jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Nobody in my company is average.

None of my friends are average.

The odds are very good that, if you are reading HN, you are not an average person either.

Please take that into consideration when discussing economic measures meant to improve the lives of the middle class. You are probably better educated, earn more, work in a less physically strenuous job, have better employment prospects, are more likely to start a company, have more respect from your management, and are more likely to leave a job in order to be happier.

Now put yourself in the position of most people, which are all the opposites of the above: if you have a job, you are desperate not to lose it, because you are less likely to get another one. You don't have the financial resources to give up paychecks for a couple of months while you look for another job. Your company considers you an interchangeable, entirely replaceable cog.

Have some empathy, people.
In the section on minification;

> When you minify your code, it stops working, since variables are injected by name. ... You have to use this syntax ...

We didn't have that problem. Or rather we did until we reaised that the minification tooling can convert it automatically. The author does not know that his problem is not a problem any more as it has already been solved.
but if you try to work less than 40, that's not allowed.

This is completely false (in CA, at least). If I work 1 hour on Monday, say, and 12 on Tuesday, I'm paid for 8 hours for each day.

In fact, my company works like this. I don't often work less than 8 hours, but it happens. Accounting knows how to handle it, and does like a pro.

I've never been hassled.
If it happens out of band of the page doing anything else, the time required won't matter much, especially given the value of a truly persistent tracking cookie.
> human drivers _wouldn't_ make

But human drivers make a lot of mistakes that computer drivers _wouldn't_.

If it is safER than humans - it is better. No need to be perfect.
People focus on the supply side, which is important, but has anyone looked at the demand side? How do people have so much money to drive up these prices?

I grew up in an 1,100 square foot house, built in 1950, my parents bought for $175,000 in 1989. Today Redfin has it at $660,000. Its a drab house in a drab suburb of DC. It's no boom town--the population of the town has grown just 10% in 30 years. But everyone just has so much more money now (and I guess interest rates are low, so people have a lot of credit).
There are also plenty of people who spend way more than they should on a home in a good school district. In fact, a lot of people opt to trade a good commute to work just for that. It's not as simple as "move to the middle of nowhere." School from home clearly doesn't work for a lot of children, given how many private schools have been skirting the rules and how many parents were/are desperate to find an in person tutor during this pandemic.
A Google ethicist? Who critizes something because it could be used for surveillance? The irony is thick.
Even if one accepts the theory of military power your argument puts forth, how is bitcoin any different? What part of reality prevents a better armed group from taking over bitcoin mines?

And for that matter, I don't accept the theory; it reeks of motivated reasoning to me.
Every time btc gets press mtgox jumps. We were looking at averages between 70 and 80c / btc, now it's up to $1.11. I would encourage people to let the furor die down a bit before investing in bitcoins, until they're back in the 80-90c range at least.
> the findings of the inquiry suggest a chain of issues slightly more complex than your analogy suggests

I agree that my analogy is an oversimplification. But I think my point stands - the plane had a massive set of issues that were tolerated because up to that point the operators had got away with it by sheer luck - there hadn't been an operational disaster, just a mass of technical and maintenance issues over the years.

In this case, the flight crew as military personnel were acting at a high standard but were fatally let down by the wider organisation that allowed them to fly. The military owned safety case was fundamentally flawed and evidence that suggested otherwise had been actively suppressed, as revealed by the Haddon Cave enquiry which found fault with a range of military and contractor organisations and individuals.
If I can use it with my 4x4 that has a winch.
yes sir. should just work w/ no changes. just change the docker img name to redpanda. let me know if anything comes up.
I'll agree with everything here besides 'lightweight'.
The report Dr. Li tried to send out is one of the mNGS report I mentioned above, it happened on Dec 30, i.e. late Dec.

The mNGS run itself happened around Dec 26 if you look at the original photo Dr. Li posted.

Could you please highlight where in this news article a date earlier than late December (like, Dec 1 or Dec 8 as you said) was mentioned? It brings a valid point, that China government sat on the problem for three weeks, but the timeline does not match yours.
> Once you have established yourself as a viable product, found your fit, and have paying customers, "break things" becomes a path to poor service.

