liquid nitrogen, and then pulverized into powder with vibration. Whatever happened to that? I'm finding articles on it from 1997, but it looks like it never gained much popularity.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-burial-machine-that-...
Ask HN: How do you onboard new developers?
I know of several companies struggling to find the right approach to onboard new developers.

Should new developers learn the architecture and patterns used first? Should they start by doing some tests? Should they start by doing bug fixing? Or perhaps, start by developing a new feature?
How Data Visualization of Sperm Led to a Scientific Breakthrough
Short take: this is adapted from ‘The Case Against Sugar’ by Gary Taubes, a science writer who's been a long-standing campaigner against dietary carbohydratesa and sugar'.
> Individually, I'm sure there's plenty to be proud of. But as a group, they did a lot of terrible and evil things extremely well.

You could say the same for many of the"anti-war" movement. Individually there was a lot of concern and desire to do the right thing, but the context of the Vietnam war was it was also a civil war, and many people in Vietnam wanted to fight back against communists who had been doing some pretty awful things. So collectively, there was some undermining of resistance to them, and which also resulted in millions? of refugees and hundreds of thousands in life loss after the war.
This is why I wish people took mandatory access control more seriously. But to make it really pervasive and useful you need something like what Android has, where the file format mandates MAC profiles for the app. Even Red Hat cannot maintain SELinux profiles for every package in every repo, and even then third parties would complain about having to write the profiles just for RHEL / Fedora packages.

It is something the entire ecosystem would have to, at once, agree to make happen, and then standardize mandated MAC profiles in every package format. So basically never.