jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I have had Kindle Unlimited for a few months. It saves me money most months...I was reading about $20-$30 worth of books per month before, now I'm down to about $15 (Unlimited has a good selection, but there are still significant titles that aren't available via Unlimited). My local library offers ebooks, and even has a pretty good selection, but everything I ever want is always checked out and has a waiting list, so I end up buying a lot more than borrowing. It's worrying that there may be a future in which people need paid for subscriptions for a functional library (since I can foresee a day not too far away where printed books are considered relics).
I think someone flipping burgers at McDonalds would trade waking up thinking about work for waking up and thinking about how they'll feed their children any day of the week.

Also, the concept of being able to sustain your current lifestyle for a few years on your savings alone makes you sound like you're from another planet to someone making minimum wage with the savings and benefits that entails. It also doesn't appear to jive with your earlier statement about managing your money in such a way that your day to day finances would be in any way similar to someone earning $10 hourly. Where I come from, having enough money for beer and weed might mean you've got $20 to your name, not a savings account with enough for rent and expenses for the next 2 years.

Edit:

Your friends at university might appear to have a fairly similar lifestyle to yours on the measly sum of $4000 per semester given the fact that university life generally comes accompanied by prepaid meal plans, health insurance, counselling, housing, on campus services and student discounts. Such amenities are a far off dream to those below the poverty line.
Hey,

This is pretty damned useful! I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://www.postageapp.com), we deal with outbound transactional email, and I have to say, this is probably a godsend for our clients.

The only problem I can see is the significant size increase in emails - transactional emails need to get to the recipient as soon as possible. Saving the Firefox icon as HTML/CSS was about 647KB in TextEdit as a plain text file!

That would be my only reservation for using it.

REALLY love the idea though. Great work!
The only thing that stops me from buying one is the 10/100 lan adapter.

I transfer every day large files between my mac and my pc or NAS and the transfer rate would kill me.
Sure, it might be if GnomeDo was installed by default and tweaked to do the same thing. But since it isn't, I would hardly call it "pointless", but rather, awesome.
Reading list about IQ testing for those of you who would like more background on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WeijiBaikeBianji/Intellige...
>"I'd prefer we solve things more directly. Break up big business via anti-trust."

In theory I am all for it but on the other hand what would be the allowed size? I can hardly imagine mom and pop shop producing Lithium Ion cells, starting foundry etc, etc. This measure could put country to severe disadvantage against any other that does not implement same measures.

To be more practical and keep competitive edge internationally I'd just milk big companies by way of taxes and make sure there are no loopholes and perks like foreign earning exceptions etc. And outlaw political corporate lobbying.
The guy who says “your margin is my opportunity” doesn’t want to influence taxes on the margins of others to keep competitors down? Instead he cares about road maintenance funded specifically through corporate tax hikes?

Why wouldn’t he just advocate for road maintenance?

Edit: whoops, I didn’t read his actual statement. Tricked by CNN! Still, I’m a little skeptical of ascribing motivations to people like Bezos that aren’t in line with his past actions, but instead are in line with my personal politics, which is why I’m skeptical.
About as much detail as I can learn from 1 week on coursera.

More often than not it teaches them the arrogance to believe they can do everything on their own and that they know the law because they have an MBA. I'm currently closely observing a sequoia invested startup run by a bunch of TOP 3 MBA program invested people.

Questionable legal decision, terrible HR, abusive bullying management. It's all a big circle jerk.

Let's not kid ourselves. The real thing MBAs learn in school is how to network and score their next company they will destroy.
No but it is a community where sometimes we share our relevant experiences. It's sometimes a lesson to be learned, sometimes cathartic, and sometimes an opportunity to see our humanity.
Exactly this -- openly acknowledge it, talk about it with close friends, and move on. There are bigger things to accomplish.
hmmm....wasn't really the question
Wow, sounds like a good story that deserves its own blog post.
serious vaccine work, as I understand it, began in Jan. If it had started in October 2019, things would be very different right now.
Do you really think it's impossible to get the same amount and quality of content from the same people without some (sometimes evil) corporate entity provding servers and bandwidth? (think P2P)

Sounds like begging the question and reacting to a point I wasn't making, so let me answer a question you're not asking by asking a question you may not answer: Are there any such communities today? Your question seems to imply that you believe such communities are possible. Technologically I have no doubt that that's true. Hey, many BBSs were created, run, staffed, maintained by volunteers back in the day. Large swathes of the original web were created by universities without profit.

However, technology isn't the whole story. In order for things to shift where it's likely "to get the same amount and quality of content from the same people" (this point assumes a site with the breadth and universality of Facebook), the world would have to change to such an extent that those people couldn't (or for whatever reason wouldn't) use Facebook, Twitter, Stack Overflow. That world simply does not exist today.

