jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
In a logical company. Yahoo's proven itself to be a not terribly logical company. In their 2009 round of layoffs, they seemed to axe their best performing but highest paid employees - those are exactly the ones that an ambitious startup would want to target.
Funny. Now I want to see a comeback video from the clients' perspective.

Cutting edge meat, still some bugs being ironed out but totally worth it if you avoid that whole beef mess. A weird disc with wires attaching it to a projector that that you can put in the dvd player and it plays the projector reels, sort of. When the hair's half cut, a grey hair is discovered. Now it's on track to be finished by Christmas.
As far as my understanding is, they both require you to go to their website, right? (Unless you pay monthly fee for paypal). I wonder if there is a solution which lets you accept payment on your own website with no redirect to any other site and only charges per transaction.
This sort of negotiation is common for things like design, photography, video, music, illustration and other creative assets. Based on the production values I'm assuming the video comes from that world, rather than the programming world.
Sure but he does it the first time
I agree. WHO is no longer a legitimate body reflecting the interests of the United nations. It has been turned into a CCP propaganda tool. There is no point associating with it. Trumps decision in this case was the right one, and the current administration goes against it to the detriment of the non Chinese world.
And then you look at the GME hoopla on HN and realize that no one here actually knows anything about the financial sector... If you don't know what a clearinghouse is or what Regulation SHO covers, YOU ARE NOT QUALIFIED TO SPECULATE ON STORIES ABOUT FINANCIAL PLUMBING. And yet here we are, a couple weeks into everyone on HN showing that they are big dummies who are way too confident about things they know nothing about. Gell-Mann amnesia applies just as much to internet comments and communities as to anything else
I don't think there was any consumer fiber in Sandy. Sandy wasn't a UTOPIA city, though some of its neighbors like Midvale were.
> Haskell's type system

Shen's type system is probably better described just as expressive.

http://shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/types/types_sequent_calcu... gives a sense of the flavor.
Sure. Amended, though I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
>it is a verbal extravaganza with nothing of substance

Perhaps it is a reflection on the underlying anxieties & fears of a society which enable such people to rise up and gain a following.
That was right around the era where computers started having more memory than DOS could "use" and so things like LOADHIGH became so important; memory below 640K was precious especially as TSRs became common.
About spreadsheets, I missed the editing window on this, but I wanted to point out that in addition to the plotting capabilities spreadsheets have included since at least Lotus 1-2-3 1.0A in 01983 https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/app/lotus/123/1a/ you can use conditional formatting and the like to get useful algorithmic visualizations; as an example, consider http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/minskyplot.gnumeric, which also uses a slider to allow you to alter algorithm parameters dynamically in an ObservableHQ-like way. Even with Lotus 1-2-3 on a 4.7-MHz IBM PC 5150, you could get a much quicker feedback loop for that kind of thing than you can get from reading a printed program, but it was considerably harder to share with other people.

If you want to get that kind of historical end-user programming perspective, can load the disk image at http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/lotus-123-1a-plotsin.im... into the PCjs emulator running Lotus 1-2-3 linked above (mount it as drive B:), /FR Retrieve PLOTSIN.WKS, and type /GV to view the graph, and you can also load the .wks file from http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/plotsin.wks into modern Gnumeric or LibreOffice Calc—but they won't display the graph. (I was also able to mount a directory containing the files from that disk image on drive B: in Dosbox and load the spreadsheet into 1-2-3—but Dosbox's CGA emulation seems to screw up on actually displaying the graph, and I think PCjs is also emulating the speed of the machine, which is an important aspect of the user experience.)

Of course spreadsheets are a pretty limited programming environment, and like modern explorable explanations, they're focused on presenting the results of the computation, or enabling you to apply it to new inputs, rather than focused on explaining the inner workings of the computation itself. But they do expose the inner workings, even if only by necessity, and for problems they can solve at all, they're often a much more convenient way to understand some algorithm than a static pile of source code.
Can you prove to me it doesn't upload your contacts into a permanent database, without relying on trust of Intel SGX® brand DRM?
looks like that page did indeed mention both terms: https://web.archive.org/web/20200303012835/https://www.samsu...

now it's a redirect to https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00077524/
Everyone took this VERY literally. Interesting.
Be cautious with that. Apple has a policy to stop supplying parts for older hardware after 5 or 7 years. (I'm not sure exactly when different parts of service fall off.) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201624

Wife's Macbook Air needed a new battery end of last year and I thought "eh, $129 is worth it" only to find out that the battery wasn't actually available at any price from Apple. Ended up replacing it with an aftermarket $30 one and it's been great for 3 months, but that's also not a glued-in battery, so it was an easy 10 minute job, certainly not the case on the 2015 MBP.

