jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First find a cool project that you find fun to work on. (a game, a tool to help you do something) Regardless if you ever make money on it, it'd be worth it just to use it or play it yourself. Thats pretty much the exact process that lead to the creation of Ruby on Rails by 37signals and I imagine countless other projects/businesses.

Then later on when its stable and usable consider launching it to the world, sharing the valuable software you've created. (and possibly receiving value back)

In the process of building it, if you get stuck, read/post on HN and go to stackoverflow to ask programming questions, you'll get there.
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/JSON_datatype_GSoC_2010
Currently, it looks as if the gallery pages are using flash -- what about using native html for browsers that can play WebM video natively?
I don't know if you will read this, but I was just being flip, and meant nothing specifically about officers or enlisted men beyond the fact of a hierarchy that might be more based on opportunity and family than anything else. I have immense respect for all the military professionals I have knows (not that many, but still).
I do agree that the devices are not dependent, but I disagree with the first part.

You reach for the iPhone instead of the iPad because the devices are _the same_, and the iPhone is already satisfying whatever task that you're doing.

I had an iPad for the longest time, and couldn't figure out what to do with it. I always had the iPhone with me, and so I was used to using it for all the same tasks as the iPad. Finally, I just gave it to my mom, who uses it around the house and does not own an iPhone
This attitude seems incompatible with

> Economically, you can think of a startup as a way to compress your whole working life into a few years. Instead of working at a low intensity for forty years, you work as hard as you possibly can for four. - http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html

and I don't see why an investor would settle for less.
If this was a regular comment I wouldn't say anything, but since this is likely a canned copy/paste you'll repeat, I'll be a grammar nazi and ask you to please fix it to say "you're" instead of "your".
Are you asking about Apple "quality" aesthetics?

Graphic design is about solving problems; aesthetics are secondary. Google's designs solve its problems--satisfying search results, simple access to email, etc--very effectively.
my guess is 'pair programming'. descriptions online.
The people who exploded the first car bomb in front of J.P.Morgan didn't use encryption.

Timothy McVeigh didn't use encryption.

9/11 Hijackers didn't use encryption.

7/7 Bombers didn't use encryption.

Boston Bombers didn't use encryption.

Can you see where this is going ?
Related: a friend of mine made this a few years ago: http://v2.nl/archive/works/daredroid
You drill a hole in lead plate, take uranium rock, rasberry pi and...
It is less universal than e-mail (and potentially less-secure), and certainly less secure than TOTP. It also costs money, whereas the former two can be had for free.
So you're denying that there's still significant short interest on GME? You're certainly welcome to take that position if you'd like!

Edit: And as for your comment below, there isn't enough downward momentum for the shorts to be covered as of now. Just opening a short position is quite dangerous, and mathematically, this is not over yet. That's a fact. I also don't gamble with money I can't afford to lose. GME could go to 0 and I wouldn't bat an eye.

Edit again since I'm throttled: I think the idea that it's time for me to make a judgment one way or another on the effectiveness of the investment is a fallacy in itself. I don't invest that way. It would take at least a year for me to reach a point where I am ready to say whether any given investment was a bad or good one.
As someone who spends all day at home in the suburbs with family and pets, I do think a lot of people will want to go back.

The suburbs only make sense if you're commuting. Who would want to live there otherwise? Not remote enough to be cheap or have real land, not city enough to be a fun place to live. Who would willingly spend all there time in the suburbs?

I do live in the suburbs because it used to offer a convenient commute and have me close enough to still go into town for bars, museums, concerts, etc. But with all that stuff out of the picture, what is the point of this place?
You're judging a product now. I'm telling you to judge it in a few years when it is more convincing, more subtle, etc. People already "fall in love" online with people they've never met, partly because someone showed some interest in them. Many are scammed easily online because their greed has them look past telltale signs.

You've just interacted with me on some level, but what's to say I exist? Pretend I only have social network profiles online for you to background check. Those would be easy to dynamically and convincingly generate.

And don't just imagine your reaction, but the reaction of multitudes of people who aren't skeptical about religion, about crystal healing, who are superstitious, who watch whatever is put in front of them, etc.

I bet someone could scan my body of online work and design an array of profiles that might pique my interest.
When switching from WhatsApp you likely don't want to get stuck in an apple-only environment.
Some people are annoyed that the end-to-end encryption isnt on by default. You have to enable it yourself if you want to use it.

I agree its a downgrade in security. But I dont agree with it being a downgrade in privacy.
Yeah, you're right. A good way to compare the relative increases is to go to 'Edit Graph' and set a log scale in the 'Format' tab. That makes it clear the relative change in 2020 was huge.

