jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The problem with drones is that they're insecure. People will shoot them down for fun, and even if they don't, whenever they land they'll have to leave their packages in places that are either insecure or exposed to the elements. If it really takes off, you will need ways to manage "drone traffic" and insurance will be extremely expensive.

To top it off, they will simply not work on most days in Northern Europe, where rain and strong winds are common. I think the evolution of airplanes (which "we" believed would soon replace cars, back in the '20s) showed the problems we will always have with flying: it's a messy affair at the best of times.

I applaud Amazon for its faith in robotics, but I'd argue that we're more likely to get self-driving vans (which will either carry a very relaxed delivery guy, or will let people like supers open van doors with a code), or other incremental disruptions, before we see a wide deployment of delivery drones.
If the "self worth" problem is something you want to focus on (and for an MVP, I'm not convinced it's that big an issue), some ideas for encouraging more participation by non-narcissists:

Limit the number of "requests" and/or dollar amount a person can submit. If a user invites a friend who then signs up and/or makes a request, the original user could earn more requests. This would provide an incentive for the "high self worth" people to encourage their lower-self worth friends to ask for things.

Just a thought...
As always, landing is the easy part. Escaping the gravity well is not. (Looks like they plan to make it a one way trip, setup a colony, then mfg fuel before the return trip.)
We usually do a wget (http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/) like RMS. Surfing IS for iPad users. :)
Thanks! This is very useful. I didn't know that a provisional patent doesn't end up in the public domain.
Node already has most of the features from requires built in, and between that and npm, you don't really have much need for grunt, browserify or require.

Those three tools are very useful on other stacks, in order to get a node-like experience, however.
If you increase the cost of natural resources, you are going to increase the cost of milk and eggs.
Niiice! I can't get enough of that contrast and vibrant colors as well ;)
I have a very close family member who has suffered from schizophrenia. It is troubling to think that the months of ear infections (or infections that caused said infections) when she was a newborn could have been the trigger.

On the flip-side, it is very heartening to think they may be moving closer to understanding the disease. Looking at my family history, I believe there is a strong predilection in my family for it, so having some hope that my children and/or grandchildren could possibly be spared would be fantastic.
That's not a random swirl. Interesting though
So I guess now we're going to be treated to, "If you use the internet so much, why aren't you rich?"
I used to be a habitual watch wearer (since middle school at least) but I've always had a habit of taking off my watch when at home or when using a computer. At some point after having a cell phone for several years I made the decision to stop wearing a watch, I haven't regretted it yet.

Now the only time I wear a watch is when I go hiking or camping and truly need one.
The Gettysburg presentation, a true classic. :-) As they say, Power corrupts, but PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.

I also really appreciate the minimalist style. After having seen a few presentations by Lawrence Lessig and others with similar style, I started to copy it, but with less slides (mostly because I am too lazy or have too little to say for the machine-gun-25-slides-per-seconds style).
It is probably a big part of the story, but maybe not the whole story. There are examples when abundance of food does not lead to widespread obesity, so the particular types of food being eaten must be of importance.

Kitavans are not particularly active. They have an activity level comparable to a moderately active Swede, the population to which Dr. Lindeberg draws frequent comparisons.

They have abundant food, and shortage is practically unknown.

Their good health is probably not related to genetics, since genetically similar groups in the same region are exquisitely sensitive to the ravages of industrial food. Furthermore, the only Kitavan who moved away from the island to live a modern life is also the only fat Kitavan.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/08/kitavans-wisdo...
His counter argument seems to be that the original blog post didn't offer alternatives or patches and so it is invalid.

Which of course is not a counter argument at all.

IMO the Ruby stdlib is a mess. Denying it won't improve it.
Or social media clout (maybe not so much any more) where several prominent "influencers" got access regardless of scoring.
the other companies have no problems following the rules
A few years ago there was an incident in California where someone emptied an AK-47 into a transformer, nearly, but not quite, causing a local blackout. And I have to wonder if it was a chaos monkey from one of our security agencies forcing the issue.
> is the onus on an artist or on an "auction house" to vet buyers. If post sale it turns out the money was fraudulent, does the artist need to pay it back?

No. Normally you have to return items that were stolen from someone even if you purchased them without knowing they were stolen. But money is an exception. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemo_dat_quod_non_habet

(I don’t know whether Bitcoin would be treated as money for these purposes…)
You can just say no. You are not obligated to say why. It's not like the recruiter is going to be able to do anything about it. Even if they passed that message up it's not like they anyone going to be like "OMG, dijit declined our offer because of Teams, we better change that ASAP".

