jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The challenge with a hybrid model is that you pretty much want housing that has a comfortable private work area and an at least semi-reasonable commute. That's probably fairly doable in a lot of suburban areas but it's harder for an urban office.

That said, I expect this will be quite common and people are probably more willing to have a 90 minute each way commute, say, if they only have to do it once or twice a week. (That's about what I'd be to go into our Boston office. That would be lousy to do most days--as I can attest to from a prior company--but it's not that bad to do once a week especially in the nicer weather.)
>Do you feel like no good software has come out of Microsoft since Windows 95?

No, but I feel like a lot of really bad software has come out of Microsoft since Windows 95

>They're still 75% of all PCs

Purely because of marketing and abusive monopolistic practices in the early days
More productivity for the productivity god! Produce, produce, produce!
The roller coaster saga of AstraZeneca is a prime example of why I think it is fair for some people to not want to get vaccines or at least to be suspicious of the accelerated EUA process. The choice to get vaccinated or not should be retained by individuals, respecting bodily autonomy, rather than forced by states via vaccine passports or other such policies that resemble China's social credit scores.
This is categorically misleading.

> There is a link between AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and very
> rare blood clots in the brain but the possible causes are still
> unknown, a senior official for the European Medicines Agency
> (EMA) said in an interview published on Tuesday.

> “In my opinion, we can now say it, it is clear that there is an
> association (of the brain blood clots) with the vaccine. However,
> we still do not know what causes this reaction,” Marco Cavaleri,
> chair of the vaccine evaulation (sic) team at the EMA, told
> Italian daily Il Messagero.

> Cavaleri provided no evidence to support his comment.

So one senior member, albeit the chair of the vaccine evaluation team (but maybe that's cause for more concern), has said ahead of the official EMA announcement that in their _opinion_ there is a clear link and _there is no evidence_.

> However, the EMA later said in a statement that its review of the
> vaccine was ongoing and it expected to announce its findings on
> Wednesday or Thursday.

> In response to Cavaleri’s comments, the Amsterdam-based EMA said
> in a statement on Tuesday: “EMA’s Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment
> Committee (PRAC) has not yet reached a conclusion and the review
> (of any possible link) is currently ongoing.”

Can the title be changed here to reflect this is not yet the official stance of the EMA; it feels misleading.

Also I wonder how this bodes for Australia's vaccine rollout given we're using AstraZeneca.
If the 10x and gatekeeping people want to give us methods for getting to 10x productivity/skill, I'm all for it. But articles and threads like these always fail to give up a method of reliably training that quality and accurately testing for it.

Until I can hold up a plaque where humanity agrees that I'm a proven 1x, 5x, or 10x engineer and I deserve money and a job according to each of those levels, it's all just posturing and debate.
> unclear what level of side effects or potentially deaths would have to be in order for the product to be removed from the market

I'm not familiar with EMA procedure. But with the FDA, it's clear. Entire rule books about the risk ratios clear. Billions of dollars spent on tuning those risk ratios to every demographic clear.

44 reported out of 9.2 million. As many as Germany has Covid cases every 9 minutes [0]. Nearly half of Britain has received at least one shot [1], compared to the EU, which has struggled to get to a double-digit rate [2].

This is a low-frequency alleged side effect that should be investigated. But the matter's narrow impact, ambiguity and timing, right after the EU's inability to procure and distribute vaccines came to light, is convenient.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/europe/german... 44 / [6,855 cases on 5 April / (24 hours * 60 minutes per hour)]

[1] https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations

[2] https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/EU-VACCINES/...
Yes - That's the one.
2600 Pacman sure does suck, but to be fair, that video was recorded on a potato at 14hz, making the flickering ghosts inscrutable instead of just annoying.

Here's one that seems to have been recorded at 60hz then downsampled to 30hz with frame interpolation for Youtube. Still shit, but at least you can tell what's going on. Kinda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYE1iZOTeI8
I have a pinterest account, and my wife and I used it when looking at houses last year. She'd find a house online, pin it to a board, and if she really liked it, would send me the pin.

I think of it as a bookmarking service meant for collections of similar things.
With some effort, you could get a visible boyfriend for 0$. But yeah, it's hard to overcome laziness.
>Does replacing Bitcoin's logo with the picture of a cute dog now make you some sort of authority on distributed consensus algorithms?

No more than owning some Bitcoin makes one an authority on monetary economics and finance.
A simple readonly RFID tag - agreed. But think "smartcard with wireless power transmission" like [1]. These should be able to ensure cryptographically secure communication and identification. At least MitM-attacks without physical access to the card should be unfeasible, right?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card#Security
Some of it could actually be hosted through code.google.com
Does that really matter?

