jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
And people are illegally fired for it every single day. Same for trying to start a union.
I do have a prejudice against people who tell me they learn something through a video. There are good video creators and good educational videos, but there’s just too much trash.

Besides that, I default to text content because of the monetary incentives on youtube, it’s absurd that a 10 min read, can be a more than half hour video that never gets to the point.
What watch? Apple? I like that idea
"Great","Wonderful" is all relative. You don't usually benchmark your parents/friends with others, and in the case of parents there's a significant bias, because you know, you share half of your genes with them and stuff like that.

And what I meant is, rather, few people can claim to have touch millions of people through their work, but someone who worked on GTA V can, even if it's just a tiny part of it.
But a five star rating system that aggregates the opinions of my friends and colleagues (i.e. people whose tastes tend to be positively correlated with my own) is much more useful to me than a system that aggregates ratings from some general, random or self-selecting population.

If I travel to a city where I don't know anyone, it's true that I initially won't have any ratings (from this particular service), but as I prefer not to dine alone, it's only a matter of time before I make some friends or meet some people and I have ratings again.

My experience of Yelp ratings and reviews is similar to kansface's experience - little correlation with my own tastes except at the far low end. I also don't know many friends or colleagues who rate or review places on Yelp, but I think many of us would start rating places if we knew it would be helpful to our friends, immediately accessible to them, and trivial to do.
Yeh that's a big claim. Love to know source
There's definitely a lot of interesting stuff happening in Montreal these days. Notably Founder Fuel which is bound to shake things up over the next few years.

Why are you surprised? There is a ton of creative work coming out of QC.
>and I can't tell if that's a particularly forced accent or a speech impediment.

It's not particularly unusual. There's no need to be so rude about non-American accents.
One single html please?
A lot of this has been done with openFrameworks (http://openframeworks.cc/). It ties together a plethora of open source frameworks including OpenCV with easy to use bindings to indirectly create a somewhat simplified version of C++. If you YouTube openFrameworks, you'll get a lot of demos demonstrating this technology using free libs.
That explains why I suddenly had to start paying NY taxes, even though I live in Illinois (we started filing differently).
Though, really, stash and rebase -i don't save lives (or even days, especially stash since git has the index). Reflog on the other hand, yes.
I think the general principal in play here is fairness. I think fairness is orthogonal to the government's use of proceeds.

If my best developer has to pay more taxes than me, simply by nature of not owning a portion of the company large enough to funnel her wages through, that situation seems prima facie unfair. The unfortunate fact is, that same unfairness is usually going to be compounded: my ownership of the company that developer works for probably means I'm not only paying relatively lower taxes, but also making more money. That's regressive. Regressive taxes are evil regardless of whether you think progressive taxes are good.

Finally, I actually don't think the use of proceeds issue makes this a harder call. Forget totalitarian states for a second, and just think about Social Security.

A rationale for not paying taxes is that they'll go to fund a sham Social Security system. But if Social Security is a sham, it's wrong that anybody should have to pay into it. Moreover, as long as most people are on the hook for it, shielding yourself (and the class of people like you) from its obligations is actually counterproductive. The more people (and the more influential the people) affected by FICA, the more pressure there will be to change that system to reflect the will of its stakeholders.
"We didn't have networks at all at the time of the MacIntosh's introduction." Seriously? Seems like that estimation might be about fifteen years off to me.

Edit to say: In fact, he's an intelligent and well-versed enough guy that I'm sort of puzzled by this remark. Does anyone know what Mr Underkoffler means when he says that networks weren't around then? I think he must have something different in mind than I do.
This is because on techcrunch raising money is considered more important than having a product/service that is actually making money.
>Literal chains are not the only ones that exist in our society. Unfortunately, you can't expect all the world's type A personalities to suddenly stop throwing themselves on the line like Moritz did.

Well, your twisted definition of the word aside, that's what freedom is. Nobody had a gun to Ehrhardt's head (unlike you, I wasn't on a first-name basis) - he was doing what he did for his own benefit. Would I have done it? No.

But he wasn't a child. He was an adult capable of making his own decisions. There's no need for legislation, particularly in light of the fact this is news because it's highly unusual.

>To you, it is "freedom" to allow the corporation to oppress the worker.

If by "oppress" you mean "allow the employee to decide for himself what he's willing to do", then yes. That's freedom.

>Your assertion that if someone doesn't like it they could just get up and leave is naive, since the problem will always be perpetuated by thousands of other oppressed workers in line to take his place.

