jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It is an argument. IP is evil/suboptimal from every angle. What happens when debating people who repeat tired tropes of “a musician won’t get paid” or “we won’t have new medicines” or “copying is stealing” is that you can never satisfy them because they aren’t discussing in good faith. They provide 3 angles, you refute those 3; they provide 3 more; you refute those; et cetera. There is no angle to support IP unless you are in the 1% and support it for selfish interests in maintaining the status quo, or you take the autocratic angle that it is important for a government to have more control over its people. Those are interesting debates to have, but discussing the logic and data about how IP is unjust and bad economics is not, because generally people just regurgitate “the Big Lie”, and it’s a waste of time talking to them. There’s plenty out there refuting any point in favor of IP, and simply thinking from first principles is a fast and simple way to arrive at the truth.

I do apologize for me jumping on you there and assuming bad faith, it’s just that most folks who raise similar points to you are coming from that, but wasn’t fair of me to assume the worst from you. I like your point about holding opinions that go against your own self-interest (being against IP has personally cost me a fortune), and I encourage you to delve more into this issue.
They can definitely find replacements, but they're still hurt by the knowledge that walks out the door with their former employees. My previous employer had a large decade-old (at the time) codebase that was only well understood by people who had been there since the beginning. Losing all those SMEs was a painful blow, which was why they finally changed their policies.
Pretty sure you don't get to borrow from the central bank unless your product portfolio includes the retail products the central bank or government feels should be available to consumers. So you can't just borrow without serving retail.
Being trans myself, I'd think that Conway's firing (in the late 60s, nearly 25 years after the end of the war) has more to do with American attitudes than German ones.
I think Flutter is getting there. That's at least open source, thought not an open standard.
> “It was a huge loss not to build it,” Koenig says, of the subway. “When you compare almost any city in Europe to a Midwestern car-centric city there is no comparison in the quality of life.”

Ain't that the truth. It's very depressing to read about the history of transit in the States.
Anecdata: of the 36 projects (not including projects that failed to get backing) I have backed in the past 8 years:

- 4 were outright scams (only 1 was caught and cancelled by KS)

- 32 delivered, practically all were very delayed, sometimes by years.

- Of the 32, most were as promised, but some turned out useless
- At least half I regretted buying

One thing that was very apparent (here as IRL) is that software projects runs WAY over the schedule.

I have since completely stopped supporting Kickstarter, unless I'm backing people who I already know of and who has a reputation at stake. There's way too much fraud and useless crap (but "World First Ultimate Crap").

Finally, it's not _all_ bad. The highlights: Klauf Light Bar (use them daily), Exploding Kittens (have played a few times), THIMBLEWEED PARK (love it), [Pocket]Chip, Nebia Shower, Kuroi Hana Knife Collection (use daily), Stingray Non-stick pan (use daily. Note, a 2nd campaign from the Kuroi Hana Knife people).
On my teams, we've come up with this: If you get woken up in the middle of the night for an actual incident (longer than 15 minutes after 10:00 PM), you can take the following morning off (half day) to catch up on your rest. If the incident takes longer than an hour to resolve (after 10pm before 7 am), you can take the following day off once you have your paperwork in order.
I think generally the way this works is that management finds the most positive spin on this (based on their public ads, this appears to be "small businesses everywhere would be going under without this valuable data!") and people repeat it to convince themselves and everyone around them. Or, they believe being there as part of the system helps to keep it from being even worse somehow.

The alternative is telling yourself that what you and your team have been working on is pretty questionable and maybe you should go take a massive paycut and work somewhere else for a while. I think most people have a pretty strong internal resistance to coming to that kind of conclusion.
So is the moral of the story that their Kickstarter is a scam, or that it takes a surprisingly long time to design and manufacture a high quality hammer?

I'm not sure what background this crew has, but presumably there's a large delta between thinking "hey i reckon i could invent a better hammer" and actually designing it, mass producing it and getting it to market. On the face of it you might think if you back a project like this you'd get your hammer within a year or two, but maybe it's more involved than that. I honestly don't know.
Tum ti tum.

"I haven't jumped the country... yet." - thanks for letting us know you're considering it.
Curious what you use as a Terminal replacement in Windows? I tried cygwin a few years ago and it was painful. Windows Powershell isn't standard enough for me.
That's been part of Windows (opt-in at least) for years.
During our batch (Lollipuff, W'13) it was at the discretion of the companies. For example, we released our video: https://www.lollipuff.com/blog/102/lollipuffs-ycombinator-ex...
I'm using Windows 10 tech preview as my main system and it's absolutely awesome, clean, responsive and fast. At least compared to Windows 7, 8.1, KDE, XP, Yosemite, Maverics, Gnome ... in order of descending utility.
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Again, if it were not fixed until developed then labs would often acquire copyright by default.
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Yes, if they were developing film creatively they would have some ownership. But, that is why the "publication" of the images by a film lab is done under the express direction of a photographer. There is a contract in force and terms agreed when you develop film using a service.