The parent poster is saying that interviewees don't get what's going on with the exploit itself.
The link did not make it clear how fossil fuels are subsidized.
He postures himself as one, at least.
Exactly. Email is still the killer app of the Internet.
Just a little perspective: I was replying to someone who admitted that playing a video game was killing his creativity.

In your case, you work for a game company, hardly a typical gamer. My experience with gamers, usually friends, roommates and acquaintances is not that flattering.

I am sure there are "functional gamers", but let's not confuse being functional despite of something, for being functional because of it.
I think the funniest part is how he specializes in eyeglass wear. I don't know if there's anything to the sterotype of eyeglass wearers being more geeky or introverted (I wear glasses but I'm a small test group) - but it goes along perfectly with his role as the bully.
I wouldn't bet on it, but I think some of around 200 countries might want to give up a small part of its territory for an appropriate sum of money.
How about just putting those entries in your /etc/hosts file?
2009 is correct. Thanks for pointing out the concept that the efficacy of these drugs changes due to the mutations of the virus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemic_H1N1/09_virus#Nomencla...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic
Fired for voicing an opinion? Sounds like a company worth leaving.
Nigeria is a failed state? When did this happen? Perhaps, you could just explain why you've deemed it a failed state.
Not knowing anything about "social proof" or why it's important to know when it appears online, but the term appeared online well before 2007. For example, https://web.archive.org/web/20000511115153/http://www.isoc.o... (from 2000) says:

> Social proof. In many social situations, one of the mental shortcuts on which we rely, in determining what course of action is most appropriate, is to look to see what other people in the vicinity are doing or saying. This phenomenon, known as social proof, can prompt us to take actions that may be against our self-interest without taking the time to consider them more deeply. Cults from the Jonestown Temple to Heaven's Gate, for example, provide cogent evidence of how strong the effects of that phenomenon can be in the right circumstances. [19]

Therefore, it's likely an artifact of Google trends.

Various sources cite: White, S. H. (1977). Social proof structures: The dialectic of method and theory in the work of psychology. Life-span developmental psychology: Dialectical perspectives on experimental research, 59-92 as the source of the term.
Related: Attempts to Escape Oflag IV-C (Colditz Castle)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempts_to_escape_Oflag_IV-C
This is not a linear time sort. This is just sorting using a priority queue (aka heap sort) with arbitrary pauses thrown in. Here is a simplified model of what is going on (http://ideone.com/azLsTc). Note that line 31 (the sleep until) is totally irrelevant to the sorting.
Did you even read? In like the second paragraph, it points out:

> Judging the world through headlines is like judging a city by spending a night in A&E – you only see the worst problems.
it's a well accepted fact that neutrino bursts precede EM effects in supernovae.
I forget the specifics of Javascript, but in many languages "truthy" (used in ifs) is usually closer to "!= false" than "== true". e.g. any object or non-zero number is truthy (except "" in JS), but only a handful are actually == true or == false.
"Information regarding these membrane units is easy to find on the internet, but good luck buying one! They are nearly all produced for huge industrial installations, and those manufacturers will not even return phone calls from interested hobbyists."

I look forward to seeing the equivalent of sparkfun for homebrew cryogenics.
They support Android too. It works through the Amazon store app.
Hm, well then I will have to request the font files fetched from their hosted CSS, compress them and pipe this output (the resulting zip) without any caching on the server.

This may result in a higher latency, but might be more safe in regards to their ToS.
Yeah - terrible. Other governments do nothing of the sort.
Yes, this. I've had jobs where I worked in the freezing rain, etc. etc. The people cutting your grass are likely better than you. I'll just come out and say it, they are, because their life SUCKS and they get up every day and just do it. They have heart. Many people in our community have a disgusting sense of superiority and entitlement. You just don't understand unless you've been there.

What makes many people in this community vapid isn't that they're uncompassionate towards people who have it harder, it's that they musn't realize how well off they really are. It's not your fault that most of us don't have the perspective that some of us do, but the lack of it is very real.

I've been called an asshole many a time by young privileged employees that complain about the free food, that we have certain core working hours, that yes, you need to be at the team standup on time, and in presentations you should pay attention to the presenter and out of respect put down your device(s). Before someone picks those examples apart, if you are about to, you're missing the point. Relatively speaking chances are you have absolutely nothing to whine about in your work. Nothing.
I think the point is often best regarded as annoyance by lispers that it has taken so much code and time to get back to where they were at the start.
The best part of Pharo is that you get everything from the ground up: VM code, image objects, tools, all is accessible and can be shaped to one's will.

Try to do that with Eclipse or IntelliJ's tools!

