jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My boss, Ooshma Garg, is an outstanding female entrepreneur. She is the CEO of the diversity recruiting website www.Anapata.com, which she started her junior year at Stanford. She was also recently featured in an article in the Palo Alto Weekly: http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/toc.php?i=370. I would be happy to introduce you; trust me when I say she is headed for big things!
I am really interested in going, but it just so happens I'm out of town for the next 3 weeks :( I'd love to hear about how things went, and for this to be a monthly occurrence. I look forward to the next one! :)
simplify did an amazing job of critiquing the UI and what not so I'll take a different perspective: the average end user experience of the landing page.

I understand the 'improve your productivity and collaboration' at the top but I'd love a more specific description of the problem you solve. Personally I see 5,000,000 tools every day that aim to 'improve productivity and collaboration' so I'd love to see a more personal, unique subset of that issue which you solve elegantly!

The #1 item I wanted to see after the big big big screenshot was a quick 3-column description (below it) of each tab on the UI.

Status Updates (with icon)
-Description goes here

Tasks (with icon)
-Description goes here

People (with icon)
-Description goes here

I would love a setup like this! Perhaps even clicking could take you to an enlarged screenshot of that specific tab.

Finally, the psychological effect of not linking directly to 'pricing' is very very negative. I want to know what I'm getting myself into if I get 'hooked.' Can you offer a clear 'Pricing' or 'How Much Does it Cost?' link somewhere on the page please?
contact me (email in profile) with your Notifo username, and we'll fix the crashing issue for you.
True - this is the problem with optional insurance. Those who need it are the ones who have it. That said, I think there's enough healthy people (such as myself) who would love to participate in a public option that would join to spread the risk. At least, that's my hope. Otherwise…
I thought along the same lines, but our experience has been that beyond the initial server setup time we spend almost no time twiddling with servers. Hardware failures are extremely rare, and in case we have a significant one we'd just replace the entire server. Since our software deployment is automated, it takes little effort to fire up a new server.
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Isn't this medication decades old? Why would this suddenly be causing unexplained deaths in some stories while other stories indicate this:

"Florida man with coronavirus says drug touted by Trump saved his life"

https://nypost.com/2020/03/22/florida-man-with-coronavirus-s...
This is such a short-sighted and close-minded view of philosophy, it boggles the mind..

> Philosophers can not seem to comprehend how a mass of meat can create consciousness and take leaps to try to rule out the mass of meat, regardless of the fact that they all know that when bad things happen to said mass of meat bad things also happen to said consciousness.

You seem to be referring to dualism, a philosophical idea that is largely discredited among philosophers since the early 1900's. Functionalism, emergentism, materialism, and all other leading serious philosophies of mind that implicate the brain were first formalized and studied by philosophers, not neuroscientists.

> The Turing Test could not have been a more wrong direction to define AGI. Looking like something does not make you that thing, and it did not at all address capability, just the appearance of capability.

And philosophers are among the most vocal critics of the Turing Test. The Turing Test was made by Turing, who was first and foremost a mathematician & logician, not a philosopher of mind.

> Insight into intelligence will come slowly, and it will come from examining, categorizing, and eventually understanding the internal workings of the human brain.

Which, of course, is what modern philosophers of mind do.
What exactly would you do with the wolves you own?
Never assume you're the lone wolf in a world full of sheep....
Thanks, and good to hear from someone else who appreciates Kurosawa.

It's hard to believe the similarities between Ran and King Lear are coincidence. It's not just the plot but many elements of the story, too. Also, Kurosawa based other films on Shakespeare plays.

Wikipedia, FWIW, says he started with a Japanese story and incorporated King Lear "after he had started pre-planning".
I'm really, really sorry that this is a subtle typo/grammar nitpick post. Hailing from a non-English speaking country, I've recently taken to going through HN comments and trying to find issues in order to improve my grasp of the language.

