jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I once worked at a place with a strong, great culture. They acquired another place with a strong, great culture. The cultures were diametrically opposed. It turned into an awful culture for both.

People find like-cultured people. Don't hire someone who is a mob programming advocate into a culture that thrives on individual work, or vice versa. Don't hire someone who wants a completely transparent culture into Amazon.
Did you see his update below that paragraph? He admits that he had to update everything, and his pages are not currently a time capsule. It basically negates his entire message.
If jobs like this existed, I’d get 4 of them, pray that they never coincide, and live like a king.
Ah, I had heard of the first amendment thing but I thought it was why government work must be in the public domain (i.e. putting it under copyright would prevent reproduction and therefore infringe first amendment rights).
>That's not fantastic. I get that people often don't touch working legacy systems for fear of breaking them, but this sounds rather avoidable. Does the PHP project go through any audits or risk assessments? It's rather surprising for, as others have mentioned, the backbone of the majority of ecommerce websites.

PHP only has 2 full time engineers that work on the core. Everyone else is a volunteer, what do you expect? Companies to actually contribute towards employing more active contributors? HAH
Money is speech.
The way it seems to best get things done is have an economic benefit that competes with the status quo, and then those who control mass amounts of money will put their money into it to then gain long-term via profits - which unfortunately then makes the cost higher that would otherwise be lower if it was government-people funded first.
Completely comfortable with it. I'd rather have cheap oil subsidize as much technological advancement as possible while we figure out how to replace it with an equal or better solution. If we cant, we'll pay more and use less. I don't think my 7 year old is gonna be living in a mad max scenario.
I've heard one recruiter specifically advise I learn Scala or Clojure, but then I love in Finland, where the JVM it's still even more king of the jungle than elsewhere thanks to decades of mobile engineering focus.

I'll be taking up Scala, as well as F# and Haskell, in the new year, because I've increasingly realized that whether functional programming really it's the new OOP or not, it's certainly the specialty I most enjoy working in. As a Windows (and Windows Phone) user I'm especially interested in F#, and the .net world it offers to FP. I find it fascinating that so many developers spend their time finding any and all means to work around the reality that Windows is what nearly all their users are actually running. We've turned web browsers into miniature OSes, just to avoid that reality, and it's weird.
C#, obviously. It's the only modern language that provides ALL of the following:

1) Static and dynamic typing

2) OOP and functional paradigms

3) Multi-platform via single framework: WP, Android, iOS, Mac, PC, Xbox, PS4, Linux etc.

4) Two super-powerful IDE-integrated static analysis tools to choose from: ReSharper and Roslyn

5) Mature workflows for developing Web, mobile, enterprise apps and games.

6) High performance on WP and desktop, reasonable elsewhere.
The real difference is that it's simple. There are only 11 symbols in the expression, only two things that can vary, and only three interesting cases. As opposed to 129 symbols and some large number of interesting cases.
Looks like a digital remake. https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11-fltplan.htm contains a high-resolution scan of the original, plus this version with the annotation "Re-formatted by Thomas Schwagmeier".

If you compare them, the styles are very different; different fonts, color graphics instead of line art, etc. Looks like this is just entirely recreated based on the originals, not a dump of any data from the originals; I'm willing to bet that most of the originals were drafted by hand, not digitized in any way.
I've been using XMPP on my phone just fine. Why do I need WhatsApp which is not open? It offers me nothing new other than having to verify my phone number. But I can just use Google Voice if I wanted to message someone who knows my phone number. If I'm talking with someone in India there is no reason why I shouldn't just use XMPP.
The 'e' thing was just a temporary typo by a moderator. The title change was presumably because "presentation by" is redundant (and not in the original).

But mostly we take the author's/presenter's name out of titles, in keeping with HN's emphasis on content over personalities.
1. MySQL is offered as the default "open source" database in most discussions. This puts the onus on Postgres to people who go "I need a better database", rather than people going "I need a database" in a "Nobody got fired for choosing MySQL" way.

