jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, as a non-YC company, I found the GCP onboarding process to be far superior in every way, and my experiences were essentially reversed. For context, we started with GCP for Startups 1.5 years ago when we were just getting beyond a demo, and with AWS Activate 1 year ago, when we had almost no revenue and just about 1,000 users. We were based in the Santa Fe Business Incubator (NM, USA).

All in all, it had taken our incubator at least 1.5 years to get enrolled in AWS Activate, and 4 days in GCP for Startups.

When we applied for GCP for Startups, we were approved in a week, and were contacted right away by an account manager and a support engineer who offered us help with anything we needed. When we applied for Activate, it took a month with lots of followups, and being shuffled between 4 support team members who were communicating with the Activate team (there was no way to contact them directly).

It definitely felt like our business was important for GCP, and for AWS, it wasn't. It was an easy choice.
Sadly Apple Maps’ POIs are still way behind Google Maps. I can usually treat Google Maps POIs as the ground truth now, after asking locals turned out to be wildly less accurate several times. I even had multiple Taxi drivers taking their own way instead of following gmaps and it was a total failure.
The page you linked contradicts you:

> the terms of the GPL apply to the entire combination. The software modules that link with the library may be under various GPL compatible licenses, but the work as a whole must be licensed under the GPL.

The application is a ‘software module’ licensed under the MIT license (a ‘GPL compatible license’). When you link that application against the GPL'd library, the resultant ‘work as a whole’ must be provided under the terms of the GPL.

(Since the MIT license allows relicensing, and the GPL does not contradict any of the terms of the MIT license, this is legal. If the MIT license did not allow relicensing, or if it contradicted some term of the GPL, the OP's application would still be legally licensed under the MIT license. It would just be illegal to link it against its GPL'd dependency.)
Shopify resellers (affiliates), not merchants.
Can you elaborate on that? Why do additional owners make it easier to sell? If anything I'd expect the opposite.

Re double digits, if that means eg 10%, I would expect a good firm could likely provide at least that much value. Maybe I'm overestimating their capabilities.
Does mailgun have a trusted IP from where I can send emails? Sendgrid is about the same: you get a free slot for 100 mails/day but the IP is blacklisted by spamhaus so it has no use to me :/

If mailgun has the same issue, it might not be worth it. Anybody has an experience with Mailgun's free tier?

I'd be happy to pay on the order of $1 or $2 per month for my usage and be sure to send emails without issues.
Yeah, it's purposefully wasting energy. Facebook is only incidentally wasting energy as a side effect.
A number of years ago I ditched mice for a Logitech Tracman and it made a lot of difference in how my wrists felt each night.
There's always Ruby - best bits of Perl, Lisp and Smalltalk whilst retaining UNIX heritage.
Taiwan not particularly rich (28th highest GDP per capita, pop. 23 million) reported 936 cases and 9 deaths.
What are these "exploit forums" where the trade happens? Are they behind the Tor network like the Silkroad or are these in the open but with exclusive access that only few have actually an access? Any insights on the workings of this business?
Didn't Elon create the Boring Company to ride in a subway - albeit one where there is only one car and it's his car?
A couple of observations regarding select(): its use is not limited to sockets; and, quoting Wikipedia, "with the c10k problem, both select and poll have been superseded by the likes of kqueue, epoll, /dev/poll and I/O completion ports."
One parent can watch multiple kids and give the other a break.
You can buy FFP3 masks for 5-10 quid each (depends on exact model) in UK from specialized PPE stores, like:

https://www.protectivemasksdirect.co.uk/

This is a legit store with legit masks, it existed before the pandemic.

In general, if someone is looking for FFP2/FFP3/N95 masks, search for personal protection equipment stores in your country, not Amazon/eBay/...
> Integration with specific partners and vendors makes RSS accessible.

wat
I tried it in a restaurant once with a conversation with the word “hottub” about 30 times. Two of the three of us at the table got hottub ads on google minutes later. I’m looking forward to the documentary in 20 something years about the things these companies are doing.
Graphically representing all times wastes space, making the rules easier to understand for those who can read them, but decreasing legibility.

