jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Wait, that Helen? So that's what you've been up to since college. Nice job. (And you too Christine.) :)

A lot of great features in this thing, even from day one. The right number of different ways to do things. Very strong UI work already. Still a few kinks in the flows - how do I add a venue to my Event without also contacting the venue? - but something I'd feel comfortable recommending to my mother.

It's also clear you guys took cues from airbnb, not letting users get too distracted by worrying about what they can't chose until they've already been sucked in by the sheer imagery and selection of what they can. Heck, I don't even live in San Francisco, and even I found myself on here way longer than expected just looking at the various venues and how it all worked. (A "corking fee"? Fascinating.)

I see your "for ____ people" field only fits four digits. Do you see yourselves eventually letting people search for and select even larger venues (conference centers, stadiums, what have you)? Or is that sort of business a bit too high touch?
EDIT: Ah, you can still type in five digits; it's just not wide enough. Eh, my question still stands. :)
Why do you mirror to github and not bitbucket?
It may go without saying, but this is also advice for an older entrepreneur.
Where's the follow up article: "Founders Angry Over VCs Cheating Them Out of Equity"?
Thanks a lot. Now if you could just kill off everyone ahead of me, it could save me a lot of work. :)

This is a neat thing. More insight would always be good (source up or anything?) Perhaps it can help motivate me to step my game up a bit more.
Not sure what Android version or screen resolution you're after, but search www.t-mobile.com for "T-Mobile Comet Black Prepaid". Refurbished devices are going for $99 off-contract at the moment.
More than a decade ago I was an IMAX projectionist and I believe that linearly polarized glasses would work. Unfortunately these are circularly polarized.

In this Ohio theater they used a belt and suspenders approach where both polarization and timing were used to create the 3D effect. Left and right eye frames were projected through polarized filters and the projector itself was constructed so that one of the shutters would always be closed while the other was being displayed. The headsets handed out to the audience were active; they had LCD lenses and an IR receiver which would align the timing to the projector's.

This was purportedly done to increase decrease the "crosstalk" between the two eye views and worked quite well.

* Edited to reflect Cushman's observation on circular vs linear polarization.
Snapchat is what my extended family uses to communicate with each other and send fun stuff.

Whatsapp for group communication with friends overseas.

Both of these apps don't have the BS that comes with Facebook.

If you still want to get your fix, TikTok is better platform for getting a mix of interesting content from normal people.

Aside from using Facebook messenger to chat, I don't see a good purpose for Facebook any more, maybe the groups are useful for people?
Awesome, was doing file maintenance recently and couldn't find exactly what your project does..by extension, recursively..move to...Thank You!!
Definitely do not do this if the jar is already opened, as the seal isn't perfect and you will end up with oil all over your pantry.
Only thing no one in the world can beat Indians at, is at calculating money cost and profits.
The best thing I ever did on Facebook was unfollow everyone, it allows me to keep in touch at my leisure, without that dopamine hit from refreshing the feed and seeing nonsense.
1990s? Ottawa, Edmonton, maybe the Waterloo region.

But there are also places like Calgary, Winnipeg, London and Halifax that are smaller, much more affordable, and have a decent standard of living. The issue is that if you compare Halifax or Winnipeg to Toronto it's a no brainer that Toronto is just significantly ahead in development, but it's not like people in Halifax are struggling to find work, or are poor or living in bad conditions. There are plenty of good places across Canada to raise a family and enjoy a good standard of living.
I don't think any PC components are going to exceed 120C (and that's the component themselves, the surrounding air will be cooler), so nothing's going to get burnt. The only concern is the weird plastic smell getting infused into your food.
I'm assuming you mean the streetcar, and I'm a proponent of it. People get hung up on the fact that the loop is so small right now, so they claim it as useless. I understand that sentiment, but it is nice for spending an entire day in the city and getting from the stadiums to OTR. More importantly, to me I see it as a great first step to incremental improvement. If it can be expanded to Clifton (where UC is), or over the bridge to Covington, it would be an absolute game changer.
> In the case of viruses, remember that there are viruses for much simpler organisms, like bacteria. And yes, you can use those to treat bacterial infections.

Those are called bacteriophages (a misnomer, since they don't actually eat bacteria).

I have a theory that bacteriophages originated as a biochemical weapon for inter-bacterial competition.

If you think about it, the ability to produce packets that target and penetrate a competitor's cellular wall and inject a payload is pretty useful. Payloads could be as simple as a toxin to start.

From that point, you could have stepwise improvements for deliverables that disrupt reproduction in the target (for example by cutting apart DNA strands), by inserting junk genetic material to evade self repair mechanisms, by inserting or removing specific genetic sequences to create other vulnerabilities, that insert the specific genes to make copies of the delivery system and various payloads (this is useful even if the 2nd gen copies are poor and don't include those same genes), and then finally a fully self-reproducing package that can spread exponentially.

