skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Poorror Stories: True Adventures from Financially Destitute Times (2012)
How doesn't it matter? It's, for most employers, an 10-11 day difference.
Weapons!

It turns out if you want to blow up an asteroid coming your way, or at least nudge it off its course, lobbing some megatons of TNTs in its general direction is a lot harder than sending over some nukes.

Also, things put on top of nukes when they blow up go really high, really fast, even if they're heavy. So if you add a nuke chute to the back of your spaceship, and some mechanism for dampening the blow you can build some really awesome interplanetary transports. With enough nukes you can even go to other stars in more or less reasonable time frames!
Pineapple Fund Just Gifted $1M in Bitcoin to Internet Archive
eBay is probably closer than Amazon to that model. Amazon is more aiming for a consistent experience across their range and deemphasising the third parties you are buying some of that range from.
When I hit a wall in my early 30s, after a decade of testing and writing software, I went back to school and got a bachelors degree in CS. It has proven to be a good decision. It was not easy to manage the logistics, and it cost a small fortune in loans to maintain a family and mortgage through that, but it was worth it. I started out taking night classes at community college and eventually went back full time to finish up. If you just want to branch out a bit a mentor may help but this is such a broad field it’s hard to teach yourself all the basics, especially once you have financial pressures and need to keep working. Good luck!
That may be true, but the reported behavior is on desktop/laptop MacOS.
“Better for the planet” doesn't make sense; it's anthropomorphizing the Earth and projecting a value system—presumably the speakers, but they might fantasize the Earth as having a different one of its own—onto it.
Major "AAA" games are C++, C# is used because of Unity but behind the scene it's C++. Also Unity is popular in mobile but not that much in console games.
"The problem is that nuclear weapons are too attractive to powers with weaker conventional militaries."

They are attractive to everyone. Note that the 2 biggest nuclear powers also have the most powerful conventional militaries.

Nuclear weapons arguably did end full scale war as we know it and the 'cold war' is not over, it's just thawed.

WW2 ended due to them basically - and Korea was stalemated when Eisenhower demonstrated artillery based nukes as a 'signal' to the Chinese.

Korea was the last 'real war' - since then it's been smaller scale stuff, insurgencies, smaller nations fighting, NATO overruns (Iraq, Libya, etc.).

It will take another 50-100 years to denuclearize.

The only way to stand-down is to create a framework wherein there is reasonable assurance of balance of power.

You can see North Korea's push to nuclearize is actually fairly rational survival strategy. Once they are fully there, they are too dangerous to fight. I'm not saying I agree, I'm saying it's a reasonably rational move for a self-interested entity.

As for 'ban' - who 'bans'? There is not international power than can ban this stuff. The UN? Where is the UN's army to enforce the ban? See what I mean? ...
Tiananmen Massacre – Tank Man: The 1989 Chinese Student Democracy Movement
Nobody said it's easy. But the last fifty years or so are the first time period were the chances of a successful defense are bigger than zero. We have top men working on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_avoidance
...Or a Delaware corporation as a vehicle to avoid taxes ;)
I'm a supervisor at UPS. Luckily, our center had plenty of drivers.. although I did have to come in on my day-off today.
An incorruptible ledger resistant to the control of any individual, corporation, or state. Bitcoin may fail in its implementation of this goal. The future is still to be determined.

Bitcoin's underlying technology creates the possibility of decentralized governance, starting with currency, which is the connecting link between actors in societies based on economy.

Why such a future might be beneficial to mankind is that banking and finance being controlled by a few has led to errors with systemic consequences.

See the 2008 financial crisis and hyperinflation in Venezuela and Zimbabwe. See the seizure of funds by governments from individuals in Greek and Cyprus, scenarios where many of the affected did not write their own doom (others wrote it for them).
The US did not topple Gaddafi. He was in the midst of civil war when NATO did some intervention, mostly led by UK and France.

Gulf Arab states on the ground hunted him down, it was Qatari forces that likely killed him.

