jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Final pro-startup caveat: If you find the right people to work with, join a startup. You're only 20, and you're not short on cash. There might never be a better time.

Really agree with this. There's two things you should know which you might not figure out till you're out in the workforce.

- This first is that, despite all the news about the economy blowing up and unemployment on the rails, your industry is still aggressively looking for smart people to hire. I get emails almost weekly from companies looking for people to interview. It's a hard feeling to digest sometimes (I'm in my mid twenties), but you won't be left out to dry with your skills even if you go do a startup, burn all your cash, and fail miserably.

- Understand working capital for what it is. Your age counts for a lot; lots of young people will never realize that youth is working capital that should be spent while they still have it.

I guess the last thing you want to be weary about is burnout, and understand what it is. People love to throw the word around, but they never quite put it into terms, so here it is -

What I learned is that burning out isn’t just about work load, it’s about work load being greater than the motivation to do work. It was relatively easy to drag myself to classes when I thought I was working for my own betterment. It was hard to sit at a laptop and crank out slides when all I seemed to be accomplishing was the transfer of wealth from my client to my company.

written by a former consultant of a large firm - http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html
Just to be clear, iPhone apps have to ask before they are allowed to use location information.

Even though most consumers don't care about things like this there are those of us who do care, and we can eventually make a difference. This is one of the reasons why I support the EFF.
Regression tests for a parser or compiler are by FAR the best application of test suites; they don't make a good defense of testing in general. I wish the tests I was forced to write at MIT and Google -- I think I even wrote unit tests for Pair.getFirst and Pair.getSecond Java methods at one point -- were so defensible.
They didn't exactly go out on a limb with their predictions - they said that GSM security technology and SSL implementations are flawed, so we'll see more attacks on them in 2010. Anyone who follows security and/or web technologies could have said that.
Maybe I should post this: New search engine that gives better results than altavista. Check it out: http://www.google.com.

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Thanks for this link... This should make for a cool extension
PayPal is the defacto standard for what you want.
I suppose the snake oil salesman of yesteryear were hackers as well then...
http://www.bernardhare.com/articles.htm

Reading some of his articles is how the last hour of my christmas evening has been.
For me the main point is really to avoid moral hazard, not saving those 9 doses. It would be worth wasting a few doses here and there if it greatly decreases the level of corruption in the system.

But if people waiting for 2 hours is common, then turning away the last ones doesn’t seem like a good solution. If they really wanted to they could of course come up with an efficient, low corruption system but they don’t seem terribly organized in the first place.
If you're trying to move air, a vornado works far better than a dyson.

On the flip side, if you have young kids, the heaters are great because there's no hot element to burn themselves on like a normal space heater, and no fan to stick their fingers in.

The built in t-stat + timer are nice as well.
I'd need to see specific examples where you think that is happening. Certainly it isn't our intention. If we're failing to enforce the guidelines as intended, I need to know about it.

People bring this argument up semi-regularly, though always without links, and it has even become a bit of a trope. When I've asked for links in the past, what I've found is either (1) posts we missed (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) or (2) posts where the interpretation of 'unkindness' is tendentious and mixed with ideological concerns.

Of course interpretation is always involved. No two people would make the same set of moderation calls, there will always be edge cases where views differ, and there are cases where we just make mistakes, i.e. our initial interpretation changes after people point out things we didn't see. We're happy to correct those.

But it also sometimes happens that people's interpretation goes through an ideological filter, such that pretty much any disagreement with their ideology strikes them as 'unkind'. We can't moderate HN that way. It stretches the meaning of the guideline beyond its scope, which has to do with how people treat each other, not how others treat their views—even if we personally agree with their views.
That's a great place to invest right now.

I'm buying a cabin in Broken Bow, the owner is selling and reinvesting in some land very close to where you are buying.
Hey Devmunchies,

I'm too building a site on Crystal. This is my first production site(static comment). Would love to hear some story about how you run it.

Especially how you manage migration with Crystal+SQlite?
No, but it’s not hard to fill in the few boxes of information from the 1099-B. I have 1099-B, Section 1256 contracts, and regulated futures statements and they’re all easy to input.
Consistently pragmatic, is the philosophy, really.

There are some pain points that could probably go but realistically the aim is to make writing efficient code easy and abstract code even easier within the same language.

