jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This was inspired by https://css-tricks.com/custom-properties-as-state/ which proposes stylesheets as an API - the stylesheet defines dynamic CSS custom properties (aka CSS variables) which can then be used by the rest of the page.

For example, adding the .css extension to a Datasette table page (having installed this plugin) gives you the following:

https://latest-with-plugins.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_a...

:root {
--pk: '1';
--name: 'The Mystery Spot';
--address: '465 Mystery Spot Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95065';
--latitude: '37.0167';
--longitude: '-122.0024';
}

That's data you can display on your page like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://latest-with-plugins.datasette.io/fixtures/roadside_attractions.css">
<style>
.attraction-name:after { content: var(--name); }
.attraction-address:after { content: var(--address); }
</style>
<p class="attraction-name">Attraction name: </p>
<p class="attraction-address">Address: </p>

Is this a good idea? Almost certainly not, but it's definitely a fun hack!
Probably because that document is not endorsed by Apple Corporation.
What’s amazing is they have made these same products for like...25 years?
Are they equivalent? No.

This is a clear escalation but the escalation is due to the deteriorating of our political discourse. I would not have been surprised if we saw something similar if Trump had won a 2nd term.
About thirty years ago, we bought a rowhouse, built ca. 1983, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington. One neighbor, a first owner, said that he had found a lot of beer bottles back by the heating unit in his basement.
> The left soon will control all three branches of government

...the supreme court is majority conservative and has 3 trump appointees. Senate and congress are together one branch (the legislative branch).
Twitter waited just long enough, to finish profiting off the last 4 years of rage from him, to finally do something.

I have lost all faith in Twitter leadership and engineering to have allowed this to get to this point for pure greed reasons.
I know exactly what it is and how it works, this doesn't help the premise, how to make apple store work <for any updates and app downloads>
And what makes you think that forcefully silencing such narratives will make those people change their minds? That strategy is also hopelessly naive.
> I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone.

It's called an echo chamber, and you should try to escape it if you can.
I have a question about your choice of words re the person who insisted on sitting with their feet towards you.

Did you suggest that you would feel more comfortable if they sat differently?

This doesn't make any difference for me personally but I understand why some people would prefer that the person not sit like that. However, if you did not express an objection with regards to how that made you feel, I don't think "insisted" is a fair choice of words there.
Have to agree with this. I've turned down offers, or stopped the process, due to a bad interview experience. It's not a good signal, necessarily, but it is the only one that we have, as to what it might be like to work for you. If you can't get this together, what else do you do badly? I recognize from all these comments that companies can be quite nice internally but just suck at interviews, but what else do you have to go on. If my potential future boss finds his phone more interesting than talking to me during the interview for example, why would I accept that job offer, especially in today's market when my phone is literally pinging with interview opportunities as I interview with you?

And I that perhaps a bit more subtly than it appears. This frantic search for warm bodies can make you feel pretty desirable and important, and I think it is easy for that to skew your thinking a bit and to over-interpret small things that happen during interviews. But, that is the reality of human behavior, and you cannot ignore it.
Facebook's acquisition of WhatsApp was probably primarily defensive. By that, I specifically mean, "They were worried that WhatsApp would cause them to lose revenue from their core business, and their valuation of WhatsApp was heavily based on avoiding that potential loss."
Alas, it's not that simple. See these bugs about AdBlock Plus's effects on Firefox's memory usage:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988266
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001426
I think the analogy would be like opening a Government Bank where the doors are always wide open and there are no locks. Everyone can see everyone account status or simply come in and grab their jewls or gold coins, but they won't because generally

[...] citizens "are prohibited by law from stealing other people's belongings"
Interesting, I've been thinking about something like "openlag" lately. It seems like an ideal compromise between the need to make money and the desire to open source everything.

When I've been thinking about it, I was considering a much shorter period of time than three years, though, something more like 3-6 month periods, so your competitive edge comes from the newest features, and anything older is Open.

I feel like it would work really well with a premium SaaS model- open source everything that's free to everyone, and have a reserved feature set that's only for paying customers. Paying customers get new features first, and eventually, everyone gets them.

Of course, at some point, you might shoot yourself in the foot by making enough of the app free and open source that no one will want to pay for whatever you've been developing lately. You also, of course, have to always have compelling new stuff coming out to keep subscribers.

