jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's been a few years, but at one time I averaged $3,500.00 per month, with two months at $5,000.00, from two AdSense units on just one single, quite lengthy but well-researched and well-written essay on legal music downloading.

I am, today, skeptical that it's worth anyone's while to try to make money from ads published alongside one's articles. At one time that was widely accepted as the very best way to make money online, but no more.

I'm getting ready to do a KickStarter project so I can devote myself full time to this:

http://www.warplife.com/jobs/computer/

So far I have some remote employers and clients, and some employers in a few large US cities. After I have lots more remote employers, as well as some in a few other countries, I'll do the kickstarter.

Someone managed to make fifty-six grand from a KickStarter in which he said "I'm making potato salad". Not that he was going to sell it commercially, or had come up with a killer potato salad recipe. I mean like he was fixing his lunch for the day.

Just a couple days ago, I read that three times as much money is raised from crowdfunding than from VC.

Consider that with crowdfunding, you don't lose any equity. You also don't have the problem with a bad VC giving you bad advice, or even demanding you do stupid things.

There are some VCs who are very, very good. Despite having to fork over lots of equity, the good VCs are very worthwhile, but IMHO a bad VC is far worse than not getting funding at all.
Cook too much for dinner, re-heat leftovers for lunch.
I love wit.ai. Really hope Facebook isn't just blowing smoke about keeping them open.
Not for the moment. Maybe later in an update.. They really should add it otherwise it's lame!
Was at Canaveral this AM... total bummer.
This is a neoreaction blog. Before anyone else feels the need to point that out.

With that said, I think there's two major reasons for bold "save the world" visions expressed by startups to lack viability. The first is that the symbiosis between startups and venture capital creates a cycle where the most successful players are inevitably end user-facing services optimized for rapid growth. There are a ton of problems whose solutions do not find under this model. In fact, being too big of a visionary is usually considered a negative: it likely means you have no product-market fit. The incentive henceforth becomes to achieve a maximum market valuation and preferably a low fair value (less effort in creation, ops and maintenance).

The second is what jerf terms the "BOAC fallacy" (http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2916). Lots of programmers seem to have this odd magical thinking that they can trivially obsolete industries and professions by just applying statistical learning over some data sets, or by writing what amounts to a spreadsheet... except marketed and branded towards a given field. Doesn't change the fact that it's just a spreadsheet application, and that there are other intricacies that naturally impede automation of a certain area which you haven't accounted for.
Use IntelliJ and save yourself much frustration in the long run.
The YPG and affiliated groups are designated as terrorist organizations by only Turkey and Qatar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Protection_Units

20 million Kurds not having a state despite their will to have it is a major injustice in this world.
To all the people who consider these ideas criminal, a little thought experiment:

A tribe has been discovered that is a close approximation of Homo heidelbergensis. They have basic language (100 words or so) and craft brutish tools, but, whatever you do, do not advance further than a 10 year old Homo sapiens in most areas of their mental development, however are way more aggressive and physically strong. Babies adopted into H. sapiens show improvement, but still markedly fall behind, never able to learn to read.

What should the public policy with regards to these people be? Should they be considered sui juris and generally held to the standards of the rest of the world? Should they be isolated and forbidden for contact?

Alternatively, a gene has been discovered in 0.01% of humans that, if present in 2 copies, produces an Einstein of sorts, less childhood problems. Should the carriers of the gene be allowed to seek each other out? What should be the policy towards the lucky 25% of their children?
'Larry Sanger blasts increasingly woke Wikipedia's whitewashing of socialist and communist human rights atrocities as "propaganda."'
I think you might have a point there. For an instructor I can attribute it to personality or style. They know you a bit and try to engage but broadcast is simplex so i think its something else. I think they're trying to reproduce a type of gossipy jocular delivery of news. Maybe a bit like a town crier but still different.

My feeling is they're trying to seem like they're your friends, so you feel more engaged and listen and don't mind the bias because, you 'know them, and you accept that trait'. The unattached news delivery was not engaging us psychologically (for whatever reason we may need that) so they came up with this new recipe.

Never the less in other countries I've had news delivered pretty matter of factly --with built in biases of course but the news wasn't chased with comedy satire etc. There might have been irony but anyhow there's something about the need for comedy to make it digestible for us
The first thing I thought when reading the headline was.. "wow, that's some serious linkbaiting"
Ah, so this is about faith in humanity, and whether the story is true or not does not matter -- as long as we believe. I can live with that. I have to say though, I've met plenty of non-poor, non-immigrant folk that like to help people out.
I see it as a kind of side-channel defense; take the set of passwords which it is possible to crack quickly and use the work factor to even it out so that the total time to crack a password remains relatively constant.