I'm still not sure it will cause inflation though, since COVID has had a big deflationary impact and the Fed can always unwind if needed.
I'm using gcc 10.2.0. I tried clang 11 and got more or less the same thing, so it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

Neither did messing with flags, like (I tried -fno-semantic-interposition -march=native and a few others).
Have been investigating matrix/element.io over the last few months so will probably move to that
shrug. It's largely opinion-based, I guess. My pet peeve (which also illustrates my point, but again, in an opinion-based way): there is no documented, 'officially supported' way to get the path of the current script in R. That is not a problem for amateur programmers who don't think about things like robustness, distribution etc, and it's needlessly complicated and bolted on in SAS, too. But it's still silly and indicative of R's typical use cases. Excel is reliable and well documented too, and I still wouldn't call even complicated workbooks 'software engineering'.

And CRAN... well... let's just say that people used to point to CPAN as a strength of Perl, too... All that sort of archives, after the first few years which comprise mostly of contributors with deep knowledge and who can produce high quality libraries, turn into dumping grounds for trivial half-assed 'libraries' under the guise of 'community contributions'. Example: try to do trivial compound interest simulations in R. So basic that it's barealy worth calling 'finance'. There are (at least) three packages on CRAN that claim to do this, except that (depending on which variable in the equation you want to solve for) they all provide only part of the solution, in mostly incompatible ways. And this is because very few of the people putting code into CRAN know how to... well... write good code. This is not an indictment of those people; many of them are much more intelligent than a bunch of us combined. It's just that for them coding is a byproduct, and with good intentions they share what has been useful for them, it just leads to a situation of 'in the land of the blind one eye is king'.
Much worse protocol, but much better company.
When they run out of money to pay for servers they can sell assets as they please to whomever they please.
Yeoman uses grunt and sets up grunt for you in your new application.
If "design" is meant to refer to how things work rather than how they look, then it's clear that the majority of people talking about "design" with respect to software UIs are using the term incorrectly.

People who call themselves "designers" in this context, and at the present moment, generally are prioritizing screenshot aesthetics over functional utility, and we're getting worse software because of it.
I would suspect that, since the whole method of action seems to be to reduce the cells' metabolic need for oxygen, there wouldn't be damaged from "deprivation" because the cells would still be getting all the oxygen they required.
Not that anyone cares about follow up to obvious click-bait, but the LAT issued an apology admitting the headline was misleading.

www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0320-drought-explainer-20150320-story.html
Wow, it remind me www.incredibox.com
Why would that be a reason to prefer to implement your entire game in native code?
I'm the same way! Should have used '@' to create a pointer, and '*' to deref one. They got it all twisted up in 'C'.
There are so many desktop DAW's out there that we felt we needed something unique about us in order to compete. Our site focuses on a cloud based experience. The goal is to make collaboration and sharing really easy.
Thanks for the feedback. We're testing confirmation-less registration now and will likely roll it out later today. It's very important to us that people find it easy to comment (though that's checked by concern for keeping a handle on abuse, given the politics of the site's content).

best,
Charlie (BtB staff)
+1 on the recognition of having a supportive spouse - this is a huge factor in my motivation and lack of depression. I know what you mean about comparing yourself to someone accomplished. I keep this as a google document for when I need a reminder to keep going:

A list of Abraham Lincoln’s Failures:

- Lost job, 1832

- Defeated for legislature, 1832

- Failed in business, 1833

- Elected to legislature, 1834

- Sweetheart (Ann Rutledge) died, 1835

- Had nervous breakdown, 1836

- Defeated for Speaker, 1838

- Defeated for nomination for Congress, 1843

- Elected to Congress, 1846

- Lost renomination, 1848

- Rejected for Land Officer, 1849

- Defeated for Senate, 1854

- Defeated for nomination for Vice-President, 1856

- Again defeated for Senate, 1858

- Elected President, 1860
I think the concept is good hypothetically, but wouldn't work in practice. People are not that organized. Knowing beforehand where you are going to go and what you are going to do at various points in the future is hard enough to imagine, let alone consistently input into a computer, even if there is a value proposition as he points out. That's my thinking anyway.
Is there a reason why he intentionally mis-capitalizes "Facebook" to "FaceBook"?

Scott Adams strikes me as a careful and fastidious writer; I'm wondering if there is an inside joke that I'm not getting.
Out of curiosity, what resolution are you running at?
Telling the world what you did and are doing assumes the world cares. This is a stretch, but people do it.

