jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Chimps have done most of that with their termite sticks. A Japanese snow macaque named Imo invented a new piece of technology when she discovered, and taught others, how to wash sweet potatoes in salt water to get the sand off.

What humans do that is unique is use language to pass on complex pieces of information. Though there was an African grey parrot named Alex who was plenty capable... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6KvPN_Wt8I
Sure, it's a very targeted product and we're still in the process of refining the business requirements, so apologies for any vagueness.

The firm (which I have done work for) focuses on various tax matters for international corporations and high net-worth individuals. The product will streamline certain compliance tasks performed for clients. Initially, they requested this as a private project, but given the fixed costs, they have agreed to explore offering the product to other firms.

Specifically, if anyone can provide some advice on recruiting a partner for a product with a built-in customer, I would be grateful. In my mind, this minimizes risk and introduces a different dynamic than you would find with an unproven product and no revenue.

I'm not so concerned with the getting version 1 out the door, but having someone to help with more scalable deployment, on-going maintenance and devising/implementing a product roadmap would allow me to focus on marketing the product after the initial launch (the alternative is to outsource for any help I need and keep this as a private project, but it seems like a straight-forward opportunity).
I'm curious if this is not only an effect, but also a cause. If the news reports that it is unusual for women to be in computing, doesn't that in a small way reinforce that message within popular culture? Newsweek should know better.
Pfft. Anyone who has spent 15 minutes around Bio and Chem girls knows that they can be hardcore geeks. :)
use an interval tree
I got that too. Did a search for user "Kentor" on the site and was able to get a list of his comments on shacknews, and there is a ghost of a comment from Dec 25 that says "you guys could have avoided this conversation..." and has the same comment id as the link from electronista. Looks like it was deleted, along with several other comments that appear to be on the same topic.
http://www.shacknews.com/search.x?type=comments&terms=&#...
No, productivity has increased massively, but not due to better editors or IDEs. Those have shown only marginal improvements, if any. (Is any modern environment more productive than a Lisp Machine or Smalltalk?)

But some of the main productivity drivers are distributed version control systems, dependency management libraries, and sites like GitHub for sharing code and libraries.

Being able to automatically generate a project from a template, and pull in any open source library written by anyone on the planet with a single line in a config file, is amazing.

Also, remote hosting and cloud provisioning to quickly deploy any code to be used by anyone in the world with a web browser. Arguably even app stores by eliminating the need to figure out distribution and payments on your own.
(The stuff maybe not everyone considers "development", but is key to the overall productivity of any software project.)
I agree with your conclusion, but not your premise. As a politician it could be very dangerous to simply ignore a lobbyist.
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>”... told only from the winner's point of view is what makes a lot of people not know that the US lost Vietnam war.”

This is confusing. VN winning means people don’t understand the US losing? Or VN wining meant they wanted others to believe the US won the war? Or the US actually lost but never the less your assertion doesn’t apply?
Bitcoin Cash functions as peer to peer electronic currency with low fees. No need for Mastercard when using it.
I send them to squarespace. 99% of the time it is sufficient for most people.
Couldn't agree more. Why didn't this redesign happen a long time ago anyway?
I was thinking Simon Peyton Jones. He just doesn't want the job as he is happy working for MSR.
A capacitor meter would make it quick!
NSA said in a statement Friday that there have been "very rare" instances of willful violations of any kind in the past decade, and none have violated key surveillance laws.

So there have been willful violations, but they didn't violate key surveillance laws? How does that work?
Use the advanced search, map out your ideal response api: http://archive.org/advancedsearch.php And build a better ui.

I tried it out and made a little music player in under a few hours.

Example (url may break): http://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=description%3A%28amb...
> quite a bit of bandwidth to give away for free as a loss leader

Really naive question, I'm sure, probably a simple answer for anyone working in providing services at this scale, but...

Why is everyone's business so dependent on funding expensive bandwidth? We've had bandwidth sharing for over a decade, what didn't P2P solve?
"If a platform has to work this hard to define and explain what it is, it might not be that great of a platform."

Reminds me of the first years of twitter. People either loved it or hated it. But, almost no one understood it.

"What genuine advantage does Medium offer regular, non-hyper-connected authors"

About 100 first readers. I guess that depends on the channels you post on. I only made 3 posts all in "what I learned building" collection.
Some pointers to these (meta)studies would be very nice.
His article shows why we need a wealth tax instead of an income tax... There is a huge difference between a hard working manager making $100k and an equally hard working owner with $10m in assets. I suggest dropping the income tax entirely, and tax wealth under $50k at 0%, $50k - $1m at 1%, $1m - 10m at 2%, $10m - $100m at 3%, $100m - $1b at 4%, and everything higher at 5%. This keeps even billionaires motivated to work hard to earn returns on their assets, without taking from the little guy who can't afford it.
Too slow to make the connection here... can you explain your reasoning?
It's sad really. I gave a talk a year ago on debugging with the pdb, the basics. Turns out I was the only developer who had ever used the pdb as opposed to bucket listing it.
The answer is staring at you. You base all your arguments on agreement that the free market is under attack and being regulatory captured. The govt. is the only institute that can help level the playing field.