To beg the question again, do you think my mother (who counts as one of the same people whose content I'm interested in, and by extent my analogy includes anyone's mother) would happily use bittorrent-based systems tomorrow to replace her use of Facebook today?
That's very interesting. It's easy to imagine how, as a regulator, going out to dinner with the regulated (or their representatives) on a regular basis would influence your thinking. It doesn't require a conspiracy theory, so it gives us a great jumping-off point for a rational discussion about how to limit the opportunity for this phenomenon to manifest. Thanks for the new viewpoint!
No he won't. Microsoft may have lost ground in some areas that they wanted to be in, but the 2000s entrenched them in the enterprise, and now they are very well diversified, with multiple big revenue streams. It could have gone better for them, but overall they are doing very well. They may still pull out (big) wins with phones, tablets, search and internet in general.
Well, at this point parts of iOS7 are still an unknown. Maybe they could add that possibility.
If you bought TSLA stock last year or before, he may very well be your financial messiah.
A disaster that was released in 2012? In the fourth quarter of 2012 Windows 8 phones had sold around 6 million handsets.

http://www.neowin.net/news/gartner-windows-phone-sales-incre...

I'm sure you must have been saying the same thing about Android then huh?

By comparison they only sold around 640K handsets in 2008 (their first year of release) then sold around 6 million in 2009.

http://digithoughts.com/post/21428797724/android-and-apple-s...
When you look at lisp code, all you have to go by are the names of functions. The code could do anything, and you won't find out what until you dig. By contrast, other languages have hints like types and standard, well-understood libraries and restrictions on what might happen.

This suggests lisp code is less approachable for second authors, precisely because of its expressiveness.
I recently did some fundraising and employee grants with an LLC and it was more complicated than you'd think...

You should make sure your grants have a "distribution hurdle." If you don't have a distribution hurdle, the options you're granting may be taxed as income immediately upon receipt. This would leave your employees with a big tax bill.

You should put everyone on a reasonable vesting schedule. With vesting, everyone is in it for the long-term and the shares given directly correlate to the work performed and the value provided to the company.

You should talk with your employees and agree in advance to the work being performed in exchange for shares granted during the vesting period. There is no clean way to include this in the operating agreement or grant notice, so communication is crucial. If either party is ever dissatisfied with their side of the arrangement, however, they can always leave. And if you've set up vesting appropriately, both sides should still be happy even if you don't reach the end of the vesting period.

Why would you want to prevent employee grants from diluting in the future? It breaks the alignment of incentives. If everyone dilutes equally, everyone has the same incentives regarding future investments. An investment would only be accepted if everyone thought the trade-off of money for equity was worth it based on the current valuation.

But if you DO want to prevent dilution, it's a fairly straight-forward clause you can add to the operating agreement. I'd suggest setting a ceiling or an expiry date for the dilution prevention clause. This ensures that if things change dramatically in the future, you won't be handicapped by your non-diluted employee grants.

Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer. This is for entertainment purposes only. Don't sue me etc.
Not that I like TL;DRs, but I can give you a quote which will save you time:

"On the whole I like Android even more than iOS. [Mention of Java, and less polished dev tool chain]. I can live with those quirks, though, and otherwise it’s mostly a developer’s dream: powerful, flexible and open(ish)."

So, as you might expect, the Apple "requests" are "Please be more like Android". Having done a lot of iOS dev, Garbage Collection isn't even in my top 10 wants (his claim that it adding it would halve iOS dev times is bunkum). An Android like multitasking model is also not in my top 10 (widgets + the ability to do preemptive content downloads would cover ever use case I've ever wanted, and basically every other need I've seen). His repeated use of "fanboy" also gives the article -20 karma: Apple, and Apple developers never said multitasking is evil, just that unrestricted desktop (i.e power unlimited device) multitasking was a poor fit - a position that's still true.

For iOS, I do want: Better notification system. The ability to silently respond to pushes (i.e. Update my databases without showing any UI). Better system wide connectivity notifications. Better inter-app connectivity (something like Androids intents, I guess). Cocoa data bindings. A sync service API (desktop to iOS or web service to iOS).

I do not want iOS to become OS X, or a desktop OS. That is not helpful to me, or my users. A phone is not a tiny laptop, and frankly, nor is a tablet.
simply having more computational power isn't enough, you have to use it

You can say that about any resource. It's still generally easier for someone who's wealthier to put up more of that resource.
Bitcoin is resistant to centralized inflation due to currency supply increases because CPU power votes on new currency entering the system.

