jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
phlux, didn't we have this argument before? ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2061369

To try and clarify further: ideas are not worthless, but they also don't have value. How can that be? Simple, unless an idea is coupled with execution its value is zero. This is what leads to the phrase 'ideas are worthless' which is misleading IMO when phrased that way.

> why arent the millions of developers constantly outdoing themselves with utterly amazing work

That statement is flawed on many levels. First, the percentage of the population with a high level understanding of technology is small, and the percentage of those who are developers is smaller, and the percentage of those that are great developers is smaller still. So saying "the millions of developers" like there really are that many working directly on tech innovation in Silicon Valley and elsewhere in the US is questionable at best.

Now, if you're asking why don't the "great" proportion of developers do amazing work the answer is that they do. They are the reason you can view and post on Hacker News with a working OS, or listen to thousands of songs on a device as small as your hand, and on that same device check email, play games, download thousands of apps, and make phone calls, etc. In other words, great developers are busy building things. Many amazing things. Some developers build things for companies, and some venture out on their own to build new and innovative things like Twitter, Groupon, or Facebook, some of which work and many which don't. But there certainly are many amazing pieces of technology that have been built so far, and there are many more to come... These won't all come at the same time, but the tinkerers are out there... building, trying, failing, and trying again. They are doing the hard work of executing, and for a small fraction of them, it will pay off.

Edit: Let me put the idea challenge back on you, phlux. If your belief is "idea" people are certainly only held back from their $ millions in success by not being developers, why don't they borrow, sell, or mortgage $50K on their house etc. and just get the idea built and cash in? It's that easy, right?
There are already native Facebook apps for iPads and phones. So FB can exist without the web. Some people predict a Facebook phone in the future.
The little wacom bamboo tablets are actually pretty cheap.
You can take a bus to Colombia and actually buy food or medicine. You call that nothing, so fine, don’t but Bitcoin if that works for you. It’s surprising you don’t think others might possibly disagree.
I also live near Boulder (Lyons what’s up!) and also had a really hard time understanding all the vitriol towards building a Wal-Mart when Target is packed day in, day out.
Thank you! My father is an engineer and my mother has a master degree in psychology. My father works for al-baladiyya, I think in English it’s called the municipality. My mother is working with the Gaza Community Mental Health Program which is an NGO. My mom’s salary is stable but my dad’s is not.

The problem is that there are few jobs in Gaza due to the wars and the closed borders. Lucky us they are working but my father is earning just 50% of the actual salary. This happens a lot in Gaza nowadays. The economic situation has been getting a lot worse for the last few years.
I was strongly looking at a UDM this week. After reading through many testimonials: everything is not as it seems in unifi land. I went with an edgerouter-4 and will continue to use my R6700v2 as an AP. It’s a fine AP but a godawful router. It took disabling default configs to hit gig throughput. Forget enabling QoS. The WAN DHCP client also shits itself once a month. Enough is enough. The networking kit should be a box that sits in the corner and does its job.
This is a problem EE’s currently talk about. People good at analog electronics are starting to age out of the workforce. There are a ton of people who got into electronics 40+ years ago by fiddling with things. This is harder today than it was back when through hole was how components were made (though the maker movement has changed that trajectory IMO). I could easily see the same problem with CS in general as access to general computing becomes less populous. I’ve even heard rumor it’s happened to some degree already when people talk about an unusual age band for devs born around +/- 1975 who tend to have a particularly good grasp of computers due to growing up with the first personal computers.
Hey, thanks for checking us out. We want to get the UX right first with our existing feature set, and then consider expanding to more advanced things such as derivatives or options. We'll keep your request in mind!

Also agree, re: API tooling. We'd love to find folks who want to write code against our API. Is that something you'd use?
See Fairphone!
I see that the Wifi 5 access point that you write is more expensive than their Wifi 6 offering, and it's advised for outdoor scenarios.

Which is the best router for long range and just few decices?
As an interviewer, my impression is that interview performance often does not predict success in the workplace. The most extreme example is for a case where the person aced (I mean absolutely aced) the algorithm questions I threw at him but was unable to get things done at work. In technology, we don't have a good way to filter by personality and conscientiousness - these unfortunately turn out to be pretty key in getting things done well.
Is there a less snarky way of saying not all sex involved payment of currency on the spot?
Ah okay, good, that's a more reasonable discussion then.

So you're basically saying that a meeting could fail to create value because an employee made mistakes in the meeting as he could not handle the stress. The correct way to solve this for everyone involved is to reduce the amount of stress everyone is under in a meeting and to create an environment conducive to problem solving. This isn't really that hard, a well motivated employee whose rewards and goals align with the company will try his best to create value as it helps him the most as well. If an employee is very bad at meetings, he could also be asked to express his ideas beforehand to someone he feels comfortable with and then that person could help him express his idea in the meeting.

