jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
My advice is this:

1.Find the most accomplished professors in your department and take courses offered by them. Even though your school may not have a big reputation, some professors may have enough clout to recommend you when applying to Google/FB etc.

2.Keep doing Deliberate Practice. Take the hardest courses. Work on your own projects. Contribute to open source projects.
Eventually, the FBI seems to have sought a legal opinion on the proper use of the tool, both from the Office of General Counsel and from the National Security Law Branch, and ultimately, the agency seems to have settled on a "two-step request" process for CIPAV deployments -- a search warrant to authorize intrusion into the computer, and then a subsequent Pen/Trap order to authorize the surveillance done by the spyware.
Cool. I made a web-based pinboard-ish clone instead. http://yukmarks.com

(Not that anyone will sign up, but if you do, it's mostly just personal tool that isn't exactly full-featured. To wit: Don't forget your password.)

It's pure Python built around Django. It's a super thin wrapper over a postgres db. It's honestly little more than a web interface for the database. If anyone wants to make their own, all the code is here:

https://github.com/mattdeboard/Yuk
Nothing more insightful than merely two factual but obvious definitions of the two. I was hoping for some actual interesting analysis.
The fact that a cut of 75% reduces her salary to $11M is mind-boggling. How could she possibly ever add even $11M of value to that company? How could any CEO? Steve Jobs, maybe. But his salary is $1/yr.
FYI for the down voters, Fox News was up in denial till last week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA
Another counterpoint (although I totally understand where this sentiment comes from):

Pro Gran Turismo players have been banned from competing as gentlemen drivers because they're too good.

For folks not familiar with the concept of a "gentleman driver", there are plenty of racing series that pair amateur drivers with pro drivers to compete in teams. Historically, the gentleman driver provided the funding for the team. These were wealthy enthusiasts who were often quite good, but not good enough to be professional.

However, it's not actually required that the gentlemen driver fund the team. This encouraged teams to seek out the best non-pro drivers possible, which in this case, happened to be some pro Gran Turismo players.

https://jalopnik.com/expert-gran-turismo-drivers-cant-race-i...
It's a marketplace for innovators and special operating forces (SOF) who have requirements, a place where the parties can resolve their mismatches. The signup process has to strongly credential the various types of users with legally binding access controls.
Nobody really knows what Apple is up to. Their processor design/manufacturing seems top tier. Until you can develop an iPad Pro app on an iPad Pro, it seems like a toy. (And I say this as someone who uses an iPad Pro as their primary mobile device. I don't own a laptop.)

To me it seems like another case of big-company-itis. Someone on the processor design team wants a promotion. Someone on the Macbook Air team wants a promotion. Working together is not the easiest path to that promotion, so the products remain separate. That is the reality of big companies and why startups get so much done. Nobody on the MacOS team is going to say "we should delete this thing and start working on XCode for the iPad instead", and so... as end-users we wonder wtf they're up to.
Some ideas I had:

Co-op based online marketplace. buy truckload of items upfront from manufacture and split the cost.

Personal Delivery robots with UV lighting

Temp Masks - changes color if you have a fever.

Mood Masks - changes color based on your mood.

Preppers warehouse - stored good off site and have them delivered by fedex.
To a certain extent that's true, but at a certain point, why would someone bother making things in exchange for money, if someone is just going to give them money.

We need a few people to actually do work, but it's hard to figure out how to make that happen in a way that is fair.
Any intelligence service worth its salt would have kept a close eye on the situation developing in China, so in that respect this is not unexpected.

Personally I knew this could be very bad when I started hearing news about the Chinese qarantining first Wuhan, then the surrounding cities. This involved huge numbers of people and was done quite swiftly and on a scale never seen before in modern times (to my knowledge anyway). Quite frankly it made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. I did wonder at the time how long before it reaches our shores (not that long) and what would our response be like (nowhere near as organised and focused although I guess things are picking up). I'm in the UK.
Loans don't help small businesses the same way they do large ones because small businesses don't have the margins and market size to be able to pay them back in the future when things pick back up. They would get through this crisis and have the exact same financials they did before, except worse because now they've got a fat load of debt hanging on their balance sheets forever.
i think the thumbnails should link to a dedicated page for each picture, rather than a lightbox version, like flickr does. that way users can have a url per-picture but still have some context around it (like who took it, show the user's other pictures, promote the 365.io site, etc.) rather than just the raw jpeg url on s3. i'd say add the ability to leave comments and favorites and all that, but it sounds like you're just duplicating flickr at that point.

you could probably accomplish the same thing by using flickr's api. let users upload photos to flickr (with a certain tag that your site would look for) or through your site, but collect and present all of them with your own layout and sharing mechanisms. flickr can host all of the photos and let users keep copies of their own photos in their own photostream. you could pull in comments made on flickr and show them in the same stream with comments left on your own site.

there should still be incentive to use your site to view the photos, though, like having a voting mechanism and some kind of 'picture of the day' that would get displayed on the homepage.
I'm curious of Arrington has a source on that figure. 10s of millions seems insane for a new service that, from the outside looking in, seems easy to replicate, other than the domain name...

