jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This analogy can be applied to almost anything. According to this criteria, coffee could be considered a startup: the growers of the beans are the founders, the hipsters sipping their cold frappuccinos at Starbucks are the evangelists, and the price for one pound of coffee beans is its market price.

The only problem here is that coffee is a commodity, not a startup. Anyone can grow it and sell it. Likewise, bitcoins can be mined and sold by anyone. Bitcoin by design is decentralized, meaning that there is no central authority, such as a bank, mining new bitcoins. There is no company or government body that officially runs Bitcoin, only individuals (but in a distributed fashion). A startup is completely different, in that it has a governing body and is usually centralized.

Bitcoin in a sense is both a currency and a commodity, but is definitely not a startup.
The digerati do not oppose surveillance on principle. They oppose surveillance en masse without proper oversight (such as real warrants looked at on an individual basis by a judge and signed off by that judge, not some electronic rubberstamp or similar) which effectively turns a significant portion of the population of the globe into suspects ahead of any crime they might commit.

If that doesn't freak you out I don't know what will.

I'm not sure if you are familiar with the 'Amsterdamse Bevolkingsregister' affair during WorldWar II but maybe if you're not you could spend a half hour reading up on it.

Long story short, without that registry a lot of Jews would have survived the war. I'm categorically against any registration of personal data or communications if it is not for a specific crime brought to the attention of a judge who considers the case serious enough to issue a specific warrant.
> Who died? Is there any evidence of that?

Anyone who tries to seriously answer that question here will get down voted so far that their answer will be pretty much the same color as the background.

This is a topic that simply cannot be discussed on HN.
What you can do:

- Have some C code in your Go app that calls a Go function.

What you can't do:

- Have some C code in your C app that calls a Go function.
My concern with an e-reader is in the quality of the reading experience first, DRM or transferability second.

I didn't buy a kindle specifically because I didn't like the e-ink experience.

I will likely buy a tablet (undecided what OS as yet) for reading, and seeing as from a screen technology standpoint, the experience would is improved over e-ink, drm/format becomes an issue. But as long as the format is readable on multiple devices, I doubt I'd be too concerned.
If I were approaching this:
- Posting on NYC subreddit
- Pay students to put up posters around meters and garages

I'd focus on the area with the highest density of garage parks or areas where it's generally hard to park as you'd be solving 2 problems: figuring out where to park and pricing.
The article is about http://nacl.cr.yp.to/ .

Are you thinking of https://developer.chrome.com/native-client ?
Does it really matter? If you're a fan of a particular game genre you kind of have to accept 80-90% of games are basically a theme/skin/sound pack. At minimum it should at least bring some humor back into the FPS genre which is very lacking. We have enough serious FPS war game theme packs out there.
I'm not perfectly fine with it - I just decided it was worth it many years ago and never thought about it since. The value of the NYT is, to me, obvious and enormous. Some new random webapp cannot make that claim.
You are unstoppable in these Groupon threads. Ask Mason and co. for a raise!
I actually used to work in one. A couple years after I left, the center relocated to another province. It was a shit job.

As a society we're not doing a great job of helping workers move on. In any case, it really shouldn't be up to startups to protect jobs, any more than car companies had to compensate carriage manufacturers or nail factories helped blacksmiths.
What part of what Wired is doing seems amateurish? I thought this response was thoughtful, well reasoned, and professional.
This is an astute summary. Yes, it is misleading, but such is the way of language growth: when transferring concepts from one language to another, sometimes meaning is permanently mutated or lost.

Consider French "journée" and English "journey". The English word is a direct loanword from French, but in French it means "day" or "a day's work" and in English it means "a set amount of travelling". The etymology is fairly natural, but the English word only captures a fragment of the French meaning.

