skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He needs to find a social services office that can help him get organized and take care of his personal responsibilities. It's completely his fault that he's in this mess, but he probably has some kind of personal/mental health problem that requires assistance.

The one thing nobody should do is simply send him money or give him a job, since there's nothing on this page that indicates he won't go back to exactly the same thing he's been doing for the past 10 years.

(Also, 1600 rent? what the fucking fuck? dude needs to go sleep in a shelter and use that money to get a thrift store interview suit and pay off his bills)
"Hot water and a cup for making tea..."

Tea needs to be made with _boiling_ not boiled water. The amount of places that present you with a cup of warm water and expect you to put a tea-bag into it, is upsetting*.

For reference, the correct way of making tea: http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A61345
I might grant that NTFS is conceptually similar to BFS (though its alternate data streams lack types, IIRC; been awhile since I dove into that). I am optimistic that the new commandlets introduced in PowerShell 3, along with better tooling, might mean that Windows 9 starts using them more heavily, much like OS X ~10.7 started to.

But I don't agree ReFS is in the same boat. ReFS, at least as it exists today, has more in common with Plan 9's Fossil/Venti than anything else. Most notably, it explicitly doesn't support alternate streams, which is the exact piece of NTFS that is most like BFS, nor does it support extended attributes (the vestigial HPFS-era predecessor to alternate data streams). Given that it also lacks things like hard links, file system transactions (N.B., this is database-like transactions for a collection of file system operations, not traditional file system journaling), and a bunch of other things that I associate with BFS-like everything-is-a-database file systems, I don't think that comparison is apt.
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Any estimates for how much income that would provide?
Some more info? Didn't catch that.
exactly. given that, if you want to be the next Bill Gates or Larry & Sergey or Mark Zuckerberg then you should focus on spotting some new but already existing invention and crate a competitor that is just slightly better then the original.
I simply can't resist downvoting you, but alas, see what will happen to you if you joke about others misery?

On the serious note though, there is this thing called "empathy" where a person has the capacity to recognize emotions that are being experienced by another person. Have you ever been paralyzed by procrastination even when you knew that your continued inaction would be very bad for you? I have, so it's easy for me to understand what he's going through.
A little off topic, but are you a night person, or have you just never tried the alternate?

I ask because I was a self-defined 'night person' for my early and mid 20's. Once I got married and got a straight job, with early rising and what-not, I found that I'm actually a lot more functional and a lot better feeling going to sleep early (9pm) and waking up early (4am). Genuinely I am healthier and happier; it's strange.

Have you tried the alternate as a comparison?
I can empathize and I feel bad for anyone in what feels like a helpless and hopeless situation. I sometimes feel like I am there as well despite having "enough" money for a rainy season or two.

Some people need to hit rock bottom to even begin to understand that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Manual labor, however humiliating and seemingly beneath him, may give him the proper motivation he seems to be lacking.
Blake is a real guy and a friend of mine. Remove the scare quotes please?
I know that I am not perfect and have certainly made poor decisions in my life. But if you feel that being compassionate is not appropriate in this situation at the very least OP could stay quiet and not make jokes about another person's suffering.
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I see ads on his page.
"We've learned to live with centralized water and electricity and banking, all outside of our control, rather than rely on on-premises solutions."

Not necessarily true. I'd argue that banking is much less centralized (clearing behind the various banks you might choose from is, of course, but in the meanwhile I can get most of what I need done if their independent system is up), and I grew up on a property at the edge of my town of ~50K with only electricity and phone as centralized services. We were on our own for everything else, water from a well, sewage treatment with a septic tank, heating from a big propane tank, which can be filled by various vendors, although the systems behind them are centralized, but there's plenty of reserves so that short term outages aren't an issue, we even burned our trash....

A lot of us believe in having a greater degree of self-reliance, e.g. I do backups to disk and LTO tape (some tapes of which live in a safe deposit box), and use rsync.net, a very low level SaaS provider for further redundancy.

I'd never allow my livelihood to depend on 24x7 external services except for electricity (no electricity == no modern civilization, which would eventually kill me for medical reasons).
What "facts"? The fact that it wasn't any company research, but actually university-funded? The fact that the inventor was doing a PhD, not working for free?
Even in those organizations, there will be controlling and Q&A. Orgs being sloppy in one regard are often sloppy in another and probably gave down bad orders in the one direction _and in the other, too_.

