jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Who would take these deals?

People that are insecure about what they bring to the table.

Pre series-A the risks are still huge and the stock should be priced accordingly. Say the founders think a pre series-A company is worth $2M and they offer 0.05% equity you could enter negotiations asking for 1% more if you feel like it (and walk away if it goes below 75% of your counter opening bid) if you can defend the position that there is still a 95% chance that the company won't make it unless they have you on board.

Otherwise price the stock at 0 and ask for a market conform salary.

They'll move. An offer is just an opening move, nothing more.
Still, mainstream developers make decisions based on data. So if we want them to serve our community, shouldn't we help them by giving them data on how we use their sites and apps?
I have three reasons why the comment they made was not worthwhile.

1. Tiresome; it gets made every thread, rebutted every thread, and no progress is made in the discussion. It's time to stop saying the same thing over and over.

2. In bad faith; it does not respond meaningfully to the discussion. Something being legal does not make it ethically optimal.

3. Inciteful; these comments are lightning rods for emotional arguments in the replies. If a comment always causes low-quality discussion, then it's a low-quality comment.

You're free to disagree with my points. I suppose I started the character shitflinging by calling the author a troll, but I really think anybody that's been reading HN for long enough (a decade, in that user's case) can do better if they intend to.
https://faq.whatsapp.com/android/chats/how-to-save-your-chat...
Aw, that's actually... ok, you're forgiven :)
> but I don't understand how anyone can claim the media is not reporting on something, and then link directly to media about that thing

Well let's look at once recent example that I mentioned.

[0] CNN completely discredited the Hunter Biden story when it was released. They called it 'Russian Disinformation' and in their articles repeatedly used charged language such as "dubious" to refer to the information presented.

This was done on an ongoing basis by the majority of news organizations at the time. EDIT - [3] And supported by social media giants (Famously Twitter, but Google/Youtube did the same thing)

Fast forward past the election and the narrative has changed rather sharply. [1] They no longer call the story Russian Disinformation, and instead publish that the FBI is actively investigating Hunter Biden.

[2] As I mentioned, the same thing happened after 2001. The largest news institutions eagerly promoted that the US was under extreme threat. CNN in 2002 was publishing quotes like "we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud” and "Saddam is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time.”

Then when it became clear that there was no WMD's to be found they started giving room to the opposing narrative such as: Joe Wilson “I think it’s safe to say that the US government should have or did know that [the Niger documents were] fake before Dr. ElBaradei mentioned it in his report at the UN yesterday.”

Just to be clear, I'm not saying 'everything is a lie and the election was stolen and Trump is telling the truth'

What I am saying is that the sources of information have proven themselves to be incredibly untrustworthy to the point where many people automatically believe the inverse of what they claim.

[0] https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/18/media/new-york-post-hunter-bi...

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-inv...

[2] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war...

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54552101
In their particular case, what's the trade-off that's so terrible though? They already all have npm, they had a binary to distribute, and they distributed it.
That's exactly right. You can see how well the above compliments misinformation right?

Go ahead and read any religious text (I've read many!). Nearly every culture has one or many myths. Do you believe them to be fact? Or do you only believe your religious text to be true? And if so, why?

I don't mean to take a stance against religion in general. I agree with the above commenter that the impact of religion in a general sense does seem to be positive! A shared mythos can be a very powerful way of building community. This can have very real positive affects on a population, and, depending on that mythos, on an individual. But to suggest that religion doesn't require "faith" (i.e. believing in something despite no evidence) is... well... naïve.
I honestly can't decide if this is genius or stupid. I suppose that means it could potentially be awesome.
Are you serious? "Can anyone speculate..."?

The intarwebs have been full of speculation about this announcement, much the same as any other time Apple is scheduled to release some news.

Common bets right now are on some kind of iTunes update to enable streaming music.

Personally, I've heard rumors from friends inside Apple that they are going to start offering themed destination vacation packages. You go online, configure and order a new MacBook Pro or iPad or whatever, then you get to fly to the factory in China where they make it and help build your very own Apple device. You also get to sleep in the barracks with the other Foxconn employees. Oh, and for some reason you need to check your shoelaces and belt when you arrive.
I'm going to assume your not just being purposely obtuse and actually curious.

Google Wave was two things: a protocol and a UI. The UI was merely a way to preview the protocol. The protocol was awesome, the UI not so much. People made the assumption that the UI was what Google was pushing, when the reality was, the UI was merely a way to demonstrate the protocol. Unfortunately, both the UI and the protocol shared the same name.

