jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It’s a tough one, i lucked out on my first co founder, we went 50:50 and it went really well, but we were both contributing heavily and both have very easy going personalities.
On another one it was a complete disaster with a personality split not unlike what you describe, and the work load very unevenly split with me doing most of the work. I think I unfortunately went into that one a bit naively based on how well my first startup cofounder relationship had worked out.

Following that I decided moving forward that unless dealing with someone I had already worked with, that it was best delaying the founder splits until I have a better understanding of how the other person performs.

In my experience people do not really change, so yes your guts are probably a good early warning system you should listen to.

Since you already did a 50:50 split, I think if I were in your situation, before doing anything else, especially any fundraising, I would lay out the issue with your cofounder and see if things can be worked out. You could for example both agree that additional contributions from you moving forward should be compensated with additional shares.
Market cap is not a meaningful measure of a currency. A better measure is the velocity of money within a currency.

For context, just one part of the US economy is the stock market. The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) which came up in the news recently processed $2.15 quadrillion in securities in 2019.

The 30 day average for estimated transactions in Bitcoin is around 5-6 billion, or still around 1/1000th just one art of the US economy's transaction volume.

At 5 transactions per second, the average transaction size would have to be around $1,268,2308 to equal the velocity of just one portion of one sector of the US economy. 5 transactions per second is actually higher than the average transaction throughput over the past several years.
In statistical terms, a biased model has error in its estimate even with infinite data. This can happen if the model is too simple, for example if it classifies samples into two classes when there are really three, or if it uses a linear curve for a nonlinear relationship. That relates to the ethical or political version of "bias" if this error benefits some group over others. Though if it was just some basic model off the shelf, that bias could just as well benefit/penalize anyone.
that was my point, perhaps I could have made it clearer.

git checkout <commit-hash> <filename>

working copy of filename now gone if not committed.
My particular need is finding particular stuff. Information.

The Google used to be very very helpful. Now I have to McGuyver it into giving me what I am looking for. Now, my Google-fu is ok, and I can do it - but it used to be trivial.

Maybe this is an artifact of the "web is too damn big!", but I suspect that Google itself is going through both organizational (not necessarily algorithmic) growing-pains, but learning what to censor and what to promote in this complex world, and we are the crash test dummies.

Which is sad - to me - because I used to like it when they just gave me what I asked for.
> That sounds like a good enough reason to point fingers at these tourists.

The problem is you will just point fingers and not do anything about it.
I don't think the above video is suggesting that you never interact with police, or saying ACAB. Rather, if you're being questioned by the police you should always refuse to answer without your lawyer present.
> Over the four years I spent in high school I was assigned as homework every. single. AP Calc I & II problem that had ever been published. Is it really that surprising that our class did well?

AP tests are different than the SAT/ACT. AP tests measure knowledge of something (the degree to which one can study the test independently of the notional subject matter may be debatable, sure), but SAT/ACT are very much proxy IQ tests. They may frequently be used together (but MIT is dropping SAT/ACT, not AP), but are not equivalent to each other.

> If you read voraciously as a child you will score extremely well on the reading section without really trying. You aren't smarter.

There is considerable, though as in most things intelligence-related, not conclusive, evidence that reading, especially early reading, does improve general intelligence.

> I read math textbooks for fun. I was doing college-level math in 9th grade. And surprise to no one I scored almost perfect on the math section. But crucially, this didn't make me smarter than my peers.

How do you know that you didn’t both do this in part because you were already smarter than your peers, and that doing it didn’t make you even smarter than you would otherwise have been?

> Literally anyone who had decided to spend their time at recess reading number theory textbooks would have done just as well.

Even if that was provably true, that doesn’t mean doing it didn’t make you smarter, since if it did it would presumably also have that effect on others who did it.
You can't increase memory and PCIe channels while keeping the same socket. This isn't a cash grab; it's actual progress.
Looks like a Tafl game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tafl_games
Being prescribed 3 drugs immediately isn't normal at all.
It's refreshing to see an honest and critical evaluation of things. This kind of decision should be celebrated and encouraged with all projects.
Ok, we'll merge this thread to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713945 which was posted earlier.
I'd note that all powers not granted in the US Constitution are denied and federal police forces are definitely NOT allowed by the US Constitution.

Once again, it's just the garbage logic that EVERYTHING can potentially affect more than one state, so they have the right to control everything via the interstate commerce clause.
Apple not only pushed USB (a standard created by Intel and universally ignored by PC vendors until the candy colored iMacs created a sensation) but USB replaced the Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) - a proprietary serial connection.

Doesn't fit the "Apple is a walled garden" narrative though :p
> Since Node.js runs on a single thread, everything that will block the event loop will block everything. That means that if you have a web server with a thousand connected clients and you happen to block the event loop, every client will just...wait.
Read more at https://www.airpair.com/node.js/posts/top-10-mistakes-node-d...

