jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's easy to scapegoat Adam Neumann or Elizabeth Holmes, and say they were sociopathic liars or the like - but these cases read like a market inefficiency in venture capital, rather than one-offs.

You misunderstood the business model here. The plan was to dump it on retail investors, cashing out and leaving them holding the bag. It was just a longer “pump” phase than usual. The sociopaths here are SoftBank.
There was outright fraud, however, all the warnings were there, and they were ignored partially because of her charisma and the gravitas of the board she assembled.

Walgreens straight up fired the investigator who was telling them it was hot air.
Ideally, of course, everyone could charge what they want for what they are trying to do, and everything would be flawless regarding to that. However, if we try to live by this idealism in this digital world, we also have to accept that the road to that said idealism goes through DRM, walled gardens and broken net-neutrality. Basically, to achieve that idealism with modern day digital devices we have to give up digital liberties (including privacy more or less).

I prefer the digital freedom over the anti-piracy idealism anyday. I suppose "digital anarchism" and "digital totalitarianism" would be descriptive terms for the (exaggerrated) ends of the spectrum.

Being an European, I at times praise the American gun culture and how the American constitution is such a holy thing over there (not that I want the guns over here though, but the attitude). What I would love to see is a similar attitude taken towards not guns, but computing. Fuck the authorities who try to whitelist sequences of instructions to execute on my general purpose computer in the name of protecting their copyright or patents, or corporate profits or local monopolies of digital information exchange.

If we ever go to this digital dystopian future (as if some wouldn't claim we are there already!), I firmly believe, and am afraid, that it is first and foremost lead by arguments in favor of entertainment industry (and to some extent by "protecting children" and "catching terrorist", how else...).

This is why the copyright laws and the whole notion of digital copyright enforcement is meaningless for me, and I personally am opposed to them regardless of being well aware that it's almost certainly a battle which can't be won. Not because we'd be wrong, but because digital liberties undermine ability to make profit in many ways. Oh well, at least there were us who tried.
It seems odd that broadcasters wouldn't do this given its such an easy EQ hack.
I wish I knew what this was addressing before actually reading through it. Is there some kind of weird relationship between ObjC strings and C strings... ?
This reminds me of Ling/Erlangonxen, unfortunately Ling is not a free-software, it's opensource but not a free-software.

And the fact that your operating system is the actual language you're coding with, reminds me of the fantastic project by Niklaus Wirth, The Project Oberon. The project Oberon is a language and operating system you can learn more about it at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/, http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ and a video by professor Niklaus Wirth himself: http://bit.ly/1ClvKSX
'The only sad thing is how few people know about this. Under-privileged students think they can only afford state schools.'

This is a huge problem that, in retrospect, was rampant where I came from. A pretty typical middle-class suburban high school, but one which rarely to essentially never sent any graduates to Ivy League schools. Why? Because it wasn't part of the community's culture.

How do you fix this? In anything other than upper to upper-middle class suburbs, the parents themselves probably went to state schools and have middle class jobs (which themselves are under pressure now). So the parents and neighbors didn't know anything about Ivy League schools or how to propel their own kids into the upper class.

By the time most kids learn how the culture works, it's too late, they're already in whatever college and life track they happened to fall into. It's takes especially thoughtful parents or other older role models (like great teachers or counselors) to see a kids potential and tell them about their life options.

Some kids have this experience (maybe it's a family friend or distant relative that happens to be very wealthy and shines a light on possibilities to the kid), but most do not.
I doubt it. There might be more people with Mandarin as a native language, but English has far more adoption amongst non-native speakers. Most Europeans, for example, know some English.
You mean the customer service he was under NO obligation to provide right?
No... people lost a lot of money, including investors and investment funds located in the US. This is a case of the gov't doing their jobs and likely has nothing to do with Silk Road. It might have something to do with the MtGox funds previously confiscated by DHS(?) though.
I've read the entire Dune series more than 15 years ago, one of the best Sci-Fi series I've ever read.
For the WSJ, just do a Google search for the title or change your referrer to Google.
Excel for Mac is missing a bunch of features and is way less performant than Excel for Windows. I don't blame the guys.
ironically that was the reason i started using google back then.
I price it at $14/mth, cause a domain without discount can cost anything like $12-$15 each. So $14 seems appropriate. And when I divide it across 20 weekdays that's around $0.7 per day only. I guess I will look at the pricing once again.

In the coming weeks, I hope to push out more variation sort of the deleted domains.

- pronounceable list.

- spelling list.

- words only list.

- one number only list.

- one dash only list.

Any more that will be useful?
Simon's Rock College of Bard.

