jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The fear that someone else might be "better" than you so you're intentionally going to make it impossible for them to even compete is a really dumb argument. Imagine if this was done in sports.

And that seems to have been the whole intention behind this. Make sure no non-GPL backend can be used because god forbid it's better than ours. The shame!
Wang tile patterns may be aperiodic but they still look "geometric".
Honestly, I ended up moving to the US. Depending on what exactly you want a good option may well be to spend 3-4 months in an accelerator in North East US or SV and then take a view on the long term. A lot depends on where you see the market. This route will expose you to the eco-systems and give you a good sense of if you want to stay the course in the US and seek venture funds.
Once again: you can foil domain validation with or without DNSSEC by downgrading SMTP.

Why bother with DNSSEC?

You also didn't address my ECC point upthread. Today, APNIC advises DNS administrators not to use the (crappy) P-256 ECDSA DNSSEC supports, because it breaks ~1/3rd of all resolvers. That's for the ECC variant DNSSEC actually "supports".

How exactly would you propose a rollout of Ed25519 (or equivalent) crypto in DNSSEC? Or, where is the flaw in my argument?
I think you need to stick more to existing standards.

Location: US is really big. It's a good idea to stick with ISO country codes but maybe use an optional state/province and zip code to make it more specific?

Date/time: the advantage of YYYY-MM-DD is that you can sort date strings alphabetically and they will be chronologically sorted as well. There already is a date/time standard, so why not use it? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339#section-5.6

Thinks like market, position, perks should all be coded instead of being strings. People will not write SaaS but 'Software as a Service', 'SaaS-startup', and all kinds of variations. They're US-English as well right now - that will make it even more difficult to make this an international standard. So you need find existing standards that codify these kind of things and refer to them, or make your own repository and spend effort in finding different spellings and coupling them.

You could classify businesses using NAICS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Industry_Classif...) and SOC codes to classify job titles. For instance a backend engineer has SOC code 151133 (http://www.bls.gov/soc/2010/soc151133.htm). These are still US-specific standards, but it's better than inventing your own, or none at all.

Type: full-time. Maybe make this hrs/week?

For descriptions maybe make it an associative array with ISO language codes as a key, and the description in that language as a value?
Just because a framework offers views doesn't mean that it's too heavy for you. If no views are being processed, they're adding a negligible amount of overhead just from loading the code.

You don't necessarily even need a framework. You could use some libraries. You only need: routing, HTTP request processing, and HTTP response preparation.
This is really cool! What I'm wondering is how well the "compiling Python code to a highly optimized Dart code" step works. For instance, does the standard Python test suite mostly pass? I imagine this is a monumentous task, and so a bit more detail on the status of the effort would be helpful!
The plethora of interesting alternatives mentioned in the comments looks like an indicator that instead of one more however well done attempt at solving the problem we actually need a set of well defined protocols and formats that allow for interoperable solutions that suit everyones needs.
Performance and Python on the same sentence?!?
This looks awesome. I've always wanted something like this.
To the downvoters, what alternative to prison would you prefer for someone who killed over 70 people in cold blood?
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer daemonless setups?
With how often people on here say to focus on merits and not attitude, it's weird how so many comments focus on the writer's attitude and not the analysis of Mr. Shaw's crypto.
I mean, it can be argued his no nonsense style of writing is exactly why he's successful.

He didn't waste time and money sending this to some ivy league educated kid for a proofreading session. I've even heard one theory that the higher up in a company you get the shorter emails tend to be, simply because the folks writing those emails don't have time to waste.

In fact the coolest thing about English is just how much flexibility exist in the language, from my studies of Asian languages this just doesn't exist to nearly the same scale.
It's good to have friends, you know. That's why they are in almost all lobby groups.
I feel like we've lost sight of the fact that we're trying to vaccinate as many people as possible as soon as possible.
His job was to use up all the vaccine. He tried to give it to the professionals around him first (eg law enforcement and hospital workers). Then he searched out people who met the criteria for vaccination. Yes, he ended up giving the last dose to his wife, but the last dose that was about to expire, he wasn’t going to find another person in the time left, and his wife me the medical criteria.

