jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I guess it depends what you consider "early stage" investing. At WV, we concentrate on the super early stage and I can tell you that at the crazy early stage very few people/teams have their story, message, product, or market together. In our world, you only bet on people. As a matter of fact, I often don't even care what the product or story is as I will bet on people that I know will get it right sooner or later.
Maybe I should have been more clear; the costs of education go up concurrently with with CPI. CPI is used as a general measure of inflation. If you're not taking that into account, you're measuring the change in nominal, not real dollars. That's much less useful.

My point about income increasing was meant to show how the burden of college has not increased significantly to those who are paying the full costs. The fraction it is of their income has decreased or remained roughly the same.

If the issue is that people aren't getting their money's worth out of the investment that an education is, then that's one problem. On the other hand, if the $25k of debt is worth more than $25k + inflation (measured by CPI ;) + opportunity cost, then it's worth it.

>If Exxon decides to double their prices because people's incomes have doubled would you think that was acceptable?

If the market would bear it, why shouldn't they?

>If it's cost is going up exponentially its because someone is making a lot of profit.

I don't speak for all colleges out there, but at least many of the smaller liberal arts colleges that command these very high prices of ~$50k/yr, the costs of education are indeed increasing. Instead of vapidly speculating that "someone" is making a large profit because, prima facia, costs are increasing, take a look at the improvements in education since the first half of last century. Things are changing. No longer is education a matter of a room and a professor. It is more costly to provide.
Not specifically about this post or topic, but I kind of miss that blog posts don't have the Conclusions ...call them summaries, if you will..at the start of a post.

I get it, all authors want all readers to read the whole of their masterpiece. Unfortunately, though, we live in a world where we are deluged with fluff and rubbish; we need concise, detailed, and conclusive summaries at the start in order to make a judgement as to whether reading the details is necessary or even valuable.

I don't think trying to hold out out of fear that the whole post won't be read is all that productive; possibly even counter-productive.
I can't say that I really agree with this.

This definitely doesn't hold true when applying for a smaller startup, because odds are the person interviewing you is one of the core developers. Depending on the size of the startup, it could be the only current developer!

When applying to larger companies, world-wide corporations, the interviews aren't usually done by a single person, either. It's not like you go in and speak to their HR person and then that person takes notes on your reactions to questions. All of the interviews I did in these scenarios were multi-day, multi-interviewer interviews. I would speak to developers, and project leaders - all of which knew their stuff.

I've done both kinds of interviews, and I don't think BSing your way through any of them would have worked.
It's in Chrome for Linux and Windows for me.

http://i.imgur.com/42D59mv.png
> behind a seawall that was overcome by the tsunami.
They made a 20 ft sea-wall. I guess nobody thought it would be overrun. I suspect now any future seawalls will be made with a good factory of safety.
I think the swearwords are particularly fitting here. Using swear words for no good reason is a decent indicator of immaturity, and this rant is one of the more immature things I've read lately. Some type of entitled flailing, so much so that he actually believes he can force his reality on the world.
How about we stop calling everything "strings" (and "ints" too, while we're at it)?

UserInput readFromPost(HttpParam param) {
// Read param from POST here
}
Collection<SqlRow> query(SqlQuery q) {
// Send query to DB here
}

UserInput name = readFromPost('name');
Collection<SqlRow> result = query(
sqlConcat('INSERT INTO users (name) VALUES (',
stringToSql(userInputToString(name)),
')')
SqlInt<10> userId = sqlRowLookup(result, 'id')
sendToBrowser(htmlConcat('You are user number ',
sqlIntToString(userId)))

Clearly we can get better APIs than this, but it's not as difficult as you make out to program in a safe and sane way.
I don't see the relevance. The fact that you're asking someone to code a mergesort or a red-black tree tells me that you don't know how to interview, not that interviewing doesn't give you useful information. Candidate #2 sounds like they passed the interview - what did I say that made you think I'd reject them?

Yeah, if you're really bad at interviewing, it's not going to give you good information. I'm not disputing that. Interviewing, as it's done where I work (and everywhere I've interviewed, which admittedly isn't very many places), has been very effective at reducing false positives.
I am young, just out of university, had a passion for writing, did a major-cs-minor-literature.

Now I do 9 to 5, and write after work. Life is good for me and I am happy because I love my work and after-work.

The purist obsession that you need to be 100% devoted to something is beyond me, but like I said, I am happy and know that I am happy because I knew this would make me happy.

The OP has a different opinion of happiness, and it's his happiness, and I don't find it offensive.
This philosophy is precisely why I was so dumbfounded to hear a congressman talk on the topic of the Patriot act on NPR. He recently flip-flopped from having been instrumental in writing it to being categorically for reform of it.