I think the analogy applies to monads as well: the word denotes/connotes something significantly different in Haskell than in mathematics. It's just the way it is. When learning Haskell, if you already know category theory you can use this knowledge to ease your understanding of the Haskell concept, but it's not a direct translation.
You could also go to the BIL conference - http://www.bilconference.com
So let's get this strait, the fact they did not refund peoples money after 8 years is now somehow bad for them? I mean it's not like preordering meant they sent the money to the publisher. Unlike Amazon where it's free and you can cancel your preorder GS just pockets the cash in exchange for your place in line.
rms? Love Emacs and the other stuff you've done for decades, thanks! :-)

There is a solution.

Write a Firefox/Chrome/.* plugin which randomly generates a login name and password every time it sees the login screen -- and after the page is opened, logs out again... just to be clean.
This sounds so much like Sonos, I had to make a genuine effort not to confound the two

Good luck on that trademark case
CalFile is still around, and pretty good: https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/ways-to-file/online/calfile/inde...
I agree that this is an issue, but I don't think that's anywhere near what Bitcoin uses.
> where did they get the money for such a large "float" at the beginning

i don't understand what the mystery here is. it could have come from anywhere. credit cards, savings, cofounder investment, mom and dad, etc.

in major US cities regular professional people easily have six figures of cash in their bank account and the whole point of money is that it's fungible.

also, after doing some reading, this isn't the ceo's first startup. maybe they just had the cash.
Is this actually true? Or is it more that we "hear" (listen and remember) about this type of "great" companies?

(This is definitely more of an honest question than some sort of inadvertently negative response.)
I like FreshBooks(http://www.freshbooks.com/), it can link up to my time tracking app quite easy. And with it, I can outsource tasks and manage the billing quite easily. Invoicing with pdf is also helpful too.
The banks and investors are investing in enough places that the risk is pretty minimal. Some people would tell you the ones who simply invest money are putting the most on the line. In the case of the majority of investors, this is completely rediculous.
Also check out StartupDigest for regular local events http://thestartupdigest.com/

I'm on the lower north shore. In steerpike's words i'm "living near it", the views are great.
IT proj mgmt certification such PMP or Prince2 could be useful as a form of formal education too. Not to mention better pay package. :P
Like what other said, theory n practice are 2 different issues. Someone who's good in its theory could have issues trying to carry its PM duties. Also, other factors such as communication skills and conflict management skills to name a few are critical too. The rest are too lengthy to write on...
What risk? The risk of a person who would be broke if it failed? That is a big risk and he certainly deserves to be wealthy if it works out. The risk of a person who loses 0.00001% of his wealth in the absolute worst case? That's no risk at all, the people who are working for the company are risking vastly more.
This is true, but quite simplified. I always recommend a great book by the pioneer of sleep science William C. Dement "The Promise Of Sleep" http://www.amazon.com/Promise-Sleep-Medicine-Connection-Happ... It explains this and many other aspects of sleep that you need to know to manage it effectively.
How do we know these photos weren't photoshopped?
Hey Folks,

I've created an add-on for Firefox and Chrome as an attempt to address the problem of password fatigue across websites. There is detailed documentation about the internals at:

http://manzdagratiano.github.io/gobbledygook/

Download links are available at the bottom of the README from the Firefox add-ons page or the Chrome Web Store. It is currently in the review process for Firefox.

The next step is to port it to Android as a standalone app (since Chrome does not have extensions on Android, and the Firefox add-on API for mobile is very limited).

The documentation page addresses some concerns that may be raised about JavaScript cryptography.

I hope you find it useful. Constructive criticism is welcome. Please raise an issue on GitHub if you find there are any gaping flaws in the design that would leave the user vulnerable.
Kayfabe appears to be correct:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkghtyxZ6rc
I deleted fb years ago but came back partially in order to keep up with my family. It's where everyone talks for better or worse and I'd rather keep in touch with my siblings and cousins than make a point. It bums me out but my relationships have improved a ton since I'm in all the group chats.

