jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dating for people older than dirt with both beards and ponytails past their navels?
I don't know. there's a part of me that thinks this is the lamest thing I've ever seen and there's another part of me that thinks there's almost endless opportunities for dating site verticals.
You know solar panel systems often have batteries, right?
This seems quite charitable in every way. I don't know if it's just that I'm an Elon fanboi but I don't see the comparison.

Sure, Page has accomplished quite a bit, but I find it hard to compare to Elon Musk's track record in founding multiple cutting-edge firms in several wildly different domains. Perhaps I assign too much to the production of physical goods and not enough to software but that is a bias I must admit.
"Does it run on s390x?"

Or IBM's i operating system[1] (formerly i5/OS, formerly OS/400), for that matter. The enterprise world is chock full of machines that run on this, but I'm not expecting a version of Rust or Go that runs on EBCDIC machines in the foreseeable future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i
Whatever value you think you are finding on LinkedIn is negative value. Anyone of value is too busy producing value to give an eff caring about the epitome of a dead social network.
Apparently the first smartphone with a graphene-based battery was released a couple of days ago. It claims 10% increase in charge density and 50% increase in battery life. http://www.graphene-info.com/first-graphene-phone-reportedly...
The recommendation is 5,000 to 10,000 iu. 1,000 is what the label on the bottle says.
I don't work in the biological sciences, but my money's on the variolation argument more than the humidity behind your mask.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913

Here's why:

Humidity affects the dessication of droplets, which in turn shifts what fraction become airborne (as aerosols) or settle out (as droplets). In the tiny enclosed volume between your face and your mask, that difference doesn't matter, because the whole volume is exchanged multiple times with each breath.

Masks reduce the number of viruses that you're exposed to, so even if you are exposed to enough to make you sick, you get less sick than you would have otherwise.
> But it's more like a mathematical theory, a set of axioms, and an algebra of relationships and properties that derive from them.

That's what I take issue with. I vaguely agree with the notion that music theory does have some kind of axiomatic form hidden deep within, but what can you prove? There is no fundamental theorem of Counterpoint, or that 12-tone rows are the work of the devil etc.
This sounds great. I think this is a much better way of displaying documentation than the standard hierarchical text approach. It also makes it easier to spend a lot of time going down the rabbit hole and learning about new features that may have otherwise been very hard to find.
botnets could vouch for their customers?
You mean like Madoff?
it wouldn't work: dynamic content. even comment counters below posts would change the hash.
Sure, but if that vouch turns out to be false, then less people will trust that person as a trust factor next time.

It becomes a self organising system. Highly trusted individuals / companies might even start selling subscriptions to their trust recommendations.

The big difference is that you gain the right to freedom of choice, as opposed to being beholden to a root CA appointed by other people.
A month ago, all the developers in the office spent two days working on interesting small projects, the idea being that at the end of that time we'd have a bunch of cool shippable features. Though it was encouraged to work on useful, sensible things, this was not a requirement.

Anyway, I felt great until 4pm on the Friday, when we presented our creations. Afterwards, I felt flat (as one often does after meeting a deadline or finishing a series of exams). I didn't want the excitement to end.

As I was walking home I had an idea. For some reason I wanted to share thoughts in 72pt Helvetica. I didn't want to broadcast them (I was melancholic after all), but I felt compelled to express them visually.

I began to think about how this might be done. The Web seemed like the obvious platform. I wondered whether it could be done without a database. I remembered something I had heard on a podcast about a site that allowed one play musical notes on a computer keyboard, and would encode these in the URL for easy playback.

This seemed a lot more interesting than sharing my moody thoughts, and now that I had something cool to work on I no longer felt the need to do so anyway.

I think I spent 40 hours working on it that first weekend (yes, I was consumed). I truly believed that I could ship it before showering and leaving for work on Monday! Doing so would have been a mistake – I'm pleased that I spent several weeks ironing out the kinks and integrating with bit.ly and Twitter.
The built-in and really smooth apps are native code. The third-party apps are restricted to a managed runtime and are decidedly not really smooth. Though the Mango update will come with a better (generational) garbage collector which should improve things.
These are the main feeds that I keep in my RSS reader. I scan for iOS-related posts, even when I'm not actively seeking work. If the post looks decent, then I check out the posting company's website and it's usually obvious whether or not they're a good design firm. If I find a good one, I'll email just to connect for future potential work.

* Stack Overflow - http://careers.stackoverflow.com/

* GitHub - http://jobs.github.com/

* Get Apps Done - http://www.getappsdone.com/

* Authentic Jobs - http://www.authenticjobs.com/

* CrunchBoard - http://www.crunchboard.com/jobs/

* Mashable Jobs - http://mashable.jobamatic.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

It might take some time, but just a couple firms can keep you busy for years!
By that token I ask are positive stereotypes okay ?