I digress. The word you're looking for is 'sheer', not 'shear'.
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Dremio is the Data Lake Engine company. Our mission is to reshape the world of analytics to deliver on the promise of data with a fundamentally new architecture, purpose-built for the exploding trend towards cloud data lake storage such as AWS S3 and Microsoft ADLS. We dramatically reduce and even eliminate the need for the complex and expensive workarounds that have been in use for decades, such as data warehouses (whether on-premise or cloud-native), structural data prep, ETL, cubes, and extracts. We do this by enabling lightning-fast queries directly against data lake storage, combined with full self-service for data users and full governance and control for IT. The results for enterprises are extremely compelling: 100X faster time to insight; 10X greater efficiency; zero data copies; and game-changing simplicity. And equally compelling is the market opportunity for Dremio, as we are well on our way to disrupting a $25BN+ market.

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"Measure twice, cut once" I think is the saying carpenters use.
Also, located in the UK
I am the developer of Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/), an open source tool for managing your own (documented) knowledge base. The application is still in alpha and I’m in the process of writing/recording tutorials, but it is fully useable. To make the most of the application you need to understand topic maps: https://contextualise.dev/topics/view/1/topic-maps
It's highly likely that even basic surgical masks have some impact. A fit-tested N95 is the gold standard, but the widespread use of surgical masks in Asia during the SARS epidemic does seem to have had an impact.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/10/2/03-0730_article
AL, BL make sense. But now I need an explanation for why they switched from L to B for R8B...

Also if you could explain A-R15 that’d be super. Apparently they have learned absolutely nothing.
You know the annoying thing about potatoes here? It’s ONLY russets. Yellow, red, and whatever the black ones are called, all day long. It’s like people know something about Yukon/russets that I don’t.

I think sweet potatoes (more nutritious) are even on sale.
I get roguelikes, but as my life has gotten more time constrained, I've grown less tolerant of shenanigans like permadeath that artificially prevent me from practicing and mastering the parts of the game I'm weakest at, instead making me sink most of my time into the parts of the game I've already mastered.

I'm not saying get rid of permadeath, I'm saying make it optional like Hollow Knight, IWtbTG, or any numerous other games where time constrained people can use save points to master the game mechanics more quickly, and kids with infinite time can play permadeath mode to their heart's content.
You make it seem like people should give up. Gotta fight somehow. Even by just deleting personal data, getting off Facebook and social media entirely.

Google is tougher to get rid of though
Another suggestion: eat seitan, if you can. It’s basically wheat gluten, made into dough and baked like bread, but it has a meatloaf-like texture. Add in spices and nutritional yeast or grated Parmesan, and it’s delicious.

On top of that, powdered wheat gluten has never been cheaper, probably because it’s now an unwanted by-product of so much gluten-free baked goods and pasta. You can find it online for about $4/pound.

http://vegweb.com/recipes/baked-seitan-best-meaty-texture-ev...
This describes most geniuses. Just in these (hackers and engineers) circles I've met quite a few extraordinarily intelligent idiots. This includes one outstanding biomedical genius who thinks the Earth is 6000 years old, one almost superhuman programmer who thinks Hitler was misunderstood, and one who thinks the Earth is flat.
Just flagged, but commenting as well. This article is poorly written and uninformative PR spam.

All it does it tell us that important meetings lack conflict, then advertise its services, which are not related to meetings at all.
Defining an architecture is easy! All you have to do is write up a document with instructions and their encodings, and boom! You’ve created a new architecture. Here’s one I made earlier this year for a class I was teaching, for example: https://github.com/regular-vm/specification
This is unfunny because it is in practice true that any motorist can be searched at any time for any (or no) reason in the United States.
Perhaps information theory was viewed as more EE than CS?
I got the impression they didn’t have their ducks in a row to know what that info was. Just that they couldn’t meet the standard.

It’s not uncommon for a finance team to spend weeks preparing for even normal SEC filings.
Nice article on rewriting something: it focuses on the need for the rewrite, and on an analysis done beforehand to get an idea of what to focus on. The rewrite is driven by a successful business, in other words.

I'm a bit curious what was so slow about the Ruby code, as it sounds like it was just doing 'managing' rather than actual heavy-duty processing, which no, it is not good at.

