jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Perhaps start a blog, and link to posts on that. Not only will your public statements be more concrete but they'll be centralized so that it doesn't take HN to find them.

I have something to mention, too. We take our databases seriously. Our data is our service. I would feel very insecure about using a database backend that I did not fully understand (hosted or not). We choose our database engine based on the problems we are tackling. I'm able to read up on the actual internals of the databases we use. There are studies and research done on which one performs better in certain scenarios. I know exactly why I'd use one and not the other. I can physically download the database software, itself, and try it out. I can research the people that are making the database software and I can see that they're all very passionate about making a quality product. All of this comes together and allows me to choose the database engine that's right for my scenario, as well as makes me feel safe choosing the one that I do.

With that said, I have absolutely no clue what CloudDB actually is. Your site makes it sound like a service similar to MongoHQ. Or, is CloudDB an in-house database engine that you guys have written and it is also the name of your service in which the only option is to have you guys host it for me? How can I tell whether or not the actual database engine you guys use is any good? How can anyone be sure of this? Where is the science and statistics behind this? What philosophies do you guys follow? What was CloudDB's inspiration? What other databases is it similar to?

You claim that "ClearDB makes your website, blog and app run faster by making it easier and less expensive for you to manage your data" - how does that make my software actually run any faster? Your website is not very reassuring to me. It doesn't shout "hey we're all about creating databases", instead its more about money which doesn't turn me off, it just doesn't make me think that your database has the right motivation behind it. How can I save money using CloudDB? How can I be sure I'm not throwing my money away by trusting it?

So, what is CloudDB? What does it solve? Do you guys use MongoDB, MySQL, etc behind the scenes or is this your own database engine? For a database named ClearDB, I find it ironic that it's not very clear as to what that actually is. If you are in fact dedicated to making a good database, then I want to see it do well and I'd enjoy checking it out. But, I won't be doing any of that until I can figure out whether or not it's worth my time.
This is a great hack/proof-of-concept but for anyone remotely concerned about the integrity of their data in the event of a theft, I can't recommend something like PGP Whole Disk Encryption (http://www.symantec.com/business/whole-disk-encryption) enough.

There are other options, including free ones on Linux, but for Mac I think this is the best implementation.

With my laptop insured and my data unrecoverable the package gives me total piece of mind.
Great little trick, unfortunately most laptops are formatted right after being stolen to be re-sold. Unless your laptop was stolen with the express purpose of blackmailing you or because it is known to have juicy data on it the chances of it coming alive long enough for you to connect back to it are slim to none.

Even so every little bit helps, if this aids in the recovery of a few laptops and apprehension of the perps then so much the better.

If your laptop does get stolen keep a close eye on auction sites, ebay, craigs list and the like, chances are it will turn up there within hours of being stolen.
Please list the "a lot of Asian countries".
No offense, but your website is just as ugly as your business coaches pink shadow on dark blue text is just... like really? I'm getting nausea just looking at your coaches site

There are so many great wordpress themes and premade static page templates you could use, why are the fonts on your site so terrible? The vertical spacing and kerning make my eyes bleed, especially on the FAQ.

Are you sure your business coach actually knows what they are doing? Even the font on your logo is terrible too Federant, serif...?, the font is extremely dispropionate to the logo. There is simply too much crap going on in your logo as well, the roots are distracting and don't scale well for small image sizes. Doesn't YC fellowship recommend business coaches already as part of their program?

Maybe design isn't your thing, but you should seriously consider paying a professional to redo your entire branding and website. Its hard to have a social media / email / blog outreach strategy when these essential requirements aren't met yet. Its a oneclick install in many instances, adding a few images, and some text and that's it

I don't know how long you've had your business coach either, or what things she has outlined and actionable steps moving forward. Nor do I know what things you have gained since then. So I don't really know either way. But if website / logo redesign wasn't one of the lowest hanging fruits / highest priorities on that list then I question the coaches' effectiveness. Its cheap, fast, and easy to get a nice site done these days with existing templates.

Also, why do I get the feeling this comment's intention is just to solicit traffic to your coaches site. Well for one, why does she already know about this comment on hackernews?
Yikes.

> What I am saying is that it is no longer fundamentally the same thing I was originally hired to help build nor is it compatible with my vision for the future.

I've heard elsewhere that 2.0 will be an entirely unrelated framework which will be still called Angular for no good reason.

