jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I work in Austin, where the cost of living is much lower than on the west coast, and I'd say that the base salaries look good but not great. But those bonuses are really something.

I also don't have a sense for the range of experience levels represented by these figures. That's not insignificant.
While I see your point against those examples it's worth noting that Japan in the mid 19th century was a feudal society with hundreds of thousands of samurai, and by WWII they were fielding a massive navy with aircraft carriers capable of striking the USA. And the difference between the wealth of Americans at the beginning of the 20th century compared to the end is also larger in many ways. However, the difference between starving and a full belly is certainly something which people will pay more attention to rather than the difference between being well fed and then acquiring large houses, refrigeration, washing machines, one or two cars, mobile phones, radio, television, landing a couple of guys on the moon and getting them back, computers and the Internet. The scope of western capitalist development in the 20th century is simply staggering compared to any pissant planned economy, and it was done without the most horrific mass murders of the 20th century that we see under the communist regimes.

Also, Lenin's modification of Marxist theory is somewhat irrelevant, the Marxist foundation was entirely wrong on a number of massive points: one more wasn't going to make a difference.
In theory, but looking across browsers shows that you'd never be able to use this in production without falling back to graphics, which adds to production, maintenance and degrades any performance benefits for a good portion of users.

It's a nice theoretical challenge, and may provide some benefits if you are building (mobile) device specific systems, but as a broad technique there is little production value at the moment.
You can do that, but it's a pretty bad idea.

Cloudfront will server your content anywhere in the world with a latency of 43ms. S3 latencies range between 200 and 800ms, which is not particularly suitable for delivering web content.

For the privilege of this faster delivery, it will take you 30 seconds in your AWS tool of choice, and will roughly double your monthly bill (thus potentially pushing you above the $1/month barrier.)

I'm sure there are levels of laziness and thriftiness for which serving straight from s3 seems attractive, but off the top of my head I can't think of any.
If search performance and accuracy is the criteria of choosing the data store, how does riak+riak search compare with mysql+sphinx ?
Here is the real piece of advice:

Get a qualified opinion from someone experienced in equity splits (VC, lawyer, etc.) who has no vested interest.

Now for my drivel:

Don't split the startup at all right now. The golden rule (IMO) is to use stock options (or basically, create vested interests).

The truth is, you could end up the so-called "dick" that leaves the company pre-maturely, so be equitable in all your tradings and make everyone vested (with some clauses of job review, etc - which is why you need a qualified opinion on this) so that the startup has some structural longevity.

PS. If you think sales is hard, watch that TV show about the guy in the 80s cloning an IBM and then trying to peddle laptops. Sales is a tough (and sometimes dirty) game and you should probably appreciate your Sales guy more (especially if he is a hustler).
So instead of bailing out the companies, why not focus on ensuring their customers have the money to demand their goods and services through direct stimulus?
lwn.net writes some great kernel articles using stats pulled from a tool they wrote called git data miner:

http://repo.or.cz/w/git-dm.git
Yeah, I noticed the lack of auction, too, since I always play with auction rules. (As well as the non-official (?) house rule of paying taxes/chance/community chest amounts to the "pot" in the middle, with whomever landing on Free Parking taking the amount.) While auction rules aren't that useful with 2 people, I think it's fun to have them with 3 or more.

Since you don't like Monopoly, I assume you wouldn't like Monopoly-Risk? I've yet to get someone to agree to play that with me, though I'm still not sure I want to. It's just like regular Risk, but battles are decided by games of Monopoly instead of dice rolls.
Ugh, come on humanity, stop letting me down. Reminds me of the South Park episode "Night of the Living Homeless":

The homeless first started arriving in Evergreen about three months ago. At first there were only a few of them, askin' for change, sleeping in the parks. But then more showed up, and we realized there was somethin' different about them. They fed off of our change to the point that they could actually start renting apartments. We knew it wouldn't be long before the homeless actually started buying homes. And then we'd have no idea who was homeless and who wasn't! The people living in the house right next door to you could be homeless and you wouldn't even know! Nobody could trust anybody! Fights broke out. War! That's when I started suspecting that my own wife, who I'd been living with for twenty years, was actually homeless. So I had to burn her. In her bed while she slept.
Additionally, I also think he has a very good ability to hire and delegate.

That may be less important for him nowadays with a licensing/franchise model.
Sorry if this comes off too negative. But, you want to pay 'top traders' who probably already make good money a few bucks to blog about their tips and other information?

Im not too familiar with how 'info friendly' traders are, but I was under the impression people didnt openly share all their tips.

Wont the community end up just being full of people trying to promote specific stocks they are interested in and not necessarily ones people in general might want?

Edit - So I looked around CAPS and it seems they have a blog section. So i guess people do like to share something. But the comments and votes seemed pretty dead today.

