jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apple is requiring developers to use the following flow in their apps if they opt out of using Apple's payment processing:

Title: This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system

Body: All purchases in the <App Name> app will be managed by the developer “﹤Developer Name﹥.” Your stored App Store payment method and related features, such as subscription management and refund requests, will not be available. Only purchases through the App Store are secured by Apple.

Action 1: Continue

Action 2: Cancel
What I wish could happen but probably never will: that this takes off sufficiently much that it's commercially viable for Apple to spinoff a personal payments business that lets me yeet small amounts of money directly out of people's bank cards for personal payments. Perhaps with an eg $50-100 limit or so.

PayPal allows free C2C transactions that are much higher in any case.
The strategic threat for Zoom at this point is big players providing a more integrated offering. Microsoft being the best example.

Zoom was easy for corporations to adopt quickly in the pandemic rush, but companies that already had Webex or others didn't switch.

When a player offers cross-sell discounts with other products they offer and as long as the functionality is 80% as good, they will absolutely go with the cheaper vendor.

Zoom needs to diversify to stay competitive five years from now, the Five9 acquisition/merger was Zooms first attempt at trying to figure this out.
I think our country is being ruled by both reach people with access to energy resources, and desire to play our national sport - a political split.
I mean, keep trying to take best of both worlds: first world is a world with cheap gas/gasoline and low taxes and ability to solve some legal problems with bribes (yes it is corruption) and free medicine (btw we have a tradition to put few hundred hryvnas into doctor's pocket after conversation about my current health problems - and nobody counts it as corruption); and a second world is a world with democracy (at least changeable government), decent human rights, ability to travel across Europe w/o vises, Europe-quality medicine and an access to European markets.
It's odd to me that people make such a big deal about Facebook, relative to other platforms. When I log on to Facebook I see some old friends having pretty banal conversations. It's not very compelling and it's definitely not threatening.

Twitter, on the other hand, is both compelling and threatening. It draws me in and sucks up far too much of my time. And when I've waded into controversial waters I've been met with hordes of strangers calling me names, making fun of my appearance, and even in one case emailing my employer in an effort to materially harm me for disagreeing on the internet.

Nothing like that has ever happened to me on Facebook.

Between Facebook and Twitter I find the latter both far more threatening and, because it's also actually compelling, far more difficult to leave.

Facebook is a zero by comparison.
May I humbly suggest you use either a better OS or browser or some combination of said components. It takes 0% CPU on my netbook running XP and Chrome latest version.
clickable: http://www.yoyouwantto.com/
Yes, and the 80/20 principle does comply with this pretty fully.
Not sure if you can correct the following in WordPress.

Whenever I click on the image of the pouch, the title shows "KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA", I am guessing it's the brand of your camera. :P

Thought it would be good to correct it, give it a more descriptive title if possible.
it would probably help a huge deal if you set yourself concrete goals. I was a perler and I learned ruby because I needed to process and chunk huge amounts of genomic data for my new job (yes I realize there are python tools to do this but being a perler ruby seemed like a better choice) so I wound up using it as an excuse to write all new scripts to do those jobs. In the process I learned ruby.
This isn't interesting anymore; Erlang and Prolog simply aren't related beyond the most superficial of syntactical rules. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542891/erlang-programmin...
When I saw the headline, I my first thought was that the math was something along the lines of:

A = number of U.S./allied tanks in each battle

D = number of German/axis tanks in each battle

A >= 2D
65 people "discovered 4chan" in 2011... why was that even a choice, and what makes people think that a group of people who take nothing seriously would take a survey seriously?
I think you guys have an edge over Soylent in that this actually looks somewhat appealing, as opposed to a generic beige liquid.
I'm not disputing the scaling properties of the Haskell one-liner, but it doesn't give you the benefits of the true QuickSort as your comment suggests, e.g. it doesn't guarantee in-place sorting or efficient use of when access be locked.

The point is, I find it questionable to praise Haskell for how you can implement a one-line QuickSort that isn't really a QuickSort.
What you linked to has nothing to do with SR or even congressional testimony. It's filling out the rest of their money-transmitter issues. First, they seized funds from Dowalla, and then from Wells Fargo. This was the WF seizure.

Seizing MtGox's USD funds may have had an effect on SR, but that wasn't the reason why they were seized. It was a money laundering issue, plain and simple. Remember, the funds were seized by DHS and the FBI was in charge of the SR case (which wasn't even against SR as an entity, but the owner/operator as a private citizen). I'm sure the FBI and DHS probably share data, but that would have required a lot of interagency cooperation for what is a pretty small matter. DHS was more concerned with blocking the money laundering possibilities than they were with blocking SR. Granted, DHS may have learned about MtGox from the DEA/FBI while they were investigating SR.

