jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It probably comes down to personality type as to whether you are comfortable with this sort of message wrapped in self promotion. I thought it was an effective piece, but it would have been more effective if someone else had written it about him.

And by the way, don't hate me because I'm beautiful.
It’s a nice idea on paper, but I don’t think there are many power banks that support 100W+ discharge.

Moreover, that’s a relatively recent technology and there was a good decade (or more) between the point when bay batteries disappeared and usb-c charging became any sort of commonplace occurrence outside Apple products.
Olivetti Teletype had lower case. I had an interesting episode, where the University of Nitpicking Nazis discussed if my thesis, printed entirely on Teletype, was acceptable. -- It was not as good-looking as with IBM Selectric, but quite comparable to regular manual typewriters.
That's good to know, didn't know Wise had virtual cards.
There used to be a retail store that let you use their facilities to make your own wine from concentrate packaged in plastic bags. We tried it once. The result was surprisingly good. Unfortunately the place only lasted a year or two before it went under.
Try writing a custom apache module? (Or nginx, or similar...) You can do some pretty fun things once you get into that layer of the web transaction life cycle (e.g. modifying behavior of things outside of the usual request/response part of the http transaction that you'd usually work with).
I know OP means well, but this is some of the most misguided advice I've ever seen on Hacker News...

1. Know the tech landscape better than anybody else

This is like saying, "Know God" or "Know the meaning of life". You'll be chasing down something elusive and nebulous while the rest of us are learning, building, and growing.

Also, you will never know anything better than anybody else, so just get that self-defeating thought out of your head.

2. Form an opinion and start a blog

If you've been there and done that, please share your experience. We're eager to hear about it. Otherwise, you should be listening, not talking. There are enough worthless blogs out there. Please don't add another one.

3. Be familiar with the startup culture - Each sport, industry, or college has a unique culture, with its own lingo, success stories, and taboos. Startup culture is no different.

2 things you can do with 4 possible scenarios:

a. Build stuff that delivers long term value to others and can sustain itself as a business

b. "fit in"

- If you do both a. and b., great.
- If you do a. and not b., no one will care that b. is missing.
- If you do b. and not a., you're adding little or no value.
- If you do neither a. or b., you're adding little or no value.

In other words "culture", "lingo", "success stories", "taboos", are all non-issues. Bullshit. They don't matter.

In the end, all that really matters (with rare exceptions) is a.

You can skip #3.

I’d also recommend hanging out on tech-heavy communities like Hacker News or Reddit. Observe how people interact. Pay close attention to which articles and comments get voted up or down. It will go a long way in figuring out what the startup culture sees as valuable. Decide if these values mesh with what you see as important.

Please don't do this. All you will learn is how a crowd behaves, which may or may not have anything to do with what really matters.

If you want to come to Hacker News to lurk and learn, welcome! But don't get caught up in what "the world thinks". This is a great recipe for the community to experience eternal September and for you to become just another poser.

4. Offer a concrete skill

99% of the work in a start-up is either building or selling & implementing. If you can do either well, great. If you can't, then learn how and forget all the rest of the bullshit in this post.

5. Take an internship

Good advice, actually, for #4 above.

6. Send cold emails

Please don't. Anywhere else that's called spam.
art existed before IP laws and will exist after IP laws.
I expected something like an Onion article. What I got was even more excellent.
All of this from a device which prevents you from ever removing its battery.
The last VC-backed startup I worked at, the marketing people were 3 Harvard MBAs that kept the sales people away from the developers, and they helped us figure out what product features were most relevant to implement. They also got us the latest and greatest sample ASICs.
Genuinely curious: Could anyone tell me what the difference is between showoff and localtunnel[1], aside from a payment plan? Great looking site, by the way, but I keep bracing for a JavaScript popup with the page so dark.

[1]: https://github.com/progrium/localtunnel/
I didn't meant to imply their fear was justified. ;)
Just things that are cool. Stuff done in F# or in other communities like the Haskell, Clojure, or Rails community.

I'm trying to see why the things coming out of the Clojure and F# community are cool, but they aren't coming out of the C#/Visual C++ community. For example, ScottGu showed off a C#/Silverlight app built by a 3rd party that was a 3D model of the human body, where you coudl strip layers and interact in real time... all rendering pushed to the GPUs. That seemed cool to me. And they did it in a week.

I'm trying to understand why we have this disconnect.
I had taught myself HTML and Javascript as my first adventure into writing code. A PC gaming related sites I visited often started doing some dynamic pages with Perl (this was the late 90s), and I just thought that was the bees knees, so I went off to learn Perl. I wrote a simple guestbook style script for a little site I had, uploaded it, went to the browser and got a nice 'Internal Server Error'. I read every line of code I had written, couldnt find the error, then realized my FTP client was set to upload in binary rather than ASCII. Uploaded the script again in the right mode, went to the site, and it worked. I didn't even know the difference between the two at the time.

