jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have three side projects that together became my "full-time" job. I'm able to spend a lot of time with my kids since I can work fewer hours. I'm tired all the time due to a 4 month old baby, so I'm not doing a lot of things I should.

My method is simple and has only four steps. 1. Write something cool and put it online for free. 2. Wait 4 to 5 years. 3. Gather all the emails asking if they can license it or pay you to adapt it. 4. Then slap on a price/marketing page emphasizing what everybody asked for.

http://websequencediagrams.com is my SAAS business. When I was working on 3GPP at RIM we had to spend hours in Visio moving boxes around, and pasting the results into word documents. It was a challenging layout problem. By 2007 I made a python script that did sequence diagrams automatically and put it online. I began to get emails from companies saying they wanted to license it, so I obliged. After I left RIM, I converted it into a freemium product. I have about 400 users paying $9 to $15/month.

http://zwibbler.com gets about 70 visits a day. It's a javascript drawing library with full-service from me. Again, it started as a free HTML demo, and I began to get emails requesting me to adapt it for pay. Instead, I created the front page that offers a complete solution for $1500. By answering emails and talking on the phone, I can get 3 or 4 clients a month without even trying. I figure out what they want and reposition the buttons to do it.

My favourite is http://rhymebrain.com because I don't have to do anything. Google just transfers $1-2K into my account every month for Adsense.
This does not surprise me at all.

Amazon, behind the curtains, is an ugly smelly mess. Just ask anyone who sells on Amazon professionally. The stories I've heard are beyond belief.
Go over Python may not be a magic bullet, but it's a damn useful tool nevertheless. While Go does not magically scale to datacenter-level systems, python cannot, without significant work, use even the resources on a laptop. There's a huge range of problems that are larger than 1 core and smaller than 48 cores (or 72 cores, or however many are in your largest server). And as the sibling comments have mentioned, straight-line single-thread performance is not irrelevant. Starting with a language that's slower than perl isn't a good beginning.
I really like books, although I'm comfortable with online/ebook reading, and I have to say that the company chosen for this book delivers superb quality compared to every US origin print on demand book I've looked at, at least for the first edition of this book. I can't tell it from offset (although some embedded links came our grey because I assume they were delivered in color and not caught in galleys). Even the color artwork looks great---ironically, it's the back corner where the company puts its standard ISBN/price/self-advertising rectangle that looks bad when looked at very closely and makes clear someone dropped the ball somewhere (maybe that's an artifact of the author choosing such a high quality for the cover).
I imagine they were using Amazon Flexible Payments, which is being sunset in a few months. I am glad to hear that other groups using Flexible Payments have decided to jump ship from Amazon rather than continue to migrate to Amazon's replacement.
You can't get a senior job at the DOE without a PhD in Education, and you can't get an PhD Education without publishing a thesis the academic left supports...

At least in education the academic left has had a complete stranglehold on policy for 50+ years.

Saying that conservatives have a total lockdown on policy is just silly.

The deeper problem that Haidt is found is that people on the left can't actually answer a survey as a conservative would. Libertarians and conservatives can answer surveys as a liberal would when asked to, but liberals are too insular and only have a caricature of conservatives in their mind.

Your statement about economics and banking illustrates that. Wall St has power and influence in DC because it has a lot of money, not because it has ideological support from conservatives.
This isn't legal advice, but this seems to meet the same legal requirements that big companies must adhere to when using outsourcing providers that will have access to sensitive client data.

The magic words: "Like most major online services, we have a small number of employees who must be able to access user data when legally required to do so. But that’s the exception, not the rule. We have strict policy and technical access controls that prohibit employee access except in these rare circumstances. In addition, we employ a number of physical and electronic security measures to protect user information from unauthorized access."
Has to be a Reddit-style pasta, though I can't find it anywhere else...
It's Firebase.

https://github.com/HackerNews/API
Just read your blog - Loved it! I see the post you linked to has you starting at Google, but your most recent post has you leaving Google after 6 years. Where to next? Congrats again!
A lot of this says, to me, that the human brain doesn't do well with concepts like statistics and probabilities. I think the far more interesting questions are why we do irrational things in the face of clear and overwhelming evidence. For instance, the knowledge of how to become physically fit and wealthy is public knowledge and freely available to anyone with internet access. I know I shouldn't eat that giant piece of cake right before I go to bed, but I do anyway, every night. I think the answer is, we are ruled by our chemical makeup, much more than any of us care to admit. The research discussed in "The Power of Habit" is the most interesting as far as ways to overcome our dependence on chemical/hormonal states ruling our lives.
That was around before DNT (just). Given that the popups were required in any case and are site-specific acceptance, why bother with DNT? It was more work to implement for zero benefit. Admittedly that also applies to the popups, but those were less optional.
The claim made by the author of 'The camel has two humps' was later retracted http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have-...

