jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thanks for bringing that to my attention - I have posted a reply there.

I think you are probably on to something when you suggest this article was influenced by Feynmann's analogy, but I am pretty sure that Feynmann was not suggesting the straw man that this article attacks.
I've read lots of SciFi over the years, some of it challenging. I can read hard books.

Back in the 80's I started seeing so many raves for TBotNS that I went out and bought them all at once.

About 80 pages into the first one, I was turned off, bored really. They sat on my shelf for a decade at least, before I just gave them away.

My question is this: how long did it take you to "get into" this series. Should I have plowed on further? Or tried a restart? (I read the first 100 pages of Dune about 3 times before it clicked, and I loved it all after that)

Or is it a taste/style thing, and if someone doesn't like it within 80 pages, they're not likely to enjoy the rest?
Wholeheartedly agree with this.

EUA means Emergency Use Authorization. Emergency, yes, that's what Covid is. As such, leadership means taking some calculated risks. What FDA essentially does is "you can't get fired for buying IBM". They stick to "we don't have any data for this and that", "this is what the science shows", and people out there are dying. A perfect demonstration of lack of leadership.
Without seeing the source, they could be mainly using Google image search for that (or Yandex which is much better for image search and reverse image search).
I've found the Whole Foods store-brand smooth peanut butter is a good happy medium between Jif and the organic stuff. It stays emulsified a lot longer than others, but has more roasty peanut flavor (and less sugar) than the cheap stuff.
I actually think other os got canned before the jailbreak. If I recall correctly it provided extra incentive.

They may have wanted to make it harder to jailbreak. Another argument is that they weren't profitable to sell as computers but largely become profitable via the money they made off games sold for the platform including money paid by game developers.
> and established companies that don't need crowdfunding but are using it anyway for marketing purposes.

There are also groups who are using crowdfunding to check-and-see if a video game (or whatever) has enough fans to be worth greenlighting.

See Mighty No 9, or Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

If a Kickstarter campaign is successful, then the investors dive in with the rest of the money to greenlight the project. If it fails, then they kill the project right there and then.

Mighty No 9 and Bloodstained have their share of issues, but I think the methodology has been proven to work. "Proving worth to investors" is a real step in the process.
How can you steal something that is basically free to copy (I mean the process of copying)? It is not even the same case as with songs and movies where the actual creator may arguibly lose “something”, but the author here doesn’t even get compensation from his/her work based on journal sells. The only thing scihub does is not give additional profit to journals, while greatly enhancing the life of many many people partly those that produce the actual value as well (even those who would otherwise have access because university vpns suck), and morally the latter is the good thing to do.
Personally, I probably would have quit entirely had I limited myself to only learning “practical” things.
So what you are saying, is that it's not actually widely used, or even useful in the scope of a web site? In that case, it don't see how it changes my original point.
+1

However, if you don't already know Rails or Grails (or possibly Django), then that is a good place to start.
You think having branded buttons is bad? Imagine having kids in a house full of buttons ;-)
I think people often underestimate it, but one of the biggest influences you can have -- I mean you, the HN reader! -- may be cultural.

People who work on building surveillance, people who have done it, people who may do it in the future, are your classmates in your CS program, your colleagues in your startup, your neighbors, your fellow conference attendees, you.

Folks who work at NSA (and all the other places that don't get so much press) read xkcd religiously, they go to DEF CON, they have Linux and math t-shirts, they read HN, they are reading this thread right now, and all the other threads.

If people like you in the cultures that you're part of decide that surveillance is cool and exciting, that's more talent to take the billions of dollars and vast intellectual challenges of figuring out how to eliminate the vestiges of privacy. If they decide it's uncool and sketchy, that's more talent that goes elsewhere and does something else.

There are many overlapping subcultures in technology and they don't all understand or talk to each other that much, and plenty of technology employers are recruiting out of many different subcultures, so you can't assume that the culture you create in your circles will control the path of technology. But the cultural attitudes of people in the tech world can have a powerful effect on what people decide is worth working on.
Put the button for your laundry detergent where you keep the laundry detergent - presumably somewhere a toddler can't get to.
Adobe has been working on Brackets for a while, and it's essentially the exact same concept.
Oh! Thanks for the correction!
I am surprised. They used to recruit a lot of U.S. based engineers last year as I was looking for job.
Allowing the void tags to be unclosed is the lesser evil of the two, I can even accept the argument behind it (they can't have content) even though it complicates the syntax.

The really evil one is to not make <div /> be exactly equivalent to <div></div> which is just batshit crazy. When I want a placeholder tag (to be populated later) I have to write <div></div> which feels completely unnatural,
Yeah but how much money was not spent on music because people could just listen to it on Spotify. That's what I'd like to know (if it were possible)
If you're confused as to why this "doesn't suck", then please tell me why it sucks!