It's not really an 'aha moment' that's on the same level as others mentioned here, but it was the first script I ever wrote. Before that, the dynamic portion of the internet seemed like magic. I've been hooked ever since. :)
1password + Dropbox is pure awesomeness. Great browser integration. Works on iPhone as well.
I'm not in a position to comment much on the substance of your article, but this line:
"that the author works in the statistics department, appears to have never published any previous physics research, and in 5 months has not gotten this paper published in a peer reviewed journal and has not been cited by any other work."

irks me a little. Einstein was an unpublished patents clerk with a rocky academic record when he developed and published the special theory of relativity.

While prior publishing success and citations is undoubtedly a marker of good thinking, it is erroneous, in my opinion, to exclude the work of someone based of the fact they haven't. Because there are many, many precedents where prevoiusly unknown people have published groundbreaking work. I think everyone should be judged on the merits of their thinking, not on their status within academia.
"hi, i would like to check that this issue is fixed but i'm at the bottom of that huge list of duplicates and I can't scroll up to see"
That was the general idea behind the newton's 'soup' and the db parts of the BeFS.
How could you quote that far and not include the last sentence..

And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

And there was light----
Why not wait for the XPS 13 Dev Edition?
So the only example of query paramaters screwing up security is actually not about url query paramaters at all.

What a bad article.
sure! to pick a few highlights, there was tree-style undo, integrated spellchecking and intellisense in v7, folding, diff mode and integrated remote editing and the commandline window in v6, syntax highlighting and vimscript in v5.

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/version7.html for the whole list.
I thought this way before, and looked down on what I had made, but I'm slowly coming around to the idea that its more about how well the approach works and what it teaches you than about the technical details. I definitely wouldn't code it the same way today, but it worked well and taught me a lot. I wouldn't stop anyone who's in a similar position from doing the same.
The gauntlet of extremely sketchy looking solications, and providing interviews in video format only, suggests that this product is aimed at the ... less savvy of consumers; not someone going to build an actual business.

(Why does he need my email to show me a video? He isn't even offering to email me anything at that point, so what could it be besades spam?)
That price gets you the slower 800 MHz CPU and a 1080p display, but apparently they will soon be offering it with a 1.2 GHz CPU and a 3200x1800 display.
I came here to post exactly the same sentiment. Claiming Android could've competed against Blackberry instead is disingenuous - why would Google set themselves up to challenge a second-rate user experience when it could aim to be the best?
Damm, no providers in my area for this. :-)
This article repeats a meme, but is total BS. It's similar to saying "the hidden costs of being a founder" and then stating that if you do ever make a successful exit, you will have a lot of your time wasted by having to select bedlinen and other hidden costs of having made an exit. (the hidden cost to being a founder - you will be forced to work unpaid hours shopping for luxury bedlinen. so consider carefully.) Well guess what: that's not real technical (or founder) debt!

The idea of calling this stuff technical debt is simply laughable. there's no debt. you don't owe shit.

hint: if you code something up in 20 minutes you still don't have to do all that other stuff, you can just ignore it, and throw away the twenty minutes of code if it's not better than not having it. if you become a millionaire you don't have to do all that stuff, you can just ignore it.

Let me put it another way. Say you're an MBA who can't code anything but excel formulas, yet you figured out how to get excel and powerpoint onto the web as a web app (wat). you create something and get 5,000 paying users and raise a $500,000 investment.

Have you created technical debt? No. You're at the same square as if someone gave you $500,000 to spend on developers against your mockups, except that you've validated them as well. There's no debt here. This article had it right:

http://www.higherorderlogic.com/2010/07/bad-code-isnt-techni...

The people that call this scenario (excel on the web) technical debt, think that somehow the MBA 'borrowed' the web app from a real dev, and now owes it in real development costs. That's a wrong way to think about it. In fact it's a ridiculous way to think about it.
Proof? No.

Being able to find a particular commit, made by the people previously accused during the correct time-period, and showing how what they did was subtlety broken? Sure, that's very possible. Proof of mal-intent is hardly necessary.
"On the Common App used by most top colleges, applicants are asked to check a box waiving their right to ever see the recommendation letters written by their high school teachers and counselors. But students who did not check the box can get copies of those, too."
May as well add to this, but we're actually looking for contributors to help out, so if you're interested in working on a fairly new language then send us a PR :)
I saw entire Teak/Hardwood plantations for sale on E-Bay in Nicaragua or some other central American country. Not sure if they’re still on there. They were like 800k+.

