jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't know how many people can share a satellite.

They're 340 miles up, and traveling 17,000mph (I think?)

wonder how many satellites will be in view, for how long.
One could easily argue in response that there's no such thing as bitcoin "philosophy." There's only what you can and can't do with the protocol. If they can implement their ideals under the strictures of what the protocol allows, that's their prerogative.
Unlike most here I began learning programming in my late 20s.

On the recommend of my first mentor, the second programming book I picked up was Code Complete by Steve McConnell. It did a LOT to improve the quality of my code, and enable me to write better code.

Be warned that it is a fairly heavy tome. And it is the kind of book which you want to not just read, but to actually absorb into your programming and thinking habits. But if you have the discipline to actually do it, I can't recommend it highly enough.
It's a problem of incentives. When I worked in a corporate environment, I worked very hard to ensure that people asking for things were the ones who paid for it -- even internally. A project # to bill against for everything.

In the agency world (where I was), carefully billing time was de rigueur for client-facing people. I pushed to have it apply for non-billable internal people too.

So the "idea people" had to do cost-benefit. Requires a cultural change (and trust), but it brings discipline to both sides. Really helped.
>Changes in institutions/networks/interconnectedness etc. as described in the Beinhocker book is innovation according to the economic textbook definition.

Innovation is hardly considered in economics at all. As is alluded to in the essay, it is considered an external variable. This is a huge point of Beinhocker's that economic theory is based on a physics of equilibrium. Bad idea.

Networks and interconnectedness are not considered at all in 'textbook' economic definitions. When agents already have perfect information, why do you need to meet others?

I'd love to see a textbook definition of innovation that comes close to what you have asserted here.
Ya, because maybe the iPhone is the best example of exactly what he's talking about. The iPhone has always been something of an enigma to me. In all of the short-term usability testing I've seen (and done), it's performed really poorly. Yet the overall engagement is through the roof.

I would argue it's primarily because the iPhone feels like a game when you play it. It rewards you for doing the right thing. It provides a lot of feedback. It's smooth and quick... It's exactly what the author is talking about.
Those bits of information exist because they have revenue-earning potential. If you block all ads, you're making providing information less profitable, which will make it harder to find information in the future. Block ads on a site after you get annoyed by them. If it's a site you rarely visit, there's probably not much use in going further out of your way to help them out.
Designing to sell - that reminds me of the last laptop I purchased. It had every gizmo turned on, endless vendor crap installed, booted up like a dog and ran worse.

There was definitely zero interest in making my experience a good one. Somebody marketing committee had gotten ahold of the product and this was the result.

1st thing I did: wipe it and reload the OS. With OS media I had to buy separately.
I would say something along the lines of what you said here. You were new, there are a few things you'd have done differently now (and list what those are) but that people love it and its not your primary interest anymore, etc.
Of course you put it in there!

Try something like "Created X-PHP app in 2001. With one million downloads, X-PHP powers [large_number] sites as tracked by netcraft. (link here)"

You can't leave something like that out, it's an impressive accomplishment and ignoring it due to some PHP sensitivity is a bad idea.

The one and only purpose of a resume is to catch the eye of a reviewer and thus score you an interview. Once they see that you've published a 1M-download app and call you in for an interview then you can tell them what you've learned in the past ten years.

Think of it in terms of conversion rates. Some small percentage of resume readers are going to request an interview. Some smaller percentage of those are going to make an offer. You don't want to self-select your way out of that first pool.

Edit: I have old projects on my github that are ugly too. I put my misgivings in the readme. "This was written 5 years ago, it could stand to be modernized, the interesting parts are here (link)."
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The true joy of life is the trip, not the destination
I'm usually questioning the code I wrote 15 minutes ago.
Who pays for shipping?
"Because printing more money is just another form of stealing."

When the amount of gold in circulation falls, its value rises and people go dig up more. And yet your logic would make this a criminal act, because "digging up gold is just another form of stealing". You make the gold standard criminal by definition.

So I doubt you really mean what you are saying, and I have serious doubts you understand these issues since your rhetoric as well as your misunderstanding of what Keynes wrote basically echos the rhetoric of the Republican Party under Reagan and Bush, the two administrations which have done the most long-term damage to the US national budget, and whose anti-debt crusade (once out of power) has been largely responsible for keeping unemployment so high this long after the crisis.

What would Keynes have advocated in 2008? Unquestionably a more aggressive fiscal stimulus in 2008 once it became clear monetary policy had failed to prevent deflation and soaring unemployment. Your concerns about debt would be irrelevant because the cost of capital to the US government was zero: the world was (rightly or wrongly) clamoring to buy Treasury Bonds at non-existent rates of interest.

