jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Clean, understandable, and navigable code and design

It's interesting to see "navigable" in here - I've struggled to articulate in the past this problem and I think this nails it. We often see simplicity come at the cost of "navigability". All the configuration by convention frameworks have this problem particularly heavily. I'm often at a complete loss to trace the mechanics of what is happening in things like vue-cli, Rails / Grails, gradle, and many other dynamic frameworks.

They achieve remarkable simplicity, yet I often end up hating them and swearing at them because I can't exercise my understanding of fundamentals to reason about them and rationalise what they are doing. "The database connection must be getting established somewhere - it should be traceable back from the point where the connection is used in some way" - well, no you may have to understand most of the entire underpinnings of the framework before you will achieve that understanding.

I think this "navigability" idea really fills that gap well. Things should be simple, but they should always stay navigable based on fundamental knowledge.
How about pay $1 / year to opt out of all data sharing?

I foolishly installed the Facebook app on Android for a while. When I asked for a data dump from Facebook I was amazed at the amount of data it had stolen from my phone, including full contacts list. It sounds like that is exactly what Facebook are planning with WhatsApp.

I'd pay $1 / year to opt out of that and be the customer rather than the product.
I think the concept of a persona has morphed and been abused over time.

With my team we use them as a tool to organise a set of assumption's or hypotheses that we want to test. Then through further user research tools we look to validate these assumptions.

On the whole it's not perfect but it works well most of the time.
If I had to pick just one reason, to just get really reductive about it and off the top of my head, it's because this group is armed. You didn't see the police giving the Black militia NFAC any beef.
What has happened. Is this really that hard of concept?
Yes, we do have other B2B customers, and we're getting good traction in higher education publishing in particular. We'll also be integrated by a YC company later this month!

You mention that there could be nearby problems that people would care about also, and it's true that in our products we include other adjacent features. But our primary business is B2B licensing, and none of these other features is licensable, it doesn't end up impacting our business.

We've thought about developing new adjacent features, and someday we may do that. But right now the primary goal is getting people accustomed to reading with color gradient as a guide, which is a pretty novel thing. I'm glad you like it!
Can’t believe I had to scroll so far to find a comment like this. This is absolutely nothing to do with a limit on free speech but a failing of education and the explosion of free speech on social media.

To be flippant, there are more village idiots than ever before and they are all talking to each other on the internet.

The solution to this, in my opinion, is a massive investment in public education and a shift of American politics to the left. America doesn’t have a left and a right, it has a far right and a right. In the UK American democrats would be very comfortable in the UK Conservative party.
It’s the US capitol, it’s incredibly surprising. It’s outrageous. There’s no lack of adjectives.
You can use other GSM providers with the iPad, it's not locked to AT&T.
I think this is a pretty good case for WePay (YC W09).

Rich and the team are great.

https://www.wepay.com/howto/donations
Agreed - I've done over 300 interviews / and probably north of 600 phone screens in the last six years - I'm struggling to recall if I've ever seen a cover letter, even once.
Amazon could introduce a subscription service. You get the Kindle for free, have a monthly fee of $29 or $39, and you can download up to 10 titles per month. 1 year minimum contract.
He really should have put the TL;DR at the top. He could have worded the entire piece as "You may think our policy is capricious and arbitrary but the internet is filled with a lot of jerks. We hope to be consistent in our rulings; you'll just have to deal with it, as we don't want to spend our time dealing with lame issues. And this is a lame issue."
Right - In India and in many parts of Asia the symbol is considered as a positive, being used for religious adornment, political parties and product advertising. It's a great piece of graphic art and it's a real pity the Nazis screwed it up with bad associations for the western world. Most Americans aren't aware of the Symbol being used in other contexts (my wife expressed surprise when she saw it on a Balinese temple earlier this year). Perhaps as the USA becomes more multi-cultural the symbol can get rehabilitated.
>but Apple at least is playing the game in the exact spirit in which the laws were conceived

The patent system was conceived to allow the little guy (or little business) to invent, and profit from those inventions, even when he lacked the means or scale of manufacture to reliably profit from that invention.

Without such protection obviously there was no way that someone who invented a new method to harness energy from gasoline, for instance, could avoid getting crushed by an established car company: He would have close to zero leverage in such a transaction, and there was little to prevent them from simply saying "thanks".

Honestly I suspect that if companies above some threshold were barred from filing patents, it would have no impact at all on their R&D spend. It might even improve efficiencies as they stop focusing on trying to land grab with hundreds of trivial patents (which is sadly what most patents are now, where offenders accidentally offend simply in the course of building things because overlap is unavoidable).

