jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Step zero: Stop being so emotionally attached to your startup.

Step negative one: Realize that the reality of the startup won't match your idealized version of the product.

Step negative two: Have more than one cool idea you want to work on, so an exit becomes an opportunity to work on the next one.
> My experience dealing with militant vegans is that there is no amount or type of evidence that would convince them that a diet that includes ANY amount of animal products is healthy.

You're missing the point here. They're not looking for reasons to think meat is healthy. You're vegan because you're against animal cruelty and harm that is done in the process to animals and our planet.

The diet aspect of it, yeah you can have bad habits in any diet, your health can decline just eating bad period. There are countless of cases of people's health decline that are not news anymore because it's very common. Hearth disease because of bad cholesterol?, well yeah it's not news we've been seeing that for ages so no gossip there. But what about a vegan person that died. Let's jump into conclusions and use this a reason to keep eating the things we like, because god forbid they take away our pleasures no matter who we hurt. This applies to both perspectives.
The other argument is that it inflames and encourages desire to assault children in a significant subset (in the sense of risk; i.e. the population doesn't have to be large, only the risk) of those who consume it, and that it does so in a unique way, compared to other forms of media. The other argument is that it's a particularly grave violation of the child's privacy, one they cannot consent to.

Alternatively, we could just bite the bullet and conclude (perhaps rightly) that maybe porn in general has the same negative effects we allege CP to have. I'm not sure if that's true, but if it is, then I think it would make a good case for banning it.
That's how the legal system usually works. If a Walmart driver negligently runs you over when working for Walmart, there is nothing Walmart can do to not be responsible.

There's no special "I told my staff not to run people over!" exception that a Walmart supervisor can claim.
Fast templates are a superpower for our CMS. Combine it with LiveView to eliminate react and we deliver a really good site quickly.
> How is sunsetting Answers related to mismanagement?

My post was a general statement and not directed at any singular Yahoo product.
Laws on the books aside, are there big cities in Europe where there are more shootings than in American mega-cities NYC, Chicago, or LA? If so, they don't make the news here in the US much.

I think you have the causality reversed: the reason gun-hostile politicians and activists are so vocal in the US is because the country has so many guns in so many members of the public, both in an out of cities. I haven't seen their vocalness successfully eliminate the guns and shootings from their cities.
Whether we like it or not politics is trending towards becoming de facto redundant
Is there anywhere that has tried this and what happened?
-130F/-90C is VERY cold, and this system is VERY weight-sensitive. Presumably adding more insulation that always needed to be carried was more weight than adding power capacity that can serve a dual-use.

The power capacity metric isn't necessarily concurrent; one could imagine the chopper using its power to fly (which will generate heat as a byproduct) for a third of the sunlight time, and then using the rest of the day to charge for the night-time cold.
Perhaps a bit of a noob question: How would you go about running these virutal machines on OSX? Or should I just be using linux?

Edit: The answer, apparently is virtual box (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads)

You need to create a box without a hard drive. When you start the box you created, it will ask you for a disk image, then you can select the diskimage from exploit exercises.
Because no one cares about GitHub. If it was Facebook...
An interesting theory and I'm sure the attackers are savvy enough to collect data, but github is a pretty good target in its own rights.
I didn't downvote, but I can understand this getting pushed down as it doesn't bring anything to the discussion.
Hopefully never. IMO access to the internet is a basic human right, like clean water and immunization. I wouldn't choose to deny these things to citizens of any country.
+1 on this, i have lived on a light lchf diet (60g carb per day) for more than a year and would never go back to a sugary carby diet again, since if i do, i start to feel really bad in just a few days.

And just as you describe, it takes a lot of hard work!
So many... but recently...

Shelley, Ozymandias:

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Yeats, The Second Coming:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Very cool, auto-conversion is really awesome, I think I found a bug though:

5 kg + 5 kg = 10 kg

but

5 kg + 6 kg = 11.000 kg
IMO: If you are finishing up a side project iOS / Android app, don't bother with a website. Just get it out of the door! Traffic doesn't drive itself to the website. If you drive traffic somewhere, you may as well drive it directly to the App Store.

There is no reason a quickly cobbled together website that has the same screenshots your App Store listing has will convert any better than the App Store.

Plus, the iTunes web page is pretty good at SEO and will probably turn up before your own page for relevant keywords.