This is making one reach an understanding of the computing platform which is very beneficial in terms of mastering one's craft.
Sec. Ash Carter [0] did some really good work at reforming the pentagon, especially acquisitions, both as Deputy SecDef and later returning as SecDef. He also served as Under Secretary for Acquisitions (AT&L)

Sec. David Norquist [1] was another Deputy SecDef who helped reign in DoD costs. He also served as Comptroller before DepSecDef. There was whispers that he did actually fire people for wasting DoD funds.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ash_Carter

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Norquist
They often are and it depends how quickly you react. This is a good description https://laws101.com/can-you-reverse-a-wire-transfer/
Hard not to wonder if the endocrine disrupting chemicals we haven't banned but are changing sexes of many species, likely including ourselves, contributed.
The Target system isn't 100% effective though. I once saw a guy ask to see a laptop, then grab it and make a mad dash for the door. He got away with it. I think it was shortly afterwards when they moved the electronics department to the back of the store.
Man I just assumed it was Thursday because that’s when it usually happens. But yeah it was the tweet that snowballed.
They could fork the chain and do whatever they want then influence public policy to accept the new formed chain.
I like this, the built in hacker news chat and basic user following is nice.
I am following diablod3 right now.
What type of cost difference are we talking about? I am aware some countries you can import a finished good and pay not as much, import TAX wise compared with a far higher cost to import the components needed. There in is the crux I believe for many countries. The access to the components needed at a competitive price and that is without the production cost.

Though would you pay a bit more for something made locally? I would and certainly makes an appeal for many. Now if only there was a way for TAX to fix this and make local production competative and for me the only way is to impose some green TAX factoring in all that extra travel. Though many components are not made local, so that may even cost out cheaper to make abroad still.

But the feel of buying something made locally or at least in your own country/continent does have a monetary premium that many would accept.
I'm not particularly sold on the news+ concept, but Smoking Apples blog looks pretty sharp and nicely written. Adding to the RSS reader.
There is one issue no one ever seems to talk about. The one thing that really really screws up incentives at universities is the money the students have to pay.
If students have to pay for individual courses, they will try to minimize the amount of courses they have to take. They will try to get in cheap courses. They will try to get in cheap universities. They will optimize their education for Bang For The Buck. They will optimize for bad teaching.

Look at European universities. For students, they are free. Or ridiculously cheap (like $500 per semester). Actually, last year, students in Germany were fed up with the bad quality if teaching. Guess what they did? They went on strike! They blocked rooms and prevented courses from happening. Without students, universities can't exist. So, professors and management had to act. And teaching improved.

I think you will agree that something like this is completely and utterly impossible in the US. If a student was going to strike, he would waste all the money he had put in that semester. Hence, there is no way to protest against bad teaching.
If students pay huge amounts of money for each course and semester, they will try to get cheap education at a big-name place. I guess in the choice between cheap, big-name and good, you can pick any two. Hence, there is little incentive to get good education.

Furthermore, if courses are free, students can freely choose which courses to take. Hence they try to get the best teaching they can get. If that means they take a few extra semesters, so be it. If that means that they actually change universities or even curriculums, no problem. You see, by not paying (much) for universities, students optimize for quality.
Introverts can increase their tolerance to being social in much the same way you can increase your physical stamina. However, as an introvert, I don't think I could ever train myself to recharge from social situations the way extroverts do.
If you dislike using Zynga as the example, you can use virtually every game produced in Korea in the last decade, or the current raft of "free to play" games in the United States, many of which were originally on subscription models and theoretically optimized for fun. Available evidence suggests that virtual goods are just staggeringly better as a business model compared to subscriptions for online games, particularly online games not called World of Warcraft.
Computer Scientist from NTNU (Norway) here. During the 3 first semesters we have 5 pure mathematical courses, which consist of ordinary and partial differential equations, Laplace, Fourier, statistics, numerical methods, complex numbers, discrete mathematics, linear algebra and probably lots of other things which I've forgot to add in. We also have digital design, basic electrical circuits and physics. To learn about algorithms and data structures, we have a course where "Introduction to Algoritms" by Cormen is the curriculum. So far, we've only had one course where we've learned Java, and that course mostly focused on object-oriented programming - not Java itself.

I'm not sure whether the computer science major is that bad over in the states, but if it is, maybe you should take a look at how we do it?
We wanted people who were serious about being involved in the community. Lurkers and trolls weren't exactly a high priority user target for us.
What use would the government have funding market research for hotels? It's blatantly vocational, with even fewer pretenses to academics than MBA programs.

At least english majors don't have a profit motive!
Only one missing... Those were the users complaining.
Neat concept, but where is the data coming from? There is no way that the cheapest flight from Vancouver to Toronto is $460.

Maybe half that.
Sounds like another incentive to do this. No more random snooping/lost items.
Amazon has lots more than books, so signup for Amazon prime. It's ~$80/yr but you can split it with up to 4 different accounts (so find some friends and it's $20/yr). Instead of all those trips to the store you can now use a few mins of your free time to order any items you need (batteries, shampoo, garbage bags - whatever) and they'll arrive within two days. Overnight orders are only $3.