The guy is a hero who is going above and beyond what his job requires, and not a criminal.
Tether FUD always returns when there's an influx of a lot newcomers to Bitcoin. It's been debunked over and over. Here's one by Nic Carter that explains why these "takedowns" are completely wrong:

https://medium.com/@nic__carter/assessing-bitcoins-liquidity...
Wow I read this in 2006ish. Amazing document to still be around.
I don’t get how Bitcoin can become a viable currency or store of value in the future. It’s almost exclusively owned by a small group of individuals. Are we gonna accept that level of centralisation? Of course not.
I am a white American, lived in the US for 29 years and now have been in Taiwan for 3 months with my Taiwanese Fiance. I have been studying Chinese for about a year, with increasing fever since coming to Taiwan. From what I can gather so far, Chinese is much harder to get to a basic level than English.. Let's say a 1st grade level. This is primarily due to the tones, and the characters having no correlation to the words (this is the big one... thank god for flash cards).

My unqualified claim is that Chinese is "Hard to learn, (relatively) easy to Master" due to the reasons stated in the article... English would be "Easy to learn, hard to master", primarily due to the insane vocabulary and tricky grammar. How many chinese born speakers have you heard say "the, than, 's, that, which, at, " and the like, not to mention correctly pronounce all the various english sounds, not to mention American vs British english.

Anyways.. Point is. Chinese is hard. But so are other languages.

Of course, picking up another language that is similar to yours would be much easier. (English -> German), or (Mandarin Chinese -> Cantonese). It's all relative.

Something pretty curious about Chinese, though, is how difficult it is to understand if you don't know it. When being welcomed to a shop, they say 歡迎光臨 (Huānyíng guānglín) which I never noticed until I learned it, after which point I have heard it constantly. For comparison, in Tokyo, I vividly remember countless occurances of "irashaimase"
Disclaimer: I used to work for mahalo.

You mentioned these sites having no unique or original content but after a few quick searches on questions on the star wars answers sites it was pretty clear that all the ugc is original. True there is not much of it, but thats because the sites are only a few months old at the most.

You've proven that the category structure across the sites is similar and that new sites often don't have much content but Google already knows not to grant page rank power to new undeveloped sites. The backlinks from these domains will only carry weight if users engage it and significant content is built...and if that happens then your entire argument goes away.

If there are actual users building niche content, I don't really see the problem here. If you don't agree with that then you're making the case against all niche forums and communities just because you don't like the guy.
has a very good chance of changing how we architect and deploy web applications

I'd be curious to see a quick HN brainstorm of some cool apps that one might be more likely to think of after thinking along the lines of a mongrel2 deployment.

Please reply to this thread.
What's the so special about audio recording compared to video recording? Also, if the video recording is good, someone could do lip reading.
We're hiring at YouVersion (http://youversion.com). Fully remote team working on web & mobile apps. 7 million users and tracking toward 10 million before January 2011. Hiring all position immediately.

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Blackberry: http://www.lifechurch.tv/jobs/39

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Jena, Germany

We are currently scaling up our development team. Looking for app developers for mobile phones (Android, BlackBerry, iPhone) or good generalists.

http://www.match2blue.com/
SF, Mtn View, LA, NYC, etc... - Google is aggressively hiring.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/locations/
> Does this actually happen? Because given the fact that airlines have been incapable of printing names that don't can't be described by EBCDIC since, well, forever, I'd assume that they're willing to ignore cases where the name on your ID contains characters that their computer system literally cannot represent.

Do the screeners know to this? I'm willing to bet that a screener would deny you based on a name mis-match. What do the screeners know of EBCDIC?
Lines of code is a pretty poor measure of anything except lines of code. More lines could be more clear or less clear. Unless we're talking an order of magnitude, which seems unlikely.
Red Monk's inputs are at least numbers based on tracks left by actual programmers and not meaningless search results.