With his skills he would have had no trouble finding a job that didn't require more than 40-50 hours a week. We're not talking about unskilled labor here.
I kind of doubted that the guy who sicced the army on the Whiskey Rebellion would find the government dangerous and fearful.
There's no need to hate being the guy who introduced me to the proper terminology. I like knowing the proper terminology.
No, the author's argument is that this kind of negotiation is what ought to happen all the time; his example of brokenness is that insurance rules distort the marketplace and drive up prices. Far from objecting to haggling, he thinks it should happen more often. This is a fairly typical free-market argument. The parent post by munificent advances the counter-argument that patients are not always in a position to haggle over prices.
Unfortunately, Git isn't a good way to collaborate on massive csv files for two reasons a) git stores changes at the file level, rather than row level, b) for massive datasets, you quickly run into file size limits. That's why I am looking forward to dat[1], a collaborative DVCS that's going to blow Git off the water for this kind of tasks, even if it achieves only half of its objectives.

[1] https://github.com/maxogden/dat
That discussion doesn't seem very good to me, though there are some nice examples of Arc's notation at the bottom.

Our own kogir actually worked for a while on implementing Arc as a Racket language. It would have some advantages, especially around tooling. However, like all such platforms, Racket has a sweet spot (what's easy to build on top of it), and the further your semantics are from there, the harder it quickly gets. Redefining how null, true/false, lists, and macros work—as Arc does, relative to Racket—is not how a language platform is meant to be used! You end up fighting with it in a way that loses most of the advantages, and the difficulty seems to grow asymptotically as you approach 100%.

What you want instead is to stay in the sweet spot and let the underlying platform nudge the new language in all the directions that are easy to implement. The same is true of building transpilers—it's an order of magnitude easier when you can piggyback on the semantics of the underlying language. But this is not an option if your source language has already been defined elsewhere.
Don't be sad, you will use Angular 2.x when will come out.
It's a profound and singular book that made a huge impression on my young mind as I'd never encountered anything like it - in fact, I had no idea something like it existed. It might not make such an impact on the modern reader, I don't really know.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm

"Victoria Nuland Admits: US Has Invested $5 Billion In The Development of Ukrainian, 'Democratic Institutions'".
Most explanations you hear about phenomena experienced in your life are packed in a kind of "made for popular consumption" language. People say things and pretend that the explanations are sufficient as understanding.

GEB is a book that _tries_ to explain things that we don't have words for. There is no facade of popular packaging. You won't understand it unless you're willing to think about things with an open mind -- things that you would be unable to explain to someone else concisely.

(By 'open mind' I mean _actual_ open mindedness, not the meaning it is normally employed to assert -- that is: "willingness to be manipulated.")
Sure, there are some bad enterprise software companies. What does this have to do with the original point though?
Does this mean we need to worry about service degrading as the company gets financialized?
Paul Graham wrote about this: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html
I had no idea they offered managed K8s. How does it compare to their competitors (if you’re knowledgeable about them as well?)
Well the value of any asset depends on the value that people assign to it -- it's all subjective if you really get in it.

However, I wouldn't accept bitcoin as a method of payment because I'm not confident that people will agree to a completely different value in a very short time frame. Meaning will it be 50k next week? 5k? Who knows!
He might have been referring to the fees of coinbase pro, which also are pretty high fees (but orders of magnitude smaller than the coinbase retail app). Pretty high for crypto, insane for people coming from fx or other traditional markets.
how do i know if im using the right Elixir version for otp?
Most people want their kids/elders to have better lives than the state could provide, but the option is always there. Nursing homes and foster care are both key parts of the social safety net, and they get activated every day. Giving up your kids is pretty unambiguously seen as a serious personal failure, but having your parents in a nursing home paid by Medicare isn't even that unusual.
I don't think you should be posing a challange to folks to prove well-known facts that are a single single google search away.
How would the EU enforce such a ban? They actually need to prove company X was tracking its users if it goes to court.
I mean, they rightly wouldn't accept the argument, because it's a poor argument given the protections that Europe has decided should exist for the privacy of individuals.

I happen to agree with the European values more than I agree with your values.

My data privacy should be a more important and more fundamental right than your ad revenue.
>>But you can’t use two completely different DNS providers for your status page and your primary page unless you are using a distinct domain.

You can.
The law is written such that the companies it applies to are those the Minister deems that it should. The Minister is also allowed to change the definition required for a company to fit eligibility without altering the law.

So, yes, if the Minister suddenly decides to add others to the list, that is exactly what will happen. But there's no need to pass it by Parliament first.

And that is as bad as you think it is.
Here is a drug free way to fight 99% of the obesity out there. If you drink soda, stop. If you eat fast food, stop. If you're eating processed food, stop. If you snack, stop. These alone will have an incredible affect on your weight and health. If this all seems to difficult, start off with just one, like cutting out sugary drinks (pop, juice) and don't substitute with artificial sweeteners. You are being attacked by big food. They are killing you. You will notice results in weight loss and health by making small changes to your eating habits.
Why should we allow stuff just because “stuff breaks”? It’s totally fine to have “stuff break” if they don’t benefit the objective laid out. We “break” a lot of stuff in our society with our laws.
Average QWERTY typing speed is roughly 50WPM. How much faster is Dvorak? 10%? 50%? 100%?