Please note that I didn't make the claim that it's amazing or ground-breaking. :)
Well that is because collage papers are supposed to be written in third person to remove biasing the user by framing them in the situation. You are also not supposed to use, I, we, or us. You should never refer to the reader, author or researcher as an entity in of personal reference. In academic papers you are providing information not framing a story to build character development. It can seem kind of steril but it is done for a reason. That said, in the real world, you generally want to bias the hell out of the reader. Patio11 made a suggestion on a article once in which he suggested flipping all the we's of the article to you. I went back and reworked some marketing material I had to reflect that suggestion and was amazed at how compelling the once boring text became. The reason was simple it framed the reader in the conversation.
Particularly excited that WebSockets may have made it into Mobile Safari.
See below. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1929010 (and replies)
I wonder why the free Find feature is only for the newest devices? Most of the time Apple is pretty good about only locking devices out if their hardware can't handle it. The 3GS should be able to handle it, right?
It would be nice if the country had a discussion about the role of government and what we want from government. After figuring out what we really want government to do the go about finding the best way to fund it. It's not likely we'll have this debate though.

It's better for TV to have an us vs. them debate when it comes to politics. It's always about a Republican proposal or a Democratic proposal. Rarely do you see the talking heads discussing what is the best course of action.
I find it hard to believe Google gave cash to people. Bosses just had big stacks of $100 bills in their desk to hand out?
Why give them another new name? They're already naked body scanners.
This technique has been around for over 10 years. I believe the CSS trick was fixed in most browsers but the cache trick still works everywhere.
Well that is what I don't understand about the article, sure unless you are a S-corp you are going to get nailed for FICA and even if you are you don't totally duck them. By my issue with the article is; great you are now a company, you just got a ticket to take a boat load of new deductions, write-offs and depreciations. If he was just skirting by, he should be able to prove this via deductions which should more than offset the mandatory FICA portion. I mean if he is spending that much it should not be that hard to shave off 8% in deductions.
I would go with puppy linux - really small and fast.
There is a good example in the high end digital art niche. A few years ago a little known software company released a program called ZBrush. Their 2.0 release rocked the industry and became a must have tool for CG animation in film and games. The company, Pixelogic, suddenly became a player in a tight space competing with the likes of AutoDesk.

The success catalyst, to me, was their lateral approach to solving a long time industry problem (real time polygon count). They innovated a new paradigm. And they executed with a rock solid product.
Permalink directly to relevant section: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h2200/text?version=rfs&...
Sigh

I just implemented my project's API in XML. Time to switch I guess...
If you're getting bored try coupling the Real Python - https://realpython.com - exercises with LPTHW. Real Python focuses on teaching Python (and web development) through practical, real world examples - which makes learning fun.

Here'a a quick overview: https://gist.github.com/mjhea0/850292775d337b4fe4f7

(Note: I am the co-founder/author of Real Python)
We prefer not to think so much about it, but it's a fact that people have sex with dogs and goats and primates.
MeteorBlitz has this right. The game auto-saves when you let go. You can pull your iPhone out of your pocket and play, then put it away in a second.

Something like Machinarium would be great, where you have many, many short puzzles. For an adult, what you can fit in "in a spare moment" becomes very attractive.
In that same year, how many much less interesting videos do you think were uploaded? I doubt they noticed.
Thanks for replying. I think you did the best to rectify the problem you created. And I agree that your error doesn't excuse others' errors. You're both wrong (although the initiator is generally seen as being more in the wrong, "who started it").

But the most effective way for you to change this is to change yourself rather than to try change other people. Be the change you want to see in the world.
It's worth noting that Shopify totally reevaluated their model and changed not only their prices, but what they charge their customers for, well after launching and becoming quite popular.

I think the how and why of that decision and process would be really interesting to HN readers trying to put a price on their own product(s).
Thanks for the post Ariel. You guys gave it a great shot--
Thanks, I was interested in an Awk learning resource, and this looks like exactly what I would want.
Really? So, say tomorrow you build a better Wikipedia. How long before you're on page 1 of ANYTHING? If you're 1000% better than Wikipedia, maybe it's only 12 months. But if you're only 15% better than Wikipedia... It could be years or never.

SEO allows small/smart companies to compete against established behemoths in search engine results.

Your statement is true of ALL marketing and ALL sales. The truth is that marketing and sales efforts are a success multiplier to the quality of your product. Yes, that means that good companies can get beaten by crappy companies who out-execute them in the arena of sales and marketing.

You can ignore sales and marketing in the hopes that your product is SO much better than the competition that it will win anyway... But that's almost never the case (note the $ that Apple spends on marketing, bizdev, and branding).
Thanks for sharing your story.