That is also how film labs avoid getting entangled in lawsuits, child porn, etc.

I am not so much hung up on 'expression' as copying / reproducibility. If it can't be duplicated or copied, or understood / perceived by audience copyright will not apply.

So undeveloped film is not subject to copyright.

Expression however does probably play a larger role in my thinking due to the copyright of binary software which is indeed absurd.

Thanks for helpful comments
I saw something like that just a few months ago. A mod who'd gone offline decided to come back and was angry that nobody knew who he was and that we have our own private in-jokes and way of doing things. It was like having a friend come back from a year abroad and getting angry that we didn't wait for them to continue being friends.
How do you decide what to work on for the year?
The author is an undergraduate student, and judging from this list it appears that he has yet to encounter non-linear PDEs?

Besides the Navier-Stokes equations, which are already frequently mentioned, I would have very much liked to see Einstein's equations added as well.
There's lots of ways to work it. I prefer retaining control over the service plane for ultimate flexibility and so I can easily switch public access point (the VPS) if needed. This also reduces the need for more powerful cloud hardware, more cloud costs, etc. On Apache, I've run Apache for decades for static web, reverse proxy, etc., I have no plans to change that.
Really it feels good to know @google (Project Loon) and @facebook (Internet.org) are working towards making Internet available to everyone...
I remember a friend would troll me by obscuring a url which led to this website that hosted an image with a ridiculously large resolution for computer hardware of the time to render, resulting in a BSOD within 10 seconds. Got me every time!
You're welcome — it's a great resource! I hope the success continues.
The biggest downside for me is that from time to time (rarely) the compiler really lets you down.

Right now I'm debugging the equivalent of #64650[1] but the cause appears to be distant from where the error is reported, triggered by monomorphization. I've seen other compiler behaviors in the context of async code that the maintainers could not explain.

That said: The compiler is a marvel, otherwise. Never have I had as much help from a compiler. I guess that's because most other languages have much less complex problems to communicate.

[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/64650

Edit: Another data point is https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60658
I used to spend my Sunday afternoons browsing several bookstores. Then shortly after the bubble burst those stores abandoned me.

They cut by 80% the computer titles and business titles by half. They started adding music/video and carved out space for a coffee shop. When business went down they cut wages and lost the knowledgeable staff which were replaced by minimum wage drones interchangeable with those working at fast food restaurants.

I'd started buying books online in late '94 but strongly felt the majority of the money I spent should be supporting the local stores.

I no longer feel any loyalty at all and in fact probably only visit my old haunts no more than twice a year at most.
Thanks and I hope you like it! Send me the pics of your dungeon and I'll post them up on the blog.
Equilibria can occur - run Flow's program for a minute or so: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454842
When I have opened up this debate among friends, your counter point is the one brought up the most. I think they can learn taking turns and accepting outcomes while making decisions, even if at the start those decisions are random. Even if I concede that Candyland has a place in the progression, kids jump past it so fast I wonder if it is even worth including.

Thanks for reading and responding, though.
Awesome; only suggestion I might add is a way to step back - or go to beginning (without copying the link I guess)
I think I found a bug: after losing the game and you want to start again, pressing x or c doesn't do anything. (Chrome 10 on Win 7)
Do they at least look like tulips?
Actually seems backwards to me. Of course you want LTV > CPA... but when we're talking about scaling, you often get increasing returns to scale. Which means that you can start with a poor LTV/CPA ratio, even an unprofitable one, and end up with a better one after scaling.
In the prius example, my hunch is that when doing tests the the generic terms (things like "nearest competitor") failed to elicit comparisions with the prius. Prius already has a not-a-regular-car cache so my guess is they had to use prius as the generic term. Or they were specifically targeting people that were already seriously considering the prius. Prius may be on the way to becoming another kleenex.
David Skok of Matrix Partners has blogged comprehensively on this topic: http://www.forentrepreneurs.com/

The content may seem obvious, but how many startups can you think of that have utterly failed to achieve LTV > CPA?
One note: if you're charging enough to cover a hire, make sure you have someone in mind willing to take the position. Otherwise you'll easily end up hiring someone you don't really want in order to cover a commitment you made.
Could you link to anything about how Georgia dealt with corruption, or point me towards a good book to read? I've been wondering how countries can 'come back' from corruption, and I'm getting nowhere.
There's a site like this: http://www.kompoz.com/compose-collaborate/home.music