If your computer is coming up on one of those timelines, the battery is slightly weak, and you want to keep it, might be worth getting the service while it's available. I was not happy to have to go aftermarket, given some of the shadiness in that market.
Exactly. Conservative voices have never been suppressed ever before. Would be silly to assume they are now.

/s
That’s one take.
You honestly haven't done a 2 hour drive to a hiking/biking/winery destination more than 3 times in 10(!!) years?
I’m pro trade and pro immigration, but the argument on the other side is if you open up both, labor in the US now has to compete on a global arena rather than being somewhat protected via isolationist policies.
> Silly Valley

Fair enough. I suppose that term will stay in my head now.
Well, I did make my comments conditional on the allegations being true.

My only point was that the Silk Road case isn't just about the big bad government rushing after innocent people that just want to do their drugs in peace while keeping to themselves, but are caught up in the War on Drugs.

That said, if the law enforcement were forced to presume that you were innocent until convicted, they would not be able to investigate you because they would no longer be presuming that you were innocent.

The statement that I commented on makes the assumption that the admin(s) of Silk Road were doing nothing but providing a marketplace for consensual (though illegal) transactions. If the admin(s) of Silk Road were engaged in a murder-for-hire plot, then I would assume you are ok with the FBI investigating such things (though maybe I shouldn't make such assumptions). Murder-for-hire goes well beyond people just minding their own business.
I'm in my early 40's, live in the US (northern midwest area), and also have family in the southern states (Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas), and have never seen a bomb shelter at any family or their friends places -- never even heard anyone talk about them either.

However, almost everyone had a storm shelter -- typically a cellar dug in the side of a hill (they get a lot of powerful thunderstorms and tornadoes). I could see them doubling as a bomb shelter back in the day, but I never heard them referred to as anything but a storm cellar.
Why not allow an optional 2nd argument that defaults to 1 on your `but` library to do this?
I don't know about writing essays, but just writing about your ideas to yourself and showing others is a great way to explore said ideas even further. At least that's what I find. That's why I've started a blog too about 8 months ago and try to get something interesting into it at least once a month. I've had some great discussions with people. I don't like to see it as blog either (in the sense that I want everyone to see what I'm writing), but more of a commentary platform to validate and explore my thoughts.

Obligatory link: ecc-comp.blogspot.ca
I'm kind of split... I think it depends on your home environment. Spouse, kids, other distractions? Sometimes the workplace has fewer distractions than home.
Antarctica is a herring. (And similar analogies like building an underwater city.) It's inhospitable, but land usage rights are tied up among the international community (not for bad reasons) so you can't just take a ship of pilgrims and supplies there and start building and hunting penguins as you please. And even if you could, you'd still have to worry about outsiders. Mars is an entirely unowned dead planet and the first-mover advantages will be huge. If you can get things there, tools and people, no one's going to stop you from doing what you want.
> You need to watch the burn rate carefully, and have a clear plan for raising more money (either by selling to customers or raising from investors.)

Following the latter leads to the fatal pinch.

http://www.paulgraham.com/pinch.html
Soylent has a bigger vision. Here's a recent statement of it by its founder, Rob Rhinehart. Start 5 paragraphs in.

http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1192
Ultimately, the site depends utterly on the internet points people. Without them there is only noobs asking questions, and they leave without people answering.

So, yes. Internet points.
Yeah. At one point in time I worked remotely in costa rica with the same kind of idea, to have a "working vacation", and it ended up just being plain old work because we were always too busy and pressured with our workload to enjoy our surroundings.
> Neither of these situations are ideal, nor are they catastrophic

No, no, this is actually quite catastrophic. Someone else is deciding what is and isn't acceptable for you to consume by default. Establishing the precedent that someone else knows better than you, what content is acceptable for you to view. That's absurd.

Christopher Hitchens had a very poignant[1] part about why the path to hell is paved with censorship, and I think it's worth a watch.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyBZNGH0TY&feature=youtu.be...
FYI see these monthly posts as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822817

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8822810
You'd be hard-pressed to find any other developed country than the US where it's not similar to that.
Thanks for the followup - I'll check this out. I'm not sure how Tropo got the PR numbers, as Google Voice and Skype have the same issue - something about the local telecoms.

If anyone at Twilio needs help when dealing with the PR numbers/needs telecom contact info/whatever, send me an email to anything @ my username dot com
As alexwyser said, I'm a bit odd.

My wife first got Pregnant a few months after I got this job. (I worked there a bit over 14 months now. The first two months were really just be doing a design or two. for them.) Before this job the money from the other startups was even more sporadic. This, was almost a relief, having a solid amount of money per week at a job where I could do what I liked. (The area has few other tech companies.)

