skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't make sense as a motivation, though, because they followed those regulations anyways. They ran it in Canada every single year. Heck, last year they customized it by renaming all of the pieces after Canadian landmarks [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonald%27s_Monopoly#Rare_pie...
The entire soda and junk food industry makes its money by lying to children to instill bad habits as they grow into indults.
Inducing People’s Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong
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"Throwing together" anything using anything is not really that hard, but understanding the problem, making trade-offs with limited time and budget, writing maintainable and well-tested code, making something easy to use, accessible, efficient... these are all very difficult to pull off regardless of whether you're building a CRUD site or not.

I would also disagree that the web dev learning curve is not that steep... sure to get something to "compile" (well, show up on the screen) is stupid easy (<p>Hello world</p>)... but to actually make a functional, usable, performant, efficient, accessible, beautiful site or app requires managing a lot of complexity across a bewildering amount of environments and tools.
> True story: VCs specialising in funding blockchain projects told a dev team "You guys are building a proper business, that's great but it means it won't 100x in a short period, so isn't really what we're after".

Sounds like that VC firm knows what VC is, and would correctly give that answer regardless of specialization. Nothing to do with blockchain.
Used Kodak archive writers cost about $30K (not a typo) are quite large, the modular cassettes for film cost about $1K each, film reloads for each cassette cost about $10 each, a roll of film holds like "ten thousand" images, and the machine can burn an image in about one second. All varying by factors of perhaps four depending on individual model. They eat PDF and TIFF (fax) files, also others. Fundamentally its "just a printer". Theoretically a completely hands-off lights-out machine, much like theoretically a laser printer never needs hand-holding... of course laser printers are mfgr'd "fire and forget" whereas the kodak archive writers service contract was something like $5K/yr.

Part of the problem is the target market; this was at a financial services company where the supplier knew they could charge pretty much anything they wanted and it would get passed along as a tiny fraction of the end user customer contract cost. If a $100M financial services contract involves a $5K service contract for some obscure accounting thingy no one really cares. Given that situation is similar to pre-consumer era 3-d printing, I figure a really smart hacker who doesn't care about reproducible results or speed or reliability could squirt something out for a tenth the costs; but even at a tenth, thats still going to be "laser cutter" like costs. Film is never cheap; high res film is gonna be worse, just how it is.
Let's go to slide #2 then-- Scihub. They take Bitcoin which they ostensibly use to pay for the servers that serve up the science journals.

Do we need time to tell if Scihub is a noble cause?
Personal attacks aren't allowed here. Please don't do this again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I kinda want one on my desktop machine now. There's a simple beauty to a button that can slow your computer down if it's too fast for you. Maybe one on my life too.
> I want to donate money to WikiLeaks

Trustworthiness of Wikileaks aside, do you think that's a $500 billion market? Donating to activist organizations?
This will be up to the management smarts of grid operators. They'll have to adjust their strategies over the next decade (or two) as large individual coal stations are decommissioned and many smaller solar and wind generators come online whilst consumers also take matters into their own hands.

I think "the grid" has value as a shared-source backup that, personally, I'd rather have than not, but that will come down to how much it ends up costing versus the hassle of the occasional power failure and the costs of buying more storage to cover for them.

Also, the cheaper electricity becomes, the more people will use it, which could put more demand on the grid, or keep demand stable as self-generation increases.

Complex problem, good luck grid operators!
My subtext is that commercial software development is so cognitively unremarkable and routinized that you're not going to see any indication of male/female cognitive differences in the demographics of our field.

It's an argument that doesn't play well on message boards, because software developers love to believe that they're part of a cognitive elite "inventing the future" and "eating the world", when in fact really the overwhelming majority of us are performing a bog-standard white collar symbol manipulation job no more challenging than the job done by an accountant or actuary.

Nerds like to pretend that we're all working on the graph isomorphism problem alongside Babai, but really most of our days involve basic wiring of data from one place to another; form fields to database rows to packet fields to page markup. We want to believe we're brain surgeons, but most of the time we're barely even dentists.
College admissions aren't about sat scores anymore. I graduated from high school this year, and know 2 people going to Harvard. It doesn't matter if you get perfect sat scores, it matters about what you do outside of school, and whether you spend all your time studying or actually doing something that will contribute to society. Numbers just aren't enough to admit students by, since if they admitted everyone with perfect scores, they would have way too many students.
I'm doing that today with Clojure/EDN: Garden, Reagent, Clojure/ClojureScript, HoneySQL.

