jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Jobs just wanted to make 'insanely great' products [for their users], with the side effect of profit

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port....
> And web developers don't seem to want to use other languages, given that aside from GWT (almost) nobody cross-compiles from another language.

I've met tons who WANT to use other languages. The reason they don't cross-compile more often is that for the most part cross-compilation sucks - it is impossible to debug through, for one thing. GWT managed to get around most of these issues which is why it's so popular, but it was quite a feat, and it comes at a cost (two seperate runtimes for GWT code which are every so slightly different).

If programming in any other language for the browser was just as easy as javascript, I expect you'd see javascript usage plummet.
To be clear, I think this is good stuff. It's OK for a thing to be what it is; it doesn't have to be something else.

Hmmm... I mean that somewhat less vacuously than English is rendering it.
I agree with you to an extent, and this is especially true for iOS stuff where there's a lot of API/platform churn, and sometimes the same issue or bug pops up twice with a few years between.

I often land on a question that I'm asking, and it has a lot of upvotes, but it was answered 3 years ago using deprecated APIs.
No one says that all founders must code. The most anyone says is that the founding team must include a programmer.
In my experience, most people who use "relatively obscure words" are doing it to provide a precise nuance, not to "sound important". What's the point of accumulating a large vocabulary through years of reading if you eschew certain words as being "pretentious"?
If one can afford to invest in a soy milk maker, or persuade family to buy it as a present, making soy milk is extremely cheap. Also, what comes out of a soy milk maker is massively better than what you can get in a box.

I use a combination of soaked soy beans and ground coconut, for a grand total of about 15 cents a quart, including a bit of salt, vanilla, and a tablespoon of sugar (optional). It's a major dietary staple for me. I use the Joyoung CTS1048, reviewed here: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/004154.php

Such a device pays for itself in a month or two, if one is a regular soy/nut milk aficionado.
I followed the 4HB diet for a month and it definitely does work to lose weight. The problem is that it has no variety, and you will get extremely sick of eating the same meal continuously over and over again.

There are many ways to eat slow carb without strictly following the 4HB diet. For example, Tim Ferris says to stay away from anything that is "white, or can be made to be white." He's talking mostly about wheat, flour, and pasta, but also includes brown rice. Brown rice is an excellent slow carb so it shouldn't be excluded. There are a lot of great grains that are slow carbs like buckwheat, quinoa, wild rice, steel cut oats, etc, that won't make you gain weight and are good balanced carbs.

My experience is that you can do the 4HB diet for a month or two and lose some weight, but think about it - do you want to eat beans every meal for the rest of your life? It's not a sustainable diet that you can stick with for a long time, and that's what matters. In the end, you need a healthy diet that you can stick with for an extended period of time, or you're just going to gain the weight back.

Stick with slow carbs (all the ones I mentioned above), nuts, fruits, vegetables, eggs, and lean meats, and you'll be fine. Stay away from fast carbs, sugars, and foods with a high glycemic index and get some variety in your diet. Eat breakfast every day with protein in it.

Another thing that doesn't work with Tim Ferris' diet is the "no fruit" rule. Fruit is not that bad. Most fruit has a low glycemic index, although some like watermelon is not that good for you (high GI). Completely excluding any fruit from your diet is probably not healthy long term.
“The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows: /- - -/ one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” The Peace Prize has been awarded 91 times in the 110 years Nobels have been awarded.

Clearly the charter has changed somewhat over the years and has moved more towards mitigating those things which are thought to be at the root cause of war and conflict.
You should be able to get $4-5/lb of green beans fairly easily. The lower quality roasted beans typically go for $6/lb. I roast my own beans for taste though, it truly is superior if you do a good roast.
> we found a few "living on a dollar a day" blogs, but every single one bought in bulk and then calculated the cost of each scoop they took out of the bin.

What's wrong with that? It's by far the cheapest way to cook. Bulk makes buying organic cheap too, as long as you don't shop at supermarkets. They have a habit of avoiding organic brands that are price-competitive with existing products.
Are you not aware that Perl 6 supports optional typing? One of the design goals is to be able to exist at both ends of that gap, and fill both needs.
Congratulations mate. Stay liquid :))
Github is github because the team behind it had drunk the koolaid. They are responsible for passive-agressive marketing crap like this: https://svnhub.com This shows that they never had any intention to promote any other version control system.

Linus' marketing is a footnote compared to git's main feature for commercial software vendors: it's abysmal design flaws and utterly obtuse UI. That makes it incredibly easy to earn money by tacking on stuff that makes that abomination actually usable. I'd wager that github's success is built on that.
For those wanting to dive deeper, the layout code in Chromium is surprisingly easy to read considering its a 20+ year old codebase.

