jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I admire the restraint on display here, but if even one of those guys had been black, the cops would have iced every one of them. Imagine someone grabbing a cop's gas mask at a BLM march and not being dead 2 seconds later.
If this is done, does everyone lose all of their unbacked up work or is there some way to recover it safely? There are for sure internal notes, draft bills and changes, etc. on these computers that is not backed up.
A reasonable investment portfolio (in the US) will reliably generate enough inflation-adjusted growth on average that this will afford a modest lifestyle in most parts of the US. $35-50k/year (today's dollars) without much risk, which is a fairly average wage. It is only unrealistic if you live in an expensive city with a lavish lifestyle.

Anecdotally and ironically, many tech people that do this end up making a loads of money after they "retire". They don't sit on a beach and do nothing. The ability to be highly selective about what they work on, and to defer any compensation, often leads them to invest all their time on software projects they are passionate about, which not infrequently ends up throwing off a large amount of incidental income even though that wasn't the objective per se. I like the term "recreationally employed" to describe this lifestyle. I know many engineers who ended here and some of them make more money "retired" than they did work the 9-to-5 grind at a big company.
This seems highly counterfeitable, not to mention a hostile person in plainclothes could pick up a gun marked as friendly from a dead security agent.

This tactic would best be against a force that doesn’t know about it, or an organized force.
Virtually no one who voted for Biden is excited about him. They're just voting out Trump.

The false equivalency narrative you're spewing is tiresome. Trump's record is an unprecedented disaster. There is no equivalent.
We delete them right after we mirror them to the NSA through our ultra-security SolarWinds box, promise!
So just a couple hundreds of people can protest in front of the building, enter elected official offices and steal laptops most likely containing very sensitive data (hopefully encrypted though)?

I agree with you but I think there ought to be a little more protection of that.
And it's only 3.1415926 lines of Clojure!

:-p
The FCC once did enforce a 'fairness doctrine' on broadcasters, and some Democrats occasionally discuss bringing it back.

Meanwhile, some jurisdictions (moreso in Europe) have considered creating a government-enforced 'right of reply', forcing websites to link to opposing viewpoints. And Obama advisor Sunstein has at times advocated (but wisely pulled back from) the same cross-linking and 'sidewalks' mandates that Shafer imagines being implemented:

http://techliberation.com/2009/01/08/what-impact-will-cass-s...

So Shafer's scenario isn't that far-fetched.
OK, tell you what: you come over to my place, run the upgrade, then fix all my dev stuff (combination of macports and non-macports) that'll break. Seriously, I've done this before and I know what's gonna be involved. But if you want to sit back and tell me how little "trouble" I'll have, you can do it for me.
Here's a link to the list of banned sites:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044
I believe his point was that research published by a single researcher on a blog is sketchy, and that he wishes that scientific discoveries could be done by individuals. If the researcher in question can provide proof of their claim, then normal peer review will happen.
You should move to Europe (well, one of the nordic countries anyway), dude... I have unlimited HSPA access which costs something like 15Eur/month, and the bandwidth you get is most definitely not puny.
What are your thoughts on my latest blog post?

This is an issue which plagues a lot of young developers I know, so I thought I'd write my thoughts on the matter.

Any advice or opinions on the blog would be great!
One more happy dumb phone user here. In September I switched back after two years with an iPhone, and I do not regret it one bit.
( http://projectgus.com/2010/09/my-no-iphone-no-smartphone-exp... )
Android will be in some big high-end German car models in early 2011. There will be downloadable apps, but only from a manufacturer specific market. I don't think there will be any Android branding, so the car owner won't even know it is Android under the hood! So year technically Android, but probably no data, nor eyeballs, flowing back to Google.
The classic example is when a bunch of them go to Habbo Hotel, dress as black men in suits with afros, and block the ladders into a pool while yelling 'THE POOL IS CLOSED DUE TO AIDS'. Anything where a bunch of them get together to cause mayhem and/or destruction would be a raid.
End of the day it comes down to incentives and barriers. Offering training to outsiders to increase the supply of people is great, but not easy. Most don’t complete online courses, expensive traditional training and education is expensive, complex and hard to navigate.

Educating in-house is costly and inefficient end of the day too.

Leaving it all to some of the big tech probably not the most risk free option either.

That’s why the trend of income sharing schools exists I think they make sense - low risk, low barriers and high incentive.
http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~stolfi/bitcoin/2017-12-06-manuscri...
Dumb question:

What do you do with this information? I can see it being useful for detecting anomalies, but for every day usage... I am not going to stop using my refrigerator to save power.
For me, the concept was that we are filtering out most of what happens in the shared environment (in order to not being overwhelmed), that our mental mechanisms are rather imperfect (most of people are absolutely sure that they have flawless tools, and the entire universe is completely comprehensible) and that different people could have incompatible inner representations of the very same phenomena.

