jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why learning English and working abroad is supposed to curb depression? What does one have to do with the other? The article just sort of jumped from "depression" to "working abroad" without really establishing a link. I suggest there isn't one. I mean, in addition to working 80-hour weeks, new recruits have to attend English lessons as well?

If Japan was serious about curbing depression it would take serious measures to reign in the permanent overtime a lot of employees find themselves in, where many are staying in the office until nearly midnight. By "serious" I mean fines and possibly jail time for employers that allow it to happen without reason, or allow it to happen regularly even if they have a reason. And don't rely on reporting, either - start doing audits. If that sounds severe, remember that these are the people whose government formed a committee to investigate why so many Japanese companies required their workers to come in on Saturdays - which committee itself met every Saturday. "Soft paternalism" is probably not going to cut it.

The drinking culture here probably doesn't help, either. Alcohol's links to depression are well-known.
> As a consultant, I'm sure you know how much even very sophisticated people struggle with this. I'd guess less than 1% of Google Analytics users know there is a multi-channel funnel view, and even fewer can understand it.

Yes. GA has lots of downsides, and the steep learning curve is one of them. That's what I mean when I say that having a better interface alone might be a sufficient value prop over GA. If that's your advantage over GA, why not focus on that instead? The strawman argument and AdWords conspiracy are off-putting to someone like me, who is on the lookout for services that can complement what GA is doing.
Never heard of this. My wife and I went for a couple of weeks to Japan and we never ran across anything like this. If anything, we were struck at how quite some places could get, say like the subway. A completely pack subway pulling out of Tokyo station at rush hour and it was more or less silent.

Japanese people were a bit warmer than we thought and as far as I could tell, they like have people visit their country.
My personal contribution to the genre: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhChYJzw4FM&feature=youtu.be See link in description for build log and source code.

And one of my favorites from another artist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZGgymGg0Ns
PyPy really closes the speed gap. The latest PyPy 2.5 release uses pinning to pass pointers between the C layer and PyPy greatly improving IO performance [1]. I've noticed this in a project I've been working on holding open large amounts of concurrent connections (> 100k at a time), PyPy has been completely competitive with Go, and actually using less memory. Yes, it's not as fast as a Java/C+ version, but with PyPy its more like 2-5x slower, not 10-100x slower which really changes things.

[1] http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2015/02/pypy-250-released.html
I wonder if FB would be willing to post some of their load numbers...

Like... how many sessions are created per day, persisted from day to day, how many messages sent per chat session, how long windows stay open, how many restores, etc.
Firebug was the only thing keeping me in Firefox for a while. The initial dev tools that Webkit came with were ok, but nothing on Firebug.

Chrome dev tools have come a long way though. I use Chrome as my main browser now for both surfing and dev, and although I miss the snappiness of Firebug, Chrome's dev tools are just as good, if not better.
What do you think you'd call it?

I'm not disagreeing here; I've learned something (likely not enough!) from the code of his that I've read.
California's SB 1386 does not seem to apply, as there is no "Personal Information" in the leaked database.

One thing open to interpretation would be whether the password in the file could be used to access someone's bank account. If someone uses the same e-mail address and password at both sites, that would be true.

Section 1798.29, E, 3
-- Definition of Personal Information
Account number, credit or debit card number,
in combination with any required security code,
access code, or password that would permit
access to an individual's financial account.

* http://info.sen.ca.gov/pub/01-02/bill/sen/sb_1351-1400/sb_13...

I am not a lawyer.
You were already competing with a handful of other startups in this space, including the YC-funded Whereoscope.

Genuine question: how much business were you doing before that you're worried about losing it? You wouldn't be the first company to get steamrollered by some random Google/Apple/... side project.
I agree in general but IMO its even simpler than that. If you are taking someone else's work that they asked you to pay for, then you are STEALING. Its plain and simple.
Until yesterday I've favored Firebug over Chrome Dev Tools; the only real reason being that I haven't been familiar with the Chrome tools at all. Yesterday I fell in love with Chrome Dev Tools... The reason is that I was playing around with developing a Chrome extension (in particular one for HN which I'll have finished soon).

Not only is extension development much more fun (you can load unbundled extensions directly from the source directory, reload it to load the updates source code with one click, and there is no need to restart the browser at all). But one of the best features is that when you get some element from the DOM of the current page, and log it or any of the children elements to the developer console and hover over it, Chrome highlights that particular part on the website itself. This is just so helpful!
We're a design/dev studio and we've just started selling a monthly coffee subscription. We conceived the business in one week and launched it in the next!
"This code was hard to extend, because it had 60 separate extension points, all of which were in the wrong place (and none of which had ever been used)"

I've been working with "enterprise" systems for ~20 years and I swear that most of the extension points I've seen in custom-built systems have never been used to extend anything and simply complicate the original system.

