jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You really ought to read Stephanie Kelton's very-accessible book, The Deficit Myth.

What we call "money" is, at bottom, simply a set of widely-distributed tokens that we use in lieu of centralized bookkeeping. When you accept any kind of money, including gold, in return for goods given or services rendered, you're trusting that you can in turn use the money in the future to acquire goods or services yourself, in a quantity you find acceptable. As long as price increases remain "reasonable" (EDIT: for whatever value of reasonable is politically feasible), it really doesn't matter how much money is in the system.

The central thesis of MMT, as I understand it, is something like this:

1) The economy will often have greater capacity to produce goods and services than it is currently doing (i.e., additional supply could exist).

2) Society will often have people willing to buy additional goods and services if produced and they had the money (i.e., additional demand could exist).

3) When both additional supply and additional demand could exist, it makes sense for the government to "print money" and put it in the hands of the people who would spend it if they had it; that way, those people can buy additionally-produced goods and services and so keep more workers and assets productively employed.

4) Ideally, this will also increase our productive capacity still further, in a virtuous cycle.

Chapter 3 of The Deficit Myth is online at https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/the-deficit-myth — excerpt: "When I arrived in Washington in 2015, I was the only staffer on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee who looked at the world through the lens of a currency issuer. I knew the federal government wasn’t like a household or a private business. I knew Uncle Sam could never run out of money. I knew that inflation, rather than insolvency, was the relevant punishment for overspending. I also knew I was alone in this thinking." (Emphasis added.)

Kelton also has a piece at https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/its-oooooooooooooo-bi...
Looks cool but it seems like it might still need some work?

I tried it on one of my Django `admin.py` files and it created NameErrors.

class TestAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_filter = ("foo_method",)

def foo_method(self, obj):
return "something"

foo_method.short_description = "Foo method"

# It turned it into this:

class TestAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
list_filter = ("foo_method",)

# NameError
foo_method.short_description = "Foo method"

def foo_method(self, obj):
return "something"
Citation needed. Because in the US it’s considered some straight up age old bullshit that being rich makes you some kind of high minded philosopher smarter than the joe.
Then the dogs turn on their handlers ... and you have the makings of a Black Mirror episode.
Citation needed. Last time I tried to ship someone in a container I got 20 years.
> Do something interesting! It doesn’t have to be noble, it doesn’t have to be for the greater good, just do something!

paradoxically, this is worse in terms of resource allocation, than to attempt to create more businesses.

Making a statue in your self-image, or to build extravagant palaces, are expenses that would better be spent else where (since a statue derives little to no value to any one else, and thus the only expected profit is self-indulgence). Similarly to a palace, unless it is for the purposes of making profit (ala, like disney land, via tourism).

Funding orchestra/competition/arts is similar, but because these arts can be used to derive profits, it means other people will also find them relevant/interesting. Therefore, it is OK to do so, and not a waste of economic resources.
Japan exports more to China than to US:

http://www.worldstopexports.com/japans-top-import-partners/
So basically, Google seems to have managed to take a feature in its own Calendar App, and the default behaviour of meetings on Google and dressed it up like stalking.

A window on your friend’s house can be used to peek in to see if they’re home when you’ve popped by to visit.

It can also be used to stare into all day to monitor what someone you don’t know is doing.

What the terminated employees are accused of doing is a lot more like the second example.
What will git or mercurial gain them? There is no feature they want from git or mercurial. None. Zero. Zip.

DVCS? Easy branching and merging? No. No. No.

Why not? Because that's not how they code. It would actually promote bad behavior.

The OpenBSD way is to write your code correct the first time. Commit often, incrementally. Do not introduce large, sweeping changes that leaves things half broken. Be mindful that everyone else is going to compile and run your next commit. The result is that their HEAD/trunk nearly always compiles and works. They don't have to deal with huge code drops that now make it questionable whether or not they can safely cut a release every 6 months because the code hasn't been tested or reviewed well enough.

Their code practices are better than probably any other project and the lack of features in CVS are the reason.
You'd think Putin might be persuaded to take action against some of the guilty parties. I know that has not been the Russian tradition but things could change.
OO = ADT + inheritance.

And inheritance is problematic.

[ADT is Abstract Data Type; i.e. values that support operations, and are not tied to a specific concrete implementation]
I went the opposite path, from C to OO languages, including Java.

Yes, you can do the same in C, in fact a lot of people did it intuitively before OO became mainstream. Many of the techinques that make OO design work so nice (encapsulation, loose coupling, strong cohesion) were called simply "modularization" back then.