Btw, the flawed mental apparatus as a reason to hypothetical inability to comprehend "the true nature of reality" is one of the basic premises of thousands years old Indian philosophy, which emphasizes subjectivity.
There was quite a substantial effort this year to bring near live transcribing and subtitling of all the talks. Unfortunately I can't find any files or transcripts right now, but you should keep an eye out on the subtitling wiki [0].

[0] http://subtitles.media.ccc.de/wiki/en:Start
Google+ Sign-In is an implementation of OpenID Connect, with some nice features built on top:

"Google+ Sign-In is built on the OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect protocols. It supports over-the-air installs, social features, and a sign-in widget on top of standardized OpenID Connect sign-in flows. Google+ Sign-In works for all users with a Google account, whether or not they have upgraded to Google+." [0]

I don't understand where all your other conclusions came from.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2LoginV1
This is a good point--I would phrase it as whatever over-arching organizing value set or decision-making framework you choose to use (whether it be "go with your gut", Rationality Uber Alles, WWJD?, "don't be a dick", or whatever) does not absolve you of responsibility for the actions you take according to that framework. Using rationality or moral values or whatever as a means to develop self-awareness and maturity is a valid and useful exercise IMO, but I know too many people who feel like "I'm just doing what XXXXX says I should do" excuses their actions even though it was still their choice in the first place to do what XXXXX says.

Also, Antonio Damasio's work is an interesting complement/counterpoint to the overemphasis of cognitive rational thinking, and I'd highly recommend it. Descarte's Error is a good place to start, and makes the strong case that rationality is part of an embodied (literally) process upon which it depends.
Fixed with 1.1.0 release.

https://github.com/Nedomas/databound-rails/commit/04e28afaf0...
Interesting; I'm considering moving to that area. Sad to see this kind of thing, especially considering that Boulder has plenty of room both vertically, and to the east, in which to add housing stock so as to lower prices.
My understanding is that he's not stepping down - he's going to continue under a different company name, unaffiliated with YC
Well, weird benchmarks are probably all those where your favorite language doesn't look good ;-)
Veggie Grill is all-vegan, tastes fantastic, and already has locations in 5 states!
> The grassroots activism by working class people that forced the federal government to develop an entire arm of federal law, with its own Cabinet-level agency, to protect them from the professional managerial class?

But didn't all that happen almost a century ago?
> ...what I do see are people being encouraged to graduate at the top of their class so they can get jobs at highly profitable FAANG companies.

This has been true for India for a long time but the trend has been reversing since 2014 with the explosion of VC and in particular Angel investments that followed the Indian unicorn boom. Surprised that Europe is on a different trajectory.

> Also, it feels like the VCs are the one taking the majority of the damage this time, not retail investors.

Are majority investors who would have usually invested in the public markets now channeling capital to growth stage funds or are they calling bluff when these unicorns do float IPOs? If the former, not really sure if it's bad or good and for whom, but kind of makes for a very different proposition to the dot-com bubble of 2000s.

For instance, just today, paytm which long lost its market leader position in B2C/ P2P payments in India to Walmart's PhonePe, GooglePay, and WhatsApp, announced $1 billion in Series G funding that takes the total to $4.3 billion raised so far [0] with $500 million in losses just this past year. I really fail to understand the economics behind growth stage fund at all if it is clear that public markets aren't going to bail these investors out if the companies aren't making profits to justify valuation. Google India has openly complained abt the current P2P/B2C payments market as a loss leader with no path forward on generating revenue.

Either that, or like patio11 says, the amt of capital flowing through the markets is astounding [1]; and so I wonder if I am missing some key insights to be able to grasp the economics of it all, as an outsider?

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/24/paytm-1-billion/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19210703
For the kind of functions seen in American math curricula, no, I don’t need help visualizing them, but that’s me. However, I do believe one should develop their intuition through graphing by hand; typing into the calculator, however painful, doesn’t develop anything other than RSI.

I think my TI (yeah I did have one as the prize of some math competition...) could do some integration too but I never used it.

The thing is these crappy calculators do a poor job of pretty much everything they claim to do. Some of the functionality might help with learning, sure, but you’d better use an actual computer (including a modern smartphone). It’s not 1980s anymore...
No, you are not. :) People have been looking at dark words on white paper for quite a while now with no ill effects, and I’ve never felt an inclination to invert the relationship. Even in 1980 I preferred the very few CRT terminals that operated in “light mode”.
When did 90% of Amazon's value vaporize?

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&biw=1536&...