Fair play to Bornat [the author] for doing so, he also went into some detail on why the paper was flawed, the retractionwatch piece linked here is well worth reading.
It's possible to differentiate the major browsers and operating systems without javascript, and even the versions can be narrowed down without javascript even with user agent spoofing.

p0f, for example, can do this.

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/p0f3/
Wow... I was worried about this and didn't make the switch for this reason. Yet, i was about to. Anyone else can confirm those issues ?
If unemployment ever becomes a problem we can simply outlaw the wheat combine, which will open up hundreds of thousands of jobs harvesting grain manually.
In the west, that "chance" is rarely money. It's the whole upbringing that helps develop a person's abilities. Money can't fix that, especially not if everyone has it - i.e. it won't get you into a better school or neighborhood.
I wrote a similar tool two years ago:

http://www.chrisfinke.com/2008/01/03/take-your-facebook-data...

If my experience is any indication, the author will be receiving a takedown notice shortly.
Great point Udo. I'd actually like to remove forcing people to sign up too because the whole point of Fedang is to not force people to keep track of multiple usernames all over the internet.

Also, your activity will probably come up shortly - sometimes your data gets in immediately, other times it might take 60 seconds or so.
A typical phrase you will hear from customers at this point is "We don't want to be your biggest client."

This is not something you can get around easily. Some companies have strict rules such as "we can't be more than 30% of your revenue".

The reason behind that is that if a customer represents a very large amount of your revenue, you can be considered as a de facto subsidiary.

The real way around it is to work with a larger intermediary company.

Patrick's story is interesting but it won't work against hard formal processes.
"hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults"

This. If I had one advice for every company out there, its to try and do this. Being adult doesn't have to do with your age. People who are responsible, curios and always willing to learn and work out differences... these are the kind of people that you really want.

Admittedly that's hard to do. Perhaps that's why many people like to hire within their network.
Looks more like harvesting rather than relocating the fish.
Are engineers constantly afraid of losing their jobs? How does this affect their willingness to accept risk?
This mesos 0.22 talk goes into a bit more what they are imagining - http://mesosphere.com/2015/03/27/mesos-0-22-0-released/

Essentially the current mesos disk quotas are just so that tasks that run, run with a minimum amount of disk space. I think what they are trying to accomplish in future releases is some way you could build an EBS Style disk space management on top of mesos.
Very cool. In practice, unless you live next to a coffee shop, there'd almost never be anyone connected to your xfinity wifi network, so you'd get the full bandwidth anyhow. Although, if your neighbor has xfinity wifi, it'd be a smart way to leach off your neighbor's bandwidth.

Also, because your router is a routed client of the xfinity wifi network, I'd imagine there'd be a big increase in latency. It'd be interesting to see the before/after speed test results.
Complete wild guess, but maybe it's because it matches an aggressive regex meant to match the pirate bay and derivatives.
That's why I try to use the Solarized theme basically everywhere. It focuses on low contrast, and that works well enough that I can also handle the light variant without problems. Both black on white and white on black are horrible in my opinion.
> These kinds of progressive tax brackets are pretty normal in most democratic nations

What's the highest wealth tax you know of in a NATO nation? Is it near 8%?

Sanders has openly said that he doesn't think billionaires should exist, and has a history of supporting communists, so I don't think I'm stretching very hard here.
> It matters when you're staring at a screen for more than 12 hours a day

I stare at a screen for more than 12 hours most days, but I strongly prefer light mode over dark, so I'm not sure the amount of screen time is what makes the difference.
This is really interesting. Any links to relevant research? I'd love to read up.
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You can imagine that there were likely many curious people that died pursuing their curiosity.
Nice find.

It doesn't seem in any way a "safe" safe, it is just a very ordinary low-cost "home" safe, it shouldn't be that dificult to open it, it looks similar to the one that Sparkfun's Nathan Seidle founder opened up with an (el-cheapo, around 200 US$ in parts) self- made robot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fTz2D6x20U

This article details how the actual possible combinations are much less than the theorical ones on these "home" safes:

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/safecrack-robot-defcon25,news-2...

