jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is so relevant to me in my business where we have been shifting into business development mode.

I've had a bunch of meetings that have come about from cold calling potential clients. Almost every one has not ended in new work. All of our new work comes from referrals where clients have heard about us through their friends or seeing something we've built in the marketplace and wanting to find out how we can help them.

Our focus now has shifted from getting meetings to producing great work for our existing clients, work that they can be show their friends and which gets recognition. Sounds like a slight shift in thinking but it's already having great results in the quality of our output.
That will be SS Lieutenant Colonel, Technical Director of the Slave Labour Camp at Peenemunde, Werner von Braun that you're talking about?
Ultimately open source software is approved by many eyes, for which Github seems like a natural place. Many excellent packages are already only available via devtools::install_github(). CRAN is nice and easy (especially for people starting with R or with programming) but is not a necessity.
In the case of mRNA vaccines, according to what I've read the limiting factor is that they depend on specialized precursors that very few companies can make.

Before the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine all mRNA vaccines that had been developed for humans didn't make it past testing. There was no need to have the ability to make them beyond what was needed for research and testing.

And if one of the prior human mRNA vaccines had looked good in the middle of the phase III trial, the low manufacturing capacity would not have mattered. A normal phase III trial takes years, and the diseases the vaccines were for were not pandemics. So even if it takes a couple years to get up to the needed capacity, that would be fast enough.

With COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, we've got (1) an emergency use authorization rather than a normal approval, so a much shorter time between finding out that the thing works and the start of consumer distribution, and (2) it's a pandemic so the number of doses needed is very very high. That's the worst possible combination.
The vision should be to replace K-12 schools, which have no accountability for unionized teachers and poor results compared to schools worldwide. We need school choice and decentralization, not propping up failing institutions.
I mitigate it by simply not covering my nose. Before I started doing that, condensation on my glasses was so bad on certain days, that I had to have my partner lead me by the hand across pedestrian crossings, because I could see neither the lights nor cars.

Mask laws were instituted to get people to cover both nose and mouth, but it is interesting to see different levels of observance across Europe. In small-town Poland, for example, I see a lot of people not covering their nose, while in Romania I saw that people were very diligent about covering their whole face, and I have laughed to watch Albanian news and see that a lot of people in the street just have the mask over their chin with neither mouth nor nose covered.
Basically “be careful what you wish for”. Really? I can stop capitalist globalization by merely asking inconvienent questions? Will Nike forego their profit margins by moving production close to wherever their HQ is? Somehow I doubt I have that power.
Nothing will change as long as we have public employee unions. Nothing. They had such control over politicians at all levels people should honestly be frightened. Through that control they protect abuse by their members either individually or as a whole

unlike private sector unions there is no accountability, the contracts are actually written to forbid any real means to hold members or the union as a whole accountable for actions.

So unless they are reigned in nothing is ever going to change. More likely you will be told and you will buy into the idea that more money and more staffing is needed.

and nothing will change except the public will be on the hook for even larger and more outlandish suits and worse pensions
I edited a video where it sounds like I'm singing "Queen of the night".
I don't think this is a good case against Fitts' Law. Remember that Fitts' Law factors in both the distance to a target and the target's size. The placement of menu bars was originally done on screens so small that the distance factor was insignificant compared to the "infinite size" of the screen edge. The problem now isn't Fitts' Law, it is that the distance factor is a greater proportion of the difficulty in hitting a target and the "solution" for menus has not changed accordingly.

Personally, I think the distance problem is solved by adjusting the pointing device's tracking speed and acceleration. I've never had any trouble "throwing" my pointer to the edge of a screen on a large monitor. Most mice are perfectly capable of doing rapid acceleration while still allowing precise stops.
+1. I would call it copy, not code.
First, do not be afraid..

Second, I did see some demand for PHP in the UK remote/telecommute but it is not CodeIgniter..how fast can you pick up a different framework?

The lists I have seen it on is Symfony..also check the 37signals job board...

Best job source for phonegap is the phonegap lists, ask people on that list someone will pipe if they have heard of a gig..us phonegap contributors are very friendly :)

Not much remote/telecommute here in the Midwest of US which is why I am interviewing with some startups in Chicago this next week.

Next time, do not be afraid to use your real name and account..I mean how will people know where your git pages are, your email etc? I can understand the trepidation but here at HN we do not bite..well some of us bark quite loudly but that is expected right?

What area of the UK? Years ago when I attempted concurrent undergrad/grad studies in Molecular Biology I was doing some grad course work through Birberk College-University of London and Wiezmann Institute, Israel.
Another related issue is web browsing. A lot of people (i'd say most web users) don't understand that there are hundreds of ad networks and other companies (Google, Facebook) tracking them across most of their web browsing without their knowledge.
I know you said it's pretty simple, but where does finding users come up in your equation?

