jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I think it's appropriate in terms of describing an attitude, but it is not so great at describing skills. "Ninja", "rockstar", "guru" and such tell me that they want somebody to show up who doesn't feel stress and is able to make the tough decisions needed to be made to make the thing happen. It also means you're willing to put up with a bit of cowboy mentality in return for exceptional performance.

Doesn't mean that the programmer is worth a damn. That's a different question. Confusion results when you confuse what's being said.

It also doesn't mean that a rockstar programmer is what you really need. But that's also a different question.
The reference to 'Fitt's Law' made me curious. From the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitt%27s_law article:

"Fitts's law is a model of human movement in human-computer interaction and ergonomics which predicts that the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the distance to and the size of the target."

The extra effort you had to make to click the 'Start' button on the taskbar in early versions of Windows 95 (because the button didn't stretch all the way into the corner) is a nice illustration about the importance of this law. This has been fixed:

"Edges and corners of the computer display (e.g., Start button in Microsoft Windows and the menus and Dock of Mac OS X) are particularly easy to acquire because the pointer remains at the screen edge regardless of how much further the mouse is moved, thus can be considered as having infinite width."
SciFi might not be dying, but reading that prose nearly killed me. Anyway...

Does the genre continue to have new and useful things to say?
I still remember when I first came across the idea of recreational engineered viruses as a substitute for drugs (I think it was in a Richard Morgan book?). I think SciFi is becoming more original, not less.
please, someone: a wordpress plugin!
> It should be relatively obvious at this point that the outright merits of a language have little or nothing to do with its popularity, at least when compared to things like the corporate backing and will behind a language (see: Objective-C / Swift), and other factors such as positioning and luck (e.g. Javascript). So, you cannot start from "this language is _clearly_ better, so it will certainly become more popular".

Well... it's complicated. I would say that for a new language to succeed now, it has to be clearly better at something - some niche, or some programming paradigm, or some such. It also has to meet the minimum bar of having libraries that cover much of the normal stuff that we expect libraries to cover. (That's where corporate backing comes in - it pays for building all the libraries that people have come to expect.)

But if the language isn't clearly better at something, then it's clearly worse, because I can hire people for a mainstream language, or I can have trouble hiring people for the offbeat language. If the offbeat language isn't enough better to make that a worthwhile trade-off, then why not use the mainstream one?
Very understandable, thank you.
> "... he took out a $20,000 personal loan and used it to purchase shares."

> "... a personal loan with an 11.19% interest rate ..."
Calling this cancel culture is imo off base. A lot of people view this as an extremist cult bordering on brainwashing and terrorist training.

I fear that there is definitely something brewing in our online habits these days, and it may be significantly damaging to society.

The problem however, is that removing these groups will not inherently solve them. I would support removing of these extremists if i thought it would do good. It however, won't. It will further build the fire of self-victim identification and extremist views which fuel them.

We need another approach at solving this problem. Of which i think is two fold:

1. Groups (both the left and right) struggle to stand up against the undesirable extremists within.

2. Our ingestion of information is not filtered enough by our own brains. We consume freely, and largely due to extremists and bubbles we end up consuming garbage.

All of this said, i feel like attempts at dealing with Parler is vastly different than the "cancel culture" which attempted to rename the https://rubocop.org/ tool. One is a misguided answer to extremists - the other is an attempt at protecting hurt feelings over bad words. Very different.
This reminded me of Richard Feynman and his first wife driving military censors bonkers by sending each other puzzles.
If all you mean by "async" is callbacks, then VBScript already has those.

In VBScript that runs under Windows Script Host, callbacks are implemented using the WScript.ConnectObject method.

(I'm not sure about VBScript running under IE or classic ASP, if they could use the same method or had to use a different one. But anyway, if VBScript can do it in one context but not another, that would be a deficiency they could have easily fixed if there were a demand.)
Anyone know if the similar mRNA process can be used to create vaccine for normal FLU virus.
I have a question, and I am not trying to be cynical.

What differentiate a profitable church from a company, other than a different legal structure?
He also talks about the success of a plugin system, like iApps, in shrinking the skill pyramid.
>> You don't need a business plan , but you need to know how you will make money.

Agreed.

>> >You NEED a market analysis : you don't even need to spend money for this. Just do yourself a favor, make some research and set a clear target audience.

I have done some research but I don't have concrete numbers. See my other post about general lack of exposure and trust in buying/selling online in Asian subcontinent.

> >you NEED a real IDEA , not an idea that will change every week, you can change how you plan to make money, but your idea can't keep changing every week, to see what will click, nothing will click in some weeks, you may need a lot of luck for that.