(You might think it cheating somewhat because HoneySQL is just a thin syntactic wrapper on SQL, but then again, if I weren't cheap/poor, I could use Datomic, where it really is the same language.)
I didn't realize full size trucks had gotten over 60 feet long and 40 feet wide.
> I'm just saying that the societal narrative that any of the things that you're suggesting were always prevalent is not so.

I read a lot of history books. A lot of these behaviors are mentioned in passing. For example, in "D Day Through German Eyes" by Eckhertz, fraternization with french women was forbidden by army regulations. That seems to have stopped nobody, as it was rampant so much that orphanages were set up to care for the resulting kids.

Of course, that isn't statistics, and it would be pretty much impossible to turn that into statistics, but to say it is a lie is not warranted.
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We went with the phrase used in the article.

Since some people don't know that they were adopted, it's not just about paternity.
> No

The quotes I provided a link for. They happened.

> not sexual assault

And she repeats that it was consensual.
Undergrad. I never completed my degree so my manager (and his manager) encouraged me to go back to school and finish...especially since they are paying for it.
Exactly, synthesizable HDL code means code that can be actually translated into logic gates inside an FPGA [1]. Not every HDL instruction is synthesizable.

Verilog and VHDL have extensive support for non-synthesizable code, which are used for verification, simulation, testing, etc - e.g., [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_synthesis

[2] https://www.nandland.com/articles/synthesizable-vs-non-synth...
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Blockchains aren't better than what we have today for property.

At least the victim in your deed fraud article was able to recover their property, albeit at significant cost. How are people going recovering funds from the Mt. Gox theft?

Let alone the oracle problem, people keeping a digital asset secure and safe for decades, the chance of the software being 100% bug free first time, the total lack of incentive to run a blockchain node on a registry chain, or the complexity of rolling crypto when the current algorithm becomes too weak in 10-15 years…

Nope. This is yet another problem blockchains are hopelessly ill-suited to tackling.
In english, "statistically speaking" can mean you are making a claim about the odds of something rather than a 1:1 correspondence. It is extremely common and absolutely correct.

For example I have not run a study but I am very confident that, statistically speaking, tall people are better at basketball than short people. I am saying that I have an opinion that if you were to try and choose good basketball players, biasing yourself towards the tall people will increase your odds of making a good choice. I use the phrase "statistically speaking" to make it clear I am not saying "All tall people are better at basketball than short people".

In a lot of contexts you will drop the phrase completely because you are talking to other smart people and they will know that the context of your statement is in the realm of populations and odds, but online there are a lot of pedants with poor communication skills so you have be extra clear.
I’ve talked with PE folks about this and your revenue is too low from what I’ve heard.

I think an acquihire would be better for you.
The "Bell Curve" for females of a species generally has a significantly narrower standard deviation for practically any genetically driven characteristic.

Isn't this limited to traits which are influenced by XY chromosomes? (Usually due to males having only one X and thus being more likely to express recessive genes?)
I don't have the stats, but I actually would guess that robbery is way more common than hacking personal computers which results in the retrieval of useful information.
It’s happened.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/29/fbi-breaks-up-...
Yes, that was one of my points. Advertising often leads people to make poor choices. Choices that are poor for themselves, poor for society, and poor for the global ecosystem.

So for example, advertising influenced me to start smoking tobacco. And them I was hooked, off and on for 20 years. Finally off, I'm glad to say.

Maybe closer to home for many here, some years ago I was shopping for a server. But well over half of online reviews were pretty clearly advertorials for one brand or another. It was very difficult to find objective comparisons.

Or VPN services. Virtually all VPN review sites are pay-for-placement. That's obvious if you look at their history in archive.org snapshots.
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Wow a 69 page manual for playing a game. So cool. Thanks for sharing. I couldn’t have played this in 2nd grade. Big ups to you!
Wasn't the issue that TSS/hardware switching had too much overhead which is why Linux uses/used software based switching?
It's hard to avoid touching the DOM, HTTP, NPM, React, NGINX, Docker, etc. on a daily basis if you're doing any kind of serious work; it's not just some disjoint list of obscure buzzwords.
Kudos on building that man. That's some awesome one man stuff.
>I just don't think you can, at the same time, claim to be for diversity in admissions and allow legacy admissions and preferential treatment for donors.

Why can't they do that. Of course they can do that, most Universities in the US do that.

>To the asian issue I wonder if it isn't even a negative treatment, just that other racial minorities get a tip and many whites make it through legacy and donoring.