In fact, the time you save by not building a Landing Page, you can invest into:

a) Writing a great description of your app. Also includes relevant keywords for your niche, you may want to use a keyword-research tool. https://searchman.com/ seems to be the best free tool atm(?).

b) Make sure your screenshots not only show meaningful data, but also clearly communicate why/what your app is useful for, e.g. how a problem is solved. Explainer texts can make it A LOT easier to communicate that. Shameless plug of a side project of myself: http://www.screenscott.com

c) When the app is live, make sure it gets downloaded and reviewed. Tip: Ask friends / family to download the app and give you feedback. If you get criticism -> Great, you'll know what to do next. If you get positive feedback -> Great, they've already written the review! Now you just need to ask them to post it in the App Store :-)
Square is awesome but I wish someone would do what it takes to kick the shit out of the broken mess that is the credit card system instead of attempting to fix some of the problems at the edge. Admittedly this is in the Seriously Hard category of problems.
I'd say in a way this could avoid feature bloat, in the sense that new operations can be added as "frequently used snippets" instead of core commands. I wonder how this plays with replication/clustering, though.
Trademarks are inherently limited in scope. If I'm making widgets named FOO, and I've registered that trademark, I have no inherent right to FOO.com or @FOO or anything else that's completely general and may have nothing to do with widgets.

http://www.chillingeffects.org/domain/faq.cgi

> Of course, you aren?t expected to look up trademark registrations around the world or research legal issues like common law trademark rights. That?s why the Policy requires the trademark owner (the complainant) to prove bad faith and why the Policy offers domain name holders the opportunity to demonstrate that they have rights or legitimate interests in the domain name.
I've always said this regarding piracy - the reason many people pirate is that it is faster, easier and cheaper than paying for content. There is no system by which I can pay money to watch TV shows as soon as they are done airing in the USA, I either have to wait for the DVDs, hope the show airs here too, or pirate it. To regurgitate a popular TV quote: Shut up and take my money!

Those services that do exist are all inferior to piracy. LoveFilm streaming does not work well on my PC, and has a poor selection on the PS3 (not to mention that if any torrent website was down as long as PSN has been, someone would have created a new one by now).

Hopefully one day systems will exist whereby I can play any song and watch any film or tv episode from my home via the internet in exchange for cash. I'd probably pay £100 a month for that (Spotify is a bargain at £10 a month) - but I can't. On the TV side of things, there is no existing service that even comes close to piracy + XBMC.
Working at a company with hundreds of machines and dedicated admins for them, I can tell you that unless the problem has immediate revenue impact, they're not going to handle it a whole lot differently from a cloud provider - you have to cut a ticket, it's prioritized, and it goes in the queue.
You're right. I'm 100% beside you on the value for time spent, but as you've mentioned there's also the 'learning value' that comes form building it from the ground up. (Think of how much I'd have to spend to learn it in a University course seen another way, I'm actually saving a few thousand!).

Going with an engine also carries with it the weight of engine choice as well. Your investment is in learning how to do it from within that engine - versus - knowing how it's done at the 'raw-guts' level.

There is likely a point at which I'll be better off cutting and moving across to an engine. (Though with the dozens of engines available deciding that IMPACT is the right one to go with isn't quite clear cut, for example, there's the ISOGENIC engine on its way, https://github.com/bebraw/jswiki/wiki/Game-Engines is the list on GitHub)

What about Rocket Engine? Maybe I should wait for that?
What about Unity3d? Or Flash? Cocos2D (on github, widely used, BSD license)

I'm honestly not trying to be facetious - but these are actual problems that run through my head when trying to decide. So I suppose maybe I got so stuck in the 'analysis paralysis' phase on the picking an engine phase and decided to look through what I could figure out on my own.

Each puzzle brought with it a single interesting question (http://chesser.ca/jsSprite shows the order, beware step 12 it has crashed many weaker computers).

There's also a number of interesting 'next steps' I'd like to try to figure out in a semi-assisted state (like on my own, but I get to ask experts when I've gotten really stuck). I'm really kind of excited about getting to look at something called 'quad-trees'

And then there's all the setting up NODE.JS and WEBSOCKETS for adding multiple mobs to the screen at once.

It's less about the finished product than it is about building valuable full-stack developer skills. With node specifically, I'm going to have to build an AWS instance and set up the brains of my operation... not to mention sending the correct data back and forth! (i'm getting a little giddy thinking about it).

Placed in a broader context - I'm employed full time doing other stuff and would love one day to ship a working project - but at this phase am not totally ready to rely on 'magic functions'.

If it's possible to give a short answer after all of that, you're 100% right & I agree 100% ... and I'm doing it the hard way because I'm a stubborn, dorky nerd (but my lights don't go out if I miss the ship-date).
I think most of these comments are missing the point. As I understood the video they are trying to create an AI that plays the game. The AI will respond to its experiences as it learns about the game. The initial Mario state is that it knows nothing then as it learns its environment it will adapt to figure out how to play.