This approach becomes untenable once there is inflation or when competition for capital raises interest rates. But if the former happens then you've eliminated deflation and solved the unemployment problem. And if interest rates rise without triggering inflation? Then you use monetary policy to lower them and increase the money supply again through market mechanisms until deflation stops. Rinse and repeat until unemployment is close to its natural rate again and/or you get inflation, at which point you declare victory and go home. Radical? Considering that the total cost of the 2008 Economic Stimulus act was about 1/4 of the annual US military budget, it is hard to see pursuing full employment as an unreasonable policy, especially when the cost of doing so was effectively zero.
TL/DR:

> 1. Hunspell is used almost everywhere and is taken for granted;

> 2. It is much more complicated than one might naively expect;

> 3. This complexity—and years of human work that was spent growing the project—is notoriously hard to follow through the Hunspell’s codebase and grasp in full.

> In other words, I wanted to make the knowledge behind Hunspell more open.
I think of it as vertical vs horizontal career path. Vertical is becoming a manager of more and more people and/or projects. Horizontal is becoming an expert at more and more technologies/languages/etc.
The police and mob are on the same side.

https://twitter.com/byaaroncdavis/status/1346908166030766080

The military has also sided with the fascists.
How many Australian football fields in 1.3 Canada's?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikecentennial

This was an important prelude, cross country routes and coast routes too. Really neat maps and made with love, vision and a spirit of adventure that needs to be brought back.

Note that US roads in comparison to British roads are far better for bicycles as the margin at the edge is like a good UK bike path. In western states where there is considerable distance and you need to put the miles in then these are good roads.
Is this a coup?
> If you're a "pure coder" who doesn't have any of the other skills you mentioned, your output is incredibly limited. At best, you produce a day's worth of code in a day, but you also require someone to manage you closely to make sure you code the right stuff.

This seems to miss the point of teams. Everyone should have a role if you hire someone as a software engineer and they spend all their time doing devops because they like it more you've made a bad hire. If all your engineers are having product meetings with various departments then you've again made bad hires. Everyone should have their role and fullfill that role to work as a successful team. People thinking they're above fullfilling the role they were hired for is one of the fast ways to have a poor performant team. To put this into sports you don't want your defender to be constantly hanging around the other team's goal mouth.
It sounds like you're making assumptions in bad faith. I'm a SWE (i.e., not a manager) and I didn't read the comment at all like you did. On the contrary, I quite agree with it.
I like to pay attention to how much attention they pay to small details, like their copy.

Under "Our Promise to You":
"You never need to share the car [?] strangers [...]"

Then, on the footnote to that same section:
" Ground travel guarantee available for tavel to JFK & EWR for travel booked [...]"
Please do. No one needs your business at the cost of democracy.
"To be clear, we don’t provide healthcare. Everyone who works at Gumroad is responsible for their own healthcare and benefits. Everyone also pays for their own phone, laptop, internet connection, and all the other things they need."

It seems to me that company operates like Uber or Lyft, and their product is exploiting wage inequalities.
There are definitely systems that will just send the bytes that have changed (and their locations naturally). DropBox does this:

http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=17631
|The most important aspect of the comment scores was that they let me know what the HN community thought of a particular point or argument. I'm capable of making up my own mind about any topic. I find it interesting and useful to see what other people think

That seems like cognitive dissonance to me and a rationalization. If you truly make up your own mind about something then why would you care so granularly about how much/little HN likes a comment. The ordering of the comments allows you to know where the comments all compare, so I don't see what you're really missing other than the exactness.
But that's ad blocking, that's not what I meant exactly, that always works.

My issue is 'embeddable' links are no longer playable for me? I can play the video in their app or on the browser after a million data consent forms.
The green revolution narrowly averted catastrophe by modernizing farming worldwide. How could we do that more than once?
That all looks like a massive security vulnerability. Anyone with write access to the cache can upload a malicious build artifact and end up getting it compiled into everyone else's binaries, effectively giving them access to act as any developer or the ability to get their code sneaked into a release undetected. The page doesn't describe that risk at all!
I've never seen any of them. I've never heard of this guy before.

But I ended up skimming most of the article because the tone and direction of the piece in no way match what I expected from the title. I can well imagine his documentaries are probably pretty depressing.

He seems to have only complaints, not solutions. He seems to describe where we are and how we got here but he seems to have absolutely nothing to say about how to go from where we are to something better.