Yes. I have seen this too many times. People are creatures of habit. I have seen people from small companies try to run after the growth a company 10x or 50x bigger like if nothing has changed. I have also heard of, not seen by myself, directives from big companies going to smaller ones trying to apply all their processes and checks to just a couple of teams.

Each strategy is correct for the company situation. There are no silver bullets.
Agreed. If it stored data on a different server (allowed via CORS) then there could be some additional security, since then as a long as the JavaScript isn't subverted on the same site, you're storing encrypted data on a different server.

But yes, if you run JavaScript, you're always trusting that site to not do a "quiet update" of the code to something malicious. I don't see any obvious way to counter that, short of downloading the JavaScript code & running it yourself.
Yes, you're right. The guys at the top collect all the benefit, and everyone at the bottom absorbs all the risk.
The original article is actually this one as it was written by us and initially posted to our Medium account only to realize last week that we somehow forgot to publish it on our blog. Whoops.

So - this here is an updated, revised and improved version. Enjoy!
It's using end-to-end encryption to address a slightly different threat model than the usual one: the website operator doesn't want the liability/danger of holding cleartext data. E2E does solve this even in the browser scenario.

Now an attacker who dumps the server's disks doesn't compromise user data, they'd have to activate modify the website. This raises the bar of a successful targeted attack and aldosterone basically eliminates risk from untargeted attacks, which is well worth doing.

(Also now warrants that can compel disclosure have nothing they can target, eliminating Lavabit-style attacks. There's still the possibility of court orders making you write software like the proposed use of the All Writs Act against Apple, but that's on much less certain legal ground.)

It's true that this doesn't let you avoid trusting the provider, but you're not going to get that anyway - and this scheme is certainly no worse. (Arguably you're not going to get that on native apps either these days, thanks to closed-source app stores and automatic updates, and automatic updates are a very good thing.)
> and my wife and I would not have a 3 week lead time on children’s Motrin

Pharmacies are still open if it’s urgent.
There actually is a lack of money because the usual lenders got scared.

Also, there is no situation so bad that it can't be made worse, and companies laying people off makes it worse. There are bills to pay and people still need to buy food.
I'm really curious how startups are positioning themselves for the availability of such loans. Might the terms be so favorable that it drives out the VCs?
The worst case is not an off-center web page, the worst case is exposing user information or making your backend attackable in other ways. Just because you use JavaScript and it runs on a client machine far away you are not magically protected from screwing up.
> We're a barebones operation (just three of us) and we don't make a ton of money - most of our customers are non-profits. We'll never have a big payout, or a big exit. And being closer to the problems in society is a little depressing, to see how a large number of people really live. I can see how people delude themselves into thinking "Making the world a better place, through minimal message oriented transport layers" is a real thing.

If you ever need infrastructure/devops help, or even someone just to help with the little tasks you don't have time for, more than willing to help.
Historic website screenshots
http://webscraping.com/blog/Generate-website-screenshot-history/
Python script to generate historic screenshots of a website.
Looking for my first job
Another large [non-Software] Company (>= 500 people)
Gender Spectrum - Support for Families of Gender Variant
http://www.genderspectrum.org
Gender Spectrum provides education, training and support to help create a gender sensitive and inclusive environment for all children and teens.
Growing Up Buffett
http://www.cnbc.com/id/18467661
Interviews with Warren Buffet's kids on "The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch" about how their father, 2nd richest man in the world, gave away all his fortune.
Show HN: Print Stable Diffusion prompts on shirts
https://www.badbotdesign.com/
Hey HN! I’ve been working on a way to make AI generated art more practical (and tactile). BadBotDesign is an early version of a generative shirt tool using a few custom versions of Stable Diffusion + up-resolution to make the designs ready to print on products. You enter a prompt and then can get a high quality soft shirt delivered straight to your door with whatever image you create. You can also order other people’s prompts. I’ve actually really enjoyed wearing some of the random designs random people have made so far.
If people like it enough, it could be fun to continue adding features like better variations and styles, as well as more products, and maybe it could make sense to let people sell their prompts here and get royalties on sales or something? Anyway, any suggestions would be appreciated!
DropBox Catches Pickpockets Selfie Video On Stolen Mobile Phone
http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article18517059.ab
Here is the video uncensored: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAIoJJTY7M4