Of course it's a good point that the challenge then becomes determining what that set of passwords is. And not having run the numbers, I can't be sure how much room for improvement there is.
Their illustration of a rotary dial phone has * and # on it!

They also don't realize that 411 and 911 were originally 114 and 119 and were changed when long distance direct dialing was introduced and 1 became the code to introduce it.
You post is dumb as hell.
I've used TMNetSim here, which also lets you simulate variable latency and packet loss:

http://tmurgent.com/Tools.aspx
The top link on Hacker News last night ("Today you, tomorrow me") was a direct link to a Reddit comment.
Does this actually waste power?
A lot of people's intuition about what wastes power with cpus is wrong. Usually it is best to light up all the tricks, heat the cpu up, finish the work, then go back to sleep. If branch prediction helps you get back to sleep sooner, it is probably a net win.
A first person account of what Jenni’s mental state was on the early days of the internet. Presumably this sets a frame for her
motivations to live stream her life later.
The engineer in me respects that Amazon built an engineering org that can handle that rate of attrition and still be relatively reliable and release new products.
>The games rigged; even a top earner like OP can't break into the lowest echelons of wealth and lifestyle by working for a living.

What are you talking about? If the OP did this, he would be a multi-millionaire before 40. That seems pretty wealthy to me.
I'm not sure if I just have a different perspective about this than most people, but in my opinion you can easily overdo the whole office at the coffee shop thing. If a spot I stopped at for a quick chat with someone or a bit of coffee suddenly started having folks with laptops + extra monitors, I'd be pretty unhappy.
> Yes, they can install certificates that enable MitM.

Well, only if you give them permission to. Just use a non-provider specific client and you're okay.
Why not both?:)
So you really feel safer on a bike than in a car ? Not that I feel unsafe biking in Copenhagen but I definitely feel much more safe in a car, metal cage around me and all that
> I don't see how this "functions as first class" comes into play here, but I'd be interested anyway?

Before Church, functions weren’t considered mathematical objects that could be passed as arguments to another function, for instance. I don’t recall the details, but this allows some computations that can’t be described by recursion of fixed functions.
> Using the example from the essay, a big part of obsession with bus tickets is probably explained by being able to show off rare bus tickets to fellow collectors.

Eh, I had a large collection. I still have a collection of a few hundred tickets (not worth much, a few hundred pounds). I started the collection in about 1997. I stopped in about 2003. I've never shown other collectors my tickets, and I've only put about 5 tickets online and that was only this year.

I think for this obsessional collecting it's really not about other people. It's about systematizing and categorising the world. Outside is chaos and confusion. In here, with this collection, there is order and control.
99% of the people could do with a sub-compact 99% of the time as seen everywhere else in the world. Are the only 2 options you see a 100Kg dingy or a 2500Kg fat-mobile? It's like saying you can't have electric cars because how far can they go on 2 AA batteries.

If that's a death trap around the "real" vehicles, should cyclists and pedestrians expect 90% mortality rate should they ever decide to go out on the streets? Is that normal?

> Almost no one in the US has a commute that short.

It's all relative. You just multiply that (avoidable) waste.

Do you really need to drive a "tank" just to survive? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21609767
Hey Sean, Awesome work + learning experience. Thank you very much for sharing.

By the way, your v1 screenshot looks like you have some experience in HTML/CSS/JS.

I'm literally a big zero when it comes to UI. I know JS/HTML and can hack my way around CSS but most of the time these kind of works are not from scratch.
A good VPS host has the infrastructure to tell you this within 24 hours of finding out.
Tacky name change clearly aimed to counter the mass of online content critical of their licensing model.
Charles Bukowski and writing on a computer vs. typewriter

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/charles-bukows...
how did they process single $1 purchases back then? how would you do that now?
EV only really got in the news after Comodo resellers were caught issuing 'validated' certificates with no actual validation whatsoever. (Conveniently, there was a fresh release of IE that displayed EV certs in green.) Any validation process is as weak as the worst issuer, 'extended' or otherwise, and promising to do better validation for more profit doesn't really serve to deter the actual violation that got us here to begin with.
I like vnstat: http://humdi.net/vnstat/. It's easy to set up and has almost zero overhead. I have it send me an email from cron estimating monthly usage once a week. It won't break things down per-process, per-port, or per-remote-host, but I haven't found a nice tool to do that yet.
The creator's page with more info (including how-tos, links to kits to DIY, the hardware used, etc) http://www.usbtypewriter.com/
This is a pretty good testbed for making it a Google PR problem; several Google employees are HN members; and the crowd here is Google Checkout's prime demographic. I'd say he's doing a lot of good posting his complaint here, both for himself and for future Google Checkout victims.
I tend to agree with you, I find the guy pretty much a pretentious, unpleasant person. I may have written what you said in a different manner though.
> Not being able to switch users is pretty aggravating, though.