To manage the best I can, I purely use messenger.com and stay out of facebook.com. I keep in touch but I don't get caught up in the rest of the BS.
Am I the only one who only used/uses IRC?
Back in '92 I started using IRC as my primary "group chat/social platform", and ICQ for IM's among closer friends. I stayed on IRC for a very long time, and grew-older with the same circle. It was nice. It was personal. I know people in that group that got married.

Time passed, people moved on; had families, etc. I've tried a few other platforms like facebook, but they all seemed so fake, shallow, and "designed for AOL'ers" that was a recipe for crap. So I never stuck around.

G+ arrived and had the right feel, but it never grew legs.

Facebook has two things going for it.
(1) it's an echo chamber
(2) the "OMG I can communicate with somebody over the internet" dopamine spike

Well I got #2 too, but I was 12 years old on a C64 connecting to BBS's. So I out-grew it. Why can't all these people outgrow this?
I suspect that "or the role can evolve" implies that some roles come with unrealistic expectations.

I see this when I see job postings with a long laundry list of qualifications and responsibilities. I suspect that part of succeeding in such roles is figuring out how to evolve the role to be more reasonable.
This could have been an onion article a few years ago.
I have to note, I help a friend with the online dating because left to his own devices he will reject 100% of profiles for dumb reasons. My experience with this is that there are very few women that he gets matched with that identify as anything other than Bi. I've been kind of tempted to make an account to see what the view looks like from the other side.
Fighters sometimes fly close to the ground on purpose. Building a system that will allow extreme maneuvers near the ground without a false alarm trigger was hard. The Swedish air force was the first to use this system, and they routinely fly "close to the rock", through mountain passes. That's the hardest part of the problem, deciding when to initiate the recovery while not impeding what fighter pilots consider normal flight. The threshold is something like 0.3 secs before it's too late to correct. That requires a very good trajectory predictor for figuring out when it's going to be too late.

Next is getting the aircraft into a wings-level condition, no matter what direction it's pointing. For fighters, extreme attitudes are normal. Auto-GCAS will make violent maneuvers to do this. "At that instant, the Auto-GCAS commands some of the most aggressive, eye-watering maneuvers this ex-USAF flight test engineer and civil pilot has ever experienced.
If inverted (bank angle greater than 90 deg.) and somewhat nose-down, a negative 1g push throws the pilot "up" into his shoulder straps and lap belt to get the aircraft's nose headed skyward. Immediately, a 180-deg./sec. roll is commanded, bringing the aircraft to wings-level, right-side-up."

Only then can the system command a climb: "Somewhere after passing the 90-deg.-bank point, a 5g pull-up is initiated at an approximately 4g/sec. rate. The system commands a maximum angle-of-attack recovery, if flight conditions will not sustain a 5g pull-up."
> Microservices is not SOA

The earliest things on microservices seemed to be identical to early SOA stripped of lore, usually of specific-context origin, it had accumulated in a decontextualized way, and which was often, especially once decontextualized, not particularly in-line with the original principles.

It's now gone on and attracted a whole bunch more of its own lore the same way, arising out of somewhat different contexts.
Same, only had a problem twice, with a failed USB/audio daughterboard on an Elitebook ($20 replacement) and a failed VRM capacitor on an MXM card (replaced it but the GPU itself failed after a year so I just got a new card, $100).

I'm really sad about new laptops having everything soldered on. If something fails, you either need a good reflow station (and skills) or you have to toss the whole thing, which is insane.

It also makes parts ridiculously expensive, like a system board for a Dell Precision now goes for ~$500 where it used to be under $100. All because the CPU, GPU, VRAM and even RAM are soldered on.

Honestly, I hate where all of this is going. So much for everyone going green.
And as a follow-up, what of that "else" is taught to a majority of university students?
My friend shared this with me this morning and for the life of me I can't figure out how to reach the end. 40mins of my morning I will never get back (－‸ლ)
If I were friends with Buffet, and a billionaire, I absolutely would pick individual stocks on my own, if only to be able to tease him if I were to get lucky. Not as my only investment strategy, sure...
I would bet it's mostly just PID in software.
Obsessively focusing on oppression just because you recognize the name of an area does make you “that guy” and this is not the thread for it.

