jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had 2% of my net worth in currencies subject to social media pump and dump schemes. It ballooned to 100% and now I have airplanes and stocks.

Is that worth 2% of your net worth? You should read about optionality. You don't have to be poor if you understand risk.
Peter Schiff has been wrong consistently for 15+ years. Why do you think his theory explains anything?
But all that stuff is configurable, too. I use plain Android, but I have used other keyboards. It's just a preference to change somewhere.
But are any of those large scale DARPA projects pushing the foundations like some of the prior ones did? The ones you list are very applied, which may be appropriate for a nation at war, I took her point to be "where will the foundation for the next big thing come from?"

Hmmm, where would we place their VLSI project (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLSI_Project), which among other things according to Wikipedia supported BSD?
Somebody told me when I was 17 that he was so smart he could "teach baby chickens to swim"

I spent 20 years wondering about chickens and their swimming ability, finally giving up. Why did I wonder so much? Because it was unsolved, it was a simple question, and everybody had a different opinion about the matter. You'd think that something that simple would be obvious. As Kahn said about a different thing He tasks me! He tasks me, and I shall have him! I'll chase him round the Moons of Nibia, and round the Antares Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up!

It is uniquely annoying.

During that process, however, which included blogging, diagramming various chicken breeds, and questions posed to experts, people told me that giraffes also could not swim. "You take a giraffe, drop him out of a helicopter over the ocean, and he'll drown"

I find this hard to believe, and without access to a helicopter or a giraffe, cannot say for sure. But scanning the article, I get to the end:

Unfortunately, we don't really know enough to be sure whether these distributional limits actually have anything to do with the ability or inability of giraffes to cross water.

I may get hit by a truck tomorrow, but at least I know that the computational fluid dynamics of giraffes, and perhaps chickens, will continue to be studied. One day, my friends, we will know the answer. :)

EDIT: Blog entry from five years ago this month: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2005/06/can_chickens_...
I talked about this with my investors and my lawyer (I'm lucky enough to have Grellas counsel me).

If you are like my company, and you have some small amount of convertible debt, and you are ramen-profitable but don't have a valuation, there are many reasons why this may not be worthwhile.

I'll leave it to Grellas to explain... note that this was prior to the extension of the law:

The “qualifying small business” (QSB) stock rules let anyone who invests in qualifying stock (meaning stock in a C corp) by December 31 of this year, and who subsequently holds such stock for at least 5 years, avoid any capital gains tax and also any AMT on the eventual sale of that stock...

... Pricing the stock also has implications for the grant of future equity incentives to other key people and so you need to consider not only pricing but also issues such as having to do a 409A valuation the next time you grant options to anyone in the company.

... The company would need to authorize their conversion in the absence of a qualified funding and will need to authorize a form of preferred stock into which they can convert. It is possible, of course, to have the notes convert into common stock but this puts a very high value on the common and makes it difficult to grant future incentive stock to key people without pricing it at a high level (the law allows as much as a 5 to 1 pricing differential between preferred and common and so, if preferred stock is used instead of common, you can still make future incentive grants at 1/5th the price of the preferred).

This led me to conclude that it's not worthwhile to convert, and George confirmed:

I think it is marginal for the company and its noteholders at this point and makes sense only if there is a fairly strong sense that people will hold for 5 more years. It would inject at least several thousand in costs (at least $10K, with some $5K to $7K out of pocket as a lump sum, if a 409A appraisal should be needed to price option grants and the like) and would add tax complications in terms of stock pricing in the short term – and so, yes, I would say you should likely skip it.

