jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
What's the margin on making toothbrushes? If you have a pile of money and you want the best return is it really going to be on a toothbrush factory in the U.S.? I have no idea what the answer to those questions are but it seems like "not much" and "something else."
There is a huge untapped market opportunity for Lego in the adult space IMO. I am a lifelong Lego fan (48yrs young), and I still buy the odd set (just finished 42099 which was epic).

The problem is the perception by many that this is a kids toy. I have a 5 year old daughter, so even that excuse barely works :D
This post is interesting only as an example of a total lack of facts, comparisons, and perspective.

The lone backing of each opinion is the adverb "generally". There is no mention of any concrete team/company size where issues do/might occur in one or the other setup. There is no mention of successful or failing companies adopting one or the other setup.

And just to mention a single concrete counter-example to the groundless side taken here, take Apple. Apple's organization is _based_ on specialization, for the simple reason that the more specialized teams are, the higher their expertise is. Look at Spotify, Microsoft, and others; they moved away from the simplistic feature-squad model advocated here, because it simply didn't scale.

Certainly, communication across team members, and communication across teams are subjects of attention. It does not mean it should be ignored/avoided. It's like saying "scaling horizontally is too difficult, just stick to scaling vertically"; sure, it's easier, but the power is not the same.
A compelling case to increase bureaucracy made here (from 2011): https://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril-2011/more-...
not to mention this is an insanely anti-progressive prosecution once you dig into the details. just dumb.
OS X has some shitty discoverability. I was required to use a macbook as my work system for a little over two years, and I never discovered those.

Would it not make sense to just put these kinds of things in the open? Why not have a fourth taskbar button? I don't remember seeing an option for maximize but not full screen anywhere, so I would just resize windows until I slapped Spectacle onto the system.

Not that I'm a windows user. I have a number of complaints related to usability on Windows as well.
If there are any republican commentators willing to defend this policy I'd love to hear their reasoning. This one does seem, almost objectively, evil imo.
Oh good, a few years will rebalance everything. Honestly the point I was making was that the wealthy will continue to pursue ways to maintain a larger and larger wealth gap as a matter of self-interest.
And for the hundreds that have died from them already? I mean, not died from them. I mean died days to weeks after. They’re uhm, completely unrelated!

Would their families also agree that they work amazingly so?
Not entirely true.

I was researching this few hours ago and according to https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/6114#issuecommen... it just works when you add another network.

Docker registry having no IPv6 is another fun story tho.
I think this only applies to start ups. However, if you aren’t keeping up with current trends you’ll be left behind. There are plenty of large corporations with older .NET or Java devs.
Do you have specific examples? I went over both lists, and most differences were either syntax, or "Lua has complicated feature X, JS doesn't."
There's also nothing about "Rancid" juice in the article either. I don't understand the discontent with adding orange oil to orange juice. The orange oil is made from the juicing process as a byproduct from the skins.

There's hundreds of varieties of vanilla flavor extracts available from "flavor companies that also make perfumes" (which is a false equivalence, implying that a perfume is inherently toxic, synthetic and evil), all made from vanilla beans. Problem as well?
Thanks! The Windows Phone and Windows versions of Elemental will be universal applications once Windows 10 is released.
One of the best replies was, when asked how did you feel being a CEO, Ben answered:
"I felt like a baby. I used to wake up every 2 hours, cry and go back to sleep."
I think a good reference point is the Chelyabinsk meteor[0]. Just afterwards, we had plenty of high resolution videos from dash cam, smartphones, etc, with different angle, time and location.

I would expect about the same in quantity and quality for a major UFO sighting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor
yes, fancy zones is what i ended up using but i still miss tiling wm.
And if somebody steals your coin, you can go through courts and banks to get it back. You can pay taxes with it. It is backed by a strong authority and is used as the reserve currency/economic driver of the world's countries. It is stable and does not suffer price volatility. Fortunes do not get lost if they are in cash at the bank. Crypto has none of these things.

There's been an uptick of crypto fanboys coming to this forum lately. I'm fine with that and the technology is interesting. However, if you try to pollute our space with ideologies and conspiracy theories about the fed, you will not be unchallenged. Just like USD, crypto has downsides. Do not sweep the downsides of crypto under the rug for some utopiaic ideology. Be reasonable.
PI is a concenpt. Of course it doesn't exist physically* in the universe.

* Well, various "physical" representations/encodings of this concept must exist in different people's brains.
As I said another place. It's different they are not "performing arts" so to speak. More akin to composing.
I still prefer to go by the Jargon File's definition of "hacker" - "A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and stretching their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary."
or as defined by (RFC) 1392, the Internet Users' Glossary - "A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular."

