jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If it was dominant, the ads would come sooner or later. MySpace is only thought of sympathetically today because News Corp acquired it early and let it rot. Facebook didn't start out with ads, it introduced them in 2008 or later. By that time MySpace was well into its death throes.
> Good to know there’s another 10-15 years of high salaries before the gravy train stops.

Sorry but how did you arrive at this conclusion with exact year ranges?
> INTERCAL is a bit unusual. For example, single quotes are called sparks, and double quotes are called rabbit ears, less than (<) is an angle, and a dash (-) is a worm.

Huh, didn't know urbit had a predecessor!
There is no way to find the other thread using the site search though
Of those three, I think Firefox is the only one that could be said to be on par with their commercial counterparts. Inkscape is powerful, but the UI isn't very responsive or intuitive. LibreOffice is slow and buggy whenever I use it.
The word "right" in my comment is doing a lot of work, heh...
I'm doing this right now. IMNSHO, the best stack for 99% of real-world projects is:

Database: Postgres

As the leading relational database, Postgres is a significant human achievement. It has recuperated most of NoSQL's critique in the past few years (for 99% of use cases), with the JSON types and functions, WITH RECURSIVE queries (added a few years ago, which essentially let you do anything you could do with a graph database), columnar stores, etc.

Its full-text search is good enough for many cases. [1]

Backend: Flask, SQLAlchemy, Flask-Restless (REST API framework)

There's no other ORM that's as powerful and uncompromising as SQLAlchemy.

If you use Flask-Restless to generate a REST API, you can have almost your entire app consist simply of model definitions.

Frontend JS: React with the Fluxbone pattern [2]

React is the most performant, powerful, and practical frontend framework currently available, and it's likely to be the best choice for practical development for the forseeable future.

CSS: Titon Toolkit [3]

A nice up-and-coming lightweight CSS framework with lots of components and plugins that gets out of your way. Some work is needed to integrate it with React while maintaining the Virtual DOM performance benefits of React, though.

[1] http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-...

[2] http://www.toptal.com/front-end/simple-data-flow-in-react-ap...

[3] http://titon.io/en/toolkit
These prices are sustained by Uber's and Lyft's VC money. Drivers still get the full fare.
The alternative was holding them liable for anything they put on their servers.
> It remains the case that the 4 most competitive financial centres in Europe aren't in the EU (Global Financial Centres Index). That's likely to continue once London and Zurich form closer ties.

It's not invalidating your point but assuming Wikipedia accurately reflects the index (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Financial_Centres_Index) the four most competitive financial centers in Europe are London, Zurich, Luxemburg, and Edinburgh.

Luxemburg is very much a member of the EU.
Got the email from them about the issue, as a Slack user.
Also got 2 other duplicate emails from them (which went into the same Gmail conversation, since same subject), that were empty.

Seen this a few times for other services, not sure why it happens.
> Hawking made the stunning claim that material which falls into a black hole disappears forever. If correct, it would mean that the fundamental laws of the universe would have to be rewritten.

The 'hard' science physics seems to be one of the weakest sciences at all.
Because I'm sure everyone uses a long, complex, and unique password on Slack. So nothing to worry about, everyone.
This might seem strange, but if there's one thing from Common Lisp that should receive wider adoption in other languages, it's hyphenated names. They are so much more readable than anything else (well, C with underscores comes close).
Whether it's "obviously pointless" or not depends on what you care about. The result is the same but the way you got there changed. Feel free to disagree with me though; I'd rather not turn this into a philosophical debate.
Most of my non-tech friends believe that nuclear apocalypse would entail at least the end of all human life. I think this only makes them more complacent in a strange way. They can shrug it off with gallows humour - if it happens, well, that was that, I only hope it’s quick. They don’t have to think about the reality of how life would change in the years following a nuclear war. The myth of nuclear apocalypse is a kind of licence to stop mentally engaging with the issue, which I don’t think is good. Not to mention the nihilistic side effects of believing one is going through life on borrowed time. Pushing falsehoods for the greater good always has unintended consequences.
You are suggesting the people who read HN and might click over to the "open Twitter" codebase won't understand it?

Engineers don't exist in a vacuum, the same engineers who write the algos are here on HN. Show HN the Twitter source code and a lot of engineers will understand it.

What is more likely is that the engineers are currently bound by NDAs and can't say what influences the algo.
And an outage of their excellent 2FA system. Oh wait, they don’t have one.
I imagine we'll be seeing a lot of content like this in the run up to nuking Kyiv. Despicable.
Some of us are just naturally curious, and cats be damned.
Good point: 30 years ago, who knew they needed a phone with them at all times? Now we can't live without one and, increasingly, the apps on it (like maps, restaurant reviews, and movie times).
Apple isn't banning them because they didn't suck up. In fact, they seemed to speak very highly of the stolen phone they illegally bought!
No, it doesn't have to be absolute at all. It just has to be shared. And the frame of reference is roughly shared, just not closely enough for 30 years to matter. If I'm doing my math right, the redshift of M100 works out to less than 700 years variation over a 50 million year timespan.
In case you find it useful:

http://www.learnivore.com aggregates most of the ruby/rails programming screencasts I could find (disclaimer: I'm running this site).
Really boggles my mind, but I think it has to do with how the recruiters get rated. I imagine the lower the percentage of successful applicants, the lower their performance.