If I make a block that gives me a 100 BTC bounty instead of the current 50 BTC, no other nodes will make blocks dependent on mine, meaning that it didn't happen.
Charging each applicant would work, and most universities do it, but I believe it's illegal for employers to do.
Naming your product after a really popular internet technique is possibly the stupidest idea I have heard in a while.

Did the author even check Comet in the programming world?
So despite the mostly vapid nature of this article one thing called out to me:

"Given the lax nature of JavaScript, it's easy for your application to spiral into a mess of unmaintainable spaghetti code."

Let's not forget: it's entirely possible to create a mess of unmaintainable code in any language. Or, "guns don't kill people, people kill people"

The other half of this complaint i think is somewhat elitist (unwittingly so?) and it seems to do with the notion that because there is a such a low barrier to entry, that much js code is cargo-culted, but i've seen this from developers in every language. What I find even worse than cargo-cult code is Pattern Zealots going about specifically coding up Pattern X in javascript. It's like they studied Design Patterns but the point of it just went over their heads.

Knowing the principles of software development doesn't prevent you from making ridiculous decisions[1]. It seems like everyone wants checklists of coding standards or something for measuring code quality / standards compliance these days in js. But these are hollow measures if the code behind the module/black box/library is just plain wrong.

Maybe i'm missing something here, but why is this article getting voted up?

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1635800/javascript-best-s... (found when googling 'javascript singleton')
isnt this: "You can't even get to the bathroom without a keycard" contradicts this: "I don't think they have a reason to be paranoid"
You can actually do that today by specifying a version number. The docs cover it here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/tools/fsharp-...
Lol, it is probably one of the least unethical uses of electricity that i can think of while not being net positive. If you care about this, realign onto cloud computing or industrial equipment for deforestation. It's disingenuous to care more about btc mining.
I suspect it triggered the flame war detector. Search for that and you'll find more information.

It can be flagged without showing "[flagged]". That tag only gets shown when something is flagged to death. Your item wasn't flagged to death because it's still active.

I suspect it's mostly that a sizeable proportion of people on the site decided that it doesn't really fit with the theme and they don't want to see things like that, so they flagged it. That, associated with the large number of comments and comparatively few upvotes caused the "flame war" penalty to apply.

No conspiracies necessary, all explained by the regular dynamics.
He discusses this in his recent TED interview: https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM
How will taxis survive?? Their business model depends on scarcity. If anyone could give anyone a ride, there'd be no more rides.

Am I properly capturing the nuance of your argument? Feel free to re-echo another round of hearsay into the chamber.

Maybe you can dig more into the philosophy you have where securing profitability entitles you to the protection of those profits via legislation.
Network Solutions is probably worse :angry:
You really don't want to turn off unity builds in unreal for anything larger than a toy project. The build system is "smart" (albeit itself is slower than say ninja). It breaks the project up into multiple unity "blobs" for you, and they're compiled in parallel. It also integrates with source control to remove files from the "working set" so if you're iterating on a small file it will be removed from the unity blob and compiled on its own for faster iteration.
I think he just reinvented F2P. Or looking at something similar to its spirit.

Many modern competition games like VALORANT or PUBG are free-beer with paid food, built on free-beer semi open engines like UE4, and are also streamed free-beer on Twitch or YouTube.

And kids are moving towards F2P from paid games such as Battlefield or Call of Duty franchise, because the former category is free(-beer). The former is also startin in to surpass the latter in quality.

It’s “just” a matter of turning free-beer into free speech, and I think it could well happen as an inevitability, just not in a quarter or two.
I first thought this was kind of a smear attempt but I realise now that this is a great learning ressource, thanks!
It would've been better if I'd been more deliberate with that sentence, you're right. "money" was my shorthand for "things moving in the economy, including financial measures like cash and the exchange of goods and services". Just measuring the movement of money means that two people could create an apparently vibrant economy by exchanging $1,000 between them every minute of every day, but such an economy would be absolutely bereft of any real value or health.

"Stagnant" was my way of referring to hoarded money that's not actually invested in anything. Yes, it's equivalent to removing it from the economy and it reduces the nominal price of goods and services, which also means it reduces the nominal wages (over time). Which means old money is given a much stronger benefit in the economy when they finally spend it, and new money (including new entrants like an 18 year old getting their first full time job) are severely penalized not due to any actual lack of skill or ability, but due to their entering the economy 100 years too late.
The price point is incredibly low for the capacity and performance. Go price a high-end Ram/F-series/Chevy and be amazed that you can easily spend 65K on something you'd feel comfortable taking a date to dinner in. I was shocked by the first look, but the practicality is there. I'd buy one, if I wasn't in the "post-payoff" period of my SUV. If the incentives are there and fuel costs rise, I think I could convince my spouse.
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

-- Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trial

The real problem isn't a hypothetical 'war instinct' in all humans, it's the leaders who take advantage of animal logic for personal gain.