The US did some drones, AWACS and coordination, but to suggest it was the US is not quit fair.
Speaking as a recent parent and having known recent parents I can tell you that having family (your parents and in-laws) close by is worth tens of thousands of dollars a year in child care costs, and you should count your blessings if you can rely on it.
Wow, that article only gets worse. It's actually weird that one of the takeaways of the top-level article is that people were surprised to find sexual harassment/assault at a "young, hip" company like Vice. But looking at this kind of content one has to expect it to be much worse at Vice than at "traditional, old-school" companies.
What happened to your remote company?
Doki Doki Panic: the Strange Truth Behind Super Mario Bros. 2 (2007)
No. Also: Yes.

Really? It depends. Its use is massively widespread, and will be for, at minimum, the next decade (or two). So, it is a very marketable skill. But it's not as "hot" or (for my very subjective viewpoint)"fun" to write.

So: It depends. On goals, on preferences, on you.
Java is worth learning. It'll take you a few days or weeks to get comfortable.

It may not be worth getting good at it, unless it's purely a way to get a job at a big company.

Brightest futures seem to be Python (for data science and AI), Rust, Elm, Kotlin, Go, maybe F#, and probably Swift.
" Even ignoring the logical absurdity this would require, the simple fact is that nuclear war nearly happened on many occasions as a result of various misadventures, and it was a matter of pure dumb luck that it didn't."

No - this is false.

It was the existential and immense nature of the consequences of war that enabled the parties to 'back down'.

Without nukes - the US and USSR would have likely started a bunch of scuffles here and there.

There's a great chance that US/USSR navies duked it out over Cuba - because the consequences would have been likely very limited - unless they escalated of course.

Yes, we were lucky that it didn't go down as well, but nukes have been a huge factor in keeping the war basically cold..

"some less risky peace-building efforts" - there is really no such thing. 'Balancing Power' is what creates peace for the most part.
A bummer that VM’s were used. I have used packet.net to provision bare metal servers for the purposes of benchmarking. The server specs are close to the same servers techempower uses as well.
Autocorrect on the iPhone has gotten noticeably worse in the last year or so, often ‘correcting’ words that were spelled correctly to words that make no sense.
you are my favorite person on the internet
They've almost certainly designed their cores from scratch.
That lot used to house the old WSJ office. Which I find poetic given that the journal was the one that broke the Theranos story.
It's going to feel like a certain long German word when we replace those people with robots.
How many different models of scanners have they made over the years?
Kilroy Realty purchased the property in January along with an adjacent property for $130m. Stanford owns the land and does long term ground leases.
For those interested, I saw the funnel stuff here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enj1FGoYwg&feature=youtu.be...
compare this to your average retail job, where not only do you get zero paid vacation, and you get your schedule, if you are lucky, a week ahead.

As far as I can tell, this holds in the middle, too; I do okay, but I don't get paid like a very profitable broker, and I don't get four weeks vacation (not usually, anyhow... it is pretty easy for me to quit and get another job, of course, but that usually results in less of a raise than going from having a job to having another job.)

My point is just that there's a pretty strong correlation between getting paid more and being treated better in other ways. It's not an absolute correlation, certainly; but the fact that the man had four weeks off and had a job to come back to, I think, supports my assertion more than the fact he got criticized for taking it all at once detracts from it.
Seattle has a lot of land-use faults but I actually kind of like the recent "shopping center" trend here. Next to Northgate Mall (a traditional, sprawling, flat mall with huge parking areas) are two multi-story retail buildings. All of the usual chain stores, save Barnes and Noble, are in them. Target, Best Buy, a movie theater, Petco, a sporting goods store, and so on. If we build more like that and less like Northgate or Westwood Village, I'd be happy.

(As for actually going into the stores, I do rather often mostly because ordering online has turned into such a mess for me. Having the stores "stacked" like that makes them a lot more convenient to manage.)
Exactly. And not just one, each partner had a battalion of them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
As for writing software, you basically have no choice but to use tooling IBM has support for.