I worked there a bit over two years.
Here's how I see it: the success or failure of the endeavor depends primarily on the business skills. However, without technical skills, you can't get in the game.

The business part of the startup should be focused on (1) finding problem/solution fit, (2) finding product/market fit and (3) developing a strategy for scaling up. A lot of this work doesn't necessarily require software to be built, so the business co-founder should have plenty of work.

Here's what you don't want to happen:

(1) The business co-founder notices a great business opportunity.

(2) They create a detailed description of the product they want built.

(3) They find a technical co-founder to build it.

(4) After it's built, they launch.

Because then this will happen:

(5) No one will buy it because the wrong product was built. :)

So the business co-founder is constantly working with customers to make sure the technical co-founder is building the right product. :)
I just gotta say when I wrote my original comment I thought I'd take a beating on the karma points as often my 'wise-crack' quips don't go down so well.

Glad to see HN has a little bit of a sense of humour!
If it wasn't accidental, then I doubt it was a serious operation. Most likely a fishing expedition. Testing the waters to see what the reaction is and what data (or kinds of data) they are able to harvest.
Would it be better to link to http://readonlymemory.vg/john-madden-hockey?
I think it does work without your phone on you - it says it uses wifi, so as long as your phone is currently on your wifi network, it sounds like it will work. That should be likely for most people, even if they don't carry their phones with them.
The problem with deflation is that we are a nation of debtors. Deflation causes debt to become more expensive, thus raising defaults and all of the ripples that follow.

edit: I should clarify that I don't completely disagree, just that debt is the real problem. No one wants to endure the short term pain so we keep "kicking the can down the road" as they say.
I think he just went to law school at NWU. :)
Oh nice, never heard of this before.
#salveoSEED
America has a set of Oligarchs, as many nations do.
Of course it’s effort, but that’s what end users are paying for! The best software in the world isn’t much use to me if it requires me to use a separate, non-first-party distribution system on Linux.
Public libraries aren't a thing in many countries. The reason North America has a tradition of public libraries is that one of the richest men of the 20th century decided to leave behind a legacy of literacy [1]. Prior to that, quite a few protestant groups were big on literacy and invented the idea of public libraries for all.

I have friends from other countries who have told me that libraries in their home countries are indeed commercial, you pay a small fee to rent a book for a fixed period of time. Stories from childhood, so I am not sure if such libraries are still common place in those countries, but the question is most certainly not stupid.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_libraries_in_North_Amer...
While true, there are a lot of invasive (read: habitat destroying) animal species in North America (for example) and we got rid of most of the wolves, so hunting wild game should be a viable alternative to veganism for exactly those reasons.
"The factual question is whether your account was using HN primarily to argue about politics."

I am very sure, I did not and that could be easily verified, by a full investigation into all my comment history - but that would be probably out of scope with your other duties.

So first things first, yes, I probably did engaged more with political topics lately and also received a lot of heat for it, by having non-mainstream opinions. And no worries, I feel pretty much done with that and with no intentions at all, to engage with that further.

But I am actually disappointed with that, because even though I am aware that I am not perfect in my responses and aware and in control of all my emotional triggers - I am very confident, that all in all, my position and behavior is very anti-ideological, open minded and truth committed.
And in my perception - I received a lot of undeserved hate for it. Fueled by strong tribal thinking.

For example this discussion about geopolitics. I can't help, but being reminded, that this forum is still mainly US-based. Let's just take my last flagged post in questions:

"Yeah, but since the US is NOT leading by shiny good example and continues to be allied with really bad examples like saudi arabia - the rest of the world views it all as just power struggle between china and US - which it mostly is."

In hindsight, I clearly see that I did not articulated my point very well, nor with the "desired mode" (SHOUTING is not part of it, I know) , but I really do not think that my post was factual wrong.
But after this discussion I believe, no matter how well and nice and neutral I would have articulated it - my point would still have had the strong potential of starting a flame war, or just being flagged and downvoted.

(I mean, this answer was downvoted and it didn't even criticized anyone except the idea that a trade embargo will help with anything:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26679748)

So long story short: I just won't dive into these discussions here anymore.

