jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Naw, I've been in this thing professionally since the early '90s and every single day I have to convince myself that I'm not a fraud. We're all frauds.
But people love to give advice. Look at the topics here. The ones that get huge responses ask a question that allows anyone with even limited experience to weigh in.

Want to see pages and pages of comments? Post to a forum where parents are members that you're having a baby and are thinking about different approaches to parenting. A firestorm will ensue; nobody has to care about you and your baby at all.

How about "I'm going to buy a laptop, should I get a Mac or not?" This sort of thing causes server owners to consider liquid cooling systems.
You were an actual fraud? By what definition? [edit: I wonder if you were really a fraud, or are just feeling down on yourself.]
The most important part of this mess, is that the LAUNCH Conference on February 23rd and 24th will be the best place to LAUNCH your new product/startup AND get funded.

My plan is to reinvest all profits from the conference into the startups personally.... as well as get all of the startups meetings with the 200+ angels that make up the eight-city Open Angel Forum!

If you want to present you can ping me at jason@calacanis.com any time for advice or to setup a demo.
Also, it appears that in the visualization all clients have the same amount of bandwidth. In the real world this is usually not the case.
I would whole heartedly suggest giving it a try! It may appear daunting, but if you take your time and go step by step, chances are, you'll be just fine. If you're really worried about screwing up your system, you can install it on a virtual machine first (virtual box is free and works well enough), as a trial run.

You're bound to learn a thing or two while you go through the install, so jump in and have fun!
Just to clarify ... the laptop you describe was powered off daily? Even Once? Powered off?

Then what you saw was NOT a VRAM artifact. Aside from OP clearly stating it is a re-boot issue, powering off the laptop would have removed power to the video RAM chips -- thus they would have lost their stored data.

What is likely you saw was a screen saver program displaying a random image which it found on the laptop hard drive. How this came to be found (assuming it is what you saw, just to give you the benefit of the doubt) would be very hard to guess without the laptop and it's configuration.
Yea I'll find a way of doing that ultimately. The last thing I wrote in Node was for internal use for the company I work for. No way of putting that on GitHub!
I think Vim's great, but if you don't use a text editor on a regular basis then it's not worthwhile to learn it.
HN comments are crap and not helpful. Source, this comment.
I guess the relevance come from

"The current Universe was created in Padma kalpa, the last day Kalpa of 50 th year of Bramha.This is 10.51 billion years ago.This figure is close to modern estimated 13.78 billion years."

But now the question is was it pure luck that the ancient humans came up with a number that is close to the current scientific values or is there something that is lost in time. May be they were advanced than us and we just don't know. Of course, no evidence = grain of salt.
It is a pretty small amount of money. If his fiance was asking him for a super expensive ring while they were broke, yea that is pretty shitty.
Sure it will. But the post isn't about which companies will survive. It's about which will win.
On my ISP, BSNL, I can access them over https. However for my friends', it's not working at all. For some changing DNS to Google or OpenDNS fixes the issue, but not for everyone.

But why GitHub :-( Earlier Pastebin was once banned saying it was used to share links to torrents of movies. Now some idiot might have thought even GitHub is also same as Pastebin. This is just my speculation.
Paul Graham is deferring to his portfolio founders' words and actions. Does author believe all these smart and highly incentivized founders are wrong, too? I hope he realizes how strong that claim is and that by doing so he should accept the burden of proof.
Yes! I heard draw right is a really good book. But learning how to draw is like learning how to program: too many resources can cause analysis paralysis. I really just need to shut up and draw

The first thing I did was draw the alphabet every day. For example, I would draw something that started with the letter a, then the letter b the next day, etc. It took me more than a month to finish but I saw a huge skill improvement from the later drawings.
You seem to be under the assumption that the population is going to grow towards infinity. The UN projects that we will stay under 10 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growt...) and even the highest only have us at 16 billion at the end of this century (compare that to the growth in the 20th century).

So unless there is a relatively low limit for total humans on this planet, we won't reach it before we become a spacefaring race, at which point the limit will be the carrying capacity of the Universe.
Excellent news! It's been great to see Collabora putting work into LibreOffice and this will be an excellent step forward for the global use of open document editors.
Not really. Its president and CEO is a self-described libertarian [1] and FreedomWorks is co-plaintiff in Rand Paul's NSA lawsuit [2].