The article is in Swedish, translation into English is quite good with Chrome.
Troll as a marketing asset?
http://talkweb.eu/openweb/1136
How some companies use trolls as a marketing weapon
Looking for a technical  co-founder ASAP (VoIP)  
looking for a technical co-founder partner has the ability to build things , to work on a secret new project I cannot mention more details any one Interesting
Required
-VoIP background
-programming skills

more info & reply to : wallstreet.sam@gmail.com
Show HN: Level Seven is Calling For Snow
http://holiday.lvlsvn.com
Level Seven is donating to Providence House this holiday season and you can help by making it snow! Visit the site, create your personalized snowflake and make a difference in the lives of some very special children.
Therrien Secure Solutions
http://therriensecuresolutions.com/
Therrien Secure Solutions is a New Hampshire security systems installation company, protecting its customers for over 15 years. We are a local company, with the strength of a national central station monitoring center behind us providing 24 hour, year round monitoring.
Canadarm: a JavaScript logger that works for you
https://github.com/cerner/canadarm
A blog post with more details can be seen here:

http://engineering.cerner.com/blog/javascript-logging-we-can-do-better/
Why do Random Forest Techniques perform better
http://www.quora.com/Random-Forests/What-is-setting-random-forests-apart-from-other-ensemble-methods
In ensemble learning terms, "random forests" is an ensemble of decision trees where diversity is induced by randomisation and using both training subsets and feature subsets. The last standard trick, "algorithmic diversity" is not employed, there's a mono-culture of decision trees here. Classification is performed using the majority vote. At first glance, this appears as a run-of-the-mill ensemble application, using only standard techniques. However, this specific combination of techniques has become hugely popular. Why?
Daily Commute and Coursera Course Completion Relationship - My View
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/10/29/daily-commute-and-coursera-course-completion-relationship-my-view/
http://shrikar.com/blog/2013/10/29/daily-commute-and-coursera-course-completion-relationship-my-view/
JS2ME - J2ME in JavaScript
https://github.com/szatkus/js2me
Implementation of Java ME in JavaScript.
Pirate Bay owners To Be Taken To Court
http://news.portalit.net/fullnews_pirate-bay-owners-to-be-taken-to-court_778.html
Pirate Bay owners To Be Taken To Court
Atheism, proselytism and other isms
http://futurismic.com/2010/09/09/atheism-proselytism-and-other-isms
"To me, there’s a fair amount of similarities between atheism, science and religion: they’re all beliefs."

Personally I can't stand atheism or religion. Why can't more people take a nihilistic approach?
Shiftspace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo5lUFR8gts
By pressing the [Shift] + [Space] keys, a ShiftSpace user can invoke a new meta layer above any web page to browse and create additional interpretations, contextualizations and interventions - which are called "Shifts". Users can choose between several authoring tools - called "Spaces" - that allow web users to annotate, modify and shift the content of a page and through ShiftSpace, share that shift with the rest of the web. "Trails" are maps of shifts (shiftspace content) that create meta-layer navigation across websites. These trails might be used as a platform for collaborative research, for curating net art exhibitions, or as a way to facilitate a context-based public debate."
How Magic is That Storage Bullet?
http://www.datanami.com/datanami/2012-04-24/how_magic_is_the_big_data_storage_bullet_.html
Reading anything mainstream IT press these days would lead CFOs to dump funds on IT for Hadoop without anyone understanding whether or not it actually is a magic bullet. With so much hype and a relatively gentle learning curve to start....
Sync contacts/calendar/tasks with linux and the iphone
http://hacksushi.com/2009/02/22/sync-contacts-calendar-and-tasks-with-linux-and-the-iphone/
PIM solution for linux & iphone users
SocialChomp Is on a Roll Bootstrapped Social Media Platform – Hundreds of Users
Tell a Friend to Tell a Friend...We've been hard at work making SocialChomp the most accessible multimedia marketing platform your fingertips can touch. We focused the interface to re-imagine the way individuals and businesses collect and share multimedia through social media networks.

