jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Remember that in Germany, you are legally unemployed if you earn less than 400 Euros (500-600$) per month. If you are unemployed, you don't have to pay taxes.

This makes most employees of Starbucks, McDonalds etc. count as unemployed.
If you can send me details (contact info is in my profile) I can give you a rough estimate. I'm a pretty active silicon valley angel so I know what price deals are happening at lately.

If the investor is a fund, they will want to get 10-25% (at least) of the company for whatever price they invest, if they are taking a board seat.

You also can price the round later via a convertible note. They may balk at this, some investors do not like them.

But, seriously - 10 people in eight months? Why are you raising capital? It sounds like you are rocking.
It should be noted that your 10, 20, and 30 year charts actually show an advantage to investing in off years; your conclusion that "there is no significant advantage" is mistaken.

On the 30 year chart, the peaks on the 20-50% line are a couple percent above the peaks on the all line. Boosting returns from 7% to 9% over 30 years, or from 12% to 14% over 30 years, results in over 70% more total wealth after compounding. The visual difference is not as striking on the 30 year chart as on the 5 year chart, but that's because you're presenting annualized rather than total returns.
That article was written after the first day of Mix. Silverlight 5 features weren't to be announced until the Day 2 keynote, which was almost all about Silverlight (on the phone and the web).

Microsoft's position on HTML5 and Silverlight seem extremely clear to me. If you're doing cross-platform their focus is now HTML5. You won't see much of an investment on Silverlight for the Mac, for example. But if you're developing exclusively for Windows, then Silverlight is your best bet.

Regarding WPF at Mix -- Mix is a web conference and WPF is NOT a web technology. Expect WPF sessions at PDC (a couple to a few at most), although I do think that WPF and Silverlight are merging (with Silverlight basically just catching up to WPF, with WPF being left to handle niche Win32 interop scenarios).
I'd rather have this over an Apple Watch.
With browsers supporting TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV the SSL3 risk isn't that great since an MITM attack can't force a downgrade. Therefore SSL3 should only end up being used by old clients that don't support anything newer.

Organizations running such huge websites need to be conservative about dropping support -- even if it only bites 0.01% of users that can be a huge population!
I think you're assuming that a language built that way would have to adopt Racket's underlying meanings for things, probably because Arc is, in the grand scheme of things, pretty close to Racket. But because Arc makes some fairly fundamental decisions that are different than Racket (such as how macros work), you can't keep those the same -- Arc macros can't be just Racket macros.

However, just because Arc can't be a layer of macros on top of Racket, that doesn't mean that the language can't be implemented as a Racket language. There are Racket language implementations of Algol 60, Python, and JavaScript, all of which are very different from Racket, more so than Arc is. And those implementations get the tooling benefits that Arc today misses.

It's easier to write a simple interpreter than a compiler, and Arc's current implementation seems to be working well for you, so far be it from me to tell you how to run your project. But certainly it could be implemented as a Racket language, no matter how far away it is.
Well thanks for the clarification.
How does this compare to Qt project QtQuick, which supports far more platforms then react native. Both use javascript and both are reactive programming systems...
I, for one, fully support our gif-replying internet overlords.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/thumbs_up.gif
Sometimes great ideas are the simplest.
Note that the bet is the conjunction of those three propositions, so you don't have to think any one of them is particularly unlikely to think that all three of them together are.

For example, if you consider the propositions to be roughly independent, you might believe each one of them is individually nearly 80% likely to occur, yet you'd rationally believe Sam would be more likely than not to lose the bet, since 0.5^(1/3) = 0.794.
I don't object to him asking for something in return (the email address you mention, plus the embedded ads).

What I object to is the use of bait-and-switch tactics.
And another: http://www.earslap.com/projectslab/otomata?q=0q0o88801y1f7b7...
Last I looked, you are correct, but Python isn't designed as an embeddable language, either. Multiple VMs usually isn't something you'd have any desire to do specifically because you can achieve multithreading from within the language itself.