It's not my cup of tea at all. I was hoping for something meaty and meaningful to add to my existing set of ideas and tools and ended up being all "Yikes! I don't think it would be good for my mental health to drink too deeply of this stuff." So I skimmed, hoping I was wrong, hoping it would get better and grab me later. Hoping I would trip across something that would hook me and tell me to start over, that it will be worth the slow start. I never ran into that.
Rather than debate each of these, you have agreed that there is a difference just nothing that you specifically care about.

> Will you pay few thousand dollars more for a UI skin update once a year?

What ? no.. I never said that these were paid updates, I said this was differentiator. Do you want security updates ? Or just to have the software abandoned once it ships.
Also, no ads on YT, or just about any other site, in FF with the uBlock origin plugin.
YouTube runs an in-house database called Procella. Its feature set is pretty amazing. Some of the devs behind it came from the Hadoop world. Google published a paper on its architecture.

Klepmann's book is still a good read. A lot of the concepts are evergreen.
> The process is essentially "design the system architecture -> document the APIs -> write the tests -> implement the code -> QA". It takes a level of rigour and planning that most teams don't want to do

That's a very charitable way to say it, on my case I would call this kind of process very convoluted and similar to early 2000s style development. I obviously would not want to work in such a bureaucratic environment where every small tech decision has to go through multiple boards.
What are the co2 emissions of mobilecoin usage?
The problem is you have to allow extra time in case something has gone wrong. I waited two hours in a queue at O'Hare just to get through security - thankfully I had allowed three hours.

Compare that to anywhere in Australia where you can be sure security won't take more than 10 minutes - you can arrive at the airport with 45 minutes before your flight and still be waiting 20 minutes after you check in and pass security before you board.
> No-one knows if a decision to discriminate is good or wrong for the economy.

I can't really see how that would be the case. Denying <minority> the right to purchase things in some stores is most likely a bad thing for the economy. The less people buy, the more the economy suffers. It's rather straightforward.

Now, sure, economic benefit should not be the primary or only reason why people would oppose this. But it is a way to get through to those who otherwise don't care: a similar bill is stalling in Georgia because of economic concerns.
Most browsers have de-emphasized favicons in their UIs due to phishing, by moving them as far from the address bar as possible or through other measures, like Safari which only shows it when the address bar is focused.

People used padlock favicons to trick users into thinking they're browsing a secure website.
The benefits of inclusiveness are pretty well hashed out in the tech industry, which has long been among the leading industry sectors in accepting LGBT individuals. He's not proposing a theory. He is, as the leader of the largest tech company on the planet, conveying a lesson learned long ago that some people still don't get: Being inclusive makes more money, makes better products, and provides a better customer experience than being discriminatory. What's the "lie?"
Throwing out the baby (societal safety) with the bathwater (financial situation of the accused).

Bail also helps prevent repeat offense while they are held until their court date, which is exactly what the article is talking about. If they were held and prosecuted, history would be different, these 2 would not have been murdered.
Lots of memories coming back to me. A few more notable games:

- The Pirate's Dream. You played as pirates spread out over a huge map with dozens of different islands. Every island had different ships you could buy and ways you could make money. Lots of fond memories of claiming an island for myself, or taking part in huge ship battles with my buddies. We would sink the enemy's ship with cannon fire and shoot any swimmers that tried to grapple onto ours.

- Ride-a-Rocket. You started the game at Cape Canaveral. Every few minutes, a rocket would launch that allowed players to get to the ISS. From the ISS you could fly to the Moon, spacewalk, or just hang out with your astronaut bros. Flying the Space Shuttle back to Earth was very difficult.

- Storm Chasers. The objective of the game was to take close-up photographs of hurricanes and tornadoes and sell them for cash. Risky shots meant greater rewards. You started out with a cheap car, a ruddy camera, and a handful of strips of film. As you made money, you could gradually improve your equipment until you had full-HD Camcorders and video drones.

- Ultimate Power. A battle-royale game where you used Dragon Ball-style power attacks. I remember this game having a really high skill ceiling; it was insane how good some players were.

- Grow-a-Brick. You spawned with a tiny pet brick that followed you around. Your job was to go around the map, collecting food for your brick so that it could grow to a huge size. The rarest kinds of food were good and evil food. A brick that ate enough evil food could kill and eat other bricks; a brick that ate enough good food could sap the evil from the evil bricks.
> When I talked to her about it, she was very much on the side that she wished she didn't have to study for it because it didn't have much to do with her job at all.

I assume you're referring to your ex's exam to become Board Certified in her specialty, which, if you are, makes this statement incredibly hard to believe.

A specialty's Board exam is comprised of simulated cases from that specialty. Your ex wouldn't have to prep for geriatric internal medicine or stroke rehab in pm&r. Basically everything asked in the exam for board certification is related to one's specialty.