In which case, hacking IS cool.
As pointed out in the comments on that thread, be aware that essentially all of the negatives about ZFS boil down to FUD. In particular, upstream is emphatically not dead (the recent OpenZFS summit[1] was packed -- as was the hackathon the next day), which can be easily verified just by looking at the commits to illumos.[2] As for "well known data base [sic] degradation", all I can say is that we run ZFS as a backend for Postgres all over our public cloud -- both ourselves as part of SmartDataCenter[3] and Manta[4] and with high profile customers -- and we have not seen any ZFS-related performance issues. And please don't get me started on the Oracle-related FUD...

[1] http://open-zfs.org/wiki/OpenZFS_Developer_Summit

[2] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commits/master

[3] https://github.com/joyent/sdc

[4] https://github.com/joyent/manta
After 8 hours of Reddit and Hacker News storm, the gozimhttpd demo process running on f1-micro Google Compute Engine is consuming 80MB of memory (mainly pages cache) still delivering pages !
Interesting article, but without actual numbers it's hard to tell whether the change made any difference in performance.
Resumes are pointless bureaucratic fictions, but it's a small case where being good at "the game" [of forming a resume target to what you want a job doing] will seriously help you get what you want, even though the task itself is pretty stupid and contrived. It's been a long road, but I've come a long way in accepting things like this, instead of trying to fight to change every single one. The fighting path is very long and challenging, and there's not enough time in a lifetime to change even 1/10th of what I think is wrong with the world, so in my experience it's really about picking your battles.
+1.

I tried the hair straightener quiz and all I need to do now is hint to my partner which one I got.

They should make a quiz for gifts that way I will get better gifts in future!
It's good that you want to improve your skills, but this is not the way to do it.

You should work on an open source project.

There are plenty of large projects that would be thrilled to have a developer who wants to tackle something more than a small bug, but you have to go find them.

Moreover, open source projects are much more deserving of your talent than the people posting on this thread trying to get some free work out of you. Don't undervalue yourself.

What are you interested in?

Personally, I have contributed to Python, Django and AngularJS because I use all three on a daily basis. Think of something that interests you and I'd be happy to help you find a project that fits your goals.
Can artfulmac work with the screensaver too? Then I could quickly and passively get a sense of what I want on my wallpaper for an extended period of time.
Ok - his 'argument' reflects, I believe, a delusion about the state of American politics. Specifically, he appears to believe that Joe Biden winning the previous election is a harbinger for a leftist totalitarian state in America. This is patently ridiculous - he doesn't deploy rhetoric of the radical left, his policies and record are far to the right of democratic leftist parties in Europe and elsewhere, etc. On its face it is a ridiculous thing to assert.

I don't believe, however, that I can convince the poster of their delusion. Therefore I wanted to present the best evidence for it: reality, as I expect it to be, in five years.
I want to know - WHAT di Babbage's analytical engine SOUND LIKE? Wouldn't this make an awesome sound effect for modern computers?
With Delicious closing down we thought we would recommend our bookmarking site - Favilous. We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down! We had been working on a major revamp of the site and it just so happened Delicious made their announcement (or didn't make their announcement!) when we were about to press the launch button.

What do we offer?

Bookmark quickly and effectively for free.

Attractive site with users having the ability to customise backgrounds and arrange bookmarks in categories.

Save articles for viewing later - so now you can bookmark and view sites later, a combination we do not think exists.

Users can see what sites are hot and what sites are popular.

Social - Follow people who bookmark things of interest.

Bookmark things on the fly with a click of a button and it saves it to your inbox for viewing later.

View what the community is bookmarking - this page is of great value as it offers descriptions of the sites that are being bookmarked.

Import bookmarks from various sources including delicious.

Background
We are a 2 man startup from the UK. We are bootstrapped. We have thousands of links already bookmarked from thousands of different users.

We would love to know what you think and what feedback you may have so that we can improve the service for new and existing users.

thanks!
The confusion of all these journalists lies in the fact that Google and Facebook are direct competitors because they both are advertising companies based on data. But they both have fairly different usage scenarios so you'd say that they are in partial competition like fast food being sold in a theme park and a fast food company that does deliveries to homes and offices. But maybe it's not that distinct; I suppose the product recommendation engine could go beyond your local graph into friends of friends so that you can see what SLR camera your "greater tribe" has been most satisfied with, see what they said about it and see some of their photos they've taken with it. But am I going to really be swayed by this vs. an Anandtech style SSD review or a camcorderinfo.com one[1]? I think not. Maybe for something I don't care much about and wish I could care less about, like clothes, I could be swayed. But as soon as Amazon has a system where I can send in all my measurements and then browse appropriate stuff from home and set up "manpacks" style periodic deliveries I doubt I will step foot in another clothes store again. As I understand it, that's pretty much in development right now. And as you say, Google is organising the world's information well beyond products. I share your disappointment in these tech pundits, but even HN returns to them constantly like moths to a flame.

