jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> And again, I don't think the MBA program teaches skills, the main exception being presenting confidently when you don't in fact know much.

What can I say, this is not consistent with my experience. Perhaps it says more about the motivations and attitude of the people attending.

Perhaps a core confusion is thus: running a technology-based business requires, well, technological and business acumen. If you try to supplement one with the other, things go wrong, regardless of the direction. When I hear Toyota is ran by engineers, I'm sure the engineers don't negotiate finance deals, manage HR, career development, accounting etc. These boring things are important. Equally, when I hear about Boeing or IBM becoming corporate quagmires, whose core product is developed without a proper engineering input, I'm not suggesting this can work. My personal experience of companies ran by technical folk was, as said, awful.

The frustration about MBAs I hear in this thread seems to be when they encroach on technical territories they don't know about, and I agree this cannot work.

I think where MBAs work best is where you have mid-career people, already with experience, using this to boost their skills in diverse areas (alongside all other benefits like networking etc.), and I maintain it is great at that. If you take someone who doesn't know anything about anything, give them an MBA, then a random start-up to run, and it all goes wrong, I wouldn't blame the MBA.
And the internet is a byproduct of the military industrial complex, so I guess we should all log off now.

This op-ed speculates that the CIA has somehow compromised Signal by merely funding it. There's no there there, at least not without some more compelling evidence that the CIA and Silicon Valley are colluding to spy on all the recent Signal converts. I don't know enough about Signal and e2ee, but I'm guessing more evidence would have to be supplied to cast doubt on the robustness of Signal's code.
TIL there's a wiki website for foot fetishists.

I believe everyone has a right to their own fetishes. Nothing wrong with being into feet. But the thing that really puts me off about this interview and the WikiFeet website is the lack of consent. Uploading photos of someone without their consent is wrong. The fact that the purpose is to satisfy a fetish adds an extra layer of creepy. Regardless of how the interviewer feels about it, and regardless of whether the photos came from a public Instagram account, it's not ok to upload photos of someone to a fetish website without their consent.
:) interesting idea.

I'm also reminded of the Amazon "write the press release first" approach to product development.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backward...
To add an additional outgoing address to Gmail, don't you have to verify that you can receive messages at that account first?
I didn't get the impression that Governor Shurtleff gave the go ahead out of religious conviction at all. The only religious element was a contract between the assumed mercy of God and the convict's apparent lack thereof.
Xmarks or another bookmarking syncing system seems like exactly what you're looking for, minus automatic tags. All it does is take your browsers bookmarks and store them in the cloud, so no additional work is needed when you bookmark.

Xmarks also has a rather nice mobile interface as well.
The first book of his that I read was "The History of the Siege of Lisbon". I had to read the first pages a few times before I could understand it all, but I ended up hooked. I've read almost all his books and finally got interesed in literature written in my own language. I prefered English and Spanish before he finally made me see how wonderful Portuguese is.
Yeah, we're not talking about credit card info. Why not have post@ plus a secret@ available in your options. The more technically inclined could easily use the second, most likely safe enough, system.

I really hope they don't complicate an otherwise zen-like experience.
They don't "know" about your porn bookmarks, it's just stored on their servers, besides the sync is not obligatory you can use the xmarks extention if you're more comfortable with them.
or both... assign a random GUID, and then allow the user to set it something they want if they choose. That's probably the simplest way, and of course the simpler the better for both development and security.
Not in some parts of Canada. Trespass is only once you've told someone to leave (or have a sign saying "no trespassing). Otherwise you are free to walk on anyone's property (this is Canada wide) and sometimes enter their house (this is specific to certain areas). If a door is locked then obviously you arn't allowed in, but in the North you are granted "implicit" permission to go into someone's house if you would be in pain or otherwise discomforted. In an emergency (threat of death, lifelong pain, bear/wolf/moose attack (seriously) you are allowed to break into a house and stay there until you can leave. You are supposed to get in touch with the owner as soon as you can find him, though, and replace food, windows, other damage. If you don't it is considered break and entering.
even if it isn't fixed, don't break it!
Yes, my complaint about the title shouldn't be taken as a complete endorsement of Union Carbide's view of events. If you choose to put a tank of poison gas within death range of fifteen thousand people, especially of the "if any water ever gets in this tank will explode" variety, you have to bear at least partial responsibility for whatever happens.
I absolutely agree.