I don’t think they were in the rainforest though
Re your edit: they explain it pastes the output of the command directly into your buffer, rather than temporarily showing you a shell with the output.
I was in my mid 20's Silicon Valley Company I grew my team from myself and 1 employee to 6 full time employee and 2 contractors This was in 1990's The meetings were a bunch of good ole boys congratulating each other on sales, and profit sharing amounts. When everything was done after 3 months to define a new interface drawn on board, talked through, changed. When the new box was swhown to sales marketing their reaction was "I didn't know it was going to work like that !!!"
I waited 1 month then quit, Never will I ever do that again
Decision made people are my kryptonite !!!!!
I do agree that they are usually not mentioned as competitors. Z3 does indeed basically find things, and Coq does mostly just verify things and not find them for you.
I see why this is inflammatory but

>'If you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or Trump, then you ain't black'

is an actual Joe Biden quote and is reasonable to bring up. It has bearings on exposing the relationship between the democratic party and it's perceived relationship with people of color and the idea that there is an effort to censor people who don't adhere to this narrative which is the topic of this article.
You can definitely buy gold coins. I have one in my desk drawer right now, even.
Some background on why we're seeing more Pompeii discoveries lately, as well as why looting is up as well: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/pompeii-new-excavations-l...
Even more dystopian: replace all the workers with robots.
I think that's the thing that is most amazing to me - once we got to the SSD era there really haven't been amazing "performance leaps" like we used to have in the 90s-early 2000s.

I remember selling my gaming computer at college every 3-6 months and building the new hotness and it being NOTICEABLY better each time.
I'm not sure this is accurate - tests on students are twice a week according to this https://dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2021/03/09/covid-testing-in-sch...
I don't think an eleven year old statement about the status quo is a good source. We've since seen many more examples about how removing contrary opinions from the discussion creates places with negative utility. And lest anyone thinks otherwise: Making text harder to read and easier to scroll over is a clear signal to ignore the comment.

In my opinion downvotes are best used for purposes of moderation, to remove comments that poison the discussion.
Agreed on the blind test prediction.

However, electric guitarists are placebo addicts and if 4 nice men spent a 20 minute internet video agreeing on something one of the bearded guys from ZZ Top maybe once said, some guitarists will play along with a little bit more ease in their hearts.
Yes, K8s seems a bit overkill for such a service. But if you like to work with K8s and it motivates you to stay on task, why not?
I do wonder what full economic collapse would do to Putin's Russia. Considering the worsening prospects for oil producers, we may see the economic context change.
Presumably the UK where there is lots of discussion about the government possibly making vaccine passports mandatory for certain types of businesses (I think large-scale events and nightclubs are examples).
This is really insightful. I appreciate you taking the time to write it.
> What's your view of the Philly startup scene?

It is certainly trending upwards. When I moved here I created a monthly startup hackathon group (http://www.groupomatic.com/haqsm3vj) that now has ~200 members in it, and attracts 20-40 good people each month working on cool stuff. PSL and other groups (http://phillystartupleaders.org/resources/network-around-phi...) have also created good communities and Dreamit (http://dreamitventures.com) has brought in some great companies. Also, First Round Capital (http://firstround.com) is based here, though they haven't made many Philly investments.

That said, it is way behind Boston, NYC, and of course SV. I couldn't be a good active consumer Web angel investor in Philly alone. But I'm trying to do my part to improve it.

> Why wouldn't you move to to Silicon Valley?

I like the life we've developed here--location, friends, family, etc., and there are many things I don't like about CA (price, distance, etc.).

> What's your experience been like so far with angel investing?

It is a very different challenge than doing a startup, and I've learned a lot on just the three investments I've done and the many many more I've evaluated. I've been trying to write up what I've learned on my blog when appropriate: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/angel-investing/

I've built my companies in somewhat of isolation, so it is really great to get more involved in other startups. I've been trying to add as much value as I can without being annoying or controlling in any way. Alexis Ohanian described it well at Angel Boot Camp--a good angel investor is a combination between yoda and a fire-firefighter. He/she is there when you need him with somewhat incomprehensible sage advice :). I'm also highly technical so I try to add value there as well when needed/wanted.

Happy to answer follow-ups, or more questions here, by email, or formspring: http://formspring.me/yegg
The Apple bid might be real? A simple rumour typically doesn't merit a 25% rise.
"TextRunner searches hundreds of millions of assertions extracted from 500 million high-quality Web pages."
Others have pointed out that you need to read, challenge yourself and work hard. I'd add that this is a lifestyle change, not a quick fix - you need to treat it accordingly, or accept that this is not something you can do indefinitely.

You know those people who say "I used to ..., but then I realised that ... and now I'm much happier"? You're either one of them just on the cusp of your epiphany, or you're just wishing really hard for a silver bullet. The latter is a waste of your time.