The "index" is calculated (http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/progra...) by searching the 25 highest ranked web sites on Alexa which have a search box and meet some basic criteria then magically weighting them as follows:

- Google - 7.7%
- YouTube - 7.4%
- Baidu - 7.1%
- Amazon - 6.8%
- Google India - 6.5%
- Yahoo Japan - 6.2%
- Hao123.com - 5.8%
- Google Germany - 5.5%
- Microsoft Bing - 5.2%
- Google Japan - 4.9%
- Google UK - 4.6%
- AliExpress - 4.3%
- Alibaba - 4.0%
- Amazon Japan - 3.7%
- Google Brazil - 3.4%
- 360.cn - 3.1%
- Google Italia - 2.8%
- Amazon Germany - 2.5%
- Google Spain - 2.2%
- Amazon UK - 1.8%
- Google Mexico - 1.5%
- Google Canada - 1.2%
- Google Ad Services - 0.9%
- Amazon China - 0.6%
- Google Poland - 0.3%

I might buy that a general internet or e-commerce search might tell you one (low-signal, high-noise) piece of data about popularity. Some of these sites seem highly questionable to tell you anything meaningful. Garbage in / garbage out.

I think use of more specific numbers from sites like Stack Overflow or GitHub seems far more likely to give you relevant information.
Hey Chad,

What do you use https://github.com/andreypopp/react-async for?

I was trying to wrap my head around that the read the warning:

"WARNING: Keeping data in React component's state is a bad idea. React component's state is for purely UI state, like "if this dropdown openned or closed?". In light of that, React Async is an anti-pattern so you shouldn't use it unless you are 100% sure you need it"
If you're interested in well thought out criticisms of Taylorism (as well as Schumpeterism and other status quo models), check out Organization Theory by Kevin Carson.

One interesting point in the book is that Taylorism suffers from the garbage-in-garbage-out problem. Large firms are islands of calculational chaos because they suffer from the economic calculation problem [1] pointed out by Mises and Hayek. Similar to centrally planned economies, large firms cannot intelligently allocate resources or make other managerial decisions because there are heavy distortions in incentives / price signals.

He further points out that economic distortions occur not because of socialism per se, since large capitalist firms also suffer the same problem, but rather long hierarchies. He explores other modular and co-operative organizational models in the book also.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
Real hardware!
What surprises me is the lack of total CLI control, potentially through SSH and ideally using keys, of your hosting provider's control panel. Whether it's CLI or some form of TUI, it's bound to be faster and more convenient for many developers.
Is it really a good idea to undervalue yourself like this? I feel like problems that "matter" couldn't be solved by a single person in a single day (or even a few days), otherwise they would have already been solved.

Just a thought.
Change your credit card number and password; everything else is information that is already known.
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The fact that you and I can talk about it (with pictures to boot!) means this isn't very secret.

Given the retirement of the SR-71, the knowledge that the F-117 went into service in 1983 and stayed unknown for almost a decade, the rumours of pulse-engines, contrails and specific aircraft like the tr-3 and Aurora, it is almost certain that the US (and likely other nations) have aircraft or spacecraft that are flying right now that the public doesn't know about.

It would be hard to gather intelligence if they didn't.
I am totally ad blind. I don't see them, or if I see them I don't parse them, or if I parse them I don't remember them 3 seconds later.

Of course that does not mean that ads don't deliver a return.
1 amu of anti-matter annihilates with 1 amu of matter and releases 0.3 nanoJoules of energy in the form of gamma rays. Or about 1.86 gigaelectronvolts (GeV, another unit of energy). In comparison, the particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider occur at energies of about 14 TeV, or roughly 7,000 times more energetic, and occur numerous times per second.
That mythical man month is BS, there are lots of open source project with hundreds of contributors..

