jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
yes, mostly lame. The owl is cute. Why would someone sign up if they have no idea what you are doing or offering? What kind of person do you think would sign up? Is that kind of person your business target? Slowly spoon-feeding info to the reader with animation is disrespectful. If you have something to say, put it out there so it can be read as quickly as the reader is able, or at least clicked through. Under the logo you have text in four different colors and weights. If everything is a different style, how do you know what to focus on? Is grab an invite a link?
Compress. How about" Enter your email to get an invite" Do people really need a green example of what an email address is? the animated text is amusing, are you going to be a comedy site?
I question the premise of this splash page. If anything, you should post a blog with some of the posts from your personal page about the process of putting together the site and go from there. I just don't get the "I am doing something so secret I can't tell you, but give me your email" concept. Go for the blog of your progress, at least that has something. Best of luck on the project.
codingbat.com offers online programming exercises in java. Since you already know the basics, it would be a good way to reinforce the skills you've learned.
in my RSS is also  Mark Suster http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/
who has some great post blogs around startup
getting warmer. the range of ascii characters is correct. The code isn't as simple though as just base59ing it.
Your proposal is highly unspecified. I suggest that you should add a durability term or the 50% effectiveness is meaningless. That is, for how long do you suspect there to be at least 50% effectiveness?
correct.

If you are a contractor you should be clear to do whatever you want with regards to overtime (because it doesn't exist.) Only employees are regulated by overtime laws.
However as many know the definition of contractor can be rebutted by an aggressive state DOL.

Then it comes down to control:
Who sets the schedule. Who pays the expenses. Who decides what is worked on. Who decides how long someone is working, etc.

Remote can only help Gum's case, and the way the founder describes the arrangement, it would seem to pass muster.

Be warned that passing muster does not mean that legally he would not need to fight it. Founder may mean expensive lawyer fees to defend Gum. So word of advice for Gum - document your processes for task management and scheduling internally , just as you document your code!

Be clear that it is the professionals (not you) who are dictating what gets done, and when. That should be enough.
You can not if you are an American. It's a shame.
> Apple is a bigger success story, profitable from day one.

Except they'd be gone without the Microsoft investment. Profitable companies don't end up on the verge of failure.
Assuming your wealth is 1/1e9 of his, you might have a couple dollars laying around as well.
"Coinbase is experiencing another outage of its website and mobile apps, a reoccurrence of a problem that seems to plague the leading cryptocurrency exchange whenever bitcoin’s price and volume spike."
Title should be updated to include that this system scans only via IPv4. Doing such a thing with IPv6 would be a little more surprising. (7.9228163e+28 times more difficult)
SEEKING WORK | Designer (UX/UI - Product)| Availability [OPEN]

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Location: San Francisco, Bay Area

Remote: Open

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I have been designing for more than 6 years and have taught at UC Berkeley as a UX/UI design instructor and now I would like to join a team as UX/UI designer or Product Designer role. Currently living in the San Francisco, Bay Area and am open to remote work.

I’ve taught people in design teams from companies like Blind, Crunchbase, and Salesforce.

Skills: CSS3, HTML5, JS, Bootstrap, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator and much more tools.

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I can be contacted below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/acbeltran/

Email: alan.chris.beltran@gmail.com
It sounds like they did have the phone. Otherwise, Wikipedia is doing some sketchy stuff if they can figure out what apps are on my phone just from my IP address (IMO unlikely)
Canada, Australia, most countries with a points based immigration system are much easier. My story was much like the grandparents. Moved to the US at 14 and bounced around between visas H4 -> F1 -> H1B. I didn't get my green card with the rest of my family because I turned 21 while the application was pending. I am in Europe now and will NEVER deal with US immigration again. There is truly nothing that will make me want to live in that limbo again.
Oh...and let's not forget all those they murder for not believing religiously as they do. No thanks.
This is unusable at this point. I think there are far too many bugs to show anyone this. Please get it to a point where you can have someone use it for 5 minutes without a bug that would stop them from proceeding.
I usually need to pinch a mega loaf right around lunchtime. I would love to do it earlier, but getting ready and commuting all use up too much time in the morning. Call me anti-social, but I treasure the "me time" that allows me to get it done w/o an unexplained long absence from my desk. Likewise, if I were expected to show up at the communal lunch table, I'm sure I would always be late and be met with snide remarks such as "everything come out all right?" and "out with the old in with the new, eh?" and other such witticisms. No, give me my very special session in the restroom followed by some time with my Kindle and a sack lunch in a quiet grotto, and I'm OK with the forced togetherness of the rest of the workday.
This is something that I've gone back and forth on myself when thinking about such using "Student/Entrepreneur." These are excellent examples for your point, and something I'll take into account as I continue to debate with myself over this.

