jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you're a nonresident of the United States, own the domain name as a human. If you have a company formed outside the United States, that can be an owner, too.

For the IP you develop, start with the assumption that whoever pays for the work to be done = owner. The humans working on the code should be employees of the company outside the United States, or independent contractors working for the company outside the United States. This is the "work for hire" idea.

If you've done things wrong, it's better to fix it while the company is still growing and not too profitable. If there is a tax problem it won't be too big. After all, what is the value of a domain name for a typical SaaS situation when it's only making a few thousand a month at the moment? Not much.

The future lies ahead, etc. etc., but at the moment the assets (and code) could reasonably be valued at approximately what you paid to develop them. If you spent $50,000 to get to this point and you're at break-even, arguably the value of the domain name and all of your code and your traction so far is close to $50,000. You're selling for what you spent to buy the asset. Zero tax.
A lot of it is actually just configuration of their auto-scaling mechanism. If a web front end stops working it starts new instances according to the pool minimums and CPU load. There are some custom scripts though, mostly for migrating data to another zone.
I'm not sure that just because they are up, yet unusable, would negate an SLA.

You could have a dedicated server in a datacenter - if the network goes out, your machine is still up and happily waiting to serve requests - but it's still unusable and not actually in service.
More of a proof of concept than anything, but wanted to share.

I'm thinking of using this nifty script to power a website where users can create a unique email address and connect it to their Dropbox... anyone knows how to dynamically create IMAP mailboxes? :)

If anyone wants to do anything with this, knock yourselves out!
It's not even an uproar really. The only people who care are privacy freaks who didn't take the time to think through the implications of Dropbox's feature set when they first signed up.
Or they might have eaten less.

This whole insistence that the digestive system, alone and singular amongst all the systems in the human body across all scales, is not driven by feedback loops is utterly bizarre to me. That this position has became a sacred cow even moreso.

Things that don't respond to feedback don't work.
I'm guessing Step 7 is use images that you don't own....
Vitamin D is vital to dozens of critical processes in the body. Vitamin D deficiency can lead to developing rickets and bone loss. Studies have linked lower winter-time levels of Vitamin D with proliferation of influenza. Studies also suggest that Vitamin D disruptions can increase the risk of breast cancer, and consuming the RDA of Vitamin D significantly reduces (by 43%) the occurrence of pancreatic cancer.

So yeah, Vitamin D is pretty important. Get about 10-15 minutes of sun exposure at least 3 times a week.
I don't see it as a moral issue, in the least. The law was created, for a very good reason. Prior to the law, I've no doubt the public got screwed over, often, and on a regular basis. Let alone "less desirable" fares.
Horrible timing.

But props to TC for treating AOL, their parent company, just like any other one and spilling the beans as soon as they could.
I generally agree that there is way too much corporate control of the American government, but this is a pretty great example of how laws sometimes do nothing but hurt corporations.

Because I don't want to put up with this bullshit, I will take the (less profitable) bus or drive when I'm travelling fairly short distances. The airlines lose out, the oil companies lose out, and the airplane manufacturers lose out. I save a little money that I otherwise wouldn't have spent.

If the airlines were a powerful lobbying force, they would try to streamline the process of flying to attract get more people through in less time. The government decided that making people feel like they were safe from terrorists was more important than satisfying the airline lobbyists, so they chose to create security theater.
I cannot disagree with the reasoning behind wanting to avoid an empty return trip. However, as a customer with a legit need, this isn't really my problem. Either the city, or the cab co, or the cabbie needs to resolve this problem, not me. The law exists for a very good reason, like many other "consumer protection" laws.
>We all need to find our own place, and excel there.

I'd posit that writ large this won't actual create a functioning society. Some in society need to be content where they are because we need people to do the "dirty" jobs that others won't do.
I assume you're presenting this as one of the extremely flawed arguments that defenders of police impunity use--but that seems improbable, even as a strawman argument. Why would the possibility of being videotaped doing an admirable and effective job make a policeman less likely to do an admirable and effective job?
1) Get on a reality TV show like Big Brother.

2) Do something ridiculous that will get you in the news. Leave your dignity at the door.

3) Get a publicist and milk your infamy for a couple of months.
The inner core of the earth is solid. It's conceivable that the black hole, after it has settled down, will simply carve out a little cave and sit there in the center without accreting any more mass. In fact, I don't think you can completely rule out the possibility that this has already happened.
Depends on the purpose. Our GIS department uses PostGIS for one off analysis. Our interactive mapping engine uses Shapefiles with quadtree indexes.
The IRS has not exactly been cracking down on abuse. A lot of the 1099 stuff has been double taxation: contractor/employee gets paid on 1099, they properly pay all taxes including self-employment, then the IRS reclassifies them as W-2 and collects a second round of taxes and fines from the contractee/employer.