And you are completely rational in saying that it is irrational to expect to live on $500/week with two kids. However it is absolutely possible to do with one child, trust me. At the time this was the safest thing for us to do. My wife breast feeds, cloth diapers, and stays at home with our daughter. (If you ever have a child the first two will save you a significant amount of money.)

We just found out about the second child being on the way. This plays into my emotions and thoughts on having to do something about the situation I am currently in.
I've tried css-dryer, which is similar in concept to server side LESS and SASS. I found it to be problematic on a large project because even though the CSS was compact in its source form, what actually got compiled ended up getting huge. It was slow to download and inefficient for the browser to process. The brevity of the source language ended up being an invitation to use CSS in a style was extremely verbose upon compilation. It also added operational complexity to have to deal with compiling the css. For example we wanted to use CSS in some of our javascript tests and then we had to deal with running the dryer from the test server. We eventually ripped it out at fairly great cost and went back to vanilla css, where it was clear to everyone what everything meant and we didn't have to worry about a huge inflation of the code. Maybe there's something smarter about these frameworks that avoids these issues?
You write:

"With this job I got myself into this nasty living paycheck-to-paycheck situation."

No, no. The job is awful, but that is not what put you in a paycheck-to-paycheck situation. Outside of New York, LA and San Francisco, a single individual can get by and be minimally comfortable on $500 a week. I've done it. When I was younger, I actually had some great times living on $500 a week. I could even save up for trips elsewhere. But having 2 kids changes things. A lot.

Having 2 kids makes it much more important that you immediately go find something that pays better.
I actually think we've moved away from other languages and back to javascript recently. The browser competition means that javascript engines have become a lot faster and so are capable of a lot more than they were and things like jQuery/prototype/moo paired with json the recent developments like node.js, commonjs have given it longevity.

This established base makes it hard to move away from js, but then what reason have we at the moment?

But are you saying, as it appears at the end of your para, that we're getting more meta-langauges that compile to js script?
Photoshop is only the means to reach the end goal if you know what that end goal is. What colors, what lighting techniques etc. Give me the source photo and photoshop and I probably couldn't get there in a week, simply because I don't know what elements in that photo are the ones that move people.

Also more important I think are the posture and the look on Jimmy's face which should probably be attributed to good photography.
This is why two-factor authentication should be required.
Never pay with debit
This is basically a timeshare company, except the condos will be in places nobody ever wants to go to on vacation, right?
Summary:

(1) Sole proprietorship. Own boss, Only employee, Do everything

(2) Two-person Partnership. Couple has very complementary skillsets (business, the detail person, the creative one).
Friends, a team. Neither one of them would probably be able to do it on their own. But they are together, successful.
Rely a lot on each other, do their business together. Cons: Have to split money two-ways instead of one.
and People can stop getting along. But when they work they're beautiful.

(3) Husband & wife team. Assuming that the marriage is a good one, you know that the partnership already works. Money
already goes into one bank account. Lots of designers married to software engineers with web-based businesses.

(4) Boutique. Small office. More than a partnership. Very small. 6-8 people. The right small number of people together
creates a very warm almost family-like culture. Scope of what you can accomplish is relatively limited.
But knowing that you're not worrying about growth frees up cycles. Since most companies, focused on growth.
Client relationships - very strong, very deep, can pay attention. Most boutiques are bootstrap businesses, not a lot
of startup capital. Fun businesses.

(5) Investment-bank type. Federated model. People operate their own P&L's inside the larger organization. Shared office.
Shared infrastructure. Good year, you benefit. Bad year, you struggle.
Law firms, consulting firms, investment banking firms. You want to be your own boss but don't have the capital
or you don't want to take the risk.

(6) Project. Film-makers, authors, musicians, really - many people can do this. An entrepreneur who goes from
project to project to project. 100% project when on, 0% in-between project. Good model for people who are good
enough to get work whenever they want. Serial entrepreneurs - 4-5 yrs build company, sell it, sabbatical/downtime, repeat,
rinse. If you are the kind of person who gets deep into something and it's the only thing you can do (on). And
need downtime when you're not working 100% (off).

(7) The sole-proprietorship lifestyle-focus. Travel around world, run business from laptop. People can live vicariously through you. Sole proprietor
but also using business as way to live lifestyle. Young, not married, no kids.

(8) The Startup. Hustling every day. Moving fast, lots of energy, fun group. Successful or not - who knows? Challenges.
Maybe they'll be successful. Maybe not. But they're giving it a shot.

(9) The Breakout. Idea inside another company. Build it. Might take a life of its own.
Incubate another company. Spin out into another company. Become a business.