What blew me away was that he genuinely did not think that the NSA would interpret the term "relevant" as broadly as humanly possible. Anyone who's taken 10 minutes of a law class knows that you write laws defensively, presuming the most evil motherfucker imaginable will have the reins some day. And this retard is one of the few running the country.
> The idea of three twenty-somethings in a studio apartment, writing code and eating ramen is romantic to entrepreneurs.

Really? Maybe to aspiring entrepreneurs in their teens and very early twenties, that sounds romantic. To everyone else, that likely sounds awful.

You're 23. You don't really know anything yet. Maybe a little, but not much. You're parents aren't in charge now, you're out of school, and now you're going to learn about life. And you're arriving at the same realizations that most people do around that age. You're figuring out that living your dream has real costs. You're figuring out that your adult relationships will suffer, hard. You'll see your peers move up the corporate ladder, and it'll feel like you're just watching from the sidelines. And if you go the 9-5 (let's be honest, more likely an 8-6), they're going to be your boss someday.

But you're also 23. You're incredibly young, and you still have time to mess up. And you'll have the rest of your life to run the rat race, if that's what you one day choose.

So stop stressing, but do get your priorities straight. You'll need to work within the constraints set by your priorities.

The biggest constraint might be your relationship. It's normal that your girlfriend doesn't share in your dream of ramen noodles and Three Buck Chuck. And it doesn't get easier, especially if she wants kids. If you're in a promising relationship, maybe you're realizing that it matters more to you than your work. On the other hand, relationships come and go, often unpredictably. You have to figure out how to handle that for yourself.

Good luck!
Same. In particular, I found that I could induce lucid dreams pretty much on command. At the same time, I noticed (what felt like) a correlation between this ability and generally being wrecked with exhaustion.

In retrospect, I'm not sure if my dreams were actually more vivid (or if the lucid ones occurred with actually greater frequency), or if they just felt that way because I moved so quickly between sleep and wake, so the dreams weren't cleared from my working memory. (If I had to wager, I'd say it's more a matter of recall bias than actual improvement in dream quality.)

Perhaps it takes a long, long time to adjust to a polyphasic sleep regimen. Perhaps some of us just can't do it, due to the idiosyncrasies of our physiologies.

An interesting article by a fellow HN commenter, who did an extensive self-study on sleep quality (including thoughts on the costs vs. benefits of polyphasic sleep):

http://www.gwern.net/Zeo
Hi, this is me. I do extremely little at my job. I get paid around $100k which isn't a ton by FAANG standards but it's comfortable for my two bedroom house I'm renting. I drive a cheap car and eat out frequently but I'm pretty frugal. I'll never be able to afford actually buying a house where I live but most youngerish people can't either (average is around $750k).

I was a developer for many years and absolutely hated having a permanent record of my productivity via commits. I hated that I couldn't just fuck around and do nothing on a given day without there being a glaring spot tarnishing my commit history. I hated the lack of diversity in what I was doing. I hated building shit that was pointless and stupid. And I've been programming since I was a teenager and I'm sick of it.

The advice I've seen here but maybe not in the exact same words that I agree with: do a tech job in a non-tech company. But specifically NOT programming. And make sure it's a really tech-stupid company. This all describes my current employer.

I'm an "architect" for my company's very small tech team. The most time consuming aspect of my job is sitting on zoom meetings, of which I have maybe 5 hours a week worth. My work outside those meetings is at most another 5 hours with a few exceptions. I've had many weeks where it was 0 hours outside meetings, and it's rare that I ever talk in the meetings I sit in on. I mostly have to build out the occasional documentation, send some emails, and generally just check boxes to make sure shit isn't going to break. I definitely needed my development background to get this job and I do use my dev knowledge frequently, but you could be the world's shittiest developer and still do my job just fine.

I really want to get paid more. I want to be able to actually buy a home. Maybe in a couple-few years I will start applying to some other place but only if it pays $150k+, and given how fucking little do I my job I think it would be really hard to sell myself for a role like that unless I just lie my ass off.
That new alternative approach is considered substantially less reliable by most experts.

https://mobile.twitter.com/dangaristo/status/137982536595107...

From Gordan Krnjaic at Fermilab:

> if the lattice result [new approach] is mathematically sound then there would have to be some as yet unknown correlated systematic error in many decades worth of experiments that have studied e+e- annihilation to hadrons

> alternatively, it could mean that the theoretical techniques that map the experimental data onto the g-2 prediction could be subtly wrong for currently unknown reasons, but I have not heard of anyone making this argument in the literature

https://mobile.twitter.com/GordanKrnjaic/status/137984412453...
Ah, by "crash" you mean if the renderer process crashes, not website JS code.

