jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
may be spend a bit of money toward making human species to look ... err ... more humane. Several millions of dogs and cats are euthanized annually in the US alone.

http://www.aspca.org/about-us/faq/pet-statistics.html
I highly doubt it. One has nothing to do with the other.
Why do people think they have a right not to be offended? They don't.
AWESOME! I was running out of reasons to dislike the American health insurance industry.
If you're in a situation where the best way you have to assess a candidate is to ask them questions, I'd recommend focusing on types of questions that open up room for discussion about how the candidate thinks and works rather than simply asking trivia questions about Apple's frameworks.

In context of iOS/Obj-C/Cocoa, ask about MVC. Ask about delegates versus blocks versus notifications as mechanisms of communicating between objects. Ask about CocoaPods, but framed as a larger question of when and how to bring in and manage third-party dependencies versus building them yourself. Give them the opportunity to share how they think, not just what they know.
That's a rather inflammatory claim to make without a lick of evidence, and attributes a whole lot of agency in story selection to a person who appears to have no current involvement with HN whatsoever.

It's also a drive-by from an anonymous throwaway account.
Seeking Work

Location: Dallas/Fort Worth

Remote: Yes

Willing To Relocate: No, but depending on the length/scope of the project I am absolutely open to traveling anywhere in the U.S. to meet with you periodically throughout our engagement.

Looking For: Web application development/redevelopment, growth hacking, custom development targeting specific business problems

After working for a small consultancy for some time now, and providing significant contributions to large projects for highly recognizable national brands, I'm seeking more flexibility and am launching out on my own. I'm good at what I do - developing web applications from the ground up and redesigning existing applications to increase revenue - but as I'm making this new move I'm looking for a client who can go out on a limb and trust in my experience even though I don't yet have client work under my own name to showcase.

Obviously, I would absolutely be interested in working for you at a significant discount if you'd be willing to allow me to use our collaboration as a public case-study that I'd be able to reference with my future clients.

I am not interested in building an application for the sake of building an application or coding in XYZ technologies for the sake of coding in XYZ technologies.

I am interested in having a conversation about you, your customers, and what particular business problems you are trying to solve.

Contact: quentin@qdonnellan.com
Gah -- now that I know the phrase "CV-driven-development", I can't unsee it!! This happens everywhere :-/
If you were raised with no privacy, you may not be aware that it could get better, but you would still suffer from the power dynamic that the total lack of privacy creates. Information is power, and even if that power is distributed evenly (which it isn't now, and likely will never be), it changes things.
The source is available at https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite
This all depends on how you define "dream". If it's a picket fence, yard, pool, 2,5 kids, etc, that's not gonna fly in the Bay. But if the dream is to live in a nice place with easy access to a fantastic city, that's achievable anywhere in the Bay Area (Oakland has it's moments of greatness, Berkley has it's chartms, and SF is SF). My take is that the East Bay is about to start growing like crazy.
"I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life." - Osama Bin Laden (http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/01/31/gen.binladen.interview...)
for the sake of your own brand, I'd iterate that design so it doesn't look like a carbon copy. Either people will assume you ripped him off, or that it's another of his games, not yours.
People like to blame the US government for this, though I think the real culprit is that often the dumber, more xenophobic members of society are usually hired for these kinds of positions. As in the case of police brutality, cameras need to be recording all encounters between travelers and airport security, and extensive quality control performed. This is an issue that is tarnishing the United States's reputation everywhere. Travelers are often the elite from their respective countries and the US is digging itself into a hole with this.

There's a big opportunity for startups to provide the backend for this quality control. A hosted webapp that allows teams of inspectors to seamlessly collaborate on monitoring the quality of TSA agents from anywhere.
This does not appear to be retroactive, after looking at .csvs in my old repos.
Memory is a funny thing. You don't recall a snap shot of all the details at once. You start telling a story and during the playback of the memories you'll be able to recall deep details.

Reading On Intelligence really solidified my thoughts on how memory (probably) works.

http://www.amazon.com/On-Intelligence-Jeff-Hawkins/dp/080507...
Can someone explain the relevance of Mattermark to me - no businessy bullshit?

To me it just sounds like another meaningless score, much like technorati was back in the day or klout (albeit more business minded than both). Is it an attempt to use big data to determine winners in the startup game? That also sounds like a terrible idea.