If someone can explain why it's worth even millions at this moment, I'd love to hear it.
Hopelessly pedantic … use them (or don't), but either way don't waste too much time on this subject. Focus on things that matter more.
Talent acquisition? Tony's a seasoned entrepreneur and he built a pretty good team, that's worth the price.

EDIT: Also, if 20mm AOL users now have an about.me profile that can become a huge part of AOL's push into social, that would be worth it too.
Have you seen the "introductory profiles"?

http://about.me/ryanchris

http://about.me/philblack

http://about.me/nathanfitzsimmons

http://about.me/pascal

http://about.me/juliaallison

http://about.me/tonyconrad

It looks like they "sold" About.me even before they even started building it.
Purposely being glib loses its humor amongst nerds that live and breathe internet business. Try another schtick.
compare the nexus one with the closed version from htc... the nexus lost to any of them. to the point of google dropping sales.

a company, that can dump money on every kind of crap, discontinued sales of something. how much worse do you want it to get until you accept it was a joke for sales?

..funny thing is that people are paying now in ebay MORE than the original price to have the device.
You're right about the private jet. I probably just need one chartered for two round trips per month. But regarding the Bugatti, I want to own it. I want to go to Safeway in it. I want to drive down the freeway and just think in it. I have no interest in driving the Autobahn. But for probably a year, I want this to be mine main solo car. Next year, probably a new car. So maybe leasing a Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport. Still at least $100k/year.

I don't want a meal by a top ranked chef. I actually want a private chef. I have a couple of friends that have them and they are very different, in the sense that you have very specialized meals. While I can probably charter Mario Batali for a custom meal for $500 to $1000 a couple of times. Having him staff for two to five meals per day probably costs a fair bit.

For a reasonably-sized house decent maid service will start at $1000/year, and that's just for something like 12 cleanings per year. For live in service, expect a fair bit more.

And again, part of what I want is not having to figure out the optimal way to get a good. I don't want to spend 20 minutes price shopping online for best rates on an alarm system. My time is my non-replenishable asset and you seem to be asking me to trade it in to get a sub-optimal service that only superficially looks like what I really want.

Another thing, I want a full scale gym in my house. I hate commuting to the gym (although made slightly better with a Bugatti). I want a bigger yard, but don't want to move my primary residence. Would be nice to just buy the houses around us.

I'd like to own the Lakers and the Dodgers.

There's a lot of things, and I haven't even really thought about it, largely because its not really in play today.
Donate: http://www.sens.org/

Likely this won't help you or me and it won't help your mom or dad, but it might help a lot of people someday.
Yeah, but you know the drill, I'm inviting the down votes. When I have conclusive data on what I'm working on here, you and Dang will definitely be the first to know.

Either way, thank you for the commentary. There have been times I actually didn't understand the downvotes, and your posts were rather enlightening.
Structured logs would help here in order to extract the logged information in an easy way.
This will be an extremely unpopular comment and will probably be the end of my ability to post on HN

Pre-emptive victim posturing to gain sympathy for your argument. Do better.

What we saw today was precipitated by mass deplatforming and censorship. When you take away the ability of people to participate in peaceful political discourse, you push them towards violence.

Bullshit. I've deplatformed quite a lot of people. It doesn't happen by accident, someone has to be openly promoting genocide or the like before I'm willing to spend time, effort, and reputational capital in pushing them out of the room.

Half of the American electorate currently feels profoundly unheard.

Why, did they accidentally mute Fox News, OAN, or talk radio? There's an entire industry based around airing the grievances of Trump and the sort of people who support him.
This is the tale of how an expatriate Briton in Copenhagen made a fortune in Imperial India and then, unusually, chose to retire to Sweden rather than the UK.

Its _not_ a shocking new discovery of Scandinavian collusion in colonisation and empire building.
If you poke around a bit on YouTube, there are multiple videos of it happening on there. My guess is that the woman was trying to get into a corridor that the Secret Service was protecting, and they really didn't want anyone in there. Capitol Police seemed unaware of this as a few of them armed with long guns stood on the same side of the door literally right next to the woman who was shot, when she was shot after trying to enter through that broken window.
Its a great feeling when you are the good guy, and everything the other people think that you disagree with is a conspiracy theory.
An opinion piece?