Dismissing this opinion as a troll is no longer productive after the above commentary by an Angular developer.
Global stock and precious metals ETF's are inflation-resistant and quite liquid. You'll pay only 0.02% spread to liquidate them and have the cash in your bank account within a few days. As opposed to a house which is generally 6% spreads and a couple months to liquidate. Only in exceptional liquidity crises (August 2008 - March 2009, and March 2020) are you at risk of cashing out for 30-50% losses. 80% of the time it's at value or higher. So you just need a small percentage of assets that are deflation-resistant (cash & bonds) for the small periods of time deflation happens, to pay your expenses.
There's lots of advice out there and it is almost all as useful as it is expensive
i guess so, i want instant page loads, i care less whether transfer is 4 or 5 MB/s
If I may answer?

>>In the conversation...<< That is understandable. I often feel the same worry/desire/hindsight. A therapist suggested that doing some gentle mental self-reassurance / self affirmation exercises beforehand would help. (Which for me it does - but only sometimes)

>>Programming..<< Silent timers as suggested elsewhere for that. I.e. it's time to check-in on myself. They don't work well for me but seem to work well for a lot of other people. Currently I am trying to associate a real world ‘what time is it?’ with also doing a self check-in.

>>A man lost..<< I am slowly becoming able to spot those moments and 'shift up a gear' to do a mental check-in (STOP + HALT techniques). Learning how to do this so that it becomes an instinctive/automatic response is hard and I stumble more often than I manage to walk but the fact that I can at times manage it demonstrates to me that it is possible to do and also that if I remember to send a mentally self generated ‘dopamine hit’ immediately when the ‘take a deep breath first’ instinct kicks in then the neurons that fire together will wire together. Regarding the ‘regret’ aspects – true; but you are also human. A heartfelt apology and explanation is the best (least worst?) way of dealing with those.
Is this why some orgs have "sales engineers?" People who can pick up the nuances of a client's question whether a company can actually do feature X?
As bad as America treats their poor it's far better than any other country truly contemporary to the US. Which is a high bar at any rate. The European social safety nets exist only due to the massive support given by the US over the last 100 years. Same for SK and Japan.
> you “save money” by purchasing non-cash assets like stocks

Bonds aren’t great for building wealth. But they’re fine for preserving it. Saving money via a mix of inflation-indexed and fixed-yield debt will generally preserve your purchasing power over long time intervals.
If EU countries had the same supply as the UK, they would also have vaccinated roughly the same percentage of people.
Texas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138767
The goal of this project is to replace tundra with grasslands. And tundra isn't a forest really, it's quite the opposite: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tundra
You need to deal with the formatting issues in your reply ... the "" creates italics unless treated carefully.

So you mean:

"So for 45x45, you do 4x5, which is 20 and add 25 to the end, giving 2025."*

And while that's interesting, it does feel like you're simply responding to the question/title, rather than reading and responding to the actual article.
I've just spent a few hours trying to use Cloudflare Tunnels to connect to my machine through SSH after reading this post. Unfortunately, I then found that SSH keys are not supported: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/319 so I cannot disable Password authentication.
"As we learned in Vietnam, high-powered weapons are so sensorily overwhelming that they are similar to psychoactive drugs. Like LSD, which can convince people they can fly--causing them to jump out of windows--weapons can make people overconfident. Skewing their tactical judgement."

Just don't go taking over any aircraft carriers.
Google has a very open culture, e.g. all documents/calendars/... are open to anyone by default.
If it's private, you'll need to mark it as private and then nobody has access.
Same here: 99% of the time. If I want to dig -more specifically- than DDG wants to go in some cases, I just add a !b in front (for Bing). I do a lot of research; haven't used Gargle for 10 years.
While I agree with you in general, it must be somewhat difficult to draw the line between what's a "good" defense contract, and what a "bad" one is. Surely we need _some_ defense contracts? Once you need some defense contracts, then I assume you want an ethical company handling them.
High quality safes have glass drill plates that break when drilled and clamp the mechanism shut.
You can’t fool Rust devs. Gimme Rust!!!!
are they online? i;m guessing not but would be cool if they were
Oh thank god I'm not alone in thinking that this is a horrible way to design a "feature"!

I've had very similar experiences as you. Every automatic "correction" of user input needs to at least be clearly indicated and easily reversible. In my opinion it shouldn't even happen until the user actively signed off on the proposed modification.
If I understand MacID correctly, the unlock process is interacting with a lockscreen notification, then TouchID?

If my phone is in my pocket (it will be) this takes longer and involves much more juggling than typing in the computer's password directly.
Has this video been restricted lately? It keeps showing the message:
Sorry
Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here.
Please send a message to the police with details. (510) 777-3333 is the correct non emergency number for Oakland.
There's still things like driving tests that need to be done in person how do they do those? Most things can be done online but they keep the locations open for things like RealID and driving/vision tests.
Why the downvotes on this? Yes, what parent post has to say is disgusting by modern sensibilities, but it's historically pretty accurate.
does this just become an arms race where root certificates or some sort of device management tools are forced onto citizen devices?
What an awful response.