The advantage of modern OO languages of today is that the techniques are explicit, clear on the language design, they don't depend only on the programmers discipline. Also, they bring a lot of other features hard to implement in C: garbage collection, reflection that provides sleek frameworks and tools for refactoring, etc.
The scientific evidence [0] compares to "worst" for 10X, not "average".

[0] http://www.construx.com/10x_Software_Development/Origins_of_...
Blasphemy! How can you ever expect to be productive without the constant influx of valuable information provided by HN?

</joke>
Of course it's flawed. It's meant to be.
This has been sitting around longer than most Ask threads, so I wanted to at least offer you the following:

I think this thread is not taking off because it feels like an interview question. And not the fun kind. So answering this question, to me, feels like a chore. Hence my meta response.

I bet you'd get a better response with a more focused question. Maybe like: have you ever had a startup that totally failed? If so, in retrospect, why did it fail?

Cheers.
Interesting. My child is 1.5 years old and perhaps she will never buy any vehicle. "Dad, people actually owned these 20 years ago?" Another example: so far, she has never seen a photo album, but can browse photos on my iPhone.
Was discussed before http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=433866
That's the point. With HTML you must to try hard to disable copying of text.
Such nice fluffy words...
How would that impact your daily life?
Excluding via search works but there is also a script [0] - not affiliated - which you can use to block other domains as well.

[0]: https://www.jeffersonscher.com/gm/google-hit-hider/
To be clear, TFA is about the second example of similar results under different conditions. Now they’d be looking for a third.
> I briefly worked for google this year

I apologize in advance if the reason is personal and you do not want to share, but why did you stay at Google for such a short period of time?
> Google Is Fined $170 Million for Violating Children’s Privacy on YouTube

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/technology/google-youtube...

> Google Is Fined $57 Million Under Europe’s Data Privacy Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/technology/google-europe-...

> Google fined over Safari cookie privacy row

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19200279

This was just a cursory search, and there are also several ongoing lawsuits and investigations regarding Google's data harvesting practices.
I searched the data and found only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21465452 which matches your description. As you can see, we replied to that one. What are the other cases?
If knowledge and skill is uniformly hierarchically decomposablbe, then everyone can do exponentially more work, over time. Technology's "increasing returns".

But there may be thresholds, such as working memory needed, because the skill or knowledge cannot be decomposed further due to interconnections.

It seems likely there exist some potential skills or knowledge that require more working memory than any human has, had or could ever have.
Any higher than senior engineer better understand the whole ecosystem at a reasonably sized company.

(Sure if you're google sized, nobody will understand or even know the entire system. But nearly every company on earth is smaller than that.)
Absolutely, this is a practicality matter. Further, while the evidence on rest periods is mediocre, the evidence on increasing work volume leading to greater hypertrophy is crystal clear. If you have an hour to workout, more reps is clearly going to win out for muscle hypertrophy over resting 5 min between sets and completing only 9 sets or less in a workout. Muscle hypertrophy (as opposed to strength) follows a clear dose response relationship. More volume is better. More sitting around during training sessions equals lower volume. It is asinine to assume total work volume will be equated if rest periods are very long. Cool for studies, but in reality, you use what time you have to lift and then you leave. Therefore smaller rest periods than an outrageously long 5 min will basically always lead to greater total work performed as you will perform more reps x weight in your allocated time slot.

If sets and reps are equated, sure resting longer is more effective. In fact, if you are equating reps and sets in a study, the longer rest group will have higher volume, defined by sum of reps x weight, as the lower rest period group will lift lighter because of increased fatigue. I find it hard to believe many bodybuilders would disagree with that statement.

However, in real life, sets and reps will not be equated. You use what time you have and maximizing volume wins (reps x weight, assuming the weight is reasonably difficult).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303131/

In an ideal world for bodybuilders, perhaps they’d sit at the gym for 2.5 hours to complete a workout, but people have lives outside of lifting weights. Even pros.

Finally, the author seems to really think bodybuilders are by and large clueless “bros”. While this might be true for some, I think the average bodybuilder consumes far more academic literature than people involved in almost any other activity outside of academia. Bodybuilders are on average fairly well read and up to date on the scientific consensus thanks to people like Mike Israetel, Jeff Nippard, Brad Schoenfeld, Brett Contreras, Lyle McDonald, and Layne Norton to list just a few.
A very Epicurean philosophy. There are other philosophical schools of that come to mind, Kant and Epictetus are diametrically opposed for instance.

Noting that if everyone thinks this way, then civilization falls apart rather quickly.
It's not any more or less than you might see in any American city.
>This is closer to a TV station banning somebody

So the FCC won't let me be, or let me be me, so let me see...

