jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The emergence of an active secondary market in shares of start-ups yet to go public has allowed founders and early investors in firms such as Facebook and Twitter to bank fortunes without waiting for a traditional exit by IPO or acquisition. These secondary-market prices feed hype about what these firms might be worth, were they to list on the stockmarket. Not many shares are available; many punters are chasing them. And those punters tend to be outsiders, such as fund managers and private-equity firms, who may not understand the tech business as well as insiders do.

Wait a minute. There's an unregulated secondary market where pension fund managers and other non-tech people invest other people's money into stuff they don't understand?

Previously the argument was that only wealthy people will lose out on their risk money if this is a new bubble, but if large investors like pensions and the like are also feeding this bubble than maybe we do have a new equity bubble on the way - except this one is happening on unregulated markets and so perhaps even more dangerous.
I understand your point. And yes, the discussion that follows each pg repost adds some totally new perspectives/comment.

But then why only stop at pg articles? people should be encouraged to repost all the nice material from past. Since HN is active since years, there would be so much interesting stuff to repost.

I do not understand the approach that when a newbie submits something (useful nevertheless) without knowing its a repost, lot of people go on flagging and commenting its a repost. Why different treatment to pg articles?
Interestingly little information in this article besides the headline.
People like it, we are just lazy and so we do things like sit on the couch even though the rational self knows that exercise will make us happy.
He was granted bail, but was he actually released from prison?
I know that no companies ever, ever! had to shift their core tech and workflows away from MSN Messenger to Windows Live Communicator to Skype to Teams.
How long before all the moon landing hoax people start pointing at this and saying, "see, I told you so."?
90s and 00s Microsoft was successful in part because they were an incredibly stable platform to develop against.

10 year support goes a long way, and if you paid enough money you could email in your bugs and get custom hot fixes made for issues that annoyed you.

Even their /bad/ technologies had long term support. If you built on top of shiny new thing and Microsoft dropped it in the next release, it was still going to get patches, bug fixes, and the documentation for it wasn't going to vanish from the world as if it never existed.

Of course this was all before cloud services existed. Back then you'd pay for a product and you got software on a disk/CD and there was an expectation that it'd keep working.

One thing that gets overlooked so frequently, by all companies, is that ongoing costs are ongoing. Whenever I see a new fitness tracker kickstarter advertising amazing cloud services for free, my first thought is that the costs from cloud services will eventually exceed the tiny profit that comes from selling physical consumer hardware.

And a few years later another "It's been a great journey" message goes out as the company runs out of money.

Obviously Google won't run out of $, but costs do add up.

Doing the math on how to distribute funding to bundled cloud services is actually rather hard. You have to figure out for a given product / subscription, how much of that purchase price needs to be distributed to the various teams. That sort of attribution is not easy, and not properly allocating those funds to development resources can kill a product. e.g. someone buys a Chromebook, of course the OS team gets money, but the team making Google docs can argue they deserve a split, after all without them the Chromebooks would be somewhat useless. Analytics helps, but only to an extent.
does the math really work out?
You will also have to spend quite some money on fuel and should factor in the depreciation and maitenance costs of your car to make it comparable. And flights on popular routes in Europe are pretty cheap nowadays.
Yea, my primary bag is the original goruck gr1 and I love it. Literally 10's of thousands of miles of travel, rucking and work have been using nothing but it.
External dependencies are always a problem, free or paid.
Chrome was split off from WebKit, Android was acquired. They didn’t build either from scratch.

Compare their success to failure ratio to Apple, Amazon and Microsoft.
Google: We recommend that you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy.
Thanks for aggregating this. I'll be heading in the opposite direction, so that someone may be right if the majority turns out wrong. Just kidding.
Having just read that article, and also having just learned about Tor's funding - is there any independent/third party summary of this news?
I came here to make a similar digression but clearly am not the post to :) interestingly though this is one of the reasons for serifs on fonts! In stone carved writing serifs help remove corner stress and cracking.
The primary reason Microsoft ever attained and kept its business is backwards and broad compatibility.
From my job hunting experience, Java, JavaScript and AngularJS skills are in high demand. That won't change any time soon. So dabble in some small JavaScript projects and you won't have to worry about finding a job.
Had a phone from 2010ish. Recently switched to a Motorolla G smartphone with latest Android on it.

I am absolutely amazed how far Android has come. It feels so smooth and good. I thought about jumping to iPhone but my view of Android has changed drastically.

(My old phone was Galaxy Nexus and it was rife with randomly restarting during calls and sluggy OS).
That quote is so totally non-scientific. For movies to get basic physics so terribly wrong is very sloppy.
> Because the native search searches also inside the files.

Even if you disable that its much slower.