Let's say that it takes a couple of years of retraining from QWERTY to Dvorak until a typical user can reach a 10% improvement. How much typing will they have to do in order to regain that lost time?

Typing, nowadays, isn't the bottleneck. If we still had pools of typists clattering away to reproduce our words then - yes - a more efficient typing standard could be good. But what we have is good enough and the gains just aren't sufficient.

Having two concurrent standards is a nightmare from a usability point of view. I'm sure you've had the experience of using, say, a train ticket booking system which insists that you use a A-Z keyboard. You are slow and frustrated.

I live in a country which hasn't fully embraced the metric system - so people flit around between metric and imperial to all sorts of confusion.

Should we all learn Esperanto? Should we all switch to 220V electricity? Should we all use decimal time? All of those standards are better - but they're not good enough to warrant the upheaval of switching.
Indeed. You can set a search result not to display the snippet, and google will respect that choice. News articles are choosing to display the snippets.
Really? Since when do we live in the era where "being noticed" is a right?

What is next? Affirmative action for TV time during the Superbowl or the World Cup?
> "Using both hands is a minor convenience at best."

For some lifestyles sure, for others it's a dealbreaker - I'm not using this phone in the back seat of a car, or with my groceries in the trunk - I'm using this while holding onto a subway pole, or carrying my groceries in my other hand.

One-handed operation is absolutely a requirement for a mobile device in urban settings.
Any truly sustainable solution must address all these issues.

You've hit on the fundamental challenge of complex systems — it's the interactions between components that determines the behavior, not the components themselves. I would strongly recommend the video I linked elsewhere in this thread, if only as a "crash course" in systems thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMmChiLZZHg#t=27m53s
I mailed you back, make sure to check your spam folder, it wouldn't be the first time my email ends up in there.
In the US there are generally only two levels: the subsidized price and the full price. If you get a phone with a very cheap contract, you will have to pay full price, just as if you got no contract at all. Such people might therefore prefer a prepaid plan. If you get a phone with a "normal" (in UK terms, "expensive") plan, you get the subsidized price for the phone. There's usually no gradation beyond that...although people who spend huge amounts of money on their monthly bills due to long distance calling, roaming, etc., will receive extra promotions (we're talking $1000/month customers).
It is obvious that this link is just to bring more traffic to tuaw.com. This is becoming ridiculous on HN.
I'm not sure what to put -- I use Google Apps's "catch-all" feature for my domain, so I have it as paypal@example.com (I also do this for most sites requiring registration, e.g., HN is hn@example.com). While it does end up at the same inbox in the same domain, it's not quite my primary email.
I'd recommend dropping "copywriter" from the description, as there is (in my experience) no interest in paying copywriters in startups (perhaps some minor interest if you can couch it in being killer at SEO, but even then, not usually).

Startup marketing is typically an "army of one" job, particularly early stage.... so, yes, graphic design chops and a working knowledge of HTML will allow you to create marketing materials (email newsletters, landing pages, Facebook tabs, blogs, etc.) without requiring you to take design resources from the product side. This will speed things up and increase your value immensely.

Overall, I'd work on branding myself as a marketing hacker - someone who can handle marketing top to bottom, grow the business, and become the leader of a larger team should things take off.

Hope that's helpful.
> starts at 7:30am because that's their first scrum

We have scrum inside mandatory hours. There's a fairly strict company policy that you cannot schedule _recurring_ meetings outside mandatory hours, and if you do, you cannot expect people to attend, so scrum here is 9am. Even scheduling non recurring meetings outside mandatory hours is frowned upon.

As for the schedule itself, it fits nicely with (european) family life. My kids start school at 8am, so i usually drop them off at school on my way to work, and get in around 8:30am (before COVID anyway). I get off work at 4pm, and have the entire evening with my family.

I'm aware that at least some parts of the US has (or had ?) a much more fluid line between work and free time, where people will leave work to have lunch with their family, return to work, leave to watch a soccer game (or whatever), and return to work, and leave work around 7pm.

To me that sounds much more hellish than just working 8am to 4pm :)
Exactly. Its way too premature to be taken as advice.

I've been limiting and attempting to limit my internet time for years with various techniques, tools and even building several myself. Its still an annoying struggle.

The internet has put a giant entertainment box inside every cubicle in the world and people make a lot of money to keep you distracted and entertained :).
one of my pet projects is a chrome extension that tracks where I spend time in the browser. I was always worried that I may be spending too much time on HN, reddit etc.