It is not a general exam like the STEP exams.
There's a pretty substantial difference between "I like the idea of a site..." and "only legitimate stance to take."

Can you explain why you think granting the ability to create a sub-board generates a different moral obligation, in your opinion, than granting the ability to create a new post?
Of course. Animals that serve as food are much more plentiful than those similar to them that aren't. Of course, they may or may not be happy about it (compared to their wild relatives, who also live unimaginably cruel lives by human standards), but nature could care less about it.
M-p is the replacement for up arrow
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I'm glad we have a decent 3G network here in Australia with Telstra - i roughly get speeds of 3-4Mbps on their 3G network. It's great!
When I get a compiler error in Scala it's almost always something that would cause a runtime error in a non statically typed language. The downside is that the error messages can be difficult to parse and resolve for beginners. Once I got over the learning curve, I realized that in almost all cases the compiler was trying to tell me something very useful. I do get a little annoyed at all the Haskell/OCaml type nerds trying to do things with the type system that are not particularly practical, for instance: http://apocalisp.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/type-level-program...
They didn't give him 20 days. He checked it after 20 days. Who knows the grace period for an expired card? I think that deleting the data is a bit harsh for a late payment. How many accounts really get to that point of late payment to where it would be costly for the company to just shut off access to the data until the plan is paid for. A customer oriented policy would be having a grace period of 3 months where the data is still there but they don't delete it. That's good customer service in the exceptional case of late payment/expired card.
Police departments tend to disqualify people who are too smart.
Right. This could be as simple as, "Cancel and immediately close your account? y/n ALL OF YOUR DATA WILL BE DELETED."
There probably ought to be fewer phd students around, and more research tech jobs. But, I was under the impression that the current glut of grad students was because they were so much cheaper than techs?
How do we pressure them?

Phone makers have spent a very long time building a selling phones to telcos. The result is they spent most of their history catering to interests completely opposite to those of their users. I want an unlocked, upgradable phone. Just that. I don't need "social" interfaces or any fancy stuff if that will cause updates to be delayed.
I've only had one dealing with him. While I was interviewing for a job with a company he was working at, they had him look at the code of one of my personal projects. He was polite and complimentary, just as you'd expect from anyone you were dealing with in a professional capacity.

I actually asked one of his colleagues what it was like working with him. Words like "quiet" and "pussy cat" were used. They said he has strong opinions, but is never contrary for the same if it, and is often just quietly sitting in a corner listening.
There goes the EU safe harbour scheme.

Did anyone trust it to start with?
The rest is busy working, studying, raising kids or having a life...
Imo The point is to reduce friction and variance for the consumer, not necessarily reduce the # of employees
The easiest way for site-owners to delegate control has been to include third-party javascript. With new browser restrictions, we're starting to see companies switching to loading JS via CNAMEd subdomains, because that's nearly as easy. The next step is probably reverse proxies, though, where the third-party JS comes from the same server that gives you the rest of the site's JS.

(Disclosure: I work in ads; speaking only for myself)
NUVIA =~ NVIDIA. That’s a bad name.
I'm sold on this idea! Are there readily available documents that specify the bitstream and decoding semantics for H.261?
Resources are finite, ergo it’s a zero sum game. To give unconditionally to one, you must take unconditionally from another.
> If you're in a competition, then by definition you're doing the exact same thing as everyone else. That's a guaranteed recipe for not accomplishing anything meaningful in life.

That's a mistaken conclusion because you didn't follow it properly to the narrowed end: if you're in a large field of competition at a thing and you're among the best in the world at it, then the exact opposite is more likely to be true (you will likely do something meaningful and have extreme success) and your supposed guaranteed recipe collapses.

This premise holds true in eg: business, acting, music, science, traditional sports, games like chess, and numerous other fields.

Right now, around the world, dozens (or hundreds) of scientists are competing to reach the same breakthrough. They may not know who all the competitors are and may not know they're all chasing the same thing, but they are. One or a small group of them will get there before the rest. It is competition and it doesn't exclude you from doing something meaningful: you need to win the competition.

See: Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams, Kurt Cobain, Whitney Houston, Craig Venter, Garry Kasparov, John Carmack, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos

All had to rise to the top of highly competitive fields with a large supply of competitors. How many other grunge bands were there next to Nirvana? How many other singers did Whitney Houston have to stand apart from? How many other women (frequently younger, a big deal in tennis) has Serena Williams had to competitively outlast over ~20 years to spend so much time on top of her sport and put together one of the greatest sports careers of all-time? It's a never ending supply of younger, highly talented competitors, and yet Williams did what she did.
haha. ditto so far :)

Let's see how long we go.

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