jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your reply and reasoned downvote.

Not exactly martyrdom, though. I've posted enough "Trump was demonstrably not wrong in this context" comments that have been downvoted into oblivion that my account has negative karma. So that was an inappropriate, snarky comment for me to make, and definitely not necessary to ensure downvotes.

This despite the fact that I do not support Trump, but rather oppose the tribalism that's plaguing the US. (All of which is to the benefit of media, various corporations, and sundry elite.)

In any case, very opposed to the current state of media, as they effectively shape the culture practically unchecked. I hope whether you agree or disagree with parent comment, you recognize the unfortunate and inappropriate abuses of their power, in whatever contexts you may find them.
Suspected for 20 years, since I was a teenager. Would ask doctors and they always dismissed as I looked heathy.

Eventually health completely collapsed. But blood work was fine, I looked fine.

Saw 30+ doctors in the span of 2 years. I had a 4 pages of list symptoms and issues. I carried around. I saw a neuro-ophthalmologist he read the list, started asking specific questions about symptoms I didn’t list, but did have.
He declared I had Sjogrens. I had never heard of it.

A year later I had an official diagnosis from a rheumatologist. Even that I had to fight hard to get tests run.

Treatment started making a big difference.

I would never have gotten heathy via regular doctors.
Words have meanings.
Used to train dogs at a local shelter in my free time. It was honestly one of the most fun parts of my week.

We used clicker training, and it always impressed me how even the oldest of dogs could learn new tricks (har har) if you found what motivated it, and then incentivized a specific action based on that motivation.

Even more fun was finding a really smart dog who you could teach to do the craziest stuff. Had one who probably learned 25ish tricks in his short time at the shelter. He was so motivated to learn. It was a pretty easy sell to the right adopter when you showed them you could point your finger at the dog, yell "HANDS UP" and he'd sit up with his paws in the air, you'd yell "BANG" and he'd fall over dead. How could you ever resist?

Example (not my video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lky1xsqYGUo
Solaris zones have been around much longer, and have undergone audits and also been used for multitenancy in production for almost 10 years now. The new LX brand may have some new surface that it's worth auditing, but in general Solaris zones are probably, to my knowledge, the most trusted OS-level virtualization system amongst the major contenders. Disclaimer: I was a Joyent customer and have a few friends and acquaintances who work there still.
It's reviewed as quite sharp for it's low price. That's likely why he's using it. He's using an old Zeiss on some of his other photos. Sounds like he's using good, but inexpensive equipment.
No particular reason. What would you do different?
Perhaps the joke is stale? I mean, I'm tired of explaining why I disbelieve it. (Short version: Sterling's Gobi Desert observation. Longer version: why do Greenland and the Antarctic colonies need subsidies; and wouldn't self-supporting bunkers scattered around the Earth be cheaper and have a better chance of surviving a world disaster?)
This is bullshit.

Linus Torvalds is a more well-known hacker, for instance.

Hacking is not only about criminal social engineering practices. Mostly, it's not about that.
The only reason that Twitter is successful is because it was embraced by celebrities very early. I would have passed at the seed round stage as well, but that's because no one could have predicted the celebrity embrace of such a service. The reality is that they, along with most other startups, got seed funding not because of the idea but because of the pedigree of the founders.

I suspect there is some of that going on here as well. They are all current/former Stanford students and have been involved in successful companies. According to Crunchbase:

DoorDash was founded by four Stanford students: Evan Charles Moore worked on the founding team of Vevo; Tony Xu was at Square and Red Laser/eBay; and Andy Fang and Stanley Tang spent a summer together at Facebook. Moore and Xu were friends in Stanford's business school, and Fang and Tang are undergrads.

Same deal with Larry and Sergey, Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and most others. They weren't merely college students; they were Ivy League students. As much as people say college doesn't matter anymore, the evidence says otherwise. We'll probably never know if entrepreneurs from lower-tier and public universities can succeed at an equal rate, because they won't be given the funding to try.
Literally every entrepreneur thinks his startup has the best $X. In this regard, the signal to noise ratio at any VC is abysmal.
Stack Exchange should spinoff a teaching/bootcamp division to tap the education market.
I believe locally-installed certs can override cert pinning (to allow corporate DLP boxes to work, and such).
Oh, and most importantly, you cannot stay on an old iOS version even for one day if you care about the security of your devices. So iOS releases should really be completely, 100% rock-solid, but they aren't.
I don't see many useful applications of GPT-3. I'm sure 90% of its applications will be spam, fake reviews, SEO, fake news and everything fake in general..
> I also find it unbelievable to have so much code for a single app

This point comes up in a lot of discussions about non-trivial software. My theory is that it's of the same nature as underestimating development complexity when planning your own work as an engineer. Project after project, everyone (me included) keeps forgetting that they _will_ spend 80% of their time (and code) dealing with small issues and edge cases in their product.