At that point the 'weapon system' can evolve independently, and indeed co-evolve with it's target/host to (probably) jointly outcompete other species including the originating species.

Even prior to full self-reproduction, proto-viroids might act as a horizontal gene transfer mechanism that can exhibit familiar 'selfish gene' patterns and mediate various feedback loops between bacterial species. After 'escape' any species remaining with proto-viroids mechanisms would likely be parasitized and bootstrapped into actual viruses through competition and crossovers, or have those mechanisms suppressed into remnants indistinguishable from endoviruses (presuming endoviruses can even be identified in organisms as simple as bacteria).

An arms-race of proto-viroid attack vectors might also be the antecedents of and/or the driving force behind the need for various organelles that distinguish the more complex eukaryotes from bacteria.
So, they must buy it from information brokers like everyone else?
He mentioned Tomorrow Night in one of his YouTube videos. Don't know about his windows status bars tho.
The data is not accurate. The stats are literal numbers, Which means these guys are not mentioning how many hard drives each vendor sold. But instead they are just comparing the Faulty drives numbers. If you consider the number of HGST and Seagate pieces sold then only these stats or demographics can be considered reasonable.

Punchline: This review or analysis could be biased.
A lot of people seem to be dismissing this as "not a problem" or "not well defined". Can you expand on this so I can understand it?

It seems to me that there is a disconnect between:

- the standard scientific view of reality as consisting of fundamental particles and the laws relating them - and,

- the experience of being somebody, an experience that all of us have.

The standard view may well end up providing a good explanation of the experience (and some people seem optimistic that it will), but I don't understand how it can be dismissed. That's like saying that the EM spectrum of hydrogen cannot be explained by classical electrodynamics, and so is a non-problem.

EDIT:layout
> Go look at any calendar [in the US] and you'll see they all end on Saturday.

Fixed your US-centricism there.
Or google-fu:
allintitle:whatsapp understand site:news.ycombinator.com
> I would love car traffic to be more silent

A minor nitpick, but you can't get more silent than silent since silence is the absence of any noise.
Um, that's not what the article says. "The encryption tech" gets his approval, as in TextSecure's technology. Snowden didn't approve Whatsapp's implementation of it, and may not even use it for this web thing.
I don't think any company can afford to employ a significant percentage of the world's tech workers. Google has 150,000 staff, and even if half of them are developers that's only about 0.25% of the number of developers globally. Employing people as a moat only works within a large city (or a few dozen large cities). It can't be done if people can work from anywhere.
It's basically real estate costs all the way down. Restaurant wages need to be higher because it's so expensive for the workers to rent. A one bedroom apartment is at least $1000 more expensive in SF than say, Dallas. That $1000/mo is $6/hr for someone who works full time.

Literally everything you buy in SF costs more because the workers either have to afford a place in the city or have to make some crazy commute.
Here's a great, interactive map based on Redfin data:

https://www.redfin.com/news/data-center/migration/
Update: Edwin is a badass and helped get us live. Further evidence that Stripe is the best choice when it comes to your payment stack. Huge thank you to everyone working at Stripe. Super appreciate ya’ll.
I would have considered the fact that for a vast majority of people suffering from cancer, this device helps them instead of harms them. However, I can also imagine leadership at some places trying to move fast and pressure ICs into delivering something that isn't completely bulletproof in the name of bottom line. That is something I would have tried to discern from the executives. Similar tradeoffs have been made before with cars against expected legal costs.

There are plenty of other high stakes software that involve human lives (Uber self driving cars, SpaceX, Patriot missiles) and many of them completely scare me and morally frustrate me as well to the point where I would not like to work on one, but I totally understand if you have a personal profile that is different than mine.
> It is way too early to draw any conclusions about Comma's safety.

I definitely would not consider any car with adaptive cruise control without driver monitoring, especially one that touts self driving capabilities.
And who was compensated when those rights were taken away from property owners by the invention of zoning in the early 1900s and down zoning in the mid 1900s? In addition, you are confusing owning a particular plot of land with rights over all neighboring plots. The latter is distinctly not your private property.
I've never seen the need to use anything other than vim.
Braking is also a question of traction. Pretty much all brakes can apply a much greater force than the traction at the wheels, hence the motivation for anti-lock breaking systems. Having the truck be more massive relative to the trailer improves the breaking performance.

A more relatively massive truck also helps reduce the propensity for jackknifing.
The mental gymnastics some of us are using to justify the bad actions of these employees are astounding.