I certainly, at least, had not thought of it from the perspective that using this fact might imply I was saying to excuse imperfections. That's of course not my intention in it, so the fact that it came up at all gives definite reason to continue considering changing this.

Thanks!
My worry with your argument (if I'm following correctly) is why should we compare/base US immigration policy on the policy of other nations? If we accept that US policy is more favorable than others, is it purely acceptable to meet the lowest bar? I'd argue we should always, in all facets of policy and life, be actively working to raise the bar.
Alexandra studied in Germany and the US. Her English should be fine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
While true, that may have made things worse by escalating the situation.
I have a suspicion that the plain interface itself filters the people the site attracts. Better looking interface would lead to a more reddit-like community. Make it uglier I say!
Unfortunately, Facebook demonstrates that only positive feedback tends to cause problems.

I do agree that downvoting (especially on political threads) is not working very well.
If a random sales person can easily go ahead and access PII on their own initiative, that's 1000x worse.
I worked at SAS a couple of years ago. The majority of jobs they will be offering are contractor positions with no benefits, and pay that in no way compensates for the crazy schedules they run. Starting pay was about $18/hr in 2018.

They aim for ~2/3 of their technicians being contracted positions. A tech might work there for YEARS before a conversion spot finally opens up. It's an absolute travesty and should not be allowed, IMO. Why should a company be allowed to have people doing the exact same jobs but only offering benefits to a select few?
Wow- and I thought it was weird and inappropriate when I got a linkedin message from a MongoDB rep basically saying "Hey! I'm the account manager for your company so let me know if you need help with anything Mongo related!" (subtext being, how can I convince you to use (more) mongo services on your project)
> For those with friends and family not in the service sector.

Most people in the service sector have mid-day availability a few days a week.

I spent a few years working weekends, so the only time I could hang out with friends outside of work was monday-tuesdays.
It my experience it actually warmed the room better than it warmed me. If I turned the fan up enough to make the air reach me it was cool air by the time it got to me. If I ran it on low it would slowly warm the room.
I would be willing to accept a huge discount in prestige to avoid an environment like that at USC, if I were choosing colleges again. If many people feel as I do, USC will either have to cancel its cultural revolution or fade into insignificance.
If the email came over an Azure customer support system, or even to the corporate email used to sign up for the Azure account, then sure - I would personally find this very obnoxious and it being buried in the license agreement is suspicious, but not really that unethical. Crucially, this arrangement means Canonical could engage in marketing without MSFT sharing much personal data about Azure users.

What's extremely unethical is contacting the person over LinkedIn. It's extremely aggressive and a huge violation of boundaries, and proves that Microsoft is sharing personal information (names of users) with Canonical.

If I buy something online from a store, I would expect a few spam emails. But it would be completely unacceptable if a sales representative showed up at my house (despite me only sharing my address for billing/shipping purposes). This is basically what happened to the Azure customer.
Except that he has no product inhouse except for stacks of returns. He is merely having other companies dropship the product, which I doubt he has checked the condition of.

So basically, he is using a marginal gain strategy of reselling other companies' stuff.
I'm sure this will come as soon as 'real' countries start to fall apart, and the age of city-states will begin...
I agree. However, it's just a theme that I purchased. I'll have to look into doing some custom CSS to see if I can easily remove it.
The Swiss Army is actually pretty substantial. Approximately 200k men under arms, which for a country with their population, is decent. Their policy is armed neutrality, not just neutrality.

The G-class is a great light patrol vehicle; better than the UK's Land Rover or the HMMWV for many tasks.

They have F-18s, Leopard main battle tanks, lots of fixed fortifications, etc.
If you're talking about my karma; in my time on HN, I made friends, learned something, made business acquaintances, made money, helped others, hired some people, etc.

How could I have accomplished those things shredding sprites?
What a truly awful example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Switzerland

"The armed forces consist of 134,886 people on active duty"

The Swiss have a centuries long reputation for being pretty tough - (that's why the Pope chose to have Swiss Guards). Military service is mandatory.

"Switzerland has one of the highest militia gun ownership rates in the world."

They are probably the only country in the world that has blast and fallout shelters for rather more than 100% of its population.

And have you actually seen the landscape of Switzerland - it's the European version of Afghanistan.
A wacky, somewhat related prediction that didn't come true:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123051100709638419.html

(scroll to the end for an infographic)
Thanks! However, it should be noted that in this case, I simply purchased a Tumblr theme by WooThemes. I've been hoping and hoping that I'd find time to do my own design, but all of my free time goes toward Sifter. So it ended up being a theme or nothing at all.
Wrong on quite a few counts. He forgets to mention the email protocol - it is open in the true sense of the word and therefore is quite resilient. Also, the spam problem has been sufficiently solved at the moment afaik (Gmail is awesomely good at it.)
There are some steep cliffs.