Hopefully you understand the difference now. =)
Offtopic: why did you self-censor the first "shit" but not the second "shit"?
This is a convenience for those who don't live paycheck to paycheck. Many families, myself included, are, at times, forced to pick and choose what to pay on time and what is going to have wait a week or two. Living beyond my means? Perhaps, but I'm hardly the minority.
I'll have to put this on my 'to read' list, it looks really interesting. I think natural language processing/understanding may become one of those next 'big things' like mobile and social media simply because understanding what a user is trying to do will become very important.

If anyone is interested in playing around with a robust natural language processing tool, I built an API for the Stanford Parser. http://nlp.naturalparsing.com/browserparser/parse
I find it deeply disturbing that this was known by the US intelligence community the entire time yet they were suppressed from sharing publicly because of certain people being compromised. Ugh.
I confess I'm more excited for the hobby market getting access to hobbyist-friendlier secondhand batteries with tons of life left. Handling the electricity's just as risky as any other high capacity pack (electrocution and dropped wrenches exploding into plasma when they short the pack and so forth) but at least making a battery management mistake or accidentally drilling a hole in a cell isn't automatically an unstoppable fireworks show in your garage.
Or store your keys in a different user. I personally use have the users dotancohen and dotancohens (trailing s for Secure) on my laptop. I simply su into dotancohens and then from there SSH into various servers. The /home/dotancohens/ directory has 0700 permissions.
Well, regimes do bad things but the US should not be supporting and strategizing for these regimes when they do bad things right? So posturing is the least we can do and getting back to that point is still a good thing.
In your view should Google not allow people to log in to Gmail while in incognito mode? How can someone remain untracked by Google while in incognito mode but also interact with personalized Google services, like email?
Probably not but when you have some who travel to Saudi Arabia to fund raise and schmooze, it's a bit more direct.
Two separate issues:

1) Chrome should enable the Do Not Track header when in private browsing, as any reasonable person would expect they would.

2) Google websites and analytics should respect Do Not Track.

I'm repeating what others have said but I think it's important to separate these out as different issues, because it completely nullifies everything you just said -- both are strong arguments on their own, and Chrome being a Google product is completely irrelevant to both.
Hey, I work on this project -- thanks for your feedback.

You can still shell into your own containers to debug workloads, we removed SSH access to the nodes in order to provide management of the nodes (we can't take on the management if people can SSH in and make unsupported changes).
> It is placing the onus on a layperson to understand the technicalities of how third-party advertising trackers work.

No they aren't. It's spelled out entirely when you just open incognito mode. It specifically says "Chrome won't save the following information" and also specifically says "Your activity might still be visible to websites you visit"

You don't have to dig into any help articles or have deep technical knowledge of how Google Analytics works. Open up incognito and it's all right there right in front of you.
True of nearly any auction. Actual buyers stop bidding when they think the price has exceeded the value to them. If the music stops with a fake bidder holding the bag, the auction will have to be re-held, now with increased scepticism by real bidders, likely securing a lower final price.
If I had a Tesla, I might charge it using a coal-powered power plant...
I too will never buy razer again due to this
I've been to Hacienda Napoles (Pablo's estate where the hippos - and zebras, and rhinos and pretend dinosaurs with fake roaring speakers are). There are hotels you can stay in there ( I did not - I stayed in Doradal the nearby city with schools and hospitals built by Escobar). But if you stay in the park you must be in your hotel by 6pm say signs posted everywhere - because the hippos are nocturnal. They stay in the water all day and come out and ...roam and potentially kill at night. I stood for an hour with my toes in the water watching the hippos swim and I fed Vanessa - that is Pablo's pet pigmy hippo who is 'tame'. You buy (for about $1) a tupperware of carrots and celery and feed her. She let me scratch her nose. All of this is to say, Colombians on the ground where the hippos are spreading from have worked out ways to coexist with them.
Given how google web properties have behaved towards non-chrome browser-headers in the past, that would be absolutely in the realms of plausibility.
Just what I was thinking. In light of the entire cryptoransom thing the idea of stealing some data and then finding a buyer seems so anachronistically 1990ies retrofuturism that it almost feels like a roleplayed cyberpunk submarine ad.
Awesome gotta read both.
I had one of their cheap new 10" Android tablets in my hands today. We have come so far and they have learned so little

(Samsung’s Galaxy Tab has much better hardware but Android just doesn’t feel right for tablets. At least not right now.)
can't recommend one in particular, but check some Amazon EC2 images.. someone has probably whipped one up
Or the Creative Nomad Jukebox...
Libby never received a pardon from Bush, only a commutation of the jail time. He still has a felony conviction on his record.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby#Presidential_Comm...
> the facts it cites weren't new or surprising and the analysis wasn't insightful.

That I agree with. More interesting was the recent Pew study of what US citizens perceive as wealth distribution versus what it is in reality: http://baselinescenario.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/screen-s...