You can't easily do that with a C++ process indeed, which is why my example was about IntelliJ, not Chrome or any other C++ app. It's much easier to debug and change code on the fly when it's running on a VM like the JVM. I'm not arguing that something like Genera can be matched by any modern app, just that a few operating-system-like apps with similar properties do exist. We just don't think of them as operating systems because they pose as something else. Sort of like how emacs is a Symbolics Lisp-like environment posing as a text editor.

If you're going to argue that it's not the same unless it goes all the way down to the metal, well, people have built Java/JVM based operating systems before like JNode. It's technologically possible. Just not worth it. Being able to edit a function in the middle of your filesystem driver without reloading it is neat in theory but I wouldn't want to actually develop a filesystem that way.
Quite the opposite! Time to do something about this terrible situation.
While running scripted `apt-get -y install ...` commands, I occasionally encounter packages that require answers to configuration questions. In some cases, the "-y" option handles the problem, but in others it does not.

I've thought about going back to the developers of the packages, asking them to provide workarounds based on environment variables, etc. I may still do this, but it seems like Expect might provide a handy workaround in the meanwhile.

However, I'm concerned that the mock-GUI dialogs that these packages use (using terminal graphics) might make it hard for Expect to interact with them. For example, some of these dialogs want the user to navigate through a menu, select an item, etc.

Suggestions, anyone?
That is my experience too. I had people swear by "multiply two numbers without using a multiplication sign" as their one and only coding challenge.
> "great test tooling" and "broad library support" are subjective

Not really the case when it comes to Java (and the JVM in general). It objectively has great test tooling, and a very diverse library ecosystem, not to mention monitoring, introspection, management, tunability, etc. are second to none. The only other ecosystem that arguably comes close is .NET.
It's because you're logged in as an existing user. Just use a different email address to get a new certificate and sign up with that to get the discount. Then after you get the cheaper certificate, ask support to merge the accounts.
You'd have more success with the vocal minority around here if you replaced Go with Rust.

Highly recommend doing an experimentation a week from now. You'll see exactly what I'm talking about.

Same for this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21621738
One is more important because presumably one is harder and thus more expensive to recover from. Typically the deeper the rot in the foundation, the more expensive the repair.
Thank you. Yeah I’ve got mortgages and kids. And you are right I do sell myself short sometimes. But on the other hand, there is a lot of young (cheaper) talent on the market that I’d have to be exceptional to get hired (or at least this is how I see it in my mind).
Or just use a decent router and put the Virgin supplied thing in modem mode.
Well, depending on where one lives, one can have between 0 and as many as one can afford.

As for need, that obviously varies from person to person.
Hm. I thought of that case before I wrote my comment, so I'm not sure how I wrote something that didn't take that into consideration...
If your the owner of a hot domain getting traffic and typeins from another brand, you have to walk a fine line with what you try to achieve. If you do want to sell it and get a payday, you have to play the negotiations right, because there is always the threat of them walking away and entering a UDRP proces. Lets say your too stubborn to know better and list your price at something incredibly high and unrealistic.

In order for them to win the domain in a dispute process, all they need to do is prove a few things:

(i) your domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark in which the complainant has rights; and

(ii) you have no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the domain name; and

(iii) your domain name has been registered and is being used in bad faith.

(http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp-policy-24oct99.htm)

A panel of judges will go through the presented arguments and defense and award it to a winner. Of course, it will depend on each domain's individual circumstances, as well as what the current owner of the domain is using it for.
Bondi beach, Sydney harbour, Inner-west train line, a hunter valley vinyard, at the pub by the pool table, and at the moment, on my toilet seat.

I work from home and carry a laptop with me :-)
What kind of eyes or monitor do you have when you can't tell the difference between a normal Xvid and 720p x264?
Perhaps they were the best blues of the 41 shades...

(cf. http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html)
> Jo is geared more for downloadable apps

OK, that makes sense. This explains the use of non-standard tags, too. Progressive enhancement and using a standard DOCTYPE aren't a big issue for apps.
A 3-bedroom modular home can be $74k to construct ( http://www.nhmodularhomes.com/prices.htm ). But I've just realized that doesn't include permits, foundation, plumbing, etc, which adds another $75k ( http://www.nhmodularhomes.com/cost_estimates.htm ). So that's $150k. Paying $300-$500k for permits is completely insane. What city is that?
The latest SD standard has speeds comparable to CFExpress.
There's massive efficiency gains. The countless one man businesses have no overhead side from owning a car they already have. They don't need to do anything else besides install and run an app. No need for marketing, managing payment systems, customer acquisition...etc Millions of drivers globally have the business side of things taken care of by a single company. Fragmentation across tens of thousands of taxi companies is inefficient.