2. Companies looking for enterprise support don't see anyone as high profile as Microsoft, Oracle, and err, Oracle supporting Postgres.

(Whether ongoing interaction with Oracle is a net positive is of course debatable. At a previous company our only interaction with Oracle was them being inflexible and expensive that ultimate meant we had a Oracle DB on prem serving a AWS hosted service because it would have cost too much to put it in AWS. Note, this was many years ago, before AWS had a compatible offering, and apparently Oracle even have loosened up a bit here since.
Thanks a ton! I've always been annoyed by the fact that Web API documentations never had a "try-this-request" feature. I'll get right to expanding the documentation when I get home like I said in the other comments. The request in progress indicator should be pretty easy to add. Totally forgot about it. I disabled the websockets example because It's currently undergoing a complete rewrite.
I didn't realize they were on all the time.
So, are there actual uses (not just potential use cases) of webassembly beyond games and crypto-mining?
I guess the next challenge is gigabit ethernet (!!!) for the 386
Warp's filters (middleware) were the same reason I left for Axum. Axum is very similar to Warp ergonomically, without the heavy macros and with sane middleware. I think Warp paved the way for Axum in many ways though, so it deserves a lot of credit.
The people who make the claims that ABM is super hard and ineffective against large strikes are generally American experts who used to work in the field.
What are the chances that you haven't already? Sounds like pretty low, unless you habitually read the entire privacy policy for every website before signing up.
The person I responded to only talked about punishments for "these speeds", and that is why I responded specifically to begin a discussion about the nuance of speed limits across areas.

There should be punishments for exceeding reasonable limits. There should not be punishments for "these speeds" as they exist in Virgina compared to another location. Heck, even just across virginia it doesn't make sense to have a single set of speed limits.
“ Vectorflow is a minimalist neural network library optimized for sparse data and single machine environments.”
> I can't go to slow social without all my friends coming with me, so I'm stuck with Instagram/whatsapp.

This is partially correct. Slow Social would be a lot better if all your friends joined. However, my accommodation for this is that any post can be sent as en email as well. This lets you loop in people that aren't part of the network, and maybe never will be. It's not a perfect solution, but I hope it's better than nothing.
That's really, really lazy logic you're (not) trying to compute. If the send-your-enemies-glitter guy wasn't in it for the money, why'd he sell his site for money?

Also Chicago sold the rights in a fire sale due to some combination of budget shortfall, corruption, and incompetence. After the fact, independent appraisers found the contract should have been worth more than $2B, but was sold for just over $1B.
VERY good point. I call this the "fallacy of control" ...

Basically, don't forget who controls the product/service/platform you're trying to build for or sell. The prime example of this is Pandora's epic journey through the annals of the music industry. Brilliant idea, brilliant execution, but almost didn't make it because they didn't actually have any control over the product they were selling (other peoples' music).

I've seen lots of companies start and fail trying to do similar things -- music, movies, TV shows, etc. So many ideas can be so simple ... "we'll create this awesome service that lets you pick your song and XYZ"

Or, more simply put: Be in control of your own supply chain.
A lot of that show is scripted, and they intentionally provoked people to get a reaction for the sake of interesting TV.
His homepage still lists a FSF affilation, and I'm pretty sure he's still serving as the GPLv3's attorney (as 'twere).
http://appraise.epik.com/google.com $4,500

http://appraise.epik.com/microsoft.com $553,900

Hah, think google will sell their domain name for $5K? :-D
i don't think it looks fine. i run the etsy mini as the "default ad" on AVC. i rarely see it but i suspect it is seen by a lot of people outside of the US. out of curiosity, are you outside the US?
You probably do some sort of filtering on the raw input, maybe some sort of landmark based SLAM.
http://www.co.vu/invite

invite code - hn

It is a simple app where you get a free domain like yourname.co.vu with full dns support.