Of course, a lot of products (particularly EPR and CRM) are extensible - sometimes quite elegantly, sometimes with Lovecraftian horrors, but at least they actually get used.
"Controllers are singletons" is something i really like in Ember. Why should I execute all the code every time a view loads..
It depends on hardware support. I’m not aware of anything that has it besides mainframes, but if it’s not there, software emulation is used.

Using IEEE floats for money often has... amusing results.
You can do either. Or both if you really want.

$ git ls-remote
From https://github.com/cyaninc/git-fat.git
4c86c39bb5fca55a692d11680ed62fd5cb183921	refs/pull/14/head
cb850f9d0bd09f8bb903e1c5959cef24ceb51695	refs/pull/14/merge

The merge ref is what the code would be if you merged it.
I guess that's why people won't work harder to earn higher wages to avoid additional tax, wait, they do!
I still can't believe how productive Rails is either. One can literally recreate the most popular CRUD apps in a weekend

I've been learning React and played around with a Rails API backend and separate React front-end and I forget just how much work Rails takes out
Some values ought to be universal across a company. I'm sure everyone at Volvo could agree that driver safety is a high priority.

Other values may well vary between departments - People working on the car's software can do weekly releases at little or no cost with lightweight planning - but the injection-moulded door handle will need a $$$$$ mould and several months for every design change, so they'd certainly better have frozen the design several months before product launch.

There might not be much common ground on ideas like starting with an MVP and iterating, moving fast, dealing with changing requirements, two week sprints, and so on.
A CloudWatch alarm on a billing metric could also be used to send you SMS, email, hell even call you if you want to wire a webhook up to a quick and dirty twilio app (via SNS)

In fact, we use an SNS->Slack gateway running on a free Heroku dyno to get out alerts in a Slack channel (which is pushed to phones/etc), along with other CloudWatch alarms related to performance.

Honestly, this issue of "I don't have any visibility into what I'm spending" is a waste of energy. You do, and you can have AWS bug you as intensely as you want with updates as frequent and as urgent as you need
I use both HipChat and Slack everyday. Honestly, I don't feel Slack is as massive of an upgrade as people claim it to be. A few things that make Slack stick out:

1. It's got a SlackBot that does a lot of functions for you (like /hangouts etc). You can do all of this with GitHub's Hubot if you want, but it requires your own maintenance.

2. It's "media" posting (sharing links) and search are slightly better. But these are simply more cosmetic preferences than total usability upgrade.

3. I find Slack's mobile app much better (responsive, less buggy) but that's more of a technical implementation. I think HipChat's dev team has simply become less focused on supporting it (speculation).

4. Slack has built-in private groups and #hashtags for organizing conversations and topics better.

My general conclusion is that Slack has a much higher value for non-tech folks. I'm technical, so I'm fairly indifferent. There are some quirks that I don't like about Slack, and I personally prefer some of the elements of HipChat over it.
WhatsApps payment feature is only available in India where they implemented the feature in alignment with the Indian UPI initiative.

Src.: https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/payments/learn-more-about-p...

Therefore I'd argue that this specific feature can hardly be seen as waiting for a global rollout.
This can be the biggest factor. It can't be understated.

For example, my wife won't let me consider relocating and spends basically all her money on hobbies. This limits my job options to locally available ones (not a great area) and that I can't get a less stressful job because it pays less and I need my current salary to pay all the bills.
Let's stop making the same mistake over and over again. It is centralized, not federated, and therefore Threema is likely to suffer the same fate.
This reminds me of the research on comparative speed of different languages that ended up finding that the information density was essentially the same for all languages, even if the number of syllables enunciated per second was different.
Very readable. Highly recommended.
>However, you are not the king of open source, and you cannot dictate how other authors must write their projects.

And you're not the king of what people are allowed to voice their views and opinions on in public forums.

Authors can do whatever they want and users can say whatever they want as a result. Doing something does not mean you are free of the consequences, including people voicing their opinions, of those actions.
Here's a source to back up that claim: https://www.neimagazine.com/features/featureload-following-c...
The graph idea sounds interesting. I'll look into how to implement it best.

Yeah, already experimented with Reddit. The problem was people came in sporadically. So none of them had the fill experience. Will try the other gaming communities you mentioned.
That's the worst kind of user, though. The "power user" is almost the bane of my existence as they do not truly understand anything yet think they understand everything.

These are the same morons that dig into the Windows registry for "super speed optimizations" and end up blowing their installation to hell.
Well, yes, but this is still quite interesting (imho).

