jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I would call people out for excusing leading people on and lying to their faces. In public. In a room full of people that disagree with me. If I am in the wrong and downvotes (or in our analogy looks of disapproval or murmurs of hatred in my direction) are my punishment I will take them proudly. I think excusing the behavior is nearly as shameful as being the person doing the lying and deceiving.

I can't believe I'm explaining this in such deal. I meant the usage quite literally. I'm shocked that an intelligent community such as HN is excusing the behavior because it's supposedly "normal". I think the treatment and thus the excuses are "shitty" which doesn't have a formal definition for me to rattle off, but suffice it to say I think it covers "unacceptable behavior" which is a category that lying and leading people on generally falls into.
High end goods and services are not races to the bottom.

For example, when was the last time you saw an airline undercut their competitors' first-class ticket price? How many sports-car manufactures get in price wars with their competition?

If your services are supply-constrained and there is a string market, you can charge whatever you want (to an extent, at least many times your cost of living), your cost of living doesn't matter when setting your prices in that situation. Your value is what the market dictates, not how much it costs you to buy a loaf of bread.
Yes, I can relate, and I just barely started my career in software development.

Let's have a thought experiment this way: imagine picking 4 programmers and ask them to implement Git from scratch, can you imagine any scenario in which they would take at least twice longer than Linus to produce the first working version? I certainly can.
AliceML is worth a look, though development seems to have died out a few years ago :(

http://www.ps.uni-saarland.de/alice/
Someone might argue that your capacity to compete peacefully was hard-won by government or elites dominating the use of force. In other words, you don't have to fight because a bigger entity already won for you. But should that entity fall weak to an external force, I think we'll see that many rights are built on a foundation of power, rather than a peaceful morality.
This is by far, the best resource learning to develop for iOS. highly recommended!
>Compile time checking basically replaces a large chunk of unit tests one would have to write and maintain to cover the same issues.

As does static analysis.

You do use a ruby static analysis tool on your project, right?
Why should you correct the map if you don't live there? Because you seem to use the map and think it should be more accurate. I don't see why where you live is relevant.
I just want to say: read these threads if you value your software career. There is golden advice from those who’ve seen it. Done it.
They are paid well, but Google (and other companies) have discovered that their workers are most productive not when they are mercenaries, but when they are "part of the family". Thus Google (and other companies) try to create an environment where if workers don't like something, they are encouraged to help steer the boat. Of course when this conflicts with actual business interests, everyone sees who is really holding the wheel. This can be jarring for workers so used to feeling "part of the team".

This "they're paid well, so they should do their job or leave" idea misunderstands the culture these companies work to uphold. If Google wanted to hire mercs they certainly could, but in the past their values were the opposite of this. In the future, we'll see.
Surface area real estate cost $, additional air handling HVAC for fumes, etc. This isn’t just an extra hot dog.
Generating native function pointers on the fly:

- is inherently slow, because CPUs have separate data and instruction caches;

- is extra slow in practice because you need a separate allocation for executable memory (unless your stacks and heap are RWX, which is a terrible idea);

- is not portable, requiring architecture- and OS-specific code; and

- is not supported at all in many environments (of varying levels of braindeadness).

For a statically compiled language like Rust, it makes much more sense to use the context pointer.
> I don't know how one can contribute to the debate. Would you explain it to me?

The official venue for IETF discussions is the mailing lists. Braid is being discussed in the HTTP Working Group, on this mailing list: ietf-http-wg@w3.org. I suggest drafting an email saying something like:

"Hi, I learned about the Braid spec on Hacker News. I am interested in it for reasons X, Y, and Z. Overall, my thoughts on the spec are W. However, the current draft allows sending patches in PUT, POST, and PATCH, and I would only allow the Patches header in the PATCH method. Does anyone have thoughts on this?"

Thank you! I'd love to have your thoughts contribute to the consensus process.
What's the current sensitivity of current screening modalities at the stage that these blood tests can be used? Apologies is this is answered elsewhere in this thread.
Good idea in theory but I won't sign up to try it out for the first time. You should give a sandbox to play with but to export make a user sign up.
And machine instructions aren't going away, because that's what those C server applications compile down to. But the "web stack," like the other layers before it, is becoming a black box which many developers won't need to know about to do their work.
Much better feature list. I think it is a good idea to drop the price to $0.99.

Why not have a video demo instead of the screenshots? That will give a much better sense of the user experience and that it is really fast and easy.

Good luck with the app. I have my first app waiting for review in the App Store :)
Yes.

To see why, look under your sink.
Is there any reason to prefer this poll to pg's poll from 15 days ago?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039
> If I can't get to a working demo with a single click from your homepage, I'm gone.

Not only a demo but the actual product. Let me jump right in and start on my free 3 designs. Only ask for my info when I want to export to HTML/CSS.