Is that really the case now? Even back in the 1980s, other software publishers made great tools and compilers for OS/MVS mainframes. Boole and Babbage's Resolve did a lot of cool stuff, including giving you the mainframe equivalent of "su" right down to the TSO terminal level. And we didn't even use IBM compilers; Capex had optimized compilers with great system dump formatting.
It's an example of "storing a problem" - a person enjoys doing a type of work or solving a type of problem, so they save that work for later, or subconsciously extend the work. In this way, they can always solve their favorite problems. Sometimes these are side projects.
The Consultant's Grain
Get that job at Google (2008)
This is great! Any chance you have the source code for this handy somewhere?

Edit: Never mind, found it linked from your blog!

For anyone else looking: https://github.com/akras14/eznews/blob/master/index.php

Nice work!
I've never understood why autocorrect is enabled by default on Macs, which have precise, physical keyboards.
Let's not forget that they changed the interviewer's words to mean the exact opposite. Even though they could hardly have been considered a serious news organisation at that time, who wants to read an interview in which answers were changed so drastically?
Do you think this form of communication makes HN a better place?
Being a consultant is marketing, there is no way to be an engineering consultant. Engineers work for consultants, not as consultants.

If you want to make the big bucks, you have to do what businesses care about, not what you care about.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-revenge/

Because it's not a distraction.

...well...the UFOs thing is...
Sounds like obscure anime.
It's not Latin or Greek, it's specifically designed technical terminology.
There's some big Belgian bank that runs or ran Informix; they tried to recruit me back then.
Well,

The way I read the article, apparently copies do exist of all or most of the documents.

Putting the rest together is going to be like making a
patchwork quilt out of scraps. Fortunately, annotated
indexes of the Packard and Hewlett—box by box, folder
by folder—exist, with copies stored on a variety of
computers, both personal and corporate.

So the problem is that these are piecemeal copies scattered around the various pieces of HP.
In this case, perception is reality. If the rest of the world thinks Gaddafi was toppled because he gave up his nukes, then it’s true. At least as far as the decision to pursue a nuclear program. It’s certainly what North Korea thinks.
Semantics for this discussion - the library used is for both spellchecking and autocorrection.
It seems you both are correct... And that's where the problem originates
Ask HN: Why to invest in Cryptocurrency?
Hello,

I want to invest in Cryptocurrency to make money.

Why you would invest?
Melatonin is useful for people who can't get to sleep.

It's not so useful for people who wake up during the night, and it's not at all useful for people who wake early.

Your lack of understanding of insomnia is causing you to massively over-simplify, which is probably really fucking annoying to people who've lived with insomnia for years and gone through good quality medical and psychological treatments.
You have to look at crime rates in the specific area where you live, because they are all over the place and sometimes vary from street to street. Certainly you wouldn’t say that all California neighborhoods are equal in this regard. The area I live in (in Nevada) is upscale and has a violent crime rate more than 50% below the national average.
I'm not talking about higher order functions. I'm just talking about regular old dispatch, like in C++.
I just watched this on Amazon Prime—it was better than I thought it would be. They restored a lot of old footage.
https://www.amazon.com/Bomb/dp/B013HOZG36
I understand, that's what I meant when I said "the first of such programs" because there has been a good bit of evolution in the scene.

But Treemaker remains notable for being the first of its kind.

In a lot of ways, papercraft is an easier problem to solve than origami. Pepakura Designer is still a cool project and makes me wish I were more into papercraft than origami.