(The above is my initial reaction - I haven't researched this and I might be woefully wrong; which I why I ask for some explanations.)
Yes, I've fixed the mistake.
You can play more concurrent games and change themes (color schemes) in the app. The free version lets you have 2 concurrent games and use the basic theme.
It all sounds reasonable, except I think that it has probably been the case in San Francisco for much longer, and I don't know if the past 2-3 years has really seen an unprecedented or new swell of 20-somethings.
I'm late to the dribbble bandwagon, but I'd love to check out Forrst too!

http://taitems.tumblr.com & http://dribbble.com/players/taitems

taitbrown at gmail dot com
to show how the abs can be worked, go to a pull up bar with a spotter. have them hold your legs bent while you hang directly below the bar. do 5 or 10 pull ups. now have them pull your legs back about a foot or more and do 5 pull ups. usually i can feel my abs strain pretty hard. kiping pull ups work a lot of your core but can be dangerous on temporary pull up bars attached to door frames.
Through my interaction with startups over the past few months, I realized that the later-stage startups are not hiring freelancers. Early stage ones are hiring freelancers (especially in UI/Usability field) due to the limited supply, but early stage (self-funded) startups don't have enough dough.

It's an interesting problem because those who need the service the most (in the first iterations of their products) are the ones who can afford it the least.
Here's my thing. I think people are irrationally buying too few apps.

What do I mean by that? Well, good apps have the potential to really improve the experience of using your phone. They also cost very little compared to the price of the phone itself. If there are ten apps that could increase the value of your phone to you by ten percent each and each app cost $5, then it would be very silly not to buy each of these apps. This is for two reasons: first, your phone being twice as valuable to you means the dollars spent per unit value has gone from ($500 / v) to ($225 / v). Second, spending money on the apps created by good developers in aggregate grows the availability of good apps by encouraging more talented people to enter app-making.

The other thing is that the price of apps is typically peanuts compared to the cost of the hardware. I have a $500 phone (Nexus One). I was recently considering breaking my contract with Apple to go over to t-mobile because I have the Google-issued version of the N1 whose 3G radio works on t-mobile only.

Initially, I thought I would be able to buy a t-mobile plan for $50/mo with the "unlimited internet for phones" plan. But it turns out I'll need the one for smartphones. Now, this is undoubtedly stupid. But the level of stress I gave myself over $10 per month, which will still represent a $15/mo savings over my iPhone plan, is ridiculous, especially compared to the other costs involved, or, for example, my $1500/mo rent.

TL;DR: I think people in general succumb to false economies when thinking about small prices that could possibly greatly enhance the experience of using various devices.

And I think I'm going to go get my number ported this afternoon.
I'd like one too!

dlo.github.com
github.com/dlo

dloewenherz@gmail.com
Oh, I agree less tricky plans and rules would be preferable... but I also understand how they profit the carriers, by serving to charge the price-indifferent and inattentive more.

Lots of AT&T practices screw me over -- most recently, being charged for calls that were never answered (but went to voicemail) while roaming overseas. But the availability of low-minute plans that fit my usage isn't one of the problems.

That those same low-minute plans trick others into paying overages? Not sure that can be helped. Those distracted by other things will always pay more.

Imposing fair disclosure or even a complexity budget on pricing by social regulation or unfair-practices lawsuits might make sense. But imposing a simplified/unified pricing on the industry is likely to backfire. The impetus to design competitive new services for niches -- like infrequent users, or heavy-data-users, etc. -- would be reduced, because innovation requires the same sort of variation that is exploited to confuse. And, regulated utilities can wind up extracting more from the rest of the economy in the long run from lingering inefficiencies and cost-plus regulated prices.
I thought the site's URL (clerkdogs.com) was a cross between Clerks and Reservoir Dogs! :)
- UI is nice.
Excellent idea. Was able to quickly use the site and chat with two people.

- The space to say something is small.
- Can improve on giving more visual feedback
- First panel should be anonymous chat
- Easy way to enter your anonymous profile
- There was a javascript alert window that pop up (maybe debug message or something)
- .. Unable to connect..
- .. Down for maintenance ...
- The icon to add more panel should be more clear. It sort of surprise me.
- Ability to maximize a panel (I suppose I can delete the other panels)
No, node.js is not a web server that serves files and folders. It doesn't even have to be a web server. It's simply a collection of libraries written specifically to be asyncronous. It's kind of like Ruby and Python, but with asynchronous libraries and obviously using JavaScript. Asyncronous means non-blocking, so node.js makes use of things like callbacks to prevent your code from blocking. The Wikipedia article would be a good resource for further research.

(This stuff can get pretty complicated and I don't understand everything fully. Please point out things I got wrong!)
There are different types of sugars. High fructose corn syrup is usually either 55% fructose and 45% glucose, or 42% fructose and 58% glucose.

Honey is about 40% fructose, 30% glucose, along with sucrose and maltose. It's also known to have antimicrobial and antioxidant effects.