I hate Teams also but honestly if you are hung up on this, I wouldn't want to hire you anyway.
For what it's worth, I write Scala professionally. I don't think I'd be nearly as successful with it if I hadn't learned Haskell first. ymmv, but it's helpful to divide and conquer. Haskell is a much cleaner way to "learn FP." You can take almost all of that knowledge and staple it onto Scala later. Learning the universal and ultimately quite simple concepts that comprise FP alongside the Scala language itself seems needlessly painful. The noisy syntax and compiler quirks will obscure whatever wisdom you're hoping to squeeze out of the process.

So yeah, learn Haskell, then make money with Scala.
> Maybe they all decide it's happier living as hunter-gatherers.

Wouldn't this be great! Screw universal dominance. Let's play in the woods and hangout with nature. Heat death is coming no matter what.
I hope that people realized that this means that fentanyl is horrible, not that covid is mild.
They either:

Found that they get more purchases BECAUSE of the long loading time, despite bouncing other players (the ad theory and happy coincidence for them to have the ad placement slots from shitty engineering)

The engagement team was told bullshit by the engineering team about how impossible it is to fix that issue

Or they are just making enough not to care
You can just install the command line tools without having to download Xcode. It has been this way for a decade.
What are the limitations that make it suitable for internal use only? Would it be a good tool for external facing SAAS apps, with auth etc?
You might be onto something here...
got it, "reversible computing" has nothing to do with writing code that can run backwards or forwards, nothing at all, I may as well be talking about the weather and here you guys are trying to have a serious conversation about theoretics ;) I'll see myself out - never change, HN!
This comment is absolutely hilarious to me, because the main selling point for SharePoint (for the longest time) was that you could version control Microsoft Office documents. Then intranets happened, someone wanted to build a Turing machine with it, and now it's the monstrosity we know now.
(I don't have a disorder, but) for me the case is often that I just mindlessly click my HN bookmark, open reddit app, lichess puzzle etc to kill a few minutes. Just the popup telling me that it's blocked is enough to make my brain realize what I'm about to do and abort. I could just click the button to override, but my "mindlessly browsing" mode got disturbed and suddenly I'm conscious about it happening.
I agree. For some reason, I didn't get the lambda calculus when I first encountered it but it became entirely obvious after doing just a couple of exercises by hand.
Hey Austin — Edwin from Stripe here. This seems weird... last year we separated the Atlas account process from Stripe payments to prevent issues like these (and help you launch faster!). Could you forward those emails to me and we can help fix? Sorry for the trouble. edwin@stripe.com
I think you misunderstood the parent. They're discussing the case where a corporation has no high NPV projects available to it, and the best thing to do would be for it to return money to investors. They can then spend it on other companies which do have those opportunities.

In that case, it has to take that money as profits instead of reinvesting, and so is taxed.
I am not from US , so please don't try to interpret my comment as some US politic stuff.

I do not watch or read news daily, so when I went in a vacation at the hotel I had nothing else better to do then open the TV. There was some big outrage that the president mumbled something racist(he was inside a car and people were lips reading) - again not in US. I realized what I was missing by not watching TV, I am ignoring all the useless drama. The other part of the news that is not politics is also mostly irrelevant crap.

The thing is that there is almost nothing we can do as individuals, elections are 4 years apart and sometimes people organize and manage to change the prime minister with big protests but that is when something so big happened that even I knew about it.

What could work much better is a weekly summary that ignores things that happened this week, so it will be like a filter for minor stuff and all the events reported would have been better digested and all involved parties would have had the time to respond.

There are some rare events that should not be ignored, and this are large enough that will surface, a local example is this incident that eventualy caused protests, some resignations but probably nothing actually major changed to improve safety(unfortunately we have a few horrible incidents related with fire) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colectiv_nightclub_fire

The opposite of that I do would be me having to read or watch 3 different reports on same maybe relevant stuff and decide what is my favorite interpretation.

Add on top of that the propaganda by US to start their wars by fabricating stuff, now when I read some report about 1 million people in camps in China I will always have a doubt the numbers and facts are real, or the interview with persons could be fabricated, so with news from far away is double pointless to be on top daily, is nothing you can do about it today so it can wait a week and you can never be sure it is not manipulation.
IBM was not yet interested in electronic computers.

IBM was developing electromechanical computers and for a few years the electromechanical IBM SSEC (operating since January 1948) was the fastest computer with stored program, solving many important problems for the US government and for various companies.

