jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
With what right do you consider yourself in the position to judge their intention?

This is easier with some kind of sites than with others. If it's a company site trying to sell a product or a service, then obviously the intention is to... sell you the product or service. If the "design" doesn't push that intention or gets in the way of you learning about the product and why you want to buy it, then they've failed.

With personal sites and blogs it's harder to judge, and I'd agree with you. But I think in those places design (at least in the sense that the author is talking about) is less important. Someone's personal site might in part be a sandbox or playground to try out new HTML5 or CSS techniques.

Everyone's opinion is subjective. Claiming that that somehow invalidates the argument is disingenuous. Like everything, it's a continuum -- some things are easier to "objectively" judge, others are not and are more a matter of taste and experimentation.
I personally don't tend to find those types of jokes very funny, but I think that's mostly because I've heard a lot of them.

I think that what you state here absolutely happens, but I think that there's also a good bit of actual nerdy women-are/men-are angst floating around that at least gets interpreted (or is interpretable) as misogyny/misandry. Not as bad as it used to be, and it always gets called out (at least recently as far as I've seen), but it's there.

I figure it's largely just a function of relative immaturity, and that it's not a serious thing as long as it's called out and it's obvious that the vast majority of people on Reddit don't actually think like that. I definitely don't think that Reddit is a bunch of ridiculous sexists -- it's one of the most egalitarian groups of it's size I've ever seen.

Edit: To clarify, I don't think there's a very large overlap between the people who are making "offensive" jokes, and the people actual displaying misogyny, misandry, or other forms of bigotry (whether realized or not) in the Reddit community, although some of the former certainly gets interpreted as the latter here and there. It can be hard to tell sometimes.
Same goes to illegal immigrants. You do not need proof of citizenship to acquire a Tax ID or file a return. Those that are picked up and tried for illegal immigration are much more likely to not be deported/jailed if they have all of their taxes in order.
You think there's a dozen Sequoias or DFJs ?
> "entitlement filled prima donnas."

Where is this coming from?
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opps, I what you mean; I actually meant well-written lisp.

Have you found that hard to understand, when it was heavily customized? I agree that tracing through complex code is taxing in any language; and it probably becomes much more important what concepts the author has chosen (and things like coupling/cohesion), than the language.

i.e. That the problem wasn't that the code was badly written, but it was because they had "customized the language so much". Extensive customization i how you're supposed to use lisp; it's an important source of its power. (The C++ example I mentioned was well-written.)

I can imagine it going either way (e.g. that lisp's customizations often aid clarity, by reducing code size); so I'm interested to hear someone's experience of how it actually goes in practice.
I really like this idea, but it doesn't seem like quite a full solution. I wouldn't want to convert <i>everything</i> I want to print to PDF and then upload it to a web form.
There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who mostly consume, and those who mostly create. I committed myself to being the latter. How you go about doing that is just details.
The one problem I have with such concerns is this: what other viable options are there? Google AppSpot? Windows Azure? Perhaps. But AWS is flexible, very few stack limitations. The only other alternative I think is to go back to the pre-cloud era, when hosting was much more expensive, and outages were still possible, especially when you couldn't keep up with big traffic spikes.

Honestly, I would prefer this kind of mass outage than the alternative. It's cheaper, easier, and I bet you there's still better uptime overall.
I've used http://rewindle.com/ in the past for this.
If the only problem with abolishing time zones is having to look up a table to know when to call someone, then perhaps it's better to abolish them. Most of the uses we make of international times don't have anything to do with timing phone calls.

To make a decision on what's best obviously needs a comprehensive look at all the pros and cons, not just one word-gamey one like this.

Perhaps the current set of time zones are not optimal. Maybe the best solution turns out to be just rearranging them. I would hope making them wider but perhaps there are biological reasons to refine them even further and make daylight savings even more complicated. If that somehow extends out lives, makes us more productive, or saves enough power (money), it might be worth the added cost to programmers (money).
Monopoly? Who has a cell network monopoly? Prices are going down and features up due to ever increasing competition.
I was expecting something Mapping/GIS related, given [1], but maybe that's just the mental scar-tissue from a previous project involving various data sources that were in formats not quite entirely unlike the ones they purported to actually be. Which meant, along with one incredibly badly designed viewer application, I could legitimately say "I spent almost an hour dragging myself out of the ocean" in a worklog entry :P

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Transverse_Mercator_...
Microeconomics maybe. Macro is highly speculative since there is borderline no basis for experimentation and inference, and every incidence has no precedence. This is very broadly understood and accepted by economists themselves
Of course it's a lot of money and a lot of risk, but like him or hate him one thing Musk has consistently showed is that he's willing to take huge risks.

This deal likely won't haooen, but due to the poison pill, not due to the risk.