To both I say yes, everything has balance.

Without this balance we wouldn't have contextual discussion.
I use postfix, self hosted with some outside assistance.

Yesterday swombat pointed this out to me:

https://github.com/al3x/sovereign

There might be something in there for you.
> So I shouldn't pay off my credit card before it accumulates interest.

I trust that you're aware of the absurdity of this comparison.

> And public libraries are evil.

That's better. If you like an author's previous works, you should probably buy her next book instead of checking it out from the library. Using libraries for discovery or reading older works won't have much of a negative effect on your own future enjoyment. Spending money for works by long-dead authors won't do much to incentivize new high-quality works, nor will purchasing books of uncertain quality.
You make it sound as though South Africa didn't lobby to host more than 30 other countries. It's a bit disingenuous to frame the guests as imposing. It also doesn't seem like that much of a stretch that some people aren't crazy about a constant monotonous drone.

So, I'm calling BS on this logic. There are genuine knocks on globalization. This is not one of them.
Boston is in Suffolk County
I think you should probably work a bit more on why your service is going to be better than your competitors. More than one competitor existing isn't really a great business plan.

Imagine if Pepsi's marketing campaign revolved around "Because Pepsi isn't Coke."
> No business plan.

I am not going to have one ever:-). On a more serious note, I am not selling out or going to ask for capital ever. The only person that needs to be convinced of the business value is me and I am convinced.

> No market analysis.

And that would affect me how? If there is an existing market for it, I am tapping into it. There is an existing market; I didn't feel the need to do research to prove that people are interested in selling things online and e-commerce is hard and if you are a merchant, you are more interested in selling thing than taking the pains of implementing it.

If there isn't an existing market for it(hypothetically speaking), I know people want to sell things. If they aren't selling it online already, it's only because the services aren't up to the mark, and that would be a good thing for me.

> No real idea of who will use your shopping service and why.

No, there isn't a real idea. The idea will change every week with the implementation and keep on changing until something clicks. But the ground rules are laid out. The service is for anyone who wants to sell things online and does not have the time/resource/interest to implement it himself.

It is for you if you want to sell tee shirts with funny graffiti; it is for you if you are a writer who is embracing new media and wants to sell his ebooks; it is for you if you are selling anything online. You can either attach the widget to your existing blog/site(would be helpful for web-cartoonists or people who already run a high traffic site) or create a new store and host us with us.

> No description of value, benefits, and features.

Value and benefits are what I have already detailed. I have just begun and features would be finalized as we work on it. If that looks like bad planning to you, so be it. That's the mode that suits me.

> Reads like wishful thinking and dreams of grandeur.

We will see about it:-).

> All you have is an idea and a domain name.

I didn't claim otherwise.
Good for you for having the courage to ask questions. This is definitely as good a place as any to ask.

As for what to do and how to do it, I would definitely tell you to go ahead and do the 3-2 program with Columbia. Besides the education, the connections you will make will last a lifetime.

I actually work for Columbia and live by the campus, if you want to talk drop me a line. But that aside, NYC has a great tech community with all sorts of programming/developer oriented events going on virtually every week (check out meetup.com).

Most importantly, hold on to that spark that got you interested. It will keep you going when you feel you are banging your head against the wall.
Read PG's article. Ok.

The smoking issue was interesting. In the book, Lady Drinking Tea, which explores how modern statistics came to be (BTW excellent read - fun), RA Fisher, the father of modern statistics, argued that lung cancer and smoking were correlated and you can NOT determine causation based on that.

For 60 years this smoker attacked everyone who disagreed. He was brilliant but still an asshole. He died from lung cancer, apropos. Soon after smoking was targeted again as a cause for lung cancer and many lives were saved since Fisher was no longer there attacking them.
Much can be done just with awk.

My pet peeve is the "grep | awk" idiom. No, just use awk.

Awk does map/reduce, relational joins, associative memory, table lookup, and so on. Just use awk arrays, begin block, and end block.
> This flaw presents itself in a number of ways. The most frequent is in time estimates. Almost every engineer I know chronically underestimates how long it will take to complete a task or series of tasks. Only the very best are able to give and meet accurate time estimates while the rest are sometimes off by a factor of two or more.

What is interesting is that we seem to be _much_ more accurate when estimating how much time a colleague will need to finish the task. So the solution is simple: when deciding on an estimate for yourself, try picturing someone else (less skilled preferably) doing the job. The result is surprisingly accurate, at least in my experience. :)
>If you're working for somebody else it's always going to mean doing things you don't want to do sometimes.

Horrible things, things you're ashamed of, with horrible, antique tools.

