jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At the time there was lots of handwaving, but nobody was bringing forward the obvious, when somebody owes you north of six figures, you sue them. Not sure why that didn't contribute anything, but that's what most rational adults do in that situation. It certainly wasn't part of the thread until then.

In my experience, a two word response containing an obvious course of action that everybody is overlooking like that would have either been downvoted to -4+ or upvoted to 30. It's a crap shoot.

Not sure how suing somebody who owes you that kind of money requires a long exposition to explain. The subsequent comment asking for alternatives was upvoted into positive territory that same day it was posted, without adding anything else and with no responses in the form of alternatives.

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similar, newer comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432131 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432131 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432612 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1432133 were not similarly downvoted (and a couple were actually upvoted) yet add no more to the discussion than mine (since they came after my comment and recommend the same thing, by definition, they do not add anything "new") and probably should have just been responses to my original comment in the form of adding specificity or methods.

It's not the downvotes per se that I mind. People can feel free to disagree that a lawsuit is a bad course of action when somebody owes you $126,000. I think they are wrong, but whatever. It's not like any of the 10 people who hit the little down arrow could be bothered to type "I disagree with this because...". But that people continued to downvote long after my suggestion hit -4 shows that allowing downvotes after hitting -4 doesn't work. At that point, I'm just being targeted. Particularly when essentially the same comments were untouched or upvoted. If the thread hadn't moved off the front page rather quickly I'm sure I would have taken more hits.

Okay HN community! I got it! I should have provided half a dozen words telling them to sue instead of 3! Clearly that's the community standard as the linked comments demonstrate.

I now realize I'm now edw519 or patio11, where every 3 word comment gets half a dozen upvotes. Perhaps I should put some numbers next to my handle?
Because at scale, countries are also just a group of people pooling resources to achieve greater outcomes.

The only difference between micro-socialized funding (GoFundMe) and macro-socialized funding (government healthcare) is that the government version results in massive cost savings for the entire system.

Micro-socialization is the worst of both worlds. No cost savings, no preventative care, and only the most sensational and dramatic ailments receive GoFundMe support from peers.

For proof of the cost savings, look at the cost of X given procedure in any developed country with socialized care (Australia, Sweden, Germany, etc.) and then compare it to the US.

In the US it will cost anywhere from 2X-10X more to do X given procedure. It's not even worth citing any research since there's mountains of studies proving this.
The landing page really needs to do a much better job of explaining what this does and who it's for, preferably with some visual examples of whatever it is that it does viewable without a requirement for signing up.

Right now, I basically have no idea what this is - is it something like Dribbble but for programming? Or is it more like oDesk? Who comes up with the applications? Who does the code reviews? Et cetera. Nearly every sentence of copy is ambiguous.
First YC IPO! Congrats Drew, Arash and team!
From an Austrian perspective, your proposal is garbage. Savings create wealth, period. In your proposal, you describe a system that encourages faster consumption (and thus faster depletion of resources, including the earth, people, etc.) and discourages savings entirely. How do you not see the fallacy in your logic? Why are you proposing reaping the planet's resources faster as an ideal way to do business? At least by hoarding, and slowing production, the world is incentivized to act more cautiously before blindly moving forward with its precious resources. I suggest that the system you proposed would result in the creation of a lot of unnecessary widgets, resources, and false markets. A world that would quickly deplete itself. Trying to solve inequality, by promoting more consumption on everyone's part, seems backwards, in my opinion. There is likely a greater moral wrong in using resources, than saving resources for a more legitimate purpose later on.

Your entire premise that we should reform society to favor consumption (even more than it is already favored now) only exacerbates inequalities, because at the end of the day, all you have to do to increase the value of Bitcoin, or similar crypto-currencies, is incapacitate another user and render their wallet outside of the entire money supply; since, it would be cryptographically locked. The argument against Bitcoin, if any, is (that at some point) it's deflationary mechanics will incentivize the elimination of other users so that the remaining currency holders will hold a larger percentage of the pie. If connected to an AI that was simply hellbent on maximizing its percentage of the money supply, you can easily see how a machine could learn bad ethics.
Phone games, maybe. Civ VI is pretty playable on an iPad though. Just! One! More! Turn! now available in your bed :)
Headline sounds to me like "New bill gives unprecedented power over the internet to the government"
I'm using it to watch France vs Uruguay right now (not logged in). At least, I think I am. I'm not entirely sure whether it's started yet. Is that supposed to be a game clock? It updates very rarely...

