jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I had not seen or read about this presentation but independently determined that the main flaw in Facebook is how it bunches up all of a user's connections into one group. A competitor can only gain traction in social networking if it is built ground up with the concept that a person's offline social network consists of smaller groups and that with each of these groups, a person behaves and shares differently. I feel this is a major weakness in the way Facebook is structured and any competitor should look to exploit this fundamental flaw.

If I were building a competitor to Facebook (like Google may be), I would allow a person to create sub-profiles under a main login. For example, a user could have the sub-profiles for themselves: "Work", "Family", "Friends". Each sub-profile would have it's own profile picture, it's own contact info, it's own newsfeed. When someone wants to add you, you would have the choice of which sub-profile you want to give them access to.

The main message that such a social network would need to give users is that each sub-profile is strictly walled off from your other profiles. So, now you won't have to worry about your boss seeing those photos from last night's party in which you had too much to drink since he only gets updates from your "work" sub-profile.
I think you're right. Planning is worthwhile; the business plan becomes a time sink when people focus on making it long and perfectly formatted, and have financial projections out for many years. The reality is, a startup is still looking for its business model; all the things that flow from that will change if the model changes.
Karma and reincarnation applied to the existence of suffering in the present; a thin veneer over blaming the victim, the justification for oppressive caste systems and class discrimination
I think for small stores shopify or woocommerce / wordpress / ebay / etsy / amazon or whatever works just fine. Especially if you need to validate your store as well. You can get a store up in a few hours if you are dealing with a few hundred SKUs. You can add all the data there manually through the CMS or with an excel / FTP import. For many places, this is good enough. For larger stores, I consider the following approach

- Develop agnostically. This means don't build with any stack of tools in mind. I have a prepros-sass-pug-typescript template here https://github.com/Kagerjay/prepros-pug-sass-typescript-boil... specifically for generating an ecommerce frontend multipage mockup. Every ecommerce site is going to be built in HTML/CSS/JS regardless of what backend languages or frameworks you decide (PHP, python, etc). All you really need is a home page, category grid, product grid, product page, and checkout page. Throw in dummy data here, and then use whatever backend system and/or framework afterwards.

- Doing any backend development is just reinventing the wheel. Ecommerce is tried and tested already. Things like how to handle an abandoned shopping cart, security, etc. You shouldn't be doing these things honestly. Let someone else do this, or use a library if you have too. You'll need to evaluate backend / ecommerce framework depending on your requirements though.

- Frontend, data, and your product / marketing are the most important things for an ecommerce site. Your customer is not going to care about your backend. Chances are you might migrate your ecommerce backend down the road anyhow.

In summary, if you want to start from scratch, and want full control/portability, consider building your own frontend mockup for each unique page type (category landing, product landing, etc). Expedite this process by using a CSS framework like Bootstrap. Learn how to organize CSS code with Sass. Worry about backend later. You should have an idea of what content / data is going to appear on the frontend, and where it all ties in.

If you need to dial back even further for a truly agnostic approach, consider UX design only. This will also shorten the gap in explaining to your developer, should you outsource to one, what the final site should look like and do.

If none of the above matters, just use shopify or and throw your pictures + content and a template, call it a day.

Backend I personally have seen many successful custom enterprise level stores using Laravel+PHP+MySQL+Some-Javascript-libraries (image LazyLoading)+PHP-libraries(shopping cart functions). You can analyze what tools a store is using through wappylzer. Some tools for doing a simplistic hosted backend include 3dcart and snipcart if you want to forego backend all together.

