jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My theory: Tons of supernodes (static ip with no NAT, broadband, constantly on) are in the 20s-30s age group and are on holiday. Plus office and university machines that are normally left on have been turned off. The people I know in universities across Europe normally have skype on at work constantly, or at least during the day, and most have static ips on their uni networks so I imagine they get selected as supernodes quite often. I know many uni network admins have complained about skype using bandwidth. All those people just went on holiday over the last week or so along with all the people in uni dormitories. I'd expect that would have lost Skype thousands upon thousands of supernodes. Add to that an increase in calls due to the approach of Christmas; calls that are personal and use video and audio rather than just audio (which is more common in business usage patterns during the rest of the year). Holiday gamers turning off skype to stop lag would factor as well (doesn't matter if it's true or not, gamers blame everything but themselves during losses and would no doubt turn off skype). So a 20% or more drop in supernodes, 20% or more increase in calls and bandwidth, plus holiday torrents/youtube/hulu on the remaining nodes slowing them down and you have the perfect situation for this.
Hint: Look at 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 as a sequence.

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Well, the iPhone is more 2002 PDA than 2002 phone. It’s not exactly that the PDA lost, it’s just that being able to make phone calls and to surf the web are essential features a PDA needs.
We talked about this in the office a few weeks ago. The conclusion that we came to is that we're pretty happy with our current situation so any buyout would have to have a fairly enormous amount of cash attached :)
From all I have read the problem with US is not the quality of investigative work of the police, but the size of the mallets DA have at their disposal and their discretion of using them.
> don't try to trivialize something you don't know anything about

I think you misread his comment. He wasn't talking about the same kind of spring you are.
I've heard once or twice that, after one of the IE-related antitrust cases, Microsoft has been imposed a pretty heavy official procedure to release a new version of IE, that contributes to the slowness of the release cycle.
If that's real, I wonder if this fork could have the additional benefit of circumventing this procedure.
Does anyone have idea if the idiocy of integrating the IE browser so deep inside the os is finally solved, that version updates are possible? And will spartan be stand alone binary, like IE should have been at launch?
Skin color choice of good/evil fantasy characters does not provide enough of a cue for me that the author is racist. There has to be additional data points like speech pattern or descriptions of the homeland of the character for me to tie them to real world stereotypes.

The Asian-stereotyped (Japanese?) trade syndicate characters from Star Wars episode 1 seemed especially racist portrayals to me.
Cool, I just bought a copy off LeanPub. I'm looking forward to giving it a read. I'm always interested in learning more about writing better copy, communicating our message, marketing, etc.

Best of luck with the book. I hope it makes you a million dollars!
> A sweeping statement like this, how can it not be taken as trolling?

Note that I said significant benefits. There are still some benefits but I can't currently think of any reason to use Sinatra over Express, and I love Sinatra.
It becomes adversarial when its used as a substitute. E.g. companies who push the line that lower than market wages are compensated for by pizza, table football, beanbags, stock options...
It is not part of C++14, it is a small syntaxic sugar that compiles to iod symbols. A compiler convert it to plain C++. In short, their are empty objects holding a unique C++ type. More info here: https://github.com/matt-42/iod
>A very crude approximation of what people are -- but one that's better than many others -- is this: once they've ensured their survival, people are happy when they get what they want, and what they want is what they cannot get.

Counterpoints:

* Why should an unsatisifability instilled in us by evolution be reckoned as more ethically valuable than our actual well-being?

* What evidence shows the unsatisfiability is even there? Long-term studies have showed that many people live contented lives for what appear to be understandable psychological reasons.

* Provided it is, why could you not find or produce genuinely engaging challenges that don't boil down to "avoid being murdered by the other monkeys"?

This line of thought loses most of its coherency and thoroughness after managing what starts out sounding like an argument that simply solving one human problem will not immediately bring about utopia and thus does not justify mass violence (motte), but ends up proving much too much by claiming, in the end, that human happiness is categorically impossible and therefore all projects to improve life must inevitably fail (bailey) and result in horrifying mass murder (reductio ad Hitlerum).

(Terminology hints: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/03/all-in-all-another-bric... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much)
Not just that, but it trains dogs not to bark or growl when they are antagonized or upset by certain behaviour. Normally a bark or growl would function as a warning, but now he has no other way to go than bite without warning.

Now this animal, who was shocked into never using its vocal cords and antagonized until he bit a human or other animal out of desperation, gets put down because he is a danger to society. Job well done lads!
People beware, this is nonsense:

* if there was a profit to be made for free, why wouldn't they invest their own money and take the profit themselves?

