jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I met the Tv-b-gone inventor, Mitch, and he said he sold $20,000 more product as a direct result of that incident. He said he did't like what they did with the Tv-b-gone at CES.
He actually might be following advice from company lawyers; when somebody is being investigated for a criminal case against you for theft and extortion, you tend to not do business with them.
Well, if you gave the orders or where an accessory or actor, you're still in trouble. If that's what you mean by putting "invest in" in quotes.
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Those two companies spread mostly by word-of-mouth, so I don't see how either of those applies.
I feel like there's something to this, but they're still missing the point a bit. The concept of LinkedIn connections is fundamentally supposed to be that they represent that these people know each other. It shouldn't be motivated by reciprocal "help", but it certainly shouldn't be indiscriminate either!
18 years, here: still coding, still loving it, no interest in becoming a manager.
I agree that the examples are nice, but it'd also be awesome if there was some explanation as to what that function did.
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> I don't think "corporate America" has any particular stake in the 8-hour day. If anything, employers would undoubtedly want to have the power to shape the work schedules of employees in more flexible ways, especially by being able to freely demand longer work hours at normal compensation as a condition of continued employment.

This is already in place at many non-startup tech companies now. There is nothing on the books stating that if you only work 40 hours/week you will be fired or demoted, but at every company I've worked for, it is known that if you want to be "in favor" with management, you best make things happen when needed.

> the typical startup environment is really a throwback to the freedom of farming days

It sounds like you are romanticizing the life of a farmer a bit here. Are you? There is a clear distinction between having to work 15 hour days and wanting to (in order to succeed).
Fake Work doesn't make progress, but actually make money. If I spent 7-9 hours discussing or writing an email explaining to my client things (or simply talking more about the project), this probably won't change anything in my progress, but will make the client feel on-line with the work I do, thus knows that I do real work and will be happy to pay more. (Or at least happy with the work I have done).

I found myself sometimes spending time talking about things more than I actually spent doing them, but after all I do that for money!
Saying something very contrary to the establishment always had consequences (and still has, even in the US). Under Stalin, the consequences were lethal. At other times, plenty of people disagreed with the establishment and were just fine. My problem with your original statement was that it was very much a blanket statement. It applied to some parts of USSR's history and less to others.

In USSR, I recall propaganda that said that everyone in the US was racist and that blacks were uniformly mistreated. Of course, the reality is that there was slavery, there was the civil rights movement and that now things are different. Broad statements like that smack of propaganda.
Io's layout is still my favorite:

http://www.iolanguage.com/scm/io/docs/reference/
Feedback

1. Basically blank single page hello world website.

2. Called "vessal" but single character logo is "Y".

3. No indication of area of service or scope of service.

4. Nearly impossible to determine what service or product is provided.

5. No indication or confidence that its a real company.

6. Links 401.

Not even clear its real let alone of utility.
> I think I was doing myself a disservice

Were you able to run a data comparison in terms of users/time on site/number of pages etc. I would assume that this in itself would clearly tell you if the ads were harmful or not.

> I don't see how font styles and colors affect the cost of the website

What I mean by this is that when you visit a site with these native ads, the ads themselves would have to adhere to strict design requirements laid out by the publisher. The idea being that it is less intrusive for the overall UX which in reality should limit the problems you mentioned in terms of 'quality'.

The neon, 90's style banner ads are very off putting when you browsing a site, which is what the above is trying to combat.
This guy said TA has no meaning, it only works because other people think it works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26286655

In that sense, the more people would use the software, the more profitable it becomes.

The software thinks the price of some stock will increase, so it buys the stock. If more people use the software, more will buy the stock, so the price rise even faster
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> do good directly, with your own mind and hands, not indirectly.

How? I live in North America. The people need the most help in the world don't live in North America. How do I help them directly "with my own mind and hands"?

I could help those in my city/state/country, which isn't unreasonable by any means, and definitely commendable. But this will leave the global poor in just as bad as state as they are right now. Who will do good directly for them?