After their competitor Remington Rand introduced the first commercial electronic computers (UNIVAC), IBM also entered this market very quickly with a few commercial models (IBM 701 & IBM 702), then also with the faster electronic computers made for the US military, in the NORC and SAGE projects.
People dont steal ideas because they have to, they do it because they can and because they are ambitious. They steel them because it help build cult of geniality around themselves.
That subreddit is rather impressive. Some of the comments don’t seem to make too much sense (as in they’re grammatically correct but devoid of overall meaning) but it’s pretty convincing none the less. And if you’re not aware that it’s generated, your brain tries a bit harder to read meaning into the comments which make it quite convincing. Very impressive.
I read about Elaine Ingham for the first time a couple of months ago and it was a revelation to me. Her website https://www.soilfoodweb.com/ is very informative too. I wish these ideas were adopted much more broadly. It sounds like a solution to many of our problems. No fertilizer, no pesticides, no pollution, reclaimed biodiversity. What are we waiting for?
If, looking at the demo, what you saw was "a simple form" then our perspectives are far enough apart that I don't see how they could ever meet.

Nonetheless, I thank you for taking the time to write.
You have your own phone, you are not arrested / have your stuff seized in this situation. Even then they would notify your family.

Call a friend / wife / parents - hey can you please find me a lawyer and call back - need him at address ...

Then they search and find someone and you shut up until one arrives. (most likely police/fbi will reschedule)

Helps if you actually have a social network, I have quite a few lawyer friends who would be present almost instantly or find someone willing fast.
Yep, C++ where performance matters.
Your issue is that you're not mocking correctly. You need to write mocks for services you depend on, ideally by recording and replaying real api interactions, such that you can verify that given the libraries you depend on your tests will be correct. Then write TDD tests, then write code, then write integ tests which will verify your original mocks work as assumed.
At a Sunnyvale Safeway yesterday, there was a full wall of breads spanning multiple brands and grains. I paid $1.49 for a loaf of their own multigrain bread (e-coupon price).
Nobody believes in this "theory" because the evidence is shoddy. But yeah, maybe its all a coverup. You can believe anything you want, for any reason.
No one cared about aids because its really easy to avoid.
Made that choice for the K Health’s Corona updates web application
Maybe Apple will come up with an "iPad with integrated keyboard!" and tout it as the next revolution.
As pointed out in the article, not only do you avoid 502 Bad Gateway, but rolling static sites is also trivially downtime-free, meaning no 503s either[1]

[1] https://rauchg.com/2020/2019-in-review#s1
It's a risk thing too, i don't think it's just physical exertion. F1 drivers could literally die if they make a mistake. Not so much a problem in a sim
Do you have any advice on where to read up on this sort of thing? I’ve always been interested but never acted upon it. Now seems like a good time to understand more about how our world actually works in terms of the economy
Yes, on the fly. Leave the plug in activated. But even if you deactivate it, a web page with a picture still works fine. It simply displays next closest default size or the original size. It's not a big issue as the original size is properly downsized.
You can't even edit any playlist you want on the iPhone. Developing on it sounds like it's in a different universe, even though it doesn't need to be.
Congrats on getting accepted!

Yeah, we didn't have an issue getting there about an hour early but ours was at 2:45. Maybe since it was later in the day there was less of an issue.

My main reason for suggesting an hour is so if something happens (you get lost, forget something, etc.) you have breathing room fix the problem. Sounds like Hacker Dojo is good suggestion if you are too early.
It's hard to distinguish cheap larger; it is relatively easy to distinguish microbrewed ale though.
I guess when you know you're going out of business you get a little lazy with customer data...
Im sorry but this is the education system FAILING its students.
1. fear mongering by the prof " FORENSICE ANALYSIS" and "LEGAL ACTION"
2. the SAME test for the last FIVE years?
3. some crap sob story about "what were the last 20 years about" ... how about you being a lazy ass professor?
Well he might have a different view on the topic which is different than not understanding it.

Credit contraction is happening but prices are rising. This is not the time to be telling people they need to sick it up and pay more for things. I'd imagine that credit expansion in China is the culprit on that front though.

QE has never worked. This will fail and we're going to continue to muddle along until someone allows the money supply to fall and the banks to fail. The banks are already insolvent anyway so we might as well face reality and face a few very tough years. Given our recent behavior we have it coming to us.
I can't believe anyone would pay coin for that crap. Might as well get one year of the NYT crossword puzzles for the same price, it's a better value. Or randomly generate "I am having a coffee with my cat" in all possible combinations.

P.S. if this just a "display" does it mean there is no any value to the stale links?
Hrmm...so when the Fed creates money, is it not 'spent' ? Yes. Why? Because there is a bill somewhere. It might be directly on the taxpayer like when the Treasury spends it, but it is on everybody else that holds and uses US Dollar assets - by way of inflation. So yes, they did "spend".

The money was technically given out - because they essentially purchased securities (not just Treasuries, but commercial paper, Mortgaged Backed paper, Gold, etc.) at significant losses to themselves in the short term - so that the banks can shore up their balance sheets.