I wouldn't assume the gov't really cares that much about Bitcoin. They just want the players in Bitcoin to play by the existing rules.
Then, too, I also badly want to believe in the concept of one-man research published on a blog.
Like testing, PRs are one of those things that seems like it will slow you down, but once you learn how to use them they can actually increase velocity (among many other benefits). It's been awesome to watch how good people have gotten at collaborating/communicating via PRs at Airbnb.
You need to find a tax person ASAP. Do not wait till the end of the year - do so immediately. They will tell you what records you need to keep, how detailed they are, as well as keeping track of the constantly changing regulations which can occur at federal, state, county and city level. For example my tax person required me to keep detailed mileage logs.

In general you get to make the expenses of your business be pre-tax. Exactly how you count your home office/mortgage/bills has implications, and is likely your largest expenses. But your city/county may have additional requirements - eg wanting to tax your business use of the home. Only someone familiar with the area will know the right thing to do.

In some cases the various rules are so bad that it works out cheaper to not follow some and pay the resulting fines, than to do things the right way. Again your tax person will know.
I think Ginny's saying that the the author of the blog post is simply echoing things she read elsewhere. That doesn't mean it's some sort of propaganda effort on the part of the blog poster.
http://www.thesuperfluid.com/

I saw this as a response to my question on Quora .. I wonder how they do it
But the size of the vegan movement is totally out of proportion to its veracity.

That's a weird statement. When is "movement size" ever a good indicator of truth?

Anyway, veganism is not about "veracity", it's about a different set of moral beliefs, or a particular diet, or...

You speak of vegans as if it was a monolithic group, and you paint it with a negative brush because of a few crazy individuals. That's like dismissing entire religions and countries because of a handful of fanatics.

Meanwhile, as vegans focus on the elimination of meat from our diets, they practically ignore the industrialized food that wreaks direct reproducible havoc on our metabolisms causing epidemic obesity and diabetes.

Really? All of the vegans I know care a lot about eating a balanced and healthy diet (at least, more than the average non-vegan).
You might be surprised how easy it is to get local farm-raised meat delivered or handed off via a local restaurant or purveyor. It's totally worth it.
I eat meat, I fish and I've hunted. My wife has been a vegetarian for 20 years, since age 19. By vegetarian I mean she eats eggs and drinks milk, but doesn't eat meat of any kind.

It's outright weird how the author swings from one extreme to the other, both emotionally and nutritionally. Why not try adding eggs, milk, cheese and full-cream yoghurt to your diet first? Or even add shellfish or chicken once or twice a week?

She seems to swing from the most militant form of vegetarianism to maniacal flesh gorging with an indictment of the vegan community to boot.

The range of diets that incorporate or exclude meat or animal byproducts is wide as is the impact each variation has on our environment. A productive approach would be to find a meat-veggie balance that works for your nutritional needs and then spend the time to find environmentally friendly and humane sources of the ingredients you need.
And yet living in the south (US) in my LGBT circles I've run into some fairly right wing gay men.
>The opinion that "Steve knows how to make money" is a poor indicator of a successful leader

Tell that to the people who, you know, own the company.

I'm sure they'd be thrilled with your plan to make pretty interfaces but no profits.
"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

Grace Hopper, as quoted in the U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986).

[•] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
> A large part of that, from what I've encountered ...

Since I was talking about Makefile that run unmodified on any BSD and Linux, I'm clearly not talking about the kind of crappy build scripts you are mentioning. Those are an issue of their own.

> a lot of source compiles not tweaked to handle OSX

The problem is that you have to tweak scripts. You have to tweak even clean, simple scripts or libraries that use only portable constructs (i.e. without any hard-coded paths and other stupid stuff). And that's really nasty.
While Ubuntu and a few others have made great strides in getting things to "just work", OS X is still the king in that regard.

This rather depends on what you want to do. I use both Mac OSX and Ubuntu Linux for development, and I generally spend more time messing around with installations on OSX than I do on Ubuntu.

Macports is rather good, but it's not as integrated with the OS as Apt is for Ubuntu. Installing a package in Ubuntu is generally quicker and comes with more sensible defaults. Daemons are started automatically, and things tend to run straight off the bat. OSX sometimes requires some fiddling to get things to work correctly.
Personally I don't see any reason for having them completely randomly generated.

'thIs1smyp4ssw0rd19%2' isn't any less secure than another 20 character password that includes lower+upper case letters, numbers and special characters.

Obviously, if you do something like 'c0r1np4ssw0rd" then it may get to the stage where enough people do that for crackers to expect it (maybe it already is, but as long as you follow his third and fourth rules ("Use mixed-case, numbers and special characters" and "Use passwords of at least 12 characters") you really should be fine, and you'll have an easier time memorising them.

