jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is a fantastic idea.

My only worry is that the owners will be legally hounded from every corner of the world due to the fact that most large food corporations don't really want you to know what's in their products.

Like the fact that "orange juice" is basically rancid orange sugar water left sitting in large vats for up to a year that is doused with orange oil before sale, apparently. [0]

I would get some legal cousel were I persuing this venture.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/orange-juice-is-premium-juic...
Delaware has a franchise fee, but it's not onerous, ~$500.
Just sharing your compensation with your co workers goes a long way toward solving this problem. But it is a social more to not share this information.

There's a very rational economic reason why some people are paid less than others for the same job. Leverage. Since WWII, women entered the work force in large numbers _because they were willing to work for less than their male counterparts._ So what was an opportunity for women once has become discrimination. Rightfully so. But it's important to remember how we actually got here. Equality of opportunity often translates into inequalities of outcome for reasons that are neither good nor efficient. So, yeah, sometimes the law can tip the scales to fix this. And that is not a bad thing.
Men die earlier, yes. You have a point there. [2][3] says that ~90999/100000 males survive to age 60 and ~94194/100000 females survive to age 60. That's a difference of ~3195/100000, or ~3.2%.

However, the question becomes if men retire earlier.

And the answer is no. [1] Women retire earlier than men on average (at least in Canada. Don't have stats handy for anywhere else, unfortunately). And that's measured in years, more than compensating for the above.

Regarding disabled people, a simple answer is that society as a whole would be against it, as there is enough of a chance of any individual person becoming disabled that it is in their best interest to not allow such a law.

And making an argument from an economic as opposed to a moralistic point of view does not make one a sociopath. As you may not have noticed, I never mentioned my moral point of view on the matter, as it's irrelevant.

[1] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/71-222-x/2008001/sectionm/m-age...

[2] http://www.prdh.umontreal.ca/BDLC/data/can/mltper_1x5.txt

[3] http://www.prdh.umontreal.ca/BDLC/data/can/fltper_1x5.txt

[4] http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-008-x/2012002/article/11697-...
I think the author misses how weird the world already is. The broad point, that software is becoming more important culturally, and software can become culturally important faster and for less justification, is I think probably true. But I am not convinced that software is more weird than most people.

Long before software people drew lines in the sand that formed pictures only visible from airplanes which did not exist. Stuff is weird, get used to it.
..you could end up spending a whole day trying to create a 32x32 icon and still hate it.

So can a designer ;)
In both cases, the investor typically has the option to seek repayment or convert. The conversion would be at the valuation you agreed for the note.
Jerry Weinberg, in The Secrets of Consulting, recommends charging about 4 times the hourly rate that you want to make. Thus, if you think you could live on $40/hour (about $80,000 a year), you need to charge about $160 an hour. This gives you the buffer that you need for unplanned downtime (illness, early termination of contracts, lulls in business) and planned downtime (vacation, training, business development activities). While you could argue the exact proportion, I think this is good advice, based on my experience as a consultant.
I'd suggest doing open-source work, blogging, and presenting at meet-ups. Sharing your knowledge with other people is a great way to make friendly connections.
Of course there is an orchestrating hand. This is what teachers are taught to teach in teaching colleges. This is why men who want to become teachers (here in the UK at least) are forced through the humiliating process of proving that they are not paedophiles.

Perhaps the political theorists behind it haven't thought it through, but emasculating men is policy.
if one person does two different things, there's probably a connection. I'm guessing not everyone shares both of the things in this posting.
Yeah, did they even have a stock market in the communist sowjet union? I hear living conditions have been fantastic there.
Ravi, even though Microsoft browsers make my life as a web developer a misery and I hate your employer's tactics with a passion, I appreciate you putting your head on the block here in a humble and courteous manner.

Now all your team has to do is to ship a great IE9.
I think your understanding of the benefit of the stock market is flawed: the length of holding does not impact the fact that you are providing capital to companies.

The only time money goes from investors to companies is at public offerings (initial or otherwise). All other transactions in shares (be it by long term investors or by high frequency hedge funds) do not benefit the companies directly. But they do provide an indirect benefit: without the existence of these investors (i.e. the secondary market) people would be very reluctant to invest in an IPO as they would be no exit strategy.
It is important for people buying in an IPO that the stock will be in demand in the future. The holding period of the people who will buy is irrelevant, the size and level of aggregate demand is not.

This being said, I am not arguing that have it is a good thing that the majority of volume is high frequency in nature.
and then he said:

"Nevermind, no bug about RC1, just my mistake".

Twitter to HN gateway. :-)
That's not a double blind experiment. I don't even know how to qualify it unless you at least have some data on how often those things the unknowingly eats that contains whatever she is sensitive against does not exhibit any reactions in her.
You could not peacefully sustain such a disparity in wealth if the citizens were not living comfortably.
For job boards I've been thinking about one of the talks given at #launch48 a couple of weeks ago where they had a UX designer talking about how websites should be an experience.