I definitely don't think it's viable for every project, or even most projects, but "openlag" definitely seems like it has a place.
FWIW, I'm pretty sure Safari on iOS has always had a JIT, although web views embedded into App Store apps didn't have access to it for security reasons.

edit: I'm wrong
I'm not an archer of any rank. But my take on this is that he's trying to represent or reproduce the skill of archery when archery was essential to war and hunting. Great skill in an Olympic competition is certainly an impressive achievement but it may be worthless outside the clearly defined rules of competition.

Between your 120 bowman and this guy, which one wins in battle and which one brings home fresh meat for dinner. I think I'd rather have this guy on my side.
IAALBIANYL - I'm thinking this means "I Am A Lawyer But I Am Not Your Lawyer"? I haven't seen this before but it seems to make sense. Or does it mean something else?
I agree that the good ole stateless HTTP protocol is great, but the thing is, as soon as your web page is simultaneously displaying content from two separate HTTP requests, your web page itself is maintaining state. That's very evident on complex single-page applications like an email, chat, or calendar app, but it's also true even if you load static HTML from a server then have a bit of client-side JavaScript that checks authentication status and shows the visitor's profile picture in the top bar if they're logged in. That's a pretty basic technique that web developers have been doing for probably 20 years, yet it already requires tooling and/or developer thought to manage what is now a stateful computing session.
Full-size SD was actually what we intended to accommodate when we set the dimensions of the Expansion Card. We started with MicroSD/UFS Card though because it allowed us to keep tooling in common with our other cards. We would like to do full-size SD as well though.
The middle ground is that consumers have to be willing to pay more for their deliveries so that drivers can receive a reasonable salary. Delivery companies know consumers won't pay for it, so they are attempting to violate labour law by calling these drivers self-employed.

When I get a 50% discount I sometimes am tempted to order. But with additional surcharges now the discount is usually gone. Then I realise I'm a massive slob and there's perfectly good food in the fridge.
Put the other way, why should Bitcoin not modernize?

It's already the leader by a long shot on network effects, stakeholders would be insane to squander that by letting other projects beat it technologically.

Obviously it can't move as fast as a smaller project (just like a large co vs a startup) but it will absolutely die if it doesn't move at all.

I view Bitcoin a lot like a company. Right now network security is paid for by inflation (issuing new coins), similar to a startup operating with VC money.

At the very least bitcoin must increase transaction volume so it can increase fee revenue without ridiculous individual transaction fees.
I would say this is one of those very rare examples where sufficient social activity suffices where a study is absent. I have not met a single human being who believes in execution but only humanely. I have met in excess of 50 people who simply conflate suffering and death and simplify the justification
> the same energy needed to drive a Tesla

who are the memeticists driving this analagy into our collective consciousness? why is this popularizing? ive been seeing this crop up more and more frequently.

it feels a bit like begging the question, except the arguer also holds TSLA
It’s all interconnected and inter causal in a gigantic mess.
I don't think it's permanent, but once you authenticate, any other device that can spoof the MAC address can connect. It might expire a month or so after the last connection.
Inertial and GPS-based navigation systems have always been complementary components of a complete navigation solution. The problem with inertial navigation is, it because you are reckoning position by taking the second integral of acceleration, error is introduced and what's worse, it accumulates. No matter how accurate the gyros and accelerometers, if you run the system long enough the drift accumulated will have you off from your actual position. So GPS is used to correct the inertial solution with actual position data.

So yeah, it's great that we're getting much better solutions from inertial gear to supplement a faulty or missing GPS solution. But this isn't GPS without satellites.

Now... navigation on or over land by performing SLAM on ground features... that would be interesting.
I see where you’re coming from but honestly the Roku remote feels pretty good to me. It ’s not too thin like the Apple remote, the round back feels great in the hand, the buttons are good, and it’s a dead simple layout.
+1. My brain read Security Six. I think I suppressed a mediocre Single Six experience and foregrounded the delightfulness of the Security Six.
Ugh. FileMaker. I had my first exposure to FileMaker on this current contract. What a bunch of time wasted trying to get it to work.
A really neat idea and something I think could be beneficial for kids. I don't know what else has been done in this area, but I remember cutting my teeth on Visual Basic when I was about 12, and I am grateful for the shallow learning curve it had.

The example programs on the homepage are cool and illustrate the power of the language, but why can't you view the source code of them?
It's possible it is a capital cost vs expenses thing.