Unfortunately, you're right, what helped you couldn't help me... I can't take Advair (although it kinda helped), because of anxiety attacks and hallucinations. I also can't take Levaquin! I took it once 5 years ago for a sinus infection, and had to stop in a couple days, because of stabbing pains in my ankles and elbows. Did you know that one of the side effects is listed as "tendon rupture"!? I panicked and stopped taking it, the doctor later agreed, but the pain lasted for weeks. So scary.

And I was a thin girl til I got an extremely rare side effect from a birth control shot called Depo Provera. They only put it in the literature years after it wrecked my body.

I'm screwed :)

EDIT: My complaint about the asthma is actually the opposite of yours. My doctors want to treat it as simple asthma, when I hadn't had symptoms for 12 years, until my misguided attempt to avoid antibiotics completely knocked me on my ass for 6 weeks.
Quite a few hits coming to this post - I loved the title. What do you all think?
You can be correct in the face of untruth and still be shitty and defensive about something; remember that Reddit storm when the CEO beefed with a fired employee?

I'm somewhat doubting that MCRed is lying, because he has some credibility to me through a history of good and productive posting, but it's possible.
The whole approach of finding a job which sponsors a visa seems very wrong to me.

I'd rather focus on working on what I'm passionate about.

Once you got that figured out, if you just put your time and effort to become one of the best at what you do, the bureaucratic obstacles become merely a distraction.
"I quickly wrote the screenplay for a pilot episode. I think that it came out quite good"

Not trying to be a jerk here, but unless you're a seasoned tv writer (and if you were, you wouldn't be asking this), it's pretty unlikely that something you dashed off quickly turned out that well. Maybe it is good, but to get produced it needs to be great. Have you read the Game of Thrones pilot script? That was pretty good, and without an option or a name writer attached it has to be better than that.

Also, you did this in the wrong order. You get the option first, then you write the pilot, unless it's a pure spec not intended to be produced, e.g. written just as a writing sample to get a staff job.

Almost every writer and showrunner in hollywood has a "passion project" like this that they would love to get made one day. And just as often, they can't do it even with a few shows under their belt and tons of connections.

Not sure why you're asking this on a startup news site. If you want, put on your flame-resistant armour and ask this again at in the forums at donedealpro.com. Post some sample pages there for critique. You'll get a lot of flak, and there's a lot of trolls on there, but you'll also get some good advice from people working in the industry.

All of that said, I hope you prove me wrong. You're right about one thing, it is a great series and would be a perfect fit for TV (well, except for budget, some of those settings would be unfilmable due to expense).

If you want, email me 5-10 pages from your pilot and I'll be happy to give you honest, constructive notes.
Things that you can do today that you couldn't do in 1990:

* Survive much longer with many types of cancer.

* Live a pretty normal life, more or less indefinitely, despite being HIV+

* See your grandkids that live in a different state via a high-quality video connection.

* Enjoy television shows that offer multi-month and multi-year arcs and are designed to be consumed by dedicated fans in order, rather than principally for syndication in random order.

* Vacuum your floors with a robot.

* Survive more car crashes dues to a variety of safety features.

Is life "better" today than in 1990? Sure, of course it is. Does that make us happier? I genuinely don't know. Most hedonic research strikes me as obvious bullshit. Maybe people's happiness levels reset to the norms around them regardless of what those norms are. Maybe you'd literally be just as happy if you lived in a medieval village with open-trench sewers and a pretty decent chance of your wife dying in childbirth and you doing hard labor for your adult life to a brief, decrepit old age. I mean, seriously, maybe you would! It's not outside the realm of possibility.

It's hard for me to argue that that kind of happiness means that there's no point to increased material prosperity.
Upper Dicker, Lower Dicker and Cocking all get through as well.

Titty Hill - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titty_Hill - does unfortunately trigger the filter.
And like any binary releases, there are platforms that are missed/forgotten/not cared enough about.
Thanks!

I think that would make for another interesting article. I purposely ignored those details to make sure I kept my article more practical and less academic :)
I also didn't mention the unit function of Monads (is that equivalent to one of the laws that you refer to?)
Unfortunately yesterday's announcement about stopping development of Chrome Dart VM has put a dampener on things for me. I'm not particularly interested when there are other projects like TypeScript which also transpile to Javascript.

It's also making me question the long-term viability of Golang, given Google's history of shutting down projects abruptly.

Are any important teams inside Google using Golang for heavy-lifting? At least Dart talked about the Google Ads team using Dart. One of the goals behing Golang was go have C++ programmers move to the language, but instead it's Python and Ruby programmers picking it up. So if C++ Googlers aren't using the language, it might imply that no critical systems are being built with Golang.