No, they are specifically discriminated against, read the linked article.
Banks and paper based systems don't have to be perfect because when they go wrong I have recourse to fix it. The blockchain technologies that everyone talks about have no recourse because they are peer to peer. Because they have no recourse the bar they have to meet is significantly higher than the bar that a bank run paper system has to meet. They effectively have to be perfect. Without that perfection they will have to build in some form of recourse and as soon as you do that you are on the road to duplicating the very things= they claim to eliminate, centralization.
Really dumb question here: how can I map cmd+ctrl+w to “close other tabs”? It’s the default in Terminal.app, but I just installed iTerm2 a day ago and havent found an option in the settings for it.
You're very right. I somehow missed the reference to Emotion in the OP.
Can you elaborate a bit on why you don't like touch interfaces while cooking?
There should be a forced ammendment every time we institute the draft: deferments are not allowed for descendents of politicians who voted to institute said conscription.
Maybe we should consider that the blockchain's killer app is the truth.

This is the case with bitcoin, since the purpose of the blockchain is to be, for example, trustless, protecting you from someone whom you don't trust lying about your bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin will show you the truth about those transactions. The blockchain also tries to protect against fraudulent double spends and do on, and this like all fraud is also lying, untruth.

Likewise, the economist Hernando de Soto Polar's work on property rights and "dead capital" has led to his creation of a blockchain app to allow people in unstable political environments to prove their property claims. If the old data is destroyed in the flames of the next revolution or hacked by your neighbor bribing an official, it doesn't matter as much because you have your claims on a global registry, and that global registry contains the truth.

And maybe when machine learning can allow bad actors to create false media, change what a politician has said in a video, perfectly alter or even create fictional recordings of conversations in order to deceive, the blockchain may provide some shelter for the truth.

Edit: Of course there is a caveat: bad data in, bad data out.
After GoFundMe closed campaign and seized $1337, I started selling my free book
I graduated from highschool 20+ years ago (1997, holy smokes!) and it was the same deal then. There were about 25 of us in my graduating class that ran the table with perfect SATs, 5s on all our APs, perfect GPA, etc and we all applied to pretty much all the Ivies. It was arbitrary who got in where, no rhyme or reason as far as we could tell then. Sounds like it hasn't changed much.
Race is a big factor.
Please don't take HN threads on generic flamewar tangents. Especially not this, for the god knows how manyth time.
> then put them in a Facebook Custom Audience group.

They may not be using their official email address to login at facebook
Except for if you read the article you would see that it's not arbitrary, but based on racial discrimination.
Haha memory lane. I remember walking into a little computer store with a good friend years ago and seeing a 386 that displayed some really odd frequency on the front panel led, like 53 Mhz or something at a time when 33 Mhz was the fastest 386 you could buy. I asked the owner and he said "Landmark speed!" (Landmark was a popular benching utility and he had programmed the led to display the benchmark results when the turbo button was pressed).
Just as many blockchains are actually much less private than traditional financial tools, blockchains can actually make theft much more difficult than traditional financial tools.
Not a he.
The original manual was about 200 pages! I can’t find it anywhere online. It goes into tons of other things — like the construction of this plane and dogfighting tactics (even though this plane isn’t designed for it) :)
I didn't say anything about making advertising illegal.

But I would expect that all advertising -- including advertorials, compensated "reviews" and product placement -- should be clearly disclosed. As in "this is an advertisement.", prominently displayed.
What would be more/also interesting would be a way of expressing this intent by a sender.

Seems like (with absolutely no thought here) a new header could me minted for this - eg. "Transport-Security: Require". Tough part as usual would be getting MTA and client support, but switching to a per message approach would at least allow incremental rollout - and critically I think - allow introspection by following bounces.
What do Joe and Jane think about the mountain of debt they’ve had to pile up? What do they think about the bankers who decide what happens to their money, and the politicians who decided to bail them out? Do they really have abs much faith in USG as you say? By the last election, largely seen as a middle finger to governing elites, I’d say probably not.

Yes, they like the convenience of the dollar but they are also suffering from the consequences of fiat money. You might say they’re too stupid to understand that, but there are many Joes and Janes who understand gold and may even want to go back to a gold standard. If they can understand gold, they can understand the value of Bitcoin.
I'm not arguing that our framework is better than React or Vue -- our framework just works better for us.

We do plan to eventually open source it, but there's a lot of work to be done before a public release: better documentation, better tutorials, remove some constructs specific to our company, etc. We've open sourced some of our internal JS libraries before and it's worked out well -- the contributions submitted and bugs reported by others have been very helpful.
I remember when I got Falcon 3.0. The manual was 250+ pages [1]. Unfortunately for me, my 16MHz 386 just couldn't get the job done. I thought it might be playable with cranked-down details, but it really wasn't. So the manual stoked my imagination for an incredible flight sim on a capable computer.

