jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The real estate analogy is a good one. The incentives for the recruiter don't line up. (Hence many companies refusing to work with recruiters)
The other benefit to a settlement plan, is that you could send the habitat and tools ahead of time, to be assembled by robots. Which implies multiple missions, which lowers per-mission weight requirements, and allows for habitat tests prior to having human life (and larger, more temperamental resources) on the line and for fixes to be bundled in subsequent missions.
All episodes of How I Built This by Guy Raz on NPR and Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman. Especially Barry Diller Part I and II on Masters of Scale. Happy New Year 2018! May your projects come to fruition and live long and prosper!
Sure active users will notice spam posts but what about the long tail of customers who no longer update their Posterous blog? What happens when a 'creative' link marketer finds a way to index those sites and inject posts?
I would recommend switching your major to math. You will likely get a lot more out of it and it will be more or less of equal value to a CS degree, especially considering your current knowledge of programming.
If he's going to post in English he might want to learn the syntax of THAT language. Very tough to read.
They changed the ad to 'Anything but Thinking'. :(
thanks, this is a great read. I got a multicolor pack of sugru as a gift 2 years ago and I never would have guessed how much of a labor of love it had been. And yeah, I thought it was pretty awesome right away.
> Best not to have all these fragments.

Signal is another walled garder, which sooner or later will become to big to stay sustainable. Then it will be either sold (probably to Facebook) or die. We should support truly distributed systems if we do not want to repeat history forever. Consider Matrix instead.
Thanks for sharing your first hand experience, and best wishes for your procedure.
2 will not happen nearly as much if people walk to the shops.

Home Depot-like stores, at least over here (DE), don't cluster much, whereas supermarkets are well known for clustering.
I think the criticism is probably of the Canadian health care system a la "She had to go to another country to get her scan in a reasonable period of time (and that country has a terrible global reputation for being insanely expensive and broken itself in the health care department)."
Thanks for at least being consistent. I see way too many people criticize the police then immediately back the police shooting an unarmed woman.

Either shooting unarmed people is wrong or it’s not. It shouldnt be dependent on whether they’re on your side or not.
From what I saw, this attutude was there from the very beginning, from the top down.

(This has been observed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22888726)
I am asking for rational explanations and evidence for the original claim that this was an attempted coup (something I have experience with sadly). Evidence and logic are valued here. You are accusing me of whitewashing sedition (I am not), being naive (I am certainly not on this topic), and being disingenuous (ditto) for taking that approach. I think you should re-read the HN guidelines.
Why would people refer to prices in satoshis rather than dollars/euro/etc, if the technology and culture to price and conduct normal transactions with crypto currency.

I don’t tell people my car is worth 20 gold coins....
Get the facts[0], friend.

Because people have been lying to you.

[0] https://electioncases.osu.edu/2021/01/summary-of-post-electi...
I use their checks several times a month. I was angry when BBVA canned the webform to check feature. Prior to that, Bancorp did not offer checkbooks, but had the webform feature.
> also permanent things you could put in the url like a hash

A hash of what? The asset? Can you hash the look of a digital 'thing' as well as it's behaviour?
> If staff are functionally lying to their company about their output, something has gone wrong.

Problem is that productivity gains are extreme across most industries over the past fifty years, and except at the FAANG end of the income spectrum where people are making $300k+/year, those gains have been 100% absorbed by employers and not passed on to workers.

As such, employers are the ones to have broken the social contract. Yes, they're pushed to do this because they can, and there are no penalties to dissuade them from this behavior (specifically because employee organizations/unions have fallen out of favor, though that may seem to be reversing recently).

So it feels justified to provide a service to an employer for a fixed fee (a salary or weekly contract wage) in exchange for satisfactory work output, and to not work the hours the employer may assume you're working. It's a profoundly asymmetric relationship, and letting an employer believe you're working more hours for that work output--as long as they're happy with your work output!--is balanced by the fact that they're not paying you what you're worth to them.

The latter is clearly true if they're continuing to be happy with your work output and you're working half as many hours as they may believe you to be working. And yet they absolutely wouldn't double your salary if you doubled your work output.
Water is also a good protector. And the polyethylene is actually a proxy for "hydrogen atoms". The reason is that dense hydrogen has a lot of protons to interact with the incoming radiation.

