jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel the author did not do a good job in defending the thesis of "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything."

I do agree that relying on the first aha-moment,however grand it may be, to carry the entire weight of success is a bad investment. Similarly to throw away an insight without analyzing it is equally foolish. Of course, you can never predict if an idea will derive its entire value when thrown and mingled with other external factors. However that doesn't mean that the idea itself plays a small role in the success of any endeavor. Every execution step that the author talks about requires coming up or at least using the so called ideas. You need creative insights in every step of your project. This will require the same amount of diligence in defining the purpose, testing the hypothesis and maybe even jumping that leap of faith. The author needs to clear the distinction between a conceptual idea and the execution of it.

Lastly, he has to mention the metric required to judge the success of an idea. Since he envelopes every single Idea into one set, he has to have a parameter to at least attest the value of them. I personally feel ideas as diverse as Darwin's idea of evolution to an entrepreneur's idea of a company to an artist's idea of an art cannot be lumped into one category.

I do agree with the author that ideas when defined without any context or in isolation cannot be judged. But none of the arguments that he makes truly discounts the worth of it.
It just spun around a bunch and then the feed cut.
Is the show over or did something happen?
That article can also be read as a list of things that need to be fixed by the various postal systems.

We can issue addresses to computers, many of which cannot be considered to be in a fixed place, yet somehow we can't issue a permanent, unique address to something that's not likely to move around much.
Yes, just that one little detail to work out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
Om malik thinks that the founder of business insider is biased: " Business Insider’s Henry Blodget, who benefits directly from the largess of Yahoo as a longtime shareholder and part time employee "

So this might explain this article.

And Om's take on yahoo: except for a rising share price, yahoo has achieved nothing in the past year [1].

[1]http://gigaom.com/2013/08/22/no-henry-you-need-to-get-real-a...
remember, the First Hundred was really the First Hundred plus One. The Coyote wasn't supposed to be there. only a few in the agri group knew about him.
If you're relying on iceberg lettuce in your salad you're really doing it wrong.

Have a look for some mediterranean salad recipes, try putting some cherry tomatoes in for sweetness, a light drizzle of olive oil and swap the lettuce out for rocket and see how it goes.
The hardest parts will be A> Getting the patch in correctly and B> actually getting the OS image you compile into the correct area for the bootloader if it doesn't work. The actual kernel compile these days are pretty easy aside from picking the correct options for your system (which while easier, still isn't a cakewalk).
You don't think people will be able to buy real estate with crypto in the future?
I grew up in Chicago and I don't like "Chicago-style" pizza either. I put that in quotes because no one called it that in Chicago, everyone always referred to it as deep dish.
The only Java program of any consequence I wrote was a multiagent autonomous robot simulator (sounds more complicated than it actually was :-) for an experiment in independent agents. It was fun, but after I was done, there was absolutely no motivation left to continue and I soon got into Python instead.

Java is simply not a "fun" language! If you're a student and looking for a job, knowing the language basics is enough, no one hiring out of school will expect you to be an expert. Much more important to know the OO principles it's supposedly based on.
It's her own fault for refusing to learn Lojban.
I clicked through to the comments to post the exact same thing. You can't go wrong with the thong.
Here is a video - http://screencast.com/t/yyoO5UJIPif
Finally...

[Do not read further if you want to solve it yourself]

1. The encoded string can be divided into groups of chars, each representing one (decoded) char. These groups occur every 5, 7, 11, and 13 chars. That is, chars 0-4 correspond to group 1, chars 5-11 correspond to group 2, etc. After the first 4 groups, the lengths repeat. Thus group 5 is chars 36-40.

2. As hinted in this thread, the space is of 59 chars, and there's an offset of 32. So, for each char in each group, subtract 32, sum them up, mod by 59. Add 32 to this result, and that's your decoded character ascii code.

Example: "!8F2>" corresponds to [33, 56, 70, 50, 62]. Subtracting 32 from each of those is [1, 24, 38, 18, 30]. The sum of those is 111. 111 % 59 = 52. Adding back the 32 offset, yields ascii code 84, corresponding to "T".
I'm kind of surprised by this. If they had just shut down the bit that forces you to validate, but left a way for you to validate your copy, that would make more sense to me.

I mean, some people might genuinely want to know for sure.

Of course, it's possible that they shut this down while they put up something even more bothersome.
7. I have been using Courier for a while and found its interface to be less annoying than I thought it would. The envelop metaphor makes managing upload destination much more pleasant. You can also use Finder's contextual menu for repetitive uploads.
Wake up at some time X.

Check Slack, and my google calendar for the day.

Open up asana, check our priority queue and ensure my in progress/upcoming are set accurately (remote team, so this is very important)

I work mostly with data scientists. So, some days it's pure cowboy coding. Experimental and research stuff. Lots of image processing, NLP, and API design stuff.