I stumbled on it a while ago, but i've never used it myself.
they must, I can't see why anyone would pay when Google does just as good if not better
Then you're not paying attention. The ADL and the SPLC, though the latter is suffering some issues presently, are basically the key arbiters of what is classified as "hate speech" today. FAANG will not go to bat for the free speech rights of anyone the ADL has classified as verboten, because going up against anything the ADL does or says is anti-Semitic.
Yeah... for example, it's a problem for Google Stadia! Who wants to invests time and money in a platform that can be cancelled at any time?
I don't disagree with your assertions. But I want to point out that other tech giants sunset stuff all the time too. It some ways, it's endemic to the industry. Here's a list of everything Microsoft shut down over the years. It's a big list.

https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/discontinued-micros...
Carlin would've been fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8yV8xUorQ8
I think most people already know that Earth has water vapour :P
Having just watched a bunch of videos on Deep Fakes after the revelation of the Deep Fake video of Nixon's Moon Landing Disaster speech on here this morning, I can't help but feel like this is something else that will make fakes more and more difficult to distinguish from genuine.
Tools like Metasploit can often be destructive, not sure I would want to run them against production by default.. A more reasonable approach would be to set up a lab when needed when one of the less invasive scanners flags a potential issue.
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I do not feel this will appeal to people who buy a truck for frequent towing. 300 mile range unloaded = 150 mile range under load. With a camper in tow, you'll be stopping every 100-120 miles to recharge. How exactly will you recharge with a 30 foot trailer attached?

This will appeal to businesses that need to broadcast their eco sensibilities to us.
Still rocking jQuery whenever I can. It can grow into an unmaintainable mess, sure, but it doesn't have to.

First time I saw jQuery: Crazy easy and widely compatible, Ajax, selectors and animation - sold!

First time I saw React: Split your UI into components, write them in JavaScript (with optionally mixed in markup to make it more tolerable) - Hmm O…K….

Managing UI state can be complicated, but to me, not enough to justify the amount of complexity and abstraction added by React.
If you organize your code so that only a single function can act on a specific block and emulate OO/namespaces in CSS, instead of attaching functionality to every click and overwriting stuff with !important, you'll be fine. It's not that hard, but maybe that's just me.

It's nice that the Virtual DOM is really fast (even thought I don't usually need that much speed) and that I can render it on the server (even though you can probably kiss your semantic markup good bye) and one way data binding seems a good idea, but again, I don't think it's a problem I have.
What an amazing teacher. Its difficult enough keeping students engaged and interested, but to do it while simultaneously following scientific principles (hypothesis, repetitive experimentation, proof) is a feat. This is the way to teach science.
Right. All of the hate directed at BP is a little unfair, since it wasn't actually them operating the rig at the time. But then we as a society need someone to blame, and who better to blame than a big company.
I wonder if Apple can use this as a way to get out of their contract with AT&T.
I wonder who is the "mayor" of the White House?
when you're passionate about a topic, want to know the answer to a question or need to solve a problem, your brain is primed to learn. Encounter the same material in a different situation and you're far less likely to learn.

And it doesn't matter how many different topics you cover. What matters is how deep you go into the topics that matter to you. You have more of a chance of actually coming up with some new and useful, instead of merely rediscovering or relearning what others already came up with.
most of the words ending in "er" pretty much boil down to effort. Simple as that. Stronger, faster, smarter, wiser, happier, etc.

But the problem with the advice "put in more effort" is that it isn't really that helpful. But such is life. The beauty really is in figuring out answers for yourself.

When I was younger I was obsessed with finding out answers. I am very curious and like to learn things so of course I would read and ask people and go on the internet and try to figure things out - in short, I relentlessly pursued answers.

But as I grew older I came to realize that you can't always pursue answers from external sources, because they aren't really that helpful. I am not saying never learn, I am saying answers are only the beginning!

Answers are abundant. PG has all the answers about running a startup. Ask any nba player how to be good at basketball and you'll have tons of answers.
The internet makes practically any answer ever recorded instantly accessable.

This probably sounds like a lot of nonsense but the point is, the answers you really care about and the answers that will shift your life and spur greatness, those answers do not exist in books - you have to figure them out yourself, relative to your self.

How do you do that? Be active. Keep trying, never stop, always appreciate, always learn, always read, always be humble, always be kind, be helpful, be aware, be open.

See there you go, I guarantee and I will stake my life on the fact that what I am saying is 100% the correct answer. But it doesn't help you much does it?

Be a happy, appreciative student of life, stop to say hi to your fellow humans along the way and work hard - you will be smarter my friend.

Take care.
People hate Microsoft. They associate it with a necessary evil which breaks a lot. Maybe that has something to do with it?
The bulk of our initial user base has been local so most of our feedback has come from MI based users. I can certainly see how these testimonials might look like someone's wife or accountant, but I can assure you that is not the case.
No, get a standing desk.