You can very easily configure the dns settings for tumblr, posterous, blogger and much more..

It is not ready to launch yet need your early feedback
"Stand and loose" is an ok strategy but "Ride and Loose" let the Mongols capture more territory in 25 years than the Romans did in 400.

Hardly the "only" strategy.
It is definitely not censorship. Nobody is under any obligation to help, say, pedophiles, promote their ideas. To say otherwise is to deny freedom of action and freedom of association.

If you have an ideological attachment to the existence of neutral providers, nobody can stop you from creating one. But as 8chan is discovering, people are free to criticize them for who they are helping and what effects that has.
How many stores sell smart phones?

I'd ballpark it at 1 per 5000 people (that's what it seems like in my city) - so that's 60 000 in North America (or 25 phones a store). It seems like a lot of that could be stock (or all of it, 25/store doesn't seem like a lot of stock).

[refinement of numbers much appreciated]
Where are all the functional languages? Did I miss something? Where is LISP? Prolog? You only know about the OO and the procedural paradigm? "Prototypes" is how OO is achieved in javascript it is not considered a paradigm in that level you are using the term. You should've just said it is OO.

I also don't understend why closures are "planned" in java but method pointers are "no*"
I doubt they pay more for their use of H.264 than they receive from everyone's use of H.264. Providing the codec may cost them money, but it's far from obvious that it's an unprofitable act.
Culturally, they're a Western nation.
Why do people assume that making more engineering majors = making more people analytical and reasonable? A whole bunch of things:

- doing engineering isn't magically going to change your thought process. Some people don't think the same way as others - they probably wouldn't enjoy engineering if they did it (I don't doubt they could apply themselves to get a degree). You think if Obama did a BEng the world would immediately be black and white and he could just make the "right" decisions?

- engineers aren't the only people who contribute to society, by a long shot. Besides a world with movies, graphic art or music, an all-engineer world would lack all the scholarly products of the modern world. "Guns, Germs and Steel" is an awesome book which is very accessible, and engineers seem to love it. But it was written by a biologist, on the backs of 100s of academics who did the original research he cites. A work like that couldn't exist without "the arts"
While the author makes a good case that 'confidence' and 'ability to impress' are key drivers of the tendancy to promote incompetent individuals to leadership roles, another dynamic may be that some leaders who fear exposure of their own incompetence tend to surround themselves with 'yes' men/women who themselves aren't particularly competent or skilled in anything other than making the master feel superior.

In such a situation, when the incompetent leader exits, all those who are next in line are these incompetent 'yes' people, increasing their chances of being considered for and granted promotion.

This dynamic exists in some institutions in contrast to the 'surround yourself with people smarter/better/more competent than you' philosophy of leadership. Jim Collins talked about these approaches in Good To Great, comparing Bank of America's 'weak general' promotion culture with Wells Fargo's approach of getting the most talented people into the highest organizational positions possible. You could argue selection bias, but it's interesting to compare the financial performance of the two banks over the last 10 years or so.
I'd go with "foundational parts of the human experience," but feel free to dismiss them as "hobbies," I guess.
I have a few questions!

First, what do you think of the b/g/n wireless structure? If you could redesign it from the ground up what would you change to maximize performance (given the same bandwidth)?

Second: would allowing routers to communicate improve your solution significantly?

Thanks, great work btw
sure will do, thank you.
You can imagine my surprise it wasn't Zimbardo…
That's basically eBay + a tool to automatically create listings.
Yes. It's similar to when YouTube pulls a video temporarily over copyright claims. I don't see how a page can go down several times, though - there are only so many copyright holders.
I believe it's an overlay. The one below it is a background.
If you could make the output size much more manageable, and have it actually be usable for larger images, I think newsletter publishers would love the hell out of this. The only external image I can think of that they would want for tracking is the one they use for open tracking, otherwise all other images are fair game, AFAIK.