After I finish the first task of the day, contact the Chief Scientist/senior data scientists. Review, consult, plan if we can do more to it or if its worth 'graduating' to a larger product.

Or, if its a larger, production project consult with product and VP of eng as well. Ensure all delivery needs are met.

At the end of the day we have an informal chat of no specified amount of time. The 'end' of the day is often midnight-1am-ish for us because we have people in 5 time zones. We try to be as flexible as possible especially with a guy in South Korea.
I'm really not an expert here, but I heard an argument that guns aren't chosen more in some sort of thought-out way like you describe. Instead, guns are there already, and get used by people who realize that there is a gun and they might even not make the attempt otherwise. Regarding suicide, I have much less concern about guns as a method than I do about any sort of lethal tool being available on short notice instead of a situation that requires persistent determination and waiting.
I can't be the only one who sees this as yet another cue that it's time to stop using these played-out design elements. "Est. 2015", "Purveyors of fine...", etc. And yet, the comments here are full of people who seem to legitimately want to use this? To make real design elements for their real projects?

That said, this is a wonderful project. It'll be great to point this out the next time I need to talk someone out of leaning on this particular design language.
That's an opinion he learned from Stross, ironically.
Why should it have to have those same assumptions and defaults? In my view, it's fundamentally better to block that other shit too.
Unless you are fairly certain the startup is going to make it then think of equity as having roughly the same value as a jar of farts.
All three of those statements are false.

If you're "in the groove" so to speak with coding, continuing work could be much more productive. At the times he wishes to work later, his additional work could be dozens of times better than a typical day. In contrast, coming back to code you were in the middle of a day later can have an hour of delays as you work just to get back to the state of understanding you had before.

In this way he will produce more. Producing more sometimes leads to earn more (that one's not as definite). Learning more... well, the more projects you complete the more you get to do; the more chances to learn.

This isn't to say that having a fixed end time is bad, just that your statement is false.
>I find the whole concept of "aristocracy" as applied to the US nonsensical.

Of course you do.

>Aristocracy is a form of government (rule by "the best"), and we simply don't have it. The fact that your mortgage payments go to a servicer who funnels it to a CDO who funnels it to Calpers doesn't mean that members of Calpers are aristocratic rulers of the US.

Nope, the fact that the 1% own vastly more than Calpers or any other pension fund does mean that, though.
My point is not that having faith is wrong or bad, rather, that to believe in the kinds of myths many religions espouse requires faith.

It is impossible to believe in the teachings of the Bible without having faith. I'm sure you bring an equal amount of faith when reading other stories. You don't? Why not?
Fake -- or merely the usual clueless fankids?
If this isn't an efficient allocation of resources by a free market system then I don't know what is. Not that the current system doesn't have plenty of problems and challenges to solve, but here is the single most productive and futuristic capital allocator in modern times. Imagine seizing his assets and distributing it to the people via a wealth tax. That would be great for a few months of welfare and terrible for the future.
We live in fantastic times
Singal is always gonna win on HN. Firefox, Signal, etc are HN favorites.

Surprising to see Matrix 3rd despite being added after half an hour. Will check it out.
Great read.
It spells out in long detail the history of social spaces and the problems with the current spaces: Social Media (Twitter and Facebook in particular) and a call on how to improve things. It does seem difficult...
Elon Musk was publicly bashing Facebook a few hours ago. We already have 3 threads on front page here. The more this bad press happens the more people become aware of Facebook's malpractices and better it is for everyone in long run.

This stunt will put WhatsApp blunder on back burner and it is exactly the kind of thing that Facebook does to spin the narrative.
But it didn’t. That’s what people are pointing out. All the stops pulled for BLM (so they’re clearly capable) and none of them pulled for this. Why?
Intel did in fact build a RISC chip contemporary with the 386/486: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i860

It had great instruction throughput performance by the specs but lacked in real applications, thanks to the sufficiently smart compilers never coming to be.
> it was a product that looked remarkably similar to ours

As a developer, DO never looked anything like it. Linode was expensive and on the same playfield as Rackspace and a ton of other cloud hosts, very different from the instantly-spin-up-a-tiny-vm-for-five-bucks model. Their web UI also has always been miles ahead.

The competition also didn’t have SSD as an option until much later, and that was a HUGE selling point for digital ocean at the time.
And during the past decade a market emerged to reward individuals and companies for consuming as much energy as they can: bitcoin mining. The "rational" choice seems to be to just throw as much energy at it as we can. Of course that's completely absurd if the result is to destroy the environment, but that seems to be what is developing.

I start to be really pessimistic about our ability to fix any real issue.
There might be competition between pools but also costs for them to grow beyond a point which benefits decentralization - the issue at hand.