Perhaps this is what you meant but I think this is really important.
Thanks -- a demo of the export tool is definitely something I'd like to implement, but doing so would have postponed the launch by a week or two. I made the decision to launch without it and that's that.

Appreciate the feedback as it helps me prioritize what to work on next.
Assuming popbub had users, would you do it if you could buy adspace on the front page to promote your startup?
"metadata that isn't prominently visible in the browser is guaranteed to be wrong"

Very true. Still, I wish title junk was my only problem. My bank's online banking home page has a title of "Home". Just that. "Home". No "Acme Bank Home", not even "Online :: Banking :: Home". In 2010. Go figure.
>The latest trend seems to be "rejection therapy". If this helps people, good, but I hate this. Can we instead please make the next trend "Make somebody's day every day for 30 days therapy"?

Sounds like this 17 year old girl summoned up some courage to help you, instead of minding her own business like so many people do. She might have felt she was taking a chance with her safety to help you, or at the very least be spurned by you. Imagination can be an awful thing sometimes.

I've played Rejection Therapy for awhile now, and it's given me the courage to reach out to estranged family members, to give up my seat on the bus to women, to ask a stranger with a cast if I could walk her dog.

I am a good person, with good intentions, but I am extremely shy by nature and it has handicapped my personality. I've lived alone for many years because of my extreme awkwardness around women. Now I try to reach out to others, even women, despite my fear. I'm now aware that my comfort zone is a cage. And I want out.

Rejection Therapy gives people hope. It permits people to fail, and win, at the same time. That's a trend I want to continue.
So this is Mechanical Turk or Elance meets services bartering... i think?
Gates, as SecDef, has been pushing for many of those changes since he took office in 2006. There's quite a bit to give Obama credit for, but Gates as SecDef is not one of them.
Well, 0 is slightly off. Ge extended the Bush tax cuts, so he quite literally cut taxes for 100% of America and not the talking point number of 95. Also, failing to raise the taxes on those top 2% puts a huge tarnish on the rest of his achievements. Add this to that tarnish. Sorry, but he failed on his most important mandates. No public option, successful blackmail by the republicans and now most likely, no net neutrality.
Of all the satire I have ever read, that may very well be the best, because to this day I am still not sure of the exact proportion of joke vs. seriousness. And I've read my Twain, so it's not unfamiliarity with the author. That's the mark of a truly masterful satire.
To the extent the CCP covered this up in Nov/Dec, it was definitely an evil act. However, I don't think that should very much move the needle on what we believe about the state on the ground in China today. The country is not so closed off that they could hide ongoing mass COVID infections. The WHO's agreement is only one of the several datapoints I mentioned.
In some circles, this is considered headhunting :)
I am incredibly grateful that the Chia cryptocurrency simply bundled all the complexity of their client into an electron app and made that available for their mainnet release.

It meant that instead of forcing me to screw around with novel terminology, novel design, and how those relate to a bunch of CLI commands, I could just:

1. Open a window

2. Be presented with a very friendly UI that stepped me through the process of creating a wallet and preparing my machine to mine.

3. Follow the easy to read instructions, without running into any error or any warnings whatsoever.

4. See the message that given my stock setup it would take me approximately 2 months to mine a coin.

5. Immediately uninstall the app.

If I had been forced to use CLI that would have taken me probably another ten minutes, for no gain.
Check out Ash Maurya's blog post the 10X product launch. From memory and possibly a few other thought leaders it looks a little bit like this:

1. Conduct customer development interviews where you interview potential users and don't show them your product. Simply ask questions that will demonstrate to you if they have pain.

2. For each pain statement, ask them to rank it's importance on a scale of 1 to 10 and their satisfaction with their current solution on a scale of 1 to 10. This helps you quantify the size of the opportunity.

2.a. repeat this process 50 to 200 times.

3. Stock rank your pain statements based on the largest surface area.

4. Build an MVP.

5. Show it to the people that rated the pains the highest and ask for feedback.

6. If you really nailed it they will be asking you how they can become customers.

7. If they're not asking how they can buy then ask for more feedback.

I think the quantify step was pulled from "lean product management".

I've followed this twice and you usually have to loop through the feedback step a few times before you get it.

Both times, my first 10 customers have come from these interviews and my next 100 have come from referrals from those initial 10. I think that's the gist of Ash's 10x product launch.

I'm being fairly brief because it's a complex subject and I'm on mobile.
The browser cache was supposed to handle this. Kind of stupid that you have to implement your own cache in JS now cause the browser can't be trusted.
You don't need to find someone else's private key. Just create your own private key and convince people to send stuff to it.
Yes! That one really haunts me! They're completely cut off from nature and live in shoeboxes, albeit with lots of hedonic (and Wii-inspired) tech.