This is a tradeoff, not an all-around win.
So far, everything looks like https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2385/1895583251_f102d4324d.jpg

But I hope they saved the best for the end.
I'm using react quite a lot, but with my own API / storage solutions. So far I'm not really familiar with flux, and also with this, just quickly looking at it, I don't understand if/why I would need it. I can't really wrap my head around what exactly all this allows me to do and can't bring up the effort to read all the docs. I think I'll read more about flux first at some point, and if I'll ever want to use that, come back and check Marty :) Happy to see active react development though
>but the company is under staggering technical debt. Unfortunately the leadership team comes from a predominantly sales background and don't seem to understand how large a problem technical debt can be.

This is every programming job ever.
remembered → reminded.

Are you French?
Being better than the competition isn't the same as having no competition, and it's especially not the same as engaging in anti-competitive practices to prevent competition from existing. The purpose of consumer protection and antitrust laws is to ensure that market leaders hold their position by virtue of having the superior product and not by some other nefarious means. I don't think most people would dispute that Google Search is better than Bing. But is it really so much better that Bing doesn't even count as being in the same market?
Imagination. Problem solving. Ability/desire to learn. Non-dogmatic. Excellent communication skills. Exposed to and experience in a range of domains (this could be through hobbies, not necessarily work). Thrives --rather than crumbles-- when things don't go well. Not afraid to admit not knowing something. Not afraid to ask for help (in some ways that's about not being egotistical). Good sense of humor.

I could go on.

Notice I didn't mention any specifics (i.e., knows compiler xyz, can use 3D CAD tool abc, etc.). None of that matters. Virtually none of the tools and technologies I use today existed when I was getting started. A simple example of this are FPGA's.

What matters to me isn't what list of "tools and features" a person brings to the table but rather who they are and how they got there. Someone who has the right drive and approach can learn anything, and thrive. That, to me, is what makes a strong engineer.

A couple of decades ago I hired an engineer out of Intel. I though I was going to learn a bunch from him. Quite to the contrary. The guy had spent so many years living in a professional silo that he did not do well in an environment where you have to do more than one thing. At Intel all he did was design power supplies. He didn't even deal with suppliers and order parts, he had groups of people who did that for him. He also didn't do much in the way of PCB layout and did no embedded software at all. It was a very rough start with us. He required a tremendous amount of coaching. In the end what made him keep the job was a strong work ethic and the desire and willingness to learn.
Thanks, it's good to know I'm following a path that others have been down before. I've gone back and forth about the age thing. On the one hand, I tell myself, van Gogh starting painting at 27! On the other hand, I am not the van Gogh of developers. I guess I worry that, if it takes ten years to achieve some kind of mastery, I'll be pretty frustrated for ten years.

But you're right, it wouldn't hurt to take some interviews. I've been a little too obsessed with employment listings the last few months. It may be that my view of what is necessary to get a job is a little skewed by looking at the 37signals jobs board. When I have to scroll in order to see the whole list of technologies I'm supposed to be familiar with, it's a bit intimidating.
It's Awk, not AWK.

So 'ruby -n' acts like Awk? Neat.
Wow, this looks great! I love the concept, as well as the design/UI/layout. I didn't login, but I can tell that you put lots of thought into every inch of the user interface. The entire site is pleasant to use and easy to navigate. Best of luck with this!
Title is link-bait-ish, but article has some good points.

A more appropriate title might have been, "Is doing what you love what you should actually be doing?"

What I got from this article was that you have to evaluate several things about your passion before you decide to dedicate your life to it full-time, especially if you are going to try to make a living from it.
Details are important, even if they're as minor as this one.
Primitive network calculator I once wrote in awk:

https://gist.github.com/7bb70e1065f085b46a00
We did and we discussed it with the Lean Startup Circle here and got some awesome feedback.
http://groups.google.com/group/lean-startup-circle/browse_th...