The author doesn't seem to realize that the reason for these numbers is that the US and others have been handing out emergency approvals weeks ahead of the EU.

Somehow they draw a parallel to Israel, who is not in the EU (?) .. Israel has their own separate drug approval process that is not in any way related to the EU.

In fact, Israel's numbers are so high specifically because they approved the Moderna vaccine several weeks before even the U.S. did.

You can argue the efficacy of approving drugs before they are fully tested, but that is not what the author is doing.

I don't understand why Bloomberg gave a platform to a person who clearly doesn't understand the subject matter they are trying to form an opinion about.
> The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup,[a] was a failed attempt made by Communist leaders of the Soviet Union to take control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary.

It appears the attempt failed.
Probably best to use the extra bit as a parity bit on the whole SECDED encoded word (Updated after a visit to Wikipedia to learn more about the acronym in use), or in some other way use it to make the algorithms more robust.
Then one of the whatsap co-founders initiated the Signal Foundation!
See "2018–present" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29
Any chance you guys ran it on the new GPU cluster before opening it to the public? Would have been cool to get the benchmark on that entire thing b/f customers started running stuff on it.
Breathable only if you can tolerate frozen lungs and a ppO2 of nothing since oxygen is a liquid at the temperatures found on Rhea's surface (-174 C).

I realize io9 is a science _fiction_ blog, but I wish they would put more emphasis on the science sometimes.
That's not true though -- union membership is still legally protected even if a contract isn't negotiated.
Microsoft has always had seperate enterprise and consumer pricing for Windows. This is an announcement about consumer pricing. So... consumer pricing won't affect enterprise adoption. We already knew that, though.
If you don't, why not?

To get something done, mostly.
You cannot objectively analyze the performance of perceptual audio codecs. They exploit subjective perception of audio signals... I haven't dug into your analysis but on the surface it appears quite biased against MPEG codecs that exploit masking to determine quantization levels (one of the major advantages being that humans can't perceive quantization error in the presence of loud/noisy content, which can be exploited to use far fewer bits for the same samples!).

The closest thing to an objective analysis tool is PEAQ which is also pretty terrible, but its universally terrible so that makes it useful as a benchmark.
Implicits are responsible for most of Scala's complexity whether you grok them or not.
Take a look at SVG Injection. This may solve your problems, as the injector will add a unique id to your SVG:

https://github.com/iconfu/svg-inject
I'm excited about a few projects bringing Swift to other platforms. SwiftWasm is surprisingly painless to get working [1]. Tokamak is an early stage SwiftUI-compatible framework for building web apps [2]. It also has the goal of supporting other native platforms and to that end there is early work on a GTK backend. I have no affiliation with these projects, though I would like to contribute to them at some point.

[1] https://swiftwasm.org/

[2] https://github.com/TokamakUI/Tokamak
Does she eat a lot of sugar?
Hi Adam,

For a suitable candidate, what would Ebay's position be on 'visa sponsorship' for the New York office? I know the situation is quite complicated in the US right now but any insights would be great.

Thanks, David
Oddly enough the unused bits are in the middle of the address. They're also sign-extended rather than filled with zeros, so sometimes they are ones and other times they are zeros.
Most professional investors are sheep. The number and scale of opportunities in technology is growing incredibly and they're not all doubling down.

It's been almost 10 years and no one has launched a credible competitor to YC. That's proof of how incredibly weak the industry is.

Where investors are afraid, consumers aren't the least bit deterred. They don't talk of bubbles. They want cool new stuff that makes their live better and they're paying for it. The internet has reached critical mass, everyone is online and has a credit card. Which is why, in the near future, new technology will mostly come from companies that were funded by crowdfunding, not professional investors.
The fact that no one is able to show a canonical, succinct example of a monad makes me suspect it's multiple concepts under a single banner. But I haven't spent much time trying to understand what one is.

EDIT: Thanks for the responses. I'd love to study any resources that you found useful when learning Monads. Do you know of any?
Having also struggled with Monads before having an aha! moment, I've tried on occasion to help boil it down for those on the search for understanding.

The hardest thing to get is that Monads aren't quite as "tangible" (not sure of a better word) as concepts like variable, object, property, instance, function, method. They are essentially relational and require something of a mental leap akin to coming to grips with how JavaScript's event loop is bound up in the control flow of your code, which otherwise proceeds from top to bottom of a .js file; or the rules governing closures and asynchronous function evaluation in this or that language.

The following is reprised from one of my HN comments in 2013.