If you learn D you get to avoid a bunch of legalese compared to C++, and lots of runtime bugs compared to Python - there are more features to learn, but they generally make quite a lot of sense when you need them e.g. Ada-style contract programming is extremely useful the moment you don't have it.
Yes I agree. There are a lot of non or low performing units out there that are hyped up by marketing and dubious claims.
My startup [1] does air quality measurements primarily for schools and we very often come across schools that wasted a lot of money purchasing non performing units. The best is really to get a PM2.5 meter and compare the performance of different units.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/schools/
What crystal web framework do you use?
Glad my linode is in the New Jersey data center.
this is how v8 does tagged pointers.
I must be a counter example to the people with the problems this article describes. Maybe it is natural for a person about to graduate college with no idea what I am doing or where I am going but I can not stop thinking about my big problems. Moreover, my constant thought about myself is almost crippling and keeps me from actually doing anything. I do think that maybe this stems from the "self esteem" work this article talks about...
Well there is that pesky problem where animators and cleaners not being used or existing won't land you in jail or fined beyond your means to pay but having a lawyer can help mitigate or prevent it.

we live in a society that is heavily litigated because we have governments at all levels churning out laws and regulations to their benefit and those of their supporters.

There are some fields that exist to protect you from physical and financial harm and those will always exist and be desirable until we can eliminate the causes.
On the other hand, devs wouldn't be able to sell to iPhone users if there was no iPhone, or no App Store, or the appleid.apple.com identity verification system, or iOS 14, or anything else that is paramount to devs even having those users as customers in the first place. In this scenario, the iPhone is the product and the App Store is a feature of the iPhone, and the fact that it moves money around (or doesn't, most of the time) is irrelevant.

Now, the legal view of Apple's ecosystem is being litigated right now. What I posted above might be how the court sees it, or what you posted might be how the court sees it. We won't get a definitive answer until either Epic or Apple go home with the key to processing payments on iOS and all of the other systems that are effectively an iPhone with a different form factor (eg PS5, xbox series).
I'm not sure you disagree with me as much as you think you do.

To clarify a bit more:

If being a successful entrepreneur is what makes you happy, do that. If raising a fantastic family makes you happy, do that. If tirelessly helping the poor makes you happy, do that. Yes, these things matter in the shortish term. And by "happy" I don't mean a minute-to-minute happiness. All of the things I do that make me happiest in the end are fraught with stress, pain and hard work.

My point wasn't that you should sit around watching reality tv all day, there are very few people I know for whom that would actually make them happy. It is just meant to put things into perspective relative to long-term thinking patterns like "how am I doing vis-à-vis the Joneses". It really doesn't matter.
Yeah I think there’s something to this. You have to be careful because learning to say no, and saying no often, is a critical skill. But I do think that sometimes it’s worth it to find a way to quickly put the “dumb idea” out there and measure what happens. The measurement should resolve the debate.

Usually the win is building trust with your team. The people who fought for the bad idea are a little chagrined and trust the process more, so they take it better the next time you say no. And occasionally the dumb idea turns out to be brilliant and you’re all really glad you tried it.

_As long as you can keep the time cost very low_, this is a valuable tool to have in your tool belt.
SvelteKit. I have a high risk tolerance but SvelteKit is the framework I've been waiting for since I first started using Pyramid & Django in 2010. All the plumbing, optimization, and performance is done with no configuration and a harmonious integration of back-end and front-end (finally!). I really really love it.

Heck, I'm even releasing my SvelteKit stack as a SaaS boilerplate for others to launch projects more quickly: https://sveltesaas.com
You can have the content in markdown and then go through LaTeX for additional stuff (title page, headers and footers etc.)
I saw this earlier and I wondered if they realized that WhatsApp is included in the faustian deal with Facebook/Meta brinkmanship. Instagram DM and WhatsApp have quickly become the de-facto default digital communication method for young people in many countries.