If you need multiple, separate VMs (ie, to drive multiple isolated scripting engines in a game), then v8 isolates or Lua contexts will do you just fine, but that's a different use case than most places where you'd want to use concurrent Python.
There's a nice survey paper from 2012 that lists dozens of supercookie vectors, including HSTS.

https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/files/publication/files/tracki...

FTA: "A website can encode a globally unique pseudonymous device identifier into any stateful web technology so long as it persists at least log2 n bits, where n is the number of Internet-connected devices (presently roughly 5 billion, requiring 33 bits)."
Excellent comment and thanks for the resources!
> How is this different from the information stored in `git reflog`, which allows you to rollback to commits before their rebase? You can just as easily revert back to the old version, since it never goes anywhere.

Patch queues make the distinction between mutable WIP patches and finished commits explicit. Also, versioned patch queues make it safe to share WIP patches.
We maintain a growing list of companies using Clojure here - http://clojure.org/companies
If being contrarian interferes with your real goals, it isn't rational. As a reality check, I will happily fire someone who cannot control it after having been given sufficient support to redirect it. They waste so much time.

I find De Bono's six thinking hats as a nice way to view how best to work rationally in a team. Contrarians only have one hat and miss the other five.

The problems I have seen include:

dominating discussion (a contrarian has something to argue in every situation, sometimes you need to cover some ground in broad strokes to get some feel of whats involved but a contrarian latches on the first point of uncertainty),

off-topic (to stray from the high priority issue to argue in depth some low priority secondary issue),

arguing from ignorance (they see argument as 'their way of learning' but in a group situation its very selfish, they should take effort to become better informed offline)

negativity (its unrelentingly depressing and critical - picking holes and killing any newborn idea that might need some nurturing before looking at more critically otherwise you can give up on it too soon)

personality clashes (there will be inevitable issues of butting heads with different personality types who feel criticism personally or consider arguments as fights or need negatives presented in a status aware manner etc.)

Something that might concern you is that reflexive contrarians are very predictable and hence exploitable. The manipulator can basically dangle a designed target in front of them and the contrarian will say whatever is wanted. Reflex is not going to be rational at a high level because the frame its operates in is too narrow and shallow.
Rust and/or Nim, depending on which will feel better as I learn more.
Persona ameliorates the need for two-factor auth because you have to have control over an email account registered as the provider for Persona to interact with the user.

Logic being if someone controls your email account already, it doesn't matter that you have two-factor auth, they can shut it off because they control your account. A lot people using two factor auth with their Google account have been hacked exactly this way.
You can learn anything! Maybe there are other languages you would find easier and more enjoyable. Here are some links:

* Python: https://www.python.org/about/gettingstarted/

* Codecademy [Python, JS, Ruby, plus HTML/CSS/PHP]: http://www.codecademy.com/
Stuffing yourself with solid food is indeed a chore. Shakes are an easier way. As is dumping butter and olive oil in your carbs. 1 teaspoon is 100 calories.

Funny I was in the same boat for first 2 years of working out, starting bulking with more oils, butters and shakes in addition to my usual 1 cup of carbs per day. Gained plenty of fat. Then got a few injuries in a row, lost intensity in the gym and now have more fat than I want!
You can follow zerohedge on their website..
Yes, it is basically Qt Creator, but much much faster and problem free.
Thanks for sharing the setup! The process seems involved enough for non-experts (even with open source tools), and clear enough for y’all who’ve done it, that I wonder whether it might be worth productizing by Element — something to the effect of a turnkey solution for conference organizers (who are domain experts but would have a hard time figuring out and managing this infrastructure setup). Given the current pandemic situation, I wouldn’t be surprised if organizers across the board jump on to a solution of this kind. It would also serve to popularize Matrix and greatly expand its user base.
I just spend two days chasing a bug because someone shoved a variable inside a dataclass in the wrong place, nothing is immutable in python.
Recent and related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26146361 (not many comments but the Twitter link has info).

A thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21986315
There's also a fun talk about the OS from 2015's CCC: https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7174-lifting_the_fog_on_red_star...
It's a pretty frothy / hype-driven area, so astroturf makes sense. Now you've got me curious about the submitters...
Uber and AirBnB are just legal companies?
Never saw it that way, but that said, would those labels not easily apply to FANG as well?
Half of the effort is spent on fighting lawsuits that take aim on their market positions.
California has the highest (I believe) state subsidies for this sort of thing. My aunt and uncle just did the same thing, and they live north of LA.

It makes me wonder two things:
1. What is the ROI without the subsidies?
2. How much lower would the price be if the subsidies didn't exist?
Very cool, but the article itself is written very poorly.
elblanco: Please contact me (email in profile). Fi.wikipedia (I am an Arbcom member there) would very much welcome new content related to Demoscene.

It is quite appreciated popular (not really underground here) movement in Finland. Many of our most successful game developers like Remedy (Alan Wake, Max Payne), Housemarque and Bugbear were founded by demoscene vets.

Only two months ago our National Broadcasting Agency ran a 7-part documentary series on Demoscene. It is available here with English subtitles: http://dome.fi/pelit/artikkelit/yleiset/ylen-demoscene-dokum...

The very least I could look into your reverted edits and try to salvage the useful bits :)
I find posts like this one depressing. They're cynical and shortsighted.

The premise of such posts is that if people were aware of who was getting a tax cut they would be against it. Put another way: the premise is that everyone is purely motivated by self-interest.

There are two immediate problems with this line of thinking.

The first is tha it ignores how aspirational people are.i remember a survey from the 2000 election when Gore made the mistake of demonizing the top 1% repeatedly. The survey show something like 19% of people thought the were the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be someday.

The second problem is the whole "money for rich people = bad" argument. Some may ascribe to Reagenesque trickle down economics. Others may see that overtaxing the rich is ultimately shortsighted. Yet others may not get hung upon percentages and look at the absolute tax burden (iirc the top 1% pay ~40% of the tax burden).

Personally I just object to the tone of the rhetoric where politicians talk about "affording" or "paying for" a tax cut like they're giving away money. The reality is just that they're taking less money. Bit of a difference.

All of this is just "policy theatre" however. What the US (and most of the West for that matter) is facing a far bigger problem that the current systemis unsustainable and no politician wants to be at the helm when the music stop (to mix metaphors) with declining birth rates and increasing life expectancy.
"This is not an injustice."

Paris Hilton. Among other examples. Yes, there are people who get large paydays because they are strikingly effective at what they do. Then there are the people who get large paydays for no particular reason. Or because of their parentage.

Before celebrating the übermensch, please try checking back in with reality.
Update: by virtue of what is probably a time correlation-causation fallacy, I can now report that posting here helped and the issue seems to have gone away.
I really wish people would stop complaining about TextMate 2.0, just because it's been talked about doesn't mean the current version stopped working or lost features. I'm a daily TextMate user for nearly 6 years and it has never once not met my expectations. It's first app I install on a new machine/install.

Kod is a great start so far, but still has a ways to catch up. I wish the developer the best and that it works out for him. Hope it doesn't turn out like Smultron (now Fraise).
Readability has been lost, but hey; it's only temporary, right, pg?
TL;DR: Some people have very good memory, and they're about the only ones who can remember what the article was about after 8 pages of the same thing.
I have the same laptop model and I'm on my 4th logic board. Luckily, we have 5 years of warranty for hardware failures by law where I live.
I know several places where software components or systems software is tested against real-world applications, games, and whatnot, and... guess how it's often done? Yup, with a combination of injecting artificial keyboard/mouse inputs and looking things at the screen. And these guys aren't beginners but professionals. You can't really automate something that doesn't have the APIs for it.
Designer News is pretty good for design/ux-ish things https://news.layervault.com/
This seems pretty weak to me.