But in any case, my point was merely exactly what I wrote: he does not need to raise anywhere near the full amount, because he can utilize the shares he buy as part of the collateral.
Geology isn't really "the tech market". Extraction continued at a record pace but exploration stopped almost completely, which is where the degree-expecting jobs are.
And what, it's down, adjusted for inflation, 40% on a 1-year basis while the dollar is down 8.5%. Literally the worst inflation hedge. If you'd bought US Series I savings bonds you'd be dead flat in real dollar terms. That's an inflation hedge.

Lord help you if you bought NFTs of Tweets.
It probably comes down to quality moderation.
for the baseline M1 that is true, though the Air can do throttling under sustained load since it does not have any fans for active cooling.
Having worked in Unity as a hobbyist for about a decade and considering the switch to Unreal due to obvious issues Unity is currently facing (3 rendering pipelines being the main one), I'd like to hear more input from the programmer experience in both engines.

I think C# in Unity hits a really nice sweet spot: You have a powerful and expressive type system, can use nice high level features like async/await, you get (relatively) quick compile times which help your iteration speed, and decent runtime performance due to IL2CPP.

On the other hand, looking at Unreal, the main options seem to either be C++, in which case you sacrifice a lot of iteration time due to compiles, or Blueprints, which I really have no interest in (I like node editors for shaders, but i'd rather code all game logic). Those are both unappealing to me so I'm a bit stuck.
That's not the only alternative though, and that's the point.
I agree that 40 hour weeks was silly. ;) 100 hour weeks are also silly, however, especially when you consider the religious proscriptions against working on the Sabbath. 100 hour weeks is almost 17 hours a day (six days), leaving 7 hours for all sleep, eating, hygiene, recreating, family care, etc. Pretty much physically impossible. Also, as I understand it (though I am no expert), accounts of medieval life show that aside from sowing season and reaping season (when everyone DID work 100-hour weeks for very short periods), there was lots of leisure time. Let's compromise at 60-80 hour weeks.

I also agree with your points about my shirts (thin and tumble-dried). On the other hand, my shirts are woven/knitted from a very consistent fabric, which might help, and they're exposed to very little mechanical abuse outside of the dryer (I do not do physical labour, I'm very sessile, and for that matter I don't get much acidic sweat on them). And my shirts _are_ usually showing multiple (small) holes after those ~100 days of wear. You really think their shirts would last 3650 wearings, 36 times as much as my shirts? Thirty six times? Nonsense. My 7x might be low, but I bet it's closer than your 36x.

Also, as I mention in a cousin-post, I think the author screwed up her math twice, such that I think the correct number given her inputs is 879 hours, which I'm gonna call 10-15 weeks of labour. And then once we account for other clothing, as I did in my previous comment, by assuming that all non-shirt garments collectively are as expensive as one shirt, we're up to perhaps 25 weeks of labour total.

So it takes four months to make a set of clothes, and the set lasts a few years. So I'm no longer saying "one quarter of your life", I'm saying "more than ten percent". When you wear your clothes until they fall off you.

The Talmud reference is very interesting. You say 50 workdays (that's 8 weeks... you agree that the people referenced in the Talmud didn't work the Sabbath, right?) for 52 weeks of clothing, which is one sixth of one's life.

Sounds like our estimates agree.
I'm in enough places without easy access to outlets. Even in a restaurant (like a Denny's or something) where I'll go without that many outlets.

At least the starbucks around my area don't have that many plugs either.

Another advantage of having such a long battery life is that I basically can go anywhere after work (where I do have a charger) and not worry about plugging it in at all until the next day. Also, not having to carry around my charger makes carrying around my laptop great.

It's definitely a priority thing, and also dependent on lifestyle. In college there were power outlets basically everywhere so I didn't have the issue, but ever since I've started working in various spots not having to look for the power outlet has been a net benefit.
Usually distributed OS are designed for a scenario where every device is (nearly) always on. Like a supercomputer or a LAN of desktops. Mobile devices want to be mostly off to save energy.
This wasn't a major concern of mine, but this is the latest I could find:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/03/ding-dong-patent-tro...

Anyway "The last Lodsys patent technically expired in 2012 - the LLC had been suing based on past infringement"
Nice! 2,400 MS-DOS games and programs now running in modern browsers!
My theory: Men (full disclosure: I am one) are so apoplectically opposed to women in positions of prominence or authority that they consider any thought or word from them as a form of unconscionable condescension and/or confrontation.

Probable reality: People are trolls[1], especially to women on the Internet

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/
I'd be interested in sponsoring DuckDuckGo, but I'd want to make sure I got referrer information.

Does anyone know if this is because DDG is using a redirect in between the link on their site and the advertiser's site, or is it just down to lack of set up on PosterBurner's end?

