jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The situation in the UK is different than Germany - there are a lot less tenants protections & a lot less rent control (almost every renter in Germany is enjoying some sort of rent control - at the very least the landlords can't easily raise rent on an existing tenant and can't easily end the contract - which is by default unlimited in duration).

Rent is kept artificially low & safe in Germany via legislation, where as purchasing happens on the free market.

Also culturally Germans are very fiscally conservative and risk averse, it is not as common to take up debt (=mortgage) as in the UK or the US.
> Take some risk profile and then bet that low cost automatically balancing stock/bond Vanguard fund beats 90% of hedge funds over 10 years based on risk adjusted return.

That would be a closer "apples to apples" comparison vs. Buffett's bet.
This is a perfect example of why one must use the utmost caution in allowing a choice to become part of one's identity. When the time comes for that belief to be challenged you will fight not because it is true, but because it is perceived as an attack on the self. You will ignore reason and fight to save that piece of yourself from annihilation like a feral animal cornered by a predator.

You are not a vegan. You are not an atheist. You are not the car you drive or the contents of your wallet. You are a human being, and nothing that is within your power to change should be exempt from introspection.
I think she misses out on that people need to justify stuff for themselves and those that do this justification loudly (for others to hear) are going to persist in that pattern no matter what their decisions.

Personally I think that being a vegan, vegetarian or omnivore is an entirely personal thing and you don't need to blast it out like that. Also so that you can change your mind without having to do mental double takes like that.
> On the other hand her 3 paragraphs about the 3 kinds of bad people (the frauds, the foolish know-it-alls, and the evidence deniers) sparked instant recognition and made me realize that those are the exact people that irritate me more than just about anyone else in this world.

She seems to qualify for at least two of those three categories.
I'm not sure I want the Google of the future.
update: I am willing to relocate to any place in USA. No expenses needed for relocation.

skill set: Interested to program in c and python, worked in linux, solaris, aix, and windows environments.

Experience:
3+ years in system admin,
3+ years in coding,
3+ year reading security articles, didn't code anything related to security issues,
4+ year in research.
But.. the point of the iPad is to be instant-on.. Is it really that much trouble?
I have never known anyone who's been unsuccessful at being a vegetarian (and about half my friends and family are vegetarian).

Edit: the only time I have known someone switch to a non-veg diet (after becoming an adult) is when they started going to the gym and were keen on building muscle mass.
I like the idea but you still have the challenge of transparent reporting. At least it should be easy for civilians to accurately report alleged misconduct (I think Raheem.ai is trying to figure this out.
This episode from black-mirror:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089049/?ref_=ttep_ep2

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That's sad. Now I feel creative!
Just following up on this - here's how Cloudflare replied. I'm going to set my security levels to low.

Information about how the challenge pages appear can be found here:
http://www.cloudflare.com/wiki/DataSources
The party could look up their IP to see why the challenge is happening here:
http://projecthoneypot.org/search_ip.php

One thing that you can do is set your security settings to low on CloudFlare
so only the worst offenders get challenged (attackers, etc.). You can do
this by going to settings->CloudFlare settings->Security Level->Change to
low.

There will be false positives with data, of course, but there are two
options available to challenged visitors:
1. Pass the captcha to gain entry to your site.
2. The site admin can whitelist the ip address of the visitor in their
CloudFlare Threat Control Panel, which will (a) override CloudFlare's
behavior, and (b) help correct false positives.
I have a function for it which is quite useful:
mcd () {
mkdir "$@"
cd "$@"
}

Just run mcd foobar and you (try) to create the directory and enter it. IMO a nice shortcut.
> I would be willing to bet that you'd be very hard pressed to prove that the majority of the reports in a system like this actually contain factual information

In the US, where I live, you can make legally make reputation-damaging accusations without proving them to be true. Only in cases where the accusations can be proven false is making such an accusation illegal. Personally I think that's a fine system and would be sufficient to keep people mostly honest when reporting others using this app. There is not a whole lot of reason to use a traffic app to try and harm someone when so many more direct means are available.

> The DMV will provide that information to the insurance company after any fines are paid or court decisions are rendered but they are not the legal authority.

Then I imagine they will just discard the reports, and no harm has been done.

> What's to stop your ex girlfriend and her six friends from each reporting you over the course of a month or two for traffic violations to screw with you?

What to stop them from scratching your car just to screw with you? People can hurt you and there is nothing you can do about it. Fortunately they choose not to most of the time.

> Absolutely not, the employer has advertised that they want to know about bad driving by placing the sticker on the vehicle and the employee has accepted that as part of their employment.

I meant when there is no such sticker. Even if the desire to know was not advertised, I believe it would be morally fine to report bad driving of a company vehicle to the entity liable for loss associated with the vehicle. As for the rest of your response, even though you pointed out a number of technical distinctions, I do not see a moral one.