I think that's also on the business side.
Sure you can; I used mine in the tub (a Sony Reader) all the time with no I'll effects. If you're paranoid though just throw the reader into a ziploc bag to protect it.
I think your idea of throwing away a prototype is a great one. We essentially did that when we launched our startup, although it was just a major refactoring rather than a complete ditch-and-rebuild effort.

Beyond that, oh man...

Even if the non technical cofounders sit on their asses and do absolutely nothing while you code all day, you'd be sitting on 33% equity in an already successful startup, when they took all the cash risk up front to prove the thing works.

It's this mindset that makes a lot of would-be technical co-founders see non-technical people as a threat. I don't care if you're a technical or non-technical co-founder, if you're not going to pull your weight somehow, I don't want to be in business with you.

Also, to be honest, the "cash risk" is essentially irrelevant to me because I have the skill set to build and validate the MVP myself. There's also a large enough market for my skills that I could sell consulting services (yes, at north of $100/hour) to cover any financial costs to test an MVP.

All you're really bringing to the table is the first 3 steps, and asking your technical co-founder(s) to handle the next 617 or so. It's better than just a "big idea", but not by as much as you're thinking.

All you've got to do now is code and build on existing success. And you think that's an offer that you should scoff at?

Oh, is that all?

Here's a hypothetical scenario: let's say Toyota builds a concept car and takes it to an auto show to demonstrate it to customers. They get fantastic feedback and decide to take the car to market. So, you'd be willing to take the concept car design and find a way to manufacture it in an efficient and cost-effective manner? I mean once the customer validation is done, all that "engineering" stuff must be simple, right?

Metaphor aside, an MVP is vastly different than a truly sustainable product. If it's a true MVP, there will be a myriad of unsolved problems (scalability, maintainability, etc.) that only a skilled engineer can solve. Not to mention, what happens when the market inevitably shifts, rendering some or all of your customer validation effort useless?

The most important aspect of any startup is the dynamic of the team. The most important part of that (in my opinion) is to have clearly delineated roles, roughly equivalent in workload and importance. The best teams have members with complementary and supplementary skills, and everyone respects the skills and contributions of everyone else.

My attitude puzzles you because you're assuming that 90% of the risk comes before the MVP. Launch is very different than break-even, which is very different than sustainability or a liquidity event.

I'm a huge believer in the lean startup (I launched and sold one myself) but you have to recognize that the initial customer validation is just the first step down a very long and arduous road. It's hard enough to walk that road in the first place, let alone if I have to carry you on my back.
"checkout and reset do completely different things when given files or when not given files.
reset on files should really have been called unadd. reset on refspecs should really have been jumpto, moveto or something else indicative that the current branch ptr is moved to a new refspec. --soft and friends could have been --no-update-index or --no-update-files."

I can understand your confusion, given the seemingly separate use cases for reset, but in fact, it makes perfect sense. Reset always does what it says it does. Let's break it down:

git reset --mixed <commit> will make your current HEAD point to <commit>, reset the index to <commit>, and leave your working tree alone. This is useful for "uncommitting" the last commit, e.g. so you can split it up into smaller commits. Example:

git commit -am "lots of changes"
# realize you should really do better
git reset --mixed HEAD~1
git add myfile.py
git commit -m "implemented feature x"
git add yourfile.py
git commit -m "bugfix #3182"

Handy. Now let's look at the "unadd' scenario:

git add dontstage.py
git reset HEAD dontstage.py == git reset --mixed HEAD dontstage.py, since --mixed is the implicit default

git doesn't touch your commits, since you are already on HEAD. Git does reset the index to HEAD, which is before you added dontstage.py. If you had other changes that you added, it won't reset those, since you provided the limiter of dontstage.py. Git does not touch your working tree, so dontstage.py stays modified. The end result? Your working tree, index, and commits look exactly like before you ran git add dontstage.py.

Now, if someone (e.g. easy git: http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/) wants to make git reset HEAD to unadd, that's fine by me. I'm speculating here, but I imagine that the Linus/git dev point of view is, why call it anything other than exactly what it is? It's just nice and elegant that it happens to suffice multiple use cases.

The more you get into git, the more you start to realize why some of the commands that seemed arcane in the beginning are simple and elegantly named.
> Linux will never evolve

Do you terribly mind elaborating on this rather bold statement?
I'm not really sure you understand what a context-free language[1] is. I suppose global variables can be seen as being context-sensitive, but functions with weird names definitely don't qualify a language as context-sensitive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-free_grammar
This is a 100% political submission and I commented on its substance.