I wonder what kind of skill they are looking for specifically? (Education, experience, etc)
So, your authoritative source on the merit of a case is the lawyer of the very same guy who is being accused? I hope you see the error in that.
Financial stability vs. love is a false dichotomy. You could also say that shift is from Community & Family Commitment to Emotionally Driven Radical Autonomy. Read Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam or look at what "love" marriages are doing in India.

In the 60's everyone was casting off (often shitty) cultural restraints, but it was an overcorrection that was almost completely narcissistic. Suddenly you have no fault divorce and a culture that increasingly doesn't view that as a problem. Fast forward 40 years and my generation is largely self-serving paxil-popping automatons. :-)

Facebook brings us together but it ultimately doesn't make us really sacrifice for each other. That's an infinitely harder problem that technology will probably never solve.
Realistically, Android without the market and Google apps is not Android and Google can charge whatever they want for those apps. I suspect they're better off giving those apps for free and making money from the ads inside them.

Honestly, the whole "OMG they replaced Google with Bing!" story is overblown; there's a lot more to a phone than the Web browser.
Well, then the default default is hotels.
Related comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1918593
Ending 23 years ago (and saying "12 years" is grossly overgenerous). Of zero relevance to the modern Apple computers (edit: Sorry, it isn't even called Apple Computers anymore)
That's one thing I've noticed different in iOS vs. Android developers: business transparency.

I guess it all started with Joelcomm basically opening his books about iFart mobile way back in '08 when the appstore just opened. Since then, there's been scads of iPhone and iPod touch developers that shared their sales and/or add revenue, some of whom also shared when they hit it really big or just fizzled (appcubby was particularly vociferous about decrying his lack of sales at the beginning).

I don't really see the same of Android developers save for a very few, like the guys who ported over hit iPhone apps to android and saw like less than 1/10th of the sales, but that was ages ago. Is it that the iOS community is a little more close-knit (or perhaps share some other cultural kinship around Apple brand) that Google hasn't cultivated in the Android community? Or, is it that the increasing marketshare in phones isn't correlating smoothly with app sales and the Android devs are simply frustrated?

Tough to say, but I do seriously appreciate sites like Games From Within, Tap Tap Tap, Chilifresh, Streaming Colour, and others for being extremely open (whether good or bad) about their success in the app store. C'mon Android devs, fess up! :D
Kind of ruins my image of hackers, with all those high-profile drugs.
I haven't read The Diamond Age, but this sounds like the beginnings of the franchise states in Snow Crash.
The mere possibility might be enough to ensure co-operation. Warrant-less wiretapping for example.

I'd wager the president could direct the telecoms to do this without any kind of legal device and they would capitulate.

See telecom immunity, for example:

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-02-27/bay-area/17190307_1_ob...

This is such a bad precedent. It's an uncontested executive power grab.
This was more or less (same reasoning, but not explicitly presented as a caching algorithm) how I justified the state of my room as a teenager.
Even as large as WebMD is, it would surprise me if they weren't using a third-party drug database to drive their public database. When I worked at a similar site, we used First DataBank [0], but there may be others too. The world of pharmaceuticals changes so rapidly that you need a small army of pharmacists and doctors scouring medical journals and materials from big pharma companies to keep your information up-to-date and it's just a lot easier to pay one of the dedicated companies that focus on that to do that work for you.

However it wouldn't surprise me if the NHS took on that task itself. Unlike WebMD, the NHS is also responsible for prescribing medications and would need to give their doctors and pharmacists up-to-date information, software and guidance for prescribing. Their scale and scope would allow them to take on this task in a way that makes less sense in the US system, where insurance providers, doctors, pharmacies and online health information are all separate entities with separate budgets/funding.

[0] https://www.fdbhealth.com/
Nah, every bad thing a company does is securities fraud. With regards to this, this quote is more relevant.