Now I have hard data, it's bad (about 10% on this news sites, still not tracking dependent time on linked sites) but not as bad as I thought :)
This would have a lot of unintended consequences.
According to your definition, my "primary email address" varies from day to day. I would say that I have three primary addresses -- one for personal email, one for FreeBSD or other open source related email, and one for anything Tarsnap related. Which I'm using the most on any particular day depends on what I'm doing that day.

(And that's not counting the gmail address I use for anything Google-related; my university address, which I use mostly for university governance matters; my Tarsnap AWS account email address; the FreeBSD Security Officer address I use when I want to make sure people pay attention to the email I'm sending; etc.)

But if it helps: Most of those addresses are linked to my PayPal account.
It's called a failed to deliver. It happens all the time. It's bullshit, but there are millions of FTDs on GME.
Is this yours Paolo?
Reality is too negative for social media.
> Joyent famously took down their whole region by rebooting wrong nodes.

In case anyone's interested, here's a pretty funny and educational talk by Bryan Cantrill about that particular incident:

GOTO 2017 • Debugging Under Fire: Keep your Head when Systems have Lost their Mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE
Fundementally, the problems that lead to all these solutions is that there isn't any way to abstract (at a low level) the differences between horizontal and vertical scaling of computing power. You will always have to care about the difference between scaling a node and scaling nodes when developing any sort of web based software stack. It doesn't matter if you're running VMs or containers, or are on the cloud or serverless. The fact that you can't abstract away the differences of horizontal vs vertical scaling will always dictate how you design the architecture of your service, all the way down to the coding patterns you'll follow.
Thats really the problem. K8 and containers are solving a symptom of this problem, and not the problem itself.
Sure thing, will provide as much info as possible.
Thoughts on security or storing sensitive stuffs (finance, tax forms, etc.).

Though I suppose my question goes for all of the cloud services (Google Drive, Drop Box), which, in my uneducated opinion is "be careful / encrypt it."
I bought a house about 1 mile from downtown Salt Lake City in 2008 and it took until last year to get a decent internet connection (from Comcast). First world problems!
I think the Chinese government used to do this with The Economist's forums. I think they've stopped, for some reason. I don't really read the comments there much, though; it's all garbage.
Disney is not going to sue Google over this...
And that's probably wise -- it's not like the markup on S3 is so huge that it's an obvious big win to move off it once you consider the size of the up-front investment to build up a similarly featured, distributed and redundant cloud storage system of their own. Diversification is a good idea for them, I just think it's a very low probability of success.
Hasn't this been posted to HN several times in the last few days?
I suspect that depends on your definition of significant. I suspect any legible code can always get a few percent speedup by doing things that would make it unreadable and unmaintainable.
I'm living in a developing country and I'm glad online grocery delivery exists.

The nearest supermarket is 30min walk away, taking a cab would cost money and time too (I don't have a car) and the nearer wet market (about 15min walk away) is just a huge mess with everybody looking unhappy, prices needing haggling and quality being much lower.

My quality of living has gone up a lot since then and I'm saving a lot of time as well.
Well what he actually said was that if the US government has a warrant, they shouldn't be stopped by encryption.

And if the company is a US company, who would disagree with that?
This reminds me of how spoilt I am, with features such as edit-and-continue in Visual Studio. Doing some work recently with a more modern project that uses lambdas, edit and continue is not supported for code in lambdas. I miss the more interactive mode of writing code while executing it in the debugger. A more modern version of a REPL if you will.
I am biding my time and waiting for the 2038 bug to come along. The cool kids of that age will probably never have seen a compiler (any compiler) before, and I am going to line my pockets like it's 1999. ;)
But the USA has no enemies, there are no threats.

I am interested in how you came to this conclusion.
I agree, C++11/14 is a game changer in regards to safety and ease of use. With C++14, new and delete actually are a code smell.

The biggest ease of use issue with C++ is now getting good modern libraries for doing common stuff.
Very nice effort! 4.5 hours is still a bit long for a single film. Ever since The Hobbit movies were announced I thought the story could fit into a couple 2-hour movies much better than the three existing 3-hour movies. The Hobbit felt like a five-page school paper where you could only come up with two pages of actual content and you're scrambling to fluff it out, like adding useless anecdotes and increasing the font size of all punctuation.

“I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.” Indeed you were, Mr. Bilbo, indeed you were.
I think the parent comment is referring to the idea that the web server, by necessity, is aware of a client connection. Webserver logs reveal a lot of information.
We're serious about intern mentorship: http://bjk5.com/post/23266999170/how-intern-mentorship-works...

If you're an iOS dev who wants to be mentored for a few months by a former UIKit author, hit me up. :) andy@khanacademy.org