What does it matter here if they have a harder time when none of them are incentivized to even grow to 1%? Even if they do grow, there's plenty of incentive for stakers to move to new ones on the spot. This might mean that e.g. pools will increase their costs due to the risk and stakers will earn a bit less but they still won't grow beyond a point.
Why can’t I down vote this ahhh totally sabotages the entire thread
Some glob of all of those. Someone we'd be interested in spending significant amount of time with. People who we'd be okay with them being our primarily in person friend group.
I don’t understand how that impacts my point at all. If an opinion is only held in one context it’s not actually held? Is that what you’re saying? I’m sorry, I don’t follow.

Before DO VPS was (and somewhat remains) a community even among competition. I’m not basing what I’m saying solely on the example given.
Because DO is not used in enterprise, there is no reasons to use DO at work when you can use all other cloud providers.
Well it is great in many ways, but today I downloaded it and played a bit and found it hard to use compared with “directly using qemu cli” or vmware fusion for Mac free edition, but I am looking forward to its improvements in the future. Please do keep the good work ;-) thanks!
>Although the FBI agents told me I could leave whenever I wanted, when the door closed and they started questioning me, it certainly didn’t feel that way.

I know easy to say in hindsight and safely behind keyboard , but you need to call them on that at the very first instance. Before any other words have left their mouth.

You realistically may NOT be "free to leave"; and if they demonstrate that by physically barring you from the door you need to repeatedly ask them if you are free to leave or being detained. Make sure the "lie" is obvious.

At that point, it is even more of a cue to shut your damn mouth.
I dont know. Maybe someone is trying help prove the point of the article?
Is that a link to a VoD or a historical event with no recording?
If you think the overall market is one where supply of housing and/or land is constrained, it might be more relevant to adjust for earnings growth, not just inflation.

Alternatively, if you think for the market as a whole there are not meaningful constraints on supply of housing or land, the more relevant adjustment might be for increases in construction costs.
Only a few law journals do traditional peer review. Most law review articles are reviewed by law review editors, who are law students in their second and third years, not law professors.

In any case, you rightly point out that the author marked this private and preliminary. It's not a crazy idea. Nobody outside academe looks at SSRN ... until they do.
There are charities with extreme transparency. For example, all the money sent to the highly-rated (by GiveWell) charity the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) gets tied to specific distributions (specific villages). You get to see the photos of your money at work and updates about the quality of the malaria-protecting bednets years after they have been distributed.

[0] https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf
It has the effect of increasing the price, just like a tax
Probably a naive question, but is there some way for all these elements to held in a git repo as well? Just move all your issues/trackers to another platform?
What they got to win? It is probably quite small userbase.
There does need to be a middle ground.

But there are definitely dangers when charities try to maximise revenue:

1. They are (to some extent) competing for donors. If it's zero sum, then more marketing spending means the least efficient charities "win".

2. It might even be negative sum, as donors turn away from charity in general.

3. A focus on revenue changes the way charities operate, and might change the type of people who work there.

I think there's a sweet spot to engagement. You don't have to send the donor out there, but sending them photos does help. They get the personal connection and the feeling that their money was well spent without needing to waste a lot of money. Obviously it's not 100% efficient, but it brings a lot to the table - a certain level of accountability, engagement, and not too much inefficiency.
I couldn't agree more. It's the only movie I've ever seen that references "wget", and the entire time as I sat there watching the early Facebook geeks write code, I kept thinking about how I should be at home working on my startup instead of sitting at the movies.
Fun Facts about the original Cube:

* A single cable connects the Cube to its monitor (with speakers and microphone). A single cable connects the monitor to the keyboard. And a single cable connects the keyboard to the mouse.

* Neither the Cube nor its monitor have any buttons, switches, or controls. The only way to turn the machine on is by pressing the Power key on the keyboard (which is connected to the monitor). It's basically a giant laptop split into 4 parts.

* Likewise, there's no way to turn the monitor off while the system is running. However, the OS will automatically lower its brightness after a period of inactivity.

* Startup takes a long time. Pressing the power key while the system is booting up will interrupt the boot sequence and begin the shutdown sequence.

* The keyboard has no Caps Lock key. Caps Lock is engaged by pressing Command+Shift which will light up matching LEDs on both Shift keys. The Control key is where it's meant to be, next to the "A".

* The keyboard has no row of function keys. The Escape key is located next to the "1" key, where the tilde would be. But if you press Shift+Escape as if to type a tilde character, you will still get a tilde character.

* The timing of the NEXTSTEP beachball is effectively identical to that of the OS X beachball.
I'll comment here since this is the top comment. As I said below, I have emailed PG asking for his thoughts. Thanks for the feedback.

A point that I would like to make is that HN is non profit and so is HNI. So the analogy you give may not apply here.
Also have a look at links2 (http://links.twibright.com/)

Runs in text or graphical mode - the latter is excellent if you want to avoid javascript (unfortunately, CSS too), but still see the page with gfx.