This is a good starting point:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:t...
So, I'm obese. I have no problems admitting that -- at my heaviest, I was 400 pounds, and while I'm nowhere close to the weight that I want to be, I watch my diet, work out every day, and try to live a life that promotes a great body image.

My mom is/was obese -- before she had a lap band installed. My dad is obese. My significant other is/was obese.

Being a 'bigger' person is something that I grew up in, and something that I attribute to being normal.

I didn't realize that being a "bigger" person was a problem until I went off to college and noticed that I was the exception, and not the norm. I only dated bigger women, because that's basically the only type of woman who would date someone who's bigger, and you can begin to see a cycle move forward again.

My SO got a full gastric bypass surgery in 2009 (after we had been through the second round of our post-grad work), and went from 400 pounds down to 150 pounds (for a 6' tall woman). She's been egging me on to get a lap band or bypass, but, I've already dropped a good 100 pounds from my heaviest weight, and will be able to drop the last 100 pounds on my own. My SO no longer has diabetes, heart issues, or anything like that -- other than some vitamin deficiencies, she's a pretty healthy (and stubborn) woman.

I don't think it's a genetic thing -- I think it's an environmental thing; you don't see a lot of chubby kids in a smaller household, and vice versa -- I don't see a lot of skinny/smaller children in a household that has obese or overweight people in it.
Thanks, tptacek - I'd like to clarify my motivations behind this blog.

I'm not doing this to celebrate being rude, or being self-centered - it's about exploring my boundaries. I explicitly list in my rules that I shouldn't be cruel, or put people in particularly uncomfortable situations. My entire life I've placed rules around myself where there often are none (not talking to well-known entrepreneurs, for example, simply because I'm intimidated), and I'd like to change that.

As for po's other comment ("Although... on second thought, it would be good training for startup founders"), it's funny you should say that. I started this therapy the day after a partner and I decided to start a company, so this is an exercise not just for personal improvement but, in theory, professional improvement as well. I want to be able to take advantage of all of the opportunities ahead (talking to investors or reaching out to potential partners), instead of being intimidated or too timid upon approach.

And a couple of things to end this with:
1) I'll definitely try harder to ask for things from women rather than men, as the commenters pointed out
2) I should have / could have paid the cab driver at the end, to thank him for the help

Interesting discussion! These comments are in and of themselves continuing the rejection process (this life-on-display is a new experience for me, too) and I'm hoping for this to be a reasonably positive experience for everyone involved.
Not at all. The conclusion that US corporate culture is more risk-tolerant than European wasn't made by me. It's been talked about in media for years, especially lately. My anecdotes are hardly the only ones that argue in its favor. As a European, I'd honestly like to read anecdotes that prove the opposite.
From the Saas startup Apprenda:
http://www.saasblogs.com
High-heel is not social pit you can't crawl out because of possible peer ostracism.

Most of the movement men were conditoned to perceive as womanly comes from simple mechanical attempts of a female trying not to fall of the high heels.

To quit that, all woman would have to pass on advantage of using fairly easy way to tap into male conditioning for at least one generation.
Sorry - your example is probably one of the exceptions.

I know two startup founders in Bangalore who face these issues - especially reason #1: matching the compensation for good talent.

And reason #3: there are almost no examples of non-founder startup millionaires in Bangalore (/India).

This is how most developers in Bangalore got rich in the last decade: get the highest compensation you can and invest as much as you can in two things: real estate and stocks.
forgive what is possibly a very ignorant question, but are there security concerns here? I understand that the key space is immensely huge and that for any file over 4MB in size it would be virtually impossible to guess, but what is to stop someone from just trying hashes for fun to see if they get interesting files?

Like I said for file over 4MB it seems fine, guessing sequential hashes would be all but impossible. I assume the realistic solution is just to encrypt my files (preferably in a truecrypt volume over 4MB in size) if I'm truly concerned.

On a side note, it would be interesting to see if this could be modified to tell me how unique my overall file set is.
Longtime LT user here. It is primarily a cataloging service. Catalogue your library and make it easily searchable and organizable with extensive tagging. They previously charged for logging more then 200 books in a year I believe.

The real highlight of the LT service is the forums. There are forums for almost every reading genre and specialty book collecting genre. Some of the most knowledgeable people about books reside in those forums.

How did LT survive? Because it and Goodreads are inherently different services. Someone else described their usage of it and the differences between them perfectly when they said that they keep track of what they have read in Goodreads and what they own in LT. Plus LT has forums as I said and Goodreads cannot compare with their commenting system and the communities created in LT.
American Experience (PBS) did one of their documentaries on this event. It is very well done.