Windows search exists so Bing searches increase. Everything you search delivers results from bing, which opens in MS edge.
Sincere question: why would I want to use Podman over Docker?

What does being "daemonless" actually buy me in practice?
I recently ordered N95 masks from http://clinicalsuppliesusa.com/ (no affiliation)

I actually didn't know they were even available, after being told by officials to use cloth masks for 10+ months I stopped looking. I was surprised how easy and available they were.

EDIT: As others have pointed out their website is down. It was working as recently as 1 month ago. Sorry!
Miele. Every Miele I've found is superior, hands down, to its Dyson equivalent.
“carbon-taxation bloc”

This will be labeled imperialism with shades of white supremacy.
If we Mac users want to go through a bunch of files in a directory quickly, we usually press spacebar in Finder on the first file and use up/down arrow keys to navigate. Spotlight will open up each file in a read-only view and will handle basically anything - STLs can be viewed and rotated, CSVs will show in a spreadsheet format even if you don't have Excel or Numbers installed, MP3s will open in a mini player, C header files will appear with colored formatting. It's so handy.
It's actually 79 chars.

> the standard number of columns on a terminal

are inherited from punched cards.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/4651037/257493

But in 2021 I can resize my TTY Emulator, we have better fonts, and screen proportions have changed.

A column length of 80 is in the ancestral DNA of computers because it was the number that packed nicely onto a sheet of paper. That paper was that size because it fit nicely into a paper portfolio and filing cabinet. The portfolio was that size because it was a reasonably big-enough sheet to adjust the paper cutter to.

80 has nothing to do with humans reading code. It's all post-hoc justifications and fairy tales. The whole thing is a 200 year old legacy system bug.
You're not wrong, but this is a slippery slope to go down.

8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?"

[...]

like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
You got it fixed in no time at all! :)
I'm not an investor, I'm out of work, wish I had money to gamble at the moment, but something tells me the smarter move would be creating some sentiment algorithm that invests like $500 every time a positive/electric car article comes out in a competitor. Say Toyota releases new electric car, invest $500 immediately in Toyota, Nissan, do the same, etc...

Because when the tide turns all that money will go into whichever competitors are still standing and have the best e-car portfolios. Best to diversify.

If you could time it right, sure shortsell, but that's a HUGE risk, this one not so much...again I'm NOT a financial guru, my negative bank account could prove that, but it's just a hunch I have, a similar one I had in 2013 about bitcoin and kick myself daily for every day.
That's confirmation bias, you never hear from the people who try and fail. They go away to the gutter, a shitty sales job; silence.

I'm glad it worked out for you, but it's rarely ever "just worked out" for me. So, be happy, because you're very lucky!
What Instagram needs is a hand-stitched banner and frilly paper cut-out borders between photo metadata and photos, and also pastel buttons? Uh, ok.
You know, a lot of PG's points are correct, despite Java's success. Java was aimed low - it was pitched as a way to write good enterprise software without expert developers. It is bureaucratic - many times the only way to get the object you want is to submit the proper forms to the object's factory. Suits love Java because Java programs can be described with wall-covering UML diagrams.

The fact that all of these turned out to be reasons for Java's success rather than its failure doesn't undermine the validity of the criticisms.
Just a note, I'll say I love java.
Thank you for the information. I have read you check for duplicates with a program. I also double check with the ihackernews.com API before I submit.

Obviously this API is not fully trustworthy. Would you tell me how you do the checking?
Do you have a reference for that? Everything I've read (not really authoritative) indicated they were using the standard crypt interface, which does use DES, but is a lot closer to salted hash then encrypted. I can see the issue getting confused either way (people see DES, don't know what to think), but using crypt seems a lot more likely.
The coin has two sides. While corporations push (perhaps ignorantly) for Java, I've always been very resistant to Java. Probably ignorantly, due to elitist cultures like HN where anything mainstream is frowned upon. One could say that in the bookshops I visit, the "cover of Java" has been torn up and defaced before even being put on display. I'm ok with that though. I'm as elitist as the next guy.
And for a bit of a non-obvious one, Seznam in the Czech Republic.
Yep, a pretty good summation of everything I've ever read on the topic. =)

> And yes, they do mean that something came from nothing - or rather, if you study the topic, that something came from <X> where <X> is unknowable.

See, that's what I have an issue with. Just because we can't record something or didn't record something doesn't mean it doesn't/didn't exist. We just haven't found a way to measure it. So something happens some time ago called the big bang, changing the layout of the universe. This doesn't mean time or stuff didn't exist before that. It simply means things changed.

I know I'm stepping on toes and making light a topic people spend their lives pondering, but while concepts of time make for interesting theories, time isn't anything but a human concept that we've categorized. Thought games make time something you can fool with, but I've never read anything regarding showing time as anything that can be manipulated (granted, while I love reading this stuff, it's far outside my field).