I still think people are more interested in what people are actually DOING in the stock market rather than what people THINK about certain stocks. I would love learn from 'top traders' by looking over what they have done in the past. Lots of people talk, few people do.
...as well as discovering how/why _not_ to do it, which can be more valuable knowledge.
I don't quite buy his argument. A fence in the shape of a Sierpiński triangle would have infinitely many enclosures each of infinitely small area. Not one enclosure of infinitely small area.

Doesn't that make a difference?

∞•0 is not necessarily the same as 1•0
"I realized that I was getting very fixated on the financial questions, and even worse was jumping to common solutions like “oh.. Just go look for funding.”"

I get so tired of people saying this. Looking for funding is a crapshoot. It's hard. It's grueling. It takes 2-3 months to even take a shot at it, and most people walk away empty handed. And no offense to the OP, but his businesses (on the surface) ARE NOT FUNDABLE. They aren't obviously huge opportunities. Given what he's posted about them, they don't have great traction. He's a single founder.

It makes me grumpy when people triumphantly declare that they aren't going to "choose" to get funded. Great companies fail to raise money all the time (if you want to read a truly outstanding post on the topic from a great company who did fail to raise money: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/seomozs-venture-capital-process ).

The other gem in the post:
"Of course I don’t want funding. Of course I should work on my ideas freely. I don’t want to take on any masters."

What the HECK makes you think that early stage investors won't let you work on your ideas freely? Or want to be your masters? At most, the OP's businesses MIGHT have a ghost's chance at angel funding. Angels don't sit on your board. Most of them have very full lives and a large portfolio of investments that they generally ignore. There are very few contractual protections for angels. Yeah, you might have to drop them an update every quarter or two.

Bootstrapping is a fine "choice" here, to be sure. It's a great way to build a business (and it's how I built my first one). But, this whole post doesn't really convey a good understanding of early stage financing (either getting funding or the realities of post-angel funding).
Except that's more like 10% or even 1% security.
Great write up and break down of why search is hard and how unique a position Google is in. That said searching the entire web as a business isn't very feasible for many companies now and hence most of the other giants competing with Google instead use the asymmetric approach of bringing content into their own garden and building a specialized search engine around it. Since the data in their own garden is structured the amount of work to build an acceptable quality search engine is relatively less. See apple's app store, facebook search, twitter's search, amazon's a9 etc.
I guess the people who made them were already comfortable with Perl. Perl is also very good at text processing.
Well, I don't know where parent is located, but here in Brazil they are pretty much right. Everybody has WhatsApp... it's assumed that if you have a phone you have WhatsApp. A lot of financial transactions are conducted by doing a bank transfer and then sending the receipt via WhatsApp. The schools send essential messages to parents via WhatsApp. During lockdowns, stores were taking delivery orders via WhatsApp.

What's more, several cell phone operators' plans include unlimited WhatsApp, but only a few GB of other data... meaning when your data limits are reached you can still use WhatsApp for the rest of the month, but not i.e. Signal or Telegram. That makes is rather hard to convince people to switch.

So yeah, pretty damn close to critical infrastructure. I'm still going to delete my account and see what happens, but unlike the siblings here I can't disagree with parent, at least for Brazil.

[Edit] When I delete my account I'm going to lose old conversations, but that doesn't bother me anymore because I already recently lost them once when I switched from Android to iOS... WhatsApp has no way of keeping your history in that case. And otherwise there's really no friction to deleting an account, since you can always recreate it.
In 1997 I was taking a first year intro to comp-sci in an Israeli university and Java was the language we did the assignments. It was pretty solid and wide spread back then, version 1 I guess. My high school was still teaching Pascal and Cobol...
Signal now supports group chats as well, thought it looks like all participants have to be using Signal otherwise it uses regular MMS and the "group" dynamic breaks down.
It seems that decreasing politeness increases lane changing behavior. The effect of reducing politeness is that people in the on ramp get in the highway quicker but the whole highway slows down.
How is it a 9/11? In 9/11 thousands of people died, postcard-symbolic buildings demolished by foreign terrorists. Here... A few hundred people strolled around in the Capitol and 4 people died.
> finding no evidence of anything like what you're alleging

Indeed. A recount provides absolutely no evidence in either direction on what I'm alleging. Fortunately, if you'd like evidence, you can look for the auditable source code for my local voting machines on github. Didn't find any? There's your evidence of a transparency issue.

What many of these posts did provide evidence for are reading comprehension issues on web forums. But we knew that already.
> All they can share then are your contacts.

Is the phone company allowed to share your contacts?
On iOS you can remove access to the contacts for individual apps. I did so for WhatsApp this morning.