Not only telling the world what you are planning on doing, but expecting guidance from peers even more optimistic. I don't see this often in facebook status updates, or at least not things that people can really expect help from like Adams envisions. Displaying your intentions puts all your cards on the table; it's biologically discouraged. I don't think this will work.
... and you'll see why 2010 won't be like "2010".
I've tried three times and can't get this page to load.
It's not clear if that's an IPS LCD identical to the iPhone 4's, or if it's a non-IPS LCD with the same resolution.
> “The things they write, it’s clear that they never expect them to be read,” said the Fountain Hopper staff member. “They’re very frank.”

I guess that'll now change. It'll become like what employers do when asked about a former employee's job performance - name, rank and serial number only.

The admissions committee may also become closed door meetings, with nobody allowed to take written notes or minutes. Verbal only.
Ah.. yeah, my English is not very good.

I mean Mesos tries to be platform to build on top. Some common denominator for other solutions.
In 2008 an app charging $1,000 that told people you were rich was censored. In 2021 we celebrate non-fungible tokens, 6-figure digital basketball cards and million dollar memes.
Sharepoint has version control? I thought it´s mostly a poorly functioning Dropbox copy.
We will see. My prediction is ECS becomes pretty much a zombie service. It's neither easier to use or better than managed k8s in any dimension that matters so overtime will bleed even more market share.

What AWS has to be careful with here is that when people make the move to k8s they might depart AWS altogether and go to GCP/Azure as you are throwing away a lot of their lock-in in the process.

This would be less of a problem if EKS was better so they probably need to be spending more time there than ECS, that ship has sailed.
Using good passwords (i.e. alphanum, case sensitive, perhaps with some special characters) in end user deployment is a support nightmare. Imagine you are trying to tell such password to user over a phone on a support call. The 10 digit number sequence is unsafe but is easy to handle - people are used to phone numbers and account numbers.
I hope that he is right on point 7. I plan to emigrate to the USA and the H1-B route is just insane.
I am a skilled engineer in a field where there is a lot of demand, it should be extremely easy for me to move there.
Peter Thiel had a few good things to say about this in Zero to One along the lines of what you wrote.

Perhaps it isn't so helpful to generalize here but,

a) New businesses that are built for non-digital processes and workflows are very inefficient. Not every new small business is going to gain a decisive strategic advantage in their market. Almost none will. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be teaching students business (value of the MBA another conversation.)

b) I'm not a VC but the returns for startups is something along the lines of lose 100% of the money, may be return the investor's capital, or post a great return. All the mechanics underlying what it takes to make it to 'great return' by itself limit the number of big winners. This isn't investing in apartment buildings, creating a new food franchise, or arbitraging bonds. Most likely the "me too" trend riders will end up in the lose 100% of the money box. That is unless we get leveraged start up investing. Then it could get quite interesting.

I like Nassim Taleb's extremistan analogy for this conversation.
Banking and brokerage portal access data.

Utilizing Splunk as analytics and alerting platform to correlate real time financial activity events with multiple threat intelligence feeds.
I think SVGs are emerging as the current standard, logos are naturally vector anyway and being able to reuse a cached version is useful.
Indeed. 90% of the time, the reason it's so costly to get anything done in industry isn't the developer's technical ability to get the job done, it's operational constraints: build pipeline, ops, company policy, communications breakdowns. If you can remove most of those impedances by only doing 20% of the work and still making 80% of the return on your investment, there's little reason to sink budgets into the other 80% of the work. It might seem wasteful when you look at something and see optimizations left here and there, optimizations that are a cake walk to the average developer, but the optimization doesn't always save/make as much as it costs to implement/deliver.

Even though the 15 lines of code seems simple and you can knock it up in a prototype in 6 minutes... that 6 minutes of your effort then needs to have tests written for each workflow, it needs to go through a Product Owner who needs to assign acceptance criteria, it needs to go through a QA test plan, it needs to get through acceptance testing and hopefully you've got a battery of tests that means it doesn't need to go through regression testing... and then assuming you've got CI/CD in place, it initiates the deployment pipeline and makes it to production without any major headaches. So you see, the optimization even though simple on your own project, and may not appear to "cost" much - certainly not in terms of technology actually has a massive amount of "hidden" costs - which is why it takes large corporations so long to deliver anything.
I would jump at an MP3 player with the capacity of an iPod but software better than iTunes for synching or indeed the native iPod (Classic for me, I need the space) software.