Try to change what you can (it's hard not to try), but otherwise play the detached mercenary and vote for the administration likeliest to implement UBI.
A while back I quizzed a doctor friend about working conditions in a hospital and found the relationship between doctors and hospital managers to be highly analogous to software. Interestingly the most successful hospital managers tended to be ex-doctors but it was hard to convince doctors to move into management.

The heart of the issue is probably something surrounding trying to "manage" things according to some management principles when you don't understand the domain/skills of the people you are trying to manage.

The more different it is to your career experience, the harder it probably is.
I live in Europe, there not much FANG here apart from maybe Lindon or Berlin but anyway, at this point of my life, the relationships I have with the people around me are more valuable than chasing some FAANG job or hip startup in some other country, hoping that would give me more satisfaction.

At the end of the day it's just a salary I need to support my other hobbies. After 7 years in the trenches I lost hope in the do what you love coding for fun mantra as I never found it and i feel that chasing it any longer will waste precious years of our limited time on this Earth I could use enjoying other things life has to offer or new experiences.
> All in all, I don't attribute the crab mentality as malice but insecurity.

Whether malice or insecurity or something else at the root, animus is the result at the surface.

I used to drive rideshare, and I heard perspectives on handouts to from my passengers that would peel paint.

This just is not a forum where such resentments can be acknowledged.
I don't use them, so I don't know whether they'd ask specifically about the TLS cert. It might just be something about "web security" or whatever.

And about using stock clients, that's what I said :)

From openvpn.net or in Linus distros or in pfSense, for example.
My local (US) grocery story has a similar scan-as-you-go feature available, and I haven't seen a single person using it in the year or so that it has been available. For older folks and the tech-illiterate, it is likely somewhat intimidating to have to teach yourself a new 'techie' feature on the fly.

Amazon's method may require you to log in or scan in with a barcode from the Amazon app, but just about everyone already has some basic experience with the Amazon service. And once you do a single scan, it just works.
" And as one commenter points out, this disease seems unusually concentrated in the USA"

And HIV is unusually concentrated in Africa. And cholera is endemic in south Asia (thus leading to suspicions that UN troops from Nepal are the source of the cholera outbreak in Haiti). It's not unheard of for infectious agents to be geographically localized.
nice! i forgot about taking this survey and the results until today. thanks!
If that works for your purposes, wonderful. For my purposes, it sounds like "Teach yourself ObjectiveC so that you can write a version of the site you have to maintain in parallel, for the benefit of iPhone owning customers who may not exist."
I'm not convinced that human bodies somehow started to work in a very different way over the span of just a few decades. The amount and composition of what we place inside those bodies did change though.

Just like in times past, people tend to eat as much as they can, and do as little physical work as they can, in the extreme. It's just that we're all so incredibly wealthy now compared to our ancestors that this is no longer a reasonable strategy for maintaining a healthy weight.
First, I don't post all of my posts. It might seem that way because I blog every day, but out of the 21 or so blog posts that I published in November, I've submitted exactly four to HN. And only two have made the homepage.

Second, if people don't find it useful or engaging, they'll stop upvoting it.
It seems a stupid question now. I'm not sure when we dropped it. Patents do matter in a small subset of startups, but only if you first make the company work.
"Denmark and Switzerland have both banned Transfats"

Presumably you can still gorge yourself on bacon and whole milk and sugary cakes, pies, and cookies; then drink alcohol until you die.
Omg. I am so surprised that their iOS app is buggy too. I thought it was just my crappy android phone.
I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between an AI controlling 100 accounts and a paid human with automation controlling 100 accounts.

If they're both under orders to (for example) upvote negative sentiments about vaping and positive sentiments about smoking - the consequence is the same no matter what type of drone it is.
Not the OP, but it seems that videos of lectures are missing, which is the case for most OCW courses - they are mostly incomplete and often outdated. Don't get me wrong, I'm very grateful for some of the marvelous OCW courses I took, but suggesting it can substitute actually studying at MIT is a bit too... optimistic.
They should be. Just replace every word "lobbying" with "bribing" and you will see it yourself.
> I realize that I enjoy life (not work) better when there is no Internet

On the other hand, life becomes utterly miserable with a little internet. It's an all-or-nothing kind of deal.
Of course they do. Spotify sells a service, the apps are not the primary product. But there is no ecosystem of alternative apps because Spotify has locked down the API. Why should they care about them?
I almost thought it was an April fools joke.
Right, the best code strives to be dead simple, almost boring. It's not like poetry; it's not more fun when it has hidden obfuscated meaning behind it.
You're the architect so you'd be the glue between the design team and implementation team. Ideally they are not the same people.