(Sometimes very short-lived personal gain. But still.)
It allows for standardization across the board. By using only pre-selected cameras, we control for video quality, bitrate, audio format, etc. Essentially, it simplifies the entire process.
Just watched the entire thing. Great insight into how he got where he is now and his thought process along the way. Amazingly humble individual!

I had to quickly look up Guy Kawasaki's short clip (his message is so potent) and to my delight, it's gem talk he gave at Stanford.

http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=1171
Do you like the investor? Would you want him to be involved even if you didn't need the money? If so, do your best negotiating and take the money. If not, either do consulting work or get jobs and work nights and weekends.

Giving significant equity to someone you don't want to work with will most likely ruin the company.
And the multiple implementations of IndexedDB are...? (don't actually know. If you do, I'd be interested in links)

There's an early one in Firefox 4 beta right now [1], and an upcoming one in Chrome [2]. Microsoft will probably implement IndexedDB in a future version of IE [3]. (IndexedDB isn't a standard right now either, but it'll be on track to be one once two implementations are complete.)

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Projects/IndexedDB

[2] http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/indexedd...

[3] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2010/03/09/working-with-t...

Similarly, there are plenty of implementations of SQL out there. They don't count?

No, since none of them share all the peculiarities of SQLite. For example, SQLite doesn't have type checking, while most other SQL databases do.
A ton of UIs are built from the ground up. When you compare the logic and math involved to the logic and math used in 3D rendering or even 3D game logic, it's an absolute pushover, though you might feel like it's a huge hassle since in web development you get the UI logic, more or less, for free. You'll notice very quickly in game development that, until very recently and with the exception of graphics / sound libraries, you have to code everything from scratch.

It really depends on the library/engine you are using (if you're using one!) OGRE3D integrates well with several packages, Unity has a builtin GUI system that is stupendously inefficient, and the list goes on...
Love the user interface screenshots. What did you use for the graphs? Custom library?
This is a good article, but the inflammatory title basically guarantees that those who would benefit the most from reading it, designers, are going to be on the defensive going in. And that's if they would even read it at all having come across it online.

I spend a lot of time at my job fixing design by designers who don't code, and I'd love for them to read it, but I'm not going to waste my time. (I'm a usability guy/front-end developer who does know how to code and design.)
I like the landing page and the screenshots look nice, but I would appreciate an explanation of how A/B testing works from the technical standpoint. How do I set up a test? What if multiple pages are involved? Will returning users get the same page consistently?

It's definitely an interesting service though, and I'll be happy to pay for it if it saves me time compared to setting up my own A/B testing framework.
I've had a Yubikey for about 3 years that is on my car keys keychain which goes with me everywhere. It's been all over the US and into Costa Rica all in my pocket or haphazardly thrown into my backpack (with a bunch of other random things).

There is zero evidence of any wear or anything. They are meant to be carried around, you don't need to baby them. I'm more worried about it being lost than damaged.
> That’s partly an artifact of how policymakers responded to the pandemic; pumping liquidity into the market

I think he should say mostly. Fed balance sheet growth has been unprecendented and those folks who have not lost their jobs and are no longer spending on tourism are dumping their USG direct payments into Robinhood.
I think one conclusion the cryptographic community took from previous issues is that the best way to get a solid cipher is a group process.

Even highly skilled cryptographers can fail. Ron Rivest designed RC4, and I don't think anyone would claim that Ron Rivest is not a good cryptographer (he's the R of RSA). But RC4 was not good.

What has been done a number of times now and is currently happening with pqcrypto: You ask everyone in the crypto community to come up with proposals. Then you let them try to find weaknesses in each other's proposal. Then you gradually remove the ones that are considered problematic for any reason.

While you can argue whether this process is perfect (I think some people would argue either serpent or twofish should've won the AES competition), it has not produced any major failures.
A bit pedantic, but I think this statement "Probably the most popular non-POSIX shell" about fish may need this qualifier "For Linux Systems ...."

tcsh is the default in FreeBSD, and csh/ksh is very popular on proprietary UNIX systems. Practically no one proprietary systems move outside of the default (I see this a lot in AIX, which defaults to ksh).
Possibly this depends on the subculture. One example picked at random, the (fabulous) film Black coal, thin ice is reported in Cahiers du Cinema as directed by Diao Yinan [1], but in IMDb as by Yi'nan Diao [2]

[1] https://www.cahiersducinema.com/produit/juin-2014-n-701/

[2] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3469910/