Other comments:

1. It was listed as "Uruguay at France", which doesn't make any sense... I assume that was designed for American sports where there's always a home and away team?

2. I don't really care that some guy checked in and earned one point, but that's what the feed seems to be made of right now. Nor do I particularly care that someone picked someone to win.

3. Nothing seems to be updating properly -- I'll chalk that up to an overloaded server.

4. I assume that one need not be physically present at the match in order to "check in"? Perhaps this should be made clearer.

Ultimately I probably don't care enough about sport to be your target market, but it would be nice to have a service like this so I can follow the few sports I do follow (pretty much limited to the World Cup and the Formula 1) which I can't get on TV.
And from what I know, ITA doesn't allow you to cache at all.
What's also somewhat interesting is there's a non-trivial countable set of irrational numbers: those formed by taking the roots of polynomials with raitonal coefficients. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_number has the low-down, but it's definitely neat that square roots, etc. are still a countable set.
Heh, I figured out it was the cookie, but as I had just created a second account I thought it was some sort of auto-ban for daring to create a second pseudonym.
If I had to make an guess from how they're describing the I/O, USB4 would be the immediate limitation.
I'm responding to what's written.
If you have a job at walmart, they can't both have zero time to find another job because of being beholden to their job at walmart and have another job.
Reminds me of the infamous quote from Deleuze & Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus:

“The death of a social machine has never been heralded by a disharmony or a dysfunction; on the contrary, social machines make a habit of feeding on the contradictions they give rise to, on the crises they provoke, on the anxieties they engender, and on the infernal operations they regenerate. Capitalism has learned this, and has ceased doubting itself, while even socialists have abandoned belief in the possibility of capitalism's natural death by attrition. No one has ever died from contradictions. And the more it breaks down, the more it schizophrenizes, the better it works, the American way.”
laptops without an rj-45 ethernet connector are just dumb.

it's perfectly feasible to integrate one.

just look a the dell latitude 7390. really, look at it:

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eB6gGRDZWSYT4XW6SeSMtf-120...
We might not notice the tech workers walking out at google. It's not like they provide support.

At AWS - we'd definitely notice, because their support is really good.

> Will they be actual organized units capable of orchestrating coordinated action to withhold labor for improvement of material conditions?

Developers have the money to withstand very long strikes if needed. I think there's a lot of power in that.
Yeah that's exactly it. If your coin loses value by the second, you end up turning to whatever other asset you can find. If you can't acquire a state-based currency from a more stable country, real estate, or any other stable asset like stocks or index funds, you turn to crypto. There's lots of people with no tech background investing in stablecoins.
My understanding is that the universities have contracts with the journals that mandate the professors and researchers publish in the journal with almost no exceptions. You’re putting the blame in the wrong place.
Interesting idea. I live in a sub-tropical zone that is hot most of the year. If I had the option of this or a $30-40k Tesla and the ability to just swap batteries, the Tesla would win every time for two reasons a) a roof over my head to keep the rain off, b) air conditioning.

I might have gone for it in college, but even then I'd been saving my pennies for a car.
I meant there was no benefit to society. Obviously there is a benefit to (some incredibly small percent of extremely successful) copyright holders (at the expense of everyone else.) Even Disney movies still would have been made if they only got the revenue of the first five years. The vast majority of movie's profits are made at the box office and then a few years afterwards.
So are those countries that are lawless and violent that way because the citizens are just bad people?

People aren't particularly good. Scourges like say bribery or spousal abuse are rife in much of the world, and commonplace among the populace. In places where they have been nearly eliminated, government has played an enormous role. Not because they catch all the bad guys, but because imposing and enforcing law creates social norms that affect the behavior of ordinary people. Someone in Pakistan isn't more likely to beat his wife than someone in the U.S. because he doesn't understand it's bad or because he isn't worried about getting caught. It's because the relative certainty of enforcement in the U.S. undergirds and sustains a social norm that makes wife beaters into pariahs.[1]

Moreover, murderers and the like aren't the biggest threat to society. What matters are organized groups exercising violence. A small armed group can terrorize a large population, as is demonstrated time and again in places like Pakistan or Iraq. To suppress such groups the government not only has to catch them, but make the retaliation so swift and inevitable that only the irrational would try to bypass the ordinary social and legal structures with force. And the government is very effective at doing this.