Take this assertion from the article: "But it would be looking for patterns that are already existent. It wouldn’t be able to find that new thing that was totally out of left field. That’s what I think of as creativity—somebody comes up with something really new and clever." -- I find this disingenuous. Creativity is just the outcome of our particular experiences, it's a way to parse our hundreds of thousands of hours of experience we get even at an early age into a new combination. There's no small algorithm that without a mountain of data ("experience") will generate clever insights from simple requests.
This is a slight diversion, but if you're interested in the topic of popularity-driven ethics (diction?) you may be interested in the novel by Cory Doctorow called "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" http://craphound.com/down/

I only read it recently, and in addition to recommending it as an enjoyable sci-fi read, one of the themes is the use of system called 'Whuffie', which is a reputation-based metric that permeates all of society, including politics and economics.
So you think the fee to remove liquidity should "float" in what way exactly? With per-customer tiered volume discounts like many exchanges offer to customers who trade enough in a given month? Or when you said "float" did you mean it should be variable across the entire exchange over time, but the same for all customers at any given time?
Both types are important. The math is indeed more complicated for square meshes, but you can use the fact that the basis functions (is this the proper English translation of the German "Basisfunktionen"?) on square elements have more degrees of freedom to sometimes get better approximations.

Disclosure: I heard some advanced lectures about FEM intended for students who intended to write a diploma thesis about this topic.
On the other hand, I'd like to see a list of actual privacy violations or other problems caused by these tracking dots. I'm guessing that would also be a fast read.
The difference here is my when approached well language. When good angel investors report their #s, e.g. Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, etc. they say roughly 1/3 return nothing, 1/3 return something and 1/3 are successful to some degree. That's the 10-40% I'm talking about.

If you take the universe of all entrepreneurs, then yeah, it's super small, and looks like a black swan event from the outside. But that's sort of the point of the black swan theory--in the right context the black swan isn't nearly as rare. The context I'm talking about is entrepreneurs who are approaching it well. I know that is nebulous and I'm not defining it well, but roughly the type of people those really early stage angel investors would invest in.
You should read more about how to build an application on Android, at least in terms of defining UI. I am tempted to try to create a UI framework that can parse these same xml documents and create iPhone UI.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/index.html
Nope, errors still happen, but in Google Talk standalone client the errors appear as
"username@gmail.com/gmail.00D320A0 is offline and can't receive msgs right now.
username@gmail.com is offline and can't receive messages right now. "

(00D320A0 was just a string/hex number that I modified for this example, not a particular error code)
IIRC, if you read Women, you'll see a passage where Bukowski essentially clarifies this piece. He'd get so many wannabe writers asking him for advice that he'd tell them to just give it up. If they didn't, they were real writers. If they gave up just because some old prick told them to, well ...
This is really cool! When I was in the roommate situation, we just posted buzzer codes composed of dots & dashes next to each name.
Oh, the awesome possibilities you can create with Twilio API. =)
Interesting — checked again and what I'm using is actually a snapshot. Not sure why that makes a difference, sorry for the confusion.
I get the feeling. I too, feel I "could've" done things differently. Here is my question to you: Did you also go to Stanford and have an influential circle of friends? Just asking to see if you two were actually in similar boats.

I'm not discounting what Larry Page has done. I'm saying he had the tools to build Google. So many others had and didn't but not every programmer in 1996 had.
Not just see messages, but show you ads as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25520200

Telegram's a down-right bad IM experience compared to WhatsApp despite Facebook's forced integration: You see ads and the chats aren't encrypted.
Pet project. It'll amount to nothing.
> being FOSS just in the client side, IMO changes little in comparsion with WhatsApp.

There are efforts implementing mtproto servers that are compatible with the Telegram codebase like telegramd [1] or madelineproto [2] in case you want to host your own server.

But, if decentralization is your main focus (interpreting your statement); you probably want to switch to a Matrix-based client anyways.

[1] https://github.com/nebula-chat/telegramd

[2] https://github.com/danog/MadelineProto
I use a 31 inch 4K display at native resolution and it's perfectly usable and text is perfectly readable, although when all my other displays are HiDPI/Retina, everything looks pretty chunky in comparison. My ideal monitor would probably be a 30 inch 8K display running at 2x scaled mode, but we're many years away from that being affordable.
How about a little love and frankly, some gratitude dammit! /s
It does have a backup functionality, which unlike WhatsApp's doesn't store your messages unencrypted. It also doesn't force you to use a specific storage provider. If you want to have it synced, you can point your favorite sync client at it.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

Additionally, they've introduced an optional PIN which you can use to recover profile, contacts and settings when switching devices - without the need to setup sync yourself.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059792-Si...
That’s gotta be pretty cheap to implement, if the Twitter API Terms of Service would allow that kind of thing.
World of difference btwn "can be run" and "is trained on"
Don't forget encryption
Yeah, but the problem with the above is that it necessarily limits the scope of your venture. E.g. you're very unlikely to do anything related to hardware with such constraints (I keep wondering where the next "wow" hardware development akin to the FPGA is going to come from in the current post-dot.com crash funding ecosystem).