It's disappointing to be censored and accused of "flame war" for doing this.
savedotorg.org campaign now over 6000 letters in under 36 hours. over 200k visits.
Well, there's also the nights you could spend driving Uber, working on mTurk, or writing mass produced erotica for someone on Upwork.
What is the rule for titles being edited? Is it just no editoralization in the titles?
I have used it to pass passwords to ssh
I often see the same pattern in both directions on hot-button topics. There's a burst of short comments from those more emotionally for/against something, with the total score absolute value (up/down voting) becoming large enough to get the attention of the greater number of more thoughtful opposing-view people who aren't so wound up about it upvote & write longer comments, first to counteract the initial burst, and then to support the growing number of thoughtful responses.

I've seen it many times on my own posts: might get a -2 shortly after posting, but then +10 or so about an hour later. (Seems I often push buttons others agree need pushing.)
Making glowing green lines and purple circles is harder than it used to be, because that combination of hardware isn't popular[0]. It might not be that hard to use an old monitor, but it was easier in 92.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7066657
That's great, but I think this is even more accomplished than a majority of developers. The majority of developers have a wild or fun sounding idea and pursue it for a few days (guilty of this myself). Most likely, the "fun" part only constitutes a minority of overall functionality, and I find it's generally the non-fun stuff that demotivates people to not finish (e.g., billing, setting up a web site, user management, etc.) The key has to be to either determine if those things are critical, or somehow fit them in before you're left with nothing other than a pile of non-fun stuff.
What if I'm scared I'm going to miss my flight? Or I have to go to the restroom urgently and I'm afraid all these questions will have unintended consequences? LOL. As you say no way to read intent.
> That is quite arrogant of a claim that it is "just a ball of rock."

Arrogant how? The planet is quite literally a "ball of rock" hurtling through space that happens to have a bunch of other stuff on its surface.

> My reference to the word "healing" is its ability to reverse and go back to conditions that are normal.

This is just a reference to a system that tends towards a particular equilibrium. There is nothing "healing" about it. Also, considering the timescales involved, we don't even know if the systems involved on Earth's surface even tend toward any sort of equilibrium. It may just oscillate on a very large period.

> The more you look, the more you see that the planet reacts to bring things back to normal. more plants, more bacteria, more life.

What is "normal" though? It certainly wasn't "normal" during Earth's period of volcanism.
Makes me think how many blue screens/crashes I've experienced over the years on my desktop could have been avoided by ECC. On a global level, think of all of that time & productivity lost due to an arbitrary policy/penny pinching.
Thanks for the info. I missed out on the no down-payment loans here in Australia. 20% seems to be around the same as here now.

The reason I'm looking at American property is you can buy homes in SF for significantly less than here.

For example $350 for this:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/450-London-St-94112/h...

Compared to $550 for this:
http://www.realestate.com.au/property-house-qld-albion-10686...

In Sydney a property like that would be +$700k
oh christ, I guess time to get a new phone number?
I hope you continue your startup. YC is NOT the end of the line.
This is kind of hilarious, considering one of the top (public) reasons why David Cameron and Theresa May have been supporting Brexit is so that UK no longer has to abide by the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, because the top EU court has slapped down the UK's mass surveillance regime a couple of times.
Given the current RAM and disk sizes, and how much we put trust on computers, every cell phone or computer should use ECC RAM and checksummed filesystems these days.
Yikes. The bad news about WhatsApp just keeps pouring in.

For me personally I only ever used WhatsApp very lightly with a few work friends. After all of the recent news surrounding the app I sent a message saying I plan on leaving the app soon.

I wish it were easier to switch apps like this but it makes sense that they wouldn't want that to be the case.
Absolutely never do online chat with Time Warner Cable and never call their national phone number. Only call your local office. I've had appointments scheduled through online chat that never showed up that the local office didn't know about. Also have had the local office successfully debug problems remotely on the phone that the main corporate number claimed they couldn't fix.
Nice addition! For context, other visualizations the author created also made HN.

Parent link has the full selection:
http://www.productchart.com/

(Note: used the cell phone chart to decide on my current model)
The difference is that a user doesn't feel like just using his computer normally gives him any backup. But if his folder is inside Dropbox, he might be lulled into a sense of comfort since he thinks of Dropbox as a kind of backup[1]. So if he uses Dropbox instead of just using his plain old computer (hard drive), then he might start to get more careless than when he didn't feel that he had a safety net.

[1] Though personally I would disagree.
I have been following politics since "Arab Spring" and I have always experienced the online propaganda.

Pro-Putin propagandist:
1. Sides with Iran/Assad
2. Bash U.S/NATO
3. Claim USG is supporting terrorists and CIA is training them.
4. Claim "Arab Spring" is a conspiracy to destabilize the Middle East.
5. Claim 9/11 was an inside job.
6. Everything bad happens is a conspiracy by USG to attack the Democratic Putin. (lol)

If you want a look, check the comments of Reddit or Youtube topics about Ukrine, Syria, Russian/Middle East related, etc...
In what ways had they "fucked up"?
>you overstate the freedom the press had before.