[1] some of these reviews are seriously impressive in their depth vs CNET "senior" editors (btw has anyone ever actually seen a non-"senior" CNET editor?)
http://www.camcorderinfo.com/content/Canon-HF-S100-Camcorder...
I can't entirely agree that there is deja vu. When Facebook and LinkedIn came out, there was an immediate market not to mention Facebook's incredible growth, something Foursquare/Gowalla don't have.

When Twitter first came out there was no initial growth and out of nowhere it boomed, which I blame on media and as of now there is no monetary value in Twitter (though technically it's there with all of the information on trends and social impact that can be visualized through Tweets and Twitter as a general Marketing/PR tool).

Foursquare/Gowalla on the other hand, don't offer entirely different from FB Places other than a 'fun' aspect that FB can easily mimic. Till yesterday location services were not awesome. No one really used it. It's inconvenient to use. I don't use it and only 1% of my friends do. Now that FB entered the space yes it is bad because it's even more difficult for people to break out of the shell lest they come up with something to offer.

If it were me, I would throw in a "want to check-in" feature. That way you can express a desire to go somewhere and amass a party to go with you instead of checking in and have people say "oh, that place is cool".
It's always scary when a sumo sized company like Facebook enters your space. However, there are two things that this article doesn't consider:

1) People like new, shiny and cool. Facebook won't be new, shiny or cool forever. Sure, neither will Foursquare or Gowalla, but you get the idea. Out sumo the sumo and you'll win the next round.

2) Foursqure and Gowalla are interesting social networks, but they're social networks in the loosest form of the term. First and foremost, their functionality is based around engagement and motivation. Users "get something" for "doing something". This was somewhat revolutionary on the web and we haven't even scratched the surface of this.
Why? Since they've been getting chastised a lot on HN lately, I'm curious to hear what about Oracle you advocate.
I found this bit the most interesting :

'Joshua Topolsky, Engadget's editor, recently called for tech companies to create what he calls the "continuous client," a system that will enable you to leave one device and "pick up your session in exactly the same place on the next device you use,"'

I really think this is the next big step. It's become to me quite an obvious issue since I got my iPad. I want to be able to play a game on my iPhone and then pick up exactly where I left off on my iPad. Or do the same with videos; newspaper apps etc. The devices should just be a different window into your same data world.
Thanks, I didn't know that! Would be a better default.
Thank you for the kind words.

I think the key to my next situation is making sure the next group of people I work with give me my fair share.

I think this falls into what a lot of people experience is the doubt in not knowing what you are worth. In my area typical entry programming positions are at around 35k/yr. I feel my time and experience puts me well past any entry based position. I am always somewhat unsure of exactly where I stand.
Two problems:
1. Whenever I rapidly flip pages in a book, I do miss quite a few.
2. You have to open the book quite far, otherwise the text close to the binding won't be visible. Thus, some book-formats simply can't be scanned rapidly (think of hardcover-books).
I've flagged this as it's a content-free spleen vent. If you're going to complain about something here and you don't have the knowledge or ability to be genuinely informative, at least be entertaining.
I don't have an answer to your question. I am suspicious that you have zero measurable experience. Are you sure? You are familiar with multiple web stacks, but don't have a single website you can point people to? You were a sysadmin for years and don't have a reference? You have zero contributions open source projects (others or your own)?

I think you might be able to find something that hints at your experience.
We used Less for a project, but ended up moving to Sass: http://sass-lang.com/

The Sass compiler was (is?) more mature, and the language feels more consistent (see the '&' operator in Sass vs the :hover special case in Less). The editor/tool support was quite a bit better too.

Sass doesn't have a javascript in-browser implementation (afaik), but for rapid development it can watch a folder/file for changes and automatically recompile to static CSS files.

Plus there's a firebug plugin, so you get Sass line numbers / references instead of compiled CSS line numbers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/103988/
Using ghc (version 6.6), I get:

webserver.hs:1:8: parse error on input `{'
So does this mean that NST uses distance between indian meridian and Mt. Gauri to set the NST?
The Linux TCP stack is NOT fast. My DNS server can respond to DNS queries faster than the simplest of in-kernel echo servers (like ICMP ping or UDP port 7 echo). That's with the entire DNS overhead of parsing the DNS protocol, looking up the name in a very large database (like the .com zone), doing compression, and generating a response.

The upshot is this: going through the Linux stack, a DNS server is limited to around 2 million queries/second. Using a custom user-mode stack, it can achieve 10 million queries per second.
It can also work digitally with a text file, which may feel less lonely.
"needlessly verbose Python"... For me Python and Ruby are right on par. Could you elaborate further ?
QE is central banks liquidising private assets to improve the balance sheets of large businesses. This gives them access to more capital and in theory allows them to invest more. It is controversial since the benefits of it are hard to measure. Since the money is not guaranteed to be spent we might expect it to be less inflationary than conventional government stimulus.