For a programmer I'd start by farming out the project in pieces to a few different people to find the right person. For designers I'd start looking at sortfolio.com or CSS portfolio sites where you'll typically find designers demonstrating their skills. Expect to be emailing quite a bit. It's not an easy process but assembling the right team is half the battle - directing and architecting the product to release is the other half.
This would have been better positioned as a post regarding the gap between the experience hiring mangers want, and the money they're willing to pay.
How many of the customers stop paying? Probably not many. How much disk space are these customers using? Probably not much. How much disk space do they have sitting on their servers unused? Probably a whole lot.
I'm starting out using my Amazon work experience to make efficient use of S3, SimpleDB, and EC2. But I am definitely open to lower-priced products built on other services and our own infrastructure. I'd love to talk with you about what your customers need.
Anecdote is not the singular of data, but I have been able to send/receive long messages using Android and iPhone on AT&T.

Just yesterday I even noticed Android's core SMS app is even nice enough to tell you when the message is overflowing into a second SMS, so you know that you and the recipient will get billed for more than one SMS. Which brings me to another idea:

Perhaps the billing issue is more of a concern as well -- receiving concatenated messages certainly would cost more for (American) users not on unlimited SMS plans, and presumably would cost more for Twitter to send out through their gateway?
What salary do you expect?

The startup offers I've seen in the bay area for SWE a couple years out of school are pretty high, $150k - $185k which is pretty good cash comp from a startup.

Higher than that is probably not a realistic expectation for most startups that are not flush with cash. They'd probably be happy to pay it or more for John Carmack, but you're probably not John Carmack.
A couple of years ago my elderly neighbor asked me to drive him to the local DMV for an appointment with an examiner in order to have his driving privileges restored. He'd experienced a brief medical problem but had recovered and had signed letters from his doctors giving him the all clear.

The examiner asked all the questions you'd want to have asked to ensure public safety. Everything seemed to be going well. But, apparently at that point, the examiner noticed my friends political affiliation on his screen and lost his shit over it, angrily impugning him in ways that were hostile and unprofessional. I had to walk out of his office into the main lobby and ask for a supervisor. I hope that was a one-off situation; A low level bureaucrat having a bad day. But the fact that a small bit of personal data could be used against a person in that way is troubling.
> So, not only do you have to ensure that your use of JWTs is sane

You're the one using JWT. You can't blame the tech if you screw up how you apply it.

> you have to ensure that the library you're using is doing sane things

Isn't this concern observed in 100% of cases where a third-party lib is used?

> The right thing to do should be the easy thing to do. There's little "easy" about the "proper" use of JWT.

That is not true at all. It's quite simple: either you know what you are doing or you develop broken software with security problems. If you decide to adopt a security technique and then fail to learn the very basics then the tech is not to blame for the problems you create for yourself.
Yes, well money is a big part of it but not all if it. The forcing into two parties, two binary choices, left or right, is such a solvable problem.
Software compensation is bimodal. The top 5% all make over 200k a year, no matter how many years of experience they have. The bottom 95% mostly make less than that, and never will make more than 225k.
I’m struggling to search for this, is it by a particular university or provider?
It is worth noting that the rise of wealth in our society means that "decent living" by the standards of the 1930s means "extreme poverty" by today's standards.

More precisely the real value of median income tripled from the 1930s to the 1980s. Lower income brackets did likewise.

So it is historically incorrect to hear FDR say "decent living" and map it onto current notions of a decent living. Separately, we have many decades of experience with the program that FDR didn't, and therefore our opinions today can be better informed than his way. Therefore there is no particular reason that we today should feel bound to agree with his original views.
I think you're arguing something that isn't germane to my question.

The OP on this thread said they would be irritated by (and I'm paraphrasing) someone coming in who spoke a different language. I am aware that such a thing exists, but wanted an answer to why. What you're addressing is the unasked first question, does such hostility exist?

I got confused because it appeared earlier in the thread that you were trying to justify that viewpoint on its own consequence. But now it seems like you were just steelmanning, which honestly isn't that useful to me on questions that are basically "how does your worldview work?".
That's great news. I was in the midst of that when it was first announced and the NBTC still shows the old logo. Excellent - and very timely - news. I never did like the 'Holland' bit, it seemed like a dumbed down version, marketeers taking over tradition.
Well, $9.95/month for 50GB, but I agree that some competition would be welcome.
His point stands: he's not talking about the total amount of money everyone has made, but the total amount of money any single company has made.
I'm from the US. In my mind Nokia has always meant:

Expensive and just not worth the price.

I think most americans were used to paying $0-$50 for their phone. Of if they were going to pay more they bought a black berry.

Things changed when the iPhone came out (and then the android). Basically, iPhone did well because it was expensive, but worth it.
Not much of a surprise after Facebook killed part of their ecosystem.