And here is the full tutorial/howto:

https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/building-a-safe-crackin...
Looks like a pretty neat product. Congrats on the launch
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Ironic, right?
By "this" do you mean the bans on facebook or twitter? I saw the video he posted on twitter, he said something like

please be peaceful, please respect our police, we had a beautiful landslide victory that was taken from us, it was stolen i know, but you have to go home now, you're special and we love you but you have to go home.

I'm specifically not using quotation marks because I'm recalling it from memory. I'm sure you can find a backup of it somewhere.

If you're asking about what sparked the actual attack, Trump specifically told a crowd at a nearby rally to march on the capitol before the event. He's also been saying the election was stolen for the past two months every time he's gotten in front of a microphone.
"fire in a crowded theater" is nothing more than remnants of an old opinion quoted out-of-context and neither precedent nor basis for anything of the First Amendment.
I watched that at the time. I found his insistence on comparing his 7-year-old centralised protocol to a 60-year-old federated protocol uncompelling: his point that "nothing changes with federated protocols" was slightly undermined by that gargantuan gap of inception.

Couple that with the highly conspicuous skipping over of XMPP (much more comparable, only the briefest of mentions, no mention of things like OMEMO), and ignoring of Matrix (the most comparable, and not a single mention). Overall it's a pretty ridiculous talk in this context.

He goes on to describe some challenges for federated protocols in their solutions to censorship, availability & control. On censorship, the challenges are real and it's QUITE EASY to reason about possible solutions. Many of which already exist or are in development. It's clear he hasn't spent much time thinking about this. On availability, his entire argument is "Yahoo mail exists"; his discussion here is just straight-up disingenuous. Finally, on control, he segues into unrelated areas around XMPP extensibility and seems to think extensions have no value without ubiquity (though fails to expand on his reasons for this conclusion). I'd agree XMPP's XEPs are highly flawed architecturally, but again... there's newer protocols, we've learned and evolved this already.

Leaving aside that the bulk of the middle of the talk is exclusively selling new features ("new techniques") of Signal that have no direct connection to the talk's stated topic ("distributed and decentralized technology"), there are a few salient points he made that I'd agree with:

1. Federated & decentralised protocols are by their nature harder to do, and harder/slower to change. This is true, but is by no means an absolute; it's a trade-off against other benefits.

2. E2E encrypted email is too hard and probably not worth doing. Yes, PGP is highly flawed, and in general layering encryption on top of a 60-year-old protocol is hard. (Though as above, his insistence on focusing only on email for comparison rather than Signal's direct viable competitors is telling).

3. Signal's E2E/crypto-specific innovations are cool, and current federated state-of-the-art is behind on many of them.
Indeed, I was playing the devil's advocate. I definitely care about privacy and I am quite an ardent supported of projects that try to solve this issue. I just learned that if privacy comes at a large expense (losing their social graph or unfriendly UX), people will not care for it. So I guess we need to do better so we can have both privacy and good UX.
Not really since when it's banned people flock to other platforms.

E.g. Whatsapp has now taken the place of telegram in Iran but it's still not banned. Despite literally everyone using it.
An opinion from a Product Manager: When you truly "trust" the engineer. You know their opinions are honest and well thought out. They do not have junior dev energy of saying "two days!" optimistically and not old beard energy of "it can't be done, you won't be able to launch it".

"Master" really is a great word for it, you have complete faith in the individuals word.
Zuck continues to prove what a scumbag he is. Trump has been fear mongering and spreading lies and disinformation for years.

Zuck crashed the car and killed a few people, but now acts like he is doing the right thing by selling it for scrap metal.

He has been scumbag from day one.
Think we're taking undergrad only here, not graduate degrees. Though I suspect the general finding probably still applies - science/engineering/math type grad degrees pay off more than others.
If you're on Firefox, Auto-pager will make it all better.

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Looks like HN also has a filter for vuvuzelas. ;)
> I love my Android

That's because you don't buy an "Android". I've heard tons of people say "I love my Droid" or "I love my Nexus One".
You may not agree with it, but it is true. Email is far from perfect, but it is no worse than, for instance, a typewritten letter.

As for the other problems, they have a tried and true solution. You take the author of the putative email, sit them down in the witness box, and ask them point blank if they wrote said email. If they admit to it, it is now perfectly good solid legal evidence. If they say they did not, it now becomes a question about whether the witness is committing perjury. And given the email trail, and given what other witnesses have said, the truth does tend to out.

So, imperfections notwithstanding, every email you write could wind up in court. Furthermore, imperfections still notwithstanding, an email trail can easily become very valuable evidence. Particularly in civil trials where the standard of evidence is much lower.
I love my Nexus One - and yes, it is an Android. It doesn't really make sense to say "I love my Android"
I still wouldn't like to be in front of a judge explaining myself. Just because an e-mail somewhere, somehow, could be forged, doesn't make the whole medium inadmissible in court.
> It isn't a legal record, but people treat it that way

No they don't.