It should be noted that the final version of the 3DS app predates multiple users, hence the limitation. The app can't be updated.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18509735
Shouldn't this be Cyber Monday? Or are these bricks and mortar dealers?
> Even if everyone in America went vegan

> we don’t have the political will.

Something tells me that achieving the first would more easily lead to the second. For a politician whose constituency is mostly vegans, their work on climate change will determine whether they keep their seat. If their constituents are pickup-truck-driving, McMansion-owning suburbanites, it's not going to be a priority.

I recognize that getting everyone to go vegan isn't possible or maybe even desirable. But let's not pretend that willing personal sacrifice isn't at least part of the solution.
That MySQL stuff is all quite recent... up until 5.7 (?, one of the most recent releases, anyway) there's no root password by default and running `mysql_secure_installation` is a common (but not mandatory) step to, well, secure the installation and set a root password. I think MariaDB still works this way? Not sure.

I'm not aware of "bind to localhost" being the default, either. The skip-networking setting to only allow local socket connections is definitely not the default, and I'm pretty sure the default is still to bind to all interfaces.
> Being represented by an under-qualified attorney can ruin your life. You can go to jail because your attorney was incompetent. When the consequences are that high, we need the Bar.

The same concern cuts both ways though. It's just as problematic to have rules that raise the cost of legal services beyond what some people can afford, because not being able to afford an attorney can lead to all the same dire consequences.
> Unfair competition from the state, with limitless pockets, driving them to bankruptcy.

Nope. The competition can still sell a better service, and can pass the free tier on for free. Also, ISPs sell bundled services, such as SIM cards or media packages. They can continue doing that.

> Wasted when finally repealed, or lost to lack of maintenance.

Nope. Invested. If some future government wants to throw that investment in the bin, that's on them.

> Taxpayers
The Tax Payer already invests in the infrastructure and get's nothing back.

> No competition. Lack of incentives to improve the network.

Nonsense. This isn't a monopoly. If anything, the infrastructure in terms of ground works will make it cheaper for private companies to run their own cables to people's houses, offering superior bandwidth.
> because if you know the right choice wihout being able to explain why

But teaching isn't simply being able to explain why something is the way it is. It's more than that.

I could explain to you why planets move the way they do by using the language of tensor fields built up out of tensor products mapping vectors to their duals. It would be a thoroughly accurate definition of why we see the movement we see but it would not necessarily be a good way to teach. Particularly if the recipient of the teaching wasn't familiar with the formalism of general relativity.

It's this aspect, that teaching is more than simply understanding that makes me think it potentially could be orthogonal to mastery of a subject.
Funny that it has google in the name of the OS and a third party app was supported for longer...
See also: http://home.fazekas.hu/~nagydani/rth/Russian-tea-HOWTO-v2.ht...
> A kind of best-practice report on how to use Wave productively

I think that, right there, is why Wave failed. It needs "best practices" to work well.

The tool on its own did not improve productivity. It needed discipline and training to learn how to use the tool, and there was a large gap between what was possible and what was useful or productive. By many people's accounts, once you cross that gap it becomes useful, but for anybody who doesn't self-identify as an early adopter, it's a non-starter.

Compare Wave to email, or to IM. There are people who are good at email and people who are bad at email. There are people who just don't get the medium, and are bad at communicating with it, and who could benefit from learning some email etiquette or best practices. But you know what? Even without being good at email, they can still use email effectively. Even when the medium is not being used to its full potential, it's still more efficient than other media. The same goes for IM.

With Wave, this is not the case. If you throw a bunch of people at Wave, the first thing that comes out is an unstructured, ad-hoc clusterfuck. It doesn't become useful until you standardize a process on what gets its own wave, what info goes where, and so forth. Learning to be productive in the tool is an additional step beyond learning how to use the tool. And whatever you decide, isn't enforced by the tool itself, so if someone doesn't "get it," that can put information in the wrong place or disorganize stuff, and make everything confusing again.

Compare this to email, where there is an existing workflow defined by the Compose, Reply and Send functions. Put the text in the box, other person reads the text, and each email is a line item in Outlook. In short, all the organization that you have to invent in Wave is already present in email, and it's enforced by the tool rather than a gentleman's agreement not to make everything into a clusterfuck.

Wave lets you make your own rules, but it also makes you make your own rules, while email comes with its own set of rules built-in. For some people, being able to make your own rules is useful because email's are sub-optimal, but for the majority of people, email is Good Enough, and the benefit of making your own rules is worth neither the cost of having to invent your own process, or the friction of having to maintain it by fiat.
i have a friend that works at apple, and other than providing a vague job description and saying they like it, they don't discuss details.

i think it's the culture, your work speaks for itself. he puts in long hours (on par with goog really) and has a great salary and perks.
I agree with that sentiment for a lot of topics (especially the more "soup-du-jour" ones), but I do find that people do still contribute positively to topics related to the "Silicon Valley hacker" lifestyle, be it entrepreneurial tips, or just where to get good tea.