Making documents and calendars accessible is one example of Google’s “open culture.” When these features are abused in an attempt to strong arm a company or coworkers into kowtowing to each of your demands, that’s sabotage of the company’s culture at the expense of tens of thousands of your coworkers who may not share your political views on every issue. Say your piece, keep saying it if you feel so compelled, but don’t cross the line into unethical behavior and cry “retaliation!” when you’re caught.
Everyone has to pick their battles. Sometimes they believe that it's not possible or practical to affect any meaningful amount of change. I can imagine trying to change an entire country as an individual can certainly feel that way. But sometimes people derive a great deal of meaning by fighting for things they believe in. And sometimes they win. I wouldn't be so quick to discount this impulse in people.
RE the second aspect: that's why I'm a fan of LSP and the related debugging server protocol. There's no way Emacs can have native IDE-like support for all the languages out there, and the small developer base makes it hard to compete with IDEs for popular languages, that have commercial interests backing them. LSP promises to level the playing field - it only takes one good language server to make IDE features suddenly available not just for IDEs, but also Emacs and Vim and others.
Build your own startup.
The benefit of Emacs's keybindings is that they're the default keys used by GNU readline (though it also supports Vi-style keys.)

That means when you know that Ctrl+E and Ctrl+A (`C-e' / `C-a') goes to the end or beginnings of a line in Emacs, you know it'll also work in your bash shell (or indeed any tool that uses GNU readline.)
Good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
Other SimpleCDN submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997107 - sajalkayan.com - no comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2008064 - gigaom.com - no comments
Now I wish I lived in SF just for this.
Good points, thanks for the rational assessment.

I still can't tell if her claims don't hold water (specifically, that glyphosate materially harms gut microbes), but your observations do show she has been shunned by the scientific establishment. I'm no conspiracy theorist there, so that does lend credibility to the idea that she's making an error somewhere.

I would love to see a specific debunking of her claims that didn't cop out and say "glyphosate has already been proven safe, DUH" or attack her personally.

But your observations are good food for thought, thanks.
Context is king. I was talking about secure handling of one's BTC. Exchanges need warm wallets and that is totally different story.
`v` was the missing key for me. Looks like it even preserves my position in the file. Thanks!
> The ugly truth that U.S. tech media

The ugly truth that U.S. tech media doesn't make any effort to investigate startup launches, they copy and paste articles that are handed to them :)
The mushrooms aren't necessarily being used to break down the compounds, so much as to facilitate their sequestration. You can then harvest and destroy the mushrooms and have clean soil.
I once made the following while drunk a few years back. It was a nerd-dare...

# dark magicks for hopping hosts. first version
# (you'll need to specify target user name though)
Host *+*
VerifyHostKeyDNS=no
ProxyCommand	ssh $(echo %h | sed 's/^\([^+]*\).*$/\1/') nc $(sed -n '/^Host[ \t]*\('$(echo %h | sed 's/^.*+\([^+]*\)$/\1/')'\)$/,/^$/{/^.*HostName[ \t]*/{s///; s/[ \t]*$//; h}}; ${x; /./{p; b}; s/^/'$(echo %h | sed 's/^.*+\([^+]*\)$/\1/')'/p}' ~/.ssh/config) $(sed -n '/^Host[ \t]*\('$(echo %h | sed 's/^.*+\([^+]*\)$/\1/')'\)$/,/^$/{/^.*Port[^0-9]*/{s///;s/[ \t]*$//;h;};};${x;/./{p;q;};s/^/22/p;}' ~/.ssh/config)
Reddit is no longer owned by Conde Nast. It was moved to the same parent company that owns Conde Nast and then spun off.

http://www.redditblog.com/2013/08/reddit-myth-busters_6.html
Yes, it's a self-signed cert. But hey, can we really trust cert authorities? Other than that, SSL Labs gives it an A rating <https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wilderssecuri.... I wouldn't know about Chrome. Don't trust it ;)
The zeitgeist has clearly made their choice. Every comment even mildly questioning the viability of cycling as a replacement for transportation in most contexts is downvoted.
> If you get covid as a healthy young person you have about a 1 in 10,000 chance of dying

COVID is not just about death though, there's proven lingering neurological and cardiovascular impediments to survivors.

e.g. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brain/...
Exactly, that's the reality at majority of companies.
Indeed! There are even Think Tanks and the like dedicated to understanding this paradigm.

https://capitalaspower.com
The JVM had no support for functions as values (it was designed around the idea of only having objects with methods). So if you want to very closely mirror Java at runtime (e.g. you want Java reflection libraries to work with your language) but you want to use functions as values, you have to bridge that gap with classes whose instances will represent functions.
One man's waste is another man's treasure. Ultimately it is a black hole, the black hole that sucks all value from other monetary systems. It provides immutability, permanence and durability like no other data structure that has come before it. This takes a lot of energy. It is best to stop looking at "factories" and "mines" producing "waste", it is more akin to software running in data centers using available energy to secure a ledger. This utility is almost unmeasurable, but we can put a market value to its units based on how useful it is to its users and how willing they are to trade their national currencies for it. Knowing how many SHA256^2's my rivals can hash a second is also pretty useful information.
The system is opt-in, permissionless and extremely resilient. You don't have to use it, but if you try it, you might like it.
"non of this is due to a scandal or fraud"

The megacorp tax practices are well publicized and scandalous. I think countries should focus on fostering innovation rather instead of racing to the bottom in taxes in a zero-sum game of getting companies to move HQs
Well, this happened in the biggest media company in Sweden (Aftonbladet) back in 2011 when they required everyone to login and authorize Facebook access to comment.