Great keyboard navigation, a decent download manager, and blazingly fast.

You can open new browsing windows, and while there's no tabbed browsing, some users delegate this to their (Linux) window manager, such as Fluxbox, which features tabbed windows.
circle = Circle(); // default origin, radius, color, etc.
circle.set_visible(true)
circle.color = RED
circle.make_smaller()
circle.set_radius(5)

// or whatever. just saying we can do approximately this already today, in most any modern language, as long as you're willing to express it in the prog language rather than the natural language. And I'm not sure having it expressed in a natural language is better in any significant way.
I think Make is ok - what I don't like is all the other baggage that often seems to come with it; namely autoconf and automake.
There's something beautiful about this article requiring Javascript.
Well, by the same token, you can take Python's

x = Foo()
...
del x

as manual memory management, after a fashion (which it is). The kind of manual memory management I'm concerned about is less about having precise control over when memory passes in and out of my program's control, and more about controlling fragmentation and time spent searching for unused memory. For example, would slab allocation--an extremely useful technique for operating systems, databases, &c--be possible in Go?

Addendum: I'm not trying to denigrate Go, and I don't mean to suggest having or not having fine control over memory makes or breaks a programming language, because it's a valuable tool in certain instances and a hindrance in others. I honestly don't know whether or not it's possible in Go; I suspect it is, to some extent, although it would no doubt be discouraged by the design of the language.
> This year, Adobe will launch multitasking tools on mobile that might enable you to work faster than you would on a desktop

No offence to Adobe because they are obviously more than capable of producing great tools, but I seriously doubt they'll be able to achieve near native desktop performance with a mobile version of Photoshop, Illustrator or any other tool for a very very long time.

The headline is a bit sensationalist (well, a lot). Adobe didn't say they were killing or want to kill their desktop variants, but it makes sense they are going down the web path in their thinking.

I think what this comes down to is the fact that even with Creative Cloud, Adobe struggle in the face of piracy. Look on The Pirate Bay or Kickass Torrents, Adobe software is some of the most pirated software around even the CC variants. Moving to a web application would mean it would be impossible for people to pirate your software because they would need an account to use it, etc. Not being downloadable means bypassing any anti-piracy implementation would be next to impossible.

A move to web only might happen one day, but I don't agree that the performance is quite there for an application on the scale of Photoshop to achieve desktop-like performance. Not to mention the questions about how and if this would work offline, etc. Adobe Comp is a great tool for simple needs, but for the power user and professional not-so-much.

These days I find myself using Bohemian Coding's Sketch than I do Photoshop. I think killing off Fireworks without a viable replacement was a big mistake on Adobe's part. I still use Fireworks CS6 on my PC and Sketch when I am on my Mac.
No, I think the future is in vertically stacking employees, Japanese capsule hotel style:
http://capsuleinn.com/info/img/thum_05.jpg
Also, no names needed, just numbers.
"Only 50% of the cycling routes in the Netherlands are separated from vehicular traffic."

Oh, ONLY 50%? Compare that to America, where, including protected bike lanes and bike trails, it's probably what, 5%, tops?
> By the way, this is "just" a MIDI controller

Are there disadvantages to MIDI? I'm just starting to learn about digital audio, so I'm curious how well regarded it is.
Just trying not to ignore the human aspect of it. There are multiple levels on which to think about it.

It should be pointed out that if/since the claims were without basis, she dragged a lot of people through the mud and potentially caused a lot of harm and pain to others in her attempt to get a pay day.
Considering that Ikea doesn't certify the sources of their wood, it's very conceivable that some of this suffering and injustice is directly related to Ikea's raw materials supply chain.
> Nobody in their right mind uses this stuff in production code.

You sure about that? I thought the lispy approach was generally pragmatic - you use what you deem handy for your application. It this weren't the case, there would be little need for macros in the first place. I can very well imagine, say, a scientific or engineering application that would share a common infix parser for both user-provided expressions (in the UI, to be more friendly to non-lispers) and heavy math lifting in the source code.
The first mention on the entire site appears to actually be in this comment from 7 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=203676
I wouldn't. I don't agree with his point either (see my response to him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9277659).
I can't express how happy I am that this is the top comment right now.
You would prefer errors to be caught by a human needing to exercise their English-proficiency over errors being caught by the compiler? Seriously? That can't actually be what you mean.
Both. It is a live programming (not coding) environment in the spirit of Bret Victor, but it is made possible by automatic time management. You can't really show that however, so the essay focuses on the programming environment making the benefits more tangible while the paper focuses on the programming model (I point people at the essay first because many don't want to read papers). The paper is linked at the top of the essay.
My project (which was rejected this YC round but I still think is promising) will benefit from widespread square adoption so this is cool.

BTW is anyone from Square here on HN?