> seems to fit the description of vigilantism . . .

Still no. Vigilante activity is by definition illegal, and this behavior is not.
How could I have downvoted you? I only have 3 karma points (well, it's growing a bit now, but still).
Fail. Kill a product which used to be best in its own niche and which provided valuable data for free... I just don't understand...
Hackernews weekend project? PG and his money, users and their skills :p
Your own TLD is a lot cooler than a directory.
If the multiple stores you have to visit to use all of your coupons are more than a few miles apart, you fail by adding the food savings to your fuel bill plus some.
Good point!

But for folks who already don't watch mindless TV, or who have other opportunity projects or investments that monetize better, the argument still holds. For example, instead of putting an extra hour into one's day job, you could put an hour into making some new product or service which will in turn make you back more money than you would have saved if you did his extreme food cost reduction scheme. Or learn a new skill.

But who are we kidding? The extra hour will surely be spent reading HN. :)
http://www.techcofounder.com/
Annoyed? These are just fun things to do. Just like Quines. Of course anyone trying to introduce type-level computations into production code should be shot on sight (unless you're using a language where type-level "computations" are somehow expected... like Haskell), but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it just for amusement. Just as the linked article ends: "Match is the only operation that we need for HLists. We’ll continue by defining comparisons, addition, multiplication, modulus, and exponentiation just for fun anyway."
A part of me faded away when Apple updated iTunes in 2006 and effectively blocked MyTunes/OurTunes [1]. What a great facilitator it was for introducing you to cool people with a variety of musical tastes.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OurTunes
It's available under the `share` tab for some videos

try the one used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOwRb584r1c
Agreed: 2FA protects against password leaks on other sites from being applied to the system in question. In this case it would have been more reassuring to hear them disclose what was the attack vector (e.g. social engineering, email trojans, etc) and explain how they will reduce the chance of a similar compromise in the future.
No that model of investing is still very much alive. It's the basis of every long/short equity hedge fund. The successful ones do it in a more sophisticated way with some additional quantitative and data-driven analysis. But it's essentially the same model.
This assumes all the variables are the same between the same examples. Which they would not be.
If I ask for a raise because I just had a kid, my boss rightly tells me my personal life is the company's respinsibility, my personal life isn't a basis for my pay.
Note that KTH is an elite institution so there is a selection bias. It's like saying education in America must be going well because new MIT students are getting better.
I believe Google has something pretty similar called Google contributor, not sure what's it's status.
> London is easily as expensive, if not moreso than San Francisco.

As a Londoner, I find that hard to believe. London is a huge, diverse city with many industries other than tech, and the vast majority of London's population don't make anything close to an SF tech salary. If London was as expensive as SF then I know I wouldn't be able to afford to live here.
Grandparent says HTTP2 is a monstrosity, because it "includes a whole slew of features that we really don't need."

You say you agree, because "the protocol does not specify how you determine what server to connect to."

In other words, HTTP2 sucks because it simultaneously includes too many features, and not enough features.

At least everyone can agree that they don't like it for some reason, even if the reasons themselves contradict each other.
We need a name for this. How about Bug-complete Turing Test? Or just Buggy Turing Test.
Yes but... I used to work for a large financial institution that wouldn't let any of us do anything to our computers so we were all stuck with outdated IE that didn't update itself automatically
but the UI will get more similar to Chrome and FF

I don't think this is a good thing at all. People choose to use different browsers partly because they have different UIs, and UI changes are particularly jarring as evidenced by all the "I'll use browser Y" complaints when browser X changes something about their UI... only to be followed later by "I'll use browser X" when Y changes. There's no longer any real choice, it's just an illusion of choosing between narrowing alternatives.

Especially to see browsers' UI turning into clones of Chrome is sad, since I personally hate the "hide everything away that could possibly confuse users" and the associated "treat users like idiots" mentality that's particularly prevalent in browsers today. IE is one of the few browsers remaining that had relatively more UI, but I'm not surprised to see it disappearing... the trend seems to be to turn browsers into glorified televisions, with UIs like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8670503
30 pct equity for matching a year's salary with a cap, paid in four tranches from which HackFwd can opt out without returning shares, plus legal form sheet services.

the term sheet is not negotiable and includes restrictions and vesting provisions more typical for VC-scale rounds, which ensures control over the company by HackFwd.

in contrast to the hands-off approach YC takes they are essentially a geek babysitting service.
I find that highly, highly implausible. No way hunter gatherers can have killed on the scale we have this past century.
Well I'm not a software developer, nor did I get a degree in CS. I did have a software development job without ever having taken a computer science class and did very well with it for 3 years. I still program for fun, but I like my job better than software engineering. I turned down more money programming for what I do now.