I organize smaller events, but you wouldn't believe the number of f-ups a bad manager can produce left and right. Often, the "ground crew" isn't even at fault - e.g. I had events where the ground crew was briefed to a standard timetable layout, although we had provided a timetable usable for them beforehand, having them fix a lot of things on the fly.
> as a rule students who choose an appropriate major make As and Bs, unless they're having personal problems.

This is grade inflation, not a badge of pride to MIT.
Yes - but it's old versions that will no longer be updated. You can usually find older versions directly from resellers at Amazon at prices below Adobe's direct prices.
Yeah, my alma mater looks to be be right between 10 and 11k a year for tuition (28 credit hours a year assumed), and books and living expense puts that even higher.

I ended up with around 80k in loans, but I was dumb about my living expenses (I went to college in my late 20s, and had a certain living standard I wanted to maintain, which was a mistake).
I have CC and was able to work fine all day. I wasn't able to sign in but that has no bearing on me doing my job. Was this something that affected the licensing servers and I just happened to be lucky?
As a comparison, in 1999 Gordon Brown sold the UK's gold before the market moved up, the equivalent of a £9b loss, £13b in today's money. He did this to give the banks an under the radar bailout by manipulating the markets.

Gold doesn't pay interest, whereas the cash raised from the gold sale was used to buy (mostly) long term US treasuries to replace the gold in the BoE's asset portfolio. These have performed very well as an investment over the intervening years (look at, eg the BTTRX fund for a rough equivalent in the private sector) so the net loss is much smaller than you'd think.
That is a really great suggestion. I'm going to try that next time I find myself in this situation. Thanks for your time and input on this.
It's sad. Almost everyone (including people on that Python mailing list thread below) has jumped on him calling him a troll while (not to their own fault) missing that this guy has mental health issues. He needs professional help not money.
Never heard of this do tell more how on earth can you loose the crypto key for an entire spec used by multiple companies to encode and distribute their content.
Yeah, I have a feeling he might have burned a few bridges.

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-April/355...
Yeah, I remember him trolling in the Lisp newsgroup, which makes it hard for me to take his Emacs advice seriously.
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> The New York Times remains a newspaper with a website attached.

I think it's more accurate to say that the internal culture at the NYT is fragmented - there's a portion that either is or wants to be digital-first, and a portion that still doesn't understand that.

Furthermore, they are dealing with existing infrastructure and organizational structures that were originally optimized for a print-first business model, so the inertial "default" ends up being biased slightly towards print-first.

That said, this is the same shift that all of the traditional "old media" establishments have to make. Most (if not all) of the companies that the Times is being compared to in that document were created in the digital era (Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Gawker, etc.)[0].

I'd still say that the NYTimes has made the "new media
shift far better than any of the other traditional, "old media" establishments. Perhaps all of those publications will end up failing - it's certainly possible. But if any succeed, my money would be on the Times.

[0] Also, as pointed out elsewhere, they all are primarily resellers of content, as opposed to companies that primarily generate their own content. They are also certainly not known for the quality of their own original journalism the way to the extent the Times is.
I hope that the world will have more mercy on you than you give. Xah has been a pain in the ass for a lot of people, but I do not wish anyone to be left without healthcare or homeless, regardless of what they have done. Even criminals get locked up and fed.

Opinions like yours simply have no place anywhere.
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I believe it should be something along the lines of:

sumacc xs = summer xs 0
where summer [] n = n
summer (x:xs) n = summer xs (x+n)

I'm sure there are macros in some library somewhere that implement pattern matching in lisp (regardless of dialect).
There may be some government and/or privately funded
social services in the area that could help him, e.g.,
emergency rent money, housing, food, counseling.

His Web site with 240 K visitors a month, with some ads,
should be enough to help him significantly.
How's he going to buy his noodles with bitcoin?
He's certainly 'notorious' in certain circles. He used to be considered a troll in certain newsgroups, because he's very argumentative.

I think he is in some ways the prototypical hacker. He's very good at what he does, but he struggles to do anything with financial value, and he's got very bad interpersonal skills.

He's done quite a lot of Emacs work, particularly around trying to make it easier to work with. His work was very helpful to me when I was starting out with Emacs, so I've given him some money. His documentation saved me weeks of work over the years, so giving him a days wages is a no-brainer.
This blog post discusses the challenges involved in moderating user uploaded photos in order to prevent displaying inappropriate or low quality content in your site. The post describes Cloudinary's cloud-based solution that streamlines the process of manual image moderation using a web interface or an API. Sample code included for Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP, Java and Node.js.
It's not surprising that Google and Facebook would be huge advocates against government and other use of their databases - I imagine the renewed fervor about end-to-end encryption and the increased skepticism of cloud services is really going to hurt their business model. A secret kept by two people is almost as private as one kept by just one. (Not saying that they'll succeed or even that they have an incentive to succeed 100% of the time, just that I imagine the lack of trust now is going to start hurting soon, if it's not already.)
Some of his ideas are elaborated in his public speaking, and the book sounds to be very interesting. I just hope he sticks to the release date and it doesn't get canceled like the previous one.
Holy shit I've been on HN too long...I've forgotten what real Internet flamewars/trolling was like.
A letter to our Glass Explorers, from the head of Glass
> Are there many here that were BeOS lovers?