I should have worded myself better. My base idea is the same. The differentiators might change(I think will change) with time. How I plan to make money is more or less going to be simply charging users to create online stores for me. At least, that's how I see it as of now.

> Ask yourself, why will peoples want to use your product and not shopify, or whatever other service?

I have some differentiators planned. And I am willing to compete on price for the same level of service. Creating the same level of service is easier said than done, but that's what I am attempting.

> you should defend your idea, you should tell uss why it's more than an idea, ever heard the saying: ideas are worth nothing!?

Circular reasoning? Ideas are worth nothing and I should defend my idea?

I belong to the "ideas mean nothing" camp. And yes, right now it's just an idea. It would evolve to more than an idea when I have built it.

> keep in mind many peoples on HN have been there, and they give advices to help you, at least most of us.

> Your SEO approach gives me some very big concern, so I suggest you head over to gabriel weinberg blog: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/ and watch some of the interviews,

I lost you here. The only thing I mentioned about SEO was it's easier to optimize it when there aren't many hits already coming for it. Take for example Google's Go or the io language. It's extremely hard to optimize searches for queries related to them.

EDIT: I think I misunderstood you here. Your point probably was to optimize it for related terms. Like if someone searches for "online store", shopyist.com should feature among the top results. I have some plans for it. I am quite comfortable working on it myself. I would rope in SEO guy if my approach proves to be futile.

I have read gabriel's blog. I am checking patio11 entries. Thanks for pointing.

I realize that. Why else would I post on HN? I am prepared for the negative criticism coming my way. I would pay attention to some and ignore the rest. If all I wanted was to do what someone else told me, I would have kept my job:-)
I quit my job 3 weeks ago to work on a Gmail migration app. It's in beta:

https://apps.improffice.com/migrationbeta/

Get in touch @123Edu, eduardo at improffice dot com
Maybe that the announcement is online only so far and you're invited to check back here (the website) tomorrow is a clue that it's something online.
It's neither. In the Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey and the Chesapeake Bay) that would be a ducking skiff - a narrow, flat bottomed boat with lots of rocker. It is paddled, rather than rowed, because of its narrowness, but it's still a skiff. They've been around a long time, my father taught me to build one back in the 1970s - like this one out of plywood, but he said they used to be made out of 1/2 inch white pine.
Would be great to have more hard data on this "bubble". Most deal terms are only available second or third hand and require some effort at parsing.

The investments people usually associated with bubbles (stocks, real estate, gold, bonds) are all published widely. Helps fuel mania. I know sophisticated investors who have no idea how angel investing works and have never heard of Y-Combinator. Doesn't sound like bubble conditions to me.
This is quite a simple and compelling idea. I see friends asking for product reviews and recommendations in their status messages all the time.
I find vacations without access to internet boring if vacation take more then one week. No matter if I am freelancing or working full-time, 'cos even if I am working full-time I also do own stuff...
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/11/silverlight-ht...

Mentioned in:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1867130

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-our-strategy-w...

And read the comments in:

http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/the-future-of-silve...
$runpath might be safe now, but it doesn't have to be forever. It could come from a config file one day.

I'm not sure why using a lexical variable to store a filehandle you only need lexically is more fancy than storing it in a globally accessable package typeglob for anyone to use and modify. But it does give you the advantage that your garbage collector will close your file handles instead of you having to do it manually. If I see close($fh) in my own code, I know I had a reason other than "I didn't need it anymore."
I sometimes feel that I wasted all my years because I was developing quite diverse applications, so I am not an expert of anything. For example I am writing a Java to Scala translator now. I hate that I was dealing with completely other topics when I could have done Phd in programming languages and could have worked on compilers all the time. There is a company founded in 1995 working on source code analysis, translation, etc... I felt the same way when I developed a 3D game, when I developed Java web apps at my workplace, etc... I feel that I am not an expert of anything. That if I gave a lot of time to one topic (years) then I would be much much better than I am now. I feel like a fraud because I have to pretend that I am a specialized expert of one topic, but in reality I am a jack-of-all-trades programmer.
> In a country like UK, Portugal or Germany they had copied lots of things that worked in Taiwan, South Korea, Singapur or Japan.

Can you explain further? The responses in these countries have been quite different from each other.
Maybe various world governments could bandwidth to accomplish these types of missions.
Starlink has launched 360 satellites, and they originally wanted to start limited service after launching 420 sats, so we're possibly only months away from them starting service if things go well.
I love reading about avionics. New and old.
https://archive.is/OHRXU
Yes, but I will still pay for it. It is better than any of the Electron alternatives and the license can be also transferred to Windows PCs.