This seems like a pretty bold project. I'm curious if they can get the AI to win the game.
I did that about a decade ago and got around 20 ft if range through two walls. Of course the transmitters were a bit more expensive back then. It worked well enough and I was enormously pleased with myself :-) but occasional glitches were very annoying, I never tracked down the source, reducing the distance didn't help. It was likely some sort of EMF interference (refrigeration/microwave/wifi etc).
It's funny, for me it is the opposite. It used to be I couldn't leave my Dad alone in a room with a computer for more than about 5 minutes without loud swearing reverberating around the house. Whereas my Mom was always a complete gadget freak and loved to tinker with things.
I have tried to use Coinbase this past month to buy some ETH. Worst customer support I have ever seen in my life.

Have a look at Reddit to see what's going on with this company:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoinBase/new/

It's not ok to brag about your business when many of your customers are in deep emotional stress because you mess with their money.
I used exactly that
One could buy leap otm put options. If there is a crash, they become very valuable. And if they are deep otm, they are not so expensive

On the other hand, I have started doing the opposite: selling short term otm put options. It is the wrong thing to do if there is a big crash, but if it only crashes a little, my options are not affected . Not sure if I should keep doing this.
I do ask myself if a 100B valuation on public listing is the start of mainstream crypto.

Plus the direct listing is a giant middle finger to traditional banking and overall establishment, right?

Like : Here are the new rules this new internet will be playing by. Direct, decentralized. Adapt or die?
> improved my quality of life

Well, not having to work as much while being paid the same does that to you. No argument here.

However, from a management point of view: nobody (and I mean nobody) can multi-task "work" tasks and "life" tasks at the same time. Inevitably "life" wins out, and of course productivity suffers.

The only solution is preemptive multitasking instead of cooperative; forcing people to attend office space is just the gentlest form of preemption.

Remote-only is possible, of course, but expect very ugly forms of preemption to take place: screen spying software, time tracking to the second, 24/7 on call duty, etc.

Honestly, you'll prefer office work instead. Trust me.
Bruce lee would win a street fight easily. A boxing match ? Mike tyson will probably be better at.

It doesn't have to be theoretical at all. The air force can just easily have mock battles v drones to evaluate performance if they wanted to.

The speed of autonomous avaition navigation development is far exceeding the speed of innovation in traditional nth generation fighter planes. Inherently the human will always be slower. The drone will have higher manuverbilty has high g will not be a factor. Imprvoing the algorithms to match or improve human response will happen sooner or later (it is not hard AGI category of problem). The drones are cheaper and easier to manufacture then fighter planes or pilots trained for this kind of high end aircraft.

AFAIK the electronic warfare capabilities of f35 are not designed towards drones. Even then performance against cluster of drones is different matter altogether.
> So in this case it'd be more relevant for running authbind rootless too.

Ahh OK, that makes more sense.

> would be to use systemd socket activation

I have to admit that every time I need one of those systemd scripts for some type of service I have, it's usually just a copy-n-paste from an older one with small modifications of paths/name etc. Perhaps I should actually learn some of that stuff. I guess it is here to stay; even though there was some debate about it a few years ago.
> I don't know how well this works in practice,

As soon as you don't control the whole thing end-to-end, i.e. from the user entering the data to printing it on an envelope: it won't work at all. It would require every program in the whole chain to accept this "big blob", which is simply not going to happen.
Is it common to believe that post codes don't start with zero? All of New England (ME, MA, NH, CT, RI, VT) have zero starting post codes. Plus apparently a part of New Jersey. Map here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_code

Also, since it brought up naval vessels, here's the addresses of all US Navy ships: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/lists/ship-fpo.asp

Anyways, the post office does a wonderful job delivering mail considering how complex addresses can be and how people can have messy handwriting.

Also - You can have an address that doesn't map to a physical location that totally looks like it should (not just PO boxes). Consider RPIs address.

http://rpinfo.rpi.edu/locateRPI.html

"Correspondence to and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute uses the official address of 110 Eighth Street, Troy, NY 12180. This address serves as a mailing address only; you will not find a building with that number on 8th Street."
Z3 is an SMT solver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisfiability_modulo_theories). You can think of it like a SAT solver with extra optimizations for certain domains, so that it doesn't need to do bit-blasting to e.g. compare integers. SMT is NP-complete, just like SAT, but it is decidable (so the solver will "eventually" give you a yes/no answer, though "eventually" could be a long time).