[1] http://reason.com/archives/2014/08/10/being-a-libertarian-in...
[2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1017524-rand-paul-co...
How much are you making? I know that's a taboo question but your account is throwaway :-). I made $130k at a company called proofpoint with around 6-7 years experience as a software engineer and analyst, until I left tech.
This is what burnout means. It's learning that it's impossible to succeed at your task, sapping your motivation to work on it.
So when twitter changes an API, or is down, and someone happens upon your page they can still see what you intended to include.

Also if you're documenting something like John Smith said "Kill all Muppets, they're taking human jobs" and his publicist goes "John, you really need to delete that tweet" and he does, you can show a screenshot of it to prevent revisionist history.
rr completely solves this problem.
I work in the Oil & Gas sector, and have been involved with subsea well monitoring in the past.

Keep in mind that an oil well is a lot more than just a hole and a drill bit - there is a lot of equipment sitting on the seabed[0], and a wellhead and a lot of equipment "topside" too

There are a lot of components with a lot of sensors, including vibration (you want high frequency for that), position, flow measurement, pressure, temperature, seismic, sand detectors, water sensors, gas detectors, bearing sensors...

Rigs/platforms typically have restricted bandwidth, and it's very expensive to add more. The amount of data generated has always been a problem, and in some projects we've actually logged to disk, and had techs ferry the disks back and forth with them as they rotate in/out.

[0] https://www.akersolutions.com/globalassets/products_1920x108...
About all that can be said for Gradle is that it makes Maven seem tolerable.
How is your model different from the blog post? Yours sounds like a paraphrase.

Do you disagree that Han is more likely to survive more difficult challenges than easier ones?
Is there no way to simply remove this DLL or is it too widely used in core Windows?
Sounds good, shot of some resumes today for the ASK HN whos hiring thread and contacted a recruiter. Appreciate the advice.
Actually my local contact was simply my Airbnb host. I had arranged the Airbnb only earlier that day, In response to the new travel restriction.

Other passengers provided the number of their hotel. The CDC called the hotel and (I believe) checked whether they were aware that these passengers were about to self-quarantine there.

Edit: even if you arrived without having anything booked at all, you can pay to stay at a designated quarantine hotel, though that is more expensive.

Also note that Taiwan doesn’t grant the “visa exemption” usually granted to tourists, when they now arrive from countries assessed as level 3 (requiring home quarantine). I was able to enter during a short window of time where home quarantine was instated but the new visa rules were not yet in effect. So I think it isn’t usual for the situation you described to occur.
It's not bad but it's also not great. Once you use higher DPI screens you don't want to go back. The 13" MBP with 2560x1600 is great.
I've got 400sq ft of deck to clean and repaint and two very curious boys, 1 and 3. They play in the yard while I clean and prep. Sometimes the oldest comes up to help. It would have frustrated the older me who felt like there isn't enough free time to dawdle. But now I see the hyper slow progress as a form of meditation. I'm actually no longer looking forward to it being done.

But at least this will be the spring I made the deck beautiful.
There are districts that are actually withdrawing education and providing only enrichment instead of distance learning because of this exact rationale. I thought your comment was in support of these actions. (Indeed, one sibling of your comment is in this position).

Let's do what we can immediately, and then try and make it as fair as we can next.
Good point, kicking the job hunt into high gear again.
I would add

3. The anonymity of online identity.

People behave very differently when they perceive they are anonymous.

Perhaps this is a version of mob psychology/dynamics where the anonymity of the collective causes people to act in ways that they normally wouldn't.
> (Some Democrats are calling for an impeachment, which wouldn’t help.)

I think it would help tremendously. If nothing else, it's important for the history books.
Sadly, no 6 people was my max and those were my family members. And my mom still complains Whatsapp was easier..
Thank you it's a really funny and unique experience.
> Sure, a cognizable claim or controversy is one that meets the basic criteria of viability f

No, its one that taken on its face states a violation of the law, from someone who would be entitled to a remedy under the law, which the court has the power to remedy.

Viability is a step or two down the road.

“Standing” and “failure to state a claim” are grounds for dismissal than are about not having a legally cognizable claim, and which come before any assessment of the viability of the claim.

"laches" (that, assuming the claim was valid, it is barred by unreasonable delay by the complaining party which would cause unreasonable harm to the interests of the defendant or third parties which would not have occurred had the claim been made timely) is a similar, though distinct, ground. (A lot of the post-election challenges to procedures which were well-known before the election were barred by laches, with the harm relied on being the denial of voting rights of voters who relied on the processes to vote.)