That said, if you are looking to invest in a great start-up and this tax break is meaningful to you, shoot me an email, and I'll send you my pitch :)
It seems that they let the domain expire.
This should get you by:
http://hpaste.org/42369/haskellorg_ips
If I were in negotiations with Yahoo to buy one of their properties (and I were more nefarious), I'd have leaked a story like this to reduce the sales price.
Most uses of non-greedy matching can be replaced with faster, clearer, and more precise inverted character classes, in my experience.
"Javascript : The Good Parts" + visit http://ejohn.org/apps/learn
There was an Apple product announcement on October 20th 2009. That's when they announced the new LED-backlit Macbooks, the Magic Mouse and a new line of iMacs. By the time the Courier video was shown, there was a lot of speculation on what would Apple announce that October.

As for the September 9th event, it was disappointing. Lots of people expected a "one more thing" moment with what would become the iPad.

So, it was right after an Apple event and right before a couple product announcements from Apple.
This is why I would love to see colleges move to a hybrid model, where they handle the things they're good at -- office hours, discussions, providing a community, that sort of thing -- and use the internet for stuff like delivering canned lectures.
Sadly it looks like OnePlus is moving away from Cyanogenmod (search Google News for `oneplus cyanogen`).
Also the OnePlus One never had the fully open source version of Cyanogenmod 11. It uses a version called 11s (https://cyngn.com/products/oneplusone/) with many proprietary features.

However, they will surely continue making phones at that price on which the pure version of Cyanogenmod can be installed.

Xiaomi seems very promising since they also make phones at that price point with similar specs, and Cyanogenmod ROMs are in development. I know it might be hard to get them in the US, but in Europe they can even be ordered from Amazon.
I suppose, if they published the algorithm they claim to use, and if you can stub out the app's random number source (say LD_PRELOAD or the like), and if you can sniff the app's network traffic (again, LD_PRELOAD might be necessary if it's encrypted, assuming they're not using a statically linked SSL library), and if they don't perform one of any number of trivial modifications to the algorithm (such as adding a fixed salt), you might be able to, for a given message, confirm that for that message, they encrypt it identically to how the algorithm they claim to use would encrypt it.

But that's a lot of ifs, and doesn't prove there's no backdoor that's currently disabled.
I did not mean to imply it was an argument either way. I meant it more as a way of demonstrating that we need to be careful to be precise about the actual relative impacts of each option, since they each have non-linear side-effects (including rates of compliance). So we should not get caught making absolute statements that something is always better or that it never works in this case, but instead look at the Pareto optimality frontier for each particular region when making policy recommendations and analysis.
URX doesn't have a consumer app to deeplink to.

http://urx.com/deeplinks
> Relatively speaking chances are you have absolutely nothing to whine about in your work. Nothing.

The problem with playing this game is that there are always bigger fish, and there are always smaller fish. Do back-breaking work 8 hours a day? At least it's not 10. Do it for 12 hours a day? At least you have a job. Don't have a job? At least you're alive in America. Not from America? Etc.
My highest usage of instant messaging came when I was working at a large consulting firm. Everyone used it there, because we were scattered, and phone messages and email were too slow. I don't think it's going corporate, I think it's been corporate.
Developer here. When writing, I was not satisfied with existing grammar checkers (Grammarly, LanguageTool). What I really wanted was better wording for what I wanted to say. My NLP experiments turned into a working product that I now use myself.
I am looking for ways to easily monetize. Currently, I'm thinking about a prepaid solution instead of a monthly subscription. You would pay per character until your paid amount is used up.

Any other ideas?

Appreciate any feedback
This is called relative deprivation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_deprivation) and Malcolm Gladwell's book "David and Goliath" has some interesting examples of its destructive power, such as when bright students enroll in STEM courses in top-tier schools, but end up dropping out from STEM because the amount of students smarter than them discourages them.
no more crude than the process of collecting the images in the first place. Were they live streams or some sort of cacheing thing?
> "anyone who wasn't capable of recognizing the exchange as poorly run (eg anyone who isn't a programmer and can't see past the friendly corporate graphics on the landing page)"

I don't think that being a programmer was necessary to be wary of MtGox.

