jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Not really. Mistakes happen to every company. Handling the tiny number of deals like this that go wrong well makes you look like a great company.

Implying that they are "locking out others," as if somehow they've damaged one of their potential customers by not featuring them, is a stretch.
I don't know the accuracy of this but a documentary I watched last night about Google claims that 95% of their revenue comes from AdWords.
If I was in China, I wouldn't say it. In North America, I'm safe in assuming they're at least celebrating New Years, because they're probably getting the day off.
If that's a fail, I hope more companies take note.
http://brianbreslin.com/10-predictions-for-2010/
Well that's actually really good to hear. I have a lot of faith that Gearbox can bring the desired level of polish. With the ex-3DR employees on-board this game will probably be pretty faithful to what they had originally wanted to release. Good news!
>the fact that these methods have improved dramatically.

That article shows that bubbles are not exclusive to markets, they happen in academia, even in areas where empirical data should be easier to collect than in psychology and social science.

This test is backed up by correlations to other diagnoses made during a bubble. "Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher." It's a feedback loop, and science might move along faster if there was increased skepticism during bubbles.

Bubbles have a higher ratio of waste, 90% of the science might be waste, and 10% will stand the test of time. That 10% may have helped you, but the 90%, the sharp increase in prescription will ruin many lives.
> downvoting w/o a comment seems rude

Happens ALL the time. I generally prefer to leave comments rather than downvote too. But most people don't like to write anything. If explanatory comments were supposed to be used, there wouldn't even be downvotes at all.

PS I did not downvote him even though I left a negative comment.
Awesome! Another South African on HN. Not in the US but I think our guys have gotten a lot of things right (Cape Town software house):

1) The view - I'll be impressed if anyone can better this - the flat side of Table Mountain on the one side, the sea on the other, at night the lights of Long Street stretch out in front of us, and a good view of the stadium if that's your thing. I think that's just luck of the draw though, the company moved here before the CTN foreshore became fashionable.

2) There is no such thing as too many whiteboards, although glass walls with writing on them is also pretty awesome.

3) Great canteen with space to prepare food if you aren't into buying, but on a related note...

4) Close to decent food places, including one favourite that sells sandwich ingredients for a good price

5) A decent number of meeting rooms with whiteboards (the more I work the less I want to use projectors.. but we do have those too)

6) Unlikely that anyone else here would think of this, but you'll know why I bring this up: safety at night... again, luck of the draw but there's a CIDC station positioned half-way between us and the car park, and often a fair number of people around after dark. For me being able to work late (as opposed to early) is A Big Deal.

7) Not my thing but other people like proximity to gym - some cycle to work and shower before coming into the office, others hop in the pool during lunch.

8) There's a TV per floor with one or the other DSTV lite package, basically sports + discovery + Music channels (Mythbusters is most popular lunchtime viewing). The console of some sort that gets close to zero attention

9) (Soft) drinks fridge that is rapidly shortening my lifespan + fruit juice that runs out very quickly

10) A cleaner who brings real character to the office, as well as clean dishes

11) EDIT: forgot, we do have what looks like a decent coffee machine (does foam and stuff) but I'm not a good judge as I'm the only HN reader who doesn't drink the stuff. It is in constant use though.

12) EDIT: forgot some more... WATER COOLER FTW... I like that it is the kind that filters tap water and not the kind that takes those huge bottles of environmentally unsustainable mineral water.

Disclaimer... we're not a huge company but definitely not startup anymore, +-50 in our CTN office.
By that logic google paying their employees via electronic methods exposes them to identity fraud. Given that employees were given a choice, they took the risk upon themselves.

This is just PR coverage for firing an employee because they embarrassed Google. I mean seriously, who sends actual 'confidential' information to all employees. Furthermore, courts have ruled that pay information is not confidential and to restrict employees from talking about their pay violates their rights to free speech.

If Google were actually concerned about employees getting mugged they would not offer a cash payment. I mean how hard would it be for google to arrange an electronic transfer to take place on the day of the announcement.
It depends on what you mean by going out. There isn't a lot of stuff, and sparse offerings of typical "nightlife" type destinations (clubbing, live music), but there are a decent number of bars if you're into sitting around drinking beer and chatting. Rose & Crown has a good craft-beer selection.

Also, a bunch of random stuff happens at Stanford now and then, if you're into things like http://slork.stanford.edu/
That's probably because they use their extra revenue to bribe the people whose job it is to take them to task for their deception, rather than investing that money in infrastructure upgrades.
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science is 95% or so relevant for men as well.