It's increasingly depressing the extent to which this isn't news any more. But the truth is, it's not at all clear what, given the global economy, can or should be done about it. We could offer free education and health care to everyone, and that still wouldn't bring factory and construction jobs back.
Mean. Probably true too.
See http://blog.golang.org/godoc-documenting-go-code for Go documentation guidelines. Use the godoc tool included with the Go distribution to read package documentation locally. Use godoc.org to view documentation on the web. The documentation for your package is at
http://godoc.org/github.com/sergiotapia/smitego .
The 150 end of the range as a first time can be manageable for some and can be quite intense for others.

Some research suggests a “30-40 microgram trip first, then a 60-80 microgram before anything larger, then a 120-140 microgram before anything larger, then either stopping there (this was the dosage that resulted in the highest increase in well-being) or doing a 170-240 microgram trip.” — https://tripsafe.org/how-to-take-lsd/#start-small
No. "User hostile content" is defined by the user.
I think uniformness in interface will probably make it a lot harder for cars to be flexible to the needs of a driver. The fact that the interface is different from car to car is probably only a problem if you jump around between cars a lot, but the fact that you have to learn an interface that you have to look at to use, while at the same time operating a vehicle, is probably the main cause of frustration for most people.

Plus, there's some argument to be made about regulations hurting innovation. I'm not usually the type of person to make those arguments, but this seems like one of those cases where the ability to actually make a good, dynamic interface might never happen.
I guess working for google would be out of the question.
I can respect that. I've found it difficult to embrace Linux myself, because the "affordances should be visible!" part of my brain keeps recoiling against the command line interface, which is where the action is. But I can see how it can become extraordinarily powerful after you've reached a certain level of competence.
If you use GVim on your mac then it should work fine.

If you use a different editor then it should be pretty easy to hack up a plugin that launches your preferred editor instead. The plugin API docs give an example of launching GNOME gedit: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?App::BCVI::Plugins
Don't bother they're about as expensive as natural clear diamonds.
Yeah, I'll definitely post about it. It's interesting watching the progress.
Does it work on Mac?
If it does get them rich, I don't see a problem. Additionally, I think her sex tape incident was far enough back that it's no longer really relevant for young girls, it's mostly people in their 20s that were the age where they could be influenced by it. I think her influence now is generally positive.
That friction is relevant most when it's loaded, which is arguably the main use case for a pickup truck. That was not tested in this case.
Sometimes I read people's comments on her sex-tape and almost start to wonder if it's a form of subtle sexism.

I mean, she had already been on reality TV before, her family already had the idea for a reality TV show, Ryan Seacrest had already expressed interest in producing the show (there was even a precedence for the show, "The Osbornes"), she already had a fairly successful career with extremely marketable skills.

The 2nd movie Sylvester Stallone ever did, which he credits for saving him in the pits of desperation, was softcore porn, but I've never heard anyone say "I wonder if he's a negative influence on poor people who believe that softcore porn is going to get them rich quickly like Sylvester"

It turns out having useful skills and a vision is what made them successful in both cases.

There are plenty of people with famous, rich parents who never end up building billion dollar brands, do you really think a sex tape built a billion dollar brand?

Isn't it a bit much to reduce all her accomplishments to that and think that will be the takeaway of her success?
The impact on China's mass surveillance capabilities is negligible, because RISC-V work is open source already.

What the foundation avoids by moving to Switzerland is fragmentation of their ecosystem due to US foreign policy decisions.

Note that China is already among the technology leaders in the world. Even if cut off from the remaining world, they would have no issue in manufacturing and operating sophisticated surveillance infrastructure. So I can't see how the foundation would help suppressed minorities in China by staying in US.
How many people use Candy Crush and that specific industrial driver software? The pinga come from the same IP at similar times.
I also personally believe in, and this isn't just for code, but for any project you'll pass to another, a connected read.me file explaining the high-level reasonings and other thoughts, including a personal changelog and roadmap, and some instructions for use and editing.
I have heard of a company that does this, which recorded 3 million active devices in a month -- 10% of Canada's population. Data includes, tracking people's movement through subways. CSEC is not the only party to worry about here. I am sure Google has comparable location info as well.
That sounds like an absolutely awful idea. Offices are already full of CYA behavior, but if I can go to jail because another guy in my department did something wrong and I couldn't prove that I wasn't aware, I think you'd see a lot less economic activity. It would be too risky to be a part of a group. The only winners would be lawyers.
The main problem is that the adjusted income of the bottom 90% of earners has been flat over the last 40 years.

Forget the morality of wealth distribution. How long do you think 90% of a democracy can go without an increase to their standard of living before they realize they need to drastically change the system?