This is influencing 101 :)
That's actually a pretty convincing list! You might want to consider adding a feature comparison matrix for a few of the more popular formats in a prominent location. It also probably wouldn't hurt to lead the page with a small example of encoded text, the way MessagePack does (it's what got me to give their website a closer look, which led to GitHub, and then I started using it).

Regarding the point about having a sister text format, I suppose I'd tend to view JSON as filling that role. Not to bother you for a second comparison, but if you happen to have it handy seeing how CTE compares to JSON in terms of encoding efficiency would be interesting to me.

Edit: I found a list of MessagePack <--> JSON limitations that I hadn't really thought about! (https://github.com/ludocode/msgpack-tools#differences-betwee...)
> abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal

And who on earth would seriously think that this would be any other than total nightmare?
There are a few good resources worth checking out in the end of this article: https://ivypanda.com/essays/what-is-philosophy/
Your assuming there is a test in place to detect gold in FedEx packages. That's not acutally a hard thing to test and I would be interested in the results.
>ou can configure proxying so that external API endpoints appear to the browser to be coming from the same domain

Where is the proxy server running?
they missed Google Genomics: https://cloud.google.com/genomics/
Chrome renders thin fonts stupidly thin on Linux (remember that Chrome uses it's reinvents the whole wheel when it comes to rendering!).

Are you using chrome by any chance?
Couple points against humans physically exploring and colonizing space...

* Can't go faster than light (or even a large fraction of the limit)

* Cost. Look at price per compute vs price to bring something to space and tell me which trend seems more durable. Things will keep getting smaller while space exploration may not.

* Space sucks! Very inhospitable. I'd rather live in a biodome on a ravaged earth than mars.

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Alternative things to spend huge amounts of money on:

* LHC and other research on very small things

* More telescopes in space (light travels at the speed of light at least! Let it come to us instead of vice versa!)

* Encouraging trend of cheaper compute (not that it needs it)

* Brain to computer interfaces.

* Medicine

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What's to say some low mass x-ray binary systems aren't the final stage of life evolution? Super efficient harvesting of the sun and everyone living in a computer/black hole? Transcension hypothesis basically.
Yeah, but it was his risk to take, and he took it. He seems wise enough to be somewhat risk-averse, but I really doubt he'll get in trouble for it.
> MSFT has a history of spouting out bs claims about its own browser superiority over others

who doesn't?
http://www.giveforward.org/ was created for this purpose. They are now an excellerate labs company also.
Cars don't scale. Cities like LA, Houston, and Phoenix which are designed to be car friendly still have traffic jams.

Actually I'd say cities don't scale, at least not beyond the ~5 million people mark. Despite traffic, LA is still reasonably navigable by car, and the LA metropolitan area is about as big as any city should ever be.

Car friendliness is necessarily opposed to pedestrian friendliness, bicycle friendliness, and possibly even mass transit friendliness. For any given street, you're going to have to make a direct design tradeoff between car-friendly and human-friendly

Perhaps, but pedestrian-friendliness, bicycle-friendliness and mass transit friendliness are directly opposed to another kind of human-friendliness: the kind that allows people, especially families, to live at a comfortable density. The only way to make a city navigable by non-car means is to cram people in at high density: okay for some (heck, I live in a thirty-storey building myself) but not for others.

Cars are unsafe.

Not especially so, compared to a lot of other things.

Cars are energy-inefficient

Caring if other people use energy efficiently sounds way too much like ideology to me.

Good urban development patterns--mixed-use, walkable neighborhoods and the like--are incompatible with car-friendliness

As I said, car-unfriendliness is incompatible with quarter-acre blocks and giving your children a yard to play in. Besides, there's no reason why mixed-use neighbourhoods can't be car-friendly.
"monetizing infringement" ... a wonderfully cromulent idea!
I might be totally wrong, but the date (June 7) and the fact that this is being announced just after a month of iPad launch might mean Apple might have dropped a bomb on AT&T internally (like no more exclusivity) which would be announced in WWDC and AT&T is retaliating.
The fact that he doesn't write much about the code in the article suggests me that he doesn't really know how to make scalable processing

If you read his blog, you may revist that opinion. He wrote the custom email server that powers mailinator which processes over 2 million emails an hour.