The experience from current job sites is pretty awful, when in actuality it should be the exact opposite. Job boards should be pleasurable and fill you with excitement, they should be more like dating sites, full of potential opportunities that'd you'd love to take.

Although how you build a job site like that is a tricky problem, because you have to get the companies posting the jobs to stop being soulless.
I thought the most interesting moment in that interview was when Jobs was asked about supporting Flash, he said they had to pick carefully which technologies to support because they didn't have the resources to just support everything.

This is from the CEO of the second largest company in the US by market cap that has something like $40B cash on hand. It seems that Apple internally still acts and feels like the small underdog, like a startup.
My biggest problem growing up was that I could latch onto these highly specialized words at an early age and wholly grasp the meaning. I then knew simple and advanced words, yet if someone didn't know the word I used I would have a hell of a time explaining it because I didn't have the moderately difficult words to still explain it in a rather succinct way.

I love talking, however I like being precise with my wording. It creates an elegance without trying to create artificial elitism. Knowing words isn't a cause of intelligence it's a correlated result and faking the latter to mimic the former is a fools quest.
I got accused of plagiarism in my first year of university. Turned out that I had somehow left my computer account signed in and one of the class (basically a dropout seizing the opportunity) grabbed a copy and submitted it.

It took me an absolute age to fix; at one point the tutor basically admitted I must be telling the truth and "offered" me half the papers marks.... bah.

Also, I did an Engineering degree; lots of plagiarism going on there (most engineers are pretty bad authors it seems :P). One major problem they had was the huge section of Asian students who all hung out together (across years) and basically shared/co-wrote all their work... I know one lecturer rejected about 35% of the drafts in one course during the second year!
Please make "eventually" mean "really soon" in the case of Android. I know it's a big time sink to develop for another platform, but I found the Android API pretty straightforward to program for. I'm really into the concept behind this app, and would love to get my friends and colleagues on board, but about half of us use Android handsets. (nb: I work for Google.)
I understand the event. I’m trying to better understand the person.
What's the alternative to every individual determining for themselves what they view as good and evil?
I don't think Snapchat/Whatsapp has any sort of scheduling features, just sending pics and video to groups of people.

From what friends have said, FB groups features (scheduling, etc.) are what keep them on that platform, along with messenger.
The people do it to themselves. They believe what they want to believe, hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see. This is still largely a free country where there are multiple independent sources of "news", and individuals voluntarily expose themselves or not to whatever they choose. As far as I know, nobody is tied down in a chair and forced to watch certain TV shows or listen to certain radio shows for hours, days, weeks, months at a time, to the exclusion of all else. Maybe in airport terminals, but again, travel is also voluntary.

I find the "How did we arrive to this point" question interesting, because for most of recorded history, the masses of humanity have not been so different than they are today. If anything, "enlightenment" is a relatively rare occurrence.
> Way back in feb I made a post suggesting masks might be a low cost / useful way to reduce spread of covid, that was attacked by everyone as not recommended and that they don't work

Was this back when the CDC guidelines were saying the same? I can't fault lay people for placing faith in the words of supposed science/data-driven institutions (if that was what was happening rather than people spouting ridiculous conspiracy theories).
You can just use whatever you like to sync at the moment: REST, Parse, Firebase, carrier pigeons… We are interested in adding it and the feature request is tracked here: https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/913 We’d love to hear about specific use-cases y’all have in mind in that thread.
Try to write Python style metaprogramming is something like Java some day. It's perfectly possible, but nobody would think about that style. Now try to write it in C++, just for the lulz.

Or, if you are not satisfied, try to create a non-synchronous TCP server in C, Java, or Python. Then write one in Haskell.

Try creating RAII containers in Java... Ops, that can not be done!
StartSSL has been on the naughty list for a while

They charge for revocation, so it negates the entire idea of a "free certificate" if you can't properly revoke them without forking over money. It literally breaks the entire idea of revocation.

This was made very clear when Heartbleed happened
>But never have I experienced this kind of mental strain/obsession as I do now with lisp.

That's why it's so valuable as a right of passage. If you've spent your career writing simple iterative imperative loops, suddenly you're a newb again with map/filter/reduce this, partial that, and recursion and lambdas and closures and finally after your 20th time staring, dazed at 3 measly lines of nested composed recursion - it all starts to flow, and boom, you have a new way of approaching every problem.

And even if you don't live in the lispy functional realm after that you'll always be better off for having crossed that threshold.
When I think of Anime, I don't think of think of the critically acclaimed stuff like Samurai Champloo or Space Cowboy.