Who hasn't thought at some point that they can write a Twitter clone in a weekend, or hasn't been fascinated by the amount of simple bugs in someone's else product, thinking that they are obviously just bad engineers.
I've heard of Bridge, but had no idea how it's played. I looked it up and it's totally not what I expected. Sounds interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.
If the GMail team understands how to write performance critical code, then there must be something else to explain why they no longer do. Hmmm... by making old hardware unusable, they cause hardware upgrades, and somehow that drives licensing? The simpler explanation, fitting Occam's razor, is that the GMail team does not understand how to write performance critical code.

FYI, about a dozen years ago I comfortably used GMail on a 450 MHz PowerPC with 512 MiB of RAM. The javascript ran without a JIT, completely interpreted. It all ran just fine. Now here I am, on a multi-GHz multi-core box with gigabytes of RAM and a JIT, and I have to keep GMail in HTML-only mode. I simply can't run the javascript and still operate my computer. Mail is piling up because I can no longer select lots of email for deletion; it isn't practical to click every single item.
accessibility link: https://archive.is/yx9JC
I think the current logo looks great and having the fox in profile rather than looking away makes for a surprisingly large improvement in how the logo feels.

I know most pundits hate changes to logos, but for once I am quite pleased.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

I fought with this, to be honest. Many people have requested a free account, but the issue I was afraid of - and decided to try and mitigate - is having to support a ton of free users, when I really need to get revenue coming in through the door.

Once things settle down and I have a nice core set of paid users, then I might consider doing that.

Who knows...this is just the first step, so expect lots of iterations from here on out :)
Funny, I had that exact thought.
Fantastic photos from Victorville:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=vcv...

and Davis-Monthan:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=KDM...
Wow - really nice! Love the design.
Actually the paper linked to the article found negative correlation... "on average, individuals who are unaware of the price do not derive more enjoyment from more expensive wine. In fact, they enjoy more expensive wines slightly less." (http://www.wine-economics.org/workingpapers/AAWE_WP16.pdf)

I love three buck chuck.
I did not actually setup the server before....so when we had issues with the prior install, your posted time here in HN made me confident enough to create a new cloud server and toss one up there in about < 30 minutes. Thanks man for adding to the discussion.
So far it's holding up (about 40 hps) but we seem to be getting these intermittent connection drops. Waiting for things to calm down a bit before we start monkeying with configuration.
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/24/fine-wine/
It’s still an understandably sensitive topic, hence my recommendation to make DupDetector much more polite and friendly so that there can be no misunderstanding about the intent of the bot.
nm, restart had not completed to update from version 7 to version 9.
It’s not as if internal combustion engines work great in -20C temperatures either. Often they won’t even start, and diesels typically have an (plug-in electric!) engine block heater in such climates. So I just don’t see this as a problem.
Also, what proportion of the world lives in climates where it makes sense to optimize for -20C weather? Northern Europe, parts of North America... and that’s pretty much it. So while Norway (which now buys mostly electric cars... and famously a LOT of Teslas) might use cold-optimized chemistries, it’s not a major consideration for electrifying the world.
> but I wouldn't recommend anti depressants to anyone really as it numbs you

I don't want to get into a thing with this but please don't tell this to anyone. It's neither medical nor scientific.
Seems like crying over spilled milk. Facebook essentially created the problem, now they are complaining about the solution.
Instagram would do this to my discovery feeds. Every month or so I’d mark the photos with sexy women as something I don’t want to see, but they’d inevitably come back. I figure I lingered too long at a photo that featured an attractive woman. Deleted Instagram after this annoyed me too much.
Fair question. The worse one so far was somewhere basically defense-industry adjacent. Out of college, literally too star-struck to fully realize or care what I was actually working on.
There's a portion of the population that will never be able to consume any of the mentioned substances responsibly. That same portion is responsible for killing people on the roads every day. Maybe we can hand-wave that away with SDV in 15 years. I don't know, but I don't think it's a clear-cut witch hunt.

However I'm all for trying to focus in on solutions to stop drunk/buzzed/drugged out driving (and other activities that take lives of families and children). Even if that includes 100% vehicle breathalyzers (as in mandatory even without prior drunk driving records).
Look at it from a heuristic point of view.

A corporation is composed of people who are paid to do a specific job, with an interest in keeping said job by making decisions and doing tasks towards a central goal, a corporation generally behaves vastly more rationally for any given scenario. Furthermore, the particular structure of the corporation which determines the actions directly affects the corporation survival, where historically poorly structured corporations that end up with scandals tend to last a very short time.