And then (minor spoilers) when someone finally does make a bold stance against the lifestyle they've created, they convince him to just bottle up that passion and sell it chunks to other drones, so that he can afford a bigger shoebox and do less menial labor.

I couldn't make sense of the role of the bicycling though. Why would someone benefit from people turning the wheels? In what economic equilibrium is that the best use for humans? Any energy source is better applied directly to generation rather than running through a human first as (packaged) food.
So why is India the only country to have taken this step?
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Maybe you're thinking in terms of a text editor and not an IDE? With an IDE, you look for symbol references, not text with regexps. You could imagine that the IDE's search would be smart enough to know that if you look for foo_bar, it should also report occurrences of fooBar.

Either way, I still find the idea a bit weird. If the language wants to be opinionated about naming, maybe it could simply make _ illegal in an identifier or, to push it one level further, refuse to compile any identifier that is not camelCase.
I doubt they use global unique identifiers.
RFID takes longer to read longer numbers, especially if there are many targets in the same field.

So 32bit global ID for all chips would take a long time to read, possibly minutes if it's a table with 1000 chips on it.
A 4bit code that just ID'ed value and allowed you to spot if somebody had 'mistakenly' mixed up some low value chips in a stack would be much quicker.
To say a online dependent computer is more secure, this sound very interesting to me. Can you say Gawker or Gmai.
Wow, how is that possible? Would there have to be special arrangements with each store?
"One hypothesis (which I'm partial to) is that language is a substitute for the physical grooming that maintains social hierarchy in primate groups."

Lately, I've noticed the need to attribute a fixed purpose to any given evolutionary innovation. But if a given innovation happens to have rather general utility, such attribution seems unnecessary.

Why not say language evolved and it was useful for and replaced quite a few earlier, "clunkier" adaptations, from lice-picking-as-social-lubricant upward?
Really like the design but finding it hard to see what I get for $11 that I can't do with flickr or tumblr. Maybe go with a freemium approach?
> How about possessing kiddie porn, does it make you a child molester?

No, but depending on where you live, you may be a criminal.

I think driving kiddie porn consumers further underground will make it harder to find and prosecute the people actually molesting kids: the producers. While I have no sympathy with child-porn consumers and understand they enable the producers and molesters, I don't think they are the problem that demands most attention unless they molest children.
icuucme.com would be better, although still a bit of a stretch. Great domain if anyone is starting a hide'n'goseek website!
When you guys getting rid of the $25 requirement? I have lots of partially used Gift Cards that I'd love to get rid of.

Do competitors to cardpool offer that?
I'm feeling a bit depressed, and this essay plus Early Work [0] help me take solace in the fact that my obsession has not yet paid off.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/early.html
I haven't checked in a while, but I'm pretty sure the dialog has no idea that the IME is active or not. So the dialog can't handle that situation, and the browser isn't handling it either. The IME/browser should not send escape to the page when canceling an IME selection.
There's also Bitcoin Script, which is a forth-like language.
You’re setting up a straw man and then knocking it down, as such I feel no need to argue with this.
Nah. GUI, a nice GUI any day.
I recommend using iocage for handling jails.

Here's a start for VNET/VIMAGE and jails:

https://iocage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/networking.html

BTW: VNET worked pretty stable but is "officially" declared stable for FB13.
It often times is faster, or roughly the same speed. What's your point?

Say I want to edit .psqlrc

Doing it in GUI is like 10x slower. First dot files are usually hidden by GUI, so I have to search through menus on how to enable their display. Then I have to look for the damn file. Where it is among 200 similar dotfiles? 5s later I find it. Now right click, pick an corect editor from a submenu of a context menu. Edit. Save. Now go back to file browser and disable dotfiles display, otherwise all my regular files get drowned in noise, slowing the normal usage. It's retarded.

Alternative. Open terminal. Type vim .psqlrc. Edit save. Close terminal. 3s top for the non-editing parts of the workflow.
It sounds like they could make the transition to graphic design or similar industries. They would be jumping into dangerous waters but at least it wouldn't be from scratch
Yes, but Google is buying service from Firefox, Google is not donating to Firefox.
The old logo looks old and it reminds me of Windows XP software. You might think that's wrong and irrational but it doesn't matter. All the UI studies will show thats the most common feeling and feelings matter a lot for marketing
It was on topic, your mistake was to write a comment that comes off snarky and political of you fail to read it with positive intent.
Wow the website says they're still running a CD player. I'm not sure that's really realistic today for most people and most consumers wouldn't accept that for entertainment.
Calyx is also the name of a privacy-focused, "de-Googled" derivative of Android:

https://calyxos.org/
The culture surrounding weed was no the same back then. Now they almost want to sell it as a healthy snack.
FWIW it's usually not malicious. What usually happens is that the analytics script provides some API for the developers to add additional logging functionality[1]. The developer then sprinkles calls to those APIs throughout their code, assuming that those functions will be available. If the scripts are blocked then you get an error like "ga is not defined" and the rest of the code doesn't execute, causing the page to be broken.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
I believe it wasn't actually banned in Thailand.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/marketing/395952/bitcoin...
The one with valid Trademark - Foxconn in your example :)
I'm sure AirBnB has its faults, but Trustpilot/ResellerRatings are based on extorting businesses to moderate/respond to negative reviews.
So does ML (albeit postfix), which came before Haskell or C++, right?
I have seen several people on LinkedIn describe themselves as 'Visionary Entrepreneurs' - One of them had never even started a company company in his life - Just deciding that he was 'going to do it' was sufficient to convince himself that he was actually an entrepreneur (and a visionary one too!). A more accurate word to use there would be 'illusionary'.

I'm 25, I have been an employee at 4 different startups and 1 big company, I have 2 failed projects of my own under by belt (long term side projects - Working late nights and weekends and for a total of 6 years). I have one somewhat promising project in the pipeline, but I wouldn't call myself an entrepreneur - I think being an entrepreneur these days implies that you got VC funding.

My previous 2 projects failed in a large part due to strong competitors who were really well funded - On my own, I just didn't have the manpower to compete with that (not in those particular fields). Regular people who have a vision and really care about a product (and enjoy working on it) unfortunately cannot compete with well funded entrepreneurs. VC funding creates very loud noises in the market and your target users just cannot hear about your small project/company through all that noise.

I'm actually hoping that the economy will crash this year - That would clean out my current competitors - I'm sure most of them will give up as soon as VC money disappears.
> As an investor you have to ask yourself, Is this company doing too many things?

I'd be more inclined to ask: Are they winning at enough things? If no, then are they doing enough things?

One of my favorite quotes that I gathered last year is from Jeff: "Risk is a necessary component of progress"
Bold or irresponsible move? Not sure. Given the incredibly low profit margin of most non-iphone smartphones on the market today (I think the average samsung profit margin on a phone is $11) I can't help but wonder what the real source of revenue was planned to be.

Increased shopping through mobile? Make your android/ios products better?

It just never made any sense, but I guess many successful products don't make initial sense either.
Avoid being a victim of an e-mail phishing scam
http://news.cnet.com/8301-19518_3-10368801-238.html
A recent phishing scam resulting in usernames and passwords of Microsoft's Hotmail, Google's Gmail, and possibly accounts of AOL and Yahoo users being posted online is cause for concern for anyone who uses any of those services. Rather than panic, though, there are simple ways to avoid becoming a victim or being further victimized, if your account has already been compromised.
Coding the Digg v4 Layout with HTML5 and CSS3
http://speckyboy.com/2012/05/15/coding-the-digg-v4-layout-with-html5-and-css3/
The social news community Digg has been online since 2004 and rapidly grew in popularity leading up to the 2008 elections. Come 2011 the Digg team performed an overhaul on the system and completely revamped the site layout. This also broke the friends system, allowing big-name publishers to game the front page. This upset many powerhouse users who were furious with the major changes.
Facebook identifies those behind coordinated spam attack
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-identifies-those-behind-coordinated-spam-attack/5411
: Facebook says it knows who is behind the coordinated spam attack resulting in a huge flood of links, videos, and images depicting pornography, acts of violence, self-mutilation, and bestiality on the site.
Show HN: Chemical and electronic nose experiment device
https://volatile.ai/enose
An all-you-can-have sensor tower, which can work with different gas sensors in parallel, minimises electrical noise, controls humidity, monitors flow and can handle sample heaters - for accurate chemical fingerprinting experiments at home and in the lab.
Kanban in your office
http://prezi.com/lc3jr83wgg1x/kanban-in-your-office/
Are you considering implementing Kanban in your office? This presentation shows how to successfully implement Kanban in your business process or life in four easy steps.
WTF do I click on? (site usability testing)
http://hacksushi.com/2009/02/08/wtf-do-i-click-on-website-usability-testing/
Article on website usability testing.
Show HN: ETH Lookup: Find the Ethereum balance of an address at any given date
https://www.ethlookup.xyz/
I was having a hard time trying to find historical balances on the Ethereum blockchain so I created a simple web3 tool to be able to see the ETH balance of an address at any given time.
YC Startup School 2013 Summary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_ub4378OxofRP6rj6Y-2bSjp_9aASb1hzPgqYdCkbxo/edit?usp=sharing
Feel free to edit and improve it.
Bitcoin chat, where you can chat with a community as well as earn a few coins
http://chromaticcreative.net/bitcoin/moobot/flatapp.php#
A really great community to chat with a wide variety of channels, very IRC like and the added benefit of earning fractions of bitcoins. We're all friendly here so don't be afraid.