Based on the feedback 0ur position was, "hey let the startup decided." If we can get the AARRR events into a graph then the startup can toggle the metrics they are targeting based on the space they are in or their maturity level. See post below.

http://market-by-numbers.com/2011/02/aarrr-is-from-the-pirat...

That is our logic but I would love to know if that makes sense to you? Is that how you would use it or would you prefer to customize the metrics? Capture different types events? Maybe specific events for one experiment (We ask that question in the Lean Startup Circle post)?
Let me disagree. Within certain demographics, high tech loving makers, you can sometimes get away with using WebGL: http://tinkercad.com

Our stats indicate the IE is much less of a problem than expected.
I'm in the middle of it and reading it slowly. It hasn't quite lived up to the hype, but I have deeply enjoyed it. I think it's wonderfully quirky and while yes, it's probably too long, I think that's ok, because it's not a blog post and I am happy to make room for something massive and rambly on my bookshelf.
One additional note that I should have mentioned (indeed, emphasized): I also spent a couple of months tweaking and tinkering with the ergonomic layout of my desk - chiefly the position of my keyboard, mouse and monitors - until I found an ideal arrangement that nudges me to maintain good posture and leaves my shoulders and wrists pain-free.
Not really. Google's autocorrect regularly 'corrects' my search term to something else. Or Google suggests a similar search, where by "similar" they mean "the same search but with the most important term missing".

Sometimes Google instant stops working and I can't search anymore. I have to reload the page before I can enter new search terms.

Google used to be so simple, predictable, and it always worked. Now it is a complex, intransparent mess.

Google Search is becoming more and more like Altavista and Yahoo were like when Google started.
> On my POWER9 Talos workstation, typical ./configure runs take longer than the builds themselves. This is because fork+exec is still a slow path on POWER. It is similar on ARM, MIPS, and many other RISC architectures.

Anyone know how this (the RISC-related slowness) can be true? Larger register file? Even that seems unlikely...
This is certainly the case for businesses with proprietary data, for an open-source community like we're discussing it's just another (admittedly rather useless) online backup service :)
Certainly you can only add luminance, but consider that the goggles themselves are tinted, and the brightness of a display an inch from your eye will likely be far higher than the light bouncing off the wall. So while you can't "render" black, you should be able to simulate the darker part of the spectrum using negative space. That's not ideal, of course, but it's something.
Stock. Inertia. Loyalty to co-workers. The usual.
What do you mean they've done a poor job communicating it? It sounds like you have it down perfectly. You get the upgrade for free within one year of release, just like you could get Windows 8 for a reduced price for a limited time. But it's not free for a year then pay for it, it's free, full stop, if you upgrade within a year. And after that year, you're not going to get charged for updates. Yes, it's different from how they did it before, because this time it's free. In the past, it was "buy it for $200, then free updates". This time it's free, with free updates.

Plus, the press event was like an hour ago, with the release date several months from now. No one is rushing out to buy it at the stores right now. There's time for you to be less confused.
Not minimalism. Information density. Visibility.

Representing time with colored spaces decreases information density. Green & red blocks aren't enough -- the primary data, the numbers, are still required labels, and are made smaller to accommodate the new elements.

Shrinking the primary data decreases visibility, so you, with decent eyesight, need to be closer. My grandmother will have an even harder time resolving it.

Visibility hasn't been addressed, but deserves to be in any conversation about signage.
And if you want to write neat Python templates, I hacked together https://github.com/candu/xhpy a while back ;)
In short - Wrong. Your link claims exactly the opposite if you dig deeper.

The top stack exchange answer links to an article which states that fructose is in fact a chronic toxin in quantity, but that high fructose corn syrup is no worse than sugar or honey or maple syrup or many other common sweeteners. This is consistent with Lustig's claims. Read it for yourself. http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=6501

Lustig claims that consuming a glucose only sweetener, such as maltose or dextrose or glucose should be lead to better health and weight loss when compared to a fructose glucose mix, such as sugar or high fructose corn syrup.