But not all careers are like software development. That's why I said the job I have right now is not one I could have gotten without a degree.

I notice the meme "college is a waste of time and money" thrown around all the time on the internet, usually by programmers, but what I really think they mean is "a computer science degree is a waste of time and money, and I also look down on liberal arts majors".

So CS majors extrapolate "I can learn my field without college" onto "Everyone can learn their field without college", and don't realize that CS is the exception, not the rule. I took a bunch of CS classes including some grad ones and I think the only one that I learned considerably from was computer vision.
How long before they push this to canvas in the browsers is my question.
Once you're in the realm of targeted attacks you're in a whole
different ball game. You have to consider who the attacker is likely
to be and what they have access to. If your wallet isn't secure enough
you can upgrade to a fire safe or some such. That narrows it do to
people who you let in your home or are willing to break in. Beyond
that though you're starting to enter into the realm of James Bond
shit.
LAUNCH doesn't need any SEO, it's an email driven brand that I'm running at a slight loss/breakeven because:

a) I love startups and writing about them and

b) I think there should be a more mature and focused publication covering startups then the gossip tech blogs covering who lost their luggage and manufactured angelgate-like stories.

The LAUNCH conference is being run at a loss in order to get startups into an A-List conference at a less than SXSW price. I'm personally putting up the half million dollars it will cost to run this event, so that great startups can launch on stage for free.

Just like I started the open angel forum in eight cities so that startups could reach angel investors for free.

My work/legacy is in helping grow startups.

... but thanks for the cynicism. It is reasonable considering we live in the age of $18,500 demo slots at the DEMO conference and Keiretsu Forum charging $6,000 to pitch supposed angel investors.
While I agree with your general point, I disagree with the idea that there is currently any accountability in our government's regulatory bodies. Regulatory agencies (FDA, FCC, DMV, etc) are set up in theory to remove micromanaging burdens from our legislators, but in reality, they end up becoming law-making bodies that are shielded from political repercussions.

One of our biggest obstacles to correcting our governance is returning political accountability to the regulatory and bureaucratic bodies.
Why's that a problem? People might have good instincts, in which case they should trust their instincts as well as their reason, especially if they are stupid.
People sometimes want to preserve whole websites that they can then access and use in their personal library. (Or at least, back before the cloud and streaming got a lot of people off of developing and maintaining their own personal library).

I am thinking of a scenario where, if there is a collapse (societal, economic, political, or technological), how can knowledge be disseminated and preserved in a resilient way?
I would contest that an oblate spheroid with an uneven surface is "round", at least that's a pretty good approximation in general conversation.
I'm running a Traefik instance on each node, so that I can expose a service by adding a bunch of labels. The load balancer is not part of the cluster and routes the traffic to the nodes. You might want to consider that too :)
Just remember: when you use C++$latest features in your code, you won't be able to distribute, compille and run it on an distro older than a handful of years. That is to say: almost all of them.
I was moved to a new city to get a fresh start. The city had a camera van. The operator would park the van in random places and flash people going over the speed limit. Needless to say, this van and it's operator were very unpopular. My boss came in to work one day very agitated. He said he went by the van earlier in the month and got flashed, when he knew he was under the speed limit. So he went by the van again, this time 5 mph slower. He got flashed again. He figured he had a good case in traffic court now so he went by the van again, now 10 mph hour slower, to make his iron clad case. He was agitated on this day because he just received three tickets for not wearing his seatbelt.
Yeah, Idera, tell me how great Delphi was before you friggin' ruined it, like everything you touch.

Anyway, we've recently had "FoxPro" guest-star here, and Delphi definitely was one that took its lunch money. Decent small-business relational databases appeared, and people were eager to marry it with fancy GUIs -- maybe even with that new-fangled 32 bit Windows Microsoft was promising. Visual Basic was what Microsoft offered. But for many, the language felt a bit awkward, as did the programming paradigm. I'm leaning a bit out of the meaphorical window here, but there's an argument to be made that VB was closer to 4GLs than "conventional" programming languages.

Delphi just really hit a sweet spot. A fast Pascal compiler was to be expected from them, the OO features were available in previous Turbo Pascal versions, too. But all very nicely integrated into a truly RAD IDE -- if what you wanted to develop rapidly was a CRUD Windows app.

Still one of the best experiences doing that. I'd have done more if for a while my corporate masters didn't demand Java/Swing or sacrificing goats (MFC).