Grocery delivery. Not a big fan of Safeway stores but their delivery is awesome. I get overwhelmed in grocery stores, buy things I don't really need, forget to buy others. Grocery shopping at home makes it very easy to compare your items and review your basket before finalizing your purchase. Works really well if you work at home and can schedule their 4hr delivery windows (cheaper).

Legal pads. Great for taking notes, sketching ideas, exploring ideas - lots of startupy tasks. They're high contrast and longer than traditional notepads. I know moleskins are generally the startupper standard, but give the legal pad a try one day.

Phonetag (http://www.phonetag.com/) I hated voicemail. Phonetag now handles all my voicemail, emailing me the transcription and MP3 of the audio. Now I can organize, sort and search my voicemail just as I do with the other items in my inbox.
100% agreed, I hate watching videos. I don't have the time to sit there and stare at something, and well, you said the rest.
Glad the person landed on their feet.

I'm not sure they did, their situation looks precarious to me.
Starlink[0] is made for you. It's a constellation in low-earth orbit, so latency is far lower than 650ms (current users are getting around of 30-60ms.) The current iteration must stay within the "cell" it's assigned to, which is only a few miles wide. But in the future, there will be a version available that'll work almost anywhere in the world.

[0]: https://www.starlink.com/
Any luck getting an American distributor
People using WhatsApp are holding a cellphone, so it’s not about suddenly being able to communicate with people.
The other comments are pretty much right on. Between the brainpower, google, tenacity it takes to be an early employee of a startup and everyones' personal networks, IT is going to be handled internally.

I'm sure during a big expansion stage, IT gets provisioned funds.
Dozens, if not hundreds or thousands of HN readers would probably enjoy getting an email like that. Perhaps you can't see a good thing for what it is?

There are worse problems to have.
No, but for wireless, MITM is a bit harder. They need to be broadcasting and interfering with the station you're trying to connect to - that should be at least somewhat detectable, and alert people to the possibility. And certificates are a known system, implementing them is beyond "doable" and into the "easy" realm.

In any case, current MITM-prevention techniques should work just fine w/o a password. Unless someone knows otherwise, I don't really see why a default-encrypted system would be any more vulnerable than something behind a password.
So far it's been difficult getting one on ones with doctors. They justifiably shield themselves from solicitors and other annoyances (if I were a vet, I would do the same). You are right that vets typically rely on IT consultants, but there are two things that are slightly different (I believe) about the veterinary industry vs. human medical industry. For one, there are a large number of very small practices (2-3 vets total), which makes any IT expenses proportionally larger. Secondly, most have to rely on "generic" home town IT consultants which are not very familiar with veterinary needs, as there is not a robust veterinary-specific IT support industry. And to some extent we're trying to improve this vet/IT relationship by offering a very low-maintenance, flexible solution.

We've had more success meeting early adopters where they already are on twitter, facebook, etc. than by knocking on doors or making calls. Although I know we still have our work cut out for us and need to continue pursuing these in-person discussions.
So he needed to be more sincere but less personal, and it can't have a hint that your name was just substituted in?

That's an awfully high bar considering the next guy is going to complain that the email that suits you takes itself too seriously, shows that these are just biz-heads looking to ride a wave and can't connect on a meaningful level.

I think you're making much ado about nothing. Ignore the email if you want. Or use it as an opening just to get a feel for the team. Either way, what you've done here just feels crass. Because they weren't telepathic, and stepped on some unwritten rule or another, you call them out publicly and target them for ridicule.

We've all seen much worse when it comes to these types of emails. Time is limited. If you're willing to give people the benefit of a doubt there's as often as not someone genuine and decent on the other end of the line, even if the pitch ends up being something you're not too keen on.

Maybe it shows a lack of experience on my part, but it does seem to me that _someone_ went to some pains to write up that email, even if it was used as a form, and it shows IMO.
They aren't, and if they were they would be absurd. A corporation is a legal device for making money. You shouldn't need everyone to join/form one in order for democracy to work and justice to exist.

The simpler explanations tend to be correct, and that applies here: the American government is captive to corporate interests.
Great news for the Perl community. Congrats! And thanks as well to dotcloud for making it happen. :)
Tor type attacks won't work here. Why? Because transactions go to everyone. Bitcoin "addresses" are really key fingerprints -- it's impossible to know who has the key to decrypt a given Bitcoin. It's equivalent to sending everyone in the world an encrypted email; if you send it to everyone, how do you know who the intended recipient is?
I'm sure the people from Jan 6th would be in complete agreement with you.
Not so much the people that lost loved ones or had their businesses/livelihoods destroyed due to the BLM riots.