(I can remember multiple 20+ character passwords that would be very difficult to crack, and have no need to write them down.)
I am not from the US, yet I am aware of the KKK and would not want to risk even the slightest association with that despicable organisation.
> It is hard to have an intelligent discussion about charity with someone who's main point is that someone else is a jerk. ... Try again, Sebastian.

Is "Try again, Sebastian" really the best tone to try to settle down a conversation and have an intelligent discussion?

But okay - the main point isn't that he's a jerk - there's 3-4 points about mudslinging at people who are doing good things, conflict of interests with the old guard in philanthropy, the ineffectiveness of the old models of charity, and entrenched worldviews being defended.

We can discuss those, if you like? I do think his behavior is uncool and that that's worth pointing out - but there's plenty of other points worth discussing too.

Maybe the discussion could start with the conflict of interest here, how a philanthropy director is throwing mud at people involved in philanthropy that stands to make him less personally prestigious and important?
Because when you pay attention to what's going on in a community, you notice trends. In the open source community, most notably the web development community, there has been a trend of moving to Mac.
It's hard to have an intelligent discussion when the opposing side makes comments like these (from the article):

"UNTIL the money is given away, It amounts to very little more than air. Better that we raise their taxes to pay down the deficit and fix the infrastruc­ture that they helped destroy NOW and worry about what lucky people get their giveaways or more importantl­y those in need who don't."

This kind of thinking baffles me - where did this entitlement culture come from?
Yes, but dividends are basically taxed at the same rate or slightly higher 20% as capital gains; they aren't taxed as earned income using the progressive bracket system. So while they aren't technically capital gains, my point stands.
Multiple inheritance rears its ugly head yet again. Namespace collisions, oh noes!
"Booby traps for tourists. If we catch one you can have the money, but leave the body for us."
That seems like a brutal limitation done for non-obvious reasons ... I mean, wtf?

> makes him look inattentive and/or naive

Oh I wish you gave me more options. This is not a proper ad hominem.
You see this a lot on tv, where people survive a plane crash and thank the lord, rather than the pilot and engineers. Or are cured of cancer and thank god, rather than the team of surgeons and years of hard working medical scientists.
Misleading title. The story had more to do with the fact that the founder is inexperienced and thought he can do it all, not the fact that he is one person. 5 inexperienced founders also can get nowhere. Flip side, one repeat founder can create a great MVP in a month by locking himself in a closet. Perhaps the blogger is also inexperienced at writing articles
unless you are a good 7' basketball player.
What was the transfer process like?
That's good stuff, thanks for sharing! When you approach things from an engineering perspective, it is appealing to lock yourself away and "just hack," that's for sure. In fact, I've been doing a lot of that myself, and just a couple of nights ago somebody on IRC was sorta-kinda calling me out on not having other people involved. So I guess I can say - to some extent - "I feel your pain."

One thing though:

Get feedback where you can; talk database schema with the
DBA in the break room at your day job while he’s
refilling his coffee; share your ongoing startup problems
with family and friends who’ve launched businesses
before; join online news groups and connect with other
people familiar with your problem domain; just stay in
contact.

I 99.9% agree with that. The .1 percent is the part of me that's reluctant to talk too much about startup ambitions around the day-job. Depending on the circumstances, your relationship with your employer, any binding legal agreements, etc., you might or might not want your day-job people being too aware of what you're doing in the startup realm.
IGF-1 is a hell of a drug. It will be interesting to see some anecdotal reports from current carnivore diet followers in a few decades.
People (developers) want a target (sandbox) that is as "open" as their browser. This means that by definition the slightest presence of business-motives would ruin the entire idea (your example of Ubuntu's snap and Apple's iOS and Google's Android).
You make a good point that some folks using "classic" are really using one of the page builder plugins that are incompatible with Gutenberg.

My long-term view there is that "proprietary," as in specific to a single plugin, data structures and UI are going to be less and less appealing to users over time as the standard rails of blocks and the applications being written on top of Gutenberg blocks, including the mobile apps, become more of a must-have for many sites.

The future of page builder plugins is extending Gutenberg, not trying to recreate what it does well with fewer developers and a much smaller community.

This switchover has already happened for a good chunk of the user base, over half, and the remainder will have an opportunity to switch on the cadence that they redesign their site, which is usually every few years.
Any recommended readers?
Geography definitely makes a difference, but I think that on average, society is currently optimized for early risers at the expense of late-risers. I've been trying to find this article all afternoon, and I finally remembered enough of the title: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/18/11255942/morning-people-evenin...