The best part of it is that its a one-time purchase, rather than a subscription compared to GitFox, Tower and GitKraken. So I'd say it is worth it for the price and quality.
Thank you. Just installed it. I had the same problem with the Notes app. I ended up creating a separate folder for our son, but this is much simpler.
Dart VM is not going anywhere.
Dart is the innovation.

Of all the developers I know that I went to university with a few years ago all with just a few exceptions have moved on from vanilla-js to compile-to-JS languages by now (Dart, Clojure, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, …) and the others are on the fence.

What we need is for JavaScript to become a better compilation target and for even more language innovation. Dart is the most ambitious compile-to-JS option. Take a look at Dart's stdlib, packages and support in IntelliJ.

The better dart2js gets (it is really good by now but I can't wait to see how more focus on it will take it further) the more scenarios where Dart can be used in. Just think about all the places that come with a JavaScript runtime nowadays.

Just think of how the JVM allows people to write Lisp/Clojure in enterprise settings. Having a better and better dart2js story allows people to use the tools they prefer without hitting a bureaucratic wall ("compiles to js? fine.").
That took some restrain. Thanks for being nice. I got your point originally but some people think everything needs to be an argument or worse a fight.
Who picks the research 'prizes'? Nominating prizes could be politicized, leading to government picking which research to fund.
There is at least one other YC co-founder who isn't listed here who made the 30 Under 30 for an unrelated endeavor.
I'm pretty sure you've missed a close-paren there ;).

I don't want to be picky, it's just that the multiple-nesting structure of your comment makes it insanely hard to parse correctly. Would you please mind reformatting it?

From my current attempt at parsing it, what I understood is basically "I respect NYPD and have mostly pleasant experience with them, and yet still I'm very conscious of what I tweet if the message has their hashtag/name in it". Is that correct?
Congrats to all 600+ winners, it's nice to be recognized.

I like that the 30 under 30 list is now category-based, and not just 30 mostly Internet entrepreneurs (many benefiting from great PR people or influence with the judges).

With the addition of categories, now fashion, arts, healthcare, food, science, energy, and more can be better represented and surfaced to a broader audience.

You can see all the categories here: http://www.forbes.com/30under30/#/
I wish they could just let paying customers watch whatever they want.
It's the worst software I use on a day to day basis and it's not close. Granted that's on Linux which likely isn't Microsoft's main focus but still nothing else does this much this badly.
There was also the B-59 incident during the Cuban Missile Crisis[1], when a Soviet sub -- its officers exhausted, out of contact with Moscow, and uncertain if war had broken out -- almost launched a nuclear torpedo against US forces.

XO Vasily Arkhipov, who had also been XO on the infamous K-19, was the only officer to oppose launching the sub's nuclear payload, and since launch required positive agreement from the Captain, XO and political officer, Arkhipov literally stopped World War Three by himself.

[1](http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB75/)
> Only true in a pedantic and useless sense.

No. It's true in the sense that you cannot impugn a particular part of the spectrum for the actions of individuals because there is no way to reliably quantify dishonesty much less attribute its distribution across a poorly defined political continuum.

> Without further explanation this is just a frame which doesn’t add meaning on its own.

In other words, dishonesty is everywhere and it's trivial to collate a mountain of cherry-picked evidence from a particular part of the continuum to support the conclusion that a certain part of the continuum is dishonest.

> Overall it’s not clear what you have added here.

Your pretentious snark is bad form and unnecessary.
I wrote my Representative and Senators an hour ago to urge them to impeach/convict respectively.

The bar for when incitement to violence loses its constitutionally-protected status is "incitement to imminent lawless act" (from Brandenburg v Ohio). Trump's speech earlier today probably qualifies as passing that bar. That is clearly an impeachable offense.

Ilhan Omar is apparently already writing up Articles of Impeachment: https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1346934098384793606
Nice how are you building that?
The two fringe groups were not Nazis and anti-nazis. They were Nazis and communists. The communists had their own agenda, they were not simply anti-nazi.
Why must there be extraction at all? Even trade seems like it would be better for the majority of parties involved, including having the effect of not having a bunch of pissed off people down the line.
Feeling sad can motivate you to try things to make yourself happy.

Feeling happy can motivate you to try things that make you happy.
3% for very low volume maybe. Get a little bit of volume and you'll get less than 0.7%.
Or perhaps that's why you can agree with most groups about something.