Finally, what ecommerce framework you use also depends on what your selling. If your selling high markup goods, such as T-shirts and stitching work, 2.9% cut from shopify is going to be irrelevant. If you sell industrial equipment, 2.9% is like half your profit margins.
I can't believe that the demo isn't being run off of its own network. Seriously, if you can't get good reception inside, at least run your own dedicated wifi network. What were they thinking?
there is a bug in that site where it doesn't check what the minimum username length is. so searching for 'a' will show that it is available at 30%+ of the sites
How about when people like you recline and your chair goes into our knees. Forgive me kneeing you in the back causing you back problems if you do this.
Apple has rarely done things first. They tend to just do things in a way that makes their customers really happy.
What's the difference between "hustling for a buck" and "starting a business"?
First of all let me point out that employees who are not business owners do NOT have to pay in the full 15.3% (SS & Medicare) to the government. Only 1/2 of that gets taken out of their paychecks. The other 1/2 is paid by the employer (social security wage base is $106,800 and unlimited for medicare). Also, in most states employees do not have to pay into unemployment. The employer pays into that for them. They also usually get vacation/sick pay and health insurance benefits. A one owner S Corporation has to pay in the full 15.3% on their wages plus $434 into FUTA that he/she cannot use. In addition they have to pay for their own health insurance and obviously no vacation/sick pay. Please do not compare employees to business owners. Employees have NO idea. This HR 4213 bill is another attack on the small businesses probably because the politicians cannot control us since most of us are free thinkers and usually not tied to one party. The S Corporation has been around for 50 plus years and has been a blessing to us small one-owner firms. I pay myself a reasonable wage (what I would expect if I work for someone else in my line of work) and then I usually leave a good chunk of money in the company savings account and take a small amount in shareholder distribution. With this new bill even amounts I don't take out will be subject to SECA. I usually save about $3,000 per year in SECA because of the S Corporation. This might not seem like alot to most people but an extra $3000 to my family seems harsh. Why am I being penalized when bigger firms won't be? Why are they picking on the little guy who works hard?????
The entire federal budget was about 500 billion in 1960, inflation adjusted. The current federal budget is nearly 3 trillion. Yet today, we seem to be spending less money building infrastructure investments that create economic booms and more money to pay people to sit around. Perhaps he's arguing that we should be spending less on entitlement programs (handouts) and more on infrastructure investments like high-speed internet.
CNN is streaming the keynote 30 minutes behind real-time. http://www.cnn.com
The iPhone has never had the competitive advantage based on it’s feature count.
This somewhat tangential, but I have to say that I've only seen one "live coverage" method that really worked well IMO: Lifehacker's LiveWaving of Google IO. I still haven't really used Wave at all, but that really seemed to work well for a live coverage event. It felt much less "hackish" than the auto-refresh and scroll down method.
Already being discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1902015
"Reasonable expectation of privacy" is refers to whether you are performing something in public or not. I can take a video of you standing in Main Street shouting about Hell opening up and devouring us all, because you don't have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

However, Wikipedia [1] implies this is not civil, but in regards to the government's view of privacy to you, not yours to the government, and is highly unlikely to supersede areas where filming is expressly forbidden, and which is indicated to you when entering that area.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_expectation_of_priva...
I disagree. Non tech people I know wouldn't use facebook for anything other than 'friends/photos/games'.
If the goal of the new patdown is to make everyone so embarrassed that they opt for the backscatter machine(1), then I suggest turning the tables.

The next chance I get(2), I'll be pulling a When Harry Met Sally on the TSA employee checking my junk. Let's see how much he likes it when I loudly beg him to keep rubbing me just a little bit longer.

"Damn, that feels good, man. I hope you're enjoying this as much as I am."

(1) see http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-...

(2) DEN has the machine and I fly out every week or two, so I'm sure I'll be reporting back shortly.
i would imagine standing up like that is a good way to end up on the no-fly list
Well, something like 30% of the country still believed Saddam had WMDs in like 2006, and 25% of the country thinks Obama wasn't born in the US right now. Those are different than having a non-mainstream opinion on a hypothetical, but goes to show, people can believe whatever they want.
Reddit is not a place to have dialogue. Community-moderated areas just aren't very good at it. Even HN has been accused from suffering groupthink. If you want dialogue, forums, mailing lists or better yet, the real world (if you can find the community you need to discuss things with), is a better place to have it.
And there is also the sad fact that he has to hide all that under heavy layers of academic wording.

But even in the worst case scenario, he has some degree of familiarity with almost everything. Except math.
The fascinating part of the indoctrination toward citizenship isn't so much the bowing in unison and redoing it till the bow is perfect, it's rather the inane but repetitive instructions over communications systems _everywhere_ at school, in the subway, in the stations, at department stores, public spaces, always a calm soothing voice reminding you what you are to do next. It's pervasive. It's also interesting from a cultural perspective.
We didn't use the ETL, we rolled our own, and I'm still with the company, so I think you have me confused with someone else. We hired someone who's an OrientDB expert to solve these problems because we assumed that the problem was a lack of skills on our part. Since they were also unable to fix the problems, and since we did run into very real bugs virtually every day, I'm confident that the problem is with the product and not ourselves. We did everything we could to make this work because OrientDB should have been an exact fit for our use case.
Thanks for your feedback. While there are couple of reasons for choosing Unity3D over Unreal more than anything else it has been the cost factor. Unity3D basic version is free (for organizations that make annual revenue lesser than some threshold value) versus Unreal Engine which is paid. Since I am still a novice Indie developer not making any money from games I am trying to keep my cost to a minimum :)
Meta / off-topic, I'm fascinated by the fact that your account is nearly 3 years old but this is apparently your first comment.
>No beaches/coast? No mountains, forests, waterfalls

I think maybe you make too many assumptions. Michigan, for example, has any of these within driving distance (albeit their definition of ‘mountain’ is a bit different than out West)
Cost of living in the midwest is amongst the lowest in the country
Love the idea! I'll try that with my 4yo daughter this week, I think she'd love to tell me what to do :P
Yes it is possible to go from STL to DXD. But last time I try that feature, the software crashed.
I will try to do it again when I’m back at the office.