The solution of hiring only people who can shout the loudest and brute force their ideas through in combative meetings is not a solution that will create value over the long term. If someone is breaking down in your meeting the problem is the meeting, not the person. Fix the meeting. Even people capable of taking stress is meetings will still perform better if that stress is removed.

EDIT: You also shouldn't be making snap judgements in a meeting that will affect the future of the company in the market. If there is a lot of tension in the meeting and the outcome is unclear, postpone the issue a short while until people can work out the issues better. If someone notices that there was a mistake in a previous meeting, work through the mistake in the next meeting and change direction ASAP. And obviously, don't fire anyone for this...
Can I offer you some advice? An interview is a negotiation. The rules aren't fixed. If you're asked to do something that won't give a reliable measurement of your ability, say so and offer the interviewer a better option. You'll probably get what you want.

In the scenario you described, I might try something like this: "I think I see what you're trying to measure by asking that question, but it assumes a working style that is foreign to me. So that you can get a better reading of what I can really do, would you mind if we used my laptop, with you looking over my shoulder, as I solved a problem of similar difficulty?"

An interview is a negotiation. If you want to change it, just ask. Most interviewers will be happy to agree to any changes that will help them get a better read on your true abilities.
I'm running Cyanogenmod, but I like to have (potentially paid) applications (to avoid the 'apps' non-word). I paid for quite a lot already.

I'm never allowed to rate them, to comment on them in the Google Play store, since .. I cannot have a G+ account (and frankly, I don't want one).
"thing I use to send email" and "thing I use to watch music videos" are not conceptually distinct?

Most users would send as emails to others the kinds of things they leave as comments on youtube?
This list is incomplete since a lot of Pioneer outside USA are not even mentioned.
There tends to be ethical concerns as things get this big that apply to all of: Bitcoin, Airbnb,
Uber.

Try Dropbox or even Digital Ocean for a more loved company/idea.
> I think the guy who goes to work because otherwise we won't be able to pay his bills, his children's tuition, food, elderly parents rents, medicine etc. is much more "forced" to work than teenagers are forced to go to school.

Very much depends on your local laws and social caste. For quite a lot of kids, truancy is a pipeline to prison.
For iPad.
My whole family felt entirely spoiled this year so next year we're ditching gifts and donating to the Pinball Clement Foundation (http://www.mpcf.ca/).

Anywho,
Neoprene iPad Case, microSD card for phone, desperately needed wallet, RobotShop gift card.
:) Merry Christmas
Are you a Hacker? Stop by the Hacker Dojo. It's especially cool if there is a good class/event going on when you're here.

http://wiki.hackerdojo.com/w/page/25437/FrontPage
WebRTC establishes p2p connection over which you can transfer media streams or other data via the data channels provided by the API.

Using WebSockets you cannot make two browsers communicate directly without using any proxy in the middle.

So WebRTC has the following benefits:

- establish p2p connection between two browsers (not necessary required to be browsers)

- transfer media (audio/video) efficiently

- allows data streaming over UDP/TCP/SCTP (you can use one, depending on your application type - for example UDP if you're looking for performance over reliability)

And the following drawbacks:

- requires more complex architecture (for the NAT traversal procedures via ICE)

- you have no guarantee that the connection between the peers will be established (in case of symmetric NATs in front of the peers you want to connect)

- has more complex API
Having spent time with Rails, I'd say you're biased.

I went from a dotnet shop to a rails shop, and despite the attitude that Rails is "marvelous", I can't help but feel like Rails is the bastard child of ASP.net.

It feels incredibly similar to working within the constraints of ASP - the framework knows best. Don't questions their choices. Don't do it any other way. Lock yourself into their good choices.

Their choices turn out not to be great for your use case? Fuck off.

Compounded by the fact that Rails is currently in the same death spiral dotnet was before scrapping everything and releasing dotnet core - Rails is great in v1. Rails is much less great in v6, where documentation is shoddy, splintered across versions, there are 5 ways to do anything, but god help you if you don't know the most recent incantation. Memorize all of our conventions, but hey - best practices have changed like 6 times in the last 10 years, so our conventions from yesteryear don't apply, and no, we won't update our documentation and stack overflow answers are bad/outdated.

Basically - Coming in from all sorts of other languages and frameworks I've used in prod (Golang, Dotnet, Dotnet Core, Node, Ts-Node, Rails, PHP, etc) Rails is currently sitting in my shitlist.
Yeah the e2e is way too complex in matrix. They really need to work on the UX and make it more like WA and Signal. The way it is now even a crypto geek like me gets annoyed and that means the mainstream will never touch it.
Yes, when people say "There was no election fraud", it's shorthand for "no large scale election fraud". I agree that people should be more careful with their words, but it is a bit of a strawman to try to attack people who are claiming this election was safe on such a silly technicality.