At my job when we need to buy more memory we have to buy a new data center to hold it.

At home I'd have to buy a new motherboard or split my work to a separate computer.
completely off topic, but I'm reminded of "They're Made out of Meat" [1]

[1] http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.sh...
If you successfully manage to establish this, then you'll ruin the point of asking for SMS as an antispam measure, and eventually providers will move to something more intrusive.
Does it matter? Why?
Sadly, it’s an industry that can’t regulate itself and has been overpromising to less and less gullible clients. Unfortunately advertising is still the main revenue source for publishers, good and bad. Google, Amazon and Facebook will find a way around any but the most extreme and impractical blocking, with logins and technology at a scale that isn’t remotely feasible for all the rest of the industry. So in a way this stance is only advancing their strength at the expense of that fainter and fainter competition that’s fed with the breadcrumbs falling from the tables of the big three. Not sure if in the end we’ll consider this battle as worth fighting as many of you presently think.
Serious question, why is this being downvoted? Seems a reasonable quality comment to me.
I read last year that he might come to the US and teach Go. I hope that happens. I took lessons last year from a Korean Go/Baduk master and it was fun.
Ah, the modern approach to climate change denial: OK, climate change is real and caused by people [ya think?], but it's more of a problem of koalas and gorillas and not a big problem for people. And what we really need to do is burn more coal.

Complete BS.

E.g. the rationale of burning coal is that if India burns more coal they'll become wealthier faster and that will push the birthrate down, which will result in fewer people using less energy. That obviously makes no sense since wealthier nations have much higher per-capita carbon emissions which far more than offsets lower population growth. E.g. the US has ~8x the per-capita carbon emissions of India. (Now a constant change in the rate of population growth will overcome that difference in enough time -- but there's no reason to expect the difference to be constant. In fact, no exponential phenomenon holds a constant rate of growth for long since it must soon outstrip the environment that allows it.)

The only reason an intelligent person would make such a easily refutable untrue claim is because it's in their personal self interests to do so... It's a con and they are making money. (It's not too hard to guess where the money might be coming from, BTW)

Of course these guys love the environmentalist lunatic fringe. They are easy to dislike and easy to argue against. And as long as you can keep the focus on them you don't have to address real objects.

The idea that climate change will have a minor impact on GDP is also terribly wrong. The essential dynamic of the climate change crisis is that we are "borrowing from the future" -- we're emitting a lot of carbon now for short term gain vs costs that won't come due for the long term. But the GDP projections are based on the effect of climate change on our GDP in the recent past. It's like taking cash advances on a 40% no-minimum payment credit card and saying: "this won't screw up my financial future, look at how much money I've had in my pocket over the last week... At this rate, I'll always have money in my pocket." But the reality is the bill is going to come due.
We're not there yet, but our economy has been headed in that direction for the past 30 years. Michael Lind has termed it "Brazilianization", in reference to the inequality and corruption one sees in much of Latin America due to the lack of a concern for social justice in the governing class.

Capitalist economies with no welfare state (laissez faire) converge to an economy where people have to work to survive, which depresses wages, which can very easily (and reliably) bring about a vicious cycle. The end state of this is one where the lucky among the proletariat become servants (paid a pittance, but in a nice house and well-fed, enabling a very nice life in comparison to the alternative) while the unlucky and poorly-connected (who cannot even find employment as domestic servants) starve. This would be very damaging to minorities and Latinos, because the upper classes would demand (and be able to get, due to the collapsed economy) white, formerly middle-class, maids and nannies.

Minimum wage and welfare programs aren't good just for their direct beneficiaries, but for a lot of people, because they raise the bar across the board. If minimum wage is $8/hour, then skilled workers will expect $15 and entry-level white-collar will expect $20. Increase that to $10, and skilled workers are now asking for $18, and white collar is asking for $25. Although this causes "inflation", it's the good kind because it represents a wealth transfer away from legacy and in favor of labor.

On the other hand, if there is no minimum wage (which is similar to a basic income but contingent on working) then the reference point collapses and everyone gets poorer.
My guesses?

Because the Intel leadership signed off on selling their ARM interest (XScale) to Marvell. (The very group that is now turning out a product aimed directly at Intel's lucrative server products)

So it would take a gigantic admission of error for Intel to start up another ARM group. Someone would probably have to resign and I can't imagine anyone's eager.

Also, the profit on being an also-ran ARM supplier is nothing compared to what they could do as a market-dominating mobile-x86 supplier. It's longer odds, but higher payoff.

And the way ARM licenses get passed around (as I understand it) Intel isn't really falling behind by pursuing x86. If they reverse themselves five years down the line, they can quickly catch back up, close enough to the state of the best ARM processors that their superior fab tech can make competitive chips.