Where I worked it was very hard to get a new machine because it was a capital expenditure, which affected tax, depreciation and budgeting. Ongoing expenses were easy though, because the tax effect was different.
Then I apologize, I misinterpreted his post.
People accept that Microsoft fails? Does the name "Windows Vista" mean anything to you? Of all the reactions people had to that version, "acceptance" isn't on the list.
It looks good on the store, but instantly crashes on every attempt to create a project on my iPad.
It seriously dislikes my Truecrypted work file. Uploaded it once, won't touch it again, no matter how many changes I make. Emailed support, they said it wasn't uploading because Truecrypt was accessing it, but it ignores it even when it's not running.

Haven't tried it with Dropbox, though; maybe I should.
>and thus affect their chance to get life insurance or affect the price of premiums

So the real issue is can't get insurance/too expensive insurance, not the privacy itself.

If this is fixed then I don't care if the information being public.
Looks like that RV prop "Ark II" from that 70
s scifi show ... ex BMW flame surfacing car designer Chris Bangle would be proud of so much ugly.
It's not like you can't get your own bullet proof glass installed. It seems pretty silly on a consumer vehicle meant for suburbia.
> Most pickups are driving office dudes like me to our office jobs every day.

Given the price of that thing, you should just buy a second, smaller electric car (maybe even a Twizy). If you care about your CO2 emissions, it's better to give up looking manly and driving like a madman at traffic lights.
Came here to say that. Unless you're bringing an already popular product into the store or have a large marketing budget, you're really at the mercy of the handful of people who seem to live to give bad reviews. It's even worse for a free product, which suggests that it's a % of people who have nothing better to do.

So, you either try to push through it or buy reviews -- and risk getting kicked out of the store entirely.

Reviews are 33% of the reason I shut down my app biz. (And then 33% dealing with the college dropouts in the review department and 33% for taking 33% for making my job harder than it would be without their help.)

Cutting out reviews would be helpful for probably everyone but the top 1%. It would certainly make it less of a shit show for most developers.
What straw man? What slippery slope? That's literally what's happening here, and it's the argument you're making: "this man is a meth dealer, so the ends justify the means".
There's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-deck_elevator
Yup. They're the guys responsible for Madeon's photography + video content. Their work is phenom! They do work for DJ Snake, Tchami and Mercer as well.
I throw exceptions.

At people.
I don't know about $2k, but $100 isn't a high threshold at all. There are plenty of areas where $10+ CPM is the norm, and plenty of people in those areas run 10k-visitors-per-month sites.
That cuts both ways though.

-Sent from my fold-able 24" touchscreen running Android with 4G and an always-on 3-year battery.
Some of them are often wildly overstated, others are kept hidden. In polite society you can only mention a difference between male and female cognition if it either (a) advantages females or (b) it is strictly neutral. See also: Larry Summers.

Also there's some evidence of differences in cognition between different races; you definitely can't mention these in polite society so I'm not going to. See also: The Bell Curve, and that chick at Harvard Law who got reprimanded by the Dean for something she said in a private email.

Of course all these actual cognitive differences don't really matter since intragroup variability vastly swamps intergroup variability. The only interesting and significant differences between male and female minds are not in the way they solve abstract problems but in ... pretty much all the other stuff (emotional makeup, desires, responses to events, sociability, et cetera).
I found this article which says 66% of businesses fail within 4 years according to the Small Business Administration: http://www.businessknowhow.com/startup/business-failure.htm

That was written in 2006 when we were in a boom (unjustified as it might have been). I'd imagine those numbers are much higher now.

So basically Friedman is advocating new graduates go into a field where they have around a 3 in 4 chance of failing. Given there are only 1 or 2 unemployed people for every 10 in the broad market I'd say that's bad advice.
There are several companies using that name already. I assume Google didn't want the extra hassle of dealing with pissed-off trademark-holders in addition to wrangling with the MPEG-LA.
> Using data from five non-consecutive weeks in 2005, a period chosen for its lack of unusual stock market activity, here's how AZFinText performed versus funds that traded in the same securities (which were all chosen from the S&P 500):

This is silly. It's quite easy to generate an algorithm that would perform similarly. I wonder how it would have performed had it been run across the entirety of 2005 (or any year for that matter), and not just during cherry picked weeks.
While the indirect way they did this is less than ideal, I think they have the right idea. IE and Firefox are browsers. A search toolbar is something that goes in a browser. Odds are, if you installed a search bar in your browser (not that I personally would ever do such a thing), you want it in whichever browser you use. It would be better if they just asked, 'hey do you want us to install this for firefox too?' (maybe?) but I'm not terribly upset by the idea of it.
Start with building an app that you can be proud of. Others have mentioned working for free, but if you're going to do that, you may as well build an app for yourself.