Yeah, TV stations (like MTV) have been banning people in the past too.
This attitude doesn't translate to market conditions governed by power law winner-takes-all dynamics.
No, the Model II had only a 4MHz Z-80. The Model 16 (and later the Model 6000) had a 68k-series coprocessor, and Xenix ran in that (using the Z-80 for I/O).
Double slash single-line comments are valid C99 and later.
> I want to build a rich webapp, which will be a platform for others to create content.

I'd advise against Django then. Django is great when you have a small number of trusted contributors, but a pain otherwise.
From your experience, looks like Django will be a good bet for you. Try it out http://djangoproject.com
If you are fluent in C# and are willing to put up with the license cost, you should go with ASP.Net MVC.

Regarding ORM, NHibernate isn't working for you? I haven't used it personally but have heard good things about it.

If you have time to evaluate, you can try building a mini app with Rails and/or Django before deciding. I recommend "Rails 3 tutorial" and Django book for learning Rails or Django. The Rails 3 tutorial builds a small twitterish app. Django book doesn't have a cohesive apps built in the book but the examples are all real world.
Or, for Haskell on Xen: http://halvm.org/wiki/
Thank you for explaining why this is happening! I couldn't understand why literally every single Gawker link doesn't work for me, on any computer... it seems unbelievable they haven't fixed this yet.
The value is polish.

He's not making a data-driven business app, where a shadow here or a custom icon there are nice but ultimately unnecessary. He's making a piece of software in a field where the small details can often be the difference between obscurity and massive success.

Of course, there are exceptions to the rule (Dungeon Raid, Doodle God, etc), but they became successful in spite of their lack of polish by having excellent and novel gameplay. When you're "borrowing" someone else's successful formula, you're competing with all of the crappy clones out there and need to put in a little extra effort to stand out.

Plus, he's making the game for fun, and it's a hell of a lot more fun to make something you're really proud of.
Or Ruby on Rails http://rubyonrails.org/ . . . but pick Django as Python > Ruby :P hides
This led me to the already mentioned APUE book, written by Stevens. I was saddened by his loss at a yound age of 48. http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/2000/09/01/rich_stev...

That article led me to this:

http://www.salon.com/technology/feature/1999/11/30/lions/ind... which is another fantastic read.

You can read about Lions' efforts here: Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th_Ed...

http://tinyurl.com/2k9rwr (If the link above doesn't work)

The commentary is available as a PDF file here: http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/book.pdf
The best documentation I've ever read is Heroku's new addon provider docs: https://addons.heroku.com/provider

Click any of the links on the bottom. They're gorgeous, informative, and have fantastic examples.
I use org mode + pandoc to achieve the same thing. Jekyll than converts the markdown to html and with a mathjax header, makes a really nice blogging system.
You don't even have to tweet before you get blocked. I created an account, after a few minutes of looking around, I was blockeed. (Still blocked, because not worth it.)
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Here we go, another naysayer.

Unfortunately, all those waiting patiently for "confirmed results of double blind trials" will make up a significant percentage of those visiting the pearly gates by the time those trials are ever completed.

Look, the risk is fairly low for chloroquine, mild side effects in a very well done Danish study were only ~15%, serious side effects were ~1.5%.

Reported Side Effects to Chloroquine, Chloroquine plus ...
academic.oup.com › jtm › article-pdf › jtm7-0079

Now, what's the risk of serious side effects/death from coronavirus for those over 70 years old ? Like >10%.

And a recent report out of Hong Kong is stating that lung scarring from coronavirus is being found in all ages (radiological imaging), like 20 to 30% loss of lung function, shortness of breath reported by recovered patients just from fast walking - - - is that going to be permanent in all ages ? Are you willing to take that risk ?

A glaring fact is that chloroquine / hydroxychloroquine have been on the WHO's list of essential medicines for decades . . . . why so, if they were too toxic to recommend ?

Just like the rush on buying ammo, would you prefer to have "the likely treatment" before the problems comes to you - - or, would you prefer to fail to find it after all the shops and stores are completely sold out and the unemployed "zombies" are all over your property and smashing down your door while your family is cowering under the table screaming and crying for help ? I already got my supply of it, best of luck for all the naysayers.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/florida-man-with-coronavirus-...

https://video.foxnews.com/v/6143849011001

BTW, what is your Gov't offering you right now in the way of proven drugs ? Nothing. All the while the rich in NY are reported in the news media as cashing in on favors to secure reservations for hospital beds in case they need them - - and buying ventilators . . . under the counter.
How is authorization handled? Our GraphQL API authenticates on a JSON web token in the Authorization header. Can we be part of the mesh? To support that I suppose a single query might need multiple sets of credentials/tokens.