Oh, yeah, when it went from 100 to about 7 in 1999-2001. It's currently about 1700.
I suspect a lot of that happened because people started adding color when color monitors became a more common option, and blue being the least offensive of the alternatives available if you wanted to add a background color...
I really like the way you view this, and I think the picodollar pricing on tarsnap is fantastic. I just don't know if I have the guts/resources to attempt this!:)

My product requires deep integration inside of other people's software - ecommerce, saas, etc. The majority of customer support will be on the front-end. I'm a two man shop and not able to handle a large support load of customers who haven't paid real money.

Do you encounter this at all?
I completely agree with this, but I think this is something the educational system should be able to impart.

By the time the schools get access to a kid, he's already had years to learn from his parents to value or to not value learning.
Regarding interfaces, dealing with an in-process, code level interface is just on the surface simpler than dealing with an external interface like a JSON endpoint. If you're working with a statically-typed language, the comparison isn't even worth making - a contract that needs to be extensively tested turns into a compile error. Even in a dynamically typed language, the tooling to test that methods are being called correctly are much more mature and developed than determining that two independent services are conforming to the same contract.
> Sadly anti-immigration and/or anti-capitalism feelings are also strong in many EU countries which hampers this movement. I wish the UK could make more of our draw.

AFAIK, there's no problem with freedom of movement for employees in the EU, not even to/from the UK. The only issue is wages; London startups pay really shitty salaries (£40-50K). Berlin's aren't much better (lower than London, but in a much cheaper city). It's the exact same problem as in the US - the salaries just aren't high enough to justify moving to and living in an expensive city.
Very interesting analysis. But they don't consider at all one very relevant change that happened during the last 30 years in most wealthy economies, especially the USA: That the taxation of the rich and the highest-earners in general was massively lowered. This contributed a lot to the concentration of wealth and capital in fewer hands.
Sergey Brin came to the U.S. with his family at the age of six from the USSR.[1] His family was probably admitted to the U.S. due to the religious persecution they faced: "Michael Brin [his father] claims Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, and that Jews were excluded from the physics departments in particular."[2]

So his story is not very relevant to the discussion of H1-B visas and tech worker shortages.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin#Childhood_in_the_S...
Just to clarify - are iAds only supposed to be implemented on free apps? Or, in other words, is there anything stopping an app developer from including iAds in a paid app?

Also, do you think a developer would make more money with a free, iAd version over a paid app? If so, developers would obviously be more enticed to offer a free, iAd version, which would also make Apple more money (40% of iAd revenue versus 30% for paid apps).
Honestly, seems like you're selling yourself short. If I were you, I'd just apply to jobs regularly. Make some kind of cool demo ruby on rails (or whatever) site and then play up the fact that you learn fast in your resume.

Of course, I've never been in a hiring position and 99 times/100 I'd choose the person who learns quickly over the person who already knows.
Zuck isn't a celebrity? Gates? Jobs? This article is finnicky
A company isn't like a single group of people, really. It's more like a confederation of affiliated fiefdoms. Some companies are worse than others in this regard (for instance, you can actually find pirated copies of Windows 7 by searching on Bing: http://www.bing.com/search?q=%2bpirate+windows+7&FORM=RC...) but even Apple is somewhat affected.

In one office, one group of people working on Safari decided Readability was a good idea worthy of reimplementation. In another office, possibly another building, another group of people decided iAd would be a good idea. Any higher ups, including Steve, probably agreed with both assessments without thinking to put the two together, because they have far more important work to do than designing absurd conspiracies to "punk the web and gild the iPad".
Reminds me of neodymium magnets, which can be so strong that you have to plan your route through a room when transporting them:

http://www.wiredpakistan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4895

http://cgi.ebay.com/350-lb-Rare-Earth-Neodymium-Magnet-INDUS...
Or, individual users can limit how many sources they have, and not make it difficult for users who like more feeds to use more.
Perhaps you can be more specific as to what your startup is and what qualities you are looking for?
heres a good one. someone can get it, its on me.

cin.co

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member that.
The double.MinValue follows the .NET convention

If you are going to use a function/value in a language/framework you are not familiar with, have a look at how it works or look up the extensive documentation first:

"The value of this constant is negative 1.7976931348623157E+308."[1]

"The value of the Epsilon property is not equivalent to machine epsilon,
which represents the upper bound of the relative error due to rounding
in floating-point arithmetic."[2]

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.double.minval...

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.double.epsilo...
The other points are that:

- color preference varies by country

- in mass production, the yolk color can be tweaked by the producer with food additives (e.g. https://www.dsm.com/anh/en_NA/products/carotenoids/carophyll...)
Here's a good picture of the desk:

http://i.imgur.com/tFVcegp.jpg

That's what a garage hardware startup looks like! A bit of a mess but some of my most productive time was spent in that room designing hardware, writing FPGA, embedded and workstation code. Oh, yes, doing our website too. Crazy times.