MtGox was being called out in strong terms as long as 3 years ago on HN and bitcoin forums (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2676263). This sort of knowledge certainly should have found it's way to "non-programmers" at least in the past year.

Trusting MtGox during the past year wasn't a matter of not being a programmer. It was a matter of being an idiot.

Do idiots deserve to lose their money? No. I agree with the rest of your comment.
pretty sure the cause and effect was pretty clear there.. thanks for the feedback, though - will launch an A/B test against grumpy HN posts to validate ;)
Check out http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16500874
I'm not sure that calling this measure "collective intelligence" is fair. If you look at the paper, this is measuring the ability for a team to move quickly without stepping on each others feet. I'd expect "collective intelligence" to measure the ability of a group to come up with the right answer to a difficult problem without so much time pressure and in that case I bet you'd find a much greater impact from intelligent individuals.
I don't think it's accurate to say it's a different point, but it's a weaker version. And I don't feel that the GraphChi folks have any explaining to do, as I would expect that using a more general framework to solve a problem will have some performance penalty over an expert hand-coding a solution. What that performance penalty would buy us (hopefully) is it's quicker to write the application, and perhaps easier to port elsewhere.

But, I'm also not an expert in graph algorithms, so it's difficult for me to evaluate how much domain knowledge you needed to implement yours.
The Wankel was asking a lot of the
seals at the edges of its
special rotor; apparently it
was asking too much.

> Fuel economy wise though, the traditional piston engine outperforms the Wankel engine.

Yes, piston rings work a lot better than the
seals Wankel needs. And, now with pistons,
we can use high compression ratios;
the Wankel seals have problems which get
much worse at higher compression ratios.

Why high compression ratios? Simple, classic
Carnot cycle physics: The higher the compression
ratio, the more get out of the fuel.

Why higher compression ratios now? Because now
we can have direct fuel injection, directly
into the combustion chamber, much as in a
Diesel. So, then can do all the turbo charging
and supercharging want, for still higher total
compression ratios because don't have to
worry about pre-ignition from the air being
too hot from the compression it got
before entering the cylinder. So, don't
have to use an intercooler to
cool the compressed air.

Why supercharging or turbocharging?
Because get more power out of the
same basic engine of pistons, cylinders,
etc., that is, more power without
more friction from larger pistons.
So save on friction. So two savings
for fuel economy: Higher compression
ratios and less friction.
That's what Volvo and others are doing:
Small engine, lots of boost, good
power and good fuel economy.

I suspect a good way to get both
range and fuel economy with an electric
car is to have a hybrid: So, have
an internal combustion engine drive a
generator to charge the batteries.

Here can have an advantage: The
engine need run at only one power setting,
its most efficient. Then for such
an engine? Sure, use a gas turbine
so that we are back to basically just
one moving part. Yes, in an axial flow
gas turbine, the part that rotates,
at, say, 30,000 RPM or so, is darned
expensive, but that part is also
designed for the engine to have some
ability to have a throttle. If give
up the idea of a throttle and have only
one power setting, then we can return
to centrifugal force for both the
compressor and the turbine. Then
the metal for the high temperatures
is expensive, so can use some ceramic.

Now we're talking: Just one major moving part,
cheap ceramic, centrifugal force,
single power setting (where the aerodynamics
for the compressor and turbine work best).
Might get 200 HP in a small package.
Then run it only when charging the battery.

Then never bother plugging the car to
charge the batteries. When
driving around town, nearly never run the
turbine. On the highway at 65 MPH, occasionally
run the turbine. Blasting across, say,
Nevada at 110 MPH, run the turbine a lot.
At top speed of 150 MPH or so, sure, run the
turbine 100% of the time and still have the
battery run down.

Sure, get some losses when generate the
electric power, when stuff it into the
battery, when draw it out of the battery,
and when drive the electric motor. Yup,
several losses.
My issue is with the application running somewhere like an Android app where an attacker could easily change logging and see the sensitive information, as opposed to having to do a more sophisticated attack to get to the decrypted data (through finding out the key, patching class files, etc,.)
Recruiting sucks and we are doing everything we can to make it better!