And then mobile devices finally ruined every chance of ever getting a decent desktop GUI again.
Any comparisons with KairosDB or OpenTSDB?
Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on to him and they still give him much trouble at times.
- Sigmund Freud
why did they move the magnet from Brookhaven to Chicago?
Well, they added a donation feature to make money. Hacker style!
Tailwind:
Your HTML will look terrible, but your website will look great.
So, it’s plastic waste.
It's still a thing: https://turbo.hotwire.dev/

HTML fragments are not all that less efficient than JSON on the wire, and they are much more CPU efficient for low-powered client devices.
b-mmxx had it right: it's allaboutberlin.com
Why does everyone talk about the government forcing companies to do things whenever somebody criticizes a company policy?

Because there are plenty of people claiming companies are being unconstitutional and/or that there should be laws that prevent companies from taking actions like banning people from platforms/etc.
Cliffs: Contrary to broscience, longer rest periods between sets (3-5 minutes) are more effective at building muscle than shorter rest periods (30 seconds to 2 minutes).

As someone who has been engaged in weightlifting for almost 30 years, this is no surprise. It probably has little to do with the rest period itself and more to do with the intensity of exercise. You simply can't train with weights in the 5RM-10RM range, going to failure or a rep or two shy of failure, and only rest 30 seconds or 1 minute between sets. Such short rest periods will force you to use much lighter weights and stop way short of failure.
Hi HN !

I created the Pyrustic framework [1][2] and built a few applications with it, including Hubstore [3] to connect users to applications.

I wondered if it was possible to make GUI dev even easier. I thought of a GUI builder, with drag and drop and everything that surrounds it. My current idea is complex to build, I hate using GUI builder, so the one I am going to create should be the one I will love to use. So I tried to create an intermediate product... Something between a GUI builder and a raw framework beast: Dresscode !

I just finished the project (thanks Kolourpaint and Gifski). I started it last Sunday. I am therefore only addressing early adopters for the moment.

I think there are a lot of people who would like to add a GUI to their existing projects. But they don't want or don't have the time to or are afraid to learn how to use a GUI toolkit. By the way, I'm writing a tutorial [4] to help them get interested in GUI dev. In the meantime, there is Dresscode !

Dresscode allows you to easily add a GUI to your project (next one or existing one) without altering the existing code base. And no need to learn how to use a GUI toolkit !

I hope this project will be useful to a lot of people and that it will make some of them want to use the Pyrustic framework to have full control over the GUI. Pyrustic could be like C, and Dresscode could be like Python :)

Your feedback is highly appreciated! [5]

[1] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic/#readme

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930255

[3] https://github.com/pyrustic/hubstore

[4] https://github.com/pyrustic/pyrustic/#tutorial

[5] http://sl4.org/crocker.html
In fact the 7-14 table mentioned in TFAA is literally a table of magic values to hard-code: it's a big table listing all the timings of section 7 and their minimum and maximum values (either one of which may be absent)
It appears you've never heard of Django or Pylons/Pyramid.
Yeah sorry -- I should have been more clear. I didn't mean to imply most games use deterministic systems.
Yelp is a multi MLOC Python code base. AFAIK YouTube is slowly being ported from Python to Go.

There are plenty of other large codebases in dynamic languages:

- Wikipedia and Facebook written in PHP
- Twitter was originally written in RoR

To be honest, it's my personal opinion that good static languages (i.e. type inferenced) are better than dynamic languages. I believe it's situational compared to traditional static languages (e.g. Java, C++).
If you think this is about that specific accommodation, I think you're missing the point a bit.
A commune where you're left alone? A charming oxymoron.
"Copyright 2011"? Are you a time-traveler?
> If you think "fire" is easy, watch the lemon dance scene in Waiting for Superman.

That is my point. If fire never becomes easy we are just plain screwed.

Thanks for the comment about my posts. I would have liked to be a high school math teacher -- probably not forever, but for 5-10 years -- but the credentialing system and the crappiness of the schools in California dissuaded me. (If you have a BA in math, you can get a decent job besides teaching, unlike English.) I have tutored off and on since then, and if someone called me and offered a job at a charter school for my current 72K a year I would probably weep with joy and take it.
Really, the goal is both. Consulting is a much more reliable way to generate income in the iOS market, but the app store is steadier if you can get a good performer out there. I'm trying to use consulting (and grow the business that way in the short term) until I can get a serious product in the app store that can support the business.
I was with you until this:

$2500 is not a lot of money. And if you can't bring yourself to pay that much for something as important as an attorney, are you really starting a business? Or is it just a side project that you hope will become a business? There is a serious difference.

That's a bit obnoxious ... $2500 is a fairly large chunk of money for a new business. Even on a reasonably high developer's salary, the average person would have to save aggressively for a couple months to pay that.

It's a bit heavy handed to imply that if you don't have $2500 to blow on attorneys upfront, you aren't actually starting a business. Especially when there are boilerplate documents that get you pretty damn close without you paying a dime:

http://www.goodwinfoundersworkbench.com/