As a side note, maybe this is an issue of framing. We've been calling EA charity, but another way to view it is wealth distribution from rich countries to poor countries. I think from that lens, it becomes obvious (to me) that this is not only good, but necessary, because I don't think the current global inequality in wealth is fair at all. Telling people to stop donating to EA charities is effectively telling them to keep the wealth in rich countries, rather than having it flow to poor countries (who really need it).
I would think personal motivations greatly effect policy.

Edit: Why else would anyone want to become a lawmaker? It's all about getting into a position of power at the end of it all. You put yourself into a position where you can impose your motives and will on others, either "because what I want is the right thing", or "because it is simply what I want".
Thanks!

> Make it clear to your manager this is unacceptable, and you will end up looking for alternate teams/jobs if this goes on

I'm trying to do this in as harmonious way as I possibly can, but I'm a bit worried that getting really contentious about it might have negative repercussions. It's possible that I'd "win" and allowances would be made, but it's also possible I'd end up making some real enemies and/or put on a track out the door.

One hopefully-unusual circumstance here is that most of the rest of my team (and in fact the company) either don't mind the situation much, or at least aren't openly vocal about it, which makes me look like that one nail hanging out that's ready to be slammed back down.

> Quit / change teams, citing oncall as the issue

This is probably the inevitable solution unfortunately, although I will feel bad exiting (making the rotation even smaller) and without having moved anything in the right direction.

> Why are some issues not solvable by engineering? Would simply resetting expectations mitigate the largest issues/waking up at night?

Yeah, agreed. This is the obvious way out if at all possible, but there are many types of alarms where it's fairly difficult. For example: (1) cases where there is a big problem and we get paged essentially as a side effect of one failure causing issues in our part of the system, or (2) catch-all alarms designed to page when something looks suspicious enough to merit human attention, even if not a known failure case. There's a strong attitude of err-on-potential-issues, so relaxing any of these tends to be a no-go politically.
Dabble may not be the perfect fit, but Trendly was a much better one.

iirc, this was a talent acquisition meant to focus on analytics.
Thanks for the advice, i'll try to look for a copy of Ulysses at the library to give it a shot!! thanks!,
It's a superstimulus, in the same way that purchasing lottery tickets is. Praying is a low-probability, high-reward situation (in the unlikely event that our prayer is answered, we will benefit greatly), and our brains seem to favor those unnaturally. Since the things farmers pray for are frequently simple random chance or the effects of nonlinear systems (such as the weather), they sometimes "work"—but not predictably. This induces an even greater impulse to continue trying, because the "prayer being answered" event seems to be a variable-schedule reward. We get addicted to praying.

Additionally, praying signals your group affiliation (praying, in a group, for something that is good for the group, instead of just you) but is usually done silently, allowing you to covertly express your individual desires. It's a bit like voting in that way.
I think you are pretty close to getting it right. This spec is Dead on Arrival. This spec will never get traction in a large corporate environment. Primarily because the business has a need to monitor and archive employee emails. As a result no large corporation will ever adopt end to end encrypted email as a standard.

While in the consumer arena Gmail and other ad / user profile supported business' will never adopt this as it limits their access to valuable user data.
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A good scalped can hit over 1000 shoes in a drop. The shoe sites do a pretty weak job protecting aginst vcc cards and small variation in shipping address fields. They could easily ship 1 per address but they choose not to, the scalpers are part of the business model
> Hopefully less than in Feb 2021.