I suspect there's a continuum from keeping the most control to having the greatest chance of "changing the world".
My advice for getting over jetlag: put yourself on the local clock immediately. If you fly a red-eye, get as much sleep as you can on the plane - then when you land in the morning stay awake the whole day and don't go to sleep until after 10pm! If flying west, do the same - put yourself on the new clock and go to sleep no later than 11pm or midnight. Also in both situations - get some good exercise the first day at a hotel gym or pool. Also if you have access to one, use a sauna!
Sure, there are lots of reasons to avoid SaaS, that just wasn't one of them.
Hmmm, yeah ... it's possible that these VCs only accepted a non-control position because they were desperate due to their fund closing fairly soon (let's assume within 2-3 or so years) and needing another chance at a big hit.
I calculated the gear inches for all my combinations and it's printed on a tiny chart taped on my handlebar stem. It's too small to be useful in the middle of a ride though. I do have a larger-print version just showing the gear combinations in order of size, which is more useful mid-ride.
Not to be nitpicking either, but this is not an answer to the question:

> What improvement does computer programming give for human life?

Computers are so widespread now that there is practically no aspect of life that isn't affected by programming.

(Kid specifically asks for 'improvements', not 'affected'.)
I also have to accept another problem -- chain slap. With some of my lowest gears, the chain runs loose because the derailleur does not have the ability to wrap that many teeth.

I'm sorry, but that's just a recipe for unreliability. Surely mountain bike dérailleur can take up that much slack? (I only ride road bikes, so I don't know)

If not, I believe the new SRAM Apex groupset will be able to support it - it has an 11-32 cassette (http://www.sram.com/node/2121/brand/sram-road/src/cat)
For the development/testing of any client-server app where you anticipate deployment to a network with variable latency. In 2010 this means websites.

Mostly to simulate the real-world UX of ajax sites that have a lot of server roundtrips.

It's vital in these kind of interfaces for everything to happen before the magic 150ms threshold of perceived instantaneousness.
You shouldn't get downmodded for a comment that demonstrates exactly the moment of enlightenment Coda was trying to get people to have about password hashing. Let me fix that for you.
What I am handling is basically what Basecamp is handling. If Ruby and Rails can manage Basecamp, then it sure can manage what I am doing.

It's not so much the S3 storage I am concerned about. It's more the allowing me to backup everything properly, concern I have.
So the original question remains, is it possible with bcrypt?
A lot of people seem to do this, so I'm curious - what are the advantages compared to e.g. LastPass? Also, how well does it hold up if you used two devices simultaneously?
I'm curious what the attack is that makes that easier to crack than the Gawker way. (I'm sure you're right, I just didn't know that it would be easier.)
You're right. The point was that this not Google's initiative alone, a lot of device manufacturers are riding along too. In hardware business you cannot experiment like that.
JSON is simple compared to any textual format and many binary formats. Compare it with HTTP 1.1, 2, 3, or say Apache Arrow.

JSON is a compromise, and specifies only syntax, without semantics, and without an API. But I think that was a good tradeoff compared to say XML syntax, schemas, and APIs like SAX and DOM. You can build a lot of stuff on top, and people have.
> Can there be anything more destructive to society??

Yeah. Just about every modern industry. Even aggregated across all people, personal creation of "pollution" is all but insignificant compared top industry.

https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sh...

"The evidence, unfortunately, comes in the form of the worst pandemic to hit humanity in a century. We were confined. We were quarantined, and in many places still are. Forced by an insidious parasite, many of us dramatically slashed our individual carbon footprints by not driving to work and flying on planes. Yet, critically, the true number global warming cares about — the amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide saturating the atmosphere — won’t be impacted much by an unprecedented drop in carbon emissions in 2020 (a drop the International Energy Agency estimates at nearly eight percent compared to 2019). This means bounties of carbon from civilization’s cars, power plants, and industries will still be added (like a bank deposit) to a swelling atmospheric bank account of carbon dioxide. But 2020’s deposit will just be slightly less than last year’s. In fact, the levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere peaked at an all-time high in May — because we’re still making big carbon deposits."
I moved to Berlin. Quality of life improved from not being in the US in and of itself.

Can confirm. Grass definitely is greener.
This seems pretty "standard": https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/master/docs/conce...

Is it based on Google's internal preferences?
To be fair, wouldnt you set ground rules for your guests if you threw a house party? If those guests dont abide by your rules, you're just going to embrace them to keep doing it?