I'm comparing the journalism in US before media consolidation and after. After 1987 repeal of the FCC fairness doctrine, rules of the game changed and companies started to buy up media assets knowing that they can use media to tell just their side of the story. This process finished in 1990s with 90% of media companies owned by 6 media conglomerates.

The other seminal moment in US media space the was 2013 amendment to the Smith Mundt Act, allowing US to employ the same propaganda both inside and outside of the United States.

So, I am not overstating the loss of freedom and diversity that the US media experienced over the past 25 years.
>I've actually never heard a true failure story in silicon valley
Chances are you haven't heard that story because the people it happens to are too busy seeing their therapist to post on HN and tell you about it.

Failure may be perfectly acceptable in SV and in the US generally, but the tradeoff is that we are generally expected to treat failure as a temporary status, something that happens on the way to success.

Note that I said it was a status, not a category of person. You say "what we have instead is a plethora of fake failures who experienced a few hiccups on their path to success..." -- but the whole concept of a person being a "failure" is what SV doesn't really have. You aren't a failure; your crappy business was a failure, a failed attempt at something. And now you have learned from it, are moving on, etc.

There are lots of brutal failure stories in SV, and they were not fake at all at the time they were happening. Subsequent success does not invalidate the failure you experience.
Yes! You are right that it lacks teeth, but also maybe doesn't go far enough. I think that's where some hoped the GPC would come in.

Also, does it mean that Amazon shouldn't log general traffic, that they later decide the analyze? Even Anonymized, that data holds value to the target site, even if it were never traded/sold/etc.

Lot of room for improvement beyond DNT, GPC, etc.
iAds will definitely be privileged. If you read the documentation on what is available to Apple vs. others, you will see Apple's own ad business will definitely benefit from this.
Because in one case the target is the individual. The other case your data gets aggregated and sold as bulk in the form of ad impressions (tracking).

A better comparison would be, the gov uses your census data to mail you flyers.
see also this: https://stories.coop/stories/saving-the-potatoes-of-the-ande...

Or this: https://www.vayaadventures.com/blog/humble-potato-andes-grea...
Maybe of interest in this thread, there is some current regulation in the U.S. for handling GMDs that might be induced by a CME, called TPL-007. Power operators have to start collecting data, like magnetic field data, to plan and understand how GICs may affect their grid. The hope is that in the event of another major event like Carrington, power operators would be given enough time to react before damage is done, and avoid the largest consequences.

Disclosure: I work for one of the major providers for GMD/GIC solutions: Computational Physics, Inc.
Texas...
You are so wrong. Please read up on how far Signal goes to hide your metadata. WhatsApp diarrhoea-shits it's metadata to Facebook's hungry mouth. Signal goes to such lengths even gifs are implemented so carefully as to preserve user privacy and security.
Yes, you can do this in typescript, but you can also lie about it in typescript. To do it provably, you would construct a function that accepted the more generic version and then, using type assertions (ie the typescript compiler infers the type from declared runtime behavior), it would return a narrowed type.

If one caller passes our type narrower with {age:F<u32>} then the return value of the function will be narrowed to that type, but a broader criteria can still be specified for the generic instance.
Anecdotal but whatever: I know a lot of people who try and fix their own things. The most prolific fixer I know is quite well off
> incognito doesn't have power over what sites do with request data

Again, this is just a description of how the world works. It says nothing about how the world could work. Incognito could turn your browser into a Tor client, or use a random sequence of VPNs to tunnel your traffic, or both, for example.
I would never use C++ if i had a choice. And i do have a choice.
Oh I see - you mean they have read access, then trigger password reset, then use the token straight away? That does mean they'd be firing off emails which would alert users though.
Invading someone's mind has to be treated differently. I am not any of those things - but I am my mind.
> We have a tragic flaw and that flaw is that we overestimate our knowledge and abilities... The most frequent is in time estimates.

I won't dispute that engineers overestimate knowledge and abilities sometimes, or that estimates are wrong more often than not. However, most engineers I know are well aware that _any_ estimate they give will be wrong, but do the best with the knowledge they have because the PM needs some kind of estimate in order to plan. Estimates aren't low because we don't take into account our lack of knowledge, they are low (or sometimes actually high) because we don't even know how much we don't know.
No other species is so creative with regards to exploiting the nervous system to maximize suffering. Orcas and cats might play with their food, but they are pikers compared to humans. We are far and away the most savage and brutal animals ever to walk the face of the earth.