He's clearly talking about the context in which medical staff are overwhelmed and unavailable.
I normally buy a premium brand bread, and right now all I can get is generic store brand white bread....
I suspect we are better off encouraging demand side with generous unemployment payments. Something that takes into account your income like UK. This can buffer the impact.

If I'm right in believing this will be an ongoing issue for at least 6 months and likely over a year then nothing is going to realistically save many businesses that have little revenue over these time frames. That said other business will do well like medical and home delivery groceries.

We need to protect people. It truely sux if someone loses their business through no fault of their own but what's important is make sure these people have some money ongoing after the fact. Then the economy will repair itself to the new reality, and again when a vaccine or other solution is found down the track.

Also I think making sure landlords and banks can't kick people outta homes and similar with utilities are important.

Further well likely need some dry power when this is over to kick-start the global economy.

...hard questions and who really knows.
I was replying to parent who was basically saying that a process does not work if people are unwilling to try the process. This statement is false. If I am unwilling to replace the broken on exhaust on my car, it does not mean that it's impossible for me to fix my car.
And he will tell you so.

Every opportunity he gets.
> I have a degree, so it's in my economic best interest to try and inflate the importance of that degree in the job market

Conversely it is in the interest of people who do not have a degree to deflate the importance of the degree in the job market?
A basic principle of bicycle framebuilding is that if you think you understand bicycle dynamics, you don't. Frame geometries that should ride perfectly develop terrifying handling problems in the metal. Frame designs that are unridable in theory turn out to be relatively practical - perhaps the oddest example of this is the Python recumbent, which steers in the middle, drives at the front and has no handlebars[1]. Bicycles that are self-stable and balance on their own aren't necessarily good to ride and vice versa.

Making sense of bicycle dynamics is particularly bewildering because they are such a natural and direct extension of the rider. Learning to ride a bicycle is a completely subconscious process and what your body is doing runs counter to what your brain thinks is happening. Most people who ride bicycles believe that they steer in the direction of a turn, when in fact the opposite is the case. A child who learns to ride a bicycle with training wheels actually takes longer to learn to ride on two wheels because of this - they have to unlearn steering before they can learn to countersteer.

Bicycles are weird.

[1] http://www.python-lowracer.de/geometry.html
This is spot-on (speaking as a developer). As a non-technical co-founder, you really need to learn some code and it really isn't that hard to get started! I also like how you don't trivialize coding, though, as you can get in over your head pretty quickly and need to pass things off to a "real engineer". But the experience that you gain by learning how to code gives you a great advantage in being able to lead.
Private pilot here(I don't fly jets but I've have been trained in instrument flight rules so I can talk about the chart). It simply depends on how well the various approach plates(i.e. the diagram shown) or other things are shown on the map, and if multi-touch zoom is supported.

If they are, then this would be awesome. It would beat the crap out of having to flip through a book to try to find that one specific approach plate. Typing a few alphanumerics and having all the frequencies show up is so much nicer than flipping through Airport Facility/Directories.

In addition, you can look at plates or airplane sectionals and see that there are a number of items printed in small type and multiple colors that pilots have to contend with. If you want an example, try http://skyvector.com . Someone with flight knowledge can tell you what each of the symbols and colors represent, but that's exactly what we deal with up there(even single-propeller folk like me).

I highly doubt the iPad will be much of a hindrance to that. What I fear the most is:

1) Pilots who rely solely on an iPad[1] and forget to charge it, leaving them without the information needed when the battery goes(assuming they also don't have an alternate power source to charge the iPad).

2). The brightness(adjustable, of course) interfering with night vision. Lit items(instrument panel) are kept to a minimum in the flight deck because of the constant need to be able to keep a watch on other airplanes. Of course, pilots do need to turn on a light to read the plates when it comes time to land, but wise pilots will carry a soft light for reading the plates. Not sure how the iPad light affects it.

If I owned an iPad, I would definitely be interested in this app.

[1] Pilots who do this, without having any alternative source available in the flight deck are heavily frowned upon.
After reading HN comments, I've come to the conclusion that, education bubble aside, you all went to really shitty schools. I can tell because of the emphasis on the degree and technical skills, one of which is useless and the other of which can be gained from other sources. I've learned very few technical, "useful" skills in my schoolwork, outside of external clubs/networking/training I've done through my school. And I would have dropped out first semester if my education's biggest reward was a diploma--my school is basically unknown outside my state.