Also look at the resources that were initially put behind Dart. Meanwhile look at Golang, after all these years there is no official IDE. You would think that if Google were serious about Golang they would have put more resources into developing the ecosystem. It seems like Google want to have their celebrity employee, Rob Pike, in order to attract worker bees to apply for the grunt work at Google. Much like yesterday's post about Bjarne Strostroup working at Morgan Stanley.
OK...

I would be more credulous if you could show a path from me, say, working for someone to me, say buying something at a store and show that I couldn't say, buying two of that something by doing two different anonymous transactions.

- My argument is that the factor prevents me from using my information twice is the factor that identifies me (how does X know that "coin" Y belongs to Z? - The audit trail - if the audit trail can't show this, the whole app break. If the audit trail does show this, the state can figure things out).

Once I'm identified by other bitcoin participants, I'm identified by everyone and so the state will say "hey, you're transacting, you owe taxes"...
Honestly, I've never seen another product here getting a post for every minor build! Nice to see such a die-hard fan base! But, please, face the reality - many have moved over to Atom already and are not looking back. Atom is alive, the ecosystem is already huge, atom-shell is getting popular as well. Unless Sublime gets open-sourced, it's in a slow agony. Remember TextMate? It had a huge loyal user base, but who is using it now? It got open-sourced, but a bit too late!
Easy answer - They are still experiencing rapid revenue growth, they have a clear path to profitability with a simple monetization strategy, and have dominated the market in many territories.
Slavery has redefined itself into newer forms. One such manifestation is in the form of worker exploitation.
> Capitalism often leads to suboptimal outcomes because there's no reasonable way to know better

Also known as the market for lemons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons

Akerlof's paper shows how prices can determine the quality of goods traded on the market. Low prices drive away sellers of high-quality goods, leaving only lemons behind. In 2001, Akerlof, along with Michael Spence, and Joseph Stiglitz, jointly received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, for their research on issues related to asymmetric information.
Actions possible, when the market is divided between just two companies. Hopefully, some kind of regulatory body, will investigate if there is no collusion.

"Market share of the leading ride-hailing companies in the United States from September 2017 to July 2021"

https://www.statista.com/statistics/910704/market-share-of-r...

"...For years, drivers have seen their earnings decrease despite putting in longer and longer hours behind the wheel. Earnings are decreasing because Uber and Lyft keep changing the rates - keeping prices the same for passengers, lowering pay for drivers and pocketing the difference...As Uber and Lyft continue to make more, drivers continue to make less..."

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/uber-lyft-reverse-the-rat...
As far as I understand, the vehicle had no legal right to be on the path.

"Our country is great for cycling as long as you understand the situations where a vehicle traveling at speed might enter the bike paths." is a little different than "Our country is great for cycling."

I wouldn't even try to argue that the first statement there is in any way fair, but I simply don't understand your response here.
This is so true of me. Never really liked solving puzzles, cubes, riddles etc. But programming, oh boy I Love it. Have spent hours non stop debugging complex things in OS, Networks, Distributed systems etc. The feeling of solving it at the end is a small dose of drug.
Define tax haven countries. The UK is a tax haven for a lot of Russians, Switzerland is a tax haven for anyone not American, the UAE is a tax haven that the US does 18B in trade with, and that invests roughly 25B annually in the US directly, Singapore is a tax haven that the US actually has a surplus with. So yeah, it's not simple.
not OP but I've had a long running subscription to The Economist since the early 90ies. One of my favorite sections usually glossed over by everyone I know (but I'm weird) is the quality from "Letters to the Editor" that are incredibly well selected and often hilarious when checked with the original piece that they are referring to. The Letters are not my causa primera for reading it, but if something so mundane is done with so much attention to detail, the rest should also be up to my expectation (and it usually is).

Secondly there is also their Tech section which compared to politics / economics / finance ..., I can as an insider judge its quality. It stands out among the rest IMO. I also like the FT for similar reasons.
You are welcome nonetheless.
Because light bulbs were expensive and in deficit and people were cheap and plenty in USSR.
Additionally, this will log all the passed arguments (value, index, and array being traversed), which typically isn't what you want:

[1, 2, 3].forEach(console.log.bind(console));
> 1 0 [1, 2, 3]
> 2 1 [1, 2, 3]
> 3 2 [1, 2, 3]
Under jasode's thread, you can see that people are missing Paul's point. He's not saying that working with close proximity is the "best" way of working. Yet most people here are debating which type of work is. Each company, market, vertical, team, etc. will vary in manifold ways.

What I believe Paul is asking for is that companies have the option to choose. Right now the option is available to anyone to hire remotely in one way or another. This is not the case with physically hiring into the country. Almost every startup I've worked at has had issues trying to hire exceptional people from another country. In almost every case, we lost those hires to the system and were forced to start the search again.

If a small, remote, international startup grows fast enough and they decide that working together under one roof in the U.S. fits their new needs, they should have the freedom and choice to do so.