* as soon as enough people are arbitraging, the market prices will tend to the same equilibrium price. Buying in the cheapest place will push the price up and selling in the most expensive, down.. until equilibrium (same price)! There will be no profit to be made, but to the ones providing the arbitrage service

*also you need to take into account friction costs (fees) of moving your capital (non-bitcoin) from exchange to exchange. Those cost must be taken into account of the arbitraging price.

bottom line: not worth it
Even among one culture (whatever it means) there are countless of better examples of things that cannot be sorted out in the jerk / non jerk category.

Usually people that work at night, how much noise they can make when they came back home early in the morning? What about people practicing music instruments? Can students party at night if they have neighbors, just once in a year? once in a month? Is it ok to bring a stroller in crowded areas? etc.

I don't think it's possible to give an answer to any of these questions that will get more than 60% agreement in any sufficiently diverse community, even given the full details of the situation.
Yeah, I got one of those from MIT, and my follow-up came on the car radio, when NPR was doing a story about the mistake. That was devastating.
Hey Sahil, I remember you from way back (TalkFreelance days - Sam Granger)! Really awesome & interesting to see how you've grown Gumroad to what it is today, impressive!
I use the Fidelity iOS app and fidelity.com, and also have a checkbook and ATM debit card for it. They reimburse all ATM fees, checks are free, and it’s trivial to move money between it and your brokerage, investment, and retirement accounts. They don’t support Zelle, so if you need that P2P instant payment functionally, you’re better off with Ally (I keep a high yield savings account at Discover Bank as a Zelle slush account).
From the Tweet, from Sahil (CEO) himself:

Gumroad, Inc in 2019:
Revenue: $5M (up 46% YOY)
Gross profit: $1.7M (up 68% YOY)
Net profit: $214K

I not familiar enough with the Gumroad model to understand why how the creators made $73M in 2019, but Gumroad revenue was only $5M.
Bitcoin does absolutely not get rid of monetary policy. It just has it's own kind of monetary policy. Which, to be clear, has been tried and tested in the form of gold standard and deemed not satisfactory.

Further, bitcoin has absolutely nothing to say about amount of currency in circulation in a world where credit is used to create currency (i.e. modern world).
I use Ally, it's an online-only bank with a good website & app, and great customer service:

https://ally.com/
Every government official should have hired staff to setup official Government ActiviyPub instances. They don't because they don't see past the absolute control of big tech.
I would have been working in a three person team (including me). This results in spending a TON of time with your teammates, usually more time than your family. Not liking someone is a reasonable filter in this case.

I happen to work on a three person team right now and I like my two colleagues. It does not conform at all to your forecast for (straight, white, privileged, men). Sorry. I think this is based on the assumption that people like others that are like themselves, which in fact is not very true. I prefer to be around people that are very different from me.
Google translate. chrome. Chromebooks(zero maintenance laptop). Google books.

Android(altough they bought it at first, what they bought wasn't even close to how android and touch based smartphones look today ,so it can be considered a internal development.And the innovation there was creating such OS that fits many phones and their business model with it).
> - Consistency -

> Since it's NoSQL, there's no referential checks, so this is easy.

Consistency is quite easily achieved by putting the consistency checks into appropriate Git hooks. That way, Git would not allow any commit/pull of inconsistent data. A "rollback" is then trivial, as this only has to be done in the local working directory. So regarding consistency, Git provides everything that SQL databases provide, not just the limited NoSQL interpretation of "consistency".

Also note that this already happens in the traditional use of Git: There, consistency checks are called "building the application and running the test suite". It is a vital part of continuous integration systems. So consistency checks are not only theoretically possible, but already actively practiced with Git.
My gym (inside the office). My office is a small room in my rented home and I've divided it into two parts (a work area and a gym area). I have a long bar (with weights, of course), a few dumbbells, yoga mat, jumping rope and a fitball. I could exercise throughout my workday, literally few steps away.
Some 1040Xs?
And you know where the U.S gets those gobs of cash to throw at building new technology? The markets of course! Governments need a marketplace, the marketplace doesn't need the government. The internet is largely unregulated, but we use creative solutions to overcome barriers, and this should be a model for other industries as well. A market solution is always better than a government solution, because with the first you can always opt out.
"from a few days ago" - seriously?
Pointing out biases isn't an ad hominem argument. Arguing that someone is wrong because of their biases is an ad hominem.
You can buy the collectible stamps on Ebay, too.
Actually I think, yes, that's a valid question. Don't forget the PSN is about gaming in the first place.

Let's say my account was mostly used by my 13 years old boy, the only question he might have is "dad, did I lose my trophies?!!"
That's pretty much how all development works in OS X proper.

Just today, I needed a simple interactive calculator to think through a problem. It took me about as long to write an app as it would've taken me to make a spreadsheet, but I got to have it be interactive and do what I needed: http://skitch.com/dlsspy/rh8rp/throwaway-app
I'd take Rosenblum ahead of the other two, and Seghesio over any of the three. But I think their price has creeped up since I bought a bunch at $16.
well during a wine tasting competition in sweden the winner managed to not only name all wines, she also managed to say which region AND producer it was. So yes if you make the same test with experts the result would be quite different.