The article largely thinks increased schedule flexibility is the solution, but I don't think that's every going to be practical for many types of work. But, we can at least make sure we don't make our world even more lopsided.
Thanks for this, I might try this one for myself in the future and its assembled in fresno which is pretty close by

im not sure if its beginner friendly, looks like they might need to put demos, but def looks like a really great product
Please, Mr. President, carve out an exception for folks like the serious eats crew, who write genuinely useful culinary info in the introduction of their recipes.

E.g.: This classic béchamel-based mac and cheese is loaded to the hilt with cheese. Not only do we pack as much cheese as we can into the sauce itself, but we then mix the cooked pasta and cheese sauce with additional grated cheese, for tiny pockets of stretchy, melty bits throughout. One of the benefits of this method is that you can get enhanced browning in the oven, especially on the bottom and sides of the baking dish, thanks to the flour and butter in the sauce. (it goes on)

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2016/11/classic-bechamel...
- bicycle parking/storage at destinations ( you're not going to bring a muddy bicycle into the office )

- physically separated bicycle/automobile traffic ( safety like the netherlands )

- cycling support infrastructure ( to quickly address flats / part breakage when out and about )

- reliable backup transportation ( when all else fails )
At the end of the blog post, Matt gives his recommendation to them and Shopify, so I guess so.
The Empire is no more though.
If your game company “pretty much requires” you to install “anti cheat kernel modules” on my machine, unless you’re supplying that machine to me as part of my game purchase price exclusively to play your game with, you can just go broke thanks. Flawed business models do not give you the right to break into and exploit my hardware.
More often "...the OECD, a club of mostly rich countries...".
> Plus, he seems to have, I dunno, great "taste"

This. I feel something similar. It is kind of way things are arranged, the simple layout of repository, or that on average zig src file has ~500 lines of code (for Swift/Rust, it is 65/80 respectively). So yes, it is all subjective. I also feel as if zig is like more time/money is spent on books and not on bookshelves.
I don't work in hedge funds and have only a superficial understanding, but it seems the operative word of "hedge" was completely ignore here. He plowed a huge chunk of his positions into two companies and didn't offset with any swaps or other risk absorbers. This seems like downright malpractice and not just a bad luck.
DOS also copied APIs from CP/M (though that was before Microsoft bought it I assume)
Agreed, what's going on should be completely transparent. The security of the system must only depend on the private keys and implementation correctness.
how about increasing wages? I doubt that every one of your employees is getting taxed 53%. So I think the system is just working as expected.
The ad-hoc live Q&A is always kind of a disaster. I think it’s more useful to the audience and the speaker to do an AMA kind of thing. Questions are open for a couple hours, and the top X will be answered on video.
Airbnb really blew everyone away in terms of charisma. Also PG held up a "louder" sign for Sam Altman.
For cases where small statistical differences matter, like Monte-Carlo simulation, the overhead is non-trivial. Linear congruential generator is so simple it can be inlined by the compiler.
I also have issues with the "box model." Judging by the popularity of grid layout systems like blueprint and 960 I think others also do.

The box model is fine when you just need to "flow" things around things, like text around images, and typical blog designs, but when you develop complicated interfaces it really shows its limitations and costs many hours of frustrating effort.
If the product is as good as you say it is, there should be plenty of money to pay well. And paying people well should increase the quality further: if you don't have to worry about basic needs you've got more bandwidth for being technically excellent.

Don't feel bad about 'rebellion', loyalty should be both ways and respect must be earned.

Stand up for yourself!
It might not seem all that great from the simple example provided, but Compass (http://compass-style.org/, uses SASS) is a great example of how mixins can make your life so much easier.

For example, if you want to make an inline list it's as easy as:

li
+inline-list
Working on updating a few resume and portfolio items now. Thank you for the good luck!
Or reinforced windows might be the thing that prevent injury and death in the unpredictable scenario someone ends up in. I'm just saying, I don't think a strong case could be made for or against stronger windows. Statistics might give a good idea over a long enough timeline, but until more people are driving around with stronger windows, getting in accidents, how can we be sure?
I do! Mostly. It's a little complicated. Read the Mathematics page on wikipedia, and you'll find I'm in good company.

My strong, loosely held, opinion is that rigorous mathematics is the hardest of sciences. Where mathematicians reject computer proofs over all-human proofs, I balk at their lack of rigor and consider their stance unscientific.

Mathematics is one of the only sciences that finds absolute ground truth: we state axioms, and elaborate proofs based entirely upon those axioms. Axioms are assumptions, and we freely acknowledge that results are only guaranteed to hold if the axioms are satisfied. Logicians are seen as philosophers, but I hold them as equals.

There's a perspective that "science" deals purely with the natural world, and mathematicians aren't bothered by the surreality of their axioms. The way I see it is, these are truths that can extend beyond even our universe, should anything more exist. And occasionally, pure mathematical results come hundreds of years before natural observations require them -- what looks absurdly inapplicable now might not in a few generations.