This kind of thing would be big enough for me to just recommend to most average developers to just stick with PHP or whatever they are using now. At least the one-thread/process-per-request shared-nothing architecture successfully mitigates the effects of unavoidable developer stupidity (or of "code you've pushed to production without review after more than a couple beers" if you want to put it more 1st person...).

Simply because: 1. bad code will inevitably be written, 2. bad code will inevitably end up, among other things, blocking the event loop, and 3. the application will need to keep working speedly, form the user's perspective, despite having bad code sprinkled in it.

Isn't there any "automagic" way to prevent this from happening with node? ...something like, if a request takes more than XXX ms, than at least start handling new requests in new threads?
You are correct. That is what I meant, but I should have said "a machine you are actively connected to."
go the gym until u feel good
Damn, I was hoping you would read it loud. As in: Turn any blog into a podcast. Because that is a service I would love.
> That said, having a good amount of traffic definitely helps, but it's only one part of the equation. Monetizing that traffic is an art in itself.

Even if it's off by some margin, I don't think you have enough traffic to score $6K from ads like Adsense. I'm definitively interested to know how you do it. I already took the survey, but I think you should register people who are looking to know more about the book and not only affiliate marketers.

> But it's not something I'm pursuing at this moment, as I love my job.

That's totally another thing!
I don't think it's particular to Arabs, dishonesty is attributed to any "not them" group by prejudiced people
That's the point. emmett said they would need an average of 365 people uploading at all times. You two are saying the exact same thing ;-)
Last week on a whim I whipped up a URL shortener that expires the forwarded URL after one week[1]. Using that plus hashify, you can essentially make expiring web pages.

[1] pygm.us
My experience has always been that in fact it's an auction. Top engineers will always have multiple offers and if you really want them you'll have to pay. Of course, we all have limits based on our startup stage and funding and what's the return that developer brings to your company.

However, many times is not about the money but about the environment and challenges you can provide to smart people that makes a company more attractive vs higher salary.
Bill Gates built his company on corporate clients. Walt Disney built his company on bank loans. Steve Jobs built his company on venture capital. There is no wrong way or right way — just do what works best for you. Also doing it one way doesn't rule out doing it another way at a later point.
Some ideas are probably compatible with a lifestyle business but not with a VC-backed business. Without any details there's no way to know whether that is the case here.
> if you send a company your unencrypted data

There is no need for this data to be sent unencrypted. Encryption could be handled completely on the client side.
Personally I don't like the delay while spotlight is searching before I get to actually launch something. It's pretty decent though.
Isn't the "complex thought" of "learned helplessness" actually based on the elementary "fear" instinct? That is: no fear, no learned helplessness (only intelligent appraisal).
I have no idea why this is downvoted at all, let alone downvoted so heavily. It's correct. The content will be out of date in five years, so it's not evergreen and should be dated.
I just don't get it. What is so difficult about providing a one-time authentication through the user's phone? Just open Whatsapp on the smartphone, get a token, put your phone number and token and voilà!

I mean, there have been web chats for decades now, so I don't understand why they invented such a messed up set of constraints.

Besides, am I the only one who suspects that Whatsapp is boycotting Apple? They needed almost 2 months to get an iOS 8 update out, now they are limiting the "web" application to non-Apple users...
I somehow missed that (quite incredible, being one of the main subsections), and I simply assumed that you can't cram something like that in 2.5kb - I apologize.
Maybe http://caniuse.com/#feat=serviceworkers I'm just guessing.
But do you need the features? Are they important enough to be worth getting locked into an expensive ecosystem over?

Look at Reddit, they have very few employees yet they can't make a profit because their hosting costs are massive.

Contrast them with StackExchange, which uses a small number of powerful, well-optimized servers and is very profitable.
AR app that helps you change a tire and at the same time shows ads on the tires.
Cool then. I didn't know about this.
I really like this. I think it'd be interesting to implement on my own server as well (You know, every non-cloud reliance or whatever). It's super simple and super easy to grok.

I'm guessing you aren't looking to put this out open source if you're looking to make a product of it, but I'd love to see the implementation.
No mention of Michael Abrash? He was a truly original thinker and one of the best with optimization.

Icer Addis of Bloodlust Software had a pretty spectacular run in the '90s with at least 3 high quality emulators.

As for current times, Andrew Gallant, (BurntSushi (ripgrep and related software)) writes very high quality code that is very usable.
A part of the reasons for a lot of human mental health issues are that the conditions that we evolved in are no longer true (generally). Basic survival was a constant, life or death struggle and states like anxiety were often a readiness factor for real dangers.