(10) The Company
Makes me wonder how many other web services could offer useful amounts of their (usually unintuitive (for non-web programmers)) API's functionality with a simple, unixy, command-line tool. This is going to save fans of scripting languages a whole lot of doc-crawling.
Quite cool but there isn't there just one rather obvious google service that is missing. Nudge nudge, wink wink? Wouldn't it be handy to run an internet wide grep with all the various search arguments and a nice filterable output?
So basically this is a hostel with good internet access?
`--verbose`
Can I do the same with Makefiles?
The article reminds me of George Carlin's sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALf2HZsGtGQ "As it turns out, extremely aggressive, violent people think very highly of themselves!"
> While I think this sort of research is useful- I dont think this is anything that will affect people in real life.

Minus the part where ADT is having to defend themselves against a class action suit. I'd consider that "real life".
The problem is that identifying a dangerous command via a blacklist ends up being pretty difficult. This is why VMs and chroots and the like end up being so useful: the best way to make sure a command only accesses what it should is usually to give it specific explicit access to the resources it should have, rather than blacklisting what it can/cannot run.
It's kind of hard to "draw a parallel" when your writing implement of choice is a giant image macro.
But there will always be scarcity of something: materials, energy, land. Things will always have a price, because they at least require energy and space for production. It will be unbelievably cheap, but never absolute zero.

And then someone will own the land (along with what's underneath) and the machines themselves, unless of course we dump private property altogether. I don't see how this is substantially different from what we have now. It's just the machines will get better, living standards will be higher, there will be more bullshit jobs, and more time for creativity.

So essentially the discussion comes down to whether there will be private property rights in the future. As someone who grew up in the USSR, where nominally there was no private property per se, I can only say the humanity will need a very, very good reason to abandon it for good. It's almost like saying prohibit sex in all of its forms and purposes, i.e. going against the nature.
This article seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of economics.

A trust can't grow faster than the value of its investments, and on average, trusts won't grow faster than the economy as a whole. So there's very little risk that a trust will grow to encompass a significant portion of total wealth in a way that could threaten an economy.

Science fiction stories that show someone waking up to find their small balance has grown into a fortune are just that, fiction. Anyone who's kept money in a bank knows that the interest doesn't even keep up with inflation.
Christian, please also be aware that some of the techniques do not incorporate changes in scale of the tracked object. If you are working with aerial footage then this might be an important consideration.
I've recently worked on a similar problem, so you need any help, please feel free to email me (email address is given in my profile)
IIRC, Linux at the time had plenty of i368 specific code, while Minix could be compiled to multiple architectures.
They might not complain about them, but they do take them for granted.
This happened to me last year.
The church is the corporation of religion, using religion to bend the will of man and keep power. I know it sound harsh, but I spend a lot of time in the Philippines where the church has way to much power and people suffer because of it, contraception, sexual education, divorce etc. Families do it tough here, but some dude at the front of an alter decides a lot of the rules.

However on the other hand even though I am not religious myself, I see nothing wrong with faith. Especially faith which someone challenges themselves.
This is the correct answer, all the others are looking the wrong way.

We know it is the correct answer because it identifies how farmland sold by the acre can turn into residential land sold by the 1/4 acre. All because the zoning (and/or approved buildings) changes on that same land, the value changes substantially.

Anything that has such a dramatic change in value is subject to some kind of scarcity, like the difference between a real cezanne and a very good copy.

I believe some cities in Texas have relaxed zoning, and the housing prices are much more reasonable as a result.

Cities like San Francisco and New York are also subject to physical scarcity because of water and topographical features, but it is artificial scarcity that drives prices up.

How do you undo it? I don't think that is possible, simply because there is too much vested interest. Existing owners and banks must keep the status quo or the 2008 problems would look like a picnic. Maybe with some gradual relaxation over time the eventual market structure could be changed. It's doubtful.
Some of them have local ordnances on them that requires money to be spent on fixing/securing.
In my mind there are two major ways you could keep a queer person in danger safe: 1. educate the would-be aggressors so their bigotry goes away, or 2. keep them physically safe from harm (guards, locks, etc.). This service does neither of those things.

In fact, maybe in some ways it's worse; some people may _never_ get to a point in their life where it is safe to come out. This is sort of like saying to them "you can't have a real SO because it's not safe; but here, have this fake one to tide you over". Similar to "you can't get married, but you can have this civil union".
...fuck YouTube? :D

EDIT: no. install an email server. start opening accounts. collect the captchas. outsource. :)
"Riot is React + Polymer + models + routing without the bloat."

It is not + React. It's - React. It lists as one of its features, for example, a lack of a component lifecycle API (componentDidMount, componentWillMount, etc). This lifecycle API is one of React's best and most usable features. I can't give too much credit to a "tiny library" if it achieves its size by removing even the most basic features of other projects it's drawing from.

I don't mean to be dismissive of the work itself. Just sayin' - for people who might jump on this and think, "it's smaller, that's great!" - there is more to the story than its file size.