Thank you for reminding me about this.

Quick update: opening the DXD file with a hex editor, there is a XML file defining the metadata of the current file and a public RSA 1024 key. I’ve been scouring around to find the private key with no success.
addendum: one day after being vaccinated, no issues except the usual sore arm. Go science!
[2] https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php

Looking at the long term trends, the mid 70s was the zenith for Doctor Who, the late 80s it's senescence. Numbers have been trending down for some years now back to those 80s levels.
No surprise at all. They're trying to to rewrite history now.
Image search “大根 擬人化” do return similar results to the AI-generated pictures, e.g. 3rd from top[0] in my environment, but sparse. “大根アニメ” in text search actually gives me results about an old hobbyist anime production group[1], some TV anime[2] with the word in title...hmm

Then I found these[3][4] in Videos tab. Apparently there’s a 10-20 year old manga/merch/anime franchise of walking and talking daikon radish characters.

So the daikon part is already figured in the dataset. The AI picked up the prior art and combined it with the dog part, which is still tremendous but maybe not “figuring out the daikon walking part on its own” tremendous.

(btw anyone knows how best to refer to anime art style in Japanese? It’s a bit of mystery to me)

0: https://images.app.goo.gl/LPwveUJPWHr6oK8Y8

1: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAICON_FILM

2: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B7%B4%E9%A6%AC%E5%A4%A7%E6...

3: https://youtube.com/watch?v=J1vvut5DvSY

4: https://youtu.be/1Gzu2lJuVDQ?t=42
didn't all the Fedex drivers start out as contractors, until a court case ruled that they are actually employees? Time will tell if this will happen to DoorDash and Uber.
In this thread, "attractive" is being used as shorthand for "physically attractive": it was first introduced in response to a comment talking about height.

Also, while intelligence is per se attractive to some degree, it's also mediated through downstream effects like a higher likelihood of financial/resource success.
>overwhelming evidence of an unrepentant killer

what, like someone saying "I'm glad they're dead"? I mean if the rule was that only unrepentant killers were executed everyone would do their best to appear repentant - unless of course they were crazy or suicidal or something, in which case executing someone like that would not seem that gre3at.
Thanks but I must disagree. Will you come with me awhile and let's look for the bigger fish here before pointing the finger?

Are you aware that for the poor, as I sadly came to find out, the injury attorney is in charge? Just like a coach who calls the plays and decides which players to put on the field, the atty decides on which doctor chiro surgeon etc to send the victim to.

The injury lawyer sent me to a chiropractor who has apparently been in business a long time.

Let me ask you: of all those stories you've heard of injury and paralysis by chiropractors...how many of them resulted from car accidents or other cases where the victim is 'sent' to the chiropractor as opposed to 'choosing' them?

I have met many over these past years who were car accident victims and at least anecdotally it seems like I am not much of an edge case in this specific regard.

I am not trying to argue with you. I guess I am thinking about what you said and I am trying to point out that mere cash payments to homeless are pointless if there are not other changes to these systemic frauds that exploit the poor, the weak, the homeless.
This is supposed to be a scientifically-literate forum. Ad hominem dismissal of good data/analysis because it could come from a source you've been taught to dislike isn't conducive to good discussion. If you're curious about the authors' links, they are in the article you didn't read.
Politics. China is keen to not have the blame for COVID pinned on them. Accepting the blame makes Xi look weak and inept. It also opens up the door for countries to demand reparations. Meanwhile, every other country (especially the US) is eager to manufacture a narrative in which China eats the full blame for this because it absolves their politicians of responsibility for their complete mismanagement of the crisis. It sounds a lot better to say "we had a bioweapon unleashed against us and there was nothing we could do" than to say "this is just like the last 10 times we had a pandemic and we still botched our responses".
Poor car companies. Between the possibility of this technology available as retrofits for old cars, the common use case for this as a taxi without the need to own it(and the efficiencies that come with it) ,the possibility of car sharing using this tech(like uber-pool) , and the long life of many current cars - the future of car companies seems hard(maybe after some brief period of big demand).
Diesel is still a dirty fuel and has done a lot of health damage in Europe. The US has lucked out of this one. See e.g. http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/the-great-car-con-ch...
I agree that that is the most likely reason. I may have also overestimated how likely the alternative interpretations were from the tone of the announcement.
Hype (partially) is a factor. Others are :
- Fear of missing out on the "next" facebook.
- Investors are risk averse. They tend to flock in to deals where other investors are already in.
- Disruptive market technology (with huge potential payout) -> invest a lot -> get bigger equity/ownership percentage and then make some big returns.
Oh, wow. I've been learning OCaml lately, specifically to dive into Hack, Facebook's new statically-typed PHP derivative. This will really help with that, thanks so much for the link!
I was under the impression that Monopoly has mostly reinforcing loops. The more money you have the more you can develop your property and make more money.
There really aren't any. Which is sort of the point of the game.
Wow, that's perfect!
Oh, I thought that something like this already existed for the US, because we've got Foxtel Play here in Australia, and we're usually far behind everywhere else for this sort of stuff.