Speaking from my personal experience, I lost 3 inches off my waist while exercising less over a period of 2 months after switching all fructose sources EXCEPT whole fresh fruit out for dextrose.
The idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated;

Except for at least a few issues:

1) Encoding quality. For CDs I ripped from the encoding quality is pretty high. I'd like the option to playback with my higher encoding quality.

2) Probably 1/5 of my music collection doesn't exist in iTunes.

3) I've never bought anything rom iTunes, so they'd have to determine what music I had locally. That seems like its fraught with peril.
Yes, have browsers improve the MailTo feature. For example FF has a list of passwords, why not an address book or build open access with the user's email provider? eg, a Gmail user clicking on it shows a list of contacts in email address book by Gmail.

As MailTo stands, it's pretty useless.
I think the social scene also counts.
YC should be doubly happy. Not only does YC get a nice exit, so does two of it's partners - PG & PB (both of which were the two angels I believe).

Talk about a major win.
What field? What kinds of things are you interested in?
> An urban scene is strengthened by people and culture.

Not so fast. Rome wasn't strengthened by the Visigoths.

More to your argument, while London is arguably unchanged by the addition of 1k or even 10k people, it is changed by the addition of 100M or even 10M. Maybe it's still good, but by a different definition.

Forward reference: adding 10M people to London will necessarily destroy many of the "iconic neighborhoods" you're so fond of below.

> Even in those places that are crying out to be more urban, like the vacant lots within or the slightly lower intensity suburbs

There's a huge difference between a vacant lot in Manhattan and the burbs, which aren't "slightly lower intensity".

> the cores of our thriving cities

Our thriving cities where?

> The iconic neighborhoods, vistas, differences the character of the built environments of different places mostly comes down to how much is left, of which eras, prior to the disastrous suburban mania we’re stuck with today.

There's a typo in the above that I can't error-correct.

That said, the suburbs didn't cause urban decay. As to the vistas, you're only counting urban vistas, and nothing that has happened in the suburbs has affected the NYC skyline.

I get that you want to live in an "iconic neighborhood", whatever that means, but the other residents of those neighborhoods get to vote too, and many of them have decided "the hell with that." More to the point, what happens in suburbs has nothing to do with how those neighborhoods have fared over time.
Devices can and will report AGPS positions to carriers, it's part of several 3GPP protocols. Other people in comments have mentioned location sharing with emergency services, but it's also used for network quality telemetry. It's implemented at the baseband firmware level and there's nothing you can do about it.
Perhaps it's the OS and software?

I'm running an AlphaServer DS25, and I can host the heck out of static sites. It even runs php sites like Wordpress decently. Then again, I'm running NetBSD.
I don't think it's just the features of Lisp, but rather how they interact.

One thing I realized about Doom (1993 video game) is that -- sure, it's got scary monsters and cool weapons, but what really makes the game awesome is how these elements interact with each other. For example, an Imp has just enough health to be taken down with one shotgun blast, so in the early stages of the game, getting anything stronger than the pistol will be a priority when you encounter a pack of Imps. And a Cacodemon is very dangerous, but it has a high chance to stun, so you can pretty safely kill it by stun-locking it with a rapid-fire weapon like the chaingun. The way the monsters behave, together with the terrain, allowed the developers to combine just a few elements to create a huge variety of combat situations that pretty much required the use of every single weapon, and a variety of skills and strategies from the player.

And, not only did this make Doom a more exciting game to play, it opened up an enormous possibility space for user-generated content that a dedicated fan base is still exploring nearly three decades later.