I was incredibly bored in high school and it is a school designed for bright kids who aren't doing well in high school due to boredom. If I hadn't gotten out when I did, I was on a fast track to a state school w/ lecture classes, more boredom and probably dropping out...
Don't even bother fixing the website for a bit, just run it out of the HN comments here. Throw up an email and you'll have me as a customer.
I sold 5 sites on Sitepoint (name before it changed to flippa) same format, essentially the same site.

I provided complete transparency, with regards to reports, traffic, what I used for Adwords campaigns, monthly revenues and exact expenses. I also provided information on how I built/got content for all the sites. I answered all questions as they came in and even created secondary admin accounts so users could see statistics etc. in real time. (only if they requested by DM)

My lowest selling site was $800 and my most was $18,500 the user that bought that site re-skinned it and flipped it 6 months later for $72k, with less traffic and sales then what I had .. clearly I didn't know what I was selling, these were "fun" projects for me, that I got bored quickly, i find the fun in coming up and executing and once it get's to maintenance, I find I lose some interested. There are perfectly legit sites out there, you just have to dig and do your research.

for buying, I bought 3 sites, 2 of which were under $500. one site I bought for $2k was a total scam! The user falsified all the data and I fell for it. I was able to get my money back through google payments though.

one of the users on here recommended using Escrow, I'd agree.

If your selling a legitimate site and can document all the elements of the business for users, you should be able to get good value for it. Just be careful! There are a lot of scammers on the site.
This is why its not a PC, many people will already have a PC/Laptop they are happy with but like the idea of an iPad for consuming media. Its really only the day when users decide iPad instead of Laptops that it really becomes a PC. For some people this will be enough. Its desire as a consumable/entertainment device really sets it in a market of its own.
I get that really good feeling every time I make little scripts(using bash or python) that automate some of my daily tasks but I've really been wanting to work on something larger than ~200-300 lines of code.

That really good feeling is the seed that will grow into the beautiful and addictive life of a developer/engineer.

You're starting at a great point: finding problems (even if they're small) and solving them. This process is how I begin (even large) projects: if I can save myself some trouble, chances are that other people will appreciate it too. I built a profitable webapp (http://sleepyti.me) last month around this concept, and my December project (http://studycards.net) is trying to solve a common problem, too.

I think the GTD methodology is helpful when you approach large projects and end up thinking "nope, too hard for me." Every complicated problem can be broken down into a series of less complicated ones: this is the very basis of programming. Don't be daunted by big projects, just break them down into managable chunks.

And whatever you do, don't get discouraged! Work on cool projects and always learn new stuff: 2.5 years might seem like a long time, but it's just a grain of sand in the longevity of your programming lifetime. Good luck!
IIRC, Joel Spolsky tried this and found no noticeable speedup.

It's not really surprising that the bottleneck in compilation is the CPU rather than IO.
Calibre,is an open source ebook management app that allows converting to and from many different formats including epub and mobi (Kindle).

http://calibre-ebook.com/
it is relevant because apple's involvement was what caused that particular project to become the de facto go-to web rendering engine.
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peterfirefly might be thinking of "se souvenir (de)".
Android is the leader by market share but iOS leads mind share.

Android isn't a strong brand. Samsung, HTC, Sony, LG et al put their own corporate branding ahead of whatever Android version they use. Amazon barely mentions its existence. Apple and Samsung are probably the only strong brands in mobile right now and Apple is a lot further ahead.
Well said. Your comment on that link was quite insightful as well. I'll quote it here below:

"So, Go has message passing. Just like Erlang, since 1986.

Only without per-process heaps, which make crashing processes safe. And without process linking and supervision, which helps systems built using Erlang/OTP achieve nine nines of uptime. Instead, it includes null references, also known as Hoare's Billion Dollar Mistake.

But it's not enough to scorn the industry; Go's designers also look down their noses at academia.

A modern, ML-derived static type system? Generics, which would enable the unwashed mashes to write their own `append`? Ain't nobody got time for that — wait, what? Oh, Rust does?

Go's tooling is fantastic, and its pragmatism is commendable, but ignoring the last 30 years of programming language research is not."
Enough with the "heal" already. I was being metaphorical.
Currently about 60% of our code (in terms of lines of Java code, excluding tests) is open sourced. The rest is glue logic to internal Google systems or build rules that we haven't open sourced. Some of these rules, we are planning to open source in the future, and some others are specific to Google, so they don't really make much sense in the open source tree.
Well, as long as universities still do that (and they do, by and large), what's wrong with them extending their mission to prepare people for our current more complicated world where a lot of people need to learn more stuff than any normal high school will teach?

