jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This just seems like a bizarre and weird ad concept. And I totally don’t understand the point of sending WordPress influencers headphones — seems like a weird ROI to try to get them to post links to ads, when they could’ve just bought targeted advertising on Twitter, FB, Google. I don’t get it.

And the ad itself didn’t really make sense to me either.

There are plenty of ways to make an ad that makes fun of WordPress — I recently had to help a friend who hasn’t used it in a few years adjust to Gutenberg (which is a constantly moving target) and it was not fun. The way full-site editing works right now is a mess compared to the other hosted solutions (Squarespace, Webflow, etc.) and the need to try to find plugins that do what you want them to do, but aren’t constantly spamming you you for upsells in the settings is another issue. Not to mention the ways you can ding WordPress over perceived bloat (even though that is arguably a host thing more than anything else).

But this ad did none of that. Moreover, I’m not super sure who then think their audience is. Is this supposed to be for web developers who build on WordPress (which is who they targeted with the headphones), or regular users who want an easy way to build a website?

Because those are two different audiences.

The first audience wouldn’t use Wix anyway — there’s a strong Shopify customization market and you could definitely build a business customizing Squarespace for people, but I can’t think of any web developer or consultancy that would want to use Wix as the platform for clients.

I would never in a million years recommend Wix to a client (if I were still consulting) or even to a family member. The stuff isn’t that good and as Matt said in his post, you can’t get your stuff out of it. It’s trapped in Wix forever.

But if the intended audience is normies who want an easy way to build a website, well, those people aren’t following WordPress influencers, reading Hacker News, or knowledgeable about who Matt Mullenwegg is. So again, who is this even for?

Big fail for me.
Yes, I think at an individual level there needs to be clear rules and expectations, and the sense of belonging to a coherent group sharing the same values.

It's more at an organization level where I see the need to have niches accomodating groups that have different dynamics, perhaps goals and working patterns.

Another instance of that could be customer support centers, who work hand in hand with the product and dev centers, while having wildly different composition, processes and targets from the rest of the company.
FreeBSD has Bluetooth in netgraph last time I looked. It’s not compatible with much.
I've heard this a few times before and I still don't get it. How do these people survive and manage to keep a job?
precisely, and this is why I'm starting to think that snowden has - at least - caused as much harm as good by his revelations. if he had stopped at revealing the domestic surveillance he would be an undisputed hero/patriot. but with all of these unnecessary leaks that does nothing but harm to national interest I can understand how others might view him otherwise.
Can you please stop posting promotionally like this? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It's not what this site is for, and HN users eventually have an allergic reaction and start using the s-word.

This is in the site guidelines: "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My god, I wish MacOS would restart automatically! The amount of times I've gotten a nastygram from IT about an update I just expected would be installed (or at least notified!) automatically...
The best natural drugs to keep motivation and ambition at a sustainable level consistently are lots of exercise, balanced diet, enough sleep and some sort of mind/mood/memory enhancing processes such as meditation, tai chi, Yoga or some sorts of light martial arts training.

All those chemical drugs available on market have a saturation effect where you take the drugs for few days or few months and then your brain gets either used to it or saturated (by saturating the receptors in brains or by some other still unknown mechanisms) and you begin looking for other alternatives.

There are also other ways to keeping yourself motivated. As per example,

1. Surround yourself with people with positive attitude and have achieved some great progress in which field you would like to excel.

2. Read some books or listen to some podcast everyday and that will keep you motivated to work towards your goal.

3. Meet with people from different fields and try know what they are doing and how they are achieving it.

4. Last but not least keep a goal in your mind (not too absurd or very easy) and try everyday a little to hammer it consistently. There is no drugs or panacea available that will keep you motivated without a proper goal in your mind.

However, these are my personal suggestions and reflections, not to be taken as legal or health related opinion.

If you think you seriously need any drug then you should consult a physician before popping up any Over The Counter pills by yourself. Those can backfire in a serious and unthinkable way.
I just got done interviewing for post grad jobs, I'm a graduating 5th year CS student.

I would the thing that made companies notice me the most was my work experience.
I love to work, I've had a programmer summer job since I was a sophomore in high school
(REU programs). During my undergrad I did a 6 month Co-op at IBM and a Six month Co-op
at MIT Lincoln Lab. These kinds of experiences really make you stand out from other grads
in my experience. So I would just say always have a side project during school besides your
regular school work, and always try super hard to get a summer Internship/Co-op.