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That's great. Couple of things that I had to battle with in the past should be fixed in 2.0, so - awesome news.
I have found out the hard way that a `rm -rf /*` will delete the contents of a `/vagrant/` file...

Huzzah for git.
Problem Solving skills.
Sometimes it does. It's the battle that every developer, especially leads, will face quite often in this career.
No, probably not. Because a hyperintelligence would not be constrained by your closet or forgetfulness to plug in the laptop. Especially with a network connection, it should have no problem breaking out.
So, according to you, if you don't develop for .NET, you don't use Windows. Nice. Such certainty. Many wow.
Why Apple's term? I've heard that used with respect to PC games too.
> So, SaaS is okay so long as the "risks" are sufficiently small? Who defines that risk, me? So that makes it okay for me to use Google Docs, since I deem the risk of Google doing something evil with my documents to be small?

Yes, if you don't put anything too private in there, it's ok (according to him), he also said in another interview that it's ok to use Facebook as long as you don't put any private stuff there.

> ...thus violating the "essential freedoms" of anyone who uses your thin clients?

Could you explain why it violates "essential freedoms"?
The New Progressive Party is the right-wing party in Puerto Rico. It was founded by Republicans and most of its leadership is affiliated with the Republicans.

It's the left-wing parties of Puerto Rico that are the ones that favor free association or independence instead of statehood.
Maybe I can adopt it as a spam scam idea. I can target individuals in academia and hump their wet dreams of greatness.
>Why it is that no one with the mentality you are presenting here was able to solve that millenium problem?

I obviously can't answer why this one guy got there first. Plenty of people with a sane attitude about money have solved significant problems, Edison for example.

>it's probable that he would accomplish less

There's no reason to believe this. There's a wide spectrum of how much energy you have to put into things. It's certainly true that there are only so many hours in a day, but why does handling the unpleasant necessities of life (proper nutrition, exercise, basic money management) sanely have to be a net loss? You don't have to be a dollar hungry millionaire in the making, just use basic common sense. Einstein for example lived a sane and competent life. So did Niels Bohr and Stephen Hawking and numerous other people that made enormous contributions.
Fourth and fifth are not actually true for some of the database types...
> PCs are going to be like trucks. They’re still going to be around. They’re still going to have a lot of value. But they’re going to be used by one out of x people

Boy, you can tell Jobs lives in a bubble, or else he would know this truck metaphor is shaky. Lots of people buy trucks, they just don't live where Jobs lives.
AdMob response is on their blog. http://blog.admob.com/2010/06/09/mobile-advertising-and-the-...
If you happen to know which pages redirect to the page you want?
And I thought software patent was dumb.
I will remember to pay Ms Duran if I ever set foot on the Sun, or maybe I will sue her if there is an eclipse
Love that tiny keyboard, but where is the space bar?
FAANG is about the worst preparation possible for starting a company. The skillsets are completely different, and in many ways diametrically opposed.

I'd suggest working for an early-stage startup before starting your own (e.g., 5-10 people). Or step down gradually. Work at a company with 50-100 people, then 5-10. Companies and roles are very different at different orders of magnitude.
Because people say any idea they disagree with is false.
Sure, but the sentence:

> A review of the Top 10 most populous U.S. cities indicates only half of them have obtained .gov domains, including Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, San Antonio, and San Diego.

Is factually wrong.
No one making $50k self employed is paying 25k in insurance premiums period. The people I quoted are probably making between $150-200k a year.
You might not understand why you are being downvoted since you are new there.
Don't take it personally, is just that we don't want any kind of humour or otherwise pointless (as in: adds nothing to the conversation) informations.
We are trying to keep the signal to noise ratio high, just say something only when it adds to the conversation and you'll do great!
Quality software is scarce, though. Even in a world without copyright, or a world in which copyright does not apply to pure information like source code, it would still be difficult to produce short effective code (because finding short effective code is NP-complete!) and so some of us would still be employed without difficulty.
Hi all, creator here. I've been working on AnonAddy (short for anonymous email address) for the past few months with the vision of creating a privacy friendly, transparent and easy to use email forwarding service.