Also, if there really was a shortage you'd see salary inflation, which certainly hasn't been the case in "CS" and I gather not in the other STEM fields, outside of the occasional hot area for a brief time.
i thought this was in response to Wolfram Alpha.
Like Joel said, pricing sends a signal
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/11/18.html
Britain?
I would like to see what the % of projects that are not outsourced fail for comparison. My guess is that bad projects with bad management contribute to both, more-so than outsourcing.
We just completed a large outsourced project that would have taken not just 4x the money by twice the time if we had tried to do it in-house. And at the end of the project, the labor overhead for in-house is low and sustainable.
There seemed to be some kind of media backlash against this phone in the US but they're selling it unbranded on Vodafone in Europe and the HTC Desire appears to be fundamentally the same phone (sold with the Sense UI, but again without carrier branding). I can't see how the phone hardware, as opposed to the attempt to change the sales channels in the US, can be considered any kind of white elephant.
>* A much larger pool of available developers

I've never hired anyone, so I wouldn't know. Is the pool of MS devs really that much bigger than, say, your PHP users?
Do they get repeat business? Also, are American engineers that use their work being pressured to frame the collaboration as a success? When a VP's bonus depends on his ability to show cost savings through offshoring, you can bet the managers under him will find some way to patch up the code stateside and declare the project a success. The official proclamations of success create good word-of-mouth for the contract company, so they get more business. I've seen this happen firsthand, not with offshoring to India, but with developers being forced to work with an American consulting firm that their executive happened to trust more than his own staff.
Why should I have to opt out of metric gathering in a freaking text editor??
You can easily choose your broadband provider, yes. The problem lies in the fact that all of the large ISPs in the UK have now implemented the blocks. Thi leaves only very small (and usually very expensive ISPs) as the only ones not to have some type of filtering.
The democratic government aren't preventing you from getting your fill of porn; they're telling ISPs that it might be best if you just have to log on to your ISP config page and uncheck a box and ISPs are (not surprisingly as it will save them bandwidth I imagine) agreeing.
Your founders. You pay nothing to acquire your stock, you probably avoid AMT brain damage because you avoid a cost to acquire your stock, you have little restrictions on how you sell your stock compared to employees and as founders your stock portion will be bigger than the entire employee stock option pool for the life of the company.

Of course they are not going to be as motivated as you are. And as a founder of a failed company, you too can go work at Goofacesoft too afterwards.

It's also your baby, your the one who can be emotionally invested in the company %100 because other than investor hostile takeover or founder politics, your not going to stop being the one who has ultimate ownership of the company. Employees learn after a few jobs that being emotionally invested into a company %100 is not good, because you don't have ultimate responsibility and ownership of it and it easily can be taken away from you.
that's funny 'cause i would actually play the lotto (esp. those scratch off games) if buying a ticket was as easy as clicking a button, or sending an email. A daily email with the results of the lotto would be great too.
Not able to play it online
Here's a google cache of their homepage before, for quick comparison to what's up now, for anyone like me who didn't have their old prices memorized:

New prices: http://www.linode.com
Old prices:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kVmwiN5...
I switched from Webfaction to Linode about six months ago, because the WF server I was on kept experiencing hard drive failures leading to an unacceptable amount of downtime. Once is tolerable, but they should have replaced the drive then. They didn't, and two months later it failed again. Again they tried to repair the filesystem. It failed two days later again. When I challenged them on this, they admitted they knew the drive was bad, and that it had no redundancy (seriously?!!!), but blamed the guys managing the hardware (which is evidently NOT Webfaction). Not to mention a ridiculously slow control panel at random times.

Linode has been a dream-come-true. I pay only a few bucks more a month than I did for my Tier-4 plan at Webfaction. Plus, I'm back to managing my own server and no longer have to deal with all the Apache port-forwarding weirdness, local profile software installs, etc.

I've used other VPS hosting companies in the past, but Linode blows them all out of the water. Their VPS infrastructure is very well engineered, and fast. Nobody can touch their price/performance ratio. EDIT: BTW - I am excluding OpenVZ-based VPS's which come with a number of issues that I don't care to deal with.
Time to move my last few servers from Slicehost to Linode.
Will try my best to be there.
It's true that price isn't everything, and to some degree, web hosting is a funny market: it's really easy/visible to compete on price/features, but you only notice the service when things go awry (at least for someone like me who doesn't particularly need hand holding), and then you really want to be dealing with people who know their stuff and take their jobs seriously.

That said, I've never got the impression Linode was giving me anything less in terms of service than similar outfits.
If you can't remember the four symbols for Cmd/Opt/Ctrl/Shift then you have a bigger problem.