Remove those dangers, and remove most of the struggle (although we will always re-define what struggle is) and we're a bit like fish out of water. We're still trying to adapt.

I took Effexor (Venlafaxine) for a few years due to severe social anxiety along with a couple of other issues. It had an enormous impact on me, dramatically reducing virtually all anxiety. It did for sure remove emotion in a lot of contexts, particularly remote empathy type situations. On the flip side it made me much more rational -- suddenly remote risks and dangers just didn't raise alarm anymore.

I stopped taking it because it was making me sleepy almost all the time and....the anxiety never returned. It's like a medically-induced cognitive behavioral therapy, but I really worried about a return of those social and avoidant behaviors...but they never did.
Also a Vim (NeoVim) user. I've been curious about Clojure and I've learned that there's a plugin called Conjure that's suppose to be pretty good. I've yet to try it myself but, might be something to look into. https://github.com/Olical/conjure
Thanks for sharing, Do you know any good and small tech websites that I can use for this purpose?
Still takes about 5 seconds for me to see anything render other than the "M" in the corner.
More to the point, most 'wantrepreneurs' rely on customers being in the middle class or higher, and having discretionary incomes from their stuffed 401ks to spend on their product/service/Saas/etc. To call that lifestyle 'mediocrity' and insult the very people that you need to grow your business is beyond the pale.

Just wait until he starts hiring people. He'll need those people who are satisfied when their work life is 'mediocre' by his terms.

Silicon Valley startup porn is harmful to many people, and I think the OP might be one of the harmed.
That is the stated rationale. But after the Guardian incident, the first thought in my mind is about journalists.
I, too, experience this. I believe it is related to cortisol spikes similarly to the increased daytime cortisol levels seen with insomniacs.
Yes, I had that example in mind.

Another example, I might be wrong here though, is the ooold disk handling code in BSD, where you had to specify cylinders, heads and other things, and the OS tried to optimize performance based on closeness. See here for more info: http://www.cdf.toronto.edu/~csc369h/fall/lectures/w10/DiskIO...

Today, I imagine most I/O interfaces use a large block index instead of cyl/disk/head and other ancient specifications. All the optimizations about head and so on is device dependent and is best handled by the disk itself.

Imagine the feeling of being able to delete old code in the disk subsystem and get a cleaner and more abstract view of the disk.
Signal doesn't do messaging on iOS right now, only phone calls.
Was it, perchance, the Larousse? I loved that book.
I have a Macbook as well as a Windows laptop. I honestly find Windows to be a smoother experience than OS X. Windows management and file management have always been better on Windows, but it is now also much faster than it used to be. A recent update has made search very good.

At this point, all my heavy duty productivity work happens on Windows. The Macbook is mostly used only when I'm working away from my desk.
This one is quite good. I posted it to Hn 6 years or so ago but it didn’t get upvotes:

https://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowser...
Because IOHK is the only organization besides the Tezos foundation doing real research in the field of POS.
Basically fad driven development.
Koalas have never been super common. And are a really shitty animal.

Their preferred food, eucalyptus, is low in calories and high in toxicity. Koalas have almost no brain folds and are really, really dumb.

They can’t recognise leaves if they aren’t on a tree. People love them because they are cute loving teddy bears, but they don’t have a strong evolutionary niche.
You are potentially corrupting ALL of your data, not just a handful. Sure, in the two scenarios you chose to provide (speaking of arbitrary), the JS error is clearly worse. If you take the worst case scenario in both cases, one is much more likely to cause an existential threat to your business.
There’s no reason that memes and hot girls can’t be used for political commentary.
You can find "lobe diagrams" for common antennas. You just look at the angle that the receiving point is at in relation to the transmitting antenna in the lobe diagram.
You can easily add a button to do that with something like Greasemonkey. I added a script that adds a button to GitHub that shows the file sizes in an extra column when clicked. Adding a button that adds !g to the front of a DDG query and then sends the search request is easier.
Google and Apple are the exceptions. They are massive profitable publicly held companies. And they don't compensate ordinary hires with equity on a percentage basis (maybe x number of shares as a bonus/retirement package).

They are so big that they have HR policies and anyone you are likely to know well enough to give a heads up on a job at either company is not high up enough to shirk the formal HR process. Small companies are very very different.
When I was in high school I tried to write a star control clone and I had a devil of a time with rotating the ships.

The first method I used would write the rotated pixel array back to the array I hand coded with the rgb values for the ship. Error quickly crept in, and while you were rotating, the ship would gradually shrink to a single pixel. After that, I used 2 arrays and it looked ok and nobody complained, but I was never truly satisfied with the result. I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one bothered by poor quality pixel rotations.
this is really good, is it possible to convert this to png?, with out losing any quality? :)
It's easy to make it look like that when you ignore leading and lagging indicators. Someone might be in prison today because of a crime they committed in 1990. Obviously, their being in prison has nothing to do with the 2010 crime rate and a little bit to do with the 1990 crime rate. In 1990, the US did have higher criminality!

