jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So not even close to what was touted yesterday. And do we really need yet another thread on this? Is there some kind of astroturfing going on or why is this Zoom-hate everywhere lately?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657384
How would that work for site like Facebook or Instagram or other sites where there is no clear relevant content to target?
My dad sees articles like this and he'll just say that maybe the damage needed to prevent warming is worse than the damage that will be done by the warming.
Do they publish how many ISPs participate? I am sure the big ones do but who knows if local Fiber is connected to someone who is behind an OpenConnect
They’re delusional and insane—the definition of insanity being doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. That model is exactly what the last 30 years of cooperation with China was meant to be, but all it has done is strengthened a kleptocratic, increasingly paranoid, bloody dictatorship.
You're assuming perfect elasticity of energy supply which there absolutely is not.

There is quite a mismatch between solar and wind production and electricity usage patters which is why storage is such a hot issue. Already there have been brief periods where 100% of energy production in a few regions was renewable. Those will certainly only grow in frequency and duration.

You don't start working on this technology when everything else is ready for it, you start as quickly as possible so the tech is ready when the rest of the world is ready for it.
I wouldn't say workers suffered from "dire personal and financial consequences". The employees had good jobs that could help build their career with relatively little risk.
It's in the second paragraph of the article

> The prize, awarded in early October, recognised the laureates’ efforts to use randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to answer social-science questions.
Most people, even those prone to motion sickness, don't get sick in VR in current-gen hardware as long as it's a game where your view in the in-game world matches the view in the real world. This applies to many games. Beat Saber, PokerStars VR, and Zombie Training Simulator are examples of this.

On the other hand, any game where your movement in the game world doesn't match the real world is a quick path to sickness. Any racing or flying game makes me ill, and I've been playing VR for over 2 years.
I get sad and frustrated when I get downvoted, even though I'm (pseudo-)anonymous. It's completely irrational, and I'm a bit ashamed for it, yet it's gotten to a point where I basically just don't bother anymore with politics online.

It's strange because I don't have such issues in real life. And my friends confirm that I'm intellectually honest and nuanced, or at least not nuts. I just can't imagine people talking to me face to face in the way I'm so used to on the internet, all smug and doing their best to find the worst possible interpretation of a comment.
Here's a cool Bitcoin startup relevant to this article: https://robocoinkiosk.com/
Which division at Google is in charge of deciding what new projects to start? I'm wondering since the 20% time is gone.
Founder of RealCrowd here - thanks for the comments. We're focused only on commercial assets now that produce stable cash flow - think of a starbucks or an office building in SoMa that has consistent monthly income from rental payments. Homes should be viewed as shelter, not as a primary vehicle to create wealth.

It will be very interesting to see where the JOBS Act goes and how we can incorporate pure crowdfunding into our platform. Bringing access to this class of investment is what we're after and we're really excited to do so!
that's cool man.

you should check out new york, and los angeles. i hear they are up-and-coming these days.
I still do not understand why google is trying to force everyone to use google +. The other day, I tried to give a great review for an app that i purchased from google play but couldn't because it required that I sign up for google plus..that just doesn't make sense.
Very impressive demo.

I see you're looking for work. I expect you will be inundated with offers, be picky.
fuck the NSA
To put this post in perspective, I'm curious about:

- How long have you been doing this career for?
- How many jobs have you had?
- How long you had those jobs?
- How many technical interviews did you do?
- Since when have you started practicing your new 'technique'?
- Over which period have you effectively applied it?

Until similar numbers are available, I'll simply consider this article an anecdote that, if anything, suggests the OP is a job hoppers or has a hard time keeping a job.

In a non ad-hominem manner, I guess what I mean is: what useful data is this? Should people base their future behavior on your anecdotical reliable experiment/measurement?
This is assuming that whatever you're selling the customer only wants one size, which would be the case for clothing but not for all things.

One case would be lengths of cables or different weights of barbell plates, there the customer would want to buy several of different sizes. In that case all sizes should be visible with inputs for the desired quantities.
In other words - not living in shared reality.
Oh man, that's terrible. I can certainly understand how someone without a checklist that is verified by two people can do that, especially if you have a backpack on to mask the fact that the parachute is missing.

Many times if I wear a tight jacket in the car, I forget to put my seat belt on, because I unconsciously mistake the pressure of the jacket for the seatbelt's, even though putting on a seat belt is usually the first thing I do.

Poor guy.
Please don't stoop to childish insults. While a mountain of headlines might appease your fifth grade teacher, it is not a substitute for primary evidence in a rational debate.