I currently pay $25AUD for a small set of channels, and watch them over the internet on my iPhone, laptop and Xbox 360. It's quite neat actually.
They'll find a way to bypass that quite easily, however with the amount of outsourcing based in India it will be an inconvenience for some time. Probably not as much as it would've been if it wasn't NY.
Someone has made a huge mistake and should be fired over this.

Utterly ludicrous.
Minification can also involve changing variable names; sometimes there are dependencies on names that are unknown to the minifier. Also, the removal of whitespace can cause lines to combine in interesting ways if there aren't semicolons between them and if the minifier doesn't automatically add it.

http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=minification+bug
I've read in the region of 250 books across 4 years and managed to develop some good habits for getting through books.

1) Aim for one book a month or one book every two weeks. Divide the number of pages by the days in your chosen time frame and commit at all costs to reading your set number of daily pages.

2) Take opportunities like going to the toilet, catching the train, being driven somewhere, waiting for food to cook and the 20 minutes before you sleep for the night to get some pages read.
3) Get an ebook version and listen to this while shopping, walking the dog, driving to work or any other redundant time where holding a book is not possible.

Getting a couple of pages in here and there every day adds up very quickly and before you know it, it's become a habit. I do stress though that you must be really interested in the content of the book or the motivation just dips and if your forcing yourself to read through it anyway, the information doesn't sink in.
Many may wonder like me WTF is NixOS?

The key feature is 'declarative system configuration'. Sort of Puppet/Chef/Ansible/CFengine build-in. Heavily oriented on DevOPs culture.

The OS allows you to test package installs without the fear of breaking the system. You can always roll back to a previous known-good state.
> Yeah I could give you a nice list of words that results in an similar results page from Google, Youtube or Facebook.

Could you give me some examples?
It was rude??? Jeez you guys are really spoiled kids. Let me know when you are dealing with real customers down the way and how they will bitch about stuff.

What's even the point of criticizing me being "lazy"? How am I supposed to complain the valid point without being "lazy"? Write a tutorial on using JavaScript syntax highlighting library? That might be OK elsewhere, but this is Hacker News and they are demoing code snippets. They are supposed to know this will cause serious usability issues.

And if this complaint is off-topic, I'm not sure what else we should talk about here on HN.
I've re-invented the wheel a few times...
Actually, according to the article as well as an NPR commentator, prisoners in Georgia receive no pay whatsoever for their labor, None, $0.00/hour.

Note all that extreme overcrowding, a lack of nutritious food as well as a lack of heating and cooling were mentioned in the demands. If they are correct, it's hard to imagine worse conditions aside from outright torture.
No. I don't believe there ever can be. For a specific technology choice to become useful -- and more importantly to remain useful -- I think it needs strong competition.
Arr, my mateys, the battle is ours!
it's astonishing that it isn't already standard equipment ...
What alternative do you prefer?
Probably could use something like this for looking at sports teams.
I mean, in a way, scientology is like any other affinity group [1]. If many members of a particular affinity group are prominent in an industry, joining it is a way to get connected with those members and that industry. Scientology is also a lot more hands on, and tries to manage staffing for their most prominent members, which means positions may be open only for members (which may be illegal), so it probably is pretty effective at getting your foot in the door in the industry.

The questions are really can you get out of Scientology and stay in the industry, and is getting into the industry worth the strife of getting into and out of Scientology and of association with Scientology in general.

[1] Most affinity groups aren't abusive or dehumanizing, or at least aren't to anywhere near the same degree.
Recording cops while music is playing should be a fair use under US copyright law, right?

So it's mostly about the take-down system and it's abusiveness.
maybe Apple's own replacements with AI components?
How are you going to decide which corporations are you going to tax? How are you going to get citizens from the upper percentage of the tax bracket to just agree to join a voluntary experiment.

It turns out that designing studies for national policies is REALLY hard due to the complexity of our modern society. Institutions exist across a large variety of scales and the smaller the study the more you have to account for external factors and abstract out things like funding sources, which are not directly connected to the effect of the money on the populace being studied.

It's much easier to look separately at the effects of income, and compare that to separate studies on the effect of higher taxation, to see if the tradeoffs are worth it.