Privacy -> Contacts -> App Name

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/272067/ (scroll down)

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The real problem is that other people have me as their contacts, and don't mind sharing with FB or whatever other companies.
How is free sustainable for Signal? I understand why WA is free based on data collection, but Signal just seems too benevolent toward its users. I read up on Signal Foundation (Acton and Marlinspike) as a non-profit which is being buoyed along by $100M from Acton. Mozilla is a non profit too, but it gets money from Google for placing Google search in Firefox. Where is the long term cash flow for Signal?
Is there any unbiased analysis of the implications of the WhatsApp change of policy? The most popular HN story on the subject [1] tells us little about that.

As far as I can tell, the TL;DR of the change is that your WhatsApp identifier will be linked to your FB data, so that personalized advertisements can be displayed in WhatsApp.
The only detail I find highly objectionable in the change, is FB collecting through WhatsApp "Other people’s phone numbers stored in address books." Why don't we focus on the objectionable parts of the change, rather than panicking that there was a change?

Moreover, a less popular HN story [2] mentions that "The new privacy policy also doesn’t apply in Europe due to stronger privacy legislation there." (I can confirm that on my side: I'm living in Europe and I haven't seen the dreaded popup yet.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25662215
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25668367
That’s only a problem when you need to encode a pre-determined piece of data.

You could use an existing piece of art as your entropy to generate your own private key.

Would it be random enough? Who knows, but even 0x0000000000000 could be a random number.
You said you'd try to respond civilly, but your comment is openly hostile and this takes away from your valid core point.
Does no one at Google HQ ever have the guts to raise their hand and bring this up? It's a meme by now.
/. summary gives some details https://yro.slashdot.org/story/19/11/22/2054256/facebook-bui...
I love how the book has a strong first-person perspective, and you're often not seeing all the workings of the dystopian society, but the moments where you do get a bit revealed to you (eg: the US congress being attacked) are incredibly satisfying to read since it's so built up.
Quatre-vingts, quatre-vingt-un, quatre-vingt-deux... quatre-vingt mille, quatre-vingts millions.
This doesn't affect pronounciation in general, because this s is silent... except in the context of liaisons, such that you would say "quatre-vingts (z')avions" and not "quatre-vingt (t')avions", although in colloquial speech, nobody cares. In written form, I expect many of my fellow French native speakers to do the mistake or at least be uncertain. We mostly write it "80" anyway.
> At some point you just have to call out people for being utter morons. The blame is on them, 100%. [...]

Your attitude is a symptom of a broader issue that plagues this industry: Indifference to risk*probability. If you don't ship software with "secure defaults" (depending on the threat/attack model), you essentially are handing out loaded shotguns, then blaming the "dumb" user when they inevitably point it at their foot and click the trigger. Easy solution: Don't hand out the gun loaded -- make the user do specific actions that enable the usage. Yeah, it creates some friction to first time deployment, but that's a secondary concern to having your freaking DB leaking all over the place.
Even https://golang.org/pkg/sync/#Map requires interface{}. Any code that confines itself to raw slices and maps is probably using the wrong data structures for the problem.
Ever since the GUI lawsuit with Apple (yes, the one from 25 years ago), I think Microsoft has been stuck in this middle ground of design where they can’t actually design things the “right” way, as to avoid possible lawsuits. Maybe that’s not a real thing they should be worried about, but it has at least made them gun shy. This how we got things like “Recycle Bin” instead of the obvious trash can, and all kinds of other oddities.
66 is seks-og-tres, i.e. seks (6) og (and/+) tres (60). The latter is technically "tresindstyve" (which is similar to the French, 3x20), but I can guarantee you that the number of people who actually know and care about that is infinitesimal. Additionally, "tres" is not really a word that can be mistaken for another number word. What usually screws people over is pronunciation and thus "tredive" vs "tretten" which sound shockingly similar in Danish.

(This happens a lot in Danish. It's incredibly sloppy on pronunciation and people somehow mostly still understand each other.)

EDIT: I had to think about it for a bit, but the situation for 77 is actually equivalent. No speaker of Danish actually thinks about "halvfjerds" as a compound number -- it just "70". I suspect it's actually very similar for French speakers, but their hyphens do make it harder to just lump the thing into a single concept/number :).
The internet says it’s the City of Atlanta owned tract of the WMA. It was the proposed site of the second Atlanta airport and a former nuclear testing area for Lockheed.

It’s much closer than my other spots. I’ll check it out soon, maybe even Friday. Looks like they just stocked Amicola creek with trout.
> a place with a floor so uneven it makes tables wobble

Many outdoor paved patios have exactly this property, especially as the slabs settle over time
> "> Cities like New York, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco have raised local minimum wages"

> "> Laws in New York, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey will eventually increase minimum wages to $15 per hour."

> "I don't find this reasoning very convincing."

those are fact statements--what's to argue?