To be honest, I don't think I've ever felt that HN was a place to have intellectual discussions about various topics, as he puts it. I'd imagine that a community needs to have a certain level of expertise on a topic to have a meaningful discussion on it, and it seems a bit disingenuous to think that HN somehow has that level of expertise for everything under the "intellectual" sun.

For that sort of discussion, I find that commenting on good ol' blogs from field experts (when they're talking about their fields) is usually more productive.
For the record:

a) I wasn't indicating any negative sentiment against Android, just quoting an amusingly awkward juxtaposition.

b) I was kind of expecting the downvotes, so thanks to those who upvoted me back to breakeven (at time of writing)!

c) Tim has now amended the article to render "And that's what Android is" like a header instead of body text, indicating he too thought the juxtaposition altered the meaning of the post.
...and if you have evidence that more people will quit your service because you allow swastikas than will quit your service because you don't allow swastikas, what would your duty be?

I feel a lot of complainers about political correctness miss this. Companies strive for political correctness not because of the personal sentiments of executives or investors, but because it makes them money to be PC. Allowing swastikas on xbox live would be making the service less appealing to customers in order to advance a personal ideal (that this is the internet and you should be able to say whatever the hell you want).
I live in Germany and eyed the whole process of Google Street View.

The whole thing with the opt-out is more considered to be a conflict of generations, so don't take this too seriously.

The problem is a different one: if in one apartment building only one rentee opts out the whole apartment building becomes blurred. This is what caused a lot of hate by rentees who want the house to be seen in Street View.

Another action that occured (only in German, sorry, but I'll try to translate roughly):

http://asset.soup.io/asset/1253/8519_985c.jpeg

Someone put a note saying that because some rentee saw his private sphere violated by Google Street View he won't accept packages for his neighbours anymore since this is also a violation of private sphere.
Additionally he blurred his signature for security reasons (because of the often quoted argument that showing the house in Google Street View causes safety concerns).
has anyone considered that all numbers where the sum of digits are divisible by 3, the whole number is divisible by 3?
...i thought the apollo guidance computers were one of the first computers built using ICs?

Maybe upon launch, or when 16 finally went up they were 'primitive', but that's not so much a question of stability but rather long development times and not drastically changing your platform while in use.
<table class="sortable">

Adding the “sortable” class to a <table> element provides support for sorting by column value. Clicking the column headers will sort the table rows by that column’s value. Tables must use <thead> and <th> tags for sortable functionality to work.
I also imagine it'd be useful as a rendering machine for small to medium media companies.
"A few years ago a genuinely licensed black cab driver was convicted of rape and sexual assault, and as a result the community was shaken: it was the first time in over 300 years where a licensed operator had been convicted of such a crime" - PaulRobinson - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630846

Do we have any numbers on sexual assaults by Uber drivers in London?
>Face and voice recognition tech could help against that

So if my twin brother already deleted his account, I wouldn't be able to sign up?
> Can we get Bruce Dawson[0] one of those? I wonder how many more bugs he'll run into.

Oh yeah, especially because core affinities in Windows get all wonky once you go above 64 threads.
BREIN doesn't care if you use a VPN to protect your privacy and security when you're not doing anything illegal. Especially not when you're connected to a VPN server somewhere on the other side of the planet. ;-)
Every business tries to pay people as little as possible. They are essentially obligated to do so by corporate structure, but just from competing in a free market this is usually the outcome outside of regulation (minimum wage) or collective bargaining. Right now there is a high demand for top end tech talent, but that too will pass, and we'll all see how our employers view us in a lower returns world. Stock options and grant comp is just a question of best outcomes and alignment.
I think you may be confusing console (the terminal emulator, command line interface) with console (video game console like Xbox or Playstation or Stadia).
As for Russia they would need to add щи/shchi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchi

Щи да каша пища наша. Don't know how to translate that one properly:-)

Also there is the wikipedia reference, who would have guessed that soups come in lists? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_soups
"Besides paying taxes, there's no additional fees for attending university."

So what countries are that?
I've tried various to-do managers, notes apps, etc over the years. Everything from Google tasks to 37 signals stuff, Remember the Milk, etc, etc. Nothing has stuck for me.

Until this. Don't know what it is about it, perhaps the free form nature of the UI, but it is one of the tabs I keep open all the time with a big pile of 'to-do' items on.

My main concern is actually having it just disappear! I'd like to see the opportunity to pay for it just to know there is an account there and be more assured it will stay around.
At least the web side can handle Android now. Thanks!
I bet. I looked at signing up, but the password field is plain text. What's up w/ that?