Take a look at http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condit... or http://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/on-java-visibility.ht... for example.

And I bet you couldn't make it more optimal in C.
I have to say that it does seem like an app of limited utility. Surprising that thousands of people per month have decided that they really want to see their friends' xbox 360 stats when they're away from their xbox 360s.

Still, good luck to him!
It's weird that they use "solid water and gas" rather than "solid liquid and gas"

it may be accurate for most of their models, but what about the middle of the marshmallow? it's liquid, but it's not water, is it?
We don't really know. Data that show X dose of radiation increases the probability of developing cancer by Y% is based on studies on survivors of atomic blasts. The number of people exposed to an amount of radiation equivalent to a handful of CT scans is pretty small relative to the effect size that's claimed, so there is reason to be skeptical.

See https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-much-ct-scans... for a jumping off point into this type of research.
You can ;-) The secret sauce in Julia is to use Revise.jl package. Is makes your life so much better. It observes source code changes while you are at the REPL. No need to restart everything.
We run one of their firewalls and it's pretty good, but between the security issues, and overhauling the licensing between 6.0 and 6.2 release, it's got me considering ditching it when we upgrade our network in the new year.
Why is the projected deficit so high?

Because of the cost of medicare. Which is basically a combination of demographics and the cost of medical care, with the cost of medical care being the driving factor. Doesn't that sound like an arena ripe for disruption by startups?

The energy crisis that will inevitably come, doesn't that sound like an arena well suited for startups?

There seems to be a tetonic shift right now that a lot of people have a big stake in ignoring.

VCs are meant to provide capital to entrepreneurs who need capital. Web apps don't really need capital in the initial stage, everyone knows how easy it is to boostrap your web app these days. That's why angels are growing in prominence - becuase they fit the funding level a lot better.

The VC's should be giving their attention to companies that require greater investment - my two examples are healthcare and energy but they are just 2. Solutions to billion and trillion dollar problems yield large returns on a few hundred million dollars. Can you see that coming out of the web sphere?

But your average software VC can't really pivot over to those fields, they have expertise in this area, and don't have the skills to evaluate bio-medical and energy startups. So instead of realizing this and packing it up and going home (or at least hiring some new people to evaluate deals) they are just strip mining the web app space until there is nothing left.

The guys in those fields don't necessarily have the entrepreneur mentality of a lot of software guys, so they aren't seeking the VCs the same way hackers are.
I wonder what PG thinks of this. Has the time come for Artix?
"(See how I can just make stuff up too?)"

Unfortunately, I didn't make up my post. Your reply is just as interesting without peppering in a baseless accusation.
A byproduct of the maximum alleviation of scarcity is that there is no more economic rent for firms. This means that web/software entrepreneurs in general wouldn't be making huge money, they'd only be making enough to cover their opportunity cost of their next best alternative.

In this scenario, people would be motivated to do it because it's either the only thing they know how to do, or their true passion and more important to them than anything else. Either way, while the consumer wins, the entrepreneur loses in terms of cash (but maybe not in terms of personal fulfilment).
Become a pundit and solicit advertisers willing to market to an audience of your particular ideology.

You'll be slowly destroying humanity, but the web is a prime frontier for a Glenn Beck wannabe with online/social/seo savvy.
The sshd process for your connection is still present on the server and looks like: "sshd: username@notty". You can find it easily with a grep of running processes.

ps aux | grep sshd.*notty
So, if PR is the only thing holding these guys back then surely many ISPs are already doing this secretly, right?

Personally, I encourage everyone to fully exploit any and all data they can get their hands on, for whatever purpose interests them. Until everything is encrypted end-to-end, somebody will always be doing it anyway. The sooner the general public figures that out and starts channeling their outrage into a real solution, the better.
Have you considered the problem that any publicly available indicator suffers from the fact that being the first to execute the strategy is the only way to make money? This would imply an entirely algorithmic trading strategy to reduce any potential for delay. That's how we end up with HFT. Maybe not subsecond HFT but <10s HFT.
In my experience this is 100% the case with all IaaS providers. AWS's entire IP space is basically on all email block lists for example.
No, but they do take cellphones.
> Sorry, but that's EXACTLY how coups work in the real world. You disrupt the government in such a way that the rule of law fails.

Come on. Rule of law doesn't stop working just because a couple of politicians don't get to sign papers on schedule. If it was that easy, the country wouldn't last a month without a successful coup.

> In fact, it's been reported that at least one Trump goal was to push certification out beyond the 11 day (I think, details are fuzzy) deadline in the electoral count act and force the house to decide.

I'd think the supreme court would have to decide if that's constitutional. If it is, then it's a crazy legal loophole and Trump would just be the first to exploit it.