> "That's the basic problem with a federal minimum wage."

whether a federal minimun wage is good policy or not is certainly debatable. on one hand, states are the canonical unit of government and the fed should generally defer to states (other than for national defense and interstate/international relations). wages and cost of living does vary across states and even within states.

but trade (including labor, as a distinct market) is a federal concern because of interstate commerce and the interlinking of economies brought about by globalization. so it's not unreasonable to argue that the federal government has a stake here. you might argue that the fed should have differing minimum wages for different states, but that's fraught with political land mines too.
For the payment idea, consider the incentives you're putting in place. You think you're building a dating site, but I think you'd end up with a sex chat site instead. Add video, and it's a cam site.
History and philosophy of sciences have studied this phenomenon a lot. Read Thomas Kuhn's "The structure of Scientific revolutions".
Warning: lots of annoying stuff on the site. But the content is interesting.
The other child thread helps to explain where my discrepancy came from. Most companies prefer to have a unified pay schedule, so if there are workers in the company that you'd expect to pay bi-weekly/semimonthly (such as hourly wages), the entire company will be put on that schedule.

My own personal experience has been in the post financial crisis tech industry, and I wonder if tech pays monthly more often compared to others (and if funding plays any role in that).
> I am now prepared for 6 comments replying to me saying that anything that can be implemented with HTML from 1999 should be, and a list of search results can be.

They would be correct replies!

In addition there is this concept called "graceful degradation", where if the browser has more advanced features, you support them, otherwise you work anyway. It's not like supporting Lynx means you can't have a map in the search results when using Chrome. Certainly not for a company with the resources of Google.

Also they should probably send something like a Lynx-version of Google down to people with a poor internet connection.
Yeah, well, string theory would get a lot more advocates if it would make a damn prediction we can actually test. I mean, if the point is to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity, shouldn't the string theorists look for any experimental domain where those two sets of physics will both operate, start predicting, and start testing?

Problem is, at this point I wouldn't be surprised to hear someone say that string theory allows for gravity to operate by the Divine Will at the Planck scale -- some real number encoding the entire Bible in quaternary numbering is probably within the allowed parameter-space for some string theory. It just doesn't seem to meaningfully constrain our potential observations.
@pgeorgi:

>All Intel chips since 2010 or so have the management engine.

Do you have sources for this? I wanted to verify it, but after a few Google searches I could not find anything that states exactly that. I have a Haswell CPU, but I have no Management Engine settings in my BIOS.

How does the vPro feature correlate with the Management Engine? Because not all Intel CPU's come with vPro. Or is that only a firmware difference? Would be nice to see clearer in this issue, but most websites contain only marketing nonsense.
Agree that sleep is important, however you soon learn how well you know something when trying to do
it whilst tired. If you get something ingrained enough you can still do it when paying almost no attention.
Isn't compile-to-JS mandatory nowadays?
If you export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 in your environment then that should force the nvidia driver to sync to vblank.
My N900 runs X. That said, MeeGo has plans for going Wayland. No idea of Samsung
Anyone else find it a little surreal when the New York Times is reporting "... and we called this hacker guy, and he hangs out on IRC with these other hacker dudes, and one of em was saying, like, 'yeah they totally DLed the shit outta that database with 2.2M CCs ' ..." ?
It sounds like a hard problem to find a balance that satisfies everyone. What do the security experts here recommend?
No, I don't think you missed anything, I haven't seen any evidence. In thinking it though, you may not be considering a case where Sony had all kinds of problems, and these things both happened independently.
I'm always surprised by people that don't see 13" screens as having a utility value - portability. I've recommended people get 13" laptops when their needs require this portability (eg: tertiary students). Those that said "no, I want a big screen!" for the e-peen value later regretted lugging a 15" screen around. Big screens are awesome... unless you're moving around a lot.

Personally, I love my little 12" thinkpad :)
Linux has traditionally been the hacker's choice but OS X has gained popularity recently and Windows is so far from being a competitor.

Also, it would help telling us what you're developing cause that could change things quite drastically.
I completely agree with you, I don't even know the phone number my provider gave me, all I use is my Google Voice number what's the point of using a different one?
The most baffling thing is the data apparently includes CVV2 numbers, which are never supposed to be stored by merchants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_security_code
Without the score being displayed I simply can't go through the hundreds of comments that get displayed on HN every day. It would be perfect if I could, but I don't have the time and wonder who has. Yes, displaying the votes supports groupthink, but it's better than the current solution, which is throwing out the baby with the bath water.
I run Chrome Beta in Linux on a 64bit Sony laptop, which is pretty much asking for trouble. Aside from Flash videos occasionally not playing, I haven't had any problems.
People are buying things they can't afford in every country. That might be a defining characteristic of our age.
Because that would, like, make so much sense for them.
If there was ever any doubt about whether I should go into finance or not, this would settle it. Thanks, fascinating account.
Wow, it sounds like you're interviewing for a best friend there not a work colleague. I seriously doubt you've ever recruited more than a handful of people using this criteria.