It seems better to put those in the query itself rather than in request headers. It's easy enough to modify our API to read the token from the query/variables rather than a header. GraphQL Mesh could make a standard schema for that.
My team, the financial services lab, is in an asset building role, so we are less sensitive to utilization rate than other groups.
Might wanna add the extreme volatility as another multipler when it comes to short-term stress bursts.
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The Bradley, as I've read, is a hallmark of the deficiencies of DOD committee planning. Well, until the F-35.
My first memory of Red Bull was in game advertising in the PS1 game WipeoutXL. As a teenager living in Panama at the time I had no idea what it was, I thought it was a made-up product just for the game. Looking back they were way ahead of their time even then.
Also worth noting that corporate taxes make up only 7% of federal tax receipts, but likely incur a huge cost in terms of avoidance and manipulating practices.

https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/where-do-federal-t...
Edit: a simpler solution would be to give each person voting a unique, nonpersonal identifier, and then end-to-end encrypt their attached personal details, so after the voting period is done they would have exclusive authority to de-anonymize their information (so it can be verified as part of the final vote tally)
Agreed. Instead of taxing the profit of a corporation, just tax the payment of dividends from that profit. The total tax burden can still remain the same if that's what people desire, but the end result will be more transparency as you say. I think Estonia has exactly this policy, or at least they did last time I checked.

It also removes the incentive to mess around with stock buybacks, which is good because the extra liquidity can be put to better use within the company.

For very small companies (such as my own) it would also remove the bureaucracy involved in saving profits from one fiscal year to the next.
This perhaps explains the rationale you sometimes hear that more rules/regs will cause people to not even bother trying to start a business. If you set the business climate up in such a way that only permits fair participation and competition you're probably going to alienate a segment that would favor looser rules.
We need to stop taxing incomes of all sorts. Georgism for the win!
Google didn't argue on interoperability since that would have torpedoed their core arguments that Android is a transformative work creating a new market outside of, and different from, Sun Java Standard Edition.

To argue interoperability Google would have needed to copy the entire JAVA SE API.

The key difference is that Java SE (designed for desktops) API was considered by Google mostly not required on smartphone/mobile devices envisaged for Android. Sun would only licence Java SE complete (Sun was the one wanting complete interoperability).

To the extent the concept of interoperability enters into it, it was on the human side; the arguments were about leveraging existing programmer knowledge to the extent that Android's requirements were shared with and common to Java SE.
Two issues

There's still no way to make cheap clothing, the Chinese could not even make anything even close to the original. DARPA has been working on this for years, so it's not easy.

Quality of bought online products is lacking. eBay, Silk Road etc have developed reputation systems which work really well but not here for some reason.

And I guess if she was a designer, getting ripped off would be a concern.
Would need to see the git repo. I could only find this https://github.com/studip/studip-gsoc2013

If this is an example of the code base then it doens't look too bad in terms of layout.

BUT before a re-write/refactor.

Get a really good CI/CD process in place. i.e. build -> unit test -> browser testing.
There's openfortivpn[1] in Debian Buster, which is an open source[2] VPN client, and doesn't start with 'forti'.

[1]: https://packages.debian.org/buster/openfortivpn

[2]: https://github.com/adrienverge/openfortivpn
Sure, but once you’ve done that and you’re rich, what do you do then?

For most billionaires the answer seems to be that you buy a moderately upgraded version of all the stuff you had when you were middle class, and then you sit around content to watch the numbers slowly increase.

Do something interesting! It doesn’t have to be noble, it doesn’t have to be for the greater good, just do something! Build a palace to rival the Queen’s! Build an enormous statue of yourself! Hire a thousand concubines on a desert island! Colonise Antarctica! Single-handedly bring back the classical symphony by sponsoring an annual competition for the best one! Build an island and declare yourself king of it! Just do something, guys!
Advancing humanity should be a requirement for access to that kind of money.

It's a hugely privileged position to be in, and the idea that it comes with exactly zero responsibility to Rest of World is nonsensical.
AMD has a compiler (c, c++, fortran) and various math libs: libm for basics, blis/libflame for blas.
You're doing the literal opposite of calling a spade a spade. You're calling a spade a shitpade because it fell over and hit your foot. I'm unqualified to judge your opinion on Saudi Arabia but making up an insult Stallman style only makes you sound childish to anybody who doesn't already agree with you.