What are the problems for me?
* Abysmal interface for large collections. _You_ try navigating around a multi-thousand entry main playlist.
* Because it insists on maintaining its own database but doesn't make any effort to keep it up-to-date, it goes bad easily if you do _any_ housekeeping. Decide you don't like a file and move it out of your main folder, or have to rerip an album for a reason? You now have to manually move the old files out from iTunes, one by one. I might be able to do better if I let iTunes manage my library, but given how much I prefer other software for playing off the PC rather than the iPod, that wasn't something I was prepared to do and it should be able to handle it better than this.
* Very basic duplicate files finding, which interacts with the above. Does such a simplistic match that it grabs huge numbers of false positives, making it unneccessarily difficult to find where you've actually got duplicates. You then can't see what the file path is or sort by the missing file marker so it's a real pain to remove the old version and leave behind only the new. Back to removing them one by one.
* I've no idea what it's doing, but it multiplies artists and albums all over the place. Other music library programs I've used were bright enough to tell that BEATLES, Beatles and The Beatles were all the same band. ITunes isn't, including giving some multiples that appear identical in the interface. It periodically does the same with albums too, making album playlists vastly less useful because rather than one seven track album you have seven, identically named, one-track albums with ascending track numbers.
* Play me my top rated songs within a genre. Can't do. Show me my top rated songs by a particular band or even within an individual album. Can't do.
* Podcasts resume part-way through if you jumped out into another part of the software; 'Songs' don't - why? That's annoying with some long classical or prog track, doubly so with a podcast I simply decided not to manage with ITunes (because, frankly, I didn't find its podcast software any better than the rest of it).

I could go on... It's one of the worst music managers / MP3 players I've used.

ITunes is pretty and relatively easy to use (for simple tasks - anything out of the ordinary is a real pain IMHO) but that's as far as I'd go in its praise. For me they've created an MP3 player which is designed to handle tens of thousands of songs but lumbered it with the software to do a few hundred and left it. That's not good enough. It might have been barely adequate in 2001 (I'm not convinced frankly) but it's an embarrassment by now.
Short answer: no. This is what distinguishes an investment in a limited liability business (LLC, Corp) from, well, indentured servitude.

I'm assuming their investment in startup #1 was made freely and without deception - they took a risk, like many other investors in many other startups, and it didn't pan out. Had it, they presumably would have enjoyed a return commensurate with the risk. Anyone investing in startups (or any high-risk vehicle) should be aware of... well, risk. Assuming everything was above board, they knew what they were getting into, and you don't owe them anything more than your best efforts in that venture.

Now, all that is not to say that you should be a jerk about it. You certainly should recognize the relationship, personal and professional and, say, let them join any investment round in the new startup.

Bottom line: if they want to actually get involved in this venture, it wouldn't be out of line to give them an opportunity to do so, perhaps on slightly favorable terms. But if they just want something for nothing - I call shenanigans.
I am pretty sure that this is not how it is supposed to work.
OTOH you might want to give me some stock for the good advise... =)
I found the followup at the bottom of the page equally interesting:
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/writefp
One of the primary reasons that Wikipedia is written by such a tiny percentage of its users is that the process of writing and editing is arcane and shrouded in one of the most insular online cultures in existence.

I don't know if greater access to its priestly class would mean a better or worse site, honestly. I'm sure there are thousands of people who are experts in their fields and could improve the content of the site greatly - but I can imagine that opening the floodgates and working to democratize authorship and editorship could also drag it further into the gutter.
A commercial proxy, or something specific to your company?
Recent grad who worked for a startup (the past 6 months) here.

You have to be extremely lucky to find a startup that:

1) actually has the funding they say they currently/will have

2) actually will pay you what they told you they would pay you

Your best bet as a new grad is finding some impressive startup people who have great track records. Do some cool stuff for them, and tutor/wait tables for real cash on the side.

Part-time jobs will reduce your risk of running out of money. Working for the right startup founders will improve the chances that your startup succeeds. I can't find the source on this, but people who have previously failed to start companies are much more likely than not to fail again; people who have been successful in the past are more likely to succeed in the future at starting a company.

It's way easier said than done to find the right people. The amount of deception out there for new grads is sickening. People know that new grads don't know jack. You're up against a lot, even if you are smart and you regularly browse HN. Be careful out there.

I wish you the best of luck.
Wales admitted he was wrong to me through a mutual friend. I don't think he ever publicly recanted, though.
Why would TCP DNS overtake UDP "quite quickly" when it hasn't done so in the past decade? What's meaningfully changed about DNS recently?
does it really work like that? i thought the banks had to cop the losses due to fraud.
This is a news article, I haven't seen any indication in the article that they actually covered a specific case of criticism. As it seems to me this is more of a case of reporters conducing research on the effects of donation and the direct intervention medical industry in Africa and presenting the negative effects it might have.
The Bill and Melinda Gates tag is a "click bate" which has nothing to do with it being an internet article. Virtually every news article these days and for as long as i can remember needs a hook and this is a fairly easy one to boot.
Is it completely fair? probably not, is it grossly wrong? not really...
not officially anyway...