I think of the endless episodes of Naruto, Pokemon, Conan, One Piece.
Is this node/ES5 only or can we use io?
Not to totally derail this thread, but what do you recommend for SOHO NAS brands and models for this type of use case?
It's still in beta, so free download.

The plan is to keep 1.0 free as well, and focus on selling services and plugins rather than traditional software licences. (Not 100% sure if that will happen though, but it's what I'm personally pushing for.)
Thanks for taking the time to reply.

In Leif's post, the graph shows "b-trees" on the inner curve. The equivalent point on the outer curve would be a data structure that makes the same read/write tradeoffs as a b-tree, but is simply better in all cases.

The other reply suggests cache oblivious b-trees. I haven't had time to look at them yet. It's worth pointing out that if cache oblivious b-trees really are better than normal b-trees, you could build an LSM-tree out of them.

My interpretation is that TokuTek is conflating data structures' theoretical performance with their implementations' practical performance. So the graph is trying to represent "typical" b-trees as not using compression and other techniques that TokuDB uses. Under that interpretation, each data structure would have a spectrum of possible performance from poor to highly tuned, which the graph doesn't make clear.

To be fair, I think TokuDB probably has very good real world performance, and there's a huge need for better LSM-trees (and better database engines in general). My objection is the comparison of the data structures, not the implementations.
I had the same issue. Anywhere in 80-100% of the messages get delivered. Lost interest quickly...
Hey, he is the author of Higher-Order Perl!
I've seen this story get covered by every major news source but they all have the same take on it "he'll never be able to cash the big chips". Big fucking deal. He probably never even planned on taking those. No one has actually broken down the denominations of chips he took.

How much of what he stole is in $1,000 chips or less? That's the real story to what was stolen. Lazy reporters don't bother asking. No, they just defecate what the AP feeding tube shoved up their nose.
And it works well with event sourcing system
In somewhat of a parallel, you don’t have to switch jobs either, you can start your own software company at any time ;)
Maybe you’re right about some things becoming infantile, but a lot of the examples shown on this product page aren’t just about messing around with GIFs. You can build visual virtual spaces, like a virtual conference space or auditorium. The idea of being able to virtually walk around a virtual physical space and speak to people in an analogy to real life (by getting “closer” to them) seems like it’s an idea with at least some potential, and certainly a better idea than doing the real thing right now.

Also, you may be surprised to find out that you are allowed to have silly fun as an adult.

In my opinion, the “infantilization” of our workplaces is a huge positive, it’s really a side effect that’s demonstrating that employers are caring less about forcing us to wear fake clothes, fake personalities, and fake formality during our day to day work. Comedy is one of the best coping mechanisms to deal with stress and in that way it helps to be able to slap a GIF over a situation without feeling like the boss man is going to tell me to tone it down.

And sure, maybe there’s no need for this product, but what I can say is that if you build another Zoom/Meet/WebEx you aren’t really making anything new or interesting.
Nostalgia > Technical Capability in this case.
It's an old GNU tool. The package name will be "units" everywhere.
For the vast majority of people, the walled garden is irrelevant. They're going to run the same apps on either Android or iOS, but on Android those apps have more ability to invade your privacy and Google is doing whatever it is they do to make money off you. On the other hand, Apple has every incentive to respect their users privacy.
This. I used to have an RV and looked into satellite options in case we ever wanted to go fully remote. They were pricy but justifiable when you need it for something like that.

Where I am, my Spectrum service is fantastic for a reasonable price and I can’t imagine justifying paying for Starlink at my house. If anything the only upgrade I ever expect to make is when AT&T fiber finally makes it to me.

Even then, I’m pretty happy with the TV package and my TiVo units so switching to a non-cable provider is questionable if I don’t really need it.
EDIT: Alex replied below. For more details on quantisation see footnotes in our seminal work [1]

[1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/
Perhaps the article has been updated since you wrote this, but it no longer mentions "interesting questions" and instead includes a footnote saying if they can't annotate these images, that doesn't bode well for their rumoured AR headset.
At this point, 5G just seems like a gimmick for selling you internet connected devices that you can't unplug.
Debian is fantastic on the Pi. Same goes for Arch.

There's also 'Armbian', which is recommended for some non-RPi boards.
I know this is meant as a rhetoric, but it sounds like car sales.
I bought a car last year. They sent my name and address to Sirius XM and now I'm getting spammed by marketing calls + marketing physical mail for Sirius XM when I don't need such service. I have a phone and all my music on it. It's already something that happens in the non-software world and it's definitely annoying there too!
It always should have been. I'm not sure anyone would not class them as a nation state threat level. It's one of the most powerful government agencies in the most powerful nation in the world. If they don't fit that definition who would?
Yeah from what I've read, people who work longer feel more productive but in reality they're less productive. I would guess it's from your stress hormones constantly being engaged.