It's definitely not too late for summer 2011 in my opinion, I've had offers for Co-op's way later in the game than this.

Also for interviews the following book is invaluable: http://amzn.com/047012167X
It helped me with my Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google interviews.
Planned economies are so bad, people living in them couldn't afford anything go to waste.

See: USSR.
True, there's no reason but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Many people (I would argue, rightly) equate degraded service to being out of service.

Made-up Scenario: My cluster can handle XXXk users with an SLA of YYms response time. In degraded mode, I'm only handling XXk users with YYYYms response times.

I'm not meeting my SLA for the remaining number of users so I am, in essence, offline.

As to your specific point of "crashing", look at what happened with 37s. Should the server have crashed? No but there was a bug. The reason you add more capacity in the FIRST place is because the existing number of nodes cannot handle the volume. Depending on any number of bugs, issues or configuration your degraded capacity is for all intents and purposes "crashed".

Made-up scenario #2: A single server in your apache configuration can handle 200k concurrent connections reliably with fast response times. Double that load and response times are so long that various devices on the path are timing out the connections as stale. Apache hasn't crashed but it's not really doing anything.

Fast failure is an accepted best practice. Shit, it's baked into Erlang. Kill the process, start a new one and move on. Depending on the nature of the crash, you're doing nothing but churning processes and not actually servicing requests.

The bigger problem is that people don't design for this type of scenario. Static landing pages. Decoupled services instead of monolithic all-in-one containers. Look at github. That's an awesome example of how to degrade service during an outage. Only certain components are "crashed" because everything is fairly decoupled.

Meanwhile there's a guy over here running 4 apps in the same tomcat container that communicate over memory transport with each other or even if he had the common sense to decouple each app, didn't bother to fail fast and was busy spinning up threads trying to communicate with the rest of the services that he can't actually respond to anything externally.
Anyone that knows about a service for tracking and remind you about unanswered emails? Etacts (and their service EmailOracle) was saving me so many hours each week. Need to find some new service for this! Do anyone knows a service that does the same (track and remind unanswered emails)?
Most people probably earn more than minimum wage, even at a startup. Still, as you and the article point out, doing the math is good.
"cases where you need more fine grain control and customizing Rails can be a PITA"

I'd love to see some examples where customizing Rails is a PITA and made easier by using Sinatra.

Personally I have little trouble making Rails do what I want, since I can get at the underlying Rack objects when I need to do things at the HTTP protocol level.
Still won't be good unless they bring back Ciarcia's Circuit Celler as a regular feature.
You should do what you're passionate about. The rest is housekeeping.
Learn Python The Hard Way is not the best book to start programming with; it's better suited to people who already know how to code and want to learn Python. Python For Non-Programmers is my recommendation: it has stood the test of time pretty well and it introduces things in a nice gentle way. It's linked to from the Python homepage, I seem to remember, and there are PDF and HTML versions.

Experienced programmers forget what it's like to be inexperienced. You need to generalise and don't dwell on the things you don't understand. Effectively, the only way to really learn how to programme is to do it because you enjoy it. As you pile on the experience, you'll learn everything you need to learn out of sheer curiosity. When you're experienced you DO want to understand every single line of code, because that's what interests you. As a beginner, the magic of seeing something come to life, even if you don't fully understand it is often enough. That's certainly how I felt when I started out all those years ago.

Rails is awesome too -- not least of all because 'Agile Web Development with Ruby on Rails' is one of the very best programming books written. It's actually readable. Rails is a fantastic tool that lets you to create first-class web applications without needing to know everything about the framework upfront. That means you get results fast, and you learn the details only when the time is right. You also learn some very valuable conventions to do with code organisation, testing, DRY etc that so many corporate programmers never seemed to have grasp (and are never going to be great programmers as a result).

Also, if you seriously want to learn, don't follow HN. Get programming and get in the zone. Every minute spent reading stuff like this is a minute lost.
I hate headlines like this.

Chocolate doesn't help eliminate coughing, because it doesn't contain enough of the active ingredient.
Re-reading my reply and the original post, it's clear that everyone is different and what works for me probably won't work for you. Just don't give in - try different approaches, find what works best for you and stick at it.
>We are all terminally ill with this fatal disease called "life".

No. Dramatic, but not really.
> Nearly every budget point, every effort, must be justified in terms of our struggle against the Iranians.

Look you have to supposedly private, non-government parties. They go to court for some reason. But one of the two parties is actually backed by the government, and the court is influenced by that backing to such an extent that it influences the case.