The squirrelly ones like Home and Escape I can understand.
This may be the final kick in the pants to switch over from Slicehost.
I would expect this is similar to the tesla issue of building a common carcass (skateboard) to build different types of cars on top of.
on the other hand: producers of physical products very often don't get to know what there customers are doing with it.

just saying
I actually use the touchpad for scrolling even when I’m using a mouse. It’s a much better interface for that purpose.
That doesn't sound right. $50,000 * 10^-8 is $0.0005, or 0.05 cents.
My computers and network are powered by uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) which I highly recommend for every important system. I have a generator in case of extended outage, which I also highly recommend to everyone who is able to have one at home, regardless of whether you own a computer.

I personally have fiber, cable, and LTE feeding my home gateway. This might seem like overkill to non-tech folks, but I recommend it to anyone whose productivity/career is highly reliant on being online.

I realize this isn’t necessarily a typical home setup, but I also think most people are horribly unprepared for many potential situations.

This isn’t a claim that I have zero downtime at home. It’s only to say that if my Bitcoin node is offline then any hope of relying on fiat banking was abandoned much earlier.
I felt that way until I got my hands on a Surface Book. They did a good job on that one, still holding up after 4+ years of constant use.
The pages used for this actually are test pages they developed with the W3C, which is almost making them part of the spec.
^^THIS is the reason why I normally refrain from contributing to any post regarding health, politics, religion, or popular culture.

But OP asked for help and I figured that responding to a plea for help from another hn'er takes precedence over personal policy.

OP needs help. I'm contributing. Unlike many of the other responders, I'm not giving advice because I am not a health care professional. So I referred OP to the best resource that I know.

I figured that it was only a matter of time before some poser would play the "quack" card.

Tell me, richardw, how familiar are you with Dr. Fuhrman's work? Have you read any of his books or peer reviewed scientific papers? Have you gone to any of his talks? Have you met any of the hundreds of other health care professionals that have followed his work and accepted his mentorship? Have you ever seen him personally or referred friends or relatives? Have you met any of the thousands of people he has helped?

If so, please share your experience with us and OP. Otherwise, just step aside and allow OP to the receive the feedback he seeks. You're not helping.
Gmail team already said that they are aware of the problem and they are working on it, way before his blog post. Some problems are not easy fix and no amount of blog posts by internet celebrities will speed up a solution significantly.
Or in other words, yet another example of:

"How to get meaningful support from Google"

- be an internet personality in a community with enough clout to make noise

- write blog post

- wait

- profit?? :)

Seriously, though, glad it was all worked out (and, more to the point, we now have a teeny tiny indication as to where this issue stems from - for other users with problems)
Putting on a wolf costume does not make me a wolf.
Most definitely. It would be interesting to see how this compares to using parrot as your platform. The two approaches differ completely in ideology, and I wonder what would be easier to develop on.
You need $2000 per month? You must add at least that much extra value into the world to get it. The reason people who responded to the original post suggested consulting is because consulting is value creation that is very well defined by the person requesting it.
If you want to create value in software, in either desktop, iphone OS, or web apps, you have to look where there is pain in some market, and see if the pain is worth $2000 to solve. It's not a question of platform, but a question of market and value.
Way to many massive competing companies involved in this for it to succeed. Bigger isn't always better....
I'm sure that the startup legal process was a lot less popularly understood than it is now. And even today people ask a lot of questions about legal foundations for startups.

But I think you can't abstract away the particulars. I'm sure it didn't occur to the Steves to spend money to protect their assets, because they didn't have any. Assets or money, that is. And this fellow Ron could have done so, but perhaps it didn't occur to him because he was too busy burying gold nuggets in his backyard and cleaning his weapons collection.

The early history of Apple is such a fun story. I now have this awesome vision of the Apple cofounders as the bowling team from The Big Lebowski.
Not sure if more lines are per definition more complex. Often they are, but check many Ruby (and Rails) gems and apps; they hide a lot at the expense of easy comprehension. That's why it is often referred to by inexperienced programmers as 'magic'; stuff in Rails works nicely if it works. If it doesn't work, you get to wade through miserable stacks of meta programming (with the worst debugger ever made). Give me C or Haskell (yes I know, big difference; I'm just skilled at both) any day, complexity wise. It's more about the programmer than the language of course, but the Ruby community generally seems to suffer from making stuff non transparant.
You have to distinguish.

Reporting the untruth to the general password is common and IMO acceptable. But the school's troubleshooter should have had deeper insight.

Presenting as few details to authenticated support personnel as to unauthenticated would-be users is inappropriate.
He invented the word "Jailbreak" and got kicked out of Rochester Institute of Technology for rewriting his student ID card with SQL injection to get into any room and get free food/drink from vending machines.

He's a legend.
Finland is unable to complete their new reactor. It's not feasible to build new ones at all - too expensive and even if started right away their completion takes 10+ years and is not the solution to the massive climate issues we face today.