So say you are having the shit beaten out of you. You're being beaten, and shit is coming out. Will the shout, "kick her ass" yelled by some random onlooker change your strategy for dealing with the situation? You were going to just lay there, but because of that onlooker's suggestion, now the thought to fight back occurs to you?

I kind of doubt that.

Maybe we should arrest the adrenaline that your body produces for "attempted lynching".
You're lucky that you have the choice to send your kids to a different school (as do I, and most HN readers). The people who don't have this choice, also disproportionately have children who need to be controlled by police (leaving the families without a choice, but with non-feral children, as unfortunately bystanders).
Damn. I want that flexibility. I love the outdoors.
Interesting. I think I am gonna benchmark this against gunicorn with a simple flask app.
Design is very good. But one suggestion is to include at least glimpse of some properties available for buying. Right now homepage has lot of literature, but for a new site its important to show that you have some traction and gain further clicks from user.
Having listened to the 64bit comparisons of the audio on the page (that's a particularly cruel sample set; is it a common one?):

Wow. The worst audio chunks on CELT are significantly better than the worst on the other codecs. Overall, I hear a bit of a loss on the low-end of wider sounds (the one that pops out to my ear is the entry starting at 0:37), but for such an incredible improvement in the high ranges that's a wonderful price to pay. Still a decent bit of that "anti-pre-echo", which I despise, but generally less than the others.

All in all: an epic improvement over the other samples, especially when taken across the board. All the other encoders had huge distortion on one or more of the sound bites (especially the third, 0:22); CELT had very little, even at its worst. Phenomenal work.

/listens to 32kbps. shall update!

edit: yep, it hurts most on that 0:37 entry. Unfortunately, I put it as noticeably worse than all but the AAC-LC (but that one's horrible in everything) at 32kbps. It does handle the voice at the end very well, though. That, with the latency, means it'd probably be great for voice use.

/tries 48; maybe it survives at the middle?

edit2: yeah, about middle. Almost catches up to the HE-AAC entries, maybe passes Vorbis.

Voice-only or required-low-latency aside (both important qualities), I think I'm not going to use or recommend this for sub-64kbps, though it could of course improve yet. Vorbis and HE-AACs beat it. At 64 though, maybe above, or for respectable quality telepresence, it sounds like a clear winner.
damn! reading your comment altered my view of the logo :D

At first, the logo looked like a car. F like the front with the steering and the "d" as the back seat. Now it looks like logo-porn.
The way that Bradley Manning is being treated doesn't surprise me too much. He is suspected of "leaking classified information," so it would make sense to keep him in solitary confinement from a government/military bureaucrat's point of view. If they don't segregate him, he might leak more secrets to other people.

The other stuff (no mattress or pillow) just seems like pettiness on the part of the people in power that were embarrassed.
The article's dismissal of an editor by complaining that "[his] edits were all deleting things and moving things around" is a perfect illustration of why "bytes added" is just as bad a contribution metric as "edit count". We're not in 2001 anymore. The Internet is not short of bytes about Alan Alda or Anacondas, and nor is Wikipedia short of people who add bytes about them.

Newly-added bytes may be true or false. They may be useful or not useful even if true --- readers do not want every byte about a given topic, they want a few tens of thousands of the most useful ones. (This is entirely orthogonal to the inclusionist-deletionist debate about what topics should be included. Some bytes may be useless in the context of a main topical article about Alan Alda himself, but they would be very relevant to a subtopical article about Alan Alda's dental health).

For a popular topic, you'll have dozens of people adding bytes of varying quality. Insiders subtract the false or useless bytes (an action easily captured in statistics and then maligned on the internet by pundits), but also look at the true and useful bytes, fact-check them, and then leave them in place. This contribution --- curation --- is not captured in any statistics, but it is an important part of the mechanism by which you can have 1 expert and two enthusiastic amateurs stop by every few weeks on their lunch break to expand an article with no centralised notice or approval, without having have the place turned into a mess by the 97 vandals and well-meaning incompetents who came by in the meantime.