Not only is this a blatant form of government corruption, with private parties receiving government backing, but it also damages the separation of powers.

If you think it's completely justified to throw out the window many written and unwritten laws, elements of the constitution and basic structures of governance, because of negotiations with Iran, then I think you're willing to give up too many freedoms and rights. The real definition of terrorism to me is not when terror attacks kill as many people in a given year as falling fridges or indeed babies as is indeed the case, but when we're so scared of another cold-waresque threat that we're diminishing our own societies preemptively.

That's what this is about.
Even in the smoking realm there was politics. Because there are no adults in a room to make judgement calls anymore, you need to place your claim on zero or nothing.

The smoking industry could not admit there might be the slightest possibility of a link, otherwise they would have a BPA-plastic situation on their hands; the public goes into hysteria over a possible link. The lie had to be maintained in order to preserve the company. The government lied with their statistics in their attribution of risk correlations, look at how serious second hand smoke is treated as a serious concern and that was used to move the public against the cigarette companies; citing that smokers heavily affect asthma sufferers. However, the number of asthma sufferers climbed as the number of smokers declined [1], suggesting, statistically, that smoking was good overall for society. Then the government turns around and uses the smokescreen, good one Agustus, to levy a tax on the cigarettes themselves, enabling a ridiculous tax on the poor to maintain their habit. Now as smokers transition away in numbers to the less taxed and insanely less-taxed e-cigarettes, there is a push to do the same horror statistics as cigarettes; witness the e-cigarette test that used a highly modified tube to show the possibility of formaldehyde developing [2].

This being said, I have no doubt that smoking increases lung cancer and other risks. The problem is the environment in which the sides of an argument push their agendas.

The politics are very real when a politician can easily overcome political hurdles to give out pork projects that would otherwise be tied up in regulatory hell. Solyndra gets built, politicians photo-op, donors get paid back, fails. Solar farms are fast-tracked through regulatory processes and impact the environment at magnitudes larger than oil [4]. Politicians recognize this, fund projects that create the article's headline and then use the issue to push an agenda which gets money to donors who in turn give it back to them next time they run a campaign.

BIGGEST EXAMPLE of the lengths politicians will go to [5]:

Senator Timothy Wirth: We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6th or June 9th or whatever it was. So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it.

DEBORAH AMOS: Did you also alter the temperature in the hearing room that day?

Senator Timothy Wirth: What we did is that we went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room. And so when the- when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and double figures, but it was really hot.

[1] http://icp.giss.nasa.gov/education/urbanmaap/projects/projec...

[2] http://www.clivebates.com/?p=2706

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/02/us-solartrust-bank..., http://freebeacon.com/issues/billionaire-trying-to-force-cos...,

[4] http://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/burned-birds-beco...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXCfxxXRRdY
I really hope Julia succeeds. I will keep working on Octave as the springboard that they can take from Matlab to Julia.

My hope is for some day Matlab to be as obsolete as Octave itself.
Please don't do this here.

Your comment would be fine with just the first paragraph.
I find that model interesting. It lets me fix any showstopper bugs (possibly with terrible hacks, at first) right now and potentially get it upstreamed later. That is a lot better than any closed source software!
A tsunami is highly disruptive to central banks as well; it can happen with no warning, and it usually causes so many simultaneous insurance payouts that the entire financial industry is impacted. So banks should adopt the resulting floods?

If we're talking dubious similarities in behavior, I will point out that the people passionately supporting Bitcon seem to have a very cult-like behavior, where they defend the cause even to the point of justifying away its obvious flaws. As a True Believer, they fail to see how absurd their justifications have become.
I was a bit skeptical because of the reviews. Tried the lite version and liked it so I ended up paying. The list of questions is impressive although they can go a bit light on the explanation.

I agree with the lack of swipe gesture.
Considering GitHub is essentially entirely closed source, I doubt there will be a change of heart.
It'd be kind of hard, as what makes up a "sprite" lives in two different places - one that stores all the tile data, and another that basically describes which tiles make up which sprites. The latter is likely to change every frame, and potentially the former, too, so you'd still be rescaling some stuff every frame. You'd also have to rescale some things that are affected by palette changes, which sometimes change every frame (popular way to animate water, for example). Would you end up saving time this way? I'm not really sure. It's definitely an interesting idea.
Interesting, you have a source for that?