Maddeningly, people continue to think that it is somehow illegal insider trading? “You bought a thing without telling anyone, and then you told people that you liked the thing and it went up, that’s illegal.” I don’t even understand that intuition. No! You can trade when you know your own intentions, even when nobody else does! Also, man, it’s Bitcoin, there’s no such thing as insider trading.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-08/elon-m...
Leading people to believe things that are wildly untrue using statements that are technically not lies does as much damage to society as doing it any other way, in my opinion. Sure, in theory smart people might be able to spot that what the article is trying to convince them of isn't backed up by the facts it uses - but in practice they almost never seem to, not even other journalists. (Here in the UK, the BBC seems to be a bit of a repeat offender - some other partisan rag publishes something designed to lead people to an untrue conclusion without technically lying, and then the BBC just outright repeats the untrue claim.)
The jerk was someone publishing something publicly, voluntarily, then perversely trying to make anyone who might have saved their copies of the thing you gave them, delete them.

I'm amazed anyone gave you the time if day. I can't imagine I'd have even answered. I certainly never signed any kind of copyright agreement when I started posting on BBS's or newsgroups.

Somewhere on one or more old hard drives somewhere I may have a few years of whatever groups I was into at the time, and I tell you now, on this new similar public forum, I will not bother digging out and scanning all my old drives to find anything to remove it, and I will not promise never to add them to any public archive.
I think it happens even for topics of programming and entrepreneurship. HN is not a representative sample of the software industry.
that's planned! (I already bought blend-together.com originally for Blender collab but I might reuse it)
Have you seen & tried Racket?
try disabling adblockers and ghostery etc
For others curious like me, Google translates "一刀切" as "one size fits all".
Google Authenticator is a free-standing app with no dependency on you having a Google account whatsoever. It doesn't even have Google account integration as an optional feature. It also uses algorithms documented in public RFCs, and there are about a thousand compatible, alternative, implementations because it's so damn trivial. Stop whinging.
I never knew how hard people prepared for the interview. Great resource for that.

The headline is a bit misleading though because it implies they aren't in YC now. If not for the the interview-prep part the entire story could be TL;DR-ed into "We got into YC, someone accidentally sent a scary email"
Playcanvas is doing amazing work with WebGL. The Mozilla team showed off a version of this at GDC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVAw_an6NBQ

Check out the SeeMore demo Will and his team were showing off at GDC - http://malideveloper.arm.com/demo-showroom/gaming/seemoreweb...
The title should say 'Amazon Redshift'.
At first I thought its going to be about redshift vs f.lux:
http://jonls.dk/redshift/

Edit: Why the downvote?
redshift (and flux) exist since before 2010, whereas Amazon Redshift got introduced just in 2012.
I think it is reasonable to assume that someone who has never heard of Amazon Redshift would think of the open source project first (that exists in various distributions as packages), and not the Amazon service.
I hate to suggest that your observation is wrong, but 16 rounds should take orders of magnitude more time than 1ms. 16 rounds using Mindrot's Java implementation of BCrypt on my admittedly old 2009-vintage i7 consumes 6.3 seconds to hash a 10-character password.
The diceware word list has a lot of words that aren't very memorable.

Here's my attempt at memorable password generation: http://rmmh.github.io/abbrase/
Piracy is not theft because there's no subtraction of goods.

This is not a justification, just logic.
I totally agree. I dread the day when animated ads move to html5. That's when I'm starting to use aggressive, indiscriminate ad blocking, something I haven't done so far out of consideration for ad funded sites I like.
Thanks for the kind words about ProPublica. It's exciting to be around so many talented journalists and to get to work on great projects with them.

I run a small team (five of us) of developer/journalists. We're in a new-ish field of journalism called "news applications." Essentially it means we make software instead of using words or pictures to tell journalistic stories. There are crews like ours (some bigger, some smaller) at the New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, the Guardian in the U.K., and elsewhere.

Our work includes the Recovery Tracker http://projects.propublica.org/recovery and the recent "Docs for Dollars" project http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars that analyzes payments from pharmaceutical companies to doctors.

You can see pretty much all of our work at http://www.propublica.org/tools