In the US many neighborhoods and entire cities didn't have access to reliable taxis or any taxi at all. There's significantly more coverage with Uber and ride sharing in general. The same is probably true of other countries.
I thought it was based on photo sharing within the game itself...
How do FIR panels compare to heat pumps in terms of energy efficiency? Are they really able to reach similar comfort levels at much lower temperatures as advertised?
HN really needs to quit with being overly dramatic. HN and other right leaning userbases are desperately trying to turn this into some momentus civil rights movement, but it makes absolutely no sense.
Maybe take a course in statistical analysis then.
Exactly. There are many, many curated experiences that we all appreciate. Curation is good. I'm so sick of open commons. Not all voices are equal and, IMO, fringe opinions should have to work extra hard to earn their way into the mainstream. Speaking strictly as a consumer, I appreciate and pay for curators as a way to save time.
I’m not sure of any other time Twitter did the banning of it’s own volition.

But one might reasonably argue that people who don’t follow certain ideologies get reported and suspended more often.
Court cases were denied. Due process was followed.

And everyone knows your last statement is a treasonous threat of violence. Stop reading QAnon, their predictions have all failed, their evidence is all false.
Another social media panic for no reason. Big Tech is the ultimate superspreader.
See also "Hello! You've Been Referred Here Because You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act"

* https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

* https://twitter.com/BadSec230Takes
Thank you. To reiterate, however, tolerant societies should not and cannot tolerate intolerance.

People promoting the “election fraud” lie, or supporting the insurrection/coup attempt are undermining democracy and are borderline seditious. It’s not okay to spread that lie, and if not ban, HN should at least officially condemn those false and odious beliefs.

Right now I believe it’s our civic duty to make clear that those beliefs are unacceptable and anti-democratic and will not be tolerated.

I don’t know if you really understand that an armed mob attempted to take hostage members of Congress in order to stop the certification of the new, legitimately elected President.

What do you believe? If supporting that isn’t the line that someone should be condemned for crossing, and shunned, then what is?

HN - your silence is complicity. How do you think people of color feel reading HN comments where folks argue how racism isn’t really a thing or was “solved” in the 60s? Do they feel like people are being kind according to the guidelines?

What does it say about you if you ban me for what I said, but keep the racists and folks who wouldn’t mind seeing Trump get three or four or five more terms, because I’m honest about my beliefs but they hide behind junior-high level verbal wordplay?
Let me put it a different way.

It’s not that they’re being deplatformed; it’s that Parler violated the App Store TOS. Specifically Review Guidelines Section 1.1 - Objectionable Content.

And Donald Trump violated the Twitter TOS.

No one is being deplatformed, and it isn’t a left vs right thing. It’s reasonable that these companies enforce their TOS as they would against you or me.

There’s no Apple TOS for websites viewed in Safari. And Apple has not made it so you can’t access Parler through the web.
http://www.questionhub.com/StackOverflow/3899985

This is a known issue. No promises, but it looks like a fix might be ready sooner rather than later.

http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_...

It's not instantly obvious to me what the problem is here, so I will need to investigate further.

Thanks for the bug reports!
does twitter offer an email->twitter handle lookup API?
Are they really a "client" of the debt collector? Who knows if the claim is even legitimate?

This is not the type of debt collector than can provide the promissory note or judgement documentation.
I can buy the argument that there's a certain kind of creativity that can help you work around management attempts to stifle initative.

But I cant help thinking the people best suited to those roles are the people without strong creative impulses that are simly very competent at handling the work assigned to them and succeed because of rather than in spite of the officially-sanctioned structures and processes.
Wow. I'm amazed. You're tarring the whole of European culture with the same brush based on experiences in Slovenia. The experience may or may not be typical of your part of Europe but Europe has no 'countrymen', we're all very different from each other with different corporate cultures.

I find your post insulting on two levels - one the idea that Europe is a monoculture, and two that somehow 'being more like the USA' means that we'd be more dynamic risk takers. There are risk takers all over Europe. The main man behind Ycombinator is English for crying out loud!
My site gets around 1500 views a day, I may have to close due to ad-blocking. bigger sites can take the hit, but I can't, if I can't make money writing my site, I'll have to take the advice I so often hear from Adblock advocates and "diversify my business", by going to flip burgers at the local fast food joint. I don't see how that makes the web a better place like the ad-block advocates claim.
That wasn't my intention. I didn't decide to like Rust before trying it, I tried it to see if I liked it. I wrote up what I've learned so far. Probably some day this post will seem naive to me, but for now it's the best I could manage.
> They see Miranda in exactly the same way in which they see a drug mule.

They didn't arrest him, so no.

This is harassment of political dissent by the policing arm of the government. What makes this even worse is that it's the British government harassing a Brazilian national for the sake of American intelligence.
exactly, we need to roll back the terror laws now while its still possible.
I think this can be remedied by providing a sufficiently unnatural sounding "real name" for the pseudonymous google id you use on the tablet. Then you get kicked out of Google+ automatically.