Basically the IRS considers the employer guilty unless they can track down the contractor/employee and extract paperwork from them, even though the IRS already possesses the documents that conclusively prove innocence. I'm actually mildly impressed nobody has truck bombed them yet. Crazy as he was, the airplane dude had a point.

The lesson for contractees is that you pay estimated taxes for your 1099 contractors. If they have deductible expenses, they can take it up with the IRS on April 15.
Personally I think the more 'poisonous' idea is that 'you are who you are' and that people don't respond to actual values/achievements. Who wants to be loved in spite of what's good about them, of what they try to do.

The films you talk about usually show a very superficial process of improvement, typically involving dressing in cooler clothes, lots of silly shenanigans, taking on some new hobbies, and going places to 'hang out.' I'm talking about actual achievements, starting with getting yourself in shape and becoming more entertaining, but extending to meeting your academic potential, finding a good career, developing new skills, committing to side projects, establishing a network of admirable friends, broadening your horizons etc. Things that would serve X well regardless of whether they really do impress Y in the end. With the quality of life possible in the West on a meagre wage, it's tempting to coast through life achieving a fraction of your potential
It's odd that he dismisses most existing Lisps, then advises the reader to create their own. I wasn't sure if he meant it pedagogically or pragmatically or both.
I don't understand this focus on average revenues. With few exceptions, most of the iPhone developers I personally know make their money by consulting for companies on their free apps.

They have apps on the app store, sometimes for personal gratification only. For instance, one guy does tab bar-type content/search apps for most of his income, and he laments that he can't get paid to make games (his true love - and he has two games on the app store. One of them, a card game, has done quite well). Yes, he still carves out a small slice for personal fulfillment game projects.
I really liked following two books on the subject of investing
1. A Random walk across wall street
2. Intelligent Investor
>Maybe I am too old fashioned, buying music direct from musicians, after concert gigs, and making my own play lists.

Wow! I'd like to see your collection of wax cylinders!
There is a Korean restaurant in my area (Berlin) that only has Facebook, I guess they just don't know better. Facebook only used to be more common (if rare) a couple of years ago, always made me less inclined to visit these places.
Coca Cola
But that was a good investment for its long term Gamepass/Xbox plan. Or are you saying Microsoft can buy it?
Usually when politicians ressurect "think of the children" initiatives they want to distract attention from something. What's the current UK scandal, besides the obvious ongoing BRExit consequences?
Why would it have to be pretty?

Change needs sacrifice.
> ADHD isn't a discrete trait, it simply means that "you are in the lower x percentile of the population in the ability to concentrate".

This is an oversimplification to the point of being misleading.

Scott links to several sources to support his claims and most of them are quite clear that ADHD is a whole bunch of symptoms, a lack of concentration being just one of them. For example:

“DSM-IV field trials used a C-GAS score of ≤60 (which implies impairment requiring specific treatment) and determined that five ADHD symptoms were required to be present to reach this cut-off. To avoid false positives the number was increased to six or more symptoms of inattention or hyperactivity/impulsivity.‘

As an example, some people with ADHD have symptoms where their biggest detrimental issue is hyperfocus - their problem is literally that they concentrate too much rather than too little. Simplifying the condition as “ lower x percentile of the population in the ability to concentrate" discounts these people, as it does the people whose principal problem is hyperactivity or other aspects.
But that it could be a problem. So its not a myth, that it is demineralizing your body. Its a small effect - but its there, and it could have a negative effect on the body.
I think based on the number of times they have tried to legislate for this, most recently in 2019, I would put the odds of it happening (even in a hamstrung way) at less than 10%.
It's a recurring topic on HN. There seems to be plenty of anecdotal evidence for it.
You know what, I think I will. It's tied into a bunch of different threads, but if I plan it out, it could make a nice series of posts.
Just don’t connect them to Wi-Fi.

I really hope they don’t start trying to auto connect to the xfinity ssid...
If you're curious, the "dummy key" is a bump key. It's a relatively crude tool and is relatively hard on the lock, compared to traditional picking. There's also a certain level of professional pride, as you observed.

Hitting it with a mallet imparts force on the upper half of the pins, causing them all to briefly jump above the shear line, and at that moment the lock can turn freely without binding a pin.

A vibrating pick gun does essentially the same thing in a somewhat more controlled way.
A simple curl reveals that it isn't... And how often are deface pages serving malware anyways?

IMO it would be much more sensible to serve malware off of a page that _doesn't_ announce it has been hacked.
It seems like it's just FUD.

According to the bug tracker the plan is to run an experiment (including defaulting Compact mode) and see which combinations are actually retained by users: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1698171

There's another bug that I can't find right now that talks about defaulting Compact mode on low-res devices. The whole thing seems to be totally unsettled pending more data.
I'm sorry, but I really disagree with any sort of dieting advice articles appearing on Hacker News for multiple reasons. Reading this thread only backs up my own thoughts and reasons why I dislike these articles.