There is nothing, whatsoever, morally different between patent trolls and a company like Apple. They are both playing the same game to enrich themselves at the cost of everyone else. As the old saying goes, however, don't hate the players, hate the game, so kudos to Apple for doing what they can to ensure that $4 billion + of profit enriches their account every quarter.
It’s not political correctness, it’s fundamental respect.

I think that's the battle cry of all those who enforce PC behavior.

UH OH! OUT COMES THE INTERNET PUNDITS! <g>
... Most of them are just contrarians. They would never dare to wear a swastika openly, but they love to argue about how the world has "misunderstood" this symbol.

The way I read this is as a criticism of people who do not hold a particular belief, but are defending the rights of others who do hold it. This seems completely contrary to the ideal attitude of "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."
What really gets me about it is that Myhrvold himself is such a brilliant and pleasant guy, and he gets such cool people to work for him. I feel like he should know better than to take this sort of robber-baronial approach to intellectual property.
The issue isn't social anxiety or anything like that, it's the taxi company dispatch systems are typically run by people who are both bad at their job and hate you for making them pick up the phone.
Those are excellent points. The number of years of one's life spent in prison on average for the population vs number of years spent in college on average for the population might be one other way to look at it and it would come out looking even worse.
Agreed. Figures of “number of people in full time employment receiving monthly pay for more than six months” would be far more useful. A few big categories to cover most of the market, would be enough to get a real insight into the current situation.

The UK has “record low unemployment”, but very low productivity and a lot of homelessness and poverty. From personal experience it seems pretty clear that the explanation is mostly that the unemployment rate is far far higher than stated. But the stats are so meaningless and fudged that you can’t show it.

Much harder to fake a list of employed people and say “look at all these jobs” than to provide a list of “unemployed people” with the assumption that everyone off the list is not unemployed...
If it takes a year to become a useful employee, something has gone horribly wrong.

Although I do agree that "work is work" and the search for self-actualization through work leads to a lot of unhappiness.
I agree, but i kept wondering about the lifespan of my apple-samsung ssd, without trim.
The article a false assumption that it's possible to be a good software developer without understanding the basics of Computer Science (whether through university or self- education).

It's not, not even in the bread and butter application development tasks: imagine writing an accounting system without knowing how to accurately handle decimal values[1] or what a B-Tree index is or what a race condition is. I won't even begin to mention systems/library/algorithm implementation work.

Degrees that cover programming without computer science do exist, but they intended for developers who want to transition to (people or project) management.

[1] E.g.,

alex@jupiter:~$ python
...
>>> 1-.3
0.69999999999999996
Just a nit, but what version of random works like that? BSD random(6) "reads lines from the standard input and copies them to the standard output with a probability of 1/denominator. The default value for denominator is 2."

I ended up writing my own (overengineered) program, but I'd be interested in knowing what you use.
Please be reading the parent comment, O creator of Robot Chicken!
Pretty much everything I was ever told about love, dating, sex and romance, prior to discovering the "seduction community" a couple of years ago. Then again, it's not that a lot of the advice I got about women was bad, it just wasn't useful. Take the stock "be confident" tidbit for example... well, that's not bad advice (in that being confident is not harmful) but it's not actionable advice, because telling someone who isn't confident to "be confident" is useless. I also bought into the generic "there's somebody for everybody, don't look for a girl, you'll just stumble into somebody one day and it'll happen if it's mean to" crap. Uuuuggggghhh...

Outside of that, not much. But I tend to be pretty selective about the advice I take anyway... I'm the kind of person who tends to "keep my own council" more often than not (or, as my dad would say, I'm hard-headed). So I tend to ignore a lot of the well-meaning advice I've been given.. so I miss out by ignoring some good advice here and there, but I also avoid most of the bad advice.

For the most part, I'd look back and say that approach has worked out well for me.
I think it is something people can get used to quite quickly.

If you look at the Romans, taking a dump surrounded by your friends in one of the Bath Houses was a good part of the day, so its not like abluting in public is something we are inherently opposed to as humans.
We were previously using Bacula, which was way too heavyweight for what we wanted. I found Borg after looking into Attic, and wasn't aware of Restic at that point.

Compared to the Bacula and BackupExec, Borg was lightning fast and its disk usage was very frugal.
Surely refrigerating your whiskey is the correct approach? Or chilling the glass?
I am surprised that they say that more women lead to a better performance. There is no single female-dominated team that comes to my mind that achieved exceptional performance. All the great achievements and inventions of humanity, top notch startups, product teams etc. - all consisting of few or no women. Am I missing here something?
Well when you have a government people telling them they are entitled to this, that, and oh yeah maybe that, its bound to filter into the common mindset. Follow it up with TV programs, internet sites, and the like, which on serve to reinforce the attitude.