The link you provided could really use some screenshots so I could compare its feature set to others at a glance
10 years? Try again, even if you are burning 200k a year you can do it in 5 1/2 years.
> You are correct in that WillPostForFood other poster is mentioning rap culture

Huh? He literally said "black rap culture", not simply "rap culture" as you deliberately omitted in your reply. More than half of the top 10 rappers on the I-Tunes charts right now are white, and there is a huge section of the black community that is extremely critical of rap culture, there is also a large selection of rap music outside of the mainstream that explicitly rejects these themes, yet WillPostForFood insists on characterizing misogyny in rap as "black rap culture" rather than accept the criticism that there is a little more nuance to the topic than "black people are to blame for this, don't let them off the hook, it's their culture!".

> Perhaps you're simply uncomfortable discussing the topic, which is common.

Perhaps you're simply condescending and dismissive.
Woah, my story is almost the same as yours except I started out in iOS games and what not at about 27 compare to your 25 then moved to backend stuff around 30 to get away from being stuck in Apple only world and now I'm managing a 10 person team at 34 for a multi million dollar website after being a key player in scaling them up beyond any thing possible before I got there. 27 years old wasn't exactly a clean start at programming for me though I was buying books on it since I was 12 "c,c++,java" not that I always understood pointers much until I really dug into building things with iOS but like I said that was a bit of tunnel vision for my future, go full stack and read about everything all the time.
Surface area by height (1 to 10 metres) is volume. Of course, if one doesn't know that specific idea then one might be stuck. The volume of land ice can be assumed to be sufficient by the scenarios given. As far as ice expansion is concerned, not really relevant for a first approximation for the energy required as it is relatively small.
Wintercroft has a great collection of plans for these for anyone looking for some premade plans:

https://wintercroft.com
Are you sure your information is up to date? 'Cause I'm pretty sure that's not an issue anymore.
The State of Design Bla bla bla bla blaaa
Same. Moved out to Oakland, I can easily get studios and 1Bdrm apt's (they cannot fill my condo). Takes me 20mins to get into work on BART.

I don't like the term "Fake News" because journalism is alive and strong today, but the media certainly has its narratives and loves picking and choosing stories. The reality is just a lot more boring.
Default autocorrect is only part of the issue. The more important problem is that it doesn't correct medication names to some odd word combination, like fluoxetine -> flu oxen time, but to another medication.

And you can't just not have those names in there by default. They have to be either blacklisted or installed at once, and that list must be updated regularly indefinitely. Adding a few choice medication names means those words become candidates for a number of other 'misspellings', so you need ALL the possible drug names to prevent correction from another (correct) drug to the newly added (incorrect) one.

Of course the dark path behind this is that a drug company can pay keyboard/spell check makers an incentive to autocorrect to their drugs. You typed "Lipitro". Did you mean "Zocor"?
hi @ndrewxie. who are u and what is ur underlying purpose ?
what's ur background ?
Baruch Plan
With good lighting (I used sunlight on a dinner table) you don't even have to worry about camera shake from a handheld phone. I got sharp pictures every time.
In theory, but it's hard to punish a criminal in a minor crime when the victim doesn't want to cooperate.

So the end result again feels pretty similar.
The travelling salesman problem in its classic formulation simply wants the shortest path. But there can be other optimization goals like minimum fuel consumption, which might favor dropping off heavier packages first. Or perhaps minimum total time spent, which entails considering the dynamic traffic conditions like Google Maps or Waze does.

Even in the classic problem, there is of course a crucial step of first using a Floyd–Warshall like algorithm to figure out the distances between your destinations.
As in you investigate why their employers couldn't retain their talent?

The way employers view "job hoppers" says a lot about the work place culture, speaking from experience on both sides and both philosophies. (One philosophy solely faulting the employee, the other philosophy recognizing the current state of the industry)
Yes, the TFA is about a laptop from a maker who popularized autocorrect on smartphones. In the early days, spellcheck was an application-level concern, but its presence in smartphone platforms as an OS-level service made them part of user and developer expectations.

Nowadays, macOS, Windows, and Chrome OS all come with built-in spellcheck, with various levels of default autocorrect.
*capture value
It became a mess as Phil White ran the place into the ground.