The reality is that people have a day to day life and right now we are talking about that.
The risk of downing a manned aircraft for a nation state is much higher than a drone.
Great format, but once 2032 rolls around everyone will go back to a 2 digit shorthand for the year.
Because humans are lazy.
Data entry will probably be obliterated as you will just be able to insert rows into databases or spreadsheets in a few milliseconds rather than needing to type out entries from papers or receipts. There are already ML solutions to this but none are as perfect as a human brain that can correctly decode arbitrary formatting.

Keyboards and mice will be phased out very quickly since you can just thought type, so the computer accessories industry will dry up as well.

If the device allows you to write to limbs, you will probably also be able to write to motors. Expect a lot of specialized vehicle related jobs (excavators, forklifts, cranes) to become remote-first with skilled operators working inside call centers or at home. This is already happening but the presence of Neuralink means contracting companies don't have to pay for expensive joysticks, knobs, switchboards, etc.

Of course this doesn't consider the impact on the entire world changing overnight, which will probably upend modern capitalism for the first time in a century.
> also don’t forget intels fabs are actually better than tsmc when nodes are the same

They haven’t been on the same node size for quite a while though. I wonder if this will be true in the future. Intel has a problem because even if they catch up and for some reason TSMC will be blocked at 5nm, TSMC will still have a multi year experience and will be able to improve the 5nm process.
> real UNIX [...] real UNIX [...] real UNIX

Yes, we get it, you hate Linux. Your user profile page says as much. Get over it.
https://hstream.io/
If someone is working on a project, then the expectation is that the name of that project can be correctly pronounced?
In order to get around this I got a 4500U PN50 [0] and two power supplies, so I can take my 'work computer' home with me, it's a compromise but it's good!

[0] https://www.asus.com/au/Displays-Desktops/Mini-PCs/All-serie...
I believe that on (some?) Intel 11th gen chips, S3 sleep states are disabled, and only S1 works?

S3 = traditional "suspend to ram"

S1 = new fangled "kind of sleep, instant on mode"

At least, thats what I found on a System76 Lemur Pro, which has the same cpu as the XPS13 (and System76 had to restore the IME, whereas before they used to disable it, just to get some semblence of sleep working)

Solution: get an AMD 4800 - powered laptop instead. Same price, double the cores (8 vs 4), much (much) faster and yet runs cooler.

And S3 sleep works!
I personally would have gone with: because E=0.5mv^2

And by that i mean that energy is a much more intuitive concept than force.

Why is E proportional to v^2? Now THAT’s an interesting question.
Ballmer's Microsoft really did have some intensely great research and development going under the hood, but the management was completely unacceptable for such a large company. There needed to be individual units so each team could work at their best, but unfortunately, the piss-poor management that Ballmer headed didn't allow this, and resulted in the up-down nature of Microsoft's product releases.
I asked brixen about this and there's more to it here:

http://irclog.whitequark.org/rubinius/2014-12-29#1419876701-...
This ignores the other big reasons to take losses early, when one is a new(er) player in a market with a dominant competitor.

It's not completely wrong, but incomplete.
The larger point of this discussion is that mass immigration presents other challenges, some much harder to overcome. For example, the nightmare that is the political discussion of immigration in the USA, and for another example, the skyrocketing living costs in US cities that are tech hubs.

Trying to solve the problems you outline seem to be technical, which are easier than the fundamental problems of politics or economics.
"In this book we obey the laws of thermodynamics"

Repeating a comment I made below, this makes no sense at all to me!!

His argument in his post saying Taubes is wrong is "The laws of physics are unavoidable". That makes no sense at all! There is no logical reason to believe that calories (a thermodinamic unity) is transformed in fat in our body - and no science to prove it either.