My point, though, was that it's not a controlled experiment to compare the US and the Netherlands. It would be a controlled experiment to compare the US to an alternate universe US where, for whatever reason, we didn't incarcerate 84% of the current US prison population.

The US imprisons maybe six times as many people, per capita, as a Western European country. The question is why. Obviously, actual criminality has to play into this, unless the US wrongfully convicts many times more innocent people than Western European countries do. Longer sentences also play into this, though--it will obviously increase the prison population (or, more precisely, stop it from decreasing) but it will also decrease the crime rate by preventing prisoners from committing crimes in open society.
'With the advent of multi-core architectures, these devices are starting to have 2, 4, 8... computers each in them, so we'll exceed a dozen computers "on or around their bodies" very soon.'

Calling multi core architectures multiple computers is... interesting. I don't think there's much point in the document if he's going to give himself the most generous possible interpretation, wildly alternating between the letter and spirit of what he wrote. And I say that as someone who vaguely agrees with him.
> When a potential client or employer offers you equity, you can't sit there and ask them for their financials.

Why not? If they flip out and don't hire you, hurrah! People who are allergic to financial details don't make good business partners. (Bernie Madoff being the asymptotic example. He was famously hostile to questions about the financials.)
Sure, there are tradeoffs and frictions in the practicalities. But the potential solution space isn't dictated by a few simple axes of decentralization vs. concentration, or totalitarianism vs. anarchy. It's massively dimensional, and we already know governance variation can make a massive difference in quality of life: consider West vs. East Germany, or Hong Kong vs. pre-liberalization China, or South vs. North Korea.

What if there are other configurations as much better than the current best, as the current best is better than the current worst? Or put more concretely, compared to North Korea, South Korea is already a 'utopia'. Maybe there's another solution as much better again, which makes South Korea look like a retro prison state, and would to its vurrent residents be a comparative utopia. (Of course, this utopia's residents, once inured to it, would still find plenty to gripe about. C'est la treadmill hédonique.)

Most existing states have strong incentives to send the message: "Current tradeoffs are as good as it gets; this is already the best of all possible worlds — so get back to your station." They're lying.
My guess is he meant 1 master & 4 workers.
You're, of course, as correct as I'm lazy...
Good luck finding an insurer that will insure these for you
The DEC Rainbow was interesting because it highlighted a couple things in the early 1980s timeframe.

- If you were buying a PC right after the IBM PC came out, it still wasn't obvious whether you bought an IBM PC with DOS (or one of the clones that were starting to come out) or if you bought a Z80 system running CP/M-86 (or an Apple III). I bought a PC clone in, I think 1983, but I had been shopping for a good year--those things were pricey--and it wasn't obvious when I first started shopping what the right choice was.

- None of the minicomputer makers, including DEC, really understood compatibility in the context of PCs. They were so used to making completely proprietary systems so just selling something that could run an off-the-shelf operating system already seemed like a bold concession.
Out of curiosity, can you give some examples of open-source monitoring tools that large-scale ISPs use?
depends on which transhumanists I guess. There's certainly a lot that are obsessed with the singularity and the God-AI, which seems to be to be a post-religious projection of Christian Rapture. Or mind-uploading, or cryonics, or other over-simplified approaches to something like immortality. But there's also those who are interested in things like the quantified self, human physical/cognitive enhancement, bioengineering, that sort of thing. It's a big tent.
a lot of CIOs are very cheap and prefer to keep their IT teams "lean" (understaffed, underpaid, underskilled) as they see them as cost center, and rather hand over couple mills to a vendor like SolarWinds to install their "automation/AI" pixie dust.

So instead of investing into own employees who have the best interest of a company in mind (because you know job satisfaction and job security) -> they prefer investing into third party vendor whose interest is only to keep renewing multi-mill contract year after year while keep delivering barely above what's required to keep things afloat
Contact list access does that too... and a bunch of apps get it.

I just want the app to ask me, and me to decide if the app really needs it or not.
It's somehow unbelievable how long this getter/setter convention has been used (at least?) in java - People mindlessly generating them with their IDE - and nobody cared to question it and/or think of a better way before.

Not sure if "they are OO" (and what's the point?), but I think getters and setters usually are not needed and only add a lot of useless boilerplate code. Maybe in your boss's eyes it might look like you've been writing a lot of code. :)

But of course sometimes they are useful, and those times I think python's approach would be a better way. Maybe some other languages have even better ways to accomplish this?
> There seems to be one critique of Rails buried in all that

Yep, it was more a criticism of people's behaviour than rails itself.