Lisp is like that. It's not just that it has a REPL, or macros, or homoiconicity, a fast compiler, incremental development, or that the evaluator is itself built into the runtime -- it's that it has all those things, they compose nicely, and they interact in such a way that it opens up a tremendously huge possibility space to even a single programmer that other languages do not. Could you countenance writing an expert system in Java? It's possible, but it would be tedious work.

And Lisp's dedicated fans are still exploring that space today, six decades later.
Is it faster though when it's running on a distributed system with 128 machines?
If you come back tomorrow, I can probably turn CloudFlare off. Although I understand not being enthusiastic enough about my novelty website to bother.
I lived out of airbnbs for a few years trying to figure out what I wanted to do rebooting my career. I stayed in this basically illegal hostel in Beverly Hills run by this Chilean lady who was amazing. There were two other developers who were there a lot and a russian sex psychologist. So us four were always there for like the half a year I was at the spot. There was a rotating cast of characters in the bunk rooms.

It was one of my fondest times. I didn't really keep up with those people but I could see a different reality where me, a 60 year old salsa dancing chilean ex boat captain, a russian phd sex psychologist, and a devops engineer who's not maintaining his psych meds that well continue that adventure at new locations and maybe it's the best thing anyone's ever seen.

I wish there was a way to keep that train rolling. The host lady moved her operation to somewhere else. She's been running hostels for years. I should give her a call. She's for sure keeping the dream alive.
There’s nothing there a tiling WM cannot do. I have only tried i3 so I can speak only about that. But I’d assume most others are similar.

1) Tiling WMs make Workspaces incredibly easy to access. Super + # is usually enough to get you to a specific workspace and you can easily have 10 of those. So if you are monitoring stuff constantly, it’s easy enough to tile them all in a workspace and gain almost immediate access and come right back to your primary workflow without disrupting much.

2) If you want constant visibility to a small section of a webpage, for example, you can trivially tile it and resize it to be extremely narrow/high on your current workspace, and scroll to ensure the party you want to be visible is visible.

And you can do all of this with a keyboard probably a lot faster than you can with a mouse.

And the tiling WM ensures you’re using up all the space in the screen without you doing anything (as you make the “background” window smaller, the “foreground” window grows).

3) Finally, you can always pop out 1 or more floating windows as well.
Using that quote means he has no understanding because Chee Soon Juan isn't what the OP portrays him to be, he isn't even what his own quote says he is.

It's completely factually wrong and there are few Singaporeans (even the ones in Chee's own party) who would give that quote (and the man who said it) any legitimacy whatsoever.
I wonder what the procedure is for subpoenaing a whole virtual cloud . . .

I wonder how many cloud services have given data to the NSA without knowing . . .

I wonder how many CEO's would even want to know what the NSA's been taking from them . . .
Perhaps more like links in the original Google PageRank?
> Tyranny does not happen overnight, and it's helped along by people like you who scoff and say "oh, it's not that bad really" until it's too late.

I'm pointing out a logical mistake in someone's reasoning and now I'm helping tyranny?

Don't you think you're taking this a tad too seriously?
Or. People are getting an active notification at the top of the page that you've got a deal for them, rather than it getting lost as "marketing gumpf" in the middle of their general inbox.

I'd really like to see some more stats on the conversion rates of these already engaged users that are going to the promotional tab and seeking out my content before I instruct them to jam me back into the muddled mix between that email from auntie Marjorie and their coffee delivery notification.
> I have realized that there is nothing great to be gained by using JS at server side compared to using say rails.

Web sockets, anything with many thousands of concurrent connections is better in node.js. They each have their strengths, which overlap very little.
Social networking sites are now a marketing medium. I did not view this link because the poster is simply trying to generate hype around his product.

There was a similar stunt on reddit involving advertising a pornography website. Someone posted that he had proof some site had sold his address to spammers when he signed up. Suddenly a porn site that no one has ever heard of had 1000+ votes.

Or the "This woman was fired from a bank because she was too attractive" Post where the article was simply a maxim style photo spread of the model
Only if you rely on payment directly from customer as your business model.