I consider anything below 0.0001% to be for all intents and purposes insignificant. It sure is a lot lower than the COVID mortality rate his supporters love to pretend is so low.
An easier explanation is that it isn't numbers fatigue but a pattern based on the party of the administration. This seems the easier explanation because the supposed audience "appetites" and "fatigues" reflected by editors seem to crest in a predictable way, surveys of industry participant political leanings, industry organization donations, evaluation of article messaging, recordings of CNN editorial meetings, etc.
Unless you mean you're disappointed that the president has said something so egregious they've been forced to censor him, I really have no idea where you're coming from. He's inciting an armed mob to storm the seat of the US government. Where would you draw the line?
Do you think people should be able to yell "Fire!" in a crowded room?
The even bigger problem, which could be regulated if US legislatures had the will, is that Apple is comfortable if consumers believe an item of personal information is required to participate in some Apple service (like an Apple App Store) when truly it isn't. This is why we see so many back-and-forths in forums between users about what is actually required. Apple is comfortable with the confusion. If people are submiting more personal information to Apple than is actually needed, this is not a problem for Apple. Not in the US, anyway.

The $1K app seems like an early example of how "apps" marketed through Apple (App Store) were immediately being used by "developers" to gather personal information about Apple users, such as indicia of net worth. Having identified a segment of users willing to pay $1K for nothing, via an "app" download, seems like it would be instantly valuable to online advertisers.
My favorite less than useless iPhone app of all time is "Send me to heaven" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Me_To_Heaven

At least Google still carries it.
> So they MUST spend their coins within a fixed time frame of about 70 years.

Inheritance. Donations.
> …Apple still has not managed to find a solution to understanding the difference between excessively expensive scam/child-predatory apps vs justifiably high priced apps.

They have from my POV.

(1) They're rare enough (in a store with 2m+ apps) that we're discussing an bizarre exception from 2008. (2) They offer protections to help avoid the problem (e.g. parental controls). (3) Refunds (in my experience) are painless.
That doesn't really apply here. I don't even play GTA V but the #1 complain I've always heard for the past 6 years is that the load times are the worst thing about the game. Once something is known to be the biggest bottleneck in the enjoyment of your game, it's no longer "premature optimization". The whole point of that saying is that you should first make things, then optimize things that bring the bring the most value. The load time is one of the highest value things you can cut down on. And the fact that these two low hanging fruit made such a big difference tells me they never gave it a single try in the past 6 years.
The prime number thing was an example not related to this coin.

The stimulus thing was just a joke.

I'm not looking for anything that "I see in other cryptocurrencies". I was just looking for a reason why this coins should be used by anyone. The other 9k coins are irrelevant.
> mean time to verify using Okta Verify (default mfa solution for okta sso) is ~21 seconds.

My current client uses Okta Verify. It takes 5-8 seconds from clicking "Sign In" on my laptop to receiving the Okta push prompt on my phone to unlocking my phone and clicking "Yes, it's me" and then getting the full authenticated post-Okta desktop landing page.
At what point will the US stop tolerating Chinese attacks on US companies?
> I got into Python in 2002, and my recollection is that RST was introduced a few years before Markdown.

That's true: According to Wikipedia RST is from 2002 (so is AsciiDoc), Markdown from 2004. Perhaps also important though is that RST was introduced as a direct successor to StructuredText, which apparently, had some currency in the Python community previously.
Hi everyone. This is a quick blog post I wrote about this project.

The in-progress documentation website is at https://planck6502.jfoucher.com/ and the source repository for hardware and software is at https://gitlab.com/planck-6502/planck-6502
Just a hypothetical question I want to know as a FOSS dev, but someone who's never used Flynn before:

If someone came to you right now and offered an amount to keep going, no strings attached, enough to support the applications which remain hosted on your platform after those who have already lost their confidence leave, would you consider keeping it running?

What amount, in whatever currency you prefer, would make you consider it?

I've no horse in this race, but I'd like to get at least one datapoint.

This is not the first time I see a post like this, and it always makes me wonder if you could've gotten enough funds if youd gone out and said, "Look, Flynn is going to shut down if we don't get X amount minimum to support us. If this platform means anything to you, now is your chance to save it."
The average web user has no idea GitHub is behind the popup. You need to be a web expert and look at the Network tab to know this.
Very, very nice!
This is going to replace Etherpad for us when interviewing.

Thank you for building this.

Some notes:

* Tab defaults to 8 spaces. Ughh, can it be 4?