Treat it as a client project and be willing to put some money into it to keep yourself committed and ensure its success.

Once it launches, you have an instant portfolio and hopefully some Github contributions that come out of it that you can point to.

This is the route that I am going with. I'm about 60% done with my app.
People that liked it or were neutral didn't need or want to search for anything about it.
Wow, what utter fucking bullshit. It looks like the court just rubber stamped whatever the BSA submitted. They actually say it's copyright infringement to copy a program into RAM to run it.

Mind boggling.
Depends on how you define waste. One might want a PhD because of the learning involved. Not everyone cares about money.

Oh wait, but, it's The Economist.
[EDIT - removed - it seems I couldn't tell the difference between what was being overturned and the actual decision]

This is a case where being able to provide a bit of context for the link would be useful.
I like #2, if i could i will work on that (at least for my self-amusement).
My dad started a sewing machine repair store when I was a kid. I don't know too much. I think he worked for someone else for a time and/or worked from home and decided to open a shop. Once he opened a shop, then my mom, who sews, got involved as well and it became a place where they also sold patterns and material and sewing supplies. I don't think they ever did very well and I think they really couldn't get on the same page. There also weren't the resources there are today for assisting small businesses. The store eventually folded. My mom brought home leftover material, thread, patterns, etc and stocked her sewing room with them and spent years using up some of that stuff.

My mom also took in sewing at home for years and years and later became self-employed as a cleaning lady. Her skills were in high enough demand that when my dad went through chemo about 16 years ago and she had to mostly be home to care for him, she could make one phone call and have work on her terms for the hour or two she had available on some afternoon when he was doing well enough to be left alone briefly. This helped them enormously. I think my mom fundamentally has better business sense than my dad. She also sometimes sews stuff (or did a few years back) for my cousin's gift shop, to help support their success.
ChromeOS needs to expose the hardware capabilities of its host machine. That is really the only reason for native apps these days -- access to camera, accelerometers, various coprocessors, etc. Perhaps that will become viable if NaCl takes off, I don't know.

But speaking as a developer, the ChromeOS development model is much saner than those of its mobile counterparts. iPhone/Android development is antiquated and miserable in comparison. We are stifling ourselves by perpetuating a development model that worked in the 1990's.

Wherefore art thou, WebOS? You need a champion.
I really am not. Could you give me at least a hint in what sense you meant that?
My father owned a real estate company, an ISP and a CLEC while growing up. All turned into lifestyle businesses, even though they were meant to be big exits in their respective industries.

* I learned that you're up some years and down others. The trick is to just keep pushing forward.

* Some people have it, others don't.

* You won't be able to recognize whether you have it or not, until you're actually doing it.

* Marry the right person (and make sure they have health insurance that covers you and your family).

* Keep your personal expenses low and maintain the ability to live off of your partners salary while you're bootstrapping, if that's the path you take.

Bonuses:

* You get to have great discussions around the business every time you're together.

* You're able to lean on your dad (or mom) and ask for advice about what they would do in particular situations. Basically a built in mentor.

* You have a #1 fan that in some ways are living their own dreams through you. And they actually "get" what you're doing.

You have to be careful though that you don't fall into some of the same traps that they may have. As a great example: the typical small business mindset is to never, ever give up equity. For what we do here, it's silly to think that way. Equity is another tool in your toolbox, and should be used when appropriate.
You seem to have a standard monetization strategy (ads+paid version) yet the app is released as GPLv3? Has no one simply recompiled the app without the ads and put that on the market?
Our body is what we eat. I would move to a more suburban neighborhood or go out less but never lower the quality the food.
Perhaps we should stop labelling people coders and business people; that might be helpful.
Yes, they did. But I didn't mind, they've used that for good apps. But one smartass didn't even bother to change the icon!
What's devish about PSGI? Seems like exactly the right choice for the task.
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Ex-Netflix. I left right after my first child was born (this was before the 1 year of parental leave was added) and then I started a startup with some friends. Then we exited that startup and I started another one, which I work on now from home, which lets me play with the kids during my breaks.

The flexibility of working for myself at home is the main reason I do this instead of working at an office or cowering space, because it lets me do daytime events with my kids, like 10am gymnastics class and 4:30pm tap class. If it weren't for the kids I'd still be doing the startup, but I might not be doing it from home. I'd probably be digital nomading instead.

I suppose if the startup thing doesn't work out, once the kids are both in school full time during the day I'll probably try to get a job at another FAANG company and build up the savings again for another startup. :)