Erlang sounds like it would have been a good fit too, although it's not quite as performant as Go.
In many ways, the most difficult decision would be how to merge the two different app development environments. Andriod is getting traction (in part) due to some excellent apps. These apps are developed in java that compiles to Android specific bytecode. So, from that, any merged OS would need to maintain the Android VM layer, otherwise backward compatibility would be hard.

On the other hand, chrome could be ported to Android quite easily.

So I see a Android like OS where Android Apps and Chrome web apps exist side by side (on the same desktop).
I'll have to make my way up from Kyoto next time :) Have a great party!
Same story, different source, no comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2003637 - nytimes.com
Lord knows we're fast around here :)
I suspect that the mortality rate would be much lower amongst patients being treated for HIV. Bone marrow transplants as a therapy for leukemia requires killing the existing cells with radiation. This is completely sensible -- you've got some cancerous cells, so nuke everything and start over from the beginning.

Confounding the mortality stats is the fact that individuals undergoing treatment are very sick from the start. We might see better survival rates amongst comparatively healthy people.

In this case, you don't necessarily need a clean slate. "All" you need is a population of cells generating HIV resistant T-cells. AIDS manifests in individuals with extremely low T-cell counts. If a population of CD4 mutants could take hold within a larger population, it might be enough to prevent AIDS and bring viral titers low enough to eliminate transmission.

Nevertheless, I agree -- it's hardly practical, but it may be a beachhead.
Google ChromeOS and Google Wave share some similarities in terms of marketing messaging behind those products. In both cases biggest value of both products is in business - they should never be marketed as a consumer products.

I agree with Paul that ChromeOS with its current market target will fail - just like Wave did.

But there is still hope for ChromeOS. Google should target bigger companies with it. Make it a hardware extension of their Google Apps offering. IT departments and CFOs will love them.

And you know what? I think that they are thinking about this already - that is why we've seen Citrix client there.
Caminante, no hay camino /
Se hace camino al andar

The indefinite article would've been a more appropriate choice for the title, but that's true of any generalization.
>Randomly assign a representative sample of the population - say, 10,000 taxpayers - a lower tax rate, and see what happens.

This assumes the tax rate only affects the individual paying tax; but taxes are used at least in part to finance public goods - positive externalities that also affect individuals. If a random group of people personally pay lower taxes but still benefit from the available public services that other taxpayers are still funding, that doesn't tell us anything useful.
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Please don't do this here. It's off topic, against the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html), and generally stops being true after awhile. Instead, just give a corrective upvote and move on.
+1 jiu jitsu.

aside from being great mental and physical exercise, you will make friends from completely different walks of life, which is a good thing.
Yes, you're probably right that they don't care about your business. Oracle's actual customers are large businesses running hundreds of millions of lines of code and they probably don't understand all of it. They probably care a lot about preserving their existing investment. If they decide to put off upgrading to the latest VM, Oracle can't sell them stuff.

The point here is to have some empathy. There are other people in the world with different priorities. You can't say whether a technical decision is good or bad without understanding what they're trying to do.
Right thing to do for what? Whose taxes are going to pay for the massively indebted welfare states of the West or should they default?
You can also block them or negotiate a better deal later once Xiaomi is well positioned in the US market.
How long was this app in development?
Another fun one:

terrorism,socialism,communism: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=terrorism%2Csocia...
Let's hope the insane CloudKick pricing is looked at by RackSpace.
Data liberation is different from open-sourcing. Delicious allows you to dump every bit of metadata about your bookmarks either through their Data Export menu or via their API. Yahoo! did fine with Delicious in terms of data liberation. I imported all my bookmarks into pinboard.in without any trouble at all.
I have no interest in Evernote, but those instructions are hardly daunting. They could be reduced to two steps.