I can live with that and probably be more productive in ways that matter more.
So speaking of it:

I am planning to do a Show HN quite soon and I would therefore not like it, if my lates engagement with controversal topics with the result of flagged posts - would influence the visibility of my Show HN Post in a negative way.
Thievery doesn't depend on an economic system or a political system, it's truly agnostic. Agnostic to the point that we can consider it basically parasitism. And parasitism is only slightly younger than life its self.
Haha, same, when I got my very first Android phone (HTC Dream) with that hardware keyboard, I would sometimes ssh into servers and run commands. There was also a python app on play store that lets you write scripts and run locally. I still sometimes do but it's much hardware with software keyboard.
China certainly didn't contain it from spreading it to the rest of the world.
Even with ICEs we kinda are there already. Surprisingly many cars are mostly same underneath, but hull, interior etc. are different. I don't see why same won't apply to EVs.
>But how would you know this?

Well, if you have formally verified your system, you know that if the underlying systems work correctly, your work will correctly adhere to the spec. So if a breach occurs, there's two options - either the spec was bad or there's a hardware/OS/library bug.

Otherwise, you can't always know it, that doesn't strike me as a realistic goal in the first place. It's not about always being able to perfectly assign liability - obviously if you can't figure out how something was compromised, you simply can't assign any liability. But one could investigate and if you find deviations from the spec, you know where to correctly place blame.

>You'll look around and definitely find bugs in the software though.

If these are deviations from the spec, I think it would only be right to hold the developer liable. If a developer doesn't want this to occur, they could instead formally verify their software.

If the bugs are in the spec instead, the blame should lie with the party that accepted the spec.
Or could cause a clawback of some of those by companies realizing that if they went back to 5x8, one of their days would be cheaper power because the 4x10 companies wouldn’t be operating on one of those days.

Or “if we took Wednesdays off instead of Fridays, we’d benefit from Friday power being cheaper than Wednesday power”.

I still think market-aware power metering is a good thing for large users.
I think they know this is a pretty desperate story. Some of the other coverage [1] suggest Solarwinds had so many different overlapping security failures they may never be able to attribute to a single cause.

Still there's some interesting things that could help a (much smaller, less critical) software vendor decide where to focus their security efforts. Perhaps near the top of the list should be:
1. Who in your organisation has access to your build and distribution toolchain, and how secure are their credentials?
2. How good is your record keeping? Are all your builds traceable back to a specific revision in your source control, and are you keeping build logs somewhere they can't be tampered with?

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-26/deepen...
Digital tulips, only tulip farming didn't consume the same amount of electricity as a small, South American country every year.
And it’s not about the “dumb poors” either. I’m a data scientist and and I signed up for a variable-rate plan like this when I used to live in Chicago. I watched my electricity consumption closely, and diligently reduced my consumption via home automation when I got alerts about price spikes. I thought it was great, and I saved money. (Charging the Tesla overnight was basically free.) I figured there might be periods where things were 2x or 3x more expensive than usual, and I could absorb such costs.

But I never in my wildest dreams imagined that rates would shoot to 100x normal values for days on end. The very claims of “it’s market driven!” made me think that was impossible - how could any efficient market sustain such prices?

Realizing now that I dodged a bullet.
Pretty much everyone works harder for less pay and respect compared to us.

And those of us who do work long hours have generally chosen it to some extent. You can easily find six figure jobs in the US anyway that don't expect more than 40 hours from you or impinge on your free time.
There's a reason "shit rolls downhill" is a common idiom.
Often the subject is nuanced enough that even editors at scientific journals make blunders when changing words that would make a scientist cringe.

Probably the false positive rates of edits from a professional editor does not add enough value to make it worth the effort generally. I imagine if the writer has a very poor command of writing in English, then having an editor would benefit.
Anything's possible... unreturned phone calls are hard to reach conclusions from. Here's a Douglas Adams quote:

"I don’t know if I’m right in thinking this, but I only have silence to go on, which is always a poor source of information."
I believe their conclusions are a bit flawed. Namely, the amount that people spend on beer per year.

Here in Germany most of the time I see beer prices at 3.00-5.00€ for 500ml in bars. However, I would say a large portion of beer consumption here is what people get from supermarkets, which is significantly cheaper, with most prices in the range of 0.70-1.00€ for a 500ml bottle.

Furthermore, nobody here really drinks well known brands such as Corona or Heineken, rather more regional beers.

Therefore, I don't see their conclusion that Germans spend an average of $1.9k on beer per year being valid.
I'd be curious to know what percentage of sites remain in the 88.2% list after ignoring these three use cases:

1. Site analytics

2. Displaying ads

3. Fighting spam
But ShipIt seems to be more modular and event driven while flightplan is just a rundown of various commands...
Very interesting project.

Although I would rather use Forth, or add Assembly capabilities to the BASIC like BBC BASIC, instead of C.
Could've ended with Genesis chapter 7 then, and saved the world a whole lotta grief.
Exactly: did the author of the "Code of Hammurabi" shock? Did the sculptor of the see of Tutankhamen shock? Did Michaelangelo "shoc? Did Bach "shock"?