(Mine was putting the blame for my lack of achievements anywhere but my own procrastination. I realised what I was doing, and stopped by imposing deadlines on myself, and penalties for missing them. "I'm not allowed to go to that party at the weekend unless this project is finished, completely. Either that, or accept that I'll never achieve anything because I don't put in the time". Treating myself like the naughty child I was, basically.)
Why do you assume that? Just because she's from Pakistan?

Regardless my culture isn't that rosy either I just choose to reject it and was lucky that my family didn't really care.

Regardless if you're life is in danger that's the equivalent of slavery and their not your family anymore their your masters.

If you're OK with living that kind of life fine and just give up and go to the US otherwise you need to disappear and break contact with everybody you ever met.

Either fight or give up it can't be both.
Why not?

Edit: Think hard about your answer because to me it seems like this is a beautiful example of the power of technology outside of the norm here in the states.
Let's assume that the writer is in an arranged marriage that she didn't consent to (except perhaps under some duress). There have certainly been "honour killings" in the UK and I doubt that other countries have solved that problem completely. If she runs then her life may be on the line.

Under such a scenario the refusal of entry would appear to be something she can't control; plausible deniability is there at least. Thus she could avoid staying without appearing to have been disobedient, instead appearing to have been subject to the authority of the immigration control.

Now the line about having relatives at the airport makes me think this is probably a hypothetical.

How would things pan out if she simply hands herself over to the immigration officers and says that she's there under duress, that her husband is illegally resident and that he intends for her to unlawfully remain in the USA against her will? Presumably entry with intent to stay beyond the limits of one's authorisation is unlawful and would normally meet with deporting?
Why use this and not Flask-RESTful? How is the use case different?

http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
It's Wacom. They announced it on their site. I could try it, but at this point I'm not up for the trials and tribulation of trying mavericks and having to revert.
I was a loyal T-Mobile customer for years, but now I'm their number one enemy.

In short, I moved to a new state and my house appears to lie between three misconfigured towers. Multiple phones, multiple models repeatedly dropping calls and texts. Diagnostic app showed phones constantly hunting between towers. T-Mobile customer service abysmal--their motto seems to be FOAD.

Finally paid the $800 termination fee to be rid of them. Both StraightTalk (ATT network) and Verizon work perfectly at this location.

The moral of the story is not that T-Mobile sucks (though they do). Rather, never, ever enter a multi-month agreement with a cell carrier. They are simply not to be trusted.
With my New Zealand accent, no matter how hard I try I can't make the "R" in red and car the same! Car for me is pronounced something like "Kah".
It's incredibly irresponsible of a company to market/sell these.
You like 4/4 western music and want to play it, but you are clearly aware of alternatives. As soon as you know what a time signature is, you know that there are many possibilities. Maybe if someone knows nothing of music theory and has never heard anything that wasn't 4/4 they would be unaware this was a variable parameter, but that's exactly the kind of user who needs a simple, user-friendly default.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation

Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam; also known as [argument from] middle ground, false compromise, gray fallacy and the golden mean fallacy) is an informal fallacy which asserts that the truth can be found as a compromise between two opposite positions. This fallacy's opposite is the false dilemma.
Simple solution: Don't ever incorporate in NY.

I know our C-corps are always done in Delaware. Does anyone know the 'best' place for LLC's?
You have to use # to get into a variety of phone conferencing systems, banks, and other stuff - it's the defacto "end of number" character at least here in the UK (e.g., "Enter your conference pin number, followed by the hash").

Haven't seen/heard of a use of * outside local PBX in years though.
Great, so now if I put a notice that no government employees are allowed to use my Web site, and they do anyway, I can sue them? :)
Restaurants can be more efficient ways to get better food to everyone, compared to home cooking. Think the classic "diner", a place where the employees csn afford to eat. When they are, that's inconspicuous consumption. Same for Henry Ford's assembly line cars.
F-Droid proves your point.
You should report to security@github.com next time.
I would argue that they are, yes. At least to some extent. (I use my laptop that way. My mom doesn’t.)

What has changed is the UI. People are now often encouraged to send their devices to sleep, that’s not really the case with even current laptops. Truly powering down is an equal citizen on desktop operating system instead of some weird function only nerds would use (like it is on smartphones).
Even then each thread is still one connection (according to the apache docs).
I use Google Voice, and I use it mainly for international calls. Cheaper than most other services, and I like how easy it is to use. So Google is already making money off me :P
I think there are far better ways to do this on a small object of limited lifespan like a smartphone, not to mention that metal is not an ideal way to make a smartphone. You can use it some surfaces, but at some point you'll need plastic and glass.
After the single lethal attack in 1945: "Several Japanese civilians have visited ... to offer their apologies for the deaths that took place here, and several cherry trees have been planted around the monument as a symbol of peace" [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_balloon
I'm the organizer, and I'm happy to take questions or suggestions
There's a hard limit on it today, this would just make the hard limit consistent.
Thanks for the tip, sounds like a good idea, I'm on it.