But unfortunately plastic bags are not dense polyethylene. You would kind of need full blocks of solid polyethylene...
> but America is dying. I have never seen so many homeless

My mom grew up in a village where some had to resort to cannibalism to survive. My grandfather was eaten after being beheaded by communists. I am blessed to be an American.
We could reduce the cosmic ray flux by thickening the atmosphere. A small increase in normal air density would give us a significant reduction in cosmic rays. Talk to the terraformers. They've given a lot of thought to how to make air.
Pretending to work at an office for 7-8h is soul killing. If it was remote then it might be a different story as you could just work on something else.
> As someone who lives in a country that is essentially a collection mining companies with a flag (Canada)

Hello fellow Canadian. What do you mean by this? No matter which indicator you pick, e.g. share of GDP or share of employment, manufacturing is bigger than resource extraction in Canada. Why would you not instead say "... a country that is essentially a collection of manufacturing companies with a flag (Canada)..."?
Is is all of that, and kind of funny too.
The actual yard stick is only EBITDA through this year, and EBIT thereafter, and moreover, it's the tax versions of EBITDA and EBIT, not the accounting versions. For starters, the tax versions use taxable income as the base, not book income, and don't add back in most non-cash items, so the threshold is much lower.

Many businesses were hit by this interest limitation in 2018 and 2019. There are dozens of articles from major tax firms about it. Yes, a business can carryforward their unused interest to a future year in which they have spare income to apply it. But that means they have to have sufficient profits and reduced loans in order to take advantage of their interest expenses. If a business is unprofitable, churn loans, or increases its debt load, the business effectively loses out on a lot of the benefit of most of its interest expense.
There are lots of people who answer noobie Bitcoin questions for free for hours and hours each day.
> He explicitly supported a political campaign that aimed to immediately reduce the age of consent to 12

No he absolutely didn't, certainly not explicitly. He linked to the news item and added a sentence of commentary, he did it for 3 news items that day and thousands over the decades.

It's right here, 2006-06-05: https://www.stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html
As a junior developer I'm always afraid using any AWS service to make a mistake that cost me a lot of money. I'm not talking about millions, simply 2k would be really bad for me.
If you took all the money spent on sanitising things and instead spent it on buying higher quality masks you'd see a much bigger effect. And this works from the individual, private enterprise or public health perspective.
Ok, I have my machine set up, but the project you're asking us to help with isn't available.
Social networking has its issues but it’s not the root of all evil. These copypasta-esque rants about FB being a threat to democracy are as bad as anything you’d see on FB itself.
I've heard this so often, even from family. "It sounds like things everybody has to deal with".

It's infinitely more difficult with ADHD. I use phone apps to remind myself of everyday things and track my shopping lists. This may sound normal but it's a coping strategy and when it's gone I am unable to function as a normal human being. I cannot go shopping without a shopping list because I will grab things I think I need but that I actually do not need (which is why I have 3 glasses of chocolate spread for bread and 3 packs of cereal, but no bread or milk on most weekdays).

And I will point out that children in Europe are regularly treated for ADHD. I was treated for ADHD. As an adult however, it's impossible to be prescribed ADHD medication (all of which requires a prescription). In a lot of cases, coffee or other stimulants can help but aren't always available and don't fix it all.

Without suffering from ADHD, I'd say it's impossible to even comprehend the mental strain one experiences even for menial everyday tasks like remembering to brush your teeth (I require an app to remind me of doing that when it is not a workday, as my usual routine of going to work and going to bed early for a workday involves it. On weekends or vacation, I do not remember on my own to do basic things like that).
? Or likely the complete opposite in that most people don't have access to the direct science, nor have the ability to translate it into policy, and we rely on institutions and the medical community to set up the basis for behaviours, that COVID is real, it's literally killed 550 000 people of all ages in just 1 year, that anyone can get it, and that it's rational to follow the advice until indicated otherwise. And finally 'we don't really know' the specific nature of transmission and it's rational (and low cost) to be safer than sorry, and to wipe down surfaces.
Why doesn't this reach a better equilibrium though? Consider store A who brags about disinfecting everything every half hour, and store B down the street who does the bare minimum to pass government regulations.

Shouldn't store B then be spending less money on "sanitary theatre" and can theoretically provide a marginally better service in ways that matter?

The federal government can spend however many billions of dollars for new TSA staffing and equipment, but that's because they're a monopoly in airline security. Not sure why in a free-market we'd have obviously sub-optimal outcomes like this.

(Sorry if this is naive, feel free to weigh in with harsh realities about how the real world works :) )
Great job! So what's the tech stack :)
A bachelor's degree is supposed to be a mark of well roundedness, not specialization.

What is "well-roundedness" and why is it a good thing? I went to a good school, and I was forced to take all of the worthless general requirements that had nothing to do with anything I cared about. The only thing I still have from those classes is debt. Most people I know tell me that they've had the same experience I did.
Counterpoint:

First off, I don't have a college degree. I have something like 102 hours, so I'm a year'ish short.