[1] http://lucasabandonware.free.fr/manuels/Falcon%203.0.PDF
Oh come on, Huck Finn has been banned in stupid schools for decades.
From the HN comment guidelines:

> Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
You can put any keyboard in your dishwasher.
Human binary search algo for page numbers, you meld with the machine and after a couple dozen hours its creepy how I could advance exactly 143 pages if I so desired by turning the dial just so; not any more surprising than video game accomplishments after a couple dozen hours.

I'm a gen-x so I'm so old my youth predated even cdroms; in fact I got an off brand early cdrom reader in high school as a very expensive birthday gift. So in early high school I spent a couple weeks reading microfilm of Scientific American magazine searching out all the "amateur scientist" columns from the 50s and 60s, some real gold there. I printed out some interesting columns. Still have some of those printouts. The technology to "photocopy from microfilm" is pretty obvious optically, the image is projected onto what amounts to a xerox photocopier. Of course kids these days may not believe fully analogy photocopiers ever existed, but certainly they did, until relatively recently as digital multifunction devices took over. Around the turn of the century all the Amateur Scientist columns were combined into a multimedia cdrom using turn of the century ancient java to navigate tens of thousands of one-page-per-pdf files. I no longer have infrastructure that can run that old of a java version although hand navigation of an image of the cdrom filesystem is possible (the file names aren't too insane) and I no longer own a desktop or laptop with optical drive to read the legacy disk, although I can, for now, scare up a USB cdrom reader if needed.

I lived near a depository library; did you? If you can get access to a federal depository library then you'll have access to microfilm version of complete ancient census records; I spent a long time looking at those and printing out 1800s era census records. My future wife bought "family tree maker" cdrom custom format disks of census data (this is all pre-internet pre-ancestry.com era by at least a decade). Obviously those custom cdroms of census records are useless today unless you have a complete early 90s PC emulator, and searching online works better and there's been several decades of census data released since then, LOL.

I find it fascinating that I grew up before cdroms, then in my youth cdroms would replace "everything", and now cdroms are a dead media. I'm and not really all that decrepit and old outside of SV hiring standards and ageism, I scarcely have a gray hair, maybe one or two, don't even have any grand kids yet. CDroms may have been born and died in my young adult years, but there's still microfilm out there.
And you're assuming pokemon trainer abilities aren't congruous with tech recruiting.
On your first point: I seem to remember plenty of companies that failed that were not telecom. In fact when I went looking just now I found a bunch of listicles about retail startups that failed.

The telecom bubble and crash was almost a side-effect. The telco executives saw the web taking off and used it to justify wildly over-inflated projections of traffic demand growth, and then began building out debt-financed networks to meet it. When the traffic didn't materialize (partly because the dotcom bubble burst), they had a bunch of overcapacity not generating revenue to service the debt that financed it, and that killed them.
It does, though. Isn't it possible that other programmers disparage web development not for being easy, but because it's unnecessarily complex?

Even of people who look down on "web development", I don't see anyone claiming that writing Google.com is easy.

There's lots of types of projects that I don't think very highly of, even if technically challenging and competently implemented, simply for being not worthwhile.
> Finding two or more people in such a position that would knowingly break the law by colluding together in some grande conspiracy

This is true only if we were to ignore the following:

organised crime; politicians; all secret services, both domestic and foreign; corporate espionage; opportunity getting the better of people, especially problem gamblers and drug addicts
I disagree that this was well said. I think the underlying is point that blind tests of skill reduce bias and lead to increased diversity is a good one. As is the idea that we need to measure diversity on more than one axis. (My wife is not Caucasian but she looks Caucasian... The cultural and ethnic diversity she brings to her team is invisible to most people.)

What's missing in this is the acknowledgement that "diversity quotas" while, of course, imperfect and clumsy, reflect an effort to counterbalance institutional discrimination and measure our success. Of course arbitrary targets sometimes lead to suboptimal outcomes in specific cases. But, in aggregate, they are better than no measurement at all and I believe they do improve things.

There are many forms of institutional discrimination that alter the candidate pool before people even apply. Your blind process can be perfect but that's the last link in the chain. Quotas are a blunt tool to force us to compensate for unfairness that occurred before our process for which we are not responsible in order to build stronger teams.

As such I believe quotas are a good thing, because institutional bias and discrimination are bullshit and need to be eradicated. When they are, we can drop the quotas. If we come up with anything better than quotas, we can drop the quotas.
After reading the links you gave, I’d like to clarify that I meant that edge cases that can cause data loss are not common enough, in my experience, for one to be forced to treat ElasticSearch as an unreliable data store. Anecdotally, I’ve never seen it happen. You’re right, maybe I’m lucky; I would like to see a case study of some project where these issues were significant enough to treat ElasticSearch as an unreliable data store.