The concept of string theory is, at the very least, something which can be measured at some point. Time, however, is something that cannot be manipulated.

Of course, as mentioned, this isn't my field so please, take these comments as merely that: and uninformed but interested outsider.
If people could just choose to give me a ton of money, I'd fix all their problems.
It's not about hiding the website you visit but about hiding the ip it was visited from. If Google can't tie your ip to the website request they can't use it to market to you. I'm not sure why the hash is made a big deal but hiding your ip is the real value here.
>He said it was nearly impossible to build a lead out of that kind of information, and that any shop that would try and use that kind of poisoned fruit would quickly tarnish their reputation.

I think one of the caveats to that is good sales folks probably would do exactly as you describe. But there's always good sales folks who are making sales, and then the desperate ones who have nothing but time on their hands to try other things simply because they have time on their hands or are desperate.

There are always starving dogs out there.
AWS has the same. If you treat it as an actual marketplace with individual images uploaded and licensed by their IP owners and not as “images of popular distros hosted by Microsoft” then it really does make sense. They’re not resellers, they’re just facilitating the marketplace.
I couldn't find that one on Spotify, but here's a recording with Chick and Herbie Hancock from 1979: https://open.spotify.com/album/74dcvlPv6JbYQd7O2LScsW?si=KJv...
apt-get --purge remove clippy
So has the behaviour of people changed?

Do they go directly to the news sites or to Bing?
I did see this also.

I blocked windows update with its own firewall. The windows system was not updated for 1+ yrs. 6 month into the "non-update", the windows will randomly freeze for 5 or more seconds. Just rebooting it doesn't help. Eventually I updated it in a weekend and everything works fine from that point on. No freeze events for 2 months now.
Great point. I think I, myself am guilty of mentioning some #fail in my twitter feed which was probably better served as a bug report.

But when you write something in your twitter feed then it's usually not something you want to follow through on and if you actually do want a solution, I think most people would actually go the extra mile and ask at a forum or file a bug report.
Actually it's not about the money for me. It's more about the freedom. I think if the bottom line is the primary goal, you'll become burnt out just as quickly as if you took a big salary at a company with a contradictory culture.

I don't have a strong agenda for my blog posts other than sharing my thoughts and hearing critical feedback that I can learn from.

That is awesome on finding a great company!
I think that you simply need to buy an alternative license. This is also the way neo4j is monetized.
What about the platform itself? An explosion and fire is one thing, but is that enough to sink the platform and cause the pipe to snap?

Is it normal procedure to flood the platform with water when there's a fire? Can enough water sprayed on a platform make it capsize? I guess if the blowout preventer fails, there's no other choice to put out the fire. Who oversaw the recovery mission after the explosion?
I've heard about the freezer trick before, not really sure if I want to risk further damage, though.

I think I'm going with ontrack. They seem to have a good reputation.
Yes, but what is the ultimate failure condition if everything goes wrong? If everything screws up in a car, you have a chance to pull off the road and you're walking. Even if even more things than that screw up, your steering locks while simultaneously your brakes fail while your wheels fall off, you're going to flip over a few times. Even then, you're just sitting on the ground and still usually in easy reach of rescuers.

Why didn't someone ask, "what if the blowout preventer fails more than a mile under water?" I bet somebody did, but no one listened to them.

EDIT: If it's possible for someone to screw up using the BOP, why didn't they plan for this? The entire industry only needed one TopHat that they knew would've worked.
So what are the remaining few tech blogs that are actually good these days? Techcrunch and Gizmodo are obviously out.
Thanks for bring this up davidw. My freelance network also reiterated this before I went independent. Right now I'm not focused on building a scalable company or figuring out a better way to trade money for time.

No doubt after a few years I'll have the urge to start a product again. Luckily I've been able to scratch that itch with my time at Elevator Up.
Though it should be noted that you only need just enough people to get the joke for a whole audience to laugh.
>"This has the potential to be really devastating"

First - Devastating for who? If the most powerful brands in the USA are incorrectly perceived as being uncorrupted, would it benefit society if the truth reveals their corruption?

Consider an example: Pennsylvania State University's reputation is likely tarnished beyond repair for the current generation. This is a good thing - because the University's representatives endorsed and covered up years of child molestation. Society benefits as a whole when corruption is revealed. People are able to make better decisions when they have sufficient information.