That said, I'm always a bit wary of hiring folks who don't have (at least) a liberal arts education of some kind. I don't really care about the computer science, engineering, physics part of the degree.

I care about the part of college that prepares you to learn. I care about the breadth of experience that literature, writing, philosophy, and the like give you. I've now interviewed far too many folks who have deep computer science knowledge without a degree, but lack the ability to internalize and learn at a deep level. I think that's what college does a tremendous job of preparing people for.

I jump at the chance to hire people who took strong programming skills to college and got a degree in something perpendicular to their programming skill set. One of the best hires I ever made had a degree in hospitality management. Short of that, at least stay in college long enough to complete those required core classes. You'll be a much stronger developer, business person, whatever for it.
Anyone know why I'm not getting more downvotes? Lots of people have upvoted replies to my comment that disagree with me, and I'm assuming they also downvoted my comment.

Is the downvoting on some kind of logarithmic scale? I've lost something like 27 karma points, so clearly something is happening. Any ideas?

UDPATE: I suppose it could be that people can't read it anymore, and so the downvotes have stopped. Hard to say. My karma has started creeping back up though.
It is not obvious to me that spending billions on Xbox to suck the wind out of Sony's sails is superior to investing in Windows itself as a means of protecting Windows in the consumer marketplace.

You're describing spending billions of dollars to become the dominant player in an uncertain business in the hope that someday down the road you will be able to recoup all your billions by enjoying a monopoly position. But (a) they have spent years on this and are only fighting to a draw, and (b) it's not clear that by the time one of them "wins" that the business will work the same way for media that it did for PC software or operating systems.

They are trying to replicate the business model for Windows, and failing, while meanwhile companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google are bringing entirely new business models to the marketplace.

As Mitch Hedberg would put it, that's a double-whammy.
This woman has not met me....
(By the way, you're replying to one - pclark is one of the founders of Readness/Broadersheet).

News is just a tremendously hard market. My suspicion, and I have scar tissue to back this up, is that it's a trap. It's one of those things everyone thinks should be sexy, but the numbers don't work.
I dropped out of college and it was a great decision for me. Every person is different. For some, college is great. For some, dropping out is great. I'd guess the choice that is better for you is related to your learning style.

I'd never attempt to convince someone to drop out of college, but if they do and it works out well for them, I'll be happy to congratulate them.
The motivated and hard-working will succeed.
Maybe I just skimmed wrong, but I didn't see anything in the whole bill about what they'll do if they find you breaking those rules...
I don't think that was the argument, as much as it was that if a shell script fouled up it was easier to get in and do field repairs because it was interpreted rather than compiled.
Isn't the big miss there that they turned out not to be that cheap, nor that safe? Living in a city with bad traffic, I'd love to get a small copter.
Right, I'll try not to be so grouchy :-D

Some reasons are the bloat, the possibility of "accidental" forks when a non-upstream version is compiled and checked-in binary-only, crufty old versions hanging around, and security problems. It adds extra work for downstream packagers having to pick it apart for distros.

Bundling gets particularly bloaty for git repos, since the history is always included in each clone. For perforce or SVN it doesn't matter so much as you only get the latest version of everything. In git each time there's a dependency update, it will pretty much add the size of the new jar to the .git directory. Over time it's going to grow huge. If at a later date the repository owner decides on a new policy where the third party files are not bundled, then even removing the directory from the current head doesn't shrink the repo size.

There are binaries in there for Mac, Linux and Windows (.exe file at least). You either need one or the other, not all at the same time.

This sort of thing is fine for proprietary software used in a controlled environment, but for open source it looks kludgy.

An alternative could be to have a "dependencies" repository that would be shallow-cloned as needed. At least that way the source code repo only would have source in it, not jars or executables. It'd ensure separation was enforced and you could still track requirements per version or change the policy later.
No. As someone else mentioned, the kernel hardcodes /bin/sh as a last resort: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/dcc0b49040c70ad827a7f...
UTE, the symbol of bogan is sleek? These are a joke for anyone but complete degenerates.
>What is your incentive in supporting an invasion?

Isolationism and appeasement post-WWI leading to the next, disastrous world war which could have been avoided or significantly diminished with early intervention.
I find that Haskell (both mine and that of others) involves a lot less pattern matching than ReasonML, since control flow is often expressed by type classes. Unfortunately, these are lacking in reasonml, and I think that might contribute to why you tend to see more explicit pattern matching there. But maybe that’s an incorrect impression. In either case, it’s not common all the time, but neither is it particularly rare.
He's a native English speaker.