I understand that without WhatsApp, in some European countries, it can be hard to even get a doctor's appointment or coordinate with one's university. The extent to which these centralized systems have infiltrated our business processes and societies cannot be understated.
I interact with several communities that are mainly composed of older people. Facebook is all they know how to use and all they have to interact in this way. What could they replace it with? I'm not sure what to suggest to them.
I can't believe we're giving this hoax any airtime. Does anyone really believe FB would leave a market as big as the EU?
I probably wouldn't do this in a shared office, but I'm pretty open about the fact that I often like to have a show in the background while I work. Keeps my mind from wandering too far if I have a momentary pause for a big download or a long compile or something. And a lot of people find moderate background noise helps them focus. I've been through every Star Trek multiple times and am plenty productive at work. But Bay Watch isn't something I would want coworkers to see. Nipples or no nipples, it's trying to sexualize / objectify about as much as they could get away with in prime time TV. I can't go join a meeting about inclusive culture with my female coworkers if they just saw me staring at Pamela Anderson's bouncing tits in the middle of the workday.
Amazing. On maximum zoom, nearby blades of grass can be distinguished, but the atmospheric distortion of distant objects makes them look like part of an impressionist painting.
Oh, good Lord, when the patent was filed, RunwayFinder was already online. Talk about prior art! This kind of abuse just boils my blood, especially when it involves this kind of penny-ante bullshit, the whole rent-seeking mentality of identifying a niche market that could really benefit from more open information and then trying to dominate it for chump change.
Thanks! What is the threshold?
If I go to the grocery store and the cashier takes twice as long to ring me up as normal (all the while sweating and looking like he's trying very hard) I don't count it in favor of the cashier or the store. The reason is that I know how long it's supposed to take to ring me up, and this cashier is just bad at it.

On the other hand, I have very little understanding of how much time/effort is required by doctors and financial analysts, so I could easily be tricked by them.
Worse, Windows up to Server 2003 by default stores LAN Manager hashes as well. To describe the cracking of these as 'trivial' would trivialise the work 'trivial'.
have you seen acts_as_enterprisey http://agilewebdevelopment.com/plugins/acts_as_enterprisey ?

Quote: How does acts_as_enterprisey make webapp development look hard? Well, the only way your client can judge your app is by playing around with it. What better gives the feeling of heavy weights being lifted behind the scenes than slow response times? Exactly. That’s what acts_as_enterprisey does.
So while your client clicks, …waits…, and then gets the page, you can blather on heroically about wrestling with clustered indexes, cache expiration strategies, n log n seek times, etc ad nauseam.
OIC Wasn't sure if the software appended that or not. Will do in the future!
For those who hate video or have youtube.com blocked, see CrunchBase at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/runwayfinder:

RunwayFinder is a flight planning resource for U.S. pilots, showing current weather conditions for airports in an area at a glance displayed on seamless sectional and terminal charts. In addition, routes, range circles, and temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) can be plotted.
It's also caused by more traditional media outlets too.

"Top X entrepreneurs under 20"

"Website X was making $50k/mo in 6 months"

"I just tinkered on the iPhone a bit and now I'm making $2k a day on this little app"

I love the NY Times, but they're chock full of this crap. I guess nobody wants to read a story about "I worked 2 years for nothing, now I'm making slightly more than nothing. Maybe in another 5 years I'll be making enough to equal a decent entry level programming job at MegaCorp."
I'm surprised this is a surprise. I thought it was common knowledge that videos were a terrible medium for education. That was the lesson of the failed 1990's "multimedia education" push.
You Bitcoin people keep going on about DACs. Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational M&A machine.
You still have the option of working for yourself to provide your own sustenance. It's called farming.

Maybe our ancestors were foolish to give it up- maybe it's the idyllic lifestyle- but the fact is people voluntarily left it behind.

What are you really advocating? Post-scarcity?
Oh sorry I missed this post for a while.

>“algorithm” is, again, really vague

Something that you can use to hash passwords. What you gave works if you assume gen_salt is seeded per user.

>The weakest link here is 374 bits (4 bcrypts), but the output is 288.

I'm afraid I don't follow. Your bit numbers confuse me, and I don't see how this results in an algorithm that is weaker than either sha512 or bcrypt.
Looks like Okidata Microline printer to me, not sure of the exact model, they don't show enough of it.

The printer ribbon says 7753 which is an epson model.
Why call it "Hazelnut"?
YoungButEager betrays a significant but unfortunately common misunderstanding of the term “protected class” and its meaning in law.

A protected class does not refer to any particular group of people, but rather the significant categories that anti-discrimination laws apply to.

For instance, religion is a protected class, but not any particular religion. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, prohibits discrimination based on religion because it is a protected class, or classification, that the law applies to. So it protects everyone against religious discrimination. It does not just protect Muslims but not Mormons.

If it protected only particular groups of people it would be unconstitutional, because the constitution mandates equal protection under the law.

Some of the confusion may stem from other uses of the word “class”, such as middle class, upper class and working class. These refer to specific groups of people. But in the Civil Rights Act the usage of the term “class” is completely different.