Yes, BeOS was fantastic: it booted in 14seconds on my computer and was immediately very responsive where Linux and Windows booted in >1m20s plus they weren't very responsive (Windows was slow as a snail after the boot until it really finished booting)..

Unfortunately even though BeOS was much, much more pleasant to use than Linux or Windows (thanks to its responsiveness), the lack of applications for BeOS meant that I rarely used it in fact..

And now SSDs mean that even normal OSs feel quite responsive, so I'm not waiting Haiku anymore..

IMHO its developers made a fatal mistake when they didn't use Linux for their kernel, it meant that it would take much more time to have an usable OS and they missed their 'window of opportunity'..
Yes, I know about Blue.Eyed.OS but it was a failed project from the start due to their strange indecision about licensing..
well, I've done such a thing, so not a myth.
Yes, but that's color scheme of half the internet these days so you just have to deal with it :-/ I recommend this bookmarklet: https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html#zap_colors
I don't think anyone's really begun tackling it. There's widespread agreement that Haiku should eventually support it, but I don't know that anyone's done any effort to really move in that direction (with one pseudo-exception: Haiku does a better job than BeOS properly arranging the file system into user-specific v. machine-specific folders, which will help when they get there).
After a little review and test i found that this fails.

calling the generated greeting method multiple times would fail. This throws an segmentation fault error.

sorry for this wrong thread.

https://gist.github.com/addisaden/d89c7eaed520a2a8c3a1#file-...
I agree with you on points one and two but how do you figure that out in a interview over a couple of hours? I can figure out how skilled they are technically, I can figure out if they have decent communication skills which are also important and then I get to the points you mention and these are softer, harder to quantify skills. How do you go about finding answers to these questions and do you make it quantitative in some way?
Not that it was a particularly well written "critque" of the documentation, but I've felt similar frustrations when tyring to work through the NodeJS documentation.

Generally when you're used to something that's several orders of magnitude better, e.g. Java docs and you're then forced to work with turds after that it takes some getting used to. Sometimes you never get used to it. Come to think of it.
Seems like traffic numbers like that would at least pay some income through ad views.
Not very much.

If we give an aggressive pages-per-visit of ~2 and 3 ads and a semi-aggressive RPM of $4 you're talking about ~ $150/mo.
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Really dude? Had it coming? Spend next Sunday in church.
I think his unemployment might have to do more with his age?
I know to many unemployed programmers over 45 years of age.
Two are literally homeless. Time goes by quick--just when
you think you will always be in demand; you get that Friday
meeting. You just might feel this guys agony in a few years, but you sound like a spolied brat--who's family will
always be there to pay the rent.
$360/mo, maybe more, with adsense, potentially much more if people clicked on the ads and the ads were high value.

Also possibly a lot more if he sold display ads directly or ran a good affiliate program for technical books and other products.
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Heh, he is right about the documentation - but his style is indeed cranky.
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Of course. All of this.

And the "trolling" story is funny, did he ever think that's why he can't get a job? Because you need a minimum amount of inter-personal relation skills to be in a company. Of course not.

Reality check time.
Interesting that she chose not to wear the product for her intro message!
Ah, thanks. I think there's a lot of room for boisterous, outspoken and even aggressive developers, but you really gotta prove you have the chops to earn that.

I'd agree with your assessment that interpersonal skills are the issue (in fact he agrees, too) and that's not something you can fix overnight.

I really think the best situation for this guy is to get out of the valley for a bit, get a job doing some very focused dev/maintenance stuff in his areas of expertise (Python/JS?) and design a personal reboot plan.
But difficult, if not impossible, to prove and costly to try to attack.

The age difference is often not even really a conscious thing. It is expressed in "cultural fit" by most young interviewers. Older devs simply are detached from core pieces of younger culture. Whether that's music, integration into workplace rhythms, lanugage, etc.

It's important to specialize some, get broad technically (don't only know everything COBOL), and to force yourself to at least understand the hot new things enough to be able to speak FROM EXPERIENCE about why you want said hot new thing off your lawn... but still be willing to play along.