Definitely something that I would love to keep tabs on if you do continue to develop it, do you have a github repo I can watch?
Several mobile phones have HDMI out. For me that is "small enough". I think HDMI would even make the ports on different sides more balanced, as the size is more similar to the magsafe adapter
A lot of times I hear from people who are phobic of the 50/50 split because they're confusing control and ownership. There's no reason you can't split the ownership 50/50 and still decide that one person is the CEO and therefore has final say on all decisions. If you're still freaking out about this use a (50% + one share) : (50% - one share) split so there is a built-in, pre-agreed way to resolve conflicts.

That said, burning bridges can be a great strategy. Knowing that your co-founder is in exactly the same situation as you and that things are perfectly symmetrical can force you to actually resolve conflicts, because it takes away the option of one person shoving a decision down the other's throat.
Thank you -- if I may ask, what are in the network::interfaces::wireless and keyboard::apple classes? I'm strongly considering switching my MBA over to Debian in the near future.
While the previous MBA might have felt like a compromise, I find the current MBA a top-tier contender for development, personally.

I use a BookArc Air from TwelveSouth[1], LED Cinema[2] display. I find it beats having 2 Macs. I love disconnecting my MBA, taking it to work and opening it up at the exact place I was when I last used it. The BookArc makes it aesthetically pleasing and organized and the MBA handles the Cinema display without effort. I also like syncing my iTunes library with my iPhone on one Mac.

[1]: http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/BookArc_for_Air/

[2]: http://www.apple.com/displays/
This is pretty harmless for a pyramid scheme, though: https://flattr.com/support/charity. :)
It should not be confused with a newspaper in general.
Thanks for posting this. I was considering integrating BCB into my marketplace, but now I'm glad I procrastinated.

Guess it's just Google Product Search from now on out. I hate being so dependent on GOOG, but they've been good to me so far.
In the scaled back plan, IIRC, the Orion was kept, while Ares and Alair were axed.
I was not irked at all. The first part of my response was intended to be snarky, the second part was intended to be informative.
"I never run gvim, are there any real advantages that I am missing?"

If you're an Emacs user, probably no particular advantage. I use GVim because as a GUI app it allows me to use my mouse for stuff like selecting areas and copy/pasting. I also like the workflow of having my file open for editing in a separate window and getting my shell prompt back straight away.
The Washington Times are being totally dishonest because this not a FTC proposal, it is not a draft proposal either, it is just a summary of issues that are to be discussed in future meetings with the press and various roundtable discussions etc.

"It's obvious that this represents a fairly accurate portrayal of the FTC's existing thinking and deserves to be scrutinized."

No that is not obvious. Try reading the document. On the contrary, it is obvious that at this stage they are just throwing ideas at the wall. There is absolutely no indication that the FTC has endorsed any of these ideas or that they even came from FTC personnell (the document actually suggests that many of the ideas came from external sources).

If you do not like any of those ideas please comment on them (the document provides a link for that).

But if you are going to hold the FTC responsible for everything that gets mentioned in one of their discussions with the public as if it is their plan and idea, the FTC and the government will just stop having discussions with the public.
Indeed. Either there is a relatively simple unknown process going on in the atmosphere of a planet we've never actually been to and have only the slimmest actual knowledge, or there's a fantastically complicated unknown process called "life". For better or for worse, the odds favor the relatively simple unknown process, until more data comes in.

(I say "relatively" because it probably isn't trivial or we'd have a good guess at it. But there's still quite a gulf between "we don't know what it is yet" and "it could only be life".)
But in the end, what anarcho-communism is trying to achieve is what most of us would agree with: eliminate poverty and exploitation (via equal rights to access means of production)

You can replace the words 'anarcho-capitalism' with every single other political system, and you'd reach the same ideal endpoint. Everything promises fairness. People don't simply dismiss anarchism as 'teenage rebel idealism' because they're unaware of your notions of endpoint, they disagree with it because of inherent flaws (namely that money tends to lead to more money, and any system devoid of oversight or regulation will inevitably lead to a power structure built around those already with power).