The real problem Wikipedia faces is in the long tail of topics, where there is only one person adding the bytes, and that person is either grinding an axe, self-promoting, or afflicted with incurable "nerdview". The well-meaning, harried, underinformed Wikipedia insiders inevitably screw up when they try to distinguish useless vs. useful bytes on these topics, but I wouldn't call the outsiders who added the bytes in the first place "experts". Unfortunately both sides' conduct may be scaring away the people who are actual experts on those long-tail topics ...
I'm not saying that I disagree (because I do think that Hindi is probably number 2), but that list is over 10 years old and is just an estimation.

More telling is that from that same estimation, English is the number of secondary speakers of languages. French was number one, followed closely by English. I'm guessing that by now English has pulled ahead.
All products are either still in development, or abandoned.
Why isn't it illegal to disrupt a market by undercutting the competition in a long-term structural way?

What makes it worse is that money is pumped into it like a ponzi scheme (first investors cash, last investors are left with the bubble), which should be illegal in itself.
Yes. AFAIK inflation in Argentina is a chicken and egg problem.

The government prints money, not to have more, but to force economic movement from below. More money handed through social welfare means more money in lower classes hands, and that means more people buying new things and local market activity.

The government does that because most companies with the financial power to invest are be very reluctant to invest in a such unstable economy. Also, most individuals with more money will quickly move the cash somewhere abroad.

So, companies don't invest and richer people are quick ot move their money elsewhere. If the government doesn't act, the economy stalls. But now because the government printed more money, the peso is now less valuable and the economy is now more unstable, feeding this feedback loop.
Also there is a daily "don't know what to do with my life" with the same two responses: get diagnosed and swallow this pill.
As a biologist with over a decade of experience in areas relevant to these startups, I appreciate the movement into biotech, but I'm unimpressed with the actual products.

While everyone might poo-poo academia, it would take little effort to find 100s of projects at universities across the world that are better versions of these projects.

As much as YC dominates software applications, they are woefully inferior in biotech/biomedical applications.
I have a cheap Samsung Chromebook ($250 in 2013). I've never had a problem browsing with 10+ tabs open and watching hulu at the same time.

It is not going to run Visual Studio of course, but it is quite capable for browsing/videos/word processing/etc.
I'll give you an actual scenario, maybe you can relate: One of your kids is sick and yells for attention. You shuffle in the next load of bedcovers into the washing machine while trying to remember to call the doctor for an appointment. The detergent box is near-empty. If you are like me, it could take days until you get the 20s of uninterrupted time to jot down the detergent to your shopping list. Fast forward 1 week. No detergent. You are out of bed covers. The other kid is sick. Someone hands you an Amazon Dash that orders your standard detergent. You break down and cry, thanking that someone for the act of kindness. OK, the last part is exaggerated.
Cell phones could only be afforded by the wealthy in the 80s. Now the cell phone market in developing countries is burgeoning. Soon, there will be a substantial laptop market in most developing countries as well as prices continue to decline.
Yes, if you put the Chromebook into "Developer Mode" first; searching for "chromebook linux" should do the trick (skip the stuff about Crouton). Note that the selection of Linux distros for ARM Chromebooks (like both of the $149 models) will be quite a bit slimmer.
It's more fundamental than that, I think. It's core to the entire mindset of the profession.

If you compare the operators of decades ago with the sysadmins of the 90s and the devops folks of today you can see a rough path of evolution that hopefully medicine will follow: a last-minute heroic effort to save a system is a failure, not a victory.
I agree. I've seen a few places in Berkeley that have a common mirror/sink area in the middle of 4-5 uni-sex toilet closets. Great design.