[1] This is, incidentally, why there are special laws against e.g. hate crimes, even though assault is already illegal. The generic social norm against assault isn't strong enough to protect a targeted group, and a new law can create a more powerful social norm to compensate.

This phenomenon is also evident in the discrimination context. People didn't just become better and less racist in the last 50 years of their own accord. Laws like the Civil Rights Act catalyzed the change by imposing new social norms. When discriminating in the workplace became illegal, people who discriminated became "bad people" which forced changes in behavior that have little to do with what percentage of people were caught.
Thanks, that is very good to know.
Wow -- so if you lock down your network's DNS (say, to OpenDNS) you can't use the Netflix app in Android?
That's tautological. He's lucky because he's lucky. But if you meant that genetic inheritance plays a large role in success, then obviously I agree.
> expect it to work with any hardware you throw at it

I have an external USB3 1TB hard disk drive that boots into Ubuntu 14.04. I'm using it right now.

So far it boots with all my computers and several work laptops and desktops and recognizes all the hardware I have used so far. I does it much better than windows, because for some stuff like add on video and network cards, Windows needs the boring 'go to manufacturer's website, download and install' additional drivers.

In fact, if Windows was installed into the external drive, it would have failed to boot in a second computer. Linux can.

I also use and enjoy Windows and friends, like MSSQL Server and Visual Studio, but let's be realistic here:

Linux is much more from what it used to be a decade ago.
You usually get the black box upon recovery, which doesn't save the passengers, but does get you all the valuable data.
Stopping invading and occupying foreign countries would be a good start.
Some classics are relevant today, like C.
Others not so much, and won't help "expand" anyone's mind. COBOL for example.
So where should you draw the "Call for a quote" line? I'm a few months from launching a B2B tool with a great value (improve telco tech support efficiency by a good factor - I've had a prototype install running at one company for a few years and they simply cannot operate without it).

I'm thinking of SaaS at launch. My lowest monthly plan is probably $250 to 490. (In addition to a free "personal" edition for people playing with projects.) My average price point I think will be in the 2k to 5k a month. I have a verbal commit from a medium sized customer at $10k.

How much do I publish online? Do I run the risk of alienating one segment by simply being available to another?
The author makes a point, when CPUs are "good enough" its a real problem for CPU manufacturers. They don't price them to have a service life of 15 years, they expect them to be replaced every 2 - 3 years. And the option there is to featurize them. It is interesting to watch in the ARM space as well.
Unless you always stick to languages with the same familiar "look", learning a new language will always need more time to acclimate to. I've used FORTRAN, Tandem TAL, C/C++/C#/Objective-C, Java, Python, Go, and Smalltalk. No real problems with picking any of these up, but I always struggle with Lisp.

Language design is often a balance between making something terse and something human readable. Smalltalk strikes the perfect balance, AFAIC. Having English-like method names and variables is really quite nice. And Smalltalk still manages to be a lot less verbose than every other language I've ever used.
see yesterday's thread in general but especially this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22657605
Simply bypass the restrictions, that would be awesome.

http://www.virtuaniz.com/2014/12/bypass-airtels-extra-charge...
The big ideological divide in families (usually between generations) is a serious symptom of our inability to really communicate and compromise. In large part these ideological groupings are meaningless and inconsequential. Mostly because it doesn't really matter, for most of the people the feedback is very much lost in the noise. (There's institutional inertia, states are big, changes are slow, Congress doesn't change that fast anyway, the Senate is entrenched; and similar situations exist in other countries too.)

And thus it's hard to reconcile how trivial it is that people don't see what's going on, yet they are the problem themselves.

This drives people mad on both/all levels.
Safety and pay aren't the only benchmarks which employers should be required to comply with to a certain minimum degree.
>This sounds like magic bullet / handwaving.

It's not handwaving when it already exists. CUDAnative.jl gives native compilation of Julia code to GPUs, which allows CuArrays.jl to do efficient loop fusion among other tricks. This is then enough for DifferentialEquations.jl, Flux.jl (the big neural net library, think PyTorch), CLIMA (a MIT-CalTech next-gen climate model), etc. (too many packages to list) to all utilize the same underlying GPU framework. It's as if someone got rid of the GPU functionality of Numba, PyTorch, TensorFlow, etc. and just made one good enough Python library for everyone to share. As you can imagine, that reduces the amount of work to do package development but gets the same functionality in the end with a lot less maintenance issues. You can also say the same for how many JITs and transpilers to C there are in Python libraries vs the single Julia JIT.