Equating high fructose corn syrup with honey is a major oversimplification.
I just woke up (I'm in New Zealand), read all the "Skype is down" stories and logged into Skype without issue.

Either I'm really lucky, or it's recovering.

EDIT: Spoke too soon. After being online for 15 minutes, it's gone offline again.
Why would any of these people have consented to a search? If a cop approaches you in the parking lot, be polite but firm, and waive no rights.
This is what I have gathered from PG's essays:

To do what you love, you need the time to do it. You can make the time in one of two ways: either go the organic route, where you take a job in a field you like and slowly increase the interesting part of your work. The other option is the two-job route, where you have one job that pays the bills and another which is your true love.

Startups are the extreme case of the two-job route, both in terms of time and payoff. You do the not-so-fun job of creating enough wealth (something people want) quickly, so that you can sell it for lots of money. And hence time.

For most people with exit strategies, their true love is not the startup. It's just building cool stuff, even if people don't pay money for it.

It's more fun designing a programming language than making a web store builder.
redo was submitted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2004003 with a pretty lively discussion.
This is the first time Skype has been down for our distributed company. In that same time, my internet has failed a half-dozen times and my VoIP phone a couple of times. Skype is definitely a reliable service - I'm interested in knowing what happened here to take it down.
The reason why there are so many languages is that there's no committee deciding which languages are ok and which are not. And that's really, really awesome, because committees would stink at that.

Instead, we have the ability to choose among all these languages, or even to make our own. This is a good thing. Different languages approach things in novel ways, and learning new languages is a good way to broaden your skill as a developer. Learning new languages also gives you more tools in your toolbox, so you hopefully won't be stuck pounding in a screw with a hammer.

Some developers chose one language and stick with it, maybe for their whole career. This can be you, if you want that. But don't be surprised if your career becomes maintaining legacy apps, not that there's anything wrong with that.
Sarcastic. They made the exploding laptops right? They'd be perfect to create a smartphone explosion :)
Let's put it this way, how many pounds of antibiotics do you think livestock were getting 50 years ago?

(the answer is zero)

The number of drug-resistant organisms found in these situations is starting to become alarming and the EU has banned several livestock drugs years ago which are still used in the USA. But of course most countries in the EU don't use hospitals and medical treatment as a profit-center either.
People keep mentioning vuetify. It implements Google's Material UI, and it's the last thing I ever want anywhere near a website.

Also, regardless of how extended component libraries are, they are still quite constrained in what they can do. Especially in layouts.
https://www.biography.com/news/mister-rogers-officer-clemmon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA

https://www.fredrogers.org/2021/03/12/daniel-tigers-neighbor...
I might be wrong about the initial intention, but it's been the norm as long as I can remember, here is a comment from pg in 2008.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171
Is there any reason you are limiting your option to a job only? If there is no particular reason and if Your ultimate goal is to earn minimum required income for least amount of effort, there are other options than a job, specially something which can generate passive income over time with minimum to no maintenance efforts. Some of such options which I can think of are:

1. Create online courses
2. Create a SaaS application for niche, do some online marketing to get potential customer. indiehackers.com , solopreneur related subreddits has good resources on this.
3. Do online gigs as per your convenience and skills on platforms like fiverr, linkedin etc.
4. Publish regular freemium newsletter for your area of expertise on platforms like substack, medium etc. Newsletters has gotten lot of traction these days and good source of income for indie developers.
I do use them from time to time, one of the better sites.
> No spirit sparkles in the people, everyone here is a clerk or official, everyone talks of their departments or ministries, everything is suppressed, everything is steeped in the trivial, insignificant labor in which their lives are pointlessly wasted

Nothing ever changes about working in a bureaucracy.
My experience has been different. I consider HN to be a kind of 'finger on the pulse' for my profession as a programmer, and in that regard it's fantastic.

Reddit, on the other hand, is a huge time sink (some good, some bad, I read an awful lot of short fiction on Reddit, and I consider that a positive).

I can think of dozens upon dozens of posts that were useful over the years! In a way HN has reduced the amount of networking I have had to do in order to see what people are interested are in, as they are posted here!
Also automatcially handles the issue of public vs private etc. Note this [1] recommends using zip files for speed, especially for larger repositories:

pip install https://github.com/django/django/archive/master.zip

pip install https://github.com/django/django/archive/stable/1.7.x.zip

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20101834/pip-install-fro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Information_Diet

https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/01/19/the-information-die...

>In any democratic nation with the freedom of speech, information can never be as strongly regulated by the public as our food, water, and air. Yet information is just as vital to our survival as the other three things we consume. That’s why personal responsibility in an age of mostly free information is vital to individual and social health. If we want our communities and our democracies to thrive, we need a healthier information diet.”