It's evidence and is treated as such, including all the proper oversight regarding chain of custody and regulatory capture/compliance. All evidence can be faked or forged, like testimony, physical evidence, or even legal "records" (what is that supposed to even mean, anyway? Did you know contracts are also evidence? And that they can be forged?)

That's why we have judges, juries and all sorts of messy legal constructs like "truth" and "perjury" and "oath".

None of this stuff is deterministic in the real world and it's a lot more complicated than some guy with a beard producing e-mails from a server in the closet.
The problem is that there is a pattern. Whenever something is even remotely related to "national security", constitutional rights, international law and due process are deliberately circumvented or cunningly broken. It's the Guantanamo spirit that is at work here. This spirit has done great damage to the US. The loss of international reputation is a threat to national security and even to economic success.

But what hasn't been discussed as throughly as international relations is that countries in which the law is regarded cynically as an instrument of the rulers are mostly very poor. I think the reason is that enforcing the law against that kind of broad based cynicism is incredibly expensive and ineffective. It's a disincentive to investment and risk taking.
I would argue that these small companies are simply at an even higher level. My last paragraph deals with that type of company. Those people, the real difference makers that can do amazing things, are often better than anyone you'd find in any big company (examples like Google are outliers). Furthermore, I restrict the statement you're quoting to people who WANT to work in big companies but don't. The people you're talking about would never want to work in a big company because it sucks so much.

I'd say big companies in general don't value creativity. That's why they can't in general make good innovative products. I talk about that in some of my other posts on innovation, disruption, etc. However, I do believe that one needs to be creative to get through all the crap and problems that one experiences at a big company. It's a different type of creativity than what is required to develop a groundbreaking new product, but it's still creativity.
Is the time span so short just because of initial lack of data? If not, I think it would be useful to change the span of the graph to more than a week, to understand the long term trend. Fore some of the lines I see high fluctuations, so the graph is not so meaningful.
but who really benefits outside of the carriers who get a free OS for their phones?

You seem confused about carriers, phone-makers and how things works in real life. Carriers may get stock-phones rebranded and customized from phone-makers, but in no way is it "their" phones or their problem getting a OS for it.

Phone makers make phones. Carriers provide carrier waves and cellphone services. These two roles are 100% independent, despite carriers sometimes present customers with custom-made phones bought by them from phone-makers.
Trying to get into analog electronics and slowly learning Spanish.
I don't exactly believe that the world has sustainability problems or is unable to support 10b people.

It is possible, if the Western world stops shipping our surplus foodstuff to Africa and ruining the local farms by giving food away for free.

We should instead help rebuild the agricultural industry so that Africa can finally feed itself.
Yep. You'd need a server somewhere to store and replay that message history. There is an XMPP standard that specifies how to do that. Question is whether or not your client can speak that protocol.
> So for all of you people who withstand the bullshit of the bay area but stay in all the time...why are you wasting all your money living in a city and not taking advantage of being urban? You could, instead, move a bit further outside the city and live around trees, grass and the best part? There's like no people around! It's great!

Right!? When I saw that the concierge said they have a lot of "work from homers" I was like "wait...what". Why on earth would you live in SF if you could work from anywhere?
Okay, but for 56-bits, you can also just have 3 quadruples of a-z, such as "envh zmds vrdq" (dropping the spaces for the actual password). I'm not sure random, punctuated text is so much easier to commit to memory.
The whole 'the future is now' hit me last week when we got to the theater, saw the 5-10 minute line we didn't want to wait in, and purchased the tickets from my iPhone instead. What hit me was that a) I didn't event really break mu pace as I was walking into the theater, and b) it didn't even seem that exceptional a thing to do.
Because if not reciprocated, it can be horribly depressing.
I just reviewed the entire document, and it renders 100% perfectly for me [Safari 5.0 (6533.16, r61351)].
LoL they're all NO!
" Is it not remarkable that 6 sheep plus 7 sheep make 13 sheep; that 6 stones plus 7 stones make 13 stones? Is it not a miracle that the universe is so constructed that such a simple abstraction as a number is possible? To me this is one of the strongest examples of the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics. Indeed, l find it both strange and unexplainable."

this is confusing because what he is talking about is -counting- not mathematics -mathematics- is an academic field that may include -counting- as one of its areas of study -but- it is confusing to reduce mathematics to counting
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