jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I do have a local instance of etherpad but the friction to get it running seems to be just enough to prevent me from firing it up. So mostly I use either textmate or something called writeroom. I like using textmate with markdown because you can highlight something, hit ⌘I, and it's italicized.

For a while I thought where I wrote mattered, but after producing good and bad just about everywhere I decided to just go with whatever jumps to mind first.

I'm amused when I look back at my "breadcrumbs," but I don't know if they're useful. They're just a record of a struggle you already went through. So it's not like you're going to learn a whole lot of new stuff.

Where they're useful is when you think to yourself, "maybe the way I phrased it was better." I did that a number of times, and probably wouldn't have been able to if I hadn't used etherpad.

It's really tough to say. I bet a lot of the benefits would accrue over the long run.
Oh Jon Udell, how did you fall off my feedreader?

My favorite, perhaps: http://jonudell.net/udell/gems/googleMaps2/gmap2_flash.html

/me goes off to catch up on jonudell.net
Very interesting. Is this basically what you're talking about?

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/New-Fingertip-Pulse-Oximeter-OLED-USB...

I may need to get one of these.
For anyone thinking about buying the Kuru Toga, I'd highly recommend getting the original Japanese "High Grade" version (metal housing, rather than plastic) from JetPens instead: http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/product/view?products_id=44...

I've been using it on a daily basis since September and it's absolutely phenomenal.
Mirror of the picture link in the last version (took a while to respond when I tried to view it): http://imagefrog.net/show.php/133491_tsewlms2.jpeg
Ah, must be the new kubernetes.js frontend framework :)
Interesting. While I agree with the general premise (a lot of mathematics is a human-made construction), the concrete examples she provided feel somewhat forced. Especially the comparison to OOP - I personally don't see how it adds to understanding the various subdivisions defined by abstract algebra.
These look very interesting. I think I'll probably end up purchasing these.
This is exactly how I make music. There's three distinct steps, sound creation, arrangement, and mastering. Usually I don't spend more than 15-30 minutes on any one track and sometimes as little as 5-10. But I have a huge pile of unfinished work in various stages, some I never get back to, but some I finish happily enough. My key to creative happiness is to be entertained, engaged, and moving forward.
As long as I can remember, I've always had intense social anxiety, but never generalized anxiety. In other words, interacting with people I don't know very well gives me intense anxiety, but that's about the only thing that does. I have no problem with public speaking, and I don't get anxiety when I'm by myself. Well, maybe a little bit, but not like the guy in the article. My main problem is that I obsess and overanalyze everything. For instance, I stood in the grocery aisle for half an hour trying to figure out which of two products was the better one. I ended up accessing research articles through my university's proxy service and reading them on my phone while I stood there.

I started Nardil after a very weird/disturbing relationship left me in a depressed state for many months. I had never been depressed before that. But it eliminated the depression almost instantly, and greatly diminished my social anxiety. Although I'm thinking of stopping it soon because the side effects are pretty bad. I didn't notice them at first, but they've crept up and are very noticeable now. Hopefully when I stop it my ability to handle social interactions will remain now that I've had some practice with it.
That's pretty interesting, thanks for sharing.
Read 15 minutes per day about your industry or improving your skillset. No matter where you start, within 5 years you'll be in the top 5% of your industry.
With virtual reality smartphones strapped to our faces running Alien Makeout Simulator [1], we're practically living in PKD's novel, "The Zap Gun" [2]!

This novel is set in a then-future 2004. There is still a (theoretical) Cold War between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its allies. At the elite governmental level, however, both "sides" have secretly come to an agreement. They have decided that, instead of continuing the ecologically and economically crippling nuclear and conventional arms race, they will pretend to be constantly developing new weapons, which are then "plowshared." This means that these items are transformed into novel but baroque consumer products. Most of these weapon designers are mediums, who create their new designs in trance states. Design of weapons are extracted telepathically from a motion comic book, The Blue Cephalopod Man from Titan, created by mad Italian artist Oral Giacomini.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS9LPwSZI0s

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zap_Gun
> IMHO, it's a lot easier to track down what is happening where in Grails as opposed to Rails.

Do you have any examples here? I can't think of a time when I've had to hunt long to figure out where things are happening in Rails.
The main cost of compute is electricity.

The main cost of hard drives is intellectual property (ie. Paying for the R&D, patents and licenses for all the tech inside).

It isn't clear that "wasting" intellectual property is in any way bad for the wider economy. In fact, it probably just subsidies storage for the rest of us in the long term.
It's incredible how many people keep missing the man's point. Almost making it for him. His point is the gaming industry is still completely filled with mindless NPCs and simple boolean interactions. He calls out God of War in another article as an extreme disappointment.