Prior to the socket being dropped, there was a change order issued to use a new type of socket that would not dislodge from the wrench. As I recall, the two technicians tasked with the repair didn't have the new type of socket, but proceeded into the silo anyway.
We've banned this account for repeatedly posting flamewar comments to HN. That's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I guess it depends on whether you read the headlines that say “Trump calls State Department ‘Deep State Department’”, or whether you read the actual quote.

> I'd like him to go back to the State Department or as they call it, 'the deep state department’.

It’s frankly ridiculous to think this wasn’t a joke, regardless of how unfunny you think it is. It’s also very hilarious that this thread has moved on from “There's not a single person who would agree that the US president is handling this well”, to “but what about that joke he made!!!”. When people see that the most voracious criticism of Trump often turns out to simply be humourless outrage mongering, I’d wager it helps his image, if it had any impact on it at all.
I think that's what the encryption is for, how did large sporting events and concerts do it? Maybe it's a task Live Nation or Ticket Master coukd get behind.
Yeh but you assumption is those taxes which the government get is the best use of the money. Most places with airbnb with be great arguments against that. Cause yes you may get more frugal people but the pie is bigger in general. Tourism world wide is up and while those people probably on average have less money as a total more tourist dollars are made.
Moderate brain dump (sorry). I'm writing some DSLs, including a DSL to implement config DSLs. I'm also pining over a new OS/shell environment, featuring a terminal where perhaps things like vertical line height isn't always fixed. And also a shell that grants permissions to invoked programs, enforced with vms or chroots or selinux idk. Probably starting with Qubes. Maybe fancy terminal output integration like TempleOS (links and programs; maybe graphics, maybe font awesome idk). Definitely want helper panes based on context of the shell/OS/running program. I've also been wanting a trackpad driver w/ OS integration that's closer to gestures-with-visual-feedback, but I guess Apple stole the thunder on that one with iPadOS. I still want it in the ISE tho, I think it's important for the UX to be discoverable. It'll probably have keyboard shortcuts too I just don't want to commit to a paradigm for that yet. I'm probably too slumped to have any of this built anytime soon; but that's what I'm working on for myself. Here's my twitter https://twitter.com/nomsolence, mostly about covid right now but I keep it to random terminal screenshots normally.

edit: Project will be called MajOS; the ethos is a witch's cabin in the woods.
People fear that without some oversight, dangerous things would be sold

Yet they go to the local restaurant who's preparing dishes with no special oversight ex ante, just good logic and the fear of being closed if there's an hygiene investigation ex post.

For some reason, reviews can filter out bad restaurants but not drugs? Even if food can also kill? Evidence of the opposite, from darknet markets where people review drugs and sellers, is routinely ignored.

But when the CDC delivers a non working test, people want more money for the CDC- so that next time, they don't deliver one non working test, but maybe 2 or 3 instead?

My personal conclusion is that the "modern hacker" trust centralization and likes social control - whether it comes from government organizations, or private companies like google or facebook. Based on comments, working there would be a dream from most people here - and not just for the money. People seem to find some kind of prestige in that, for... reasons?

There's a generational disconnect I think. I stopped trying to understand. When I see a movement pushing away Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman, I think it's time to stop associating with this movement, let these people make their own mistakes and hopefully learn from their failures.
It's worth considering that in the US any lesson plans or teaching methods that are perceived as being "government-backed" are dead in the water, as they must be commie anti-christian plots to undermine American values of self-sufficiency and independence. This is one of the problems that Common Core is now encountering: it's being spun as a government program. It is in fact something a bunch of states put together for themselves.

Lesson plans from big companies like Pearson, on the other hand, are good because they come from businesses. However, there's a conflict of interest because many of the same companies write the exams. Worst of all, none of these companies actually develop teachers' abilities to teach. That's not really the fault of the companies; we just don't do that here in the US.

Teacher development is almost nil for a lot of K-12 teachers in the US, compared to Japan or Finland. The average US teacher is in the classroom 1080 hours a year and it's something like 600 in Japan and Finland. That 480-hr-per-year difference is spent on development and prep.

And yet there are a lot of really excited and entrepreneurial teachers and they're making and sharing all sorts of material. See TeachersPayTeachers, for instance.
The current scaffolding, let’s not beat each other and point our frustration at the right targets
The answer should always be, use what you know unless you have a need which forces your decision to another platform.

If you don't know any, I'd say pick AWS since it is the giant, generally pretty easy to follow and you can find lots of tutorials saving you time. I'd say DO would be the other to consider as it is very similar and I love their documentation & tutorials most of the time. I'd not consider GCS or Azure generally (mainly over documentation and weirdness I have experienced) but neither are bad, and obviously many people are super successful with both. With AWS, use postgres on RDS and Redis from ElastiCache for now, it will save you time.