In any case, they've always said mobile x86 was a long-term bet. I don't think they honestly expect to be competitive for at least a few more years. So any evaluation and possible surrender is still down the line a bit. Particularly as they're still hitting their targets and estimates for improvements in the ATOM line.
I work in app security, and maybe 1% of the testers I know (I know a lot of testers) are familiar with crypto attack methodologies. It's still a dark art. I don't know where a company that wasn't "plugged in" would ever find expertise.
Isn't that how SPARC worked? Of course, you can argue it failed after a while...
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SPARC
They may want to change their DB username and password ASAP.

http://blog.urfix.com/wp-config.php

I can see their config in plain text.
There are plenty of things that science has shown can work in the areas of motivation, discipline, etc., that one would think it would at least make sense to look there first.
ARM processors have, so far, been targeted to mobile, low-power applications for a very long time. When it was launched, powering a desktop computer (the Acorn Archimedes), its speed was comparable to then current 386s with FPUs.

There is nothing that prevents building an ARM processor that performs as well as a current x86. In fact, due to its simpler implementation logic, an ARM implemented with the same technology as a x86 would probably run faster or leave more silicon for caches, inter-core communication, more cores and specialized logic.
I think it is very workload dependent how big of a power consumer the hard-drive is.

When I only do word processing or browsing simple web pages, I never have to read data (everything is cached). Laptop-mode also delays writing data back.
I'd rather not give away too much info about my internal network (though you're welcome to the first two octets ;-) Even non-routable IP address info can be useful under some circumstances. Probably should've just blanked out the whole thing.
Democracy is actually not that important. At least for smallish countries, I'd say. Singapore, Hong Kong, and, say, early Britain did fine without democracy.

The rule of law and proper markets strike me as much more important. They do often go hand in hand with democracy, though.
Crowdsourcing: these guys know how to do it.
A broad rule of thumb:

for every 20 possible data sets you cover in your trawl, you should expect to find about 1 "statistically significant" correlation that's actually a fluke (at 95% confidence, using naive statistics). If you're digging through a massive data set looking for correlations, you need to account for that, and use more advanced statistical methods.

Sportscasters often do exactly the opposite -- they quote results that aren't even particularly statistically significant (say, a 30% shooter making 3-of-4) and act as though it shows a player is "playing well" and should be trusted to continue the trend.
Without wading too deeply into the topic, I can say that I have only really seen it as a trend among developer documentation and writing, as a means of fostering I gender inclusiveness.

I have yet to really see this in other writing amongst stereotypically gendered professional writing. As for non-people, it is a bit more common; the most obvious one in English I can think of is both boats and open waters.
Just as old as breaking down stolen cars too.
The entire point is to make titles less clickbaity. A/B testing them to get more clicks exactly defeats the entire purpose why mods edit titles.
“Reconciling these positions” is exactly what’s tackled by philosophers concerned with justice and fairness.

It seems you’re suggesting that certain current societal victories (like say Civil Rights) aren’t actually achievements of justice and fairness but merely “one side” and their arbitrary views having the “upper hand” today.

Many philosophers are going to say that’s completely wrong and that we can determine what justice actually is.
Does it have its own integrated source control ?
From a startup SaaS perspective, is it really that detrimental to have your customers sent to another site (Google Checkout or Amazon FPS, for example) and then brought back after the conclusion of the sale? Do enough customers walk away if the payment system is 3rd party visible as opposed to 3rd party behind the scenes? For any small startup trying to minimize costs, it seems like eliminating those monthly minimums and setup costs might outweigh the benefits of a more seamless customer experience. Can those with firsthand experience chime in?
archive.is requires captchas for iCloud Relay users as well as blocking Cloudflare DNS users, so I wouldn’t consider them to be a Tor-specific example.
Is there a correlation between ADHD and doing better with a late start?
It's difficult to formalize what "realistic CGI" or even "CGI" means. Most of us probably have a loose definition that's something like "the rendered output of 3D models that looks like something familiar in the real world," but that's insufficient.

One could take 100 bitmap frames of video from a camcorder, then use a computer to generate 100 identical or nearly identical bitmap frames. This would be realistic by definition, but not very impressive. Even more absurdly, one could use a computer to generate some abstract visualization, then construct a nearly identical scene in the real world and claim the CGI is realistic.

And yet, CGI that uses 3D scans of objects, motion capture, or scanned/photographed textures probably fits our loose internal definition.
It seems counter intuitive at first, but it's the same way in Canada and the US. Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, etc.; they're all the best places to grow companies. Rent is a fraction of what start-ups pay in salaries and the talent pools are often focused around those areas. You're right that you'll save money if you're bootstrapping or have a remote team, but if you're taking money and/or growing and hiring, higher rent is just the cost of being in a good location for everything else.