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Monads are programming patterns which relate a set of values to a set of of functions – that's pretty much it! For any monad X, we can say that a function is monadic if it returns a value in the X Monad. The set of values are precisely those such that the following three Monad Laws[1] hold:

[ Using JavaScript syntax, they can be approximated as... ]

Left Identity

mBind( mReturn(a), f ) == f(a);
// => true

Right Identity

mBind( mReturn(a), mReturn ) == mReturn(a);
// => true

Associativity

mBind( mBind( mReturn(a), f ), g ) == mBind( mReturn(a),
function(a) {
return mBind( f(a), g );
} );
// => true

Above, `a` is (basically) any value, while `f` and `g` are any monadic functions for the same Monad. The definitions of `mBind` and `mReturn` will vary depending on the Monad, but the same laws (and sometimes additional properties) hold for each group of things taken as a whole – the monadic values, monadic functions, and the `mBind` and `mReturn` pair for those values and functions.

As you can see, there is nothing special that requires a statically typed language. That being said, if your language is statically typed, and even more so if its type system has advanced capabilities (e.g. Haskell's type system), then the relationships between the monadic values and functions can be leveraged to do a number of useful things, e.g. catching a host of bugs at compile time (though that's true regardless of Monads).

If your language is dynamically typed, then you won't get those extra benefits, but you can still take advantage of the fact that Monads can abstract away a great deal of plumbing between various pieces of your program.

Sometimes the Monad patterns will appear in a language under another name, or will be used "under the hood" to implement a particular API. Clojure/Script's `let` for example is essentially the Identity Monad; and its `for` is very much akin to the List Monad (the same is true for list comprehensions in other languages). The core.async library involves an inspiring application of the State Monad pattern[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(functional_programming)#...

[2] https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/c...

[&] https://github.com/clojure/core.async/blob/master/src/main/c...
Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to get a straight answer on how this applies to founders (versus investors). What about co-founders contributing time or IP instead of cash?

Previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1972515 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1555363 and probably several others
I wasn't sure what you meant by what you said regarding users picking outcomes - if it was something on the order of a lottery, that would probably be covered under betting laws. If it's something like a trivia quiz and whoever gets the most right answers wins, that would probably be covered under contest law, which is just as complex.

In the US at least, every state determines what is and isn't a contest and what rules apply, though most of them apply to any game where the reward is money or some sort of tangible item (even if players don't have to pay anything to play). That's why if you look closely, some of the fast food contests (like McDonalds Monopoly) say something in the fine print like "Not valid in New York or Rhode Island" or something to that effect. They've determined that their game won't meet the contest laws in those states so they simply say if you live there, you can't play.
I think the banner asking for donations is just fine. However, I take issue with two things:

If you decide to donate, the minimum amount is 20 USD. While it is highly debatable how much access to Wikipedia is worth to a person, I believe it sends a message that they really don't care for it if you give them anything less than that.

Also, despite assurances to not use private information gathered from the Paypal transaction, once they grab a hold of an email address, they keep sending reminders intended to pressure people into signing up for a monthly subscription. This is simply not very nice.

Another minor detail: a donation to Wikimedia is handled as an ordinary PayPal payment transaction, whereas a donation to SFC (the company behind git) is properly and clearly labeled as a donation. Not that it matters much, but it probably betrays the mindset of Wikimedia to some extent.
No need for you to waste any time. Here they are:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959512

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959304

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959114

The first was meant as a compliment. I think you have a great idea and appear to be doing a great job with that idea. I have recommended you to quite a few people as the perfect solution to their problem. I wish you nothing but great success.

The other two were in response to a rant about airline customer service on your corporate blog. I thought this was a bad idea and tried my best to explain why. I think the main reason I responded like that was because I saw a young company I cared about potentially making a mistake and I wanted to point it out.

To be honest, I didn't ever remember the 3 previous comments when I responded to this thread. I would have never put 2 & 2 together if you hadn't pointed it out. Thinking that someone giving you feedback because they "have it in for you" can be a dangerous assumption.

I realize that hn is much bigger than it once was, but it's still a great sandbox to try stuff out and fix problems before the rest of the world finds out. Thus the feedback.

Somehow I doubt your motivation for doing so is a sterling commitment to morality.

Do you respond to others who provide you feedback like this? I sure hope not.
When dealing with very very large datasets, the ability to filter fast is important. So it becomes a 2-stage (actually n-stage...) problem: filter the raw data, and remove the parts that are known irrelevant (alternately include only the 'maybes'), then do the more intensive processing on the smaller resultant data-set. When done in parallel it looks a lot like map-reduce :)