First of all, everyone has their own idea of healthy.

Second, there are so many different diets, fads, foods, etc to eat or follow that's it ridiculous to even argue one way or another. Some eat lots of protein, some eat lots of fat, some eat low fat and high carbohydrates and everyone believes their method or means of eating is healthy. I'm sure no matter which way anyone argues there is a book, article, pubmed article to back up your ways. Making statements such as that can't be healthy, or you need to eat vegetables, fats, a certain amount of calories, and other similar statements is only someone else's opinion or belief and everyone is different.

Go with what makes you feel good. The best diet is the one you can follow. Listen to your body.

I would down vote this, but I can't down vote yet.

I'll probably get down voted for all this text, but I feel that strongly about this.

Frankly, what else bothers me is that almost any time someone expresses disagreement, they get down voted. Thus, people who disagree often times probably end up never posting.
OP:Nope, you didnt read the code. Try reading the other version I posted. Works without a loop as well.
It's a function that configures ten timers to call itself. So it causes an exponential number of timers to be set.
You can burn the image on USB drive and boot from it. Unetbootin can help for that.
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
Why did you set your target that low? (50 dollars / month)

The expected standard here in Uruguay is 100 dollars / month in food (and that with a 150 dollar minimum monthly wage)

I probably spend about 300 dollars per month in food (I do buy and/or eat out half the time), with a salary of 1200 dollars / month after tax. I'm pretty sure you make at least twice that.

(see also an Australian commenting the same thing: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2492511 )

To add to the conversation, some prices here:

Eggs - 2 dollars for 15 eggs

Apples - 2 dollars per kg (about 6 apples)

Rice - 1.5 dollar per kg
Thats not the bug though. Can do it without a loop as well. This was an old version, check the other one I posted here in this thread.
What benefits over the 10.04 LTS does this release have for the server? All I am hearing about it Unity, have you seen an improvement?
The problem is "I need 20 more characters for my Tweet". This is only solved by URL shorterners, at the moment.
"Minifying" will still produce generally lower bandwidth use with automatic stream compression, and you get a significant benefit even for users who have broken browsers (or are stuck behind broken proxies) that don't support stream compression.
What software exactly have been boxed out of their operating system with incompatibilities?
"LBRY does to publishing, what Bitcoin did to money (lbry.com)" That is, nothing
People never learn from history. It's same when the Germans invited gastarbeiters to build the country, expecting them to just pack up and leave afterwards. As one of them later said: I spent 15 years building this country, it's my home,why would I leave?
What's wrong with pushing Mono as a viable linux technology?

trying to push Mono as a dependancy on common linux systems

Wishing for $PROJECT's popularity while choosing to work on $PROJECT out of passion for many years?

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

ad hominem attacks on [F]OSS figures/organizations/supporters

Because [F]OSS figures are very civilized and have in no way attacked Miguel countless times and will never do so?

Again, I'm shocked that Miguel doesn't just bend over and take it like a chump.
Mono is a viable linux technology.
The article uses the term "near space".
Texas Hold'em is a logical and difficult game. So is Chess. I enjoy both games.

War is pretty simplistic. So is Chutes and Ladders (simplistic meaning less choice and more dependent on luck. There is also less need for strategy. Of course, chess has virtually no luck variable, unless you include the randomness of the opponent's choice.)

It really depends on the game and the people playing it.
Scala has (limited compared to Haskell, but still powerful) type inference and a way to simulate type classes as well.
I wonder if another, equally valid, way of looking at the lines of code vs time is that if two programmers using different languages both complete the task in roughly the same amount of time, but one uses only half the total lines of code... that implies _not_ that that programmer is better, but that each of their lines of code took roughly twice as long to produce.

One of the things I used to do when working in large teams was wander around and look to see if anyone was having trouble debugging. Sometimes you'd find someone who'd been stuck on a bug for several days. So what I'd do was I'd sit down with them, and start putting in all the 'fluff' like indenting their code, splitting lines with multiple variable declarations each onto their own line etc. Essentially putting in all the 'long cuts' that they'd taken 'short cuts' around in order to 'speed up' the programming.

Often either they or I would see the problem immediately.

These days of course there are tools that do the auto-formatting, but I still try to optimise for readability, simplicity and elegance in my code.

Back to the lines of code as a metric issue (tm) in that scenario where it takes 2x as long to write a line in language X, and that line does twice as much, it is probably at least twice as complex as the 'more verbose' language... and I think this implies that it will be harder to debug and maintain later on. So arbitrarily complex languages are optimal for some internet 'toss off' (one off, toss away) competition, but not necessarily optimal for long term efforts.