Financial planning -> window, cause my base currency keeps moving around and won’t hold still long enough for me to even finish the equation.
Most of the nootropics guides also say this - the best nootropic is sleep, diet, exercise, but the drugs are a bonus.
I agree. I was only trying to highlight that we basically don't value other's time as much as we value our own. We want to shop at the dollar store but we would never work for the wages that the hated Chinese will to make this crap. We want food delivered to our house but we don't tip because we can't "afford it" to value the minimum wage workers that are busting their ass and destroying their cars to bring to us. The thing you highlight is that a lot of people don't really have a choice so they will take anything, regardless of how exploited they are. This makes me sad as it feels like we've regressed to the 1900s. If all these gig economies eventually have to treat their works as employees and $15/hour goes national, I don't see how any of these companies are profitable except in the biggest cities.
€5 gets me a typical breakfast with a little to spare. Coffee is around 75c per cup * 2 (good beans and oat milk). Avocado is €1 and 3 eggs also €1. That's already €3.50. Then add some olive oil prob just 20c but it adds up and maybe some dark chocolate and you're close to €4 already.
My money's on Volkswagen.
For those who like React (especially with the performance gains of React over the major frontend frameworks excepting Angular 2), it is also a huge positive - part of the problem with hybrid apps currently is performance problems. React assists with this greatly, as seen by the performance metrics out there.
In any endeavor when you rely on a single supplier that supplier has power over you. In the case of a nation it can exert political pressure on another nation.
Let me also plug this great little building block that this library is using: http://github.com/nsf/termbox-go
Work in High-Performance Computing [1], whether at a research lab, an HPC manufacturer, or even a big company like Intel, or at an independent software vendor like MSC, ANSYS, LS-Dyna, Cd-adapco, Mathworks, etc.

There are usually openings at HPC companies or HPC business units for mechanical or other engineers to port and tune engineering software to supercomputers. At research labs which use HPC, there are usually lots of experts in various fields, and having someone fluent in both mechanical engineering and programming can bridge gaps and fill voids.

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Imagine there are people who want to rob, harm, or blackmail you. They might be the government, ex-lovers, ex-employees, business rivals, people who disagree with you (as in GamerGate), or just insane.

Now say one of your many Facebook friends posts a photo of you or your child on Facebook and tags you in it. They might not even realize that the photo has been automatically geotagged by their phone.

In a situation like that, you'd care about the info posted on Facebook, and you'd have no control over it. You can't force someone to remove a picture of you.
Can someone point me to the added value by react native? Why so much hype? I just don't see it.
Is that why the F-35 was cutting off oxygen to pilots? I'll believe your statement when I see it in action.
The title seems like a huge exaggeration to me. Ellen Nakashima at the Washington Post is taking the same stance at Kevin. I certainly can see why other journalists wish they would publish the chat logs but it's their call, not Glenn's.
Here's a great list of podcasts. You're sure to find one here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1644/what-good-technology...
Citation needed for the statistics you're drawing from. Obviously if you want to make millions you need to get that from stock, but that comes from taking risk. How many people ended up with way below market compensation by working for peanuts + stock for a company that went nowhere (or just went somewhere just for the preferred shareholders) compared to those that made had a legitimate payout that put them above market salaries?

Despite what TechCrunch and the VC industry would have us believe, it's nowhere near as clear cut as you make out.
My tears of laughter have yet to dry and my tummy hurts. This is one of the funniest things I have ever seen. Is there a way I can archive this to keep it forever and laugh until I die? I'd fork this in a heartbeat and host it on my server so I never have to leave my house again. Remarkable.
"To put the Swiss franc move in perspective, in the currency cross rates for free-floating major foreign exchange currencies — like the Swiss franc or the U.S. dollar, the euro or the British pound sterling — a 2 or 3 percent move would be considered big. A 20 percent move is outlandish, a freak black swan event without precedent."

It's not a black swan event if it was predicted, widely, well in advance. Smart, reasonable people declared the policy unsustainable from day one. One good example being Mike Shedlock at globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com.
Same applies to Scandinavia yet Copenhagen or Stockholm are not Amsterdam.

The reason Amsterdam took the spot was it has been historically very "tax friendly" to corporations, shall we say, to the point where most foreign conglomerates and even the French Airbus and the Swedish IKEA have set up their holding companies there.
If you think about it, it is very similar to Facebook, where the majority of things people post are how happy they are and how successful they are; or the odd ranter. However LinkedIn does not have ranters.
Also, the availability of fries with mayo must count for something.
"The ICE exchange announced this week that trading in EU carbon emissions worth a billion euros daily will move from London to the Dutch city during the second quarter."