The editor made the choice after the attack in Norway[1] and brought up that the norwegians handled the situation very good with more openness, more conversion and more democracy. He goes on saying that the hate is too much for normal people and if you want to say what you think, you should stand for what you think.

Blogpost in swedish from the editor: http://bloggar.aftonbladet.se/janhelin/2011/08/sta-for-vad-d...

Same blogpost translated to english: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&js=n&prev=...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
There are some anonymous messaging services / protocols. Bitmessage has been suggested to me on G+ discussions:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage
Nearly every Fukushima mega-scare story I've encountered seems to go back to Arnie Gunderson, who is a professional anti-nuclear consultant.

At the same time, I see a near information blackout from other authorities. There just doesn't seem to be much good information on this one way or the other.

Radiation is very easy to detect. If there's a serious leak, people outside Japan could see it. Where is this data?
Nonsense. His point of view is that a women is not what he wants to become, but what he is. He just wants to be recognized as one.

Also, I don't really see where there is spending involved. Even if there were, the amount would be insignificant to even care about. There is much more waste elsewhere in the system.

Last but not least, this guy shouldn't even be serving the sentence he is.
"good shit" sounds pretty good :)
At some point during every conversation I had with a tech guy who
is interested in racing, there would come an awkward moment in
which he would ask me not to paint him as an extravagant, sexist
cretin. Mr. Schachter told me, “Try to tone down the rich guy
hobby thing.”

Too late.
I don't dispute that there is real innovation with the blockchain -- just that the level of innovation cannot alone justify the value of or interest in cryptocurrency. To answer your question: linked timestamping[1][2] does, in fact, solve this problem -- and solved this problem long before the blockchain. Again, not disputing that the blockchain doesn't allow one to prove tamper-proof transaction systems or that this isn't an important problem -- just that it's not the first technology to do it, isn't the only way to do it, and doesn't alone pay the freight for the level of interest in cryptocurrency.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_timestamping

[2] http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/handle/10062/15188/T...
Not sure why this was downvoted. I switched phones yesterday and transferring signal with the direct wi-fi transfer was easier than transferring whatsapp, I do know that that used to not be the case.
> I feel like Element works better as a competitor to Slack or IRC than as a competitor to Signal or Whatsapp.

To me it's a competitor to Keybase. "I want to send my co-worker/client an API key that I don't want exposed to the public" is about the only use for Keybase I've had. I have like 5 contacts on there for this reason. Slack/IRC is much more usable for getting shit done, but not being E2E I wouldn't send anything sensitive over them. Element is currently a "this is a mildly nicer experience over PGP + Email/Slack.
Cite even one example of a BLM leader explicitly (or even implicitly) calling for violence, arson, and looting.

Go ahead, I'll wait. You won't find anyone, because it didn't happen.

OTOH, the Proud Boys did explicitly call for violence, arson, and looting during the BLM rights, and their leader admitted as much in a live television interview.
If you're only exposed to left-wing media, you only see right-wing radicalisation.

If you're only exposed to right-wing media, you only see left-wing radicalisation.

Both tribes are convinced that the other is dangerously radical.
Interesting, maybe the Reddit user got it wrong or perhaps it's been updated since they wrote the comparison.
This type of stuff was posted on HN and pretty well debunked / rejected by most commentors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031344

My comment and some discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25031443
Coders at work is so legit !
The emojis didn't display for me, on iOS. Content-encoding issue?

> It can also include emojis ðŸ˜ ðŸŽ‰!
Boston, MA
Cadio - http://www.cadiomobile.com/
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I never knew this was the case. It actually makes me want to learn Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese etc.) now because it sounds like a very neat system.
Every language has its difficulties. Chinese grammar is very easy compared to English. However, to get to a basic reading level, you need to know at least 2300 characters (in other languages, the alphabet is very small). There are also tones (mandarin only has 5. Other dialects like Cantonese have 9).

It's also nearly impossible to know the meaning of a character (or how to pronounce it), unless you have already seen it (you can look at the root, but that doesn't always work).
San Francisco, CA

http://www.bittorrent.com/company/jobs

We're building the uTorrent client, creating secure and private web services and hacking javascript. There are a lot of positions open, so take a look and see if anything's interesting (programming as well as product).