If you have primary evidence of this alleged massive atrocity, please share it. Otherwise, I am done engaging with you.
Maybe a difference is, back in my parents' generation's time, nobody was willing to publish crackpots and quacks, but today, literally anyone can create a YouTube channel, and build viewers. Modern platforms exercise very little editorial control, and are willing to publish anything. So, the dry, boring experts are getting drowned out by popular Joe Rogans.
Well, that's basically what credit is. You expect to be paid in the future, so you can buy things now.

Affordability is about more than simply having some means to pay, though.

I often struggle to find a word that fits well here.

The dictionary defines afford to mean: 'to be able to do, manage, or bear without serious consequence or adverse effect'.

By that standard, some people who can't afford to go to college actually do. The means are available via loans, but there are serious consequences and they will be saddled with large amounts of debt. So what's the term for that?

I don't think 'afford' as a proxy for 'strictly possible' is very useful and I'd be glad to hear of an alternative.
My job for new years day recovery is to update the website to go live on IPv6 and TLS. But for now, happy new year everyone!
Or it could be because Google dislikes MS owning so much developer mindspace.
Remote is here to stay. We'll see about Zoom, but I have doubts. They're up against the titans.
Mark Twain would make fun of us, but luckily he's not around.
No, because portraiture has been out of fashion for many decades, so the best artists by and large don't work in this medium.
If there are multiple dissatisfied devs, why not fork?
If the actual data is small compared to the tag names, then XML will be significantly larger.
>- It doesn't show new mail when it arrives

That depends on the push function. If the server supports push then you get the mail when it arrives. Mobileme works out of the box, as does exchange. Sadly, if you want this to work with gmail you have to set up gmail as an exchange account.

>- It doesn't do threaded conversations so they're compatible with the gmail web app

Not sure what you mean, it doesn't do them the same way as the gmail app? I haven't looked at that but it does do them and it seems to work pretty well.

>- Its address book autocomplete is not as good

It works well for me, but maybe I don't have as many contacts. I only have about 90 or so.

>- It stores messages locally so you can't search past mails

It searches locally but there is a button at the end of the results called "search on server". Does this not do what you want?

>- It does not hide the quoted text the same way gmail normally does, which sort of breaks that feature when you switch between mail.app and web based gmail.

Yea, that's true. That's a killer feature of gmail.

>Maybe I'll try it again since you love it so much.

I don't love it, I just find it better than most clients I've used. I just asked because I was genuinely curious what was better because it must be pretty dramatic if it makes the decent iPhone mail app look so bad.
Yes, which is why there is a useful noprocrast setting in your profile.
Ryan Carson published a very instructive (and eye opening!) document with various SaaS cashflow models. Things are not always what they seem :)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkxZrw3662U_dEhQa0Y...
I hope he's ok.

I had lunch with him at a conference. Nice guy -- very driven and focused.
If this news is surprising to you, you should rethink your mental model of, well, the business of tech startups.
I will disclose my total compensation (but not my salary) to competent recruiters/headhunters from good companies. The reason I disclose total comp is that it enables a like-for-like comparison. Now, because these recruiters know my current package, they will only contact me about substantially larger opportunities. I think this is a win-win. Based on my experience so far, I don't think that disclosing my total comp necessarily 'anchors' the package for the new role.
The difference between persistence and quitting being the right choice is often a matter of timing, luck, and other subtle unknowable factors. As often as someone quits one thing to focus on something else, someone else sticks to their guns and perseveres.

That said, knowing what to quit is probably the rarer skill, since stubbornness is often easier than moving on. Success is also often the result of many failures, not the opposite, which indicates quitting and learning is probably the more important skill as well.
If you want to move up and you don't want to be a low level manager, I see two options:

1) Join a company with a technical track for higly skilled individual contributors.
2) Become a consultant.
> no simple customization

What do you mean by this, exactly? Not being funny, just don't understand this as a con.

What would you like to customise, and why? How is being unable to do so harmful to users?

Genuine questions, because I can't think of much I'd like to customise. Personally, I like not having options because it keeps things simple.
>How does that affect the executive making that decision, who is already wealthy

But your other comment[1] seems to suggest that executives love money and want to make more, so they would definitely be affected by that decision.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26275488

>It's not like executives are ever punished for poorly running a company.

Their bonuses are linked to company performance, and they can be fired just like any other job.
Obviously not as big, but they kicked Fortnite out of the App Store. So there is precedent for them holding the line.
Grad school will wait. Grad school will always wait.

It is a great time for working in the software business -- lots of stuff happening, lots of demand for talent.