The ability to track and analyze is critical for a $1000/week spend.
Good point. If you dont like Apple's app store policies, just shop at one of the other iPad app stores. Simple.
Perfect rational betting without card counting is to not play at all, since the house has a ~0.5% edge on a fresh deck (depending on the exact rule variations).
These are good points.

I'd like to get philosophical about 'obscenities' for a bit.
A mature discussion must include diverse input, or you sacrifice the benefit of a diverse group.

I think it's unproductive to try to sanitize discourse by removing hyperbole or perceived obscenity. Such 'civil' exchanges leave the idea of 'obscene' an open variable, ready to take whatever shape the accuser wishes to vilify. The very concept becomes a censorship device. I think many people see the hypocrisy inherent and intentionally evoke obscenity while maintaining their salient points.(At work in the above example.) This is an attack on the concept of obscenity itself, and the tenuous standards of the civility enforcer.

I'm open to other interpretations, but to me it's like this:
Making a discussion PG-13 isn't a sign of maturity, it's the opposite.
Are there any in specific that you'd be really interested in? I'm the master of cold-calling (if I don't have some warmer way of getting my foot in the door)! :)
I don't get. We don't they use an special query string to identify the origin? Like the utm_ from Analytics.
The article is from 1974. I doubt that many people on that list are on Facebook or LinkedIn.
large size of fonts are affecting how much you can see in a page with a single glance. I would keep them smaller.
I thought openness was an important part of being a Hacker? "No problem should ever have to be solved twice": http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#believe2
"Focusing on Draper's awful social presence at the expense of discussing what he actually did or didn't do during his heyday... Seems so very un-hacker to me."
I second your experience in getting traction for outdoor sports apps/sites.

My own site, Bouldr, has had a bit of traction, but nothing significant, and monetizing seems to be a really tough problem in this field. Our FB page has > 17K fans, and there are a few thousand registered users on the site, but it's got to the stage that I'm not really sure if I should continue the app (I'm going to for the time being, but the thought of closing up has crossed my mind more often recently). Dr. Topo closed for similar reasons.

Anyhow, if you like, I'll Tweet and post on our FB page about your app - hopefully you'll have more success than me :)
Does this include private tweets and DMs?
Thanks for your interest! And our apologies for the delay in sending out invites.

For us, it's actually really important to let people in slowly. A new user signup is the most expensive event for our infrastructure by a huge margin, since we do lots of queries to Twitter and lots of additional number-crunching behind the scenes. A big, sudden burst of signups, especially if it included several big Twitter celebrities, would result in a bad experience for everyone. We've been getting a very healthy number of signups so far, but we will try to invite everyone in within the next couple weeks.
I never really liked Nausicaä, but I loved Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Ponyo.

Which Dune are you referring to? Film, Mini-Series, original or extended?
And if you have any student loans, car loans, home loans, credit card loans, they all stay the same (including their interest rates), while the amount of money in the system shrinks. The odds of your income shrinking increase, but your debts don't.

For a nation in which most everyone has debt, and a large chunk of the housing market is already teetering on the brink of the default, real deflation could be a huge problem. I don't envy Bernanke's devil's choice one bit.
@jacquesm: I am curious how you approached charging for this project due to the uncertainty of what was wrong and how long it might take to fix it, and of the importance of this to the company. As you say, this may have saved the company. Did you work on an hourly / weekly / project basis? If you can talk about this, that is. Thanks for the writeup, this seemed like a great challenge!
There is an alternate universe where every time he took his computer apart, he skipped the reflow heat stuff and just put it back together... and it worked identically for identical periods of time between failures. I'm not saying it's this universe, I'm just saying there is one out there.
No-cure, no-pay, daily rate. It had to be working by Christmas and we barely made that deadline. (Two days to spare...)
Don't forget CPU frequency, which may slowly step up during the first few runs.
For the tests where the speed difference is significant, these are really areas where the python optimizer (I assume the bytecode compiler does some optimization?) needs to improve. Humans shouldn't be concerned with such small differences in the literal representation of code.
What I see on your links is very promising, and there certainly are companies willing to hire entry level people. You'd definitely get a phone screen if your resume crossed my desk.

What you don't say is how you've looked for work and what happened. Do you apply and never get called back? Do you get interviews,but no offer? Are you willing to relocate or does it have to be remote work?
Apple doesn't even allow IOS apps to have programmability.

Could you elaborate on this "programmability"?
Again, where do you get the "same risk" from? Edit: and I know we are both comparing anecdotal experiences, not asking for a repeat of that, I'm asking specifically for yours (or an expansion on your point of view).

> It's simple math: the equity a founder gets is paid for with less cash than your salary downside as an early hire.