1. Export your delicious data.

2. Drag the file onto Evernote.

What if I don't want to give you my username and password for a site that you don't control? I'm assuming that trunkly has a similar import process in that case, right?
Not sure how you figure. The scarcity that they are targeting here is the intersect between entrepreneurs with a higher probability of success. Venture capital/angel investors follow whichever sectors offer the greatest growth / future economic value. The article does not suggest that there is any sector that is being targeted.
iOS can't play YouTube videos?
What about losing the tool itself, never mind the data?
Maybe the purpose of the F-35 project is to con the Chinese into building shitty fighters, too?
I agree about the bicycling. I guess it was just symbolic.
Well Rust became production ready well after Go and the low level focus it has doesn't match my problem domain. I have the luxury of not caring about the constraint of a single consumer box - hacking mostly on backend stuff living in the cloud, so all those pointer types for example would only get in my way.
The title "Software engineers should write" could mean either "Software that engineers should write" or "Software engineers should also write". I didn't know which until I clicked through to the article. It's OK to use "Software engineers should write" when speaking because we'd use a different stress pattern to resolve the ambiguity, but when writing, the extra word (whether "that" or "also") is needed, especially in a headline. I guess making writing unambiguous is one of the skills one picks up when one writes a lot.
Maybe some kind of red flag could work? Carried by a person ahead of the car? ;)
Most laptops have the batteries on the back, making the front available for connectors. Most laptops have ventilation on a side, and some complement it with bottom holes.

Also, Apple could place their CPU/GPU wherever they wanted.
I lived in eastern Ukraine for a couple years, and some of the people there were the best engineers/hackers I've ever met; I wouldn't dispute that there are shops just as competent if not more so in the Eastern Bloc.

But it is relevant because there is no real legal recourse, so you're pretty much crossing your fingers and hoping that they won't screw you.
A little bit more advanced, but specifically the AMR codec also provides a noise colouring packet to be sent. This packet requires far less bandwidth than the actual voice codec packets.

This packet describes the background noise that is present at the sender, so that when speach resumes, the natural background noise and the fake comfort noise sounds the same and so there is no discontinuity between the two.

To give an idea of the bandwidth requirements, the actual data portion every 20 milliseconds of speech audio is ~14 Bytes, noise colouring ~6 Bytes and silence packets is 1 Byte. It might be implementation specific though.

edit - sorry it was not clear, but during silent periods the silent packets and noise colouring packets are intermixed in a ratio of something like 6 to 1.

So a typical transmission might look as follows:

V V V V V C S S S S S C S S S S S C etc.

V - Voice
C - Noise colour
S - Silence
Maybe they ought to make better phones.
That is an interesting copy protection scheme, partly because it'd probably be a criminal offence to write anything like it these days. It contains code intended to silently reformat whatever's in the floppy drive if any of the checksums fail - something that could easily happen if the tape or hardware's even slightly flaky - and because genuine copies are loaded from tape that's going to be an unrelated floppy, quite possibly one with important data on it.
I've watched one of Rich Hickey's talk and at some point he brings
that issue on the table, what happens when the receiver is not responding to the message.

He is advocating Queues and one of his arguments is that Queues decoupling the requester from the receiver. So you don't really have to worry about things like this by using a queue.

[1] https://youtu.be/ROor6_NGIWU?t=1955
You’re right. Let’s say he’s a 1%’er under a linear view of a logarithmic ranking of all programmers.
>social media platforms to be choked with regulation until they start preventing manipulative shit from spreading.

Manipulation is an unsolved human problem as old as humanity.

The core business model of social media is fundamentally based on manipulation.

Asking social media corporations to protect us from manipulation is salmon asking grizzly bears to protect them from getting eaten. It's contrary to their fundamental nature.
Is it? Alternatives that the average person can adopt might be ranked in a different order.

Protons customer base is likely people who want to be more secure.
I would venture to say that there are a ton of startup founders who work just as hard/much if not more than Elon. It's just that they may not be so keen to be in the spotlight ( or too busy for that) or that they work in a sector which is less popular.
You think Wall Street isn’t stacked against you?
The trick here is that with heat pumps, they aren't generating the heat, just moving it. As such, you can have, e.g. a 1 kW heat pump moving much more than 1 kW of heat. Wheras with a resistive heater, the best you can do is turn 1 kW of electric power into 1 kW of heat output.
There is no such thing as "external IDF medics". If you're putting some medic in uniform you have to pull him from some healthcare provider or hospital.
Yeah, was thinking of European countries, that I mostly know of.
I think it actually is impossible, in any absolute sense. But it's possible to do better than they're doing...
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