>When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”

>He builds on the analogy between food and information by arguing that just like we know we’re products of the food we eat, we must understand just how much we’re products of the information we consume — and consume accordingly. Yet the sheer amount of information available to us — 800,000 petabytes (a million gigabytes per petabyte) in the storage universe and 3.6 zettabytes (a million petabytes per zettabyte) consumed by American homes per day, expected to increase 44-fold by 2020 — is mind-boggling.
I think you started a mini flame war by over-reacting to that phrase. The original commenter acknowledged from the get-go that there is a difference between advertising that benefits people and that which doesn't. But you've selectively quoted them and repeatedly insisted that not all advertising is bad, even though they never claimed it is. You made things worse by repeatedly calling people ignorant, which just doesn't help to cultivate constructive discussion.
The only issue that I have with that is that they require an IB account. That has a min of $10k. Thats not exactly easy to come by.
preloaders for your gallery :)
We've taken the press release flair out of the title above.
I used L0phtcrack for that. Fun times over dial-up!

Sometimes I miss how easy things were. Passwords in type=hidden fields. Basic auth over http. Dumb hubs sending packets to everyone on the network. C$ shared drives on the Internet and, of course, Sub7.
Who would own the private police force? Only shareholders have standing to sue for securities fraud. The scenario you are describing is more like users of a product suing the provider. Users of a product can’t sue for securities fraud but can sue for breach of warranty of tortious conduct like negligence.

We don’t need to privatize the police force to be able to sue them for the harm they cause. Police already get sued a lot for their misconduct in civil court [1]. Civil cases are easier to win because the burden of proof is lower. The citizens (analogous to the shareholders) have just been unable (or unwilling) to hold them accountable for the harm they’ve been causing.

[1] https://www.chicagoreporter.com/chicago-spent-more-than-113-...
A no brainer. How long before Harry's prices rose to be just a little below the big two, with their happy duopoly. I know it is a rebuke to the vencaps who wanted the big payday, but that is what the FTC is for...
I guess we have several competing hypotheses, how might we go about finding out the true answer?
The state where I live has opt-in organ donation option when you apply for a driver's license/state ID. As a retired EMT in a rural area, I encountered organ donation cases twice in my career. Once, the patient was flown out, the other time, the orgqan donation crew was flown in. The first case, the patient had suffered a gunshot wound to the head that spared the autonomic functions, he was breathing on his own.
The river this time of year is under 200 cfs which is knee deep in some areas. If it wasn't a problem there would not be signs all over warning of car theft.
For a great two-player game, obligatory plug for Netrunner: information asymmetry and mind-games in a Gibsonesque cyberpunk setting.
All ISP's in India need to be licensed by the government [1]. Non-compliance with this directive puts their license at risk.

[1] http://www.dot.gov.in/data-services/internet-services
It's a statement of engineering priorities, not an literal goal.

This is in contrast to the United States, where only very recently has anything other than maximum automotive throughput been prioritized.
And Schneier's reply when someone said something about it:

Yes, I know that Chuck Johnson (http://gawker.com/what-is-chuck-johnson-and-why-the-web-s-wo...) is unreliable and worse. But in this case, I thought the data sound enough to republish.

After reading that article.. why would he believe anything from this guy?
Are you suggesting they print them on silvered copper plates :) ?
It's less easy to put workarounds in place for, say, a configuration-managed CI system pulling from github than for your own dev workstation. In theory it's simple, but in practice there's a lot of boilerplate and testing.
Well, that's kind of my question, isn't it?

Does Facebook have a branch office in Ohio?

If they do then they have no excuse.
"If you work in tech"
Yeah so my point had nothing to do with the value of the cargo and everything to do with the utility of the pilot. He serves other roles like checking system functionality, managing autonomous capabilities, taking control of the flight, communicating with ground control, and interacting with guests.

Trucker drivers don't do these things and the payloads are not equivalent. However, truck drivers will still need to oversee the successful docking and unloading of goods, the refilling of gas, mechanical checks, special goods like diary product or gas, and the recipient of the goods.

My point was not simply that pilots are there as added security, but also that they serve secondary functions that provide utility from start to finish. In this sense, yes they are similar.

Faceless lives can be easy to judge, after all six people is less than 200, and given a median gdp per capita, 350k is less than 12mm. However, the moral hazard I am talking about is that you remove the responsibility from the individual to a faceless corporation. Btw you're not comparing apples to apples anyways, sure a truck may only kill 6 people, but if 100 trucks per day are doing that then that would be worse.