My Silent Generation father got a business degree at the University of Missouri in the mid-50s and that made a big difference in the '60s (and beyond) after he did his service in the Navy. E.g. he was able to take a company public and make it more successful, where in an extreme and unusual counter example, some quasi-competitors status wise he'd gone to high school with didn't have the skills needed to keep their company afloat and tried pulling tricks that ended with them getting some vacation time in Club Fed.
Whatever. Good writers write for their audience. This article was written for an audience residing outside of Iceland.
Correction: The Fed's policies have taken $50T of wealth from the Bottom 90%.

When you bail out irresponsibly over-leveraged and nearly bankrupted banks and corporations, and pay for those bailouts with tax-payer money, you steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Most importantly, when the Fed decides to print money ad nauseam, they create massive asset inflation, which steals from the poor and gives to the rich. This is because those dollars that are printed go directly into bonds, equities, and assets that only a small amount of the population owns a significant amount of. When money is "printed" the Fed actually injects money into financial markets through buying assets. This asset inflation caused by money printing gives more money to the rich to buy more assets, thus driving up the prices of financial products, real estate, and all other valued assets in society. Thus, cost of living skyrockets, but only the rich are actually increasing their net worth (which is increasing exponentially). All of this happens while minimum wage, and most wages, are stagnant.

Wealth inequality and social unrest in America is DIRECTLY related to corrupt and/or incompetent (you choose) Fed policies. It amazes me why most people do not grasp this. I think it is lack of education.
Well it’s not possible to do it 100%, but I think the problem is less the illegal trade of money for power and more the legal one. Campaign finance laws (which at this point probably require an amendment to the constitution) could help a lot.
You definitely can, you'll just have to fill out a bunch of complicated forms (accessible via the "Use Free File Fillable Forms" button on the page you linked), which is what you pay your accountant to do, and that anyone has the option to purchase TurboTax software to assist with.

The article leaves this out.

Yes, it would be great if the IRS were able to provide software as slick as Intuit's to assist with this, and it would also be nice if Intuit didn't use so many dark patterns, and at the same time they've built a product that makes self-filing far easier to do correctly than any other option out there.
So long as you're equally critical of all statements that "aren't exactly right" even when they come from groups that advocate for your political preferences, this is a totally fine and reasonable comment.
"...people advocating for more taxes no longer do so with an explicit intention to pay for something..."

You should perhaps listen more closely. There are a wide array of programs proposed by people who are advocating for greater taxes on the wealthy. Universal healthcare, free education, a larger social safety net and investments in green energy are a few of the big line items being constantly and loudly discussed. Those programs are intended to improve the majority of people's lives. You can interpret that as "more equal" if you want.
@ArcticBull - Why would I ever want to make 100% ROI on a rigged stock market when I've made thousands of % in hard money?
It seems like dyson focuses on over optimizing for problems that they themselves create.
>"But poor people have iphones now"

What makes that especially awesome is that Apple and the telecoms have gotten into the business of supplying credit to consumers who would otherwise have no business (literally and figuratively) owning a $1,500 phone when a $250 phone would do.
Which is a remarkable position considering how bad docker is. You’d think that not being docker would be a feature by itself.
> How do you decide which factories to build?

All of them. Or at least all of the different kinds of factories (mRNA, vector, live vaccine) for the most promising candidates. If there is a shortage of something, force production, apply imminent domain, force cooperation. War against Corona should be handled like a war, not like a toilet paper shortage.
I think the real innovation is permissionless

Yes you could get permission.. but it would take time. What if you want to do some random thing over a weekend? You’re not going to want to ask permission

Asking permission also opens the giver up to an implicit risk. Not just in a legal sense, but if you need to ask a mid level manager for permission they have nothing to gain and everything to lose

Putting everything out there on a permissionless chain with a rock solid set of predefined rules, it’s the hacker dream
Racket is a descendant of Scheme, and shares its roots as a great playground for fundamental functional programming concepts, while also allowing for impure approaches as well, making it a great chance to compare and contrast styles. It's also tail-call optimized just as Scheme is, so recursion is generally safe.

The documentation is also almost obscenely robust, the teaching languages provide a great sandbox for easing into various concepts, and the learning material in How to Design Programs is more or less a complete first-year zero-programming-required CS text.
You're right regarding larger system architectures where it's more about the services and less about what language each is written in.

1) Regarding concurrency, Go really pushes you towards writing things in a scalable way with the goroutines and channels, while still giving you mutexes for when those are the best fit.

2) Regarding single-threaded performance, this does indeed start mattering once you un-bottleneck-yourself on the architecture and concurrency fronts. 250 boxes are cheaper than 500.
> They should not break when dropped from 10+ feet.