And most expensive wines need to mature before you enjoy them, if you uncork them right away it won't be a very pleasant experience.
I've actually worked at Google and been certified to use all of the shops including welding and metalworking. And the industrial grade heavy duty plasma cutter. The shops are really cool and they serve a slightly different purpose than for example TechShop. At TechShop a lot of the tinkering is more social, the Google shops are definitely less crowded. We run a similar much smaller shop at Tinkercad and I hope to expand that one in the future as well. The only gripe I have is that the campus is large enough that the Pi shops are a short distance away so you might not drop down there as often as you would like. That said the EE shop was pretty close to core campus.

As for the certification and elitism. The cert process was very straightforward and relevant. People easily forget that metalworking and some woodworking machines don't let you learn by experimenting. These machines kill in seconds, sometimes for mistakes that are very unintuitive. Like wearing gloves has killed several people. Which is unintuitive when you are handling razor sharp pieces of metal. Or the recent fatal accident at MIT where student was pulled in by her hair.

As for the particulars of Ihab. He is a very smart and diligent guy but he had very little practical machine shop experience. He recognized it himself and took classes to compensate. These standards aren't high just due to Rod, but because most Googlers are smart enough to be critical of their own skills when faced with lethal equipment.
I find 2 buck chuck to be thin and metallic, which is a common trait I find in the $5 and under range. (I say, based on WA state TJ prices). There are some decent bottles in this range, their (TJ's) Gypsy is pretty good for cheap plonk right now, and their Porto Morgado isn't bad for the price. But Warre's Warrior at $16 is a ton better (Not to mention Yalumba Old Vine Tawny). The local grocer has an entirely reasonable cheap ass wine for cooking or sangria or other adulteration, Double Dog Dare, at $3/per.

On the other hand, you can get some really good (and some merely questionable, like the Mendecino County Pinot Noir) stuff around the $10 range from Castle Rock, who bottles other peoples excess product and sells it under their own name.
yeah the Tokaji Eszencia is expensive. But on the other hand you should be able to easily distinguish the Eszencia in a blind test due to the viscosity
I just couldn't read the first point without cringing. Looking to Facebook to socialise gaming? Christ. Games on Facebook might be popular (actually, I don't know, are they still popular? I ditched Facebook a year ago), but they sure as hell aren't good, and interaction with other people (ie the social part) certainly seems to be restricted to blatantly pimping your game.

I'd be looking more to Steam for doing a decent job of mixing social with gaming, where you have recommendations, inbuilt groups to join for people who play the same games, etc. That way you're connecting with people you know share an interest, not inflicting your latest 'social' game status updates on your friends who are most likely not interested.

Personally what I find deficient in iOS devices is real time communication (I know I know, they're called phone calls) and the single foreground task nature of the device. With web based games or Steam there's always a real time method of communicating with your friends no matter what you're doing, you can see who's online and so on.
On the other hand, due to the casual nature of specifically gaming on phones and tablets, I don't think the desktop paradigm really works anyway.

From a non-gaming perspective, what I'd like to see most on iOS is a better way to manage files, rather than sending copies to any app which I would like to use them with. I don't really want to access a file I've stored in DropBox, then send it to GoodReader or Keynote or whatever. I don't want to load a picture from Photos into $editingApp then save a copy into Photos then load the new photo into something else. It seems a terribly wasteful way of handling things (and very much a 'tacked on' approach while people figured out what to do with a tablet).
I didn't realise I had to scroll this up to see videos I had sent, and so I thought it was broken. From a usability point of view, starting the bar at the right hand side, showing everything, and scaling the list back when you slide left would be much better in terms of educating your users.

Also, Instapaper nailed it with the "Saving ..." > "Saved!" language in the book mark. If you are using the name, go the whole hog and copy that - the feedback to the user that it is safely stashed on the Insta~ servers is invaluable.
The innovation tokens concept seems to be a stand-in for both good engineering judgement and iterative exploration of the design/implementation space before committing to a path. I've been in several (successful) startups that leveraged both of these principles to great effect.