This is the same as saying that all fat should go to the feet because of Gravity and the laws of physics are unavoidable. It is pure non-sense.

Do you know how to measure calories on food? You burn it and measure the heat it generates. How this apply to our body function is a mistery to me. To anyone actually.

Taubes theory is based on hormones, which is what the medicine proved for the last century that is what regulates all kind of function in our bodies. Make much more sense to think how a diet affect hormones and how it affects are body producing fat, no??

Calories in - calories out must be relevant to a thermal plant, no to our body producing fat.
When expenses exceed income, misery: when income exceeds expenses, bliss.
It's funny to me that Web OS is being heralded as 'the thing for the future' when all we've really done is reinvent the terminal.
It kind of depends on your point of view, I suppose. Let's take a look at two examples.

> Example 1: Highschool dropout with no advanced education earning minimum wage; 23 years old:

Gross minimum wage for 23yo and above € 1424,40 per month, assuming a 40h workweek. Usually with paid overtime and some benefits depending on employer.

> Example 2: Student who excelled at high school until 18, completed bachelor at 21, completed master in science at 23, started PhD at 24:

Gross wage[1] €2000 per month, with realistically a 45h to 50h workweek. Better benefits and usually a 13th month. Intellectually more challenging work (probably), but few career possibilities in the academic field.

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Also you have to take into account that the grad student has to pay substantially more in taxes than the minimum wage employee. The difference was only 1.5x to start with, after taxes the PhD student will probably only earn 25% more than the minimum wage employee. Just for the record, I'm not arguing against education here, or even making any statement about whether it makes sense to do a PhD. Just adding some numbers because your message makes it seem like PhDs are well compensated given their intelligence and the work they have to put in. From my point of view they're ridiculously underpaid.

A few of my friends are grad students, and they all live in 600 square feet (55 meter squared) apartments. It kind of sucks to live a 600 square foot apartment until you're 29-30, with no substantial savings for a down-payment on a house for after you graduate.

Source 1: https://intranet.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=91ae4d5c-5d21...
I, along with other members of the community would be interested in that information. Care to display it in a blog post?
At first I thought you misspelled rhodes but then I realized this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
Some would argue that 'files' will become as archaic as floppy disks.
Do you A/B test your pricing (including one-time fee versus subscription service)?
I have a feeling that you're equating a PhD with a Master's or Bachelor's degree. The ultimate goal of a PhD is to prepare you to do 'real research' in that you're trained to collaborate with academics, dig through academic materials, compile results, and ultimately add to the knowledge of mankind. This is fundamentally different from a BS or MS. Replacing the academic setting for this, in my opinion, would be suboptimal, if not detrimental. This is academia in its purest form almost...basically what it was originally intended to do! Not train people for the job market, but to further the actual academic studies of everything!

What you're forgetting is that if there are a ton of hungry PhD's running around looking for work where your Joe-Master's Degree or Jim-Bachelor's Degrees are looking for work, chances are they may displace quite a few of those guys if they look to enter the standard work force. Not because a PhD makes one inherently better, but because it seems like so many employers look at paper qualifications, and actually a lot of PhD's did work REALLY HARD to get their PhD...so at least they've shown they can work really hard on something and come up with a contribution.

Also, government budget cuts never seem to affect military research, where a TON of research dollars stems from. I have a feeling that the government will get its house in order without massive research spending cuts.
The problem with this virus is not that there is no vaccine, but that it has asymptomatic carriers.

Hence since there is no way to prove if one is infected, the government assumes that everyone is infected, thus halting economic activity.

The solution will probably be:

1) Massive testing - I could see "at home" test kit.
2) Some sort of certificate of the day of the test and the results.
3) Some sort of division between clean areas (where only non-infected people reside). For example, a flight must certify that all the passengers are clean.

The other option is to have the virus return every X month until there is a vaccine, or until 90-80% of the population is infected.
I think they just push it as a "study" try turning those off