There is no panaceatic system -- only the continual tamping of natural power leavening. To claim that your system, above others, will achieve a system that brings about permanent fairness is to belie a shallow consideration for how power accumulates.
This is how this cloud thing is supposed to work. Microsoft please note this.
I haven't tried one, but the archos 70 is capacitive, 7" android 2.2 (I believe, even though the web page says 2.1), 1ghz, 8gb, hdmi. For $275USD and it's shipping now (though in limited supply). It seems to be getting decent reviews by android folks.

https://store.archos.com/archos-internet-tablet-p-5004.html

There is also a 10" version (the 101) that seems to be newly available in some markets for ~$400USD.
I second the recommendation for Plone. I helped a friend set up Plone for a charity about 5 years ago, and it was really nice to work with and extend. Also about 3 years ago, we used it for technical documents on a customer project.
I think this is one of many problems that would go away if window managers simply provided tabs as first-class objects. I am tired of every app having to "support" tabs, and inevitably see quirky behavior.

Not only would this fix alert problems, but we'd gain a lot of other capabilities. The biggest one for me would be, inter-application tabs: why shouldn't my tab stack be able to alternate between mail, terminals, editors and web browsers, for instance?
Wanting to be more flexible and effective than the process allows you to be is as ancient as processes. I don't see the flaw in the analogy at all.
Your solution to fix education is to do things the way Haliburton & the DOD do?

Would you prefer to do things the way the educational system does? Throw money at Halliburton and hope for the best? No outside auditors or performance measurements?
I upvoted this not because I think personal laptops and Time Machine are a good process for db backups, but because making backups is still a huge pain and problematic area, so the more attention it gets, the better.
I haven't really been living off of my apps, but since I've been unemployed for the past 6 months with no other streams of income, I'll count them.

http://www.facebook.com/amznwishlist was pretty profitable up until about mid-October when Amazon decided to disable some of its Product Advertising API calls for getting Wish List data. If the app still worked and ran through the holidays, it probably would've paid for rent (and then some).

http://www.fatearthmedia.com/ - My browser extension for shopping sites is also profitable. If the Mozilla add-on policy was less strict about affiliates earnings, then it'd probably be paying for rent as well.
Yes, it does password and autofill sync now.
I doubt they're wasting time with bugs in OS X 10.5 either.
I'd really love to get an answer to this too. That work-life balance is pretty incredible. I honestly thought it didn't exist in a major tech company.

Matt, your schedule looks so much better than mine! :-)
http://www.thebtcindex.com/

Look at the spread there. Bitcoin is not short of coders who can automate obvious arbitrage opportunities, so spreads like that directly indicate just how damn hard it actually is to get ActualMoney out of them.
> Right now, she's trying to justify them. But most people can only do that for so long before attempted accommodation turns to anger and resentment.

Or before they meet someone new and interesting.

No, I don't mean that old and tired "she's looking for the next best thing" or "he's a stepping stone" or "she's easy prey" crap.

What I mean is that tiny, contingent moment she will/may accidentally meet someone who will peak her curiosity. Then all these attempts (and she is doing some really really heavy lifting there) fail one after the other.
An alternative point of view is that the Maker culture is basically arts and crafts for men so it actually is a positive example of "raising our sons more like our daughters", to use her example. It provides a positive creative outlet that isn't about competition, success, building a business, etc. which almost all men's activities seem to have to be centered on.

In any event, thought provoking article...
I'm thinking about it, but the current implementation that I wrote (which runs on OpenWrt) is currently somewhat too constrained to my Atheros hardware. I'll try to improve it though.
Wow, surprised to read that statistic. I spend that per month, and that's on a light month.
Pretty sure one day they'll add telemetry so Google will know what and when you are running...
you looking for this ?

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
Or atleast just not buy the All time high that would be sensible investment advise.