You deserve high speed internet, you deserve a phone, you deserve pets, you deserve to take your emotional support llama with you... on and on and on... never do we hear, your rights do not supersede the rights and safety of others.
I started with the basic of Oric-1, then the fabulous locomotive basic of Amstrad. When I got a PC (1986), I ditched quickly GW-basic in favor of turbo pascal, turbo prolog and later turbo C. QBASIC was not bad, but really too late for me.
As an European I say we should stop the US from learning. They're getting dangerous, with their knowledge.
Looks like you are in the wrong forum friend. The question is "Who believes?".

Your response covered essentially what you "don't believe in". I am genuinely interested in hearing what "you believe in"?
No offense, but another dissapointment because it doesn't do something unrelated to what it claims to do?
Dihexa probably has more potential for this generation as a "geek wonder drug." There are people at Longecity who had the compound synthesized and are taking mega doses.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011090653.ht...
A lot of the X civil service org have some odd grandfathered powers BT's an d the royal mail internal security have more powers the average function in an ordinary PLC has.

Not Bruce Sheniers resignation statement and notice how careful he is to be nice to BT security.
In my experience, as an outrageously well paid programmer, I will touch a lot more than 5 lines a day whenever I am programming, especially if I include changes to the unit tests, integration tests and such. There are two caveats though:

First, you will not be coding every day. There's requirements gathering, setting up environments, build systems and such. Depending on what you are working on, this could be over 50% of your time.

And second, and perhaps more importantly, most of the lines you touch will replace lines that you, or someone else, has written in the past, instead of just adding more functionality without touching the existing codebase. For instance, 5 months ago I started working on a project that had been written by two junior programmers that did not understand the language they were using, functional programming, or the problem they were solving. The code was full of repetition, bugs, and there was no way to make heads or tails of what it was actually solving. So I started refactoring, working on eliminating duplication, and trying to build abstractions. After a week, I had made a good dozen commits every day, but they were on top of each other: total LOC actually went down. Only after that week of coding that didn't add to the codebase I could see the places where refactoring just wouldn't do anymore, and was able to figure out what to rewrite, and how to add the additional requirements.

So I had spent a month on a 15K LOC codebase, and ended up with 12K LOC that did more, had more tests, ran faster, and made sense to the people that would end up owning the product in the long term. But yes, I mucked with over 100 lines of code most days.

Situations like that happen to experienced programmers all the time.
This is the non-commercial agreement --- I'm licensing the resources commercially.
I'm not the author, but I believe he's welcoming any help on taking this further. There's a neatly organized list of things to do in the Github issues.[1]

See also his request for help on HN.[2]

[1] https://github.com/twostairs/paperwork/issues

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8942823
>the list of people who used LSD includes some pretty interesting people.

This is the definition of survivorship bias.
Yes. Why do people assume you can just make a phone call to Andromeda? 'Ya, hi ET, what's new?' If Andromeda disappeared into a black hole 1 million years ago, we wouldn't even know yet. We have to wait 2.5 million years for news from Andromeda, assuming the news can't transcend the speed of light.
If anyone is interviewing on Wednesday or Thursday, it might be fun to hang out at the Dojo; I normally work from Sunfire (downtown MV), but maybe I'll move over to the dojo instead for the next couple days.
Chris just described me. Figuratively speaking. If you're bootstrapping a startup solo, you will realize it's a super lonely road and you just can't get enough of these "pick me ups". It's motivational and inspirational to me, and people like me. If it's not to you, then I guess this piece wasn't written for you. But it was written for me.
On the surface it seems an easier proposition to make money here than other companies, plenty of data to target ads well through the links being shared and like Twitter you can build in ads that are like regular content so people would be buying sponsored links that appear like the ones being saved.

I guess the issue is, the uptake of the product, and retention rate with the ratio of people actively using frequently to those using it as a link archive service which they don't revisit frequently as their links are being automatically archived.

The delicious aspect would be similar to say someone starting something in video and getting the question of how they are going to be able to make money when it's taken youtube crazy scale and availability of cheap internet bandwidth with that scale to turn a profit. Either you taking the same angle and are somehow going to do it better than Google or your clearly differentiating yourself in a way that will allow you to turn a profit without the same scale.
"An internet connection directly to my brain so I could quickly look things up on Wikipedia and always be right."

Reminds me of Eric Schmidt's comments regarding brain implants.

I had no idea Leah Culver had anything to do with OAuth. I hadn't given much thought to the list of independent contributing authors in the RFC.
How do you evaluate "worth"? If you say the worth of wine is based on the taste then of course wine that is worth more will taste better.
I used to write HP48 apps in Saturn assembler or RPL.

I used to write newton apps on my newton in Newtonscript.