This is in pretty stark contrast to Prolog, which includes features which make it undecidable. Therefore you can make Prolog loop infinitely, while that is not possible in an SMT solver.
I see these two links submitted yesterday (the 2nd very briefly on front page) but no discussion:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/ms...
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/92/slides/slides-92-netvc-0....

Realistic that there could be an industry consensus next generation video codec (like Opus for audio) with Daala as basis?
physical mail is easy, tons of mail forwarding services out that. The official location stuff has already been covered by the retired RV community for quite some time. Some of them even help you become residents in that state (usually florida, texas, and south dakota).

I'm still trying to figure out the residency/domicile issues in case i'm actually living somewhere semi permaently. I'm thinking about using my sister's new house in norfolk, va as an "official" address
I agree that Javascript is the true heir to BASIC. It's available on pretty much every computer out-of-the-box, much in the same way that BASIC was in the 80s. It's also a lot easier to deploy and share, as you said.
I didn’t try the crazy diets like Atkins or the Maple Syrup diet. Anything that requires eating crazy stuff is probably bad for your health.

Now I'm starting to feel like an Atkins Zeolot, I've been defending low-carb on HN so much lately, but I can't let a statement like that sit on itself! There's tons of scientific evidence for Atkins and everybody I talked to that investigated it, agrees.

Furthermore "eating less" will not work, if you're eating mostly carbs. There's a high probability your body will just go into starvation mode. Meaning you'll store about the same amount of fat, while there's less energy to be spend for your body, making you sleepy and lightheaded. Graphing your weight won't change anything about that.
I found out that a lot of law firms, once retained for trademark purposes essentially operate on autopilot with low paid paralegals churning out c&d's at anything that moves in order to rack up billable hours. Many times the actual trademark holder isn't even aware of how their lawyers might be about to embarrass them next.
They are better than a bad chair, but there are definitely decent chairs for less. Also, somebody at my shop had an Aeron (after suffering a lot of ergonomic-induced damage - folks, never work through the pain) and the webbing actually "wore out" (as in, developed a hole) after only a couple of years. We did get it replaced without charge after a short argument but when you pay that kind of money for a chair you don't expect that to happen.

If I were thinking of dropping a grand on a chair, I'd be looking at the humanscale chairs. Admittedly that is partly because I prefer their aesthetics.

Anyway in my experience the number one criterion for a hacker chair is adjustable armrests - adjustable both in height and in width. You can get one of those for a lot less money. The rest of the notable improvements come from other ergonomic changes depending on the problem - for example in my case, my most important mod is to use a very small keyboard in order to minimise the reach to the mouse.
I have heard rumors that iOS 4 is going to be a little pokey (as in slow pokey) on the iPhone 3G. Can anyone attest to that? Or refute that statement?

And does anyone know of a site showing how to downgrade if I decide it is too slow and I want to revert back to iPhone OS 3.1.3?

(Sorry to ask, but I figured this crowd would know the answers to both of my questions off the bat.)
So, that makes me wonder: Since January, what have you been doing to earn money? How are you funding yourself? Paying for rent, food, internet connectivity? Did you save money? Borrow? Family? Have other means of incoming rolling in? You mention doing multiple things. What are these other things? It conflicts with the message you send when you say "focus exclusively on products."

I think those are the questions some people would like answered. Not because we are challenging you, but to understand the reality.
They could still cooperate. The movies even had a human character who, having been given freedom, chose the Matrix.

(there could also be reasons for trade; maybe the humans spend time in the Matrix in exchange for energy or whatever)
None of the products you linked to provide 100% of known essential nutrients. None of them are intended to be used as a replacement for food, and none of them can be used as such with long term safety.

No, that's almost exactly what these products are designed for.

EX: Similac, Complete nutrition for your baby's first year.

It should be noted that most of these are balanced nutritionally but not calorie wise because it's easy to backfill empty calories with soda etc and people generally drink quite a few extra calories. But, you really can live off of ensure complete and empty calories or just ensure if you don't mind spending more money.
Is Plex open source? I seem to recall it having closed source components. If that is still the case then it isn't a real alternative to Kodi/OpenELEC in my view.
> They don't have time to boil water

I refuse to live a life where I regularly cannot find time to boil water. That's just absolute insanity.

> but it takes a solid 4 minutes cook time and 10 minutes rest time to make a proper steak, that's not fast.

If we're comparing it against eating soylent, then I don't think resting it is going to be vital. An unrested steak is still tasty, which means we're talking about 4 minutes.

Maybe we've got vastly different ideas of "quick".