So with Amazon, considering it has survived for quite some time, and additionally with all the optics it has on it from any political entity or person trying to score popular points by being "anti-big-corporation", Id argue that this decision to fire was likely made after much collaboration with higher level execs and legal involved, well understanding what the consequences would be, including attention at reviewing their privacy compliance.
Here's an interesting angle: Shopify apps literally make money for Shopify even without the 20%.

Since these apps are mostly marketing (upsells, abandoned cart reminders, upgrades etc), they drive sellers' revenue = they literally bring more profits for Shopify, or am I missing something?
I feel author somehow saying just badges for crediblity is wrong, it has to be compared what we have today in university as credibility. It is just a pdf certificate and a grade point with university name. It doesn't distinguishes student very well.

With people moving towards online education there will be much better education data gathering and much better way to present them. Kevin carey pointed out this https://accredible.com/10000005 for replacement of current education certificate for data gathering about student learning and then using the data collected in better way for analyzing student performance and for employablity. P.S (I work at accredible as SE)
I’ve found five years of D&D to have a similar, and persistent, effect. In the beginning I found it hard to relax and “yes and” what was going on. Fast forward to now, I can be in character in front of random people without a hint of anxiety. It was a completely unexpected side-effect of playing, and I’ve also seen a general increase in creativity as well.
It’s hard for Twitter to know what is false so #2 is pretty hard. In this case it ended up being true but was many months afterwards until it was verified.
As far as my experience goes, I don't think designers actively seek out developers. Personally, I've co-designed all of my personal project designs, usually with someone more experienced than I. If you want to start a new project, you have to start it yourself.

You're definitely welcome to post on a job board and attempt to get a job somewhere, but that may not be your aim. In which case, you will learn to be both a developer and a designer. Add businessman to your list and you're well on your way to a startup.
Yes. Not saying anything guarantees success, but too short a runway can ensure failure.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

One suggestion I have is to use plainer language when describing what this actually is, especially on your landing page. Here in the comments, when describing the project you've repeatedly described it as a marketplace, which makes sense to me. However that word or description doesn't appear at all on your landing page, and after reading the whole page I'm really none the wiser about how it works.

The way you describe all this, it sounds very complicated, but I'm wondering if it really is that complicated in practice. I'd suggest trying to have a "How does the funding work?" section on your landing page, and try to get that section under (say) 100 words. If you can't describe it that briefly, I'd gently suggest that you should try to make the way it works simpler.

In this sense, it is similar to the world of startup funding: when you've run out of money, you ask for more and continue to grow.

I think that's fair enough, especially once it's understood that it's mostly companies who are putting up the money, not individuals. Personally, I'd stay clear of the Kickstarter analogy because Kickstarter doesn't have this ability to go back for more money, and that's a killer for software funding.
This quote in the article jumped out at me:

“Life is more vivid in me than in the Mexican who drives the wagon for me,"

That's an awful thing to say, in more ways than one.
UBI also isn't money for votes, its money regardless of votes. I can vote for UBI and lose more in taxes then I gain, and I can vote against it and still benefit. That sounds like about as non corrupt as it gets.
This just turns Foss into the inferior but free option, and I don't think that was the intention.
True, especially if U.S. has 'Hague Invasion Act' against a NATO member!
I didn't know who he was either, and regardless it's possible for him to be both alt-right and on the mark in this article (although I assume that I had a similar response to you, I was a little disconcerted to see him described as alt-right).

In my limited experience huge swathes of the so-called alt right are, regardless of their other political positions, just as dismal about their economic future as the young left, and they have no illusions about concentration of capital, etc, since the 80s and have drawn similar conclusions.
A future iteration of this product should be a household item that you use it during your morning routine, even before brushing your teeth. Preventative measures like this should be more widely available and built into peoples everyday routines.
Can get an (2017) on the title?
> I'm also free to pool my resources with my neighbors and donate as a block.

And lobbyists are free to far, far, far out-contribute your block, rendering it effectively powerless.

Why do you seem okay with that?
I lived in BsAs in addition to a few American cities, and I beg to differ.
If uncomfortable drivers were good drivers tanks and fork lifts wouldn't have seat cushions.

Unless cars are different than every piece of heavy equipment and industrial machinery ever (which have been studied into oblivion because there's money at stake) comfortable drivers are safe/effective/better drivers because it reduces cognitive load allowing operators to be more attentive to second order things (mirrors, what the car in front of the car in front of them is doing and so on).

I agree we need much more public transit and bike lanes. I think most car commuters would switch to subway at the city outskirts if the value prop was good enough.
Please don't delete-edit your posts like that. It leaves the thread incoherent and isn't fair to the reader or to the commenters who replied.

Doing it in a snarky way is particularly not cool.
These things are not high security safes. You can probably smash the damn thing easily if you really want your phone, an emergency bypass may even be provided for that reason.