Building new reactors in the 90s? I would have agreed with this but it's too late now from multiple perspectives.
I'm using my main google account on GCP and just yesterday started to take precautions about this.

I created a new google account with no relation to my main one and added it as an owner to my GCP project, so hopefully in the event of either account being banned I can still access everything.
i fixed the dns
Fastmail works like this out of the box if you can stand a web interface.
It is common for lisp folks to chime in at this point to iterate the value of s-expressions. While this is one such, but I actually have an evolution story about this which I shared in a talk here - http://sriku.org/posts/inevitable-lisp/
Yeah, I find it hilarious that my biggest culture shock with Europe is how unionized industries can strike and actually cause a noticeable inconvenience.

I'm always like "WHAT!? How is this possible? Why didn't the bus/train/airline just declare bankruptcy, ending the jobs of 20,000 people at once, and do an IPO without unionized workers a year later!?"

and then I have to laugh it off because thats just so American of me. our unions just have people walking in a circle for up to a few months, in one city against a multinational corporation, and barely anything occurs except some inspiration for your new moon drum circle.
Previous Chinese leaders were respected in public, but Xi is a God-like figure. It's not just the media, a lot of normal Chinese people are very passionate about President Xi, whilst under President Hu they were simply indifferent.
I prefer HTML over XHTML, because it is easier to write. I don't get the reasoning behind closing tags. LIs close before the next LI, or the UL. <BR> saves two characters over <BR /> and causes no harm. XHTML feels like trying too hard to make the machine overlord happy.

It is plain wrong to make a standard easier for machine-parsing at the expense of humans who are typing it in.

EDIT: Another example. I write some HTML in a text-editor/textarea and send it across to someone. If I missed a </LI>, should the parser reject it? If not, the standard should be accommodating enough so that this is valid.
I'd recommend shooting for freelancing income which doesn't just match your burn rate but comfortable exceeds your day job salary (as a start -- it should go up quite a bit from there), as otherwise you're doomed to a hand-to-mouth existence. 3 weeks without a paycheck isn't exceptional in freelancing, at all. If you want to do it full time, get used to that happening a lot. The risk of it has to be built into your weekly rates.

Also, your projection that you will have 1.8X your monthly expenses in March is a projection -- in the real world of freelancing, you're going to have things like "client flaked on the project; two weeks which I had assumed sold are now empty", "client refuses to pay $10,000 invoice", "I had to pay $3,000 out of my pocket for professional liability insurance to secure the next gig", etc etc. And if you think that level of cash flow juggling is fun, wait until you have employees!

You should, as soon as reasonably practical, stop sourcing gigs from oDesk/elance/etc and start sourcing them from clients who pay professional wages for professional work.
This is the key to the whole post in my eyes. At first you get one gig, then can't get any gigs, and then get flooded with work after making one change. It seems that the change might have been a significant event.

Based on the dates given, the calendar might also be somewhat responsible. The first couple weeks of the year are not very active in the hiring market.
$2,134,374 pledged of $500,000 goal

Hmm, so it's just a rip-off?
First, they are not the same and/or connected. Correlation, not cause.

More importantly, I clearly explained that conspiracy is not at all necessary for like-minded like-goaled entities to act in concert. You're unfortunately parroting conventional wisdom about such things, and that's a weak argument. It heavy handed and a false assumption.

Yes, there's actual science behind such phenomenon.

murmurations - https://animals.howstuffworks.com/birds/starling-murmuration...
I'm not close to being a father, but I can provide the experience of having learned not that long ago

At first my dad put me a bit on CodeAcademy [0] which taught me tons of basics but didn't really get me hooked.

What really got me into coding was by thinking of a way I could use it to build something related to my interests or that would be useful for me.

That seems to be what you're doing with the games by linking it to something he's interested in so that's nice.

It can really be anything though, and you should try to show him the enormous area of things he can do with coding.

In my case I wanted to do my english homework faster, so I tried building a very simplistic program that could find literary devices (metaphors, similes, alliteration) etc... in the literature texts I had to study.

Also you should make sure you don't force it and that the passion and interest comes from him, which seems to be the case with the way he asked for books about coding.

[0]: https://www.codecademy.com/
I personally think Trump is dumb, indecent, and a liar - but it's not fair to suggest he's responsible for killing half a million Americans. The US seems to have had a somewhat typical response and outcome to the virus with fewer per capita deaths than Germany, France, UK, Spain, and others[1]. Surely all these countries weren't also run by regimes trying to kill their population.

Trump's opponents didn't seem to be suggesting noticeably better strategies to deal with the virus and Democrat led states don't seem to be handling the virus much better than Republican led states [2].

1 - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

2 - https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
The most recognizables ones are, but I'd wager most anime has no such ambitions.