Create a stream of content from hashtags, keywords, and/or location criteria across various social networks in realtime. Modify and then repost — or crosspost — the content across relevant accounts. SocialChomp also offers widget options, which can be embedded onto websites, blogs, and/or branded Facebook tabs.

https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20141109002302-36240664-socialchomp-is-on-a-roll

Sample stream from largest temporary outdoor art installation in South United States
https://socialchomp.com/stream/5468cd4929b0ca9a4551efcf/exhibitbe
Monetize your ideas - But not too fast
http://www.zachbruhnke.com/monetize-your-ideas-but-not-too-fast
people often ask for business advice, this is just my take on how you should make your ideas make money.
I get high with a little help from my – search engine
http://thenextweb.com/search/2010/04/17/high-search-engine
I get high with a little help from my – search engine
Show HN: yet another snow indicator
http://isitsnowinginminneapolis.com/
I started to build a Facebook killer.
I pivoted to an Etsy clone, then I pivoted 17 more times, and came up with this...
[UPDATE] Paypal issues with Git-deliver's Indiegogo campaign have been fixed.
I was informed by Indiegogo support that some payments had been refused due to the Paypal account being misconfigured. I have fixed it now. http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/git-deliver
Abtach Ltd – Website Development and Design Company Pakistan
We are organized to deliver premium quality services to our clients ranging from large
organizations to smaller groups and individuals from all over the globe.We provide Website Development, Web Designing, Mobile Application, Internet Marketing, Internet Product & Service Providers Karachi.

http://www.abtach.com/
Another large Software Company (>= 500 people)
Strange Google Earth image resembling a structure on Mars?
http://www.ihatethemedia.com/structure-discovered-on-mars
Anyone know what this could be?
Takes guts to admit you're wrong (AppSumo)
http://i.imgur.com/Mllup.png
I haven't bought anything on AppSumo since their Ginzametrics deal a long time ago. Rarely read their emails anymore. Caught an AppSumo video recently about how their deals have been going downhill and read a discussion here on Hacker News about how the community thought the same thing. They seem to be rethinking their business: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQfyXEFG6zo
Is this the most responsive photo slideshow?
http://klekr.com/editors_choice
It's also an great website to visit you happen to like contemporary photography.
Google's Head of PR leaves for Facebook
http://www.gototheboard.com/articles/Googles_Head_of_PR_Leaves_for_Facebook
Google has lost its "Vice President, Global Communications & Public Affairs" who decided to Facebook as a VP for Public Policy and Communications
Using machine learning to predict the outcome of a starcraft 2 game, part 1
http://joi.degn.de/node/31
This is the first part of a blog series in which I try out newly learned machine learning techniques. I am posting this on my blog so that I stay motivated to continue with this project. :-)
Nowlistn - discover new music instantly in a room
http://nowlistn.com
intro: a super easy way to create, build and share playlist. listen to music together with your friends in a room. anyone can contribute
Show HN: Vimeography Pro - Super simple Vimeo galleries for WordPress
http://vimeography.com/pro
Vimeography Pro allows you to create Vimeo galleries on your WordPress site and adds features like unlimited videos, Vimeo portfolio support, sorting options, advanced controls and more. Would love feedback!
Surround.js: quickly search through text and wrap results in custom tags
https://github.com/wellsjo/surround.js
surround.js provides a set of utility functions for searching through large strings of text and wrapping a search term in custom tags.<p>Let's say you want to highlight or make button links out of all instances of a word in a huge article. surround.js makes that very easy.
Ask HN: Marketing for hacks that doesn't suck?
http://blog.thegodfounder.com
I have two concerns here:

1) I have been collecting screenshots of clever stunts and UX details in web apps and wanted to make it available for everyone: Here goes the site:

URI: http://blog.thegodfounder.com

Do you have any feedback, improvements, suggestions?

2) What are some of the methods you use or find interesting to get a project out there?