I'm not sure why that matters. To me the only thing that matters is my salary downside vs. interest I could be making on a larger salary else where. I might be misunderstanding what you mean though.
Yes. There's risk with every technical decision. I'd probably be inclined to use Haskell, for access to a top-notch community and a level of robustness (esp. in the face of refactoring) that, while it can be achieved in a dynamic language, is hard to hit without a static type system.

An upshot of Haskell is that it probably wouldn't take a $100 million budget because you can do a lot with a small team. We're going to need far fewer people than on a Java project, and you won't need the layers of management that come with big teams, and you'll also have smaller code and more of an ability to use the Unix philosophy (systems compromised to multiple, usually small, programs). Those wins aren't additive, but multiplicative.

So, yes, I'd definitely trust Haskell (or any mature FP language) on a $100M project. I'd trust Java on one too-- if I could find someone to do all the work, and trusted that person-- but I'd rather use an FP language and really kick ass.
It's ok to add tests for code you didn't write.
Oh yes! Those dev bootcamps looked fantastic. I'm going to look into a few again soon, and begin saving, more than likely.
You have some good points, but a lot of your argument is hinged on the idea that higher salaries would not bring more talent into the field. It's a statement that isn't backed up, and one I feel very skeptically about.

I think both sides have fine points. I don't support immigration barriers, but I also don't think we should tear the wall down in one fell swoop. If we significantly lower the boundary to immigration all at once, it will probably create a painful cycle in which all workers are significantly under paid until the businesses find the right balance in salary in order to get enough quality.

Ultimately lowering the immigration barriers will probably be good for everyone, tech workers included as the talent market globalizes and opens up more opportunities all around the world. Right now the need for good software globally seems to far outweigh the supply.

I've heard a lot of companies reason for locating in the Bay Area is for access to high quality engineers, way more than it is for financing. It's way easier to take money outside the Bay Area than it is to convince good engineers to move to X.
Is there anything we can do to help? I'm not sure I personally can help - I've never looked into extensions, but there may be others who can?
This is one of my biggest fears of cloud computing.

With abandonware, you can still run it locally, years after the death of the company that produced it. Not so with a thin client or SaaS.

EDIT: This isn't about exporting data, I actually like certain software tools, and would miss them if I no longer had access to an install.
This is a false analogy. We're talking about identical content (a particular website) as compared to two different linguistic terms. The point about folksonomies is interesting in valid in its own right, but should not be used as a justification for duplications on News.YC.
honestly, i never quite saw the appeal of bookmarking services. most of them, at least. i tried a few, all too much hassle.
It's the one I was using on a daily basis. Apart from that I occasionally I also use Flickr and BOSS named entity recognition service.
It said in App description that it does not need network connectivity. To verify this claim, I put my iPhone in 'Airplane' mode and tried the sample paper again. And I can confirm that it works without any network connectivity.

Also, the App is free but you have to pay for each language to language translation separately. I think it's a smart move. I may buy 'Spanish to English' for 4.99 if I am going to Mexico. If I end up in France 6 months down the line, I will buy 'French to English' at 4.99. I won't worry about spending 4.99$ but they have successfully extracted 9.98 from me. This is awesome.
Ultimately leading to faster-than-light travel by harnessing the speed of bad news.

See what you've done?!
SQLite [1] uses a test harness to do this:

"SQLite responds gracefully to memory allocation failures and disk I/O errors. Transactions are ACID even if interrupted by system crashes or power failures. All of this is verified by the automated tests using special test harnesses which simulate system failures. "

http://www.sqlite.org/about.html
There are considerations other than insulin response (other parts of liver metabolism):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
"Make your text 'Dyslexia friendly'"

Shouldn't that be: "Make your text 'Dyslexic-friendly'"?
You can review the down hill roller coaster for yourself with a quick google search, but the summary is "just two more weeks! we're so sure it will only be two more weeks!" for the last 9 months (giving them a 4 month buffer since that's what was originally promised).

Now we top it off by chastising a reviewer in public?

Really?
Since I've submitted (and run a similar startup), let me be the first to congratulate the Movity guys. Real estate is a tough business in which to both scale up and monetize (pick one) so this looks like a good result for both companies.
Who else got one of these for free from Google? I got mine yesterday, was excited about it, and... calling the thing a "first-generation product" would be a generous compliment.

I got the thing thinking that Google wanted me to write apps for it or something. The Revue came directly from Logitech. Google never sent me an email or provided any information about doing development with the box. There's also no developer tools provided by Google anywhere. The most I could find was "The Official Google TV Blog": http://googletv.blogspot.com/
Most javascript modules are defined inside a similar pattern, I'm surprised you haven't seen it yet.

http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Patte...

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/master/src/ajax.js
80dB is below the legal limit for street vehicles in many states. That's pretty quiet. I've owned a few cars with exhaust louder than that.
mean that no other product can ever refer to itself as "White Meat"?

I'm pretty sure chicken might have a word or two to say on that topic...