Some of these languages that allow you to redefine the language itself on the fly allow you to do 'cool stuff' (tm) but tend to attract people who think they are much cleverer than they actually are. I think it is a regional variation, but all the Ruby fans in my city scare me. The thought of what would happen if I'd spent days or weeks on a bug only to find out it was caused by someone else 'tweaking' one of the core classes and not bothering to tell anyone else... twitch
that about sums it up.
He's the guy who's invaluable in your startup, and will probably get shafted when things go corporate because the strong points that made him good for you at the startup stage work against him once you try to categorize everyone and work out pay scales.
My grandmother used to say the streets were safer under the ww2 occupation.
The performance levels they have achieved are impressive.

I think hot swapping code is a major factor in being able to quickly fix and develop a system like this.

I wonder how far one can go on another tech stack.

For example Akka is supposed to be able to handle up to 50m messages on a single box and there is some support for hot swapping in the Oracle and IBM runtime.
My understanding is that the 14"MBP is supposed to be ~the same form factor as the 13"MBP, except the bezels are smaller so you get a bigger screen in the same size package. Am I wrong?
I dunno man, we're in a Windows world. I word at an MSP and I am a linux enthusiast at heart, but I had to adapt to this Windows world and Teams is a huge part of that.

Do I wish that we could just use... idk an internal IRC server? Yeah sure, that'd be great.

But Teams allows us to organize meetings and communicate EFFECTIVELY.

Sometimes adaptation is a huge part of this industry, in my opinion. I think that if you dislike Teams, and can not adapt, you may not be effective in this job market unless you free-lance or find some small startup that ... doesn't use any of the modern communication applications.
I was about to point out the same thing. Except in my experience you still need good soft skills to succeed in STEM-related fields. Pure technical ability and raw intellect will only get you so far. You still have to deal with politicking amongst peers.
It lies somewhere between being Vocal enough to be heard and being so vocal that you are charged with assault. Clearly his fault that he couldn't strike that balance in such comfortable conditions.
> I'm excited about having a real force to counterbalance
> Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon again.

Are these 4 independent corporations somehow conspiring to restrict your choices in some way? :)
Apple tried social and search* with Ping and Siri. It flopped. But nobody holds it against Jobs
This is trite, but I am replying for the sake of learning how to phrase it. A candidate can be broken down into a lot of characteristics:

1. Base technical skills - typing (yes, typing), ability to recognize and solve standard problems, and ability to process information quickly.

2. Familiarity with specific technologies (.NET, Angular, SQL, whatever you are working with). This is vastly underrated for line of business applications.

3. Architectural patterns - DRY, SRP, dependency injection, inversion of control, queue/msg based patterns, etc.

4. Domain knowledge, perhaps company specific

5. Social skills, etc

A lot of senior devs ride out their career on number 4. For a new hire, especially for a junior position, #1 is critical, because there is no #4 to speak of and #3 and #2 are handled by other devs.

From that perspective, it makes perfect sense.
I think it's "normal" only in the sense that most everyone behaves this way today, but I don't think it should be that way.

By the time I was older in Scouts, my siblings were in college and my parent could drive me to wherever, or at least to the meeting place where I could carpool. The times when my parent wasn't available, I took the city bus.

I imagine if one of my siblings was was the same age and our parent could only drive one of us, the other would take the bus.

The first time I took the bus, my parent went with me to show me how, and then let me do it myself going forward.
What is an installation bundle? (tried some of the unix looking downloads but none seemed appropriate)
I was thinking about how difficult it would be to use Rust on FaaS for a web service. Could be a good fit, since most of the web related stuff would be handled by an API gateway.
They didn't say all recent graduates performed better than 50%, just the ones that they interviewed from Palestine. It sounds plausible that they only interviewed a handful and they were better than that 50%.
> Planned obsolescence: Apple laptops retain their resale value for a very long time.

Planned obsolescence here means limiting upgrades and repairs, and making repairs or replacement so costly that you prefer to buy a new device if the current model develops performance issues or has hardware failures. With the M1 this is even worse now as you can't even run other base OSes on it reliably, thus making its users susceptible to systemic obsolescence (not including hardware or software compatibility when the OS is upgraded).

It has nothing to do with the resale value of a product. (It is a humbug argument as nobody can predict what the value of your device will be tomorrow if some newer technology comes along. Moreover, soldered parts and non-user-replaceable battery actually make such laptops even less desirable in the seconds market because they cannot be upgraded, unlike the older Apple laptops).

> Almost everyone buys the base configuration, and almost no-one upgraded RAM or HD

I'd really like to know your source for this.

> What you're paying for isn't the cost of the RAM/storage itself, but the money necessary to make it worth the bother of making additional models which almost no-one buys.

Again, share your source for this really ridiculous argument - they wouldn't need to bother with all this if they didn't solder the parts in the first place.
could you provide any reasoning for that, please?