The fact that everyone here is saying his ideas have continued, but keep naming the same two or three games made by only a couple gaming companies, in a niche genre proves how right he is. If you want any form of deep interactivity play a deep strategy game, anything else besides that in game design is still about as interactive as pacman.

His point is that after 35 years and literal orders of magnitude improvement in processing power, the average game is still modeled using incredibly simplistic logic and makes for empty interactions. And take a look at most any top selling game and it's true.

Your average squirrel in the park has more interesting behavior or interaction than most game characters. It's essentially just been "better graphics, bigger explosions" for three decades now. None of that precludes dynamic interactions.

He's essentially arguing for Probabilistic Programming without using the term. And saying it should be at the heart of all games, no just deep strategy games. Actually a step further he says it should be at the heart of any interactive software

The second link below gives a pretty good overview of his thoughts on interactivity and how to model human and system behavior. Lesson 7 (how to express ideas mathily) while simple, was mildly interesting. Some of the others are better, but are harder to read standalone, build on prior items.

Essentially it's a summarized course of how to model the essentials of human behavior in a system. Not ground breaking, but at the same time, way more advanced than anything you see in the vast majority of games.

If I were writing a simple game, I'd skim link 2 for ideas I could steal and easily apply to up he interest factor. You definitely could build some interesting mechanics with these ideas.

[1] http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/game-design/crawfords-laws...

[2] http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/course-description-2018/in...

[3] http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/course-description-2018/ho...
Do you close off the vents in the upstairs rooms? Seems like that would help a lot in the winter.
Got mine a week ago. I always take notes and draw mind maps while working on a project, so this fits perfectly.

I like the pen and paper sensation, the fact that my handwriting is exactly the same as on paper, the ability to erase, rewrite, cut and paste.

I don't like the flaky sync but love seeing my drawings as PDFs. The LiveView function almost doesn't work but a third party app allows me to display the tablet on the desktop for Zoom meetings.

Arxiv PDFs are easy to read only if you crop or zoom, which is a bit unfortunate. I would have loved integration with Pocket, Dropbox, Arxiv and other sources. There's no TTS option, which is also unfortunate, because I find TTS doubles my focus when reading technical text.
The whole problem this solves doesn't exist in the JVM.
Bothers me too. I think it's a weasel-y move because it forces the customer to start a convo at an information-disadvantage.
It imports from Mexico and neighboring grids.

From ERCOT's own Q&A:

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EEA1

When the reserves drop below 2,300 megawatts, Emergency Energy Alert 1 is activated. That’s when ERCOT communicates to the public and to power generators that the situation is deteriorating.

At this time, ERCOT will import power from other states and from Mexico. This regularly happens during peak summer months and is not new. But right now, because prices are so cheap, and unrelated to the weather, ERCOT was already importing power from Mexico and other power grids.

Rotating outages do not happen during this stage.

EEA2

When the electric reserves drop to 1750 megawatts, other steps are taken to bring on additional capacity, but rotating outages are still not yet activated.

EEA3

When the reserves get to 1,000 megawatts and they are not expected to recover within 30 minutes, ERCOT will then ask electric suppliers like Oncor and Reliant to begin rotating outages to reduce load on the system.

ERCOT said the location of outages would be determined by each provider like Oncor and Reliant.

https://www.wfaa.com/article/weather/texas-power-outages-fre...
But this already presumes that the universal goal is to be flourishing and happy, rather than to be free. These goals are often opposed. What I'm honestly asking is from where authority is derived for the "flourishing" camp to force their opinions onto the "freedom" camp?

The main value I'm proposing is "consent". It's rather less arbitrary than "flourishing" or "happy" or "fair". The basic premise is that all human interactions, relationships and associations ought to be as consensual as we have realized romantic ones ought to be. You're no more entitled to a surgery or a loan than a partner. If you disagree, then all I'm asking is from where do you derive the entitlement?
> The number of times such an activity would be useful to me is zero.

You say that now, but it's the kind of innovation that will require some time to develop use-cases. I use it as an example of where crypto is just a lot more powerful than traditional banking. There's the ability to scale without "permission". Think a 12 year old opening an "account".

> However calling my bank and having cash recalled from fraudulent (or even just bankrupt) merchants, that's happened. Who do I call at Bitcoin?

Escrow accounts and merchant layers are in development. There's a lot of interesting DeFi (decentralized finance) services being developed on Ethereum.
Building new cooling towers would drive our costs up as we would have to pay for the capex of the towers in addition to the rest of the process. For now, we are trying to keep everything as low-cost as possible.