But that thing looks somewhat expensive, and the idea that you may break it should be enough to keep you away from the usual distractions.
Everyone should also learn to quit, and that quitting your job when it sucks (or just stops working for you) is a win, not a loss. It's also much better than getting fired - you control how and when it happens.
Why though?

They don't own Twitch. They didn't take any of the economic risk to start it. They're not on the hook for covering its server bills if revenue craters. If they wanted to put their money where their mouth is and buy a piece of the company proper, the current owners might be open to that, who knows.

But you don't typically get to run a company you didn't start, haven't invested a dime in, and can walk away from at any moment, unless you're willing to take on some of the risk. Risk is what gets you the rewards.
And in this context (I think inspired by James Scott's Seeing Like A State), it refers to local knowledge that isn't necessarily obvious to outsiders. Think of something like "you have to build in retry logic because that API tends to fail every fifth time."
can you just send a request to join? if not drop me a line on my email. email id in profile.
Ok, this article seems tailor made for HN to hate, but I'll agree with one thing: "Instead of subsidizing start-ups directly, governments should become good customers for them."

A huge amount of my time at a small company is spent (wasted) getting funding because we're a small innovative business and watching huge competitors get (and fail) at simple projects because the overhead of working with the government is 10x what it should be.
Only tangentially related, but if you've ever used ssh, you should also donate to the OpenBSD Foundation. http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/
Thank you for that StackOverflow link. I can guarantee it'll come in handy when I'm trying to bring someone's expectations back to planet earth.
'patio11 is our resident expert on bingo sheets.
It's just a matter of time before someone reimplements Office 97 WordArt with JavaScript.
One of the strongest benefits of salary transparency is the equalizing effect on salaries for women and minorities (and nerds who have trouble aggressively negotiating their salary!)
It would seem to me as a layman (I have a degree in CS, but my grasp of theory was always tenuous), that discussing the ability to calculate an equation that models a physical system is different than the physical system itself. The universe doesn't need to "calculate" it's systems before it executes them, they just do what they do (for lack of a better description).

That said, this feels a bit like "A New Kind of Science," where Wolfram extrapolated from computational games to saying "this is how the universe works", which was a leap that few found very compelling.
I worked at the Google office in London as an SRE. I arrived their via acquisition. Google was a leisurely existence in comparison to the startup world. I could easily achieve nothing if only by just enjoying the endless perks. In the early days I had a lot to prove and pulled double duty by trying to stay awake in multiple time zones to get things done quickly. In the end being in my 20s I felt like I was losing my edge being there and had to go back to the startup world. Maybe one day I'll return when I have a wife and kids.
How is this unusual? You worked for a contracting/consulting firm directly?

The running rate for IT (not programming) work is $150/hr east-coast. That can get cut down, but is often even higher. The industry doesn't pay these techs more than $30 an hour.
It's a bit older, but an interesting take on open salaries: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html
You made an invalid comparison and, interestingly, when analyzed your scenario exactly supports tedks' argument. Both scenarios hinge on a man acting aggressively against a woman who doesn't share his wishes. In both cases, the man controls the situation: he can choose to leave, deescalate or push harder. In contrast, the woman has no option to go back to enjoying her evening unless he chooses to allow it. All of the other options involve risk: calling for help (or the police) may not work and may have a social cost (“what a bitch, he was just trying to buy her a drink”). If she tries to leave, he can follow her to somewhere with fewer witnesses. Maybe she calls the police: do they send someone, does the officer arrive quickly enough, does the guy talk them into leaving without doing anything – and does any of this enrage him enough to assault her later?

Sure, the single most common outcome is that a drunken ass eventually gets the message and leaves her alone but all of those are possibilities which she has to weigh – and do so with the knowledge that if one of the low but still way too common terrible outcomes happens, TV and the internet will be full of people lining up to say it was her fault for making the wrong choice.

That's why tedks rightly called it male privilege: you or I can simply go out to a bar and have a beer without thinking about any of this. Given the circumstances, I can completely understand why someone who doesn't enjoy that privilege would choose an effective alternative even if some guy thinks it's breaking the rules.
Ethnic integration in Singapore https://archive.is/WgXtO
I live in Brooklyn and have made multiple trips to Home Depot, via subway actually even! If I needed to take bigger loads, zipcar + 10 minute drive. No landscaping but I can chill on my backyard with a garden behind my brownstone. If I really wanted to make furniture out there I could probably manage. For smaller pieces of wood, I can pick from 4-5 hardware stores in a 10 minute walk radius.
I went another way when I made a CV tool. We charge a small anount, but our privacy policy is absolute. Our customers are customers, not products; we treat them the way we would like to be treated: https://CVservant.com
You get Netflix for free with T-Mobile because they have a business arrangement. It's anti-competitive to the next Netflix.