Proponents of MMT are often arguing for conventional government stimulus. The basic idea is that the shape of the globalised economy is such that we have more deflationary pressures than were observed in the 20th century when standard monetary theory was conceived. Typically proponents argue that the government can assume a larger role in the consumer economy without adding inflationary pressure.
Such a silly premise if you pause for a second and think about
practical threats. Suppose tomorrow a quantum computer is created that
can crack any cryptography. Would all ciphertext at rest magically
become decrypted? Would every communication on the wire mysteriously
revert to plaintext? This seems to be the woo-woo tone of the article.

Such a compQter would have to be a real, physical device. It cannot
disobey the laws of thermodynamics. Despite solving in a non-Turing
fashion it still needs energy commensurate with the computation
performed. Presumably any data to be processed must be brought to it
and the results dispatched. These real physical bottlenecks would
limit its utility. Sure it could be used on targeted communications,
and perhaps a well funded IC would set up a pipeline of the most
urgent unsolved cases having outstanding relevant files to crack. But
for all practical purposes little would change. Between the advent of
a POC and commodity availability several decades will pass. By the
same token, a breakthrough in quantum cryptanalysis will create
breakthroughs in quantum (resistant) cryptography, and replacement
technologies will track each other - a balance seen in cryptology
throughout the ages.

That said, such alarmist articles are useful to maintain public
awareness of our dependence on cryptographic processes, and keep-up
vigilance against more pedestrian threats - like mad politicians we
have in the UK.
The Black–Scholes equation is basically identical to the heat equation. Divide through by σ^2 and let n = σ^2 * (T - t) if you want to derive it.
We're used to it . You're wrong, though!
> If all that sounds a bit extra, circle back to that the perpetrator has 4.5 Billion worth of something.

It does sound like a lot of work. I think I'd go with the $5 wrench option.
My first thought was "YouTube". It's absolutely chock-full of pirated content.
Wow, they turned Wordle into a two-player game, and got rid of all the letters! /s
I pasted this in my Gmail compose message box without entering the Subject. And then when I clicked on the Subject box, it gave me suggestions such as "Credit alert!", "Last chance!" etc.
Happy egg are my favorite as well. I have to say though, I tried their organic line and the yolks are indeed not as orange and a bit more runny. I actually buy the standard line for this reason
I really like the article for its tone, because it feels authentic and raw and is not begging me to take it seriously. I think most if not all blog posts should be like this: you read it, you smile and think a bit, maybe write a quick comment, then you move on. I agree with the author that this whole thing about wanting to be the next Big Blogger Who Wrote That Article is probably bullshit.
I was shocked to (re)discover that high school algebra is a multiyear course. And trigonometry is a year long.

What?
The problem with this idea is #2, people can post bogus tweets and how would you verify?
> It’s a soul crushing job over time.

As opposed to waiting tables, selling finance products, working to deny people insurance coverage programming on surveillance on websites, working in retail, nursing, or any other activity where you're working hard barely scraping so some rich guy can buy 37th private jet?

Most jobs are soul crushing.

Why single out camgirls?
That’s one of the neat things about JS: even outside the prototypal inheritance chain, classes can be (partially) composed of generalized, reusable functions, a bit like traits. Just import a function and bind it in the constructor (call).
This is good - more money for Big Pharma!
> Police stations are closed en masse.

I can't find any info on that for the dutch police, do you have a source?

> Police has been in reorganisation since forever. Personnel is over-extended to the point they are contemplating strikes.

Yep. And it's getting worse. For now it's all still operating well enough but we're at an inflection point for sure.
Libertarian playbook:

* Deregulate halfway, by promising that things will be better in the free market

* Wait for trust erosion in the public institutions and regulations

* Remove remaining regulations, because obviously, regulation is not working, and the "free" market will take care of things

* Create an effective monopoly because it is not economic to maintain two or more infrastructures in parallel. After that, raise prices.

If only we really had people lobbying for a truly free market. I.e. a market where rules are imposed and maintained. Where umpires make sure everyone is playing fairly. Where businesses can compete and where customers have a choice.

You know if you are a butcher, you should be pretty pleased with a central inspector touring your shop's front and back, making sure that hygiene is well-maintained. What needs to be made sure though is, that EVERY business competing with you is held to the same standards.

So for uber, I'd be super happy if they'd pay their drivers an agreed standard/union wage (or more) and compensated maintenance costs for their private vehicles they are using for the profit of the company accordingly. It's not much to ask really.