Both "innovative" and "boring" can shoot you in the foot. TFA focsues on "innovative" as a risk, but that's just daft. This industry is constantly rolling its lessons learned back into its shipped and shared technology. Ever gone back to a pre-Rails era web/backend codebase and screamed in horror? Ever gone to a "new" shop that never assimilated those lessons, used "boring" technology (thus dodging their shared/encapsulated forms), and recreated the old horror? (personally: check and check)

Trite policies are not a replacement for spending dedicated up-front (and occasional ongoing) time cycling between 1) evaluating/understanding your problem, 2) researching the current state of the art {processes, technology, etc.} related to your problem, and 3) using good engineering judgement to choose the best path then-and-there.
Please don't do this here. I realize the topic is inflammatory but this sort of generic ideological rant is particularly off topic on HN.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I have not had any noticeable problems in the past week.
Make that never. 'Cracker' sounds stupid and already has racist connotations. Personally, I'd like to call people who illegally subvert computers for financial gain or ego-tripping, 'criminals' and be done with it.
OP -- you sound like an MBA : bland and completely devoid of any semblance of originality.

I think hackers should be opinionated ( right or worong doesn't matter) and have something original to say.

So let me answer the question for you.

Drum roll ....

The right programming language for a start up is Scala.

Programmers who have taught themselves Scala , with being virtually very little job requirements for Scala , have self selected themselves into an elite category.

It is statically typed.

It runs on JVM that you can instrument and monitor.

Java ecosystem is vast.

See .. having an opinion isn't that hard.
I'm not the parent, but:

card-carrying means "thorough" or "avidly devoted to a group", so I take this phrase to mean that he is very non-academic, especially compared to those in his social group, who are relatively much more academic than he is.
Maybe people are starting to catch on that gemstones are big fucking scam. The entire value proposition of gemstones and precious metals is scarcity, which is artificially controlled by cartels like De Beers.
My gut reaction is: Let's hope so, and if it has, good riddance.

Obviously, though, tech has not killed the jewelry industry. Jewelry suffers from being the fashion industry at it's most reductive: all form, no function. That is, we all gotta wear clothes, nobody's gotta wear jewelry. There's probably quite a few cultural changes all hitting the jewelry industry at once: people are marrying later in life than they used to, it's taking younger people longer to become financially stable than it used to, and what counts as a good gift isn't what it used to be -- the article itself says as much:

"But it’s not all Kindles and iPhones; according to the De Beers report, millennials are choosing to spend their dollars on experiential activities over luxury goods as well."
This feels almost like a metaphor for teaching young people about anything... step 1:learn to play a game and the rules. Step 2: learn the implied rules for winning, and how to know when you are winning.
> However, the article makes a good point. All the millennials I know care a lot more about their phones than their rings and earrings.

Which is a little funny, since after the initial drop in value I bet a decent jewel beats a phone after, say, 4 years.
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Sure, why not? We still need to pay our teachers a reasonable salary to live here though.
It’s a tool for building static (what HN would call “marketing”) sites, why would I use it for something more complex?

There’s other no code tools for things like mobile apps and CRUD.

Ultimately, I think there’s a lot of fear in these comment threads when no code is mentioned, and it’s misplaced.

A rising tide raises all boats. The more we can empower people to create things and solve problems for people, the better off we’ll all be.
Of course the first HN comment has to be something negative, derisive and lacking in compassion. When there's blood in the water the sharks come, but when people are being vulnerable and exposing themselves (by saying something that's easily ridicul-able) like this, there's no need to be cruel. Not saying you're wrong just like, why not...look for the good, and why not that be the first HN comment. This place...Maybe everyone's just so scared of vulnerability..."innocence cannot exist underground, it needs to be stamped out." -- Prisoner in Bane's prison, Dark Knight Rises. Man it would be great to come here and be surprised. "Hackers" are commonly so intellectually arrogant, it's funny they attack anyone who's doing it in a vulnerable way...sigh sad.

People piling on with their theories about why "Crawford is wrong" -- I think that a lot of the "unappreciated genius" writings of Newton, and Einstein and Galileo (and many others) before they received the recognition they felt they'd earned, had the same tones and meanings. Maybe this guy will "end up" being a "success" or not in future. But to me that's not the important thing here. It's just be kind to someone, how sad it must be for this guy. sad smile emoji
Does the US have significant employer tax?

A data point from Norway: Employer tax of 14% of pre-tax salary is paid by employer. Employer also has to pay 2-13% (dependent on individual negotiation) of pre-tax salary for retirement savings. These are both part of the cost to the employer, and are rarely considered part of "total compensation". So employers have to pay an extra 16-27% of each person's salary in addition to what the employee gets.

An 8% tax for compulsory retirement savings is then taken from the employee's pre-tax salary, along with other individual taxes, that will usually sum up to around 33%. This is not part of the cost to the employer. The number before these taxes are subtracted is usually quoted as the person's salary.

Although for a US comparison, few employers in Norway have significant expenses for health insurance. And the cost of US health insurance, a considerable percentage, is rarely considered part of your "total compensation".
The reason is that a light and stiff bike is much more fun to ride! An expensive road bike is optimizing for fun and performance. A heavy old steel bike is optimizing for cost and reliability. If you are riding for fitness then fun is important.