Cooling towers typically run outside since they sometimes have water evaporating out the top of them, but even if cooling towers were inside, this would still be a great solution. CO2 concentrations indoors are sometimes even higher than the ones outdoors, which may allow for even higher carbon capture amounts than outdoor systems would.
I have, for a major shipping product that requires extremely high reliability. The project is ~300 KLOC and about 10% Swift now. I'm so glad I put the effort in now instead of later. It'll be quite an asset over the next couple years, people seem afraid to switch from Objective-C. However, Swift is clearly superior in speed of development as well as code quality.
This is the most ridiculous article you will ever read. The author has jumbled personal beliefs of one of the movie crew members, different works of different directors, and complete nonsense. Its title can as well be How movies have embraced Newton's Law (with examples of how action-and-reaction was observed when a guy hit another, and how did the actor slipping on ice did not stop).
I just listened to it and it is full of good quotes, my favourite: "Discussions without good definitions are doomed to fail." (about the upcoming NoSQL dabate). I feel that's still ringing true in that sector.
I'm pretty sure airlines are outfitting their planes on a proper maintenance schedule. Mostly, I want cheap enough flights with decent flexibility around changing the flight. I want to leave and land on time.
In China, KFC used to require reservations. (!!)

Pretty hilarious.

In the US, McDs is a house of horrors. Look at the Palo Alto location: bathroom from hell even the devil wouldn't use, terribly underpaid/unmotivated staff and worse decor.
Yeah, those career listings are pretty bland. Not much sense of what you'd actually be doing, or even what the company is hoping to do in a bigger sense. If nothing else, more specificity in both those areas would help you stand out. Especially since, as you say, it's publishing and techies are kind of skeptical about their role in that.

And "competitive compensation" to me signals "eh compensation". It's a pretty weaselly word.

Also, I didn't see any technical people mentioned on the About page? Are they not part of the team?

Here's what I'm getting at- sell people on the vision and what their specific role in it would be. What impact are they going to have, both in the company and in the world? As a startup, you've got the vision thing, or at least you damn well better, and it's your advantage. :-)
See also http://neo900.org/news/xmas-update for a status update.
Maybe the AngelList data is why startups have trouble finding good engineers? There is no good way of finding out what a good developer should get, and that is because the companies (including yours) like it that way.

I only have anecdotal data, I don't think many people have more, but I am very sure a decent senior dev can get way more than what you are offering.

I think there is more to a job than just the salary, but at least be open about the fact that there are open positions doing similar work in the same city offering significantly more.
That's cheaper than in the US. ;)
> What makes you think that immigration is going to result in an increase in high-quality applicants to your company?

I don't think immigration is a panacea (in fact, my primary point in this thread has just been to rebuke the argument that salaries aren't rising so therefore there isn't a tech shortage). That being said, we do have some overseas contractors who I'd love to bring in-house if the immigration system didn't make doing so incredibly byzantine and challenging.

> Chances are there are other startups competing for the same talent that seem to be working on more challenging problems and have better prospects than you.

I do think this is truthfully a big part of the challenges. Despite the fact that our CEO has a great track record (two successful exits, last one for $545M+) and that we're actually building some cool technology (using data & technology to make it easy for writers to understand how their content flows across the web and to adapt their writing accordingly) many are turned off by the fact that we're working in "publishing."

Unfortunately, at this point it seems almost impossible to hire good developers unless you're Google—even if you have a viable business model and interesting/new technology (microservices, graph analytics, etc.).

> Unless you can pay stupid guap or are working on something really, really objectively interesting, one of the best and most underutilized techniques for finding great employees is to hire decent folks with potential and develop them into great employees.

We're very big on hiring based on potential, but there is a certain baseline. Particularly because our engineering team is small as it is, bringing on junior devs would be somewhat unfair to our existing developers—increasing their workload.
I was a heavy Vim user, and what worked for me was forcing myself to use emacs for a project. Other people use evil-mode, but I kept the standard key bindings. Use the help as much as you can, and learn about functions like C-h k and C-h m. I stayed with emacs for org-mode, for buffer management, and then for projectile, magit, flycheck, mu4e, etc etc...
Facebook is good at making sure you see whatever you've previously chosen to engage with, whether or not that engagement was "agreement". If you like to argue, FB will give you lots of disagreeable stuff from the sort of disagreeable people you like to argue with.
Is really hard to sell something to the hotels, in our own experience: https://medium.com/startup-lesson-learned/our-real-love-are-...

But if is something not so hard to manage, i think that you could find some Wordpress Themes for Hotels and to talk with the developers of each one and works with them in the integration using WP.

Another strategy is connecting directly in Linkedin with: Ecommercer or Revenue Managers.