> Now, tell me what’s the difference between the claims that have signed affidavits and accusations of someone committing rape

That there were no actual claims made to courts based on the affidavits; the fraud stories that the campaign claims that the affidavits support weren’t advanced in court, or were withdrawn voluntarily.
It's more likely that the big metal walls of store were blocking the signal, instead of intentional jamming. They could, of course, take advantage of that to get people to connect to your wifi. That tells them at least how many people were in the store, and when.
SMS are not free in the majority of countries. Group discussions are not easily conducted. Exchange of non-textual information (images, sound, video, etc.) requires something "more" (e.g. MMS).
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Follow some psychology courses and then review your assertion that it doesn't seem like science.

From a behavioral and cognitive view of psychology, gaining motivation from passages in the book is comparable to observed learning. If the motivation one gains from reading the book results in positive results then according to contingency conditioning theory it should result in reinforcement of the behavior, thereby producing an upward spiral. The book probably also influences humans' by altering their beliefs and therefore perceptions during top-down processing of information.

From a biomedical view of psychology, reading a passage 1000 times probably alters your brain structure in significant enough ways that it alters your motivational attitudes. I think that if you put people who read the book in an fMRI scanner you'll see some difference compared to control people.
MSFT tend not to increase pricing they tend to say - ship even one computer without Windows and you wont be buying OEM Windows for any of your other machines.
Same in Greece, I don't know anyone who uses their driver's license as an ID. I'm not sure if it's disallowed explicitly, but nobody does it.
I thought it was an interesting quick article. The part that bothers me is that it ends with pretty much a "sky is falling" sort of conclusion. The author is a psychotherapist, which tells me that she probably doesn't have much engagement with entrepreneurs who have done well and are mentally balanced despite the hurdles. It's like talking to a doctor who says that everyone is sick or a cop in a high crime area who might think most people in that neighborhood are criminals.

To be sure, entrepreneurship isn't easy but it doesn't have to be digital case of entrepreneurship == you are going to be mentally screwed.
I've been noticing the dash-less form of program invocations popping up.

What is it exactly called?
you miss the more important issue - cash-flow - with software you need almost no cash-flow to scale to infinity, with hardware you have to commit money to warehoused hardware - using income from your sales to pay for manufacturing causes a feedback term to kick in to how fast you can scale your market, even if the demand is out of site you can't meet it (the alternative is paying the bank interest)
There is certainly some truth to this, but I don't think it captures the entire situation all that well.

Given that we're largely speaking from anecdotal evidence anyway, I'll share mine. The first non-ALGOL language I learned was Smalltalk, using Pharo. Its relative lack of syntax pretty much meant I could dive right in, with most practical programming involving the class libraries and navigating the Smalltalk environment with the integration intricacies of the binary image. I never really felt it as all that difficult though, even though imperative mindsets are allegedly supposed to make it that way.

The first functional language I learned (and the one I'm most proficient in) was Erlang. Despite being infamous for its unconventional Prolog-esque syntax, it took me only about 2-3 days to get comfortable with it and I breezed through Programming Erlang relatively quickly. I have since found it quite enjoyable to work with.

On the other hand, I never did manage to learn Haskell to any notable degree. I've always given up eventually, and haven't retried in a while. It's just a more complicated language.
But that had nothing to do with "can't get more than three to five together at once" or "young men loosing sense of social identity and personal networks".

Even you said, "they were surprised" over it. And my point is that person I responded to is projecting supposed contemporary isolation on back then, so that he can draw equivalence. And that equivalence is faulty. (And likely just serves to reinforce whatever conspiracy theory.)
> Everyone who loves guns and everyone who is anti mass-shooting should like that, and that's a lot of voters...

Those are largely the voters who voted in the President (Reagan) who dismantled our large parts of our mental health infrastructure in the 80s, and who since have voted in Presidents that have attempted to make our healthcare system more adversarial towards patients. They are (now) a distinct minority of voters, but unfortunately we do not live in a very representative republic.
One factor not mentioned in the article is how highly gendered Japanese as a language has been since the 1800s. There are almost parallel sets of ways of speaking for men and women with different vocabulary for the most commonly used words. This tends to force women into more deferential language, but it has slowly been changing with the younger generations.
Some thoughts - each clause is independent of the others.

I am typically sympathetic to fighting over-aggressive surveillance for profit; I am wary of it more when govt uses it, but it can be dangerous with companies too. This is a valid concern.