* Auto-formatting uses offsets of 2 spaces. Why? Either turn it off or use 4 (not everyone is a Rubbyist and even not all Rubbyists adhere to this convention)
Isn't the so called DMCA take down notice in this example not just a notification for the user that Dropbox received such a take down notice and not a DMCA takedown notice?
you get pugs at its zenit
cant see the Kiismetrics data
This is what any sane man who actually cared about human rights would do.

That's what any sane man would do about, say, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
Agreed. I don't mind that he asked nicely and the file was taken down. I DO mind that a DMCA was issued.
> Which is probably the cause for the majority of chronic healthcare spending.

I doubt it's a _huge_ factor, honestly. The fatter Western European nations (UK and Ireland, for instance) don't have unduly expensive systems; Ireland spends about 5k per capita, the UK about $4k per capita. Much thinner France spends $4.6k.

Now, France _does_ outperform both the UK and Ireland on most metrics, but not by a huge amount.
The reason is that Swiss society doesn't fetishize gun ownership in quite the same way. Nobody in Switzerland is going to the mall carrying a handgun for "protection" and nobody would be so stupid to ever think that was a good idea.

As for concealed carry permit states, VT and AK have murder rates remarkably consistent with geographical neighbors. You are dead wrong to claim they are somehow special.
Presumably you can get around the "proximity" limit by just using a more powerful transmitter, I can't imagine they have any actual near field communication or anything.
My impression is that Apache favors application level networking and infrastructural projects and Java affords a fairly large tech sweet spot for creating such projects.
You’re assuming new rules and regulations actually prevent injury and death. That isn’t necessarily so.
Volvo even gave away their patent on the 3-point seatbelt patent, to the benefit of the security for everyone. http://jalopnik.com/volvo-gave-away-their-most-important-inv...
For one of the first projects of this type (from 2006) see http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/CAVE/projects/world_eye/.
Correct. Either create a firewall rule or if your parents router isn't good enough create a null static route of 8.8.8.8/255.255.255.255 and 8.8.4.4/255.255.255.255 to the routers IP address with a metric of 2 and you'll achieve the same affect as a iptables/pf rule.
Well, the concept of QV is that it only rewards fairly large minorities who have intense preferences (not "extreme" ones). So if the top 1% want to buy enough votes to overcome the other 99%, then they have to buy 98 votes each, which costs something in the general vicinity of 10,000 times the base price of a vote. And that's assuming that the subject is so not extreme that nobody in the other 99% is willing to pay 1/10,000th of that much to get an extra vote.

If you like the idea of rewarding fairly large minorities with intense preferences, but think that quadratic voting isn't sufficiently steep a curve, I don't see any really strong reason to think that the third or fourth power, or even an exponential curve, are that different in concept.
Free Range is not the same as organic - if you compare backyard eggs to eggs that are basically someone else’s backyard it’s understandable there’s little difference.

Free range just means the chicken can go outside or turn around. It says nothing about the feed or breed.
I was lucky enough to read these back when they were released as only 3 books. Still had the same parts but was cheaper to buy.
What do they do with other animals used for food production? Is this only done with chicken? I'm not sure I would dare eat meats produced in the U.S.
> 100k people would install this, and you’d scrape Twitter quite quickly.

Yeah, uh, definitely.

> Tons of creators would migrate for the FREE MONEY! ... Even lurkers will use TWITCHAIN front end because it doesn’t have ads and fake “trending” topics.

So the whole gimmick here is that supposedly you're going to get ordinary users to switch (i.e. install your extension that puts them on a duplicate site)? Actually, if you succeed at anything at all you're going to run into the issue that the people who want to use your site are, for the lack of a better word, cringe. Most people are like me and won't use it exactly because of the sort of audience this kind of supposed "Twitter alternative" would draw. That's if they even care, and most people don't.

(I realize describing people as "cringe" is judgmental sounding, but there's really not a better word here from the point of view of the people who I'd call "normies".)
Thanks a lot for the hint. That is very helpful!
I think GP's point is that Li-Ion batteries were state of the art 15 years ago, and they still are today. And they aren't much better either, they still degrade from normal use and still expand if you look at them wrong. Except 15 years ago they at least were designed to be easily replaceable.
Given that most businesses survive on the margin between business value vs employee pay, the notion of equal pay for equal work certainly sounds good, but will inevitably result either in more selectivity or a race to the bottom.
In order to request a free Ebook, this site requires that I create an account and log in. I'm ok with that. However, because I'm using Safari with the Ghostery extension, the site reports that "There was a problem loading the login page." I'm not willing to pause blocking, so I guess I'm out of luck.
Ghostery/Disconnect are leaner memory-wise than uBlock [1]. That is for their own memory footprint. I do not know how much they contribute memory overhead to web pages though, but I suspect not much. I have never benchmarked Ghostery/Disconnect CPU-wise.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Own-memory-usage:-ben...