> You're simply saying that it didn't work.

No. I'm saying that this "insurrection" is being blown out of proportion. Biden is elected. Trump has called his goons home.

> It is VERY easy to imagine an alternate universe where Pelosi and Pence are still being held hostage right now.

Sure, but moving forward, should we judge these people by what one might imagine could have happened, not what actually happened? I don't think so.
As someone who has seen both of them work (and who got sued on the same lawsuit)... I wish people would stop putting geohot up on a pedestal. His entire career has been about self-promotion (something which he is very good at), but he got his start taking credit for other people's work (that SIM lock stuff was largely just implementing stuff other people told him about). He even took credit from my/our (fail0verflow's) work when he did the thing that got him sued (published some PS3 private keys), which was just him implementing the ECDSA attack we had detailed in a presentation a week prior, without a single mention until I emailed him to ask him to do so.

Alyssa's Panfrost work is leaps and bounds ahead of anything geohot has ever personally done.

Pretty much everyone of our profile gets started at around that age (I was porting Linux to a weirdo ISP router at 14 and working on Wii hardware and homebrew, the first "well known" thing I did, starting at 16-17), but somehow geohot has marketed himself to be some kind of genius when he's one of the more mediocre hackers I've known. He's not bad these days, but he has always represented his skills as being way better than they actually are, and taken solo credit for work that involved other people, his entire career.
> If you listened to these people 30 years ago, you would expect we would all be engulfed in a fire ball by now.

Once again, can you link to a significant (say, a fifth) share of the papers on this topic at the time that claim that? Or if that's not what you mean by "these people", how about even a single one?

> these people need to be held accountable for studies that they did in the past that didn’t work.

If there are such papers, did anyone ever show that a single one of these did not the best they could with the information available at the time? Again, any sort of analysis (of your own or by anyone else) that shows negligence or anything of the sort would give your ideas some sort of credibility.
You fully and entirely misunderstand the argument. The argument is that after the McDonnel Douglas merger, the "idyllic culture of building great and safe products" was pillaged and destroyed by greedy corporate overlords. At this point (so goes the argument) all the "good engineers" who would have most certainly spoken up were laid off and were replaced with dime-a-dozen engineers who were overworked, underpaid, and didn't know what they were doing.

In essence, the great engineering culture at Boeing was dead at the time of the 737 MAX debacle and the death of Boeing's previously near perfect engineering culture was directly responsible for the failure of the 737 MAX.
Came to post this. A great film.
Be careful, your Cash Debit card will not function outside of the USA.
That's just about what mine does as well, except pages will inherit headers above them in the directory structure, so I could make the top bar pretty without JS.
I just can't get my head around why political speech is permitted to be false..

Have Facebook ever actually given any solid reasons for this decision?
When I was 18, I'm sure I would have agreed with you. After some more time living among other people, I think I can say I've moved past that. If you have not, all the more power to you!
Another robot for kids is called Riq [1]. It was on HN a few weeks ago [2] and one of the comments has a bunch of links to other robot kits.

[1] http://riq.edventureslab.com/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8748342
Pro tip: Building repeatable and distributable tooling patterns is a great way to break into client sites as a consultant
If Google had been bought by them, the would have been starved to death for resources from the messy merger with @Home.
SIGGRAPH is the ACM's special interest group on computer graphics, held annually. This SIGGRAPH course talks about how path-tracing / raytracing is used in production movies, including examples from some pretty big blockbusters (Avengers Infinity War, Endgame, Capt. Marvel, Spiderman: Homecoming, Alita: Battle Angel...)
I genuinely believe that’s a better starting point though.

It is absolutely true that everything can be hacked if they try hard enough, so the question is — how hard do they need to try, and what resources do they need?

As you reach an answer to that question, you either consider that level of investment a credible threat you need to worry about (in which case you invest in tightening things up) or you don’t (beers at 5?).
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law. - The Categorical imperative (Kant).

Basically, it's the next level of "do unto others". To determine whether your action is right or wrong, ask yourself what would happen to society if every person performed that action as a matter of habit.
The linked article cites a survey that it doesn’t currently link to, if it ever did, and implies it’s because kids are hungry; but without the survey we don’t know how it is phrased and they could be spending that money just to get the entire class cupcakes for birthdays or some kind of treats for holidays, rather than for feeding the hungry kids.
Sorry I thought we were talking about development tools here.
I think this is too cynical.

Companies routinely crow about charitable work, community involvement, social justice advocacy, cultural benefits of their work, etc. Companies pull out of states with undesirable politics, funds divest from fossil fuels, wealthy capitalists give away wealth, others speak out for higher taxes.... Almost all have some foundation or the other supporting some social good.