My broader point was that the US Treasury could spend only $700B, because the Fed was there to further capitalize the banks. If you want to go ahead and be a grammar natzi, then feel free. But at the end of the day, the financial institutions were given approx $2.5T cash - in exchange for a variety of things (some securities on their balance sheets, to warrants for their own common & preferred stocks).

Although the Fed can create money out of thin air, the notion that it isn't spent (i.e. it has no cost to anyone) is a misguided notion because it typically has a greater cost to everyone than the Treasury doing so.
I think it may be due to failing dns lookup. It has been for me anyway. The images and css are on ycombinator.com and not news.ycombinator.com.
It's an interesting idea for a site, and, as a climber myself, I love seeing more of the climbing community brought online.

My main criticism is the design. It leaves much to be desired, and as a result I can't seem myself using this much right now.

Some advice: This might be better announced on the communities over at rockclimbing.com, climbing.com, 8a.nu, and the various climbing rags (dpm, rock&ice, urban climber). Have you announced thrutched.com on those forums?

It's good for a first iteration. I'm interested to see how you improve the design. I really like the idea of a climbing video aggregation site.

What I think would be both cool and a useful addition to the climbing community would be a replacement for 8a.nu that wouldn't look outdated in 1996 and allowed to you keep track of training as well as tick lists. Kind of a combination of crossfit's beyondthewhiteboard.com and 8a.nu.

On a a side note: I've seen climbing mentioned by a few others on HN. How many people here climb? I'm based in NYC right now, so I <3 the Gunks, and sometimes NH.
1. Nothing in what you say here or elsewhere is factually incorrect.

2. I agree that it's appropriate to give people information so that they do not find themselves in a situation not to their liking.
As stated elsewhere it really seems to be a problem with the static content hosted on ycombinator.com (maybe they aren't being cached very well browser side).

I don't know how well something like a front end cache would do to speed up content delivery as I suspect news.yc has a lot more users logged in than normal websites which might take away the advantages of a front end cache.
I've used DocsToGo, which syncs with both Dropbox and Google Docs.
http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/

I've also used PlainText, which is without question the best text editing tool on the iphone and ipad. The dropbox integration is sick.
http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/plaintext
Can you share a link? Is it http://www.visbit.co/ ? If it is, it looks very nice.

Even if you have a good product, maybe it's not outstanding - I'm not sure how many people applied, but it's probably even more than the 10.000 they received last year, so you have to REALLY stand out.

Who knows, maybe you were in 200th place out of 10.000 and you barely missed the cut.

The good thing is, the market doesn't care :) it doesn't have a 100 startup limit :)

If you want some unsolicited feedback from a fellow YC-reject: IMO, Visbit is not a novel idea, and you're competing with Google and Facebook and Microsoft and Apple, so yes, maybe the business idea is not what they're looking for.

Your page doesn't immediately tell me what your product is about (the value proposition) or why I should use it. The only meaningful copy I found is "urgent need of a mobile app for easy and powerful photo management", so is it a photo management software app? (that might be useful :) , but I don't think it's "urgent")

I also spotted a few errors in your copy, and also in your post (I don't think "well-collaborate team" is good English, and in the web page, "Creation from Today" is also not idiomatic English), that might have subtly hindered you.
Well, I observed the opposite effect when a complex Excel spreadsheet was replaced by an Access DB that allowed a small company to discover that they had extra assets for like 200K USD. And the original Excel author realized how much more sense the data made once he saw visualization of data constraints and relations.

But then IT of bigger companies treats Access as not a real DB and often disregards it with the same contempt as Excel.
What about hydrogenated carbon, for extra confusion.
OSM is like a bunch of volunteers refurbing a city park, all working different schedules, with no manager. Alice starts sanding off rust on one end of a swingset. Then Bob shows up and starting painting the other end that hasn't yet been sanded; consternation ensues.

There are a lot of attempts to solve this problem with documentation on exactly how things should be done. The wiki, the stackoverflow-style help site, subreddit, tips in the editor software, mailing lists, slack... There are too many and they often don't agree. The information in some places changes quite rapidly, or in other places goes stale over time.

So we're bound to end up with incompatible approaches now and then. I've found it's often (certainly not always!) useful to politely communicate with other mappers. This works both ways -- I've stepped on toes, and I've had toes stepped on.

When you're staring at something ugly in OSM, the last person to work on it might have finished 5 minutes ago, or 5 years. But the tools to find out do exist. As the map gets more and more filled in, I expect that documentation aimed at new mappers will need to focus on communication and cooperation as much as direct editing of the map data.
Still better than bowel-less, a possible misspelling given the context.
Thank you, I really appreciate your input!
Half a decade ago when I was using a slow-booting (2min?) netbook, I sometimes used both this and init=/usr/bin/python when I wanted to test some idea real quick.
A search engine. Still alive and popular.