Best!
Also gets digestion going if you had a heavy lunch...
Isn't 80% of startup world delusional, Empirically speaking ?
WeWork, Nikola, Theranos, Blue Apron, Grubhub (walking dead),Uber Autonomous, could go on and on. We have been told these companies have the best and brightest board members.
This is almost perfect trolling because I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. So I'm just exiting out of this one :-)
> Gates owns approximately 242,000 acres of farmland with assets totaling more than $690m

yeah thats not that much? keyword is private owner. bill gates is one of the wealthiest individuals on earth so of course if he puts a fraction of his net worth into land then he will become the biggest private owner because the other private owners dont have as much money as he does.

he is NOT the biggest land owner in the united states because there are many companies that own tons and tons of land. they just arent being compared here because they are companies, and not "private owners"
8 billion dollars! from a Total Funding Amount of $20.6B [1]. Such a success.

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/wework
Thanks! Aha, so "state" here refers to the people running the country?

Rather than the citizens / "all people living there", (or geographical area)

So, could be organizations indirectly paid by, just an example, Putin or the CCP. But who the people in Russia or China don't know about (and might not have supported). -- I'm not a native speaker (I guess you've noticed :-))
Especially with the growing popularity of GPT-3 in the dev community, the market for paid language processing tools is getting tighter. Your approach -- focusing on grammar and institutional language -- fits a niche.

I would caution against paying per character. Too often a focus on monetization limits early-stage products. It's very rare to launch a product and see cash flow immediately.

Try to focus on the user experience. Maybe add variables that could improve the generated text - like an intended audience. This would naturally create a paid model (i.e. deeper degree improvements are paid).

Use the Hemingway app (https://hemingwayapp.com/) as an example of a free, value-added app. You're competing more against a tool like that than Grammarly.x
The thing is, there's Kelley's Blue Book.

A driver can know any day how much his car is worth and figure out the net profits from selling it and not Ubering anymore.

There's a paternalistic view of drivers (often non-white and immigrants) as too stupid to know their costs. But really most drivers wouldn't drive if they didn't earn money.
I'm using a normal computer with a normal browser. I have Opera and no Flash plugin. Most of the rest of the Web doesn't treat me like a second-class citizen.
Why would a giant daily auction not also be subject to speed effects? There'd be a measurable advantage to being able to submit your daily order as late as possible, surely?
Not to mention the fourth or fifth largest standing army in the world.
I really doubt Michael will make a "large amount of money" for the amount of time he has put in, even at $495 a pop, though I hope I'm wrong. I suspect the real value comes later when he raises his consulting rates.
Yes, the shift in body temperature helps facilitate sleep. You don't necessarily even need to take a cold shower. Even a warm shower should do the trick just as well, since your body temperature will still be shifting from its natural state.
PHP hosting is easier to find.
Competent and secure PHP hosting is hard to find. Most PHP hosts run with all the compatibility options on to support their existing customers who were too cheap to get their sites done right.
PHP is easier to start with, but more complex to grow in the right direction.
PHP is ridiculously inconsistent and frustrating ([1]).
If you get stuck, PHP coding help is easier to find... but it's useless 95% of the time as people give the same old wrong answers. Lower barrier to entry - more clueless "coders" on the forums sharing their (lack of) knowledge.
Following from last point, "coders" like that mean you can get more consulting gigs fixing their crap.

Personally, I stick to PHP for new projects because it's what I know - trying RoR out would have to be a spare-time endeavor, and I already have tons of stuff I like to do in my spare time. If I had no prior experience, I'd probably pick RoR though.

[1] ignoring the old tired rant about function naming: object->badproperty just causes a notice and carries on, object->badfunction() crashes with a fatal error, null->property, null[property] and 1 + undefined are also just notices... basically you want an error handler that turns anything into a fatal error, but then you can't co-op with any older code as even older "frameworks" such as Joomla are full of that crap.
I'd say not very much. I've been through the tutorial in both 2.3.5 and 3.0.0.beta and think the improvements in the latter justify developing in it. Probably a much more useful question to ask yourself is whether or not the plugins you'll need for your application have been tested, and work in Rails 3.
When viewed on Camino:

Nothing, I get a great big gray page with the Doom Button (the one to read flash) on it.

Oh yeah, and if I click on it, I can't copy the titles to my clipboard, my middle button breaks, I don't know where any link leads me and I don't get access to text services anymore. The bottom-right bunch of texts might as well be an image, nothing works on it and the links are completely fucked (instead of linking the text, you have to click the tiny little arrows on the right, how's that for discoverability?). Wheee.
Did this also influence the page ranking of your site? (I would have sent this in email, but your email address is not on your profile).
There's a point, here.

The are only two differences between political discussions on HN and political discussions in any random moderated forum.

1) The posts are shorter.

2) Most of those involved in such discussions think that the (almost-always) bog-standard partisan/ideological arguments they advance are somehow more insightful because they're smart programmers, entrepreneurs, or just geeks in general.
Having to support a panoply of marshaling standards would suck battery more, not less. I doubt XML vs. JSON vs. YAML per se makes any substantial difference in CPU usage. You might get a little mileage in going to a compact binary format and reducing data transmission, but is that worth it?