People did not resort to art as a path for shock. Even pornography (as Herculan and Pompey prove) was not "shocking".

Gore and sex are not important to art. It has other issues more relevant.

The question to me is... Can modern art please? It does not seem to.
Brackets by Adobe is written in javascript,html, css and is a lot faster than Atom. Also has more extensions.

Also has things like in-line editor (super useful!) and you can open .psd files and get CSS hints from it.
If you're getting paid at SV salary levels, it's entirely possible you're making too much to be allowed to contribute to a Roth IRA.

Some IRA companies will let you do put it into a traditional IRA then do a Roth conversion, but then again some will make you mail them a notarized form every time you want to do that.
Would they typically hold longer form talks kind of like public company analyst days where they get into more detail over an hour or so and several potential investors who have dialled in grill them on what is being presented? Apologies for the noob question, I don't deal with startups but am curious about the information dissemination process they use.
well if plugging the disabled 3rd party mic somehow leaves the internal one recording, that would imply your soundcard just got upgraded to having the ability for two inputs recording simulataneously. usually cost a premium, such cards :)
There are a lot of bold comments that you're making here.

Pensions would become practically worthless, as they would need to be converted to the new currency to be spent.

If pensions hold real assets (land, companies, etc) the currency of the realm doesn't matter much, whether it's dollars, euros or bitcoins. Most pensions aren't just sitting on cash.

Anyone not holding bitcoin will become the new underclass, and the new rich will be those who got in early

Again, real asset holders don't care about the coin of the realm. If you own a company, you can sell it to buyers in whatever currency you want. Net lenders may be harmed, because they could get paid back in less valuable dollars. Net borrowers may be helped, because they can pay their debts in less valuable dollars.

It will literally be raining cats and dogs in the street.

Literally?

I find a lot to disagree with your points and hyperbole. The irony is I am fully in agreement with your last point. It can't succeed. The current world order won't let it.
Just so I have this straight:

- I type my email address into the input

- I click "Contact Us"

- Instead of seeing a form where I can enter details to contact you, my email address gets zipped off to you so you can contact me about why I want to contact you

Yep, seems broken.
Because no one has mentioned it yet: 'Blindsight' by Peter Watts.
Why do we have to imagine this? This is reality for software engineers on LinkedIn.
I have no idea how accurate this is, but Mark seemed to believe they were "operating within the law":

"Karpeles replied that the matter is “confidential,” adding that the company had discussed its business model with Japanese authorities “to ensure that we are operating within the law here.”"
I think the most of the tips apply to price increases as well. Most of your loyal customers will understand that prices go up over time, but if you communicate with them and explain the changes, offer some grandfather'd benefits, etc. etc you'll find that many will make the transition with you, especially if it's gradual.
I can't help posting this video... http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1710265
In the comments of his most recent blog post, the author mentions support for parsing ASCII tabs will be left to third-parties, with rendering using his library.

http://0xfe.blogspot.com/2010/06/fonts-tablature-svg-and-dem...
I don't control that, the publisher does. How about writing to O'Reilly?

However, I wouldn't hold it much hope of making a lot of money from it... The Geek Atlas physical book outsells the eBook by miles.
Ignoring liquidation and acquisition, because they are rarely the goal of a value investor...

Dividends do repay investors, but the price always adjusts ex-dividend. A value investor is not happy owning a declining asset even if the dividend pays at regular intervals. They always look for capital appreciation and will, whenever they deem appropriate, convert unrealized gains into realized.

You seem to be referring to buy & hold. Taking the Dow as a market proxy, if you bought BEFORE June 1999, you are currently at break even... over 10 years later. Congratulations, you're strategy is working out perrrrfectly.
Very neat stuff. I've actually been working on a site that basically does tab collaboration (kinda like Github for music/tabs) and have been pondering how to do something like this.

It'd be pretty cool if somehow you could incorporate a means of playing that tab as well but I can't think of how to do that without flash. I suppose time signatures would be important to have as well.
The upper bound on what you can loose from a long strategy is the money you invested. No such bound exists on a short strategy. If you sell short at $1, and the next day something happens and the stock jumps to $5, or you end up in a short squeeze, you could bankrupt yourself.
My point was that, with enough perseverance, one can do practically anything with anything (or nothing). Just because something is possible doesn't make doing it an intelligent thing if it's just a brute force effort. While herculean efforts of perseverance are commendable displays of stamina (like (http://links.zigzo.com/files/2007/10/coat_20hanger_20gorilla...) this gorilla made out of coat hangers), once the basic theory has been demonstrated, the intellectual interest is over. See also, X program implementation in Y Turing-complete language (I'm specifically reminded of a chess engine written in the infamous Brainf*, which was really just a C chess engine converted to BF).