Second: I think your estimate about the lack of perceived corruption is far high. University admissions is perceived as highly as the NSA is today. People understand that while academics and test scores might get you in the door, the system is broken by unofficial (and official) favoritism and quotas. Unfortunately, the political dividing lines in the USA are such that half the voters endorse (directly or indirectly) such 'broken' non-academic admissions policies. As such, there won't be any breaking news about revelations that university admissions are broken.
Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish#Intelligence
no need for understanding to track reliably

http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/Z.Kalal/tld.html

http://www.gnebehay.com/tld/

https://github.com/gnebehay/OpenTLD
I'm interested in any responses as I had to do the exact same thing.
I didn't know there was a standard, but I have seen people do the switch before, and it looked inefficient.

I guess I am a reversed-European, despite being right-handed. Fork in right hand and knife in left hand.
It's always a bit awkward at first when taking up the cutlery because I have to switch at that time.

Funnily enough, there's also a standard when putting down cutlery on the plate, and I have remarks for this while never for the way I eat (they probably assume I am left handed).
The Zune was a great product, IMHO better than the ipod, if for no other reason than you didn't have to deal with itunes. The hardware may not have been as sexy looking as the ipod, but the software was far superior, and it was better in all other ways- I loved that it had an FM tuner.
Right. Someone linked to "Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity" last week, which makes that argument in detail. People in the field have been claiming Strong AI Real Soon Now since the General Problem Solver of the 1960s, which is a simple tree search algorithm. I heard a lot of that at Stanford in the 1980s, when the expert systems boom was about to crash and people thought Symbolics LISP machines were magical.

There is progress, though. Machine learning does do a lot. And it makes money, so effort will continue at a high level. AI used to be a dinky field - maybe 20-50 people at MIT, CMU, and Stanford. Now it's huge.
Generic tangents are indeed against the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, and there's a long body of explanations about why: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... If you take a look at that and there's still something I haven't addressed, I'd be curious to know what it is.

It's important that moderation based on "political flamebait" not simply reduce to the political preferences of the moderators. We work consciously at that, and have years of practice. I don't think there's any political position that we haven't moderated (and even banned) users for expressing in ways that break the site guidelines.

One dynamic that affects this is that when people are disagreeing with the majority, they often feel defensive, which causes them to lash out more in ways that break the site rules more. Then we moderate them for that, which makes them sure that they're being moderated because of their views, which makes them more defensive and lash out even more. This is a tricky one. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It's an organization that has repeatedly been sued for defamation, and paid out tens of millions of dollars for doing do. Among some of the most egregious episodes were when they recruited a family to wiretap their neighbors. To many, they embody the tendency of using allegations of hate and bigotry to justify authoritarian measures.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League
So what?

Yes some have buggy implementations, others could do better, yet they exist.

I rather have a half working bicycle that takes me to town than none at all.
Just read the book. It's not "Feminist literature", although I suppose it could be, it's just a damn good book, with a distinctly feminine perspective. As a not particularly 'woke' British bloke, it's one of my favourite ever books.
"YAGNI" seems a pretty likely prediction...
I mean it is INTENTIONALLY exposed to the public... the only mistake is they are giving it away instead of charging for it. If you don't like it when they give out all the information for free, it doesn't make it better if they charge money.
To all app developers, please don't give up on Android. If your market is educated middle class folks -- i.e., if you don't sell games and fart apps -- then give us a chance to start showing up in the Android market. Most of us bought iPhones back when they were clearly superior, and we are unwilling to throw away a couple-hundred-dollar piece of electronics that works perfectly fine. The new line of Android phones look great. I'll certainly be there in less than two years, maybe less than a year depending on how long my phone lasts. At that point all my spending will move to the Android market. I'm not a huge purchaser of apps -- I've probably spent somewhere between $50 and $100 on apps -- but I did buy Instapaper!
There will be buyers, but he does not see enough buyers to worth his time.

He'd have to rewrite the whole thing in Java, modify UI to fit in Android environment, maintain two code bases and try to keep feature parity.

He's a one man shop, he decided against it, and I agree with his decision.
This—as well as Logo, however fond my memories of it are—are a bad idea because turtles graphics are by nature imperative: you're programming exclusively for side effects.

What the world needs is an approachable version of a system like the image manipulation presented in Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which takes a functional approach. (It may have only been in the first edition, but it is covered in the Hewlett-Packard videos.)

I'm not a functional programming absolutist, but experience has taught me to think functionally by default. The habit should be instilled in would-be programmers as early as possible.
At my last job, I had a really fantastic lunch group -- intelligent, inquisitive, and always wanting to talk shop. It was fantastic, I feel that I learned and grew more as part of the lunch group than with respect to a lot of other things I did at work.

At my current job, I'm sad, because generally I don't have anyone to do that with, as most people are only interested in empty socializing.

Frankly I'm so uninterested in my current job, I'd rather eat while working and go home that much earlier. Which is sad, but there you have it.