Average standing desk > the best chair.
"...the vast majority of processors in the coming decade will have no more than eight cores"

I hadn't heard this figure before, but it sounds like another "640K should be enough". Although I do recall Intel predicting mainstream 12-core processors by 2008.
The idea of uploading and storing "my music" seems antiquated; what difference does it make if my bits are copied over there vs sharing access to the exact same bits? Given that they acquired lala.com, I hope they go with their model: you "buy" a streaming album cheaply (was ~$0.10 per song) and get unlimited streaming for good, except this time they wouldn't get acquired and refund my money for lousy itunes gift certificates :) And if in addition to the right to stream unlimited, they let you sync offline to your mobile device ala rdio or spotify, then they have a winner.
Yikes. That's how I feel... Yesterday I explained how my site, although very ugly, could handle all the traffic you could throw at it and more. Today, it can't handle any.
This is the same type of idiotic quackary (semi-truths and lies mixed with anecdotes and bullshit) that makes people turn to homeopathy, turn against vaccines etc.

Let's see what's in that juice you drank for 2 weeks: http://caloriecount.about.com/calories-bolthouse-farms-vedge...

Serving Size 8 fl oz (240.0 g)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 60
Sodium 450mg
Total Carbohydrates 12.0g
Sugars 9.0g
Protein 3.0g

Carb-restricted diets usually mean ingesting less than 30g of sugars/day. Assuming you ingested at least 1800cal/day, you were ingesting 270grams of PURE SUGAR a moderate amount of protein and 6 times the recommended intake of salt.

None of what you're saying makes an ounce of sense and while you may have lost weight due to caloric restriction, there is absolutely no way your body would have gone into ketosis, and you have absolutely zero credibility talking about anything nutrition-related.
This is the point of the post. There are no examples that aren't casting Math.random() to an int before doing anything with it thus using a pretty expensive way to represent 0.
"Copyright does not protect facts..."

http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

(But it's very nice of them to make this collection and make it available to all!)
It tells you very little.

One of them may be planning to be out of business, sell the HD business unit in 2 years, shove off the risk via financial wizardry, etc.

My guess is the great majority users will not RMA a dead hard drive after 4.5 years regardless of the stated warranty. Even if they did, it would only represent replacement with a future smallest-possible-capacity drive.
I'm probably going to give it another try eventually, but I sold it - I preferred learning logic programming ideas through Prolog itself, rather than Scheme / KANREN.

I've heard good stuff about the Bratko book, too - there's a new edition being published in a few months, I'm planning on checking it out then.
In 4 semesters (I was a transfer student), there were approximately 50% classes I was required to take (humanities, foreign language, gym, math), 25% classes related to CS I was required to take (all throughout my college education, I took 'intro to java' equivalent classes 4 times), and 25% classes I actually chose. This basically came down to 1 class a semseter, and it had to be available at a time that didn't overlap my other classes.

Since someone decided that all the CS classes should take place at the same time, this along with "prerequisites" basically ensured I couldn't take anything I wanted.

For at least 3 years in college, I ended up taking more math classes then CS classes in any given semester. I realize math can be important in CS, but it largely doesn't help me a whole lot now. I would have loved to take more advanced CS classes.
That doesn't explain why. Why is it that if tangents approach the circle (whatever that means precisely) that the length of the approximation approaches the length of the circle?
> Pros: Expensive storage cost (Google offers 20GB for $5/yr)

Somehow I feel like this article could use a tiny bit of editing, as expensive storage feels more like a disadvantage than an advantage.
Looks intriguing, but you may want to provide some more documentation for it. If I was to choose a git-workflow based blogging system I would lean toward toto, simply because I can understand it better (theres some good documentation and articles on it.)

Nonetheless, the result looks nice :)
I haven't read "Rails is a ghetto," but I do know that Zed Shaw's writing style is a lot more abrasive than this article. The basic premise here seems to be, "Why can't people just be civil to each other?" On the other hand, most of Zed Shaw's writing is of the form, "I'm right, and these people are wrong. They are so wrong that it physically pains me, and I should probably sue them for that." The only link that they would seem to have is that they are both, "I'm leaving X community, and here is why" blog posts.
Thank you for posting those. I'll take a more careful look tomorrow morning, but my quick perusal of the Kenschaft article has been sobering :(
I love your idea, this is a personal pain point I have been trying to solve. I am a busy successful startup founder who eats crap takeout food constantly but would pay a premium for a quality personal chef service that could be easily managed and customized. I have worked with several chef services in the past but the lack of web based system to manage it made it too cumbersome.

Please continue forward and make this successful so I can be a customer.

I was rejected by YC once as well (round one in 05!). But moved forward and we have 'made it'.

Feel free to drop me a line if you want to chat as your idea is something I have spent some time thinking about (and I have some personal chef connections in Philadelphia who might be willing to pilot it!). Check my profile for contact info
OpenDNS defaults to resolving non-existant domains as search results, bereaking DNS. You can turn it off, if you have a static IP.