Lots of billions and then some ...
Going along with the other replies, I disagree that this would improve the experience for newcomers. SmallString is a hyper-optimization for specialized use-cases which (I would assume) is rarely worthwhile. I would actively discourage people from using SmallString without first profiling to identify Strings as their bottleneck, especially newcomers. String will almost always be "fast enough".
If you think you are so in the right at least have the guts to admit what you are demanding others to do instead of using contradicting language to try to weasel your way out of admitting what everyone already knows.

And please do not insult and offend rape victims by claiming not using the words you want is the same as rape.
What if it was just text links to the instagram accounts? What if it was iframes?
I especially enjoy the fact that I dismissed it at the time as being "too unrealistic", one month later a prototype turns up on HN!
Does a visit to the gynecologist count as sexual assault. Of course not, but why? Because, implicitly or explicitly, the patient has consented to being examined.

Do you have a particular difficulty with grasping 'consent' in the context the author narrates?

edit to clarify: Of course, as far as the law is concerned, there are other factors that constitute "sexual assault" as an offense, but those can't be accurately and definitively established without the proper procedure. And even if what's going on here doesn't hold in a court of law, I think it's safe to say we all understand that we're implicitly trusting the author's words on the subject, when establishing whether consent was in fact not provided.
I don't think they would care. I can't remember how many times I pitch Twitalbums.com to news outlet (specifically to TC) and I'm still waiting for my post ;-)
Granted: it was not built for the Iphone, but it was a Twitter app, I mean, a twitter app... you have got to cover that :-)
I haven't worked longer than nine months at any one place since starting my career four years ago. It hasn't hurt me in finding work. In fact, it's probably helped me. I have had a couple past places contact me for work, I have a larger network and it has given me a wider range of knowledge and experience.

Be careful about living your life based on what other people will think. Live how you want to live. You always have a choice and you are always making a choice.

The last employment position I had (currently I'm contracting) I should have quit in the first month. But instead I stuck it out and left after six months having been ashamed at the apps I was working on. I would have saved myself a lot of grief and could have found better work that I could actually be proud of. This place was the only time where I actually dreaded going to work by the end. It was so bad that one morning I was actually contemplating to just not show up and I didn't care enough to tell anyone.
Really? I don't feel this way at all.

As a long time user of google and someone who has given DDG a significant 'chance' I am still using google as my default search.

Part of the reason is information density; I make a search on google and just instantly get more on the screen, and probably because I am so used to google i absorb that information much more quickly. I look at DDG and my brain hurts just a tiny bit trying to parse it all.. not sure how to explain it exactly. But as someone who really is into the idea of a search engine made for power users / programmers.. ddg just wasn't doing it for me.

Re keyboard shortcuts: this is not a selling point for me, nor should it be for any power user. It is trivial to map backspace to the back button in any leading browser. I personally use 'b' for back, 'j' for down, 'k' for up.
I always picture sacks with '$' on the side rather than suitcases, but I always have difficulty shaking the feeling that lobbying is basically a cash transaction. I constantly have to talk myself out of this. The following is a great, brief string of reasoning that helps: http://volokh.com/2010/01/24/money-and-speech-2
That's clever. Did you make that up! :-)
I don't know that the $1-$2 price point is really the important thing. I have no idea if a search engine would make a profit at that price point.

There's no product as of now. I have no idea about storing the terabytes of data, or data visualization, or filtering. I'm not qualified to solve most of those problems. I'm just curious if anyone feels that this kind of search would be worth paying for.
While these various tech companies have terrible support, I'm glad they are the first line of defense so that I don't have to answer ALL the tech questions from friends, family, and acquaintances.
What exactly do you mean by "force"?
This was neat because it was a 720p via inside the ISS, but the actual greetings were, um, underwhelming. Zero-G Christmas tree FTW, though!
Thankyou. This is very interesting. Whenever I study cryptography I feel a bit like Alice going down the rabbit hole.

Thank god the safe best-practices are clear and simple in the majority of cases.

EDIT: in case anyone reading this is wondering, the safe best-practice is to USE BCRYPT.

http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/