In the old days, the competitor had an email list. You couldn't know how many or who were subscribed. In a twitter world, it's all out in the open.
I kind of wish that he didn't emphasize the 'women engineer', would've kinda gotten the picture when he starts using she.

Maybe we'll get there someday...
This looks like a very productive movement which can create extremely positive results... until some caped guy gets stabbed or shot.
Use one of the EFF stickers
https://supporters.eff.org/donate ;)
https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/

edit: RST you're wicked fast, you beat me by all of 3 ms there or so :) Have an upvote!
Peyton-Jones is not the only person working on Haskell. In fact, if it were only Peyton-Jones working on Haskell, the language wouldn't be where it is today.

Yes, the speed of development probably almost always scales sublinearly with the number of people working on it, but beware that perception may also be distorted by the old adage that "the last 20% of the work take 80% of the time". That is, when people are added to a project that has finished the first 80%, it may seem like progress scales terribly sublinearly with the people added, but what is observed may simply be the fact that the same amount of work leads to a smaller perceptible change once a project has sufficiently advanced.
How can Paul Graham sit there and not mention the anti-competitive and illegal collusion of the top tech employers while he tells us to vote against our own financial self-interest?

He wants us to vote even more money into his pockets, and vote to undermine our wages, and he doesn't even give the smallest mention to the fact that the most respectable and respected tech employers have been fucking us over for years!

So disingenuous, so pernicious.
The article is about the amazing things she's doing, how she's doing them, and, more broadly, all the fun she's having with design. It will benefit many people. She's under no obligation to report the details of her medical investigations.
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Cockroach uses hybrid logical clocks and should generally tolerate reasonable amounts of clock skew. Atomic clocks can improve performance in some cases by putting a tighter bound on clock skew, but they're not necessary for correctness.
It is also my pet peeve to call a Web Developer a Software Engineer. It's rather antiquated. Being a full-stack webdev is about knowing how all the different pieces fit together.
You can define induction operator, but it won't have required type.
I like your idea. Lancer seems cool but also so, so complex. I bought some alternatives and am slowly checking them out.

Regarding the art...I feel you there. I know DrivethruRPG has some stock art for RPGs for sale, but am not sure how much of it is mech related.
Same here. Looked around for a close button, clearly there wasn't one, quick way out.

If this is a product for tech-savvy workers, this is a great way to lose half your audience.
> In Western countries hand-shaking is limited almost exclusively to business

I can't speak for all Western countries, but in the US I shake hands with every new person I meet, whether in a professional or social settings. I'll also shake hands as a greeting for acquaintances I'm not close with. (As opposed to a hug for close acquaintances.)
To avoid an emotional confrontation with the candidate. 95% don't meet the bar, but they would be offended if they were told how they really perform. Some may even sue back if they happen to be in some minority group. Companies like FB don't have a shortage of very qualified candidates, so you not applying again is just irrelevant to them. The sign of a perfect interview is when the interviewer realizes that you know more than him.
Working on a offline-first Invoicing app for freelancers & small businesses. Built to be cross-platform with Electron & react.

https://upcount.app
https://github.com/madisvain/upcount
The very same claim was made after the January 2018 bubble burst... Truth is that the hash rate is going up over time[0] and this is not really a problem. There are also too many misunderstandings in this article for me to bother listing them one by one.

0. https://www.blockchain.com/en/charts/hash-rate
I strongly recommend Rochkind - Advanced Unix Programming.

Despite the title, it's not that advanced; the "advanced" here refers to system-level programming, not application.

Note, for this you probably need to learn C.

K&R ed2 remains an excellent book for this.

Honorary mention - Kernighan and Pike - Unix Programming Environment. But it's a little dated.

Above all, do. Get a Ubuntu or Centos image, install developer tools (gcc), manpages, and write some code.
The Placebo Effect is something of a misnomer, as there are actually many different placebo effects, which bias trial data in subtle and interesting ways. Effects like regression to the mean and the natural history of the disease, for example, will result in objective changes to a patient's condition even in cases where the patient is acutely aware they are only taking a placebo.

Analyses comparing placebo interventions to no treatment reveal that the apparent power of the placebo may be overstated. No placebo effects are observed, for example, when comparing placebo to no treatment for objective endpoints, or binary endpoints (Hróbjartsson et al, 2001). They are observed in subjective endpoints (e.g. pain, nausea) where the condition of the patient is filtered through the opinion and biases of the patient and/or the clinician - which makes it quite possible that this aspect of placebo action can be accounted for by the experimenter effect.