> There were compulsory subjects like Afrikaans, and I just didn’t see the point of learning that. It seemed ridiculous. I'd get a passing grade and that was fine.

https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=zRXjCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA43&ot...
What's "Simone" in this context? (my name is Simone and I just got curious)
I thought it was desktop operating systems trying so hard to be like smartphone operating systems that they end up sucking is what "killed" the PC.

I haven't updated my OSX for such a long time because of what breaks and how much functionality I lose every time I do upgrade it. And I haven't touched Windows since the 90's and don't plan on starting.

As long as Linux folk don't give up too much to Microsoft's sudden love fest, I've still got mileage in my ways.
I know what you mean. I think of the "rolling coal" type of person too. Maybe they hate Teslas because they felt excluded by the trend...
If I could only make one goofy comment on HN every week, I'd probably say this looks like a giant lego truck.
Supposedly that's about the only technical liberty they took. The rest is said to be pretty realistic.
Here are some recommendations on how to take control of your device/apps: https://humanetech.com/resources/take-control/
Aren't most European countries more socialist than the United States and thus have higher tax rates, more workers rights and more social programs? Would wealthy citizens and corporations really move to one these countries? Correct me if I'm wrong but my inuition is that their taxes would be higher in Europe.

Where could a wealthy entity go?
RIP Act in UK. Certainly detained (witness what happened to GG's partner in LHR).

Not automatically jailed, but can be jailed when they want the key and not turned over.
Still can't wrap my head around this.
Could you provide a citation for "automatically jailed for not handing over your encryption keys" - I have not heard that before.
> Blackberry is asking for recognition that they can not compete in their own industry. Not because they aren't able to build phones or write phone software or any other sensible reason. There is a barrier to the phone market for all but a few blessed companies.

So what ? This is what is happens when you do too little, too late. It's not that Blackberry was suddenly hit by a meteor and had no way to compete before the situation changed. They had YEARS of near market monopoly even when the iPhone was just out. They were completely oblivious to the whole Smartphone thing taking off. If you don't play, you can't expect to win the game or even have a fair chance at winning - you just make yourself irrelevant. It's like saying that it's unfair that you can't buy an apartment in Paris because the property was cheaper before but now you can't afford it anymore - so, dear Regulator, please make property prices affordable again so that I can buy my piece of land. It's nonsensical. Google and Apple built their position through major investment, and as much as I hate native apps on both platforms, it's their right to build their walled garden if they want to.

Blackberry has several options in front of them: 1) sell their assets and call it quits before they are worth nothing. 2) make Android phones like everyone else and focus on what they are good at (hardware?) and hope to survive with that. 3) Take a blue ocean strategy and make something nobody else makes. Like a phone that does not track you or does not leak your personal information to every application out there. Who knows, there may be a market for this kind of things too.
Yea, the super wide screen is super annoying. Is there some reason for the big width? A little stealth at work would be nice, hard to hide something that huge.
A bit different but I've considered releasing all of the stuff i own, certain accounts etc. into the public (or into the hands of some trustee) after i die + some specific period of time. I would need to automate everything i have and that task is daunting for something I wouldn't even get to enjoy.
Looks like they can reproduce it at will but they can't figure out why it happens.
I'm trying to figure out what I'm looking at. A quick look at what Markov Chains are doesn't really seem to explain it. This is a mashup of these two books, basically, correct?
Many thanks for your detailed response. I have no experience with AQL but the orient db devs say that they chose SQL because most developers were already familiar with it. Personally I would like the graph databases agree on one query language be it cypher, aql or gremlin.

When I was first looking into graph databases the different query languages caused a lot of confusion.

Your comments are very insightful but they have only made the decision harder for me :( One on hand I have invested some time into orient db and I think I am grasping concepts of it well on the other it seems that it requires some care. But my use case does not require bulk inserts so I guess I will stick with it for now and keep my eye on arango db.
Not bad, but you gave me the wrong Facebook profile (I have a common name) and the Twitter one, while one that I manage, was not my main Twitter account.
The link between depression and inflammation is news to me. Is it fully accepted, or still being worked on? I've had bad run-ins with both, sometimes, at the same time. A particular case was a bad burnout incident I endured a few years ago. I saw many doctors trying to figure out why my hands and wrists had enormous amounts of tension. MRIs, x-rays, and conduction tests showed no issues. I had to leave my job and rest for several months entirely to be able to use them again.

Because of this, I've always suspected a stronger mind-body link than traditional Western medicine currently admits to (obvious caveat of n = 1). It seems that whatever state my mind is in, my body follows soon after. Mental anxiety begets physical tension. It's like my whole body downclocks itself to deal with things.

The mind will get it's way, no matter how much you resist.