My impression, back in my school days, was that the people who had done something else between undergrad and grad school had a certain purposeful air. They tended to know why they were there, and know what they wanted to learn or to do, and they navigated more directly to their goal and graduated faster.

Do not fret about admissions. You want to go to engineering or science grad school, right? Then having some work experience will not hurt you. You might consider lining up some recommendation letters now, while you're still fresh in your professors' minds, but three years from now you'll still have the GRE scores, you'll still have the GPA, and you'll presumably still be willing to sign up for N years of being worked like a slave for low wages. You'll be as qualified as ever. ;)

(As for "higher starting salary"... one reason to try a job or two first before going back to school is to figure out exactly how much of a premium that advanced degree is going to be in your favorite field. You may find that it doesn't pay off -- you'll spend several years earning grad-student wages, and then discover that at a young startup nobody really cares if you've got a Ph.D.)
Damn, that's a good point. Thanks, I've seriously been wondering about that for > 10 years.
If you're curious, run a public record search on yourself. The ones that cost money. It's all out there. From your mortgage outstanding (if you own) to your rental history (if you rent - to a lesser degree if you find rentals through Craigslist).
Hey, I'm working on something like this too :)
Most web sites are bad. That's why.

Eventually things like Google Places, Yelp, etc. will handle 100% of their UX.
I think there are a few things here that cause this:

a) You're going against the worst kind of incumbent- the 15 year old nephew or kid next door. He's cheaper, good enough, and "trusted". He is competition that exists a million times over.

b) Even if your system is better, they just can't be bothered to even get a good demo. You definitely need to build something so usable and good it's frightening, but good luck getting the full demo.

c) The guys that do have the ability to get in with a demo (GoDaddy, yellow pages,etc.) have no clue how to sell something good. What they usually sell is usually crappy, so now you have a fearful restaurant owner.

d) To crack this market it's a "heavy startup". It requires lots of capital, it requires sales, and it requires marketing. That's something guys like us don't like to often venture into. It's the same reason GroupOn requires lots of capital and other business like ReachLocal have feet on the street.

e) Churn is miserable. If you're on a monthly fee or provide additional services, good luck keeping the customer. ReachLocal has something like 80% churn,not retention, fucking churn.

Here's how I'd go about this for months 1-9. Crack the nut of an easy to use system (point b) and find distribution channels that already exist (point c) such as local newspapers, print shops, and others with a foot into the local market. You'd also need to have a system of people to crank out onboarding in a very cost efficient and systematic manner.
http://www.onebigmenu.com

I'm working on this site right now, and I understand your concerns because I feel them myself. I'm hoping I can bridge the gap between dining and diner. :)

(Please excuse the design, since I'm the only developer :P)
Agreed, but what you describe and what you say you do are not procrastinating.

One observation is that procrastinators are rarely delusional about what they (are not) doing. It's a genuine lack of willpower or a feeling of apathy. Neither of which are symptoms of low skill.
My guess on why you're being downvoted is because this very long comment starts with the sentence: "It seems to me that Greenwald is assuming his own conclusion here, that the chat logs provide evidence of Manning's innocence."

I don't remember Greenwald ever claiming or even giving off a vibe that he didn't think that Manning was the leaker; this is a media critique, like most of his work. Doesn't bode well for the next 1400 words.
Having worked with restaurants before (and having a dad who owns a restaurant), I have come to the conclusion that it's just because most restaurant owners a) just want something that works and is cheap, and b) do not fully understand how web design can help or hurt their businesses.

Bad web designers tend to target restaurants (and medical practitioners) because they have a much easier time selling bad design to them.
Yahoo! JAPAN is most familiar website brand for older people, but not very well for younger people. Maybe they use apps like Twitter, Instagram, and LINE rather than websites. I think that's why their design isn't refined.
You think over a long enough time period the moon will be made up of something other than rocks? It's rocks. There are no "resources". It's ejected mantle material just like we have here right under our feet, with the added disadvantage that there's no tectonics that would have had the effect of concentrating what trace materials were there. It's rocks.

Someone who wants to imagine going to war with China over rocks on the moon is someone who wants to imagine going to war with China. That's not a serious (nor responsible) position.
thanks I didn't know this one.
just finished a very similar one recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Fleet_(novel) ... much recommend it
This seems to be the perpetual back-and-forth that shows up; I searched "site:ycombinator.com janus" before I posted the link, and you'll find this exact same line in history.