Sadly, he never would have been brought in but for the financial disaster that was Informix's acquisition of Innovative Software; the resulting financial stress necessitated "new upper management with Wall Street credibility". Hence came Phil White and his minions, and the rest is a sad history.
Are you talking about the packing problem or the traveling salesmen problem? Both are NP. Though so is k-means and we can still do a good job with stochastic search.
Now I get it why there was a comment on another thread about a cross thread commenting war with you. This is funny.

But let's say, that 20 minutes if you look up the information yourself and you are slow about it, 5 minutes if given the starting point. Of course if you cannot use a calculation device other than pencil/pen and paper (or blackboard and chalk) then it might take you longer.

I have the calculations sitting in spreadsheet on my machine and I have emails to various people with those calculations, but as you are unable to spend 5 minutes doing, I can't expect you to spend 5 minutes reading.
IBM was started with the idea that "International Business Machines" was a nicer name than "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company".
Free space OAM communications perhaps?
+1 for CoCalc! It's great to see the number of notebook hosting services flourish.
Omg, I wish I had like 1/10 of her talent.
...and hopefully they also salvage as much as they can from the remains of the fire --- paper is flammable, but from what I've read, densely-packed documents can char on the outside but remain intact on the inside, since the carbonised layer can act as an effective protective insulator.

(Anyone who has tried to roast thick pieces of meat may have seen the same effect --- burnt on the outside, but bloody raw on the inside.)
> "But as our economy continues to circle the drain, will Americans part with their beloved toilet paper in order to adopt more money-saving measures? Or will we keep flushing our cash away?"

written in 2009, so I guess we know that yeah, we will continue using toilet paper. Though more are using flush-able wipes
It's been an IBM property for 15 years.
I did the same thing. Times are good now, but they were not in 2001, or 2009, and having a degree helps. even saying you're halfway through your CS degree helps.

I was working and took one class a week, at nights and/or on weekends. This was not all that bad because even if it went slowly, I really learned each subject well and got high marks.

At one point I got laid off, and went full-time on my severance, unemployment and savings. When unemployment ran out I got a low paying, part time consulting gig (and cut my classes from 5 a semester to 4 and then 3).

After class or office hours with your CS professors helps. They often know a lot.

Also, there are projects out there like this - https://github.com/danielgindi/Charts . It is in iOS, an OS you know. There are plenty of open issues, and there are plenty of pull requests that have been accepted. It is a pretty popular library, so the devs with commit access probably (although not necessarily) know what they're doing. I'm sure they'd appreciate you jumping in and looking through the issues and seeing if you can solve one of the problems. Then you send it in and see what they say. As you become familiar with the project, you can watch how they handle issues and write code, and will learn more.

That's just one project that might be up your alley, there are many more.
depends on your definition of "career".
there's nothing preventing you from getting to a senior architect/staff engineer/senior consultant etc type level working from home.

if your goal is to be an actual manager (not to be confused with a PM) then yea wfh can impact that prospect. most companies I've dealt with (not all though) explicitly required anyone who had direct reports under them to either be in the office every day or at least be located within a reasonable distance from the office and come in couple of days a week.
No disagreement from me that that policy was absolutely shameful. But it falls a ways short of "successive insanely excessive right wing governments", at least for me.
Looks interesting! The trusted oracle part seems concerning as a single point of failure but I suppose it’s necessary.
Right now it isn’t easy or hard, it’s impossible. We probably have the tech, but it would need to be ready to launch on detection. Worse, we have shit detection.

So yes, in theory we could divert some impactors, but in practice right now? No. Nukes don’t help either.
Can you mention if you actually receive it? Some others were complaining that they never actually got their print subscriptions.
So the risk and form that the payment stream takes (ie. bond coupons are different from rental property income) might both be $100 for example, but if someone is overindexed in real estate in their portfolio, there may be more value to them in the bond?
You lost me at the end there. The current generation is on Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, Xbox Live/Steam/PSN... why would screen names on a dating site throw them off?