This also jives with my experience noticing colleagues. The least productive people I've worked with have worked the longest hours.
It gets worse, because it's such a probabilistic market. How does any patient tell the difference between a surgeon with a 10% fatality rate and a worse one with an 11% fatality rate? (At the usual estimates of the value of a life in the several millions USD, that 1% is worth a lot.) And if they somehow had that data, how would they adjust for the surgeons' working in different geographies or specializing in slightly different patient types?

This sort of problem is why making hospitals release medical data hasn't been very useful. And if you can't get much reliable signal out of large datasets with rigorous statistical analysis, how are ordinary people and gossip supposed to reach the right answers which could allow market mechanisms work?
I was accepted into Hack Reactor's 5th class and MakerSquare's 1st class. I chose Hack Reactor (and I'm glad I did) but I really liked the MakerSquare founders and was happy to see them be so successful. Both teams have liked and respected each other as long as I've known them.

This seems like a win-win for both sides: Hack Reactor's hiring support is amazing (the 99% hiring rate is not just accurate but calculated using a higher standard than most competitors[1]) and MakerSquare is still the big dog in Austin.

I'm especially excited as a Hack Reactor alumnus who's getting tired of SF and eyeing Austin!

[1] http://www.quora.com/Hack-Reactor/When-you-say-the-average-i...
4chan isn't really different. Instead of taking your ball to another subreddit where you can now bully everyone who disagrees with you, 4chan just screams at you until you submit to the will of the board or you take your ball to some other website.

Reddit and 4chan are both pretty big echo chambers, it's just the way they (the users) maintain it that's different.
That's an awfully strange way of putting it, I would just call it "cross-platform library". Isomorphism usually has the constraints of full inversion—this seems to imply you can render it on the server and serve it from the browser, and that's not being fulfilled at all. It's not even clear how anything would, as browsers are not typically set up to serve. It's also misleading to people who use the term outside of node servers.

I strongly recommend using "fully shared state" or "client-server application" or something to not imply anything more than DRY logic in javascript across the state of the blog. Otherwise it devalues both your work (doesn't fulfill people's expectations of isomorphism) and the word (it no longer has any meaning).

EDIT: To put it another way, I would expect a server to NOT BE NECESSARY for the client to work, just like clients aren't necessary for the server to function correctly.
Lists themselves are usually allocated on the heap. Code represented as lists is compiled to some other form, either bytecode or machine code, to be executed. The lists are basically treated as an AST, and from there you can use standard compiler techniques to go to a given instruction set.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but because the person is not paying into those taxes, they also will lose out on social security benefits when they are older. So it's not a total free lunch.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted. Matt's point is completely correct that we can transcend our biology, but it's a MASSIVELY powerful force and constantly underestimated by people. I think people just don't like the idea that the default behavior of most people is hardwired and unpleasant.

Also, the HN crowd probably underestimates how much the average person makes knee jerk decisions based on evolutionarily-driven intuition - this community is very conscious, reflective, thinking. It's easy for people surrounded by the best, brightest, most thinking, most analyzing people to forget that the vast majority of people aren't that way.
> I mean they could have marketed black rock if it happened to be their line of business.

Well, if it happened to be their line of business, and they had a monopoly on the supply of it. It's hard to market things you can find in your back yard.
I found it interesting how some companies iterated & evolve their logo many, many times - while others made only a few changes over the years (e.g. Burger King, Playboy & FedEx). The latter, it seems, are great examples of the value of truly talented graphic designers.
This is not at all surprising. iPhone allows parents to enable restrictions on purchasing application that can access adult content, which of course a generic web browser can. They can also restrict access to the built-in Safari browser.

It's a much better solution than back when they were outright rejecting any application that could access arbitrary content on the internet.
> there's only so much you can describe with hand gestures without the movements becoming unintuitive.

Even more so for sounds. Most spoken words are no more intuitive than arbitrary gestures in modern gestural languages (which can similarly be articulated in powerful systems just like spoken languages).

Aural, visual, tactile and chemical channels each have advantages and disadvantages for different applications. I'm not convinced intrinsic 'intuitiveness' is one of these factors. In communication, intuition is mostly hardwired convention. Lowering ears and wagging tail has a different (and quite opposite) instinctive meaning for cats and dogs.
I'm not sure it's that surprising. iPhone has only 3 variants (2G, 3G, 3GS) but one real model (THE iPhone).

Android has many more models (G1, Nexus One, Droid, myTouch, EVO, etc...) being sold by multiple carriers all under one umbrella of "Android phones."
> Safari would have these same warnings if it was distributed through the App Store. It's just that people expect their phone to come with a web browser.

In fact, Safari can be blocked through the Parental Controls on the iPhone.