Edit: could an admin move this to ask for me?
5 must know teleseminar stats you're probably missing
http://www.automizeit.com/blog/instant-teleseminar-attendance-stats-for-marketers
If you run teleseminars or webinars for your business here's the top 5 stats you should be looking at... but probably aren't. Cool stuff... great visuals and graphs.
Respool.js
https://github.com/mkrecny/Respool.js
Just looking for some feedback on this really...
Beta Testers wanted for a new Public Transport App
http://gopublicapp.com/
We're looking for Beta Testers for our new public transport App - Go Public App. We're especially interested in Beat Testers from Washington DC, Chicago, Portland & Madrid, Spain. Check out the link if you're interested: http://gopublicapp.com/
Let’s go Sailing in Hawaii
http://www.theroadtosiliconvalley.com/travelling/sailing-kainani-sails-maui-hawaii/
Best software engineers break to decompress! Did wonders for me.
Crushpath Launches Mobile App
http://crushpath.crushpath.me/intro/spots/78
Promising content marketing platform now moves to mobile.
Mustache templates in Java
http://jknack.github.io/handlebars.java/gettingStarted.html
Getting started with Handlebars.java
Use Tech & Nature To Free Yourself From Corporate Slavery
http://www.nicoschweinzer.com/?p=46
Only a small bunch of people use the internet in a way, that is really sustainable. Most of the technology, that comes out, is mainly for entertaining purposes. Another big percentage of tech (in form of apps, plugins or devices), is meant to make peoples lifes easier, while it does the exact opposite thing. Cellphones are a good example for this.
Why the revolution will be tweeted
http://cocoychronicles.com/2010/10/07/why-the-revolution-will-be-tweeted/
The experience of social media in the Philippines suggests that the revolution will be tweeted, but that revolution will always be won with blood, toil, sweat and tears.
YouTube Moderator
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=179865
Opinions?
Delegating Effectively
http://blog.thembid.com/index.php/2007/12/02/delegating-effectively/
For the busy professional, delegation is a key to success. But the act of delegation is just one step. You must also consider when to delegate, how to communication and when to follow up.
Immobilier Maroc
http://sosconso.blog.lemonde.fr/2014/02/21/gagnez-cette-maison-de-500-metres-carres-pour-dix-euros/
Ceux qui réussissent reçoivent d'autres questions du même type, jusqu'à ce qu'il n'y ait plus qu'un seul gagnant. Mme Baudier se réserve toutefois le droit de clore le jeu prématurément s'il n'y avait pas assez de participants.
Things I learned from Guy Kawasaki at Pubcon 2006
http://blog.planetc1.com/2007/12/03/things-i-learned-from-guy-kawasaki-at-pubcon-2006/
5 Strategies to push your business and website to the next level.
When are we gonna come up with a name for all these communications?
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/our_network_is_alive.php
Where is this giant communication ship going?
The 10 Commandments of Fundraising Etiquette
http://www.techvibes.com/blog/the-10-commandments-of-fundraising-etiquette-2013-04-24
The Anonymous Angel strikes again! Another informative article
Using an EntityManagerFactory with JPA, Hibernate and Wicket
http://united-coders.com/nico-heid/using-an-entitymanagerfactory-with-jpa-hibernate-and-wicket
A guide - step 2 - to build his own blogging system with java and wicket!
John Irving: "I write for young readers, not uptight adults"
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/10/i-write-for-young-readers-not-uptight.html
I write for young readers, not uptight adults
Show HN: I made [rvaiya/warpd]'s Grid Mode using AutoIt
https://github.com/EsportToys/AutoWarpd
Initial discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33222215
Controversies On Adult Search Engines
http://adultsblogging.com/adult-search-engine-controversy/
Factions of pro-internet censorship and anti-censorship groups are at war, especially in the US. Talks, debates and discussions on how and what should be kept under the radar on the web is an continuing process. There are political, moral and social issues that can be affected if and when internet censorship is fully implemented
Ash HN: How do you code fast? Using Emmet/Zen-Coding?
Does anyone use something like "Zen Coding"/"Emmet" to develop faster?

If so, what are you using?