YoungButEager mentions hiring quotas, but these are already illegal, and have only been applied in the past as a remedy where significant and ongoing discrimination has been proven, and a quota may be applied for a limited time by a federal judge. An example is in the state of Alabama, where the state had not hired a single non-white trooper in its history, and in the 1980s a consent decree forced them to hire one non-white trooper for every new white recruit, but this was only for a limited period of time. Otherwise, hiring quotas are mostly a myth.

YoungButEager says he will only hire white males. “It's my firm and I'm not going out of my way if the 'protected class' can burn me for three years in the media while waiting for a B.S. trial.”

YoungButEager’s partners should look at his misinformed attitudes and philosophy critically, because going forward, they present a significant risk and an ongoing liability for their enterprise.
A friend directed me to this site the other day (I'm a college student), for some reason I got the impression it was an older site, not something that was exploding in popularity.
I had a first time approval come through this Saturday. It was only 2 - 3 days after it was submitted. I did think that was pretty fast.
How do you know he spent anytime on the internet while writing this article?
that's right. consumers can have a monopoly over a business too. in fact, I seem to recall there are a whole bunch of companies struggling to figure out how to please the customers of a single niche and that live or die depending on how well they do that.
Are there really still people left, who are naive enough to think that charity really is for a good cause? It is basically just another business for rich people/comapanies to move money around. If it would work the way you think it does, why is Africa and South Asia still looking the same it looked 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago?
Let's see how long before this post gets canned. Or is the cat out of the bag already?
Thanks, so I guess we have to incorporate then, in case someone wants to sue us.
But then our main concern is our visa status. I am on a F1 visa and my friend is on a H1B visa. We are the main cofounders. I saw some answers by other people who say that if we incorporate, we can have shares and sit on the board but we cannot work for our company because our visa won't allow us to (While I can use opt, but my cofounder who is on H1B and who is the tech person can't). Their suggestion is to find a US cofounder, but finding a technical cofounder is hard for us...
How is HTC Wildfire? It's coming in 12k INR.
I manage 1 or 2 a week -- much easier since the Kindle came along. My father, who goes down to his library each week, knocks off between 3-5 every week like clockwork, fiction and non-fiction.

I find talking to him enormously educational. In so many episodes of history, for example, he's read about it from multiple perspectives and can talk about them.
The difference between now and 1999 is that it boomed everywhere including even here in the rust belt. Now the action is limited to a few counties in the entire country.
I looked at my data, and it didn't know that I had spent a whole lot of time at the office last week, but it did know the cell towers along the way to my friends house when I used Google Maps.

It is only updated when you use a location based service. Google Maps, Places on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and the like. I don't use anything besides Google Maps and only to get information on how to get to certain locations. Honestly I am not to worried about it.
Seriously. Has someone already done this? Next gen peer review, anyone?
> humans are not rational,

Okay, stop with this. Just stop for a moment and define rationality: chosing the best course of action based on the agent's available information (let's call information data evaulated according to the agent's preferences, maybe even mention utility function). Now, if people value shinyness over solving poverty, you get a lot of Apple customers.

Lo and behold, that's what's happening. People's utility functions are not simple money, time, iPhone, Nexus 6, what should I buy!? It also includes the whole spectra of every walk of life, spending 1000 USD on a shiny iWhatever is not just a device for iWhatevering, but also has the value you gain by having a nice device that your peers will want to look at. (Or maybe having a non-iWhatever will have a negative value because you'll feel left out, peer pressure, embarrasement! People are rational social agents.)

Yes, models usually don't deal with these stuff, but that's changing, mostly because now we have ways to quantify it (from twitter mentions to FB likes and easy sentiment analysis and DIY machine learning/NLP/etc.).

Just think about the discussion regarding healthcare. From an economics standpoint the continous situation for the past decade is a clusterfuck, a government mandate in such a well-developed state such as the USA would solve the problem, in a few years. Done. Cheap, effective, healthy, pick three. Oh wait, you can't because politics, because social status, because discrepancies in how people view the world. And even though you can model politics itself, there's not much point in it, because the actors/agents/dickwads are either too simplistic (so some kind of personal agenda driven) or too influenced by invested parties (healthcare providers) to care about your models, or your models about them not caring about your models.

And that's (one) full circle, but of course we could go on.
Then how does Domino's get me a pizza within 30 minutes?