I used to write palm apps on my palm in scheme mostly, but I could also write them in C, pascal, and numerous other languages.

I write mac apps on my mac in just about everything.

Things I can't do on my mobile devices are severely limiting. Not being able to just throw something together to solve a problem, do a little visualization, etc... I've got a lua runtime on my iPad that helps out, but it's insufficient since it's quite second class.
I think the other part that makes you good is actually liking the process. When you don't care what the outcome is, the journey becomes the reward. And that can lead to some pretty awesome creative work :)
"Watch web videos like regular TV" is a good tagline.

Actually the page has little content. I'm struggling to put more on it. Shrinking the header image bar to 85px would make the screen more empty. Also I'm taking up suggestion by others to reduce the 3 steps to 1.

Screenshot is a good idea.

Showing tooltip right the way on mouseover on the control's buttons is very good idea.

I actually deliberately not showing preview thumbnail strip on the screen. I found them distracting. I rather let the viewers concentrate on the current video. However, the Channel Guide can definitely use more preview thumbnails.
StartMail supports a form of this called as "aliases" with the StartMail domain.

https://www.startmail.com/

(Disclosure: I work at StartMail.)
The obvious question begging to be asked: can anyone with experience elaborate and any differences/similarities they see between gambling and startups?

more specifically: is there a certain risk-seeking personality that makes us all similar? and where is the the line drawn between "addict" and just a "good hacker/gambler"?

possible conclusion based on this article: maybe we're all just risk-seekers looking for a good story to tell. whether you call it a real "problem" or not, we love it, and can't live any other way.
I'd really like to be able to drag and drop images from other tabs, as saving to disk is a pain in the ass. I suspect, however, that that's a Chrome issue, not a minus issue. Still, great site!
:) Look out for document support soon on Minus including PDF, TXT, DOC, PPT and more!
Thanks, appreciate it :) As for the copy to clipboard implementation, we're still exploring the best way to do it for max compatibility. If anyone has suggestions feel free to buzz me at john@min.us
We all do, but don't tell anyone.
Is there any other way to drop a picture? Even though drag & drop seems to be the easiest and most comfortable way, for me, it is not :-) I'd have to run some kind of file manager, find the directory, image, carefully position both file manager window and the browser, do the job and then put everything back. Surprisingly hard, but that's a real setup that I have (and many people I know too).
As long as an iPhone is used by Parrot as the controller, you're stuck with the AppStore's diktats; in this case, Apple won't let them record videos.

Also, Parrot's drone is fun to play with. The idea with sensefly is that you don't control it in realtime: you give it an itinerary before launching it, it follows it and comes back on its own. That's not as good for a toy, but more efficient for a professional tool.
I’m an economist and I wish I had some guidance to offer, but unfortunately I have none. I’m struggling to get a grip on this situation.

Firstly, though I have not worked there for six months or so, I am Italian (from Milan, in the north, the worst-hit area). The economy there has basically shut down. Consumer spending has collapsed, production has collapsed, and logistics are increasingly untenable.

What can we expect? Six months of this (and some people are projecting up to eighteen months) are going to shut down demand. There’s a term going around now “demand destruction” — I’m not going to pretend to know more than I do, so I’ll admit forthright that I had never heard it until a few weeks ago — that seems to meet the requirements here.

It’s uncertain whether the supply side of the economy will be similarly affected. Probably yes, as governments curb production to slow the spread at the workplace.

Even three months will be dreadful.

Now, let’s think of a few things: governments are stepping in with public support to support businesses, provide liquidity, and support workers that do not have income. That means debt. That means interest payments in future, for those businesses that are fortunate enough to survive. Taxpayers will be on the hook for decades.

The situation is so severe that German economists are proposing a 1 trillion euro Eurobond issue to help support the economies because the southern economies cannot hope to cope with this.

I guess I’ll sum it up thusly: this might turn out to be a “great pause”, but economies and demographics cannot idle without incurring enormous financial costs.
First, if you're paying in comparison to those charts, in the SF area you aren't paying anywhere near well enough. Good devs with 5+ years of solid experience go for $100K+.

Second, this exact point has been discussed between you and patio11 before. If you think you're paying excellent wages -- 10% to 15% above market -- and still having trouble hiring, then I'd like to repeat patio11's suggestion that you are mistaken about either the wages of the quality of the job you're offering.
Worldwide.

Apology for my ignorance for not knowing the *.ac.uk for students in UK. I've did a slight modification to the form.
The form was broken for me; it wouldn't accept a graduation year of 2010.
If you have multiple applications using a document format, XML schemas are a good way to make sure they all agree on the semantics of the format. Recall that XML was originally intended as a means of bridging different environments and platforms, where code will not necessarily be portable.