The real danger of the Python monoliths is that when something as simple as a neural network package starts to include a JIT, a GPU compiler, and automatic differentiation library, and it's all written in C++, it gets really hard to attract developers because the code base is so hard to understand. This means that instead of getting new developers and more maintenance, people just spawn new libraries all of the time in Python, starting from scratch to write a new JIT, new GPU kernels, etc. I just cannot see how that's a good thing.
Have only been a backer before so take my opinion with a gain of salt.

Thinking ahead is great, but it's often too easy to overestimate how good an idea is and get lost in thinking about all the things that were never going to happen.

It appears that you are not going to spend any more time on validating your idea, so why not just focus on having a nice prototype, see how it goes on Kickstarter, and use that as an opportunity for idea validation? How quickly and/or how well your idea will be funded will likely give you an indication of whether or not you should be thinking about the next step.

Even in the case that it's underfunded, you still get an opportunity to interact with those who pledged, find out what works and what doesn't, and then decide on whether you can make things better or even eventually turn it into a business.

It should be noted that in the case that your idea is overwhelming overfunded, you will likely be forced to scale up and effectively doing many of the things (accounting, manufacturing, shipping, customer service, etc.) required to turn it into an actual business.

As I gathered, manufacturing depends entirely on what your product is and you may have to deal with overseas suppliers for cost reasons (there are horror stories, don't always go for the cheapest). I assume that most people only think about that after they see how successful their campaigns are (it's very frustrating that things keep getting delayed for the backers though, so please try your best not to over-promise). Some people take care of the the rest by themselves (if they have a team), or using third-party services. In any case, I don't think you will miss the signs when that happens.

Good luck!

Edit: removed random fullstop in the middle of a sentence. Typos.
Your site is nice and fast
It spills over into real life now, if you haven't seen "influencers" out doing photoshoots you're lucky. I was at a museum in Boston and couldn't see some things because an influencer would spend 5-10 minutes setting up the perfect shot (I never once saw her actually looking at the stuff in the museum).
Historically hasn't this activism always been about improving working conditions?

I was empathetic with the initial walkout since it was addressing working conditions directly (covering up sexual harassment and forced arbitration).

Then the organizers of that action started agitating to change company direction regarding military contracts, censored search engines, and conservative people being on certain boards. While in general I have reservations about all those things, and think people should speak up about them, I don't think that organizing against general company direction should be protected in the same way labor organizing is.
Looks like it’s based on open vpn. They provide open vpn configs to use on other platforms.

Edit: a word
I've implemented JWT's in apps more times than I'd like to think about, and never has it been done without ensuring the tokens are signed, signing keys rotated regularly, tokens having a short lifecycle, etc. and none of these required some deep expert knowledge just a couple of hours of research on best practices.

Again, it's not about the tool, it's how you use it.
Can you share more about financial side? And customer acquisition strategy including costs?
I do like his "buy a key" approach. He's basically asking for an IMGZ giftcard he can buy without setting up an account.

(Not as the primary model of course, just as an additional payment option)
If I remember this was a thing back in ~2007 Japan [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
"Also note that the religions we practice today are quite different from those we practiced 1000, 2000 years ago, even if we give them the same "names" (the practitioners of 2000 years ago would have very different ideas about identity, however). /r/askhistorians is a good source on how religions tend to continuously branch and merge over time."

This is not true. Especially in India. There are plenty of families that still practice and live according to scriptures that were in existence thousands of years ago, passed down through generations. Hinduism itself is not a religion. Hinduism is a collective of multiple religions within its fold that follow the Vedic philosophy. The core religion is Sanatana Dharma. The word Hindu itself is not Vedic and was used first by Persians and then by Moghuls who invaded Bharat and renamed it Hindustan.
MIT Introduction to Algorithms course and MIT Linear Algebra. Thinking of Caltech Machine Learning as well but I'm not sure what background I'll need before diving in.
There's no Unicode code point for the unpronounceable symbol which served as the name of The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, before he again became known as Prince.
Some countries, like mine (Uruguay), have a unique identifier for people - in Uruguay it's called "Cédula de Identidad" which would translate to Identity Card.

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

It even has a nice check digit.

But even that breaks in some cases :) so Patio's point applies.

Still, it makes building local-only apps easier.