For myself, I knew core-vim pretty well, and was coming back to it after taking textmate and sublime text for a spin. Janus was a fast way to bolt on the IDE-alikes I liked from ST2. It was, indeed, too much on a first go, and I uninstalled it. I am back to it, though, and appreciate that it brought together the "big guns" like fugitive, nerdtree, syntastic, &c. as well as things I'm not sure I would have found, like Tim Pope's excellent unimpaired plugin.

Doing things like vimtutor is great for a newbie, but I don't think I care as much whether they have Janus installed or not while they do it.
Considering the type of information that would be stored in an application for use by physicians, they might be considering Java due to the number of security issues found in Rails as compared to the number of security issues found in something like Spring over the past several years.
As a critical issue: there needs to be a mobile app, which upon opening, immediately begins live recording of video and audio to a remote server/s and posts them on vimeo/YouTube/etc.

If this already happens to exist, I'm interested.
I think that everyone was probably put off that this was a total ripoff of Louie CKs bit. More credit should have been given at the top of the article.
Funny... I think the headline perfectly summarizes what you wrote.
Sorry about that; I was aiming for wistfulness, not judgement. I really enjoyed that era.
Communicating with the community like this is exactly what a developer advocate should be doing.
You can also buy paid placement in their Directory tool (which is like a really nicely curated "suggested user to follow" dynamic).
another article trying to perpetuate the big bang myth by fitting evidence around a predetermined conclusion. We really need to abandon the big bang theory and just admit we just don't know yet instead of fitting evidence to our conclusion. If the paper concludes no single bang, and no singular event, then no big bang happened.
I don't think I really have any "hair on fire" problems. I have a form of Cystic Fibrosis, but I have figured out how to get well. I have financial problems, which really bugs me, but with getting healthier, expenses are coming down and productivity is going up. I'm really, really, really annoyed and frustrated that I am still stuck in my current job. But "hair on fire" annoyed? Not really. Would I like to suddenly have some fantastic solution? Absolutely. Do I have fantasies that some sudden, dramatic solution will come along and set me free? Absolutely. Do I think that's realistic? Not really. I imagine the real solution will develop slowly over time, much like the solutions to every single actual "hair on fire" problem I have ever had. After putting out a lot of fires, it seems to me that as long as it's just your hair on fire and not your scalp, hey, you've probably got more time than you think.

Edit: PS this was written before the article link was posted, if that helps make it make more sense.
It's definitely there, though it would be mitigated if the buyer can disable it (though how would you know it worked until it didn't?):

If they can kill it, others can too. Be they script kiddies, bored geniuses, or businesses or governments that would like to see your computer die.

The trick is that if there is such a desirable off button, it will be discovered, reverse engineered, or leaked. There's no "if", only "when".
No, it wouldn't. "Would you buy know?" doesn't select the same people as "Click here to buy now".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", right?

How much data would be required to determined which of the googleplex of imaginable alternate universes are the ones which intersected this one?
I agree, Yahoo! Fantasy Sports are pretty solid.
I agree. And on that topic, what are some hair on fire problems that you have or have thought others might have?
tmux and screen can do this and they are not OS X dependent
Or work on not getting that feeling as often. Works for me :-)
Congratulation with the launch!
Are guys going to handle database versioning/migration somehow?
Well, its final issue was in 1998, so that still leaves a lot of leeway for those not born in 1981 :-)
That is sort of the implication with some of the optional type annotations included in Python 3.1 and beyond, fyi.
<plug>My startup http://www.formlis.com (a hybrid wiki and database) is trying to compete in this area</plug>
XMPP is known for real time but poor to scale. I have my doubts on this, but could somebody suggest any alternatives?
Mumble, while designed as a game chat system, is excellent for any kind of audio conferencing. It can be configured with very low latency (lower, in fact, than shouting down the hall) and CD quality audio.
You know, this is totally ad hominem but Cato is a free market think tank. They couldn't come up with an article in support of net neutrality if they wanted. It is completely against the free markets holy scripture they have vowed to protect. Likewise, the Economist is similarly tainted with the defense of the free markets in its charter.

Which isn't to say free markets are wrong or bad. I'm just saying they lose some credibility when they tell you the answer before you've told them the problem. I kind of feel like I'm just being trolled whenever someone posts something by Cato or Heritage.

That said, freedom to contract treads a fine line across all aspects of our lives. And that line is continually being adjusted by the government to fit the needs of the times which hopefully they understand or at least address properly by dumb luck.

Because of the importance of the internet and the inherent monopoly of network providers, net neutrality may be wise to implement so problems do not arise as Cato so optimistically asserts they do not exist now and will not exist in the future.