Common ground is key to understanding.
The trouble with Mozilla's docs is that they are really bad about distinguishing between cross-browser compatible JavaScript and Mozilla's own implementation. For example, the reference you linked there includes the let-statement. The only disclaimer in Mozilla's docs is that it's part of "JavaScript 1.7," which would lead you to believe it's part of a recent language standard that modern browsers are likely to support. In fact, "JavaScript 1.X" where X > 5 is code for "Firefox-only."
What have you purchased for Christmas and were you conscious about how much you were spending?
As best as I remember high school, my junior and senior history classes were a repeat of the freshman and sophomore history classes. Basic American history and world history.
Hmm, a startup where the founder doesn't seem to be of a technical nature and is in charge of a remote, low-cost outsource team from South America.

If my experience with handling low-cost outsource teams from S.E. Asia and India are anything to go by, I would question the quality of the product developed. Especially if the founder isn't of a technical nature.

I'm not saying that all developers in India or S.E. Asia or South America are crap, it's just I have rarely been allowed to actually see a candidates resume or do an interview with them before having to work with them and I have extremely high standards when it comes to staff (like understanding source control, MVC, automated testing and understanding design patterns and how they can be used to solve problems effectively).
Many people fail to see the formation of the launching pad and glorify the launch
Or instead of blowing all your money and creative energy on business cards, you could just build a great product or service.
Solid at our temperature but at higher temperatures it can be liquid and gas.
The fact you're surprised makes me feel really, really old. I remember watching the initial conflict with popcorn in hand. I was more interested in OpenSolaris in those days, but it was still entertaining to see the pissing matches Linus caused as part of finding the new way.
Oh, good catch. It's a very vague allusion to git, though. The one I linked was the first one where I could find the string "git" in it.

> The whole story of how git was cockled together to ameliorate the awkwardness of dealing with BitKeeper licensing (right?) issues, and marched from there to greatness is a pretty inspiring one, to my mind.

Let's not over-romanticise the subject. Github obviously had a lot to do with it, along with luck and admiration for Linus. Also, git is hardly alone: Mercurial was almost the same idea in the beginning. Let us not forget how early git only had branching by cloning, like the Bitkeeper that both git and hg were emulating.

Also, it wasn't just that bitkeeper had an awkward license. It's that Tridgell reverse-engineered the Bitkeeper protocol, and thus Larry McVoy took away Linux's permissions to use Bitkeeper.
While catchy, “Hacker School” has always been an actively bad name for us. Both words are problematic and misleading. “Hacker” is bad because so much of the world thinks of hackers as computer criminals and not clever programmers, which is the meaning we intended. And even for many people familiar with our use of the word, “hacker” can feel exclusionary. (“Hacker” was also not exactly helpful to the roughly 30% of each batch who cross the U.S. border to get here.)

I present this as Exhibit A in the reason why words are important. Think about this the next time you give someone ad-populum crap for correcting someone that misuses "hacker".
Exaggeration. Cable did it everywhere in America over a period of a couple of years.
> Since every ISP has to give you everything equally, the only way they can compete is by building better infrastructure and compete on ping time and bandwidth.

And customer service.
Thanks, this are all really helpful pointers! It's particularly useful to find Lattice, which seems to be a simpler entry point than a full CF setup.
> And, while it is also worth considering whether the impending merger between Comcast and Time Warner cable might exacerbate the current situation, I predict that this is unlikely. In general, as one access ISP gains more market share, a content provider such as Netflix depends on connectivity to that ISP even more, potentially extracting increasingly higher prices for interconnection. In the specific case of Comcast and Time Warner, it is difficult to predict exactly how much additional leverage this will create, but as it turns out, these two ISPs are already in markets where they are not competing with one another, so this specific merger is unlikely to dramatically change the current situation.

I'm having trouble with this logic. Increased leverage over content providers seems like it would exactly exacerbate this situation.
Or you move to a more reasonable place where that money sets you for a long time.
It surely is "mobile last". My phone froze and restarted on its own while checking out this page.
Use syncthing - open source, free, low resource usage, etc.
Something like MISRA C ?
Maybe try consultancy at a large or medium firm? Gives you the opportunity to work on different projects to find out what you want, while also paying decently and giving you a stable basis.
I did not say it was not open source. I said it's just a code dump, and so far you have not really proved me wrong.

There is not even a proper repository with version history, as far as I can tell. Just this stuff:
https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu/commits/master

That's literally a code dump.
That's a great return on your portfolio. Can you tell us more about how do you invest? Have you hired some fund managers or invest by yourself? What are your suggestions for investing aggressively as the '20s something FANG employee starting at L3?
>FTP? People still use FTP???

Of course.. people never stopped. Anyone using Wordpress, for instance, will almost certainly require developers to use FTP. For most shared hosts, FTP is the default (if not only) available method for getting files on and off of the server (and yes, people still use shared hosting as well.) I would even venture to guess that "Save in Notepad, FTP to live server and F5 to see if it worked" is still the most common web development workflow in existence.