Just my 2 cents: While I see tons of value in automated deployments, testing and things like Terraform/Ansible etc, I'm always concerned when I see people start building out deployment solutions before they have focused on getting users and a basic system just running to sign those users up. It generally is a sign to me the focus is in the wrong area at such an early stage. There are always exceptions, but spending time anywhere other than getting a basic system running and finding users is usually wasted early on, especially when the complexity of the solution is/should be low. This changes as the number of users grow, reliability becomes critical etc. Where I'd say the time is well spent on deployment (before you have users) is in two cases: You already are very well versed in it, are a solo show and it will take you less than a couple of hours to setup and test. Second case would be where your product is required to meet a high reliability metric from day 1 so you need to have it distributed from the start (not just a load balancer and a couple of boxes but fully distributed). In those two cases it makes a ton of sense to do it before you get users. There are probably other times I could see it justified too but they would be the exceptions not the rule.

What I have seen quite often (and more so in the last year or 2) as I have talked with people is they spend 2-3 days (sometimes a week or more) setting up deployment and testing solutions and paying for CircleCI or similar solutions to deploy an app that has 0 users and should live on 1 box + a hosted database at first. Generally a waste of time and money IMO.
I would bet fairly good money that this originally came about as part of a government transparency effort - allowing the public to provide a check and balance against the DMV's power, with a monetary cost to cover processing expenses (theoretically saving tax money). They even show this occurring in the movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" from 2000.

That it's been co-opted for marketing isn't really surprising; most of your public records are consumed by private companies to use to make money off you. One big example is how legal proceedings show up on your credit report.

EDIT: Your driving record is indeed a public record[1]. So, easy bet.

[1] https://www.dmv.org/public-records/
The kernel has gotten bloated. Back in the day, it could easily run in 8 megabytes of RAM, with plenty left over for the userspace and cache. Nowadays, just the kernel code (before loading any modules) is already bigger than that.
I mean... with the exception of advertising, you just described tinder.
Of course innate capacity has something to do with how much or how well any individual student can learn. But there is a world of difference between a well-run school and a poorly-run school. In the simplest comparison, a well-run school is a relatively safe place, and a poorly-run school is an extremely unsafe place.

If you take students from some of the more well-run schools and place them into poorly-run schools, most of them will learn very little. If you take students from some of the more poorly-run schools and place them into well-run schools, many of them will learn quite a lot.
thanks. no particular interest myself apart from HK is a stopover on my flight next week.. I did not know you could flag something for being boring, I assumed it was only abusive or derogatory comments.
There is a whole essay by him about this class of ideas, "Things you can't say."

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
They are unrelated; countries need a social safety net regardless of what the minimum wage is.

You might even argue that the higher you make min wage, the more important social services are, because you have taken away the ability of low-skilled workers to support themselves.
Use a burner card from privacy .com, which lets you put any zip code you want. Then pick your favorite California zip code (that isn't 90210 because that gets flagged) and away you go!
imagine someone live streaming an instance of police brutality for example)

What's the case for the "live" part, though? If you imagined everyone at a Ferguson protest live streaming their experience it would be utterly overwhelming. Much better instead for people to edit the sections that are actually interesting and post them to YouTube/LiveLeak/whatever. I don't see how livestreaming adds much.
This is a blog post by technomancy, the original author of Leiningen, exploring Racket as a new language:

http://technomancy.us/175

EDIT: Wrong link. This one might be interesting as well so I've left it here:

http://technomancy.us/169
Plot twist: nobody has a clue of what they're doing either.
That's fair - I'm convinced.
Holistic hole-filling is pretty much my secret sauce. I endorse this tactic.
Sure, even approximately pure capitalism has been dead in the West for more than 50 years (closer, I think, to 80) because capitalism was because of many of the problems it caused for the vast majority of society that were identified by the critics who named the system in the 19th century (though the replacement wasn't generally what those critics advocated though it incorporated some elements of it to form the modern mixed economy).

But, while that has in some cases mitigated or showed the growth rate of the problems that caused poor capitalism to be rejected, it hasn't chef them, and those same problems are often the things that provoke criticism of the current system.

I don't think that the problems that were mitigated by a retreat from pure capitalism will be further mitigated by a return to it.
See my reply above. You've changed from multiple false claims of influence, so ginned up to a high degree of influence that you concluded with a fulsome "Thank you Dart for showing us the way!", to "any influence at all", and "don't hassle me about differences of degree of influence!"

So, really sloppy original comment with multiple false claims. Should I just put up with that as part of HN's descent to /. quality? :-(

/be