By these criteria, my education sucks. But it's been the best decision I ever made. I think that in these reoccurring debates, HN is overlooking a broad, challenging, great books-based liberal arts education like the one I'm in. By refusing to teach "technical" skills that are better learned on the job anyway, and instead actually building the strength of the mind, for the sole sake of, as John Newman said, the sake of it, liberal arts places itself in the unique position of external to current industry trends. They'll teach you to learn, and leave the technical training to you once you graduate.
There are a lot of available credits though.

The American Opportunity/Hope and Lifetime Learning Credits can be applied when using the standard deduction. Also, many cars have significant tax credits though it seems the bar has been raised.
I'm not sure that commoditization is a bad thing. I'd argue that education hasn't been commoditized enough. Imagine if all universities started running themselves like honest-to-god businesses by pleasing the consumer and creating great products. There would be competition, prices would go down, and the quality of the product would go up. Unfortunately, higher education is one product that paradoxically doesn't need to please its users.
Yes, but I honestly believe it suffers neglect and a lot can be done to improve it. I have never seen a posting for a UI Designer hence wondering.

Also the major USP is that Dropbox behaves just like a folder on the OS and not a seperate entity.
Pls provide me with the email associated with godaddy #id.
Yet to get your email yet.
Good 'ol Turbo Pascal. I wrote an encrypt/decrypt program in TP and a friend of mine and I used to pass encoded messages back and forth on 3.5" floppy disks.

To the subject at hand...I think it's a question of motivation. "Easy" was never part of the seduction; I wanted to make games, freak my folks out by making the screen flash and beep when they turned the computer on, hack the computers at school to lock out Walt the dickhead computer teacher guy, etc. "Fun" was always the motivation; "easy" never part of it because easy is...sorta boring.

"Easy" has value, to be certain: IMO it's a signal that it's time to automate that task. For example, I used to hack Apache vhosts files by hand. Now it's easy, and we've automated it (and the rest of the LAMP stack setup, for that matter).
> HTML is not a GUI framework, it's a markup language.

Fixed, thanks.
4 year olds on Wall Street.
Just remember that the facebook phone was an absolute disaster and they are trying to scrub it from peoples memory.

FB is a product designers nightmare. Its a horrible product trying to force its way into every aspect of your life to slurp cash from the massive stupidity of humans.
Could you describe how that makes it like a pyramid scheme?
> Have you ever actually needed to look at a movie rating to know if it was suitable for a child?

Absolutely, yes.
It is objectively irrational. The ones who made a lot of money are 1%. The rest wasted their youth pursuing an impossible dream. They sacrificed their social development and their future job prospects.
> If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
I noticed that you rock climb. Lead? Are you in the Bay Area? How do I contact you?
Nobody's checking. The focus is on what you're going to spend next year's money on, not how you spent last year's money. And if you're savvy, you can use tools that were already bought for some other purpose, or that don't cost much.

Working a day job in industry isn't categorically different, except that someone is probably watching your spending more closely. You have to figure out a way to set aside some time to work on your own interest, whether you do it at work or at home.

As for money, you can get technology made for 1/10 of what it costs your employer, by choosing your battles, cutting out all of the overhead, and using free stuff.
Yep. And the vast majority of these tools exist on systems that share virtually zero heritage with Linux or GNU. (Like macOS).

Oh well, I guess a lot of people just think all Unix-like systems are called “Linux” now. Perhaps it’s become like the word “Kleenex”.
I think you nailed the most fundamental economic forces at work here. The total costs of operating a household - including opportunity costs - will keep pushing people into situations where a long commute is unavoidable.

The only way to green that up in the long run (besides carpooling), I suppose, is doing something crazy like making cars accessible to everyone that run on sunlight and last a million miles.
Depression can also lead to a singlar focus. I am pretty sure I have finished a few projects out of despair I would have never otherwise. Perhaps at the expense of other more 'practical' ones, but I have come to value them more.
I haven't seen such a bad search algorithm in a long time.
That's honestly just an interpretation of it. He could just mean "remember this day of protest against the establishment". Everyone just reads everything he says with their own biases.

I don't think that's inherently wrong, just let's not ban people based on our own biases.

All of the intepretations of the events that happened yesterday could be equally uncharitably interpreted of BLM with the riots, violence, and protests across the country. I mean, they forcefully took over an entire city zone at one point.
Insurance potentially protects people from fuckups with the sending of the money, like "we sent $900M to the wrong person and they won't give it back". If the bank collapses, the individuals holding accounts at the bank are covered (to a point) by the FDIC.
Which cryptocurrency lets me do a chargeback?