jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"They will likely compete with each other to drive down prices per unit of usage"

I would say this is very unlikely. Look at call minutes, look at SMS messages.

Both of these have plenty of scope for carriers to cut costs and compete while still being a profitable item. Do the carriers do this? No, not at all. They all keep their prices artificially high and roughly equivalent because it is in their joint interests not to compete too much.

If you look outside the US, there are plenty of telco's who's data prices are way higher and kept their for exactly this reason.
No. Poverty is overrated.

It sounds like his argument for "poverty" is that investors micromanage and sink companies. The obvious solution is hands-off VC and more trust of entrepreneurs. In other words, we need to move away from a culture in which VCs are high priests and entrepreneurs (unless they've "completed an exit") are seen as unwashed beggars.

Also, investors can be a pain in the ass if you're funded; most people know at least one entrepreneur who was sunk or scumbagged by a bad investor. They can also be a pain in the ass if you're not; getting them is a miserable endeavor I wouldn't wish on anyone, and although someone who hasn't invested in you can't fire you, obviously, he can black-ball you (investors talk to each other).

And a founder is far more likely to drive a company toward profitability if he’s is about to lose his life’s savings.

Meh. I don't disagree at a 180-degree tack-- maybe 160. I think "the stick" is a pretty bad motivator overall, and when people get panicked, they make bad decisions. Everyone's different, but in the aggregate, people perform better if the potential personal loss is reduced; that's much of why limited liability exists. This is true in small as well as large companies. We all know that small companies tend to be more innovative, but that's in spite of the small company's insecurity, not because of it.

Capital starvation leads to innovation. Slim bank accounts are the best way to motivate sales people. So don’t worry if you think you don’t have enough capital. Instead, be grateful for your sense of urgency.

Disagree. Bad financial situations and anxiety lead people to take greater risks and make decisions that it's harder to make in a "cozy" corporate job, not because comfort leads to mediocrity but because the corporate strings often hamstring or extinguish greatness.

Sometimes those risky decisions turn out to produce results that are really good for the person making them, and for society. Sometimes the results are terrible. On the whole and for most people, "the stick" is not a very good and definitely not a very productive thing. Exceptions exist-- final fantasies that produce something great (actually, Final Fantasy was so-named because it was produced by, and actually saved, a dying game company)-- but those are rare.

Don't get me wrong: startups are great, but I think the poverty and urgency are necessary evils of the game, not benefits. We need startups in this economy, because what was once accomplished by blue-sky R&D (which doesn't exist anymore) is now increasingly done by startups, which are acquired if successful.

Also, don't get me started on urgency. Bosses in large companies play the "urgent" card with artificial deadlines all the time, so a lot of people work under a state of urgency. Does the OP have an idea how many millions, if not billions, of lines of absolutely terrible code have been written in the name of urgency?
> You either tip everybody or you tip nobody.

If i go to McDonalds and order a coke I don't tip. If i go to a pub and order a coke I do. Explain that one to me.
Chrome, OS X. Hyphenated exactly as shown regardless of magnification.
No. America has got themselves into plenty of trouble fighting wars against things that are common nouns.
There is a point where this makes sense, but I would venture to guess that there is also a point where increased welfare benefits yield less and less entrepreneurship. People have to be willing to take a risk because they believe they could be better off - if the benefits of welfare were too great, there would no longer be any desire to take risks.
Yes. I've read that article several times.
I fit the description perfectly and I think it's one of the reasons I'm learning lisp now.
It might be of use for the huge project that I'm about to start in the near future.

I don't like the dark side, I hate to see all the beauty I create when I'm 'high' dribble through the impotent hands of the dark periods.
But I've come to accept that this is how I am and always will be.

My only way out of the hole is to try and steer clear of addictions and learn new stuff.

Since I can't do anything of practical use during this period - nothing is exciting, the world is going to hell, I'm a failure and cannot do it, etc, I use the time to learn new stuff, read books on every possible subject and just try not to be too big of a drag on those around me.

I've been here multiple times and I know that each 'down' period is followed by a rush of energy and creativity and I have to be prepared with knowledge and health so that I can apply it during my 'mental spring'. This is how I've created great stuff before and I will in the future. At least this is my hope.

At the moment, learning lisp is a kind of psychotherapy that I apply to myself and it seems to be working, even though I have no idea what to do with that knowledge, it will soon all make sense.
Fair enough -- I didn't mean to claim the normal way of dumping everyone into general population with minimal supervision is a good idea at all. Prison is awful primarily because of the other people in prison -- both the prisoners and guards. But the problem is in the details, not in allowing interaction and groups at all.
GitHub main page: https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid

Examples: https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid/wiki/Examples
Answer has been posted - http://blog.phpfog.com/2010/12/16/we-have-a-winner-of-the-fr... (hello world)
Twilio runs on Amazon EC2. Tropo runs in the Voxeo network, which has been around for 10 years and has many customers including much of the Fortune 500. Tropo can handle a much greater call and SMS volume, so if you need volume or expect peaks of usage, Tropo will be better.