I dropped my 515 from 12 m (40 ft) and it kept working…
Try NYC...
for a few seconds there I was worried that Microsoft might have teamed up with FB to create some strange web portal that included social media, email and documents. nightmare stuff...

still, I didn't expect FB to be using Exchange
Seriously, I'm doing my best to raise angel funding or project financing in Seattle and I can't get the time of day from folks despite having a sizable contract to execute against with the target raise.

I have heard explicitly that angel, private equity and bridge financing deals have dried up.

I figured this was a pure valley bubble but if Fred is encountering the same things - why on earth can't I find even a subset of that? My network is not THAT terrible...
I live in Turkey where there's no such thing as Cricket. No one knows about it.

If he starts with "For those in the US", he's assuming that the rest of the world knows about it. Rest of the world != Commonwealth countries.
You have to click right on the file name, but yeah that does it. Thanks!
Take very good lecture notes, and do not miss a single class. Sometimes, entire mid-term exam questions pull from an obscure point in one lecture. Sometimes, the recommended textbook will just suck. Sometimes, you will need reference material a year from now. Good notes will save you.

Overwhelming as it may already be, treat all assignments as the bare minimum. Professors do not babysit, they do not care if you do the 5 problems they suggested. Do 20 problems with your friends, and ask questions. Yes, you won't have as much time for fun, but you will be much happier when you see exam questions that you can fly through.
Please stop your own trolling - or should we just call it for what it is: lying.

Women are treated as inferiors in the LDS church. Polygamy would have continued for generations without the intervention of the federal government. The LDS church spends millions of dollars to support continued discrimination against gays.

Until 1978 blacks could not hold the priesthood in the LDS church. Some quotes from the "Book of Mormon":
2 Nephi 5:21-23:

"And he had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them."

"And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities."

"And cursed shall be the seed of him that mixeth with their seed; for they shall be cursed even with the same cursing. And the Lord spake it, and it was done."

"And because of their cursing which was upon them they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey."

3 Nephi 2:15 reads:

"And their curse was taken from them, and their skin became white like unto the Nephites."

Mormon leader ("Elder") Mark E Peterson:

"The reason that one would lose his blessings by marrying a Negro is due to the restriction placed upon them. 'No person having the least particle of Negro blood can hold the Priesthood' (Brigham Young). It does not matter if they are one-sixth Negro or one-hundred and sixth, the curse of no Priesthood is the same. If an individual who is entitled to the Priesthood marries a Negro, the Lord has decreed that only spirits who are not eligible for the Priesthood will come to that marriage as children. To intermarry with a Negro is to forfeit a 'Nation of Priesthood holders'...."

"If that Negro is faithful all his days, he can and will enter the celestial kingdom. He will go there as a servant, but he will get celestial glory."

Etc etc.

Notwithstanding the cowardly, brain-dead, head-in-the-sand intellectual compartmentalization others are advocating here, I doubt any of us would be commending the SEO efforts of other organizations that have the kind of sordid history and unfortunate social passions the LDS church has had...and isn't shy about paying for.
Use the 32-bit version of Firefox for Netflix. See the release notes here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0b8/releasenotes/
Google's mission:

"organize the world's information" - what information is being organized?

"and make it universally accessible" - are they going to make the building universally accessible?

"and useful" - I'm sure the building is useful without Google owning it :)
As far as I'm concerned, in any country with a separation of church and state, any group that opposes the ability of gays to marry is no friend of the gay community. They may have made some token gestures, but that doesn't change their core thoughts on gays, which is that the way they are is unnatural, and must be fixed. As long as they see being gay as a disease, and not a natural tendency, they're homophobic.

Their scripture is still full of outright, undeniable racism, and they consider the Book of Mormon to be the word of God. That's all the proof I need. They may have eased back on public racism, but for them to disavow their religion's racism would be to disavow their church entirely.

Mormon men may be taught to respect women, but women are taught that they should more-or-less stay at home and make babies, and for most of the community, if a women gets past her early twenties and isn't a housewife, it's seen as a failure. I consider that sexism.
> they're really working to make it attractive to open source developers

How so? The separate proprietary and open source versions have been around before the Oracle acquisition. Oracle hasn't done anything to make it more attractive to open source developers.
Not being critical, just saying that it is common/best practice to implement dependent web services and back end functionality before writing a web UI, right? Nothing wrong with doing some prototype simple UIs, but having the back end stuff implemented and tested makes the first real UI implementation go much faster. So, they are following good development practices.
Yes, shame on them for that. I won't use their service for that reason.