The web app is built using Laravel, Vue.js and Tailwind CSS. Source code is available on GitHub[1], also mirrored on Gitlab[2]. The server is running Postfix, MariaDB, Nginx and Redis.

I know that there are already a number of other services available that do a similar thing, but I wanted to address a few issues with them, such as:

- Proprietary source code

- Adverts, analytics and trackers used on the sites

- No option to encrypt emails using a GPG/OpenPGP key

- No option for multiple recipients

- No API

AnonAddy protects your real email address from spam and allows you to identify who has sold your data by using a different unique email address for every website.

Here's a highlight of some of the features so far:

- Add your own GPG/OpenPGP key per recipient to encrypt all forwarded emails

- Custom domains

- Anonymous email replies

- UUID aliases that look like - 94960540-f914-42e0-9c50-6faa7a385384@anonaddy.me

- Add multiple recipients per alias

- Add additional usernames to compartmentalise your aliases

- Browser extension for Firefox and Chrome

- API

New features are added regularly, here are some potential future features:

- Tags/folders to help organise aliases

- Random word aliases e.g. yellow.biker54@anonaddy.me

- More brower extension functionality to manage existing aliases etc.

- Send from aliases e.g. initiate email conversation

- Send replies from custom domains as opposed to from an AnonAddy domain

One of the most frustrating challenges was sorting out CORS issues with the API whilst building the browser extension. I noticed that only Firefox seemed to be enforcing the policy and not Chrome (Brave) which caused some confusion. In the end I looked at this awesome package by Spatie - laravel-cors[3] and was able to solve the issue. An important thing to note is that the Cors middleware needs to be included in Laravel's global middleware stack for it to work.

I've learnt a lot about Postfix, DAME, DNSSEC etc. whilst building this but I'm always looking to improve things so I'd love to hear if you have any suggestions or feedback at all.

Thanks,
Will

[1] https://github.com/anonaddy

[2] https://gitlab.com/anonaddy

[3] https://github.com/spatie/laravel-cors
It's subjective, and just my personal opinion, but I cann't see any upside to me from Google using these images of my house. So, my logic begs the question that if there's no upside for me, what else is left, and for what possible reason would I want that data there? At the end of the day I'm just exercising my choice, I'm not vilifying Google, like I said, they obliged. Fair enough?

all your data are belong to us ;-)
I am from Belarus (country behind this tld).

I'd invest a lot of time into reading all documents before doing some serious project using these top domain names. We still have some problems with corruption and civil rights..
OK, so they were to hip for MySQL/PHP. How many shared hosting users have access to MongoDB + ROR? I say fail, as in failed decision.
current exchange rate is ~3100 belarussian rubles for $1.
All I see is are tiny pixel lines. Maybe some advanced rendering technology on my monitor ruins it?
But I often do the same thing repeatedly fully expecting different results because in between the state/context has changed...
Quick correction - .by is the ccTLD for Belarus and is not regulated by ICANN.
That's funny. I'm sitting here writing code to do the same thing (well temperature monitoring anyway, just not for turkeys) but using my own wireless temperature hardware.
My laptop screen must have some gigantic pixels. The "Error Establishing Database Connection" text looked pretty big to me.

Edit: Not trying to be a dick, but the site was down for me (and others, as reported by Down For Everyone...), so here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:distrac...
Send them this article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Then, send it to yourself.
Implementing an interpreter for a language in a weekend is a less common need than writing a program for the language. If you want to write an interpreter that does no more than R5RS in a weekend, R5RS is perfect for you. But surely you can see the need for a standard beyond that.