jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you're expecting performance from BETA operating systems I may have bad news for you.

A better policy is to wait for the official releases rather than buying a UDID slot from a dodgy website.
Ah, yes, that would be something I would be excited about in an egg - egg yolks that don't break easily. Many in my family love their eggs fried as "bulls eye" / "sunny side up" ( https://simpleindianrecipes.com/Home/Fried-Egg.aspx ).
> That is one of the most blatant statements of a textbook fallacy I've seen in a while. The affiliations and motivations of the arguer do not affect the trueness of facts or the validity of arguments. (baddox)

The affiliations and motivations of the arguer DO affect things when the "facts" he is using can't be independently verified or objectively measured. This especially applies when the arguer is speaking from personal experience, which is intimately colored by his prejudices. The arguer isn't looking to provide a balanced perspective on an issue, they're looking to prove their point through any means necessary. Including the invention of "facts", stretching of the truth, omission of facts which contradict their worldview, etc.
But fasting because you're religious isn't illegal, and it shouldn't be grounds for suspicion of terrorism. There is a big difference between being polite to a cop after breaking the law, and trying not to offend the bigoted sensibilities of when you're totally innocent. Blaming the author for the completely innocent and honest answers he gave is rather similar to blaming a rape victim for wearing revealing clothing.

And it seems to me that he did use common sense. He knew from experience that people didn't really understand the deal with his 7 week family sabbaticals, so he tried to keep it simple. And you certainly can't expect a person placed in a stressful and unfamiliar situation to give perfectly tuned responses to optimize their outcome.
Though calling Stuff "journalism" is not just a bit exaggerated.
Their Facebook campaign was based on hate and division to trigger reaction and view.
Counter-argument: Just let it sit there and keep working? Outside of security patches, if there even are any, there's always the option of "just stop touching it." After all, the whole pitch of elastic compute is you only pay for what you use. It's not like resources are being freed up for other things here.

The software industry is always on this treadmill of churn, leading to stable products continuing to have a constant maintenance burden. But that's not an intrinsic property of the area. It's a thing we do because... we can? We want to? But it's not required. Silo it off and just leave it be.
> You’re a little combative, huh?

Interpreting the questioning of your grand claims as combative should tell you something about your own attitude.

> As I’m sure you’re aