jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
All of your answers are so obviously not answering directly. You were simply asked if you would be selling the coins to retail investors on exchanges and gave a bunch of blabber when the answer is clearly yes.

Form your post above RE selling coins at inflated prices to the public, you said “This is hard because we don’t control the price”
Umm, you could give away the coins. You claimed that Stellar gave away coins but the coins didn’t end up being used by end users. How does selling the coins at hyper-inflated prices to end-users change this? Why will they use the coins if they are sold them vs given they?

It would be great to know the timing, amounts and prices of coins that have been sold to either investors or the public.

Your reputation and Signals are hanging on a thread here. We’d all appreciate some transparency.

How many coins will Mobilecoin sell and over what time period? You and Mobilecoin currently control about 212.5M coins which is $8.5 Billion created out of thin air. The price was recently inflated with a suspiciously perfect timed short squeeze, likely orchestrated by one of your investors looking to pump their bags.
You get one of these:
https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-electric-cargo-bikes/

On the occasions you are moving something larger than can fit in the bike you can take a cab/rent a car or truck. If you are regularly transporting things larger than the cargo bike then perhaps you need a car but I guarantee you 99% of people are not moving 300L of sand every weekend.

Also adults and people older than 10 can ride their own bikes.

Wear a cape and some rain pants:
https://cleverhood.com/

The Netherlands is also notoriously rainy and windy.

The point is you can replace 90% of your trips with a bike, not that you can never have motorized transport. 90% of car trips in America definitely do not need to be in a single occupancy vehicle/only need to be because we've put everything so damn far away from everything else to accommodate cars. The latter part of the second statement does not apply if you live in a pre mid 50s city
I'm fairly sure PBS Kids contains politics since it has Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, which is absolutely "political" just like Mr. Roger's Neighborhood was.
Great question, and I'm looking forward to hearing the answers. Off the top of my head if you _really_ wanted to do it, then, probably both you and your partner getting an electric cargo bike and some kind of trailer [1] would be the way to go.

That said, if you're having to buy 300L of bagged sand _every week_ then no, it doesn't seem like a particularly fun time and frankly I'd stick with a car.

[1]. https://www.bikesatwork.com/bike-trailers
Fascinating. I wonder if MS had made more of internal use of Xenix, it would have had a better fate? The side effect of dogfooding one product and ignoring another can be strong.

Santa Cruz Org is not one of the favourite companies these days. I ran a SCO unix system, it was ok (it was on Compaq multi-CPU hardware, donated, and it worked ok but was a bit of a big to cross-port stuff to, odd compiler options, odd -llib things) But I wouldn't want to pay money for it.

It was often said Apple had a Cray, and used it to do things which informed what happened in their mainline product. I can't imagine what it was they did. I am pretty sure Apple engineers used UNIX a lot. Even before Jobs came back from NeXT there would have been a hardcore of Apple people doing A/UX, but I really do mean aside from that there would be people in the complex using mainstreain V7/BSD systems to do things.
Thanks! I was going for no frills so I’m glad it came out that way for you.
The basic directions (beat egg, stir in vanilla, etc) are part of the recipe. The courts have ruled that there must be substantial content to make it copyrightable. That, along with ads and the need to "drive engagement" is why most recipe sites have long articles around the list of ingredients.
The average person also buys into the standard copyright argument of "you should own your creativity"; accepting software freedom requires, at a minimum, rejecting software copyright categorically[0]. This is a left-of-Marx view: even the extreme left does not touch copyright beyond anticapitalist generalities.

In contrast, right to repair does not require abandoning the entire framework of copyright. In fact, it barely touches it. Furthermore, Louis Rossman is way better at explaining the problems with anti-repair bullshit than RMS is at explaining the harms of proprietary software.

[0] Yes I know GPL relies upon copyright to work. That was the backup plan - if we can't force all software to be Free we can at least keep our own software from being locked down.
I really agree with the article author. The skill of being able to get into a codebase and add an iterative feature like a multiply operation when there’s an addition is huge. It’s something I failed to do when I was a software engineer. I had to study and understand every part of the codebase before I did anything. I was paralayzed. But that understanding would have come over time if I just added features incrementally like I was asked to. I didn’t last very long at that position. Luckily I found data engineering and I much prefer that anyway.
> This doesn't fit the "we can't find candidates, so we need more H1B's" narrative.

I disagree. In fact, this validates it.

On the basis of a world-wide talent pool vs a domestic. If you know there are stronger candidates elsewhere then you absolutely want to test away the domestic candidates.

Thinking about it from a hiring manager's perspective. You don't lower your standards just because a specific pool of candidates can't meet your criteria when you can widen the pool - as far as you are able.

If the H1B candidates were tested on a 'easier/weaker' test the I would 100% agree with you, but I'm assuming things equal here. And, ignoring any thing related to domestic vs foreigner workforce, "people taking our jobs" debate.
For which you'll have a paper trail in email where they outright refused to cancel upon clear instructions to do so.

Sending the charge to collections and having you incur more stress and undue charges would be incredibly foolish on their end.
How difficult is it to create an open source version, which is much better than wolfram alpha. Because, this kind of software is too powerful a system to allow one person or one organization to have full control over it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicklaunch was trying. Looks defunct now.
My father died very suddenly when I was 13 years old and it really threw me in to a tailspin. I finally decided people die and we miss them. At first its such a huge thing that it blots out the sun. It always stays that huge, but as we move away from it in time, eventually we get to where we can see the sun peeping out around the edges.

When I grew up and got married, my first husband was kidnapped and we found his murdered remains four months later. It is an unsolved mystery that is 23 years old. I cried and cried and cried and cried and cried. I stood out in my garden, dug my feet into the mud, and I cried. I cried for three weeks straight. No anti-depressants - just process. Grief is a process.

My advice is: 1) Your mind can take you to weird places around murder. Don't get too out there. People die and we miss them. Its that simple. 2) Don't talk about it all the time to everyone you know. Its pretty easy to say, "Hi, nice to meet you, my dad died," because its like a huge sunburn all over your body. But talking about it constantly keeps it at the surface of your conscious mind. It is better to wait and speak about your feelings with a trusted loved one or friend or in therapy. 3) Get a therapist - a cognitive therapist - and shop around for someone who is logical, intuitive and genuine.

I'm really sorry to hear you have lost your father. My father was the best father a person could ever have. He was brilliant, a scientist at NASA, a protege to Werner Von Braun, had an IQ higher than Albert Einstein's and was warm, loving - he was just the best. Its hard for other people to understand when you lose someone that is wonderful, because there are lots of people who lose a regular Joe, but how many of us have the experience of losing someone awesome? By this I mean that lots of people have dads that left them, didn't pay child support, or were abusive - its a different experience when you have a wonderful dad. I keep a photo of my father above my kitchen sink. Even though I lost him when I was so young, I'm grateful I had that man for a father and the love I received from him.

You get up in the morning, brush your teeth, floss, get a shower, eat your breakfast, and go about your day. Its going to be okay. Have faith things are going to be better over time.
This. Furthermore, anyone's private conversations can make anyone seem like a jerk. I know there's that nice little saying... 'if you have nothing nice to say, then don't say it'. But frankly that's bullshit. At the very best, there's stuff in here that will make perfect rational sense, but still cause outrage amongst other countries. For example, as a Canadian I can easily see some angry faces over any report that shown that our decision to not participate in Iraq was dismissed as 'irrelevant'.

It's like how Alice and Bob are discussing Joe's crappy documentation in private in the context of having to work around it, and then suddenly Eve broadcasts that conversation through the world. Now Joe is probably pissed off at Alice and Bob, and the rest of the world is laughing at Joe. Even though Alice and Bob really did have to have that conversation.
You describe the foundations of https://www.matrix.org
Honestly, if you hadn't called yourself a libertarian in the start of your post, I never would have guessed it. Ideology-wise, I'm an anarcho-communist. Did a lot of research regarding it in my youth and still believe in it today. We share a lot of the same beliefs.

I think the goal is unattainable at humanity's current level of spiritual development (which is, to be blunt, maybe a few millimeters further along than our ape cousins). That doesn't mean that the concepts can't be applied in every day life, however.

Living in the US, it's hard not to be completely disgusted by what passes as a "libertarian." I've grown to hate the word, and avoid most people who parrot it. The "less regulation!" "small government!" "free market!" drum gets beat all too often without addressing the elephant in the room: Corporate America is a wild beast running amok over the entire globe. The last thing it needs is less regulation! All the innovation and progress in the world won't be worth a damn if we're all breathing in toxic air and birthing flipper babies.

A lot of this is driven by the American culture's need for the new (as you pointed out). The sickness of our culture is the fuel of our economy, which is now built upon the backs of third world nations (which, by the way, are starting to equalize...soon there will be no more backs to climb on, what then?). We don't produce anything anymore, we just consume.

Even in SV, where people are constantly crowing about how innovative everything is, there's very little real, actual change happening. An app that deletes photos you send to someone after 15s. Amazingly innovative. Another chat app. Useful? Sure. Innovative? No. In fact, tying this back into the parent comments, I'd argue that almost all of the innovation I've seen comes from open source. 99% of private companies in the valley are doing some that has been done 1000x before, but just slightly better. It makes money, sure, but it doesn't help the world or advance society. Capitalism at its best.

I think there's a strong balance that needs to be struck between what actually advances society as a whole and what allows the individual to prosper. In the US, at least currently, the two seem pretty mutually exclusive.

/rant
From a distance you can sort of see what the were going for, but looking at it up close it's dumb ugly. I imagine they thought they were being clever and minimal with the straight lines and utter lack of subtlety, but the result is just clunky and inept. It's like a child's crude drawing, and the fact that adults actually made this is absurd. It reminds me of TARS from Interstellar, which is another design people inexplicably praised.

I probably hate this even more for the fact that I adore the angular Fiero/Lambo/DeLorean/Blade Runner aesthetic. This is such a poorly botched, cluelessly literal interpretation of that.
Is that how trademarks work? Can I not name a newly discovered species a trademarked name as well?
If I was losing the argument, I'd say something similar.
This is harder these days. I remember hearing some speculation early in the pandemic that there would be a lot of first children coming out of it but very few second or greater children. The data on this should be starting to come out now.
Decent explanation here: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/210492-extremetech-expla...
The only thing I feel certain of is that hitting children or abusing them is a sad unnecessary practice. Adults need the wisdom and sense to handle problems with logic and words. Physical violence is simply bullying and using superior size and strength, which is irrelevant in the modern world and which predisposes your children to violent behaviors.
I suppose this mean anybody interesting in piracy will just run their own dns servers.

Dead easy and I suppose somebody will put out a simple copy of bind for windows that you can run locally.
The weather there is just about perfect as far as I'm concerned. It rarely goes much below 10C in the winter, and it's not exceedingly hot in the summer either, unless you go far inland. It depends a lot where you are - it's much colder in the summer in San Francisco than, say, Fremont in the east bay.

In any case, yeah, go check it out, meet people, see what you think, and have some fun before you commit 100%.
no joke: this is very simple yet good idea if you can do it right. many ppl still looking for something like this for their small communities. seriously. been in similar business. you just need to push it hard enough(probably not in geeks space, but to small businesses owners etc)
http://processingjs.org/

Click-able link.

And I'm glad to see it is now considered stable.
While I might agree that the worried about an X-ray scan are overblown (I assume that is your position), that number is looking at a whole body number. Part of the argument is that the amount may be significantly higher because the dose is concentrated near the surface of the skin, rather than across the whole body like cosmic ray and chest X-ray exposure.
You're not comparing bananas to bananas.

As I understand, the limited information that has been publicly released about the backscatter machines is a useless measurement when you take into account how they actually work. You can't apply a standard measurement from a medical x-ray machine that targets a small part of your body using one technique to a different machine that targets your entire body using a different technique.

So the two problems are:

1. You don't have good numbers to even evaluate how dangerous they are, many evaluations, including possibly the article above, are useless because they don't have the real data to compare to.

2. The radiation exposure from a banana also effects your body differently than a medical x-ray machine which is in turn different from a backscatter machine targeting your entire body.

I'm not saying people aren't trying to evaluate the actual risk in good faith. I'm saying they're skipping the step where we get useful numbers from the manufacturer of the machine to even apply good science to.

Edit: by "whole body" I mean "whole surface of your body" since it's concentrated on your skin
Forgot about them. Both XPath and XQuery are excellent technologies and a probably the best thing about XML in my experience with it. I highly recommend everyone concerned with XML check them out if they havent already. I never seem to see much mention of them around XML discussions.

http://www.w3schools.com/xquery/xquery_intro.asp
http://www.citynetwork.se/city_cloud in Sweden, presumably safer against DMCA etc.
Another take might by... In the United States' tipping economy employees who can attract and retain customers can achieve higher per hour wages and can bring more money to the business they work for by offering incentives to the customers they recognize as "good" (customer who spend alot, both on the business by showing up regularly and on them through tips). Everyone can win. Alternatives are the traditonal command and control or employer/employee relationship where one entity gains all of the benefit and then chooses to dole out limited incentives to the other persons.
> Why not? These are high-quality, well-designed apps based on excellent ideas.

Well for starters 4 of them are excluded by the original conditions of being acceptable in the appstore. Second, of the remaining 6 some already have better counterparts in the appstore (there are complete top lists devoted to iOS todo apps and the good tends to be really very good) and "well-designed"... well I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but from the screenshots on their respective sites the Craigslist notification app doesn't look very good.

As to parcels... http://itunes.apple.com/app/delivery-status-touch/id29098601...

copycat much?
I should point out the big difference between an ad that provides the proprietor some meager revenue and the intrusive FB friends widget or the embedded twitter stream linking to some culinary porn, presumably someone's breakfast.
This is a helpful post, but there were a couple points that might have been overlooked.

The OP didn't mention anything about having the papers notarized. This is typically required, but perhaps not in Delaware? Also, as others noted, you'll often have to file for "foreign corporation" status in your home state.

Once you have filed "foreign corporation" status in your home state, you will probably need to check whether your product or service is subject to sales tax. Then you will need to get a sales tax account. Depending on your jurisdiction, this may include both state and city or county sales tax accounts. You should also call up the IRS or file online to get a Tax ID number (TIN/EIN).
"What has happened is someone wrote an open-source driver for PCs that essentially opens the USB connection, which we didn't protect, by design, and reads the inputs from the sensor."

Correct me if I'm wrong here since I don't own an Xbox360, but if the USB port on the 360 is a PC-standard port, then the Kinect pretty much HAS to obey the standard USB spec to communicate, right? You can't pick a different way to enumerate or present endpoints.

Short of encrypting the actual data to/from the Kinect, saying that the device was "open by design" is kind of a semantic cop-out.
"The only effect wifi can have on trees, people, etc, is the generation of a tiny amount of heat."

This is a very bold claim. People said something just as harmless about x-rays in its heyday, too. Today we know it has absolutely profound effects on living cells even at moderate power, and we know it indeed also has an effect of the negative kind at low power given proper time and exposure. How can you be so sure that the GHz spectrum of EMR happen to be as harmless as you imply?
I love iPhoto Library Manager (http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/). I doubt you'll find anything completely automatic... well other than wccrawford's hashing idea.
This is just further evidence that design is hard and copying is easy. If it weren't, we would have the stackoverflow clone before the original.

Using this clone in many cases is impractical because hosting and administering the thing isn't free, and it probably will cost more to do this than to just use stackexchange.
I used Cygwin when I was on Windows but my advice is to use Windows for the client programs and run a headless Linux VM for everything else. Export its filesystem so you can use Windows to edit files but ssh to Linux to work with a terminal. You'll get a real package manager too.
She wasn't the patient. HIPAA requires the patient's consent to disclose information to ANYONE, including spouses. If she was able to determine information about the medical care provided to her husband that he hadn't consented to, that's a violation.
> no other car company CEO could consistently overpromise and underdeliver like he does and keep their job.

Musk doesn't overpromise for investors or the public. His M.O. is to overpromise as motivation to drive productivity. Every day he manages to convince his workforce that they're at the cusp of crossing the finish line of w'ever insane goal he has set, and so they keep pushing hard that day (or they quit). At this point it should be obvious: Musk never hits his timelines, and yet he usually still delivers faster than any other CEO or company could ever dream of delivering.

His M.O. works because of his personality and his personal investment in operations. Few managers could ever hope to replicate that, and those who do end up failing horribly, or were merely trying to paper over some other deficiencies. But judging Musk by applying the same standards one would apply to Fortune 500 companies, expecting him to adhere to normative business culture (formal and informal), seems a little obtuse given the past 10+ years of history making abundantly clear exactly how and why he operates. 15+ years ago, sure, it was easy to write Musk off as a conman. But he's delivered in ways that nobody ever thought possible. At this point the only credible interpretation (not simply charitable one) is that he's perfectly sincere and earnest--that his methodology, including his "stories", serve a legitimate and crucial function. Musk is one of those few characters that come along every generation or so, breaks all the rules, and succeeds where pretty much everyone else would have failed. It's not always pretty, but it works. It is what it is.
My father lost consciousness immediately. So how is it agony?
Snarky, but true point. Also consider that scientific efforts geared towards attracting funding tend to be the ones that get funded.

This hasn’t always been the case so it’s fair to consider what circumstances might foster a better situation, where research can be directed to areas most promising to add progress and value to society at large.
I'm waiting to hear back from jedimastert.
Then stop publishing in those journals and only publish in ones that are open access?

Why is this not a solution?
Neither are the bulk of astronomers, certainly their reaction to Roger Penrose's study was extremely skeptical.
There might also be a hint of "kids these days"-style ageism, where it's just implicitly assumed that nobody younger than author's age minus five has any idea about technology which is in any way "old" or "outdated" or "not being actively advertised on TV" (and that's another thing... )

And, yeah, laptops are in no way obsolete. Hell, the multi-billion-dollar PC gaming industry relies on desktop PCs, with towers and separate monitors, which is an even older design than laptops are (although, admittedly, not by much, depending on what you're willing to call a "laptop" as opposed to a "portable" or "luggable").
Cool. Works perfectly with Pocketcasts. Art and notes too.
You should. Not necessarily you, but a lot of startups are on here and they all should be pushing persona logins. It works, its available, go get it If enough sites adopt it it puts pressure on both Google and Mozilla to implement it as a browser feature the way it was designed to be. Then we have personal logins without information jacking or the potential for tolls on logins.
Not SEO so much as link bait.
that's why we call it "constructive" criticism
This is not a copy of delicious, but I wrote this yesterday in a hurry. http://selficious.appspot.com - It imported my bookmarks and I use it to manage them and my future ones (add, edit, delete). The code will of course be opensource. I just need to clean it a lil' bit :)
Is it just me or does Gmail only show you the past 24 hours of activity?