I thought permissions were given in octal just because they're groups of 3 bits (owner/group/other) so it aligns with octal correctly.
Taxes are ineffective and unjust because of loopholes which the most rich people can exploit. Government should just print more money instead.
That makes me wonder how feasible ocean based launches are.
The interstate system in many cities had those harmful effects. Certainly, down the road in St. Louis, the placement of I-44 and I-70 destroyed neighborhoods and business districts in a fashion that was both completely avoidable and motivated by racism.
I uninstalled right after hearing from Mozilla [1] about the effects of AdBlock Plus on Firefox. Since, then I'm blocking things manually.

First I was using this [2] hosts file by Dan Pallock. But now I've switched to this Neocities [3] hosted site. I don't know who manages this site, but the entries are uniquely sorted from various sources, which includes entries from Dan Pallock's hosts file.

Apart from this, I use Privacy Badger [4], Self-Destructing Cookies [5], HTTPS-Everywhere [6] and Disconnect [7].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/05/14/adblock-plus...

[2] http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

[3] https://hosts.neocities.org/

[4] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger

[5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

[6] https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

[7] https://disconnect.me/
and in france almost all of the high level bureaucrats and politicians come from the same school (ecole sciences po)
> Developers have faith in Github in the same manner that they once had faith in Google and Google Code.

I'm trying to see why this is held to be a bad thing. Even if Github shuts down the way Google Code is, I don't see that is a particular problem except for projects that are already essentially abandoned.
Well, I've never met someone from the upper class (i.e. aristocracy) - but I wouldn't say "organized and dependable" are the first words that come to mind when thinking about aristocrats.... :-)

Actually, one notable example of viewing the working class as "organized and dependable" is Sam from Lord of the Rings - who is based on Tolkien's batmen from when he served on the Western Front as an officer (being middle class he was naturally an officer):

“My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself.”

https://johngarth.wordpress.com/2014/02/13/sam-gamgee-and-to...
I remember Berkeley DB for occasionally corrupting its databases.
I believe you can email github and ask for a certain user name and they'll give it to you if it has no or very little activity. For instance, Ken Thompson joined github a little while ago and he got the user name 'ken'. Don't know how he did that, but I guess it helps being Ken Thompson.
I think that in all these other professions managers understand (and respect) what their employees do.
A photon with a wavelength equal to the Planck length wouldn't become a blackhole. The observed energy is dependant on the observer.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/288287/does-ligh...
Thanks for making me look for things. I just found this brilliant duet with Chick and Herbie. https://youtu.be/14ovAQNNmWQ
I do. Scala is insanely complicated once you inherit a codebase full of implicits and custom operators.
Connect-EZ is an app/service that allows users to register with their email address and make/receive free phone calls to other users’ via their email address utilising a data connection – without an underlying phone package. This allows users to not be tied to a service provider or a number. Hopefully this will help others who have been in a similar situation.

Looking for beta testers to check out and give feedback pls.
> Even smartphone demand slows down. And that's a device with daily utility with a 2-5 year life.

How many people do you know who collect smartphones? Also, waaaaaay more smartphones are sold per year in the US than guns (it's roughly two orders of magnitude difference), so if that represents some kind of ceiling, then it's a very high one that guns are nowhere near.
Yeah, pretty much. It's a way to see which ideas are good, not which founders would be best to build them. Ideas probably pick founders more than founders pick ideas. People have inclinations that make them best suited for only the ideas they'd be great at.

Imagine 10 earnest, formidable, unknown founders in one end and 10 bad-looking, good, unknown ideas on the other end. It'd be great if they could find each other.

Paying is a stronger signal than entering an email. Harvesting emails might work but it'd need some proof-of-work mechanism to vet people really are interested.

What Kickstarter doesn't provide is a way for backers to show things they want built that no-one stepped up to build yet. That's a bigger set. It's all of the ideas that are left!
We've gone places in that time. There's Talon (my full time project), Dragonfly/Caster, and Serenade at least. Voicecode also came and went.

My goal with Talon is to give people at all ability/pain levels a high quality free keyboard/mouse alternative - you can use it preventatively, or if you start to feel discomfort, or if you can't type at all.

I also linked some more recent talks / blog posts in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26118864
Your argument about Dvorak is far from the ultimate layout because of "ls" utility is strange. I think it is really best layout and in regular typing "ls" is rare. If "ls" case bothers you, you can just add an alias.
What you can not get in any other layout is alteration of right and left hands, that is what makes Dvorak ultimate.
Good long-term relationship building can be as compelling a feature as what the product actually does. It's short-sighted to discount the value of enjoying having bought what you buy.