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3309

If you are looking for a systematic problem with income concentration, look at Figure 2 in the link above. Notice any correlation between the peaks of income inequality?
So, 42% of the wealth supplies 38% of the tax base? That's pretty close, of course, but when you're talking about trillions of dollars 4% is quite a big shortfall.
what's the upper age limit to join this hypothetical company? /s
To quote an (open sourced =D) T1000:

"Old but not obsolete"
Ya I was just coming here to say the same thing. 40ms _just in the codec_ feels like a lot. Because that's not even including time to pull in audio from the hardware (could be 20ms or more in Android devices), time to upload, and time to have it across the Internet, and then time to decode + play on the receiver. That adds up pretty quickly. I'm guessing 40ms was chosen because it is some sweet spot of having enough data to get a worthwhile compression on, but it's one of these things where technology, however impressive it might be, is slowly giving us a worse experience over time in the pursuit of digitization.
Big companies lack the freedom because they have to answer to institutional + activist investors, and institutional + activist investors want to see a sweat shop. They get nervous if they think people are having a chilled time at home.

This is a caste culture issue. It's orthogonal to productivity and real returns.

If you set up your chilled culture, you'd better stay bootstrapped. If you take VC money, most are going to push for a less liberal line.
That makes total sense. I disagree with your takeaway but it seems like a valid one to have.

From my experience coming from homelessness type of poverty to making 6 figures, I have access to many things and don’t have to worry about food anymore. But. I still don’t have enough savings to live off of if I lose my job, am still one serious accident away from bankruptcy, etc. the way I’ve explained it is that I now have something to lose, not that I’ve gained all that much outside of benefits (I now have two front teeth!)

Maybe the point I’m trying to make with my anecdote is that making $$$ isn’t the same as having $$$, high CoL or not.
(some?) ft articles are readable if you are coming from a google search. At least it works for me when I search the article by title.
It's more that he's refusing to explain it, and describing it as a "enigma" to justify it after the fact.

Tolkien plotted by instinct, writing things down and then trying to figure out what that meant. Tom Bombadil was a character from other unrelated stories. He was introduced in a draft of Lord of the Rings that was much more stylistically "Hobbit part 2" than what we eventually got.

But Tolkien was a consummate retconner: once something was written down it it tended to stay. He molded and reinterpreted but rarely removed, until he found something that felt right to him.

That style of writing leaves a lot of tiny inconsistencies -- but inconsistencies that mimic the way any culture's lore evolves. That makes them incredibly intriguing, as if you'd just chanced on Greek myths or the Arthurian legends -- except instead of the product of centuries, it was one obsessive guy.

His ultimate retcon, by the way, is the first published edition of The Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings grew out of the Gollum chapter of The Hobbit, but changed in ways that made it incompatible with the original. (In the original Gollum really was going to just give it to him.) So he rewrote it, but the first edition still existed -- and in the intro to LotR, he explains it as Bilbo's propaganda covering up the truth about how he got the Ring.
For me, the primary advantage has been the ecosystem.

Reagent and re-frame have been awesome since Day 1, even as react has tried to play catch-up with hooks etc.
Daily standup experience correlates with competence of the scrum master. If they can keep it under 5 minutes, call people out for rambling, prevent engineers from going down a rabbit hole,and do complexity and time management well, people wouldn't hate it as much.

It has to be a tight ship. If I ran my standup, I would say - standup lasts 5 minutes. The timer starts now and it exactly lasts 5 minutes. Everyone goes through once ASAP. Afterwards you can break out into your discussions, whatever. But don't waste everyone else's time.
What was provided by a WHMCS "owned license"?
Agreed. I thought "Paradigm: Yes" was hilarious, but the Perl row has a few errors.

"Function Overloading" should be "N/A" for a language without subroutine signatures. Any Perl function can take any combination of arguments and decide what to do with them. This is used to create de facto function overloading.

"Method Pointers: No" is ridiculous. Perl has subroutine references, which includes methods. You can even use a method name string as a method reference if you need to.
I am a developer, who also dealt with ops in a small business context. I agree with Ansible striking a good balance between prior experience and the future of automating server configuration.

I did a write-up on how I used it on my blog: https://heuristicservices.co.uk/2019/08/13/staging-and-produ...

The workflow worked really well, provisioning Vagrant servers in staging and Digital Ocean droplets in production.
Right. The advantage of Google tasks over Workflowy in my opinion, is that Google tasks works on mobile devices.
Being from Sydney, I was amazed to see you guys have solved this particular problem on your motorways (time to destination based on traffic).

Is it good? I was just roadtripping through.
Finance,but I didn't think it was particularly relevant because I'll bet a dollar to any taker that any other given industry that hires IT besides software itself is probably the same way.
As a little aside, being from Melbourne I was amazed how many toll roads their are driving around Sydney.