If you need to work for someone else, you need to balance your tech-righteousness with someone else's, often youthfully naive, ego.
> Does it boil down to "single point of failure are bad"?

In the sense that "trust in a single entity as a single point of failure" - sure. Adobe can cut you off for any number of reasons, an outage being just one.

> When S3 is down, I don't remember seeing more than a few comments in the 'you should have self hosted your data' line
.

One of those comments might have been mine. Still, I'm not saying that you should self-host, I'm saying you should use solutions that you could realistically self-host should the need arise.

So if you use s3 for your (non-web-related) data, maybe have riak-cs ready to go as a backup (it's a bit of a contrived example, because you probably either need a "cloud fs" of some sort, or mercurial/git or whatnot, not "s3" to be able to keep working).

I absolutely think one should have an alternative ready if one is heavily based on amazon -- at least have the option to spin up a minimal set of equivalent services as an openstack/nebula solution.

There are many reasons why you might get into trouble with any one provider, not just that their infrastructure goes down. If they hold all your data (and your backups) -- you pretty much have no leverage at all.
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Agreed - as someone who dropped out/lacking a degree, I have no mention of education on my resume and let my long work history present me the way I want to be seen. Early on in my career it held me back a little - at least to the point that I had to explain why I dropped out (and I believe I have a decent justification), but in the last 10 years it hasn't even come up.
Anyone got a torrent to the full comment?
>Tell users about government data requests. To earn a star in this category, Internet companies must promise to tell users when the government seeks their data unless prohibited by law, in very narrow and defined emergency situations,[2] or unless doing so would be futile or ineffective.[3]

Those caveats make this a meaningless category, particularly the first one. Nearly all the data requests that people are concerned about have been coming with gag orders attached. Not to mention, how can the EFF even verify this? One assumes the criteria are assessed by the companies' policies, not by their actions, and that's clearly meaningless if the government is essentially compelling them to lie, keep silent or "massage the truth".
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You can actually make a good Spring MVC-based webapp (with Thymeleaf, AngularJS and etc.); check out the JHipster Yeoman generator: https://jhipster.github.io/
IE6 is a really great analogy based on what happened inside of microsoft on this team over the past few years.[1]

[1] I helped start up this team in 2004
Yeah, very smart people are exactly who we want driving innovation. Just like how Thomas Edison and his monopolizing Edison Trust brought American electrical systems into the future by embracing AC power, instead of clinging to clearly inferior DC power for as long as possible.

</sarcasm>

If you expect monopolies to drive innovation, you're going to be disappointed. A monopoly doesn't promote paradigm shifts or destructive innovation. In fact, historically speaking, monopolies often take drastic steps to ruthlessly crush any such innovation.

In your second link, at least Robin acknowledges that, historically, there is no reason to expect monopolies to behave as described. Actually, the idea of a "manic monopolist" is fairly interesting. But, if a corporation already controls an industry, how do we incentivize it to take risks by promoting rapid innovation in that industry?
I don't know that this is necessarily a good idea when the IRS has a lock on your account(s), either:

>> better, send your check to: [snip]
Xah Lee is open source contributor to the LISP communities? Really? Where?

He acted as a troll for years in the LISP communities. There is no other contribution I'm aware of.

He was more helpful with Emacs.
Nazi apologia on HN? Seriouly?
he still hasn't learned his lesson. he's actively asking people to send money to him in a way that skirts the lien the irs has filed against him.

if the irs notices this and gets pissed, it absolutely puts his 'helpers' in harm's way. by continuing to not file taxes, the probability of irs aggression only increases with each passing day.

i'm all for giving people a 2nd chance, but he still hasn't realized that it's his fault, and only his fault.
Thanks for the report. It should definitely not be reloading continually, but only on window resize to rescale the photo containers. We'll look into it. I've disabled the functionality for anonymous users for now. It remains a profile option for authenticated users.

Images are lazily loaded, but that should be triggering a rescale. We are working to rethink the rescale functionality, so fixes and changes are coming (after this weekend's Maker Faire).
"This site does not support Internet Explorer 8 or older."

Au contraire, IE does not support your site. Actually, I can't even test if at least it renders the page in text mode because you blocked it, end of conversation.

I'm at work and our desktops were migrated from XP this year and we're stuck with IE 8, beucase it's "compliant" (with what, I wonder). I can't even load the cached page from Google...

This is very annoying, the site is just a blog, not a complex webapp that must ensure correct rendering and JS execution.