Ragging on them simply because they want to put ground rules down, so everyone can have fun, is pretty immature. Yes concerts need rules. The venue can be held liable for certain things drunk/high dumbasses are going to do. You need to be specific about what rules are so dictatorish or you just sound like a 15 year old pissed off with their parents.
I don’t get it either... capitalism isn’t some intentional decision that society somehow collectively makes, it is more like the natural order of economic transactions that arises in the presence of (1) property rights, and (2) freedom of association. Most of the things Ray talks about are not intrinsic features of capitalism, but simply institutions that seem to interact with a capitalist economic structure in notable ways e.g. central banking.
See site guidelines for why OP should rephrase OP's comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A few lines seem to apply. Specifically:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
Funnily enough, even with my own code made for running calculations only I will ever care about, I don't feel like a program is really complete until I've made myself a lame little GUI to drive it.

The problem is always the same. The "ugh" factor when I try to make the program do something I haven't made it do in a while. If code doesn't have a pretty front end for me to click on, I'll run it much less frequently.

(The second benefit, entirely unrelated to the article, is that it also allows me to make all my code incredibly fragile to bad inputs, right up until the point I make a GUI which is extremely fussy about inputs. Obviously, that could be done without the GUI, but it keeps me from spending to much time-- both in the sense of programming time and in the sense of run-time-- over-sanitizing inputs in the bulk of my code.)
I keep forgetting to enable that feature!
It's insane to think that the least powerful members of a field are the ones controlling it.

Is the medical field controlled by medical students, or by 60 year old medical authorities?

Is chemical engineering controlled by new graduates, or by 60 year old engineering authorities?

It's completely ludicrous to imply that programming is somehow being led astray by young people. Young people have no power. They do what they are told.

The "black box" programming philosophy was not invented by Gen Y. It was invented in the 80s at least and taught by greybeard professors.

The hip new language trend was not invented by Gen Y but was pushed by VCs and other string pulling money-masters. Paul Graham pushed LISP and Python and generally advocated for the creation of new, hipper languages.

The ageism in the field is not something that is coming from young people either. It is coming from employers with the purse strings who recognize that young people are MORE EXPLOITABLE than old people and so they can get more work for their dollars.

The reason for ageism in tech is to keep industry veterans away from impressionable young workers--what if the veterans and the youngins form some kind of union or association that drives up costs?

Old people lead every field. Young people do what they're told. Old people lead programming too--this guy just isn't one of the influencers. He isn't a 50 year old VC, a 50 year old Comp Sci prof, a 50 year old CEO, a 50 year old BDFL.
Edit window has elapsed on my other comment, sibling to this, so I'll add to it here.

I've been through a very tough, life-consuming job before. I founded and ran a startup that would take nearly $200m in funding and grow to around 80 employees. During the ~5 years I was involved in that my kids were born, bought and maintained a house, and other such life epochs were passed. It was insane... working 80 hour weeks, traveling every other week, and working equally long hours when away, always feeling like I wasn't doing enough.

I only realized how messed up this was when I was packing to leave again, and my 4yo asked "Why is Daddy leaving? Does he not like me?" On the plus side, being a startup founder is why I'm now financially independent. But I wouldn't want to put my family through that again.

So I've heard that getting a PhD can be a brutal experience... but I wonder how bad it is in comparison to the hustle of a startup. Still I imagine that it is a different kind of work and will take some getting adjusted to. And it is usually not something that can be restricted to the usual 9-5. So that's part of why I'm looking at doing a "part-time" PhD program, although I won't actually be doing another job on the side.
Thanks for the great insights, and for not downplaying it.

I definitely see how having access to influencers and/or money could make the process infinitely easier.

I didn't realize it until I read a piece saying a16z was a media company first.

I guess I'll push my luck a little bit with bare sales/marketing tricks.
"Right" to keep FB valuation, but that doesn't mean legally/morally/ethically right.

I'd say Zuckerberg is in the wrong, but I also understand why he made the decision.
This has happened before. Read The History Man by Bradbury.

And what will happen is that being "politically unreasonable" will be unfashionable and the society will swing to an equilibrium once again. The extremists will leave or retire and the people who kept their heads down will say "they were a silly bunch". In the UK they were labelled "The Loony Left" and subject to much comedy.

To suggest that it's either one extreme or the other isn't how things will work.
It's priced in.

/s of course, but maybe people really don't care because FB has been in so many of these types of controversies?
I own some of their stock and I keep buying more. Reason: FB is doing a great job with advertising and they are not just Facebook but also Instagram and other things.
That would be confusing, what would we call enthusiastic wikipedia users then?