It was a year and a half of 14 to 18 hour days, 7 days a week from inception to launch. Behind the camera there's the rest of the garage (two cars wide) full of manufacturing equipment. No cars have ever entered my garages in my life. No room for them.
My reading list is pretty big. I keep articles there until I get around to reading them, if they seem like something I want to keep around I clip them to Evernote and remove them from the list. In some cases I'll just move them into bookmarks which are mostly unsorted, as I use them primarily as a durable form of browsing history.
I do not want to pick a fight, but how is Rust not doing that?

Check out /r/lang_name subs on Reddit, you will not find many other communities as vibrant (maybe some, but not the majority). Then check out rust_gamedev, dedicated to game programming.

I have not checked out their IRC but excerpts from IRC on /r/rust tells me the community is vibrant on both ends of the hose. They also had like one bad incident on IRC about a gender issue, and they shut that crap down with a strict Code of Conduct imposed everywhere. Whether or not your are into that, I think they take community management very seriously, and regardless of politics, I applaud that.

They have done every single thing about the language through RFCs and discussions of bugs and PRs on Github from almost project inception, where the community drives a lot.

There are very talented people writing tutorials on writing Rust, from tooling, to the Servo web browser experimentation, to http server libraries like Chris Morgan's work, to work on the Piston game dev library.

Granted, I have not checked for videos yet. Others correct me if I am wrong.

I mean, I understand that Go has these things, but maybe I am reading too much into your comment. I just think Rust has a wonderful community, media and all, about what you can do with it.

Rust is nonetheless a work in progress. I am not saying this to be judgemental, but Googlers released Go after work was complete at some stage. Volunteers and a few Mozillans have worked on Rust iteratively, on many iterations and revisions, out in the open. This makes a big difference in perception and how easy it is to get started.

Granted, I have not started with either. But what keeps me interested in Rust, even though it is way out of my comfort zone and I have terrible systems programming knowledge, is exactly about what you describe with Go.

For me, I look Rust more, personally, because of my perception they are willing to try simple, try complicated, but as long as it is a reasoned discussion about language design. And the best part: IF X IN RUST DOES NOT WORK, OUR BAD, WE THROW IT AWAY. I caps that because it is so refreshing to see that. People have complained a lot. Some of the complaints are there, but many redundant or irritating features were removed simply because they were not useful or outlived usefulness. I wish this honest experimentation was more frequent in the industry, but my myopic view, as largely an outsider, is that it is not the norm. (And to be clear, I am not saying Go or language X does not do these things, but observing Rust you see they are briskly paced but willing to make deliberate changes at a pace and keep reviewing the drawing board; I cannot pass judgement on other langs, and this is just my impression.)
cool... can you guarantee that every password is generated with equal probability?
Variable-order markov models do sound interesting; this tool isn't using them, though....
And then reconsider this at "webscale" (and yeah, I hate myself a little bit for using that term).

"Millions of deliveries" with a "five or six nines" 99.999% or 99.9999% success rate would almost certainly be considered spectacularly successful by Domino's. Wikipedia says $1.8billion in revenue, 220,000 employees, and 10,000 stores - some outrageous assumptions might be made. Lets say ~$500 per day per store is, what, a 15% of revenue franchise fee as a guess? So a store on average makes $3-4k/day? So maybe 3 to 4 hundred pizzas a day, right? Five nines would be one error per store per year. Six nines would be one error per store per _decade_. I bet their real-life error rate is _way_ worse than that.

But, across 10000 stores and 220,000 employees, a billion or so pizzas a year isn't really a very big number.

Now consider Google, or Facebook, or Amazon. How many emails/adviews/status-updates/likes/widget-orders do you suppose happen every hour? Would it be as low as 1 billion per hour? And would a spectacular seeming "six nines" of reliability, which means dropping a thousand mails/adviews/updates/orders _per hour_ be acceptable?

"failures from time to time" in some contexts, can mean "fundamentally and irrevocably broken" in other contexts...
Hey could you provide some resources for learning Distributed Computing using Python. I was thinking of using Go but since I know python to a considerable extent, I wanna give Python a fighting chance for making distributed systems.
Managing Director is the highest up in chain and it covers highest levels of management. In fact, CEO of Morgan Stanley is a Managing Director.

But of course an MD can decide to 'get his hands dirty'. It is a personal decision.
I wonder why would anyone vote down my post.
Thanks for the data point. Did the square roots render over the quantities. I'll have to check browsers, but Opera was a no go and Chrome is okay but not great.
you need flash to watch the interview.

Oh the irony.
I don't think you're saying anything that most of the people described don't already know.
To put it another way, compare and contrast the following statements:

Amazon's patent covers a networked computer system [that] provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users.

And:

Amazon's patent covers every networked computer system [that] provides various services for assisting users in locating, and establishing contact relationships with, other users.
That's a great idea, but not very obvious.
It would seem easier to just scan the film, then write some software instead of building a special machine.