All of which leads to my primary problem with this paper. It is a comparison of open-label placebo to no treatment, with a relatively small number of participants (n = 80), studying only subjective end-points (hello, experimenter effect). The media coverage of this paper (c.f. the NPR article) makes the claim that an "honest placebo" was given, with the patients informed they were only taking placebo, which is true. But patients were also told the placebo could "present significant improvement in IBS symptoms through mind-body self-healing processes", which just as readily primes the patient for the experimenter effect as does telling them they're taking a drug.

On top of that, the clinical relevance of the IBS-GIS improvement seen in the placebo arm is questionable, improvement from "(4) no change" to "(5) slight improvement" on a seven point scale.

Small effect, small numbers, and potentially flawed methodology.
> the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state.

The US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet and perhaps in history. I'd say we're there.
Startup people flock to San Francisco and the Bay Area in general because of accelerated learning. You get accelerated learning because everyone is here. Need some paid CAC, viral growth, fundraising, scaling or pretty much anything startup expertise? Those people are all here.

It's similar to picking between State vs. Private institutions for school. You will certainly get more bang for your buck in at the State school but you will miss out on the pools of brilliant minds at MIT. (There are similar echo chamber trade offs)

Raising funds aside, you gotta ask yourself... is the additional runway gained from moving to a cheaper location worth the potential gains in learning? Is my startup about the hours I put in or about how smart those hours are? I think that you acquire entrepreneur knowledge quicker in SF than pretty much anywhere in the world. I feel like I've gained decades of experience in only 2 years here.
This is very bad news for the nuclear industry although I think the threat to the global environment is overblown.

For instance, they speak as if going into the ocean was the worst place the leakage could go. But face it, the ocean is a huge place and spread out that thin, it's an infinitesimal part of the natural background radiation.

Sure, radiation puts stress on life forms, but so does SO2, CO2, POPs and all the other pollution we create and in the big picture Fukushima has far less impact than, say, rice farming, has in Japan.
Still waiting for your rebuttal first.
He makes some valid points, but what doesn't quite add up is that not all of these "monopolies" are built on network effects. Google search, for instance, doesn't benefit from network effects. Gmail doesn't benefit from network effects, nor does anything else that Google does (successfully). Of course Google benefits from its size in many ways but that's not the same kind of self feeding dynamic as a network effect.

Amazon became big by selling books. Did publishers really say, hey, let's sell to the biggest online book store only? Would it be any more inconvenient for buyers to buy from a different online book store just because it was not the biggest? I don't think so. There is no network effect, just plain old economies of scale and the power of brands.

Myspace was the biggest. Friendster was the biggest. Both in areas that clearly do benefit massively from network effects.

So, I agree with the author on some points, but I think he plays down the "being better" part a little too much and he ignores substitution effects.
Does anyone else find this amusing?

Facebook is so hypocritical, "We wont let you export your friends email addresses" but when there's money/profitable partnerships involved sure go ahead take all you want.

Michael was correct to append the second statement with "unless it’s with a partner that’s making it worth our while." This just shows the arrogance of Facebook these days!

Apart from that just exported 568 contacts :D
I'm sure that Mint would love for banks to setup an oAuth type authorization system with real APIs (I can't imagine getting around login systems and screen scraping is something they like doing). However, given that some of my banks still don't support passwords with non [a-Z0-9] characters and AJAX (or even an interface that looks like it's not from the 90s) I'm not holding my breath on them getting around to writing an API for Mint.
Duck-duck go definitely is not evil. Still suck for non english searches, though.
> I seem to recall some crackpot theory that low-calorie diets increase your lifespan

Not sure the 'crackpot theory' pejorative is appropriate. Calorie restriction (with adequate nutrition) has been documented to increase both median and maximum lifespan across a number of species. I believe primate studies are in progress now.

I agree that perpetually hungry (and cold) sounds like an unpleasant way to go through life, but that doesn't make the adherents crackpots.
Infrastructure companies are natural monopolies. I suspect that Google, Facebook, etc are actually natural monopolies, too.

The problem with these monopolies is the same as with others : they capture excess money, which hinders innovation in the long run.

Hint : I don't believe in the free-market la la land BS anyway.
If you love programming, this is the type of thing you should be doing. Just for the love of it. No commercial possibilities, no thinking about non-programming junk like elevator pitches and liquidation preferences; just code. Wow!
...thats exactly my thinking.
Really bad use of javascript can cause a memory leak in browser.
It's an interesting article, but its use of "tool" is spurious. It appears in the title and is plunked down in front of us on the last line, but nowhere is the case made that dogs' greater social acceptance of humans amounts to anything like tool use. Great article; too bad about "tool."
There's a big difference between trusting you'll be able to trade something which has historically been valued by a lot of people at a certain amount, and trusting someone won't steal your money, which is generally what people mean when referring to a "trusted third party".
Almost any language can throw a query to google, so yes.