The creators of the site clearly had a chip on their shoulder before this patent. It could read like they are "just mad" at Spotify for a number of reasons, and that this isn't a big deal. I think the EFF does better at selling the problems of seemingly benign tech.

I am beginning to get allergic to appeals to trans-this and racist-that when it seems so tangential: This isn't some systemic racist policy of government where the intent is muddy but the effect is clear - this is a creepy program that is made to make money on targeting services, whether you're trans or not.
Hey, of course. I didn't want to say your demo is wrong neither. We all end up coding "small versions of existing stuff" sooner are later. And the fun is always there !

(on my side I still participate in the demoscene, coding my n-th 3D engine for fun, so you see, once you get hooked... :-) )
It isn't true, that was the point of my question. They could (and must) notify the ones they still have data about.
Sure, you don't have to send them to college, but if you don't help them pay for some sort of education or training after high school, you're doing them a massive disservice if you can afford it at all.

You may say, oh well they can just get loans, true, but you can only get so much in federal loans before you have to get private, non dischargeable loans for ~ 7% interest.

Alternatively, you might say oh, they can just join the military. Only problem is the Air Force and Navy don't want little Johnny and now he's getting blown up doing patrols with the 3rd ID in Iraq (I lost my childhood best friend this way).

TLDR: If you don't want to help your kid pay for college or trade school, just don't have them. No one should have to go deeply in debt or put their lives at risk to earn a decent living.
I wouldn't say Netlify has free unlimited scale. There are some limitations, especially the data transfer limit of 100GB.
Muddying the water is phrasing it well.
Don't get me wrong. I think pseudoscience and racism etc. are all bad things that need to be solved as well.
However adding them on one big pile does not make your cause better or make the problem go away.
Actually it scares people like me away, because it shows you're on a emotional slander campaign instead of solving a problem.
I'm no defender of surveillance, but this website is a highly paranoid take on what is just a patent application.

Sometimes companies file patents on dark-pattern type techniques just to prevent other companies from using those techniques.

Also, I guess the website creators don't realize this, a lot of speech recognition can be done completely on the device with the audio and the recognized words never leaving the device. (Modern mobile OS versions and increasingly desktop OS versions are giving the end user more and more control over whether they allow anything beyond this, on a per-app basis.)

The service could, for example, boil everything down to just one bit of information: The user likes this song. Or does not like this song. True, or false. One bit. That's pretty far from the drama presented on the website.
The only (substantive) high-tech employer in that area laid me and a whole bunch of other people off, so we moved to silicon valley in 2009. We really like it out here, though it's insanely expensive, we're getting along well.

More importantly, there is a lot more cultural diversity out here in Santa Clara County, California compared to McDonald County, Missouri. We prefer that our son grow in a more diverse environment.

Send me an e-mail if you want to chat more about living in the country; to me, it's a very interesting topic. We spent a lot of time exploring various aspects of sustainability.
1 billion/yr since 1971, but may have stopped in 2014
The Grid (thegrid.io) looks very promising in this area but won't be available right away ("end of Spring"). You will get a web UI as well as iPhone and Android apps to manage your content, and static pages get generated automatically. Check it out if you're not in a hurry.
Absolutely. This reads like PR article to me.

Or maybe I've read the submarine [1] too much.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Good solar cells are 40ish% efficient? I'm not a photonics engineer but I wonder how much of the total energy is in the visible range.

Current solar cells are only cost-effective in limited scenarios, it's nice that these could go in more places but even if they reach cost parity with what we have today, the would be less power. We're going to need to see huge reductions in production cost or energy capture before this becomes viable.
It could even make things much worse for you. If you have a standard encryption scheme then the torturer can be reasonably sure that they got everything useful out of you and can stop torturing you.

On the other hand if you are running PD software, then even if you had nothing particularly important to hide (gasp, they now have my Facebook password!), they might as well continue torturing you since there is no way to show that really you don't have those stolen Death Star plans.
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You won't get them to switch and I use both. I try to get people to switch to Signal for comms with me and the hope is that if more people install it then they'll use it to communicate with each other. The majority of my contacts have not installed it. I am not yet worried enough about the current state of whatsapp that I'm willing to forgo using it entirely.

Signal, at least, is a very easy install and will just locate your contacts by their phone numbers (like WhatsApp) so the technical barrier is very low.

Edit: Oh, I came in to this thread without seeing anything about this new privacy policy. My comment was about the state before that. I'm only looking at the change now.