Skimmed the article and came across this. This isn't very informative and seems biased.
Source control and a reproduceable install using some sort of build system ( which can range from very simple, to incredibly complicated )
Ideas and startup goes to Yahoo to die.
Yeah, EC2 is the best cloud but it's a shame that it's still missing features that ESX 2.0 had (and Amazon has shown no interest in fixing it).
Wow, this is horrible for too many reasons.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8831667
Some of their products are worse than snake oil. When powering off, Schiit's Asgard amp can output enough DC to damage some headphones. One Head-Fi user recorded a video of this happening. NWAvGuy tried to get answers from Jason Stoddard and ended up being banned from the Head-Fi forums. The whole fiasco is summarized on NWAvGuy's blog.[1] Of course NWAvGuy isn't the most tactful person, but Head-Fi's reaction seems quite overzealous.

1. http://nwavguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/banned-at-head-fi.html
This has some good ideas, but it's very similar to HOCON. I think it's more worthwhile to focus on improving the HOCON spec rather than building yet another configuration json superset.

https://github.com/typesafehub/config/blob/master/HOCON.md
Eh, I don't know... I don't really fuss with it much. Admittedly I did the first few times setting up, but now my desktop dot-files move with me, get a minor edit every so often, and once every couple of years I have to rebuild some packages....

I guess if needed lots of packages on the fly, or changed machines every few months it would be different. But it's once in a great while... then solid and stable for a long time.

To be frank, I would rather build packages from source. It's not I'm suspicious, but I run into plenty of problems with versions etc. using package tools, and it's really not that much more work just to do it the basic way.
Arrogant, no. Frustrated with close minded people and hero worship? Yes. Though, he does tend to bring it on himself even when he's correct.
There is a solution to this problem. It's called bankruptcy after which someone buys the hotels assets without the debts and other obligations. The new owner can then set up a sensible free WiFi service ( and charge that old WiFi company a reasonable fee so they can some in and remove their old and highly valuable infrastructure).
This problem was created by trying to force people to say specific words.

You try to force RMS to say some words? guess what, he will now try to force his words onto you. You don't agree? neither does he, great, just great. There is no difference here. It is no more valid for you to force language on others than it is for him to try and do it.
You mean that before technology the world was a better place?

How far should we go? 1940's brought WWII and lot's of deadly tech so no, 1917 was WWI with its deadly weapons so again no, Antibiotics was discovered in 1928 and need a lot of tech to be manufactured so anything before that could be deadly, if we go forward we'll find very few news services which are mostly controlled by governments or other organizations so again not a great choice...

I agree that technology causes a lot of evil and problems but always think of things in respect to the alternatives.
Well obviously, as they don’t believe in magical mask theory, they have to be discredited!
> handled literally _billions_ of records in the database

Classic example of Medium Data
It's odd to complain about this in the US, a country which has an unusually high amount of political appointees. The UK and China are the ones with giant permanent civil services. We probably need more of it so we can keep expertise longer than 4 years at a time.
I should add that Von Neumann only started with maths at 39. He’s actually a self taught PHP programmer by background.
Yes, the vast majority of people, including me, would disagree with that.

However, why is somebody holding these opinions a show-stopper?

One could argue that that's because in many cases somebody holding these opinions is a "dog whistle" for the person actually being a paedophile. In the case of RMS, though, we have no evidence that he actually is a paedophile, despite him being pretty thoroughly scrutinised over the years. We also know that he has a need to question everything and write about where he disagrees with society, which he presents in excruciating detail on his website, so it's not that he has some sort of fixation on this topic.

I'd argue that in an ideal society we should encourage thoughtfully heterodox people, since once in a while they'll invent something revolutionary like free software and copyleft, while them also sometimes holding some very weird opinions is not much of a cost.

In the non-ideal real world, once RMS came up with his revolutionary ideas, he probably should have stopped talking about his most fringe ideas, so his resignation as president of the FSF, for instance, had been sensible and over-due.
That just benefits vertical integration. Amazon would pay less taxes in Amazon basics than third party goods. What you really want is a VAT. You're only taxed on the value add of your product. It's widely regarded as the most efficient tax and the US is one of the only countries that doesn't use it.
I think a flattr like service that uses Bitcoins would be great. It might be a good way to increase circulation too.
Maybe the Redis codebase is too closely tied to the fact that the complete db has to be loaded in memory?
The liquor store down the street just got a 27" imac for their POS, and the hydro store two blocks down has the same POS. Small business owners are notoriously incapable of understanding tech.
System engineering. We sell subsystems and components to the equipment companies.

Chips are sold globally for the most part, regardless of where they are made. EU, US, Japan, Taiwan & Korea made chips are typically leading edge and sold globally. Some China-made chips are only used in China, but they have a large export market for low-cost chips.
I'm astonished that people are asking these questions while there's obvious answers like this.

WSs aren't a magic wand, they just allow you to do more with the same.
How many of the mesh nodes do you have? I have three including the primary one, and have had as many as 50 devices on my network and it has worked flawlessly. Many are low bandwidth IoT devices/hubs, but I've literally never had any problems over three years.
I've been saying this for years. It's refreshing to see someone else hold the same opinion.

Having arbitrary amounts that don't scale is both bribery and slavery. A speeding ticket for example that cripples someone with low income for weeks is just the cost of doing business for someone with enough wealth. It's really not that far off from actual bribery.
"Bill Gates" was removed from the title.
Do you believe that if someone in Canada ships a bomb to someone in the US an investigation between the two countries wouldn't be done?
Many ISPs have repeatedly demonstrated they are untrustworthy. Unfortunately in the US they tend to have regional monopolies. I don't have a realistic option outside of Comcast. So I have no choice but to use a shitty ISP and all of my traffic has to pass through them.

I do have a choice in trusting certificates. I can revoke trust of certificates, chains, and even root certificates. I can also choose to trust self signed certificates. But I don't have to trust my shitty ISP not to meddle in my traffic. I also don't have to trust the networks between my shitty ISP and a server. I don't need to trust those networks because I can verify a server's traffic against a chain of signing keys.

With unencrypted traffic every network between nodes is going to peak at the content and you have no way of knowing if they modified it in transit*. TLS provides encryption and verification. I don't trust my ISP at all. I don't have unlimited trust of CAs but they have less ability to compromise all of my traffic like my ISP.

* Without pre-shared signing keys.
Imagine a world where Section 230 doesn't exist. A mean corporation takes down your post, or bans you.

What cause of action do you imagine you'd have that wouldn't be barred by 1A?

By and large, 230 acts merely as a procedural fast-last to dismiss suits earlier than they'd otherwise be. But they'd ultimately be decided the same way on first amendment grounds.
messagehop.com is a pretty awesome idea.
That says what I wanted in less words. I like it. You probably have good comments.
The bank that cashed it and didn't send him a dishonor notice in a timely fashion ate it. That's why they were threatening him with litigation. Click the small link at the bottom of the pages to see the rest of the story.
From the App Store Review Guidelines,

4.2 Apps that use location-based APIs for automatic or autonomous control of
vehicles, aircraft, or other devices will be rejected

Hmm...
I believe thats commenting on what your intentions are behind something unclear (or making something that looks wrong look right because of xyz) vs commenting on something that could easily be solved by better naming/conventions.
Oh. Thank you!
How do we even know s/he is Russian?
Go to wherever most other people are creating startups. "Where" does matter. Having a community of peers to learn from, a talent pool to recruit from, and a local community to gain initial users from is essential.

Go to or start a meetup group for startup / technology people in your area: http://www.meetup.com/cities/de/berlin/

Keep an eye out for the next BarCamp you could attend: http://barcamp.org/w/page/402984/FrontPage#Germany

Get on twitter and connect with other people interested in startups: http://twitter.com/#!/startupcamp_de/followers

Best of luck!
A couple questions:

1. Can anyone compare WakeMakes with that clock thing that tracks your eye movement by wearing an eyemask? The name of the clock escapes me at the moment, will edit this post once I remember.

edit: it's called Zeo

2. If I know I wake up at least once a night to use the bahtroom out of habit does this disrupt the wake-up system in any way?
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=troll+hunters#!/story/forever/0/tr...
I think the most interesting aspect of Singapore's government is they pay government officials multimillion dollar salaries. This makes them very hard to bribe. If you think about the size of the budgets government officials have authority over compared to their salaries, the temptation to be bribed and thus be dominated by corporate interests is overwhelming. In Singapore the incentives are reversed. Any allegation of corruption risks a lost job. In other countries they would get fired and go to work at the companies that bribed them but in Singapore the private companies will have difficulty competing with their government salary, not to mention the prestige that comes with being a government official.

I would be in support of that being tried in the U.S, especially for senior level positions. It would probably save money in the long run.
In case that wasn't clear from the article, the project manager was a local. I'll update to make this clearer.
Having a standard for classes would be significant even if no browser implemented it.

Nearly every JavaScript ecosystem has a class pattern. Ember, Angular, YUI, React, MooTools etc. All of them are incompatible.

A spec gives us a common target to iterate toward, even if we need to get there via transpilers. Just like standardizing on Promises means I can consume jQuery's ajax method without learning a new callback syntax, ES6 classes will mean I don't need to learn a new API for extending a parent class in every framework.

The Ember community has had amazing success adopting ES6 modules despite there being no browser support at all. I expect any framework would have a similar success story with classes.
I wouldn't put unimportant tasks in the stack; that would mean you do those first.

Fast turnaround tasks are best for the stack. Tasks which involve multiple parties & thus planning and coordinating are best for the queue.

Many organisations already deal with this in having first line and second line support; first line pick off the quick stuff and log the hard stuff; second line then work their way through the hard stuff/ First line will also put a task on hold if a new call comes in; their priority is to answer the phones/get things logged, with working on resolutions taking lower priority.

So first line support's a stack, second line's a queue.

As the blogger mentions though, generally things are mixed; whilst there will be a preference/default working style most people/teams will fall somewhere in between, usually adding some level of prioritisation.

Another point is that prioritisation is generally based solely on the importance of the task & detailed analysis of its implications for queue people, whilst stack people will tend to guess at both the importance and the implementation time to get a priority based on the weightings of both factors.
Maybe he had a stencil and didn't speak english?
I've had modern anesthesia for surgery twice in my life, and that seems to operate mostly by temporarily eliminating your ability to form memories. I found that "scary af" even though it certainly worked as expected.
One follow up question to that would be what percentage of people who made a Model 3 reservation (the $14bn mentioned in the article) ended up not purchasing their vehicle, when their reservation rose to the top of the queue. I'm sure Tesla has good internal numbers tracking this, but whether it's the level of granular data that will make it into public reports for shareholders, that's another question.
"journalists in particular no longer find themselves in the upper middle class"

For most of the history of journalism in the U.S., journalists were not in the "upper middle class". Journalism was a poorly paid working class job for most of the 20th century. Maybe a couple decades at the end of it different.
Procedural generation of math problems is solved.
It seems to have become the defacto even though it's complex
What's the culture like at these places if you're an engineer? Does the finance bro culture bleed over, or is it separate?
Eastern Europe (EU). Yes, the cost of living is a lot higher in the US, but it's not 20×. Even if we compare it to any western euro country, we'll see that none of them have wages even close to US.
Not even remotely. These are testing for massively different things via entirely different processes.
Because he will leave the office. How brave!
Kids have it real nice these days...games that are fun and can teach you how to code concurrently (Hack 'n Slash is another example). I was able to pick up programming fairly easy as I got older though, because I learned how to be comfortable with text files and hack around the internals of an operating system...which is what I had to do to get Ultima VII to run via its awful Voodoo memory manager.
In Ian Banks Culture novels, the post-scarcity super-advanced civilization has lifespans of around 350 years (IIRC). They could be longer, but don't for cultural and social reasons. With Culture stories though, I'm never quite sure if Culture society has genuinely agreed on it's conventions freely, or if they are the result of subtle manipulation by the Minds (hyper-intelligent AIs that run the ships and habitats that host the Culture's biological population).

For me if a population of immortals means a population without children I'm not sure it's such a great idea. I'm concerned about intellectual, cultural and technological ossification and ultimately degeneration without a continually renewing population.

From a moral point of view, I don't buy the idea that death is something horrific to be avoided at all costs. Historically it's generally been accepted that there are things worth dying for, and countless throngs have sacrificed their lives, or at least willingly risked them, for causes they believed in. I'm specifically reminded of the case of a father a few years back that leaped in front of a lorry to push a child to safety, obviously knowing that he was sacrificing his own life to do so.

Human life is precious and valuable, but not infinitely so and it's not obvious to me that an existing life is necessarily more valuable than a potential new one. I don't expect it will be politicaly possible or desirable to suppress life extending treatments and I don't really have any idea how this will all play out, but for me it's not a foregone conclusion that a future in which it is normal to indefinitely extend life is an ideal one.
Given that money has a time value, it makes sense to do the latter in your early years and gradually tilt the balance towards the former.
I've never run across anyone in the U.S. who refers to postal codes as zip codes.
Nobody held a gun to their head. So yes, they have passion that drives the price point to poverty.

They can change isn’t moment they want, but they won’t. So yes, they are idiots financially.
Gambling is a zero sum game, your win is anothers loss. Investing is not. When it works there is literally more stuff, goods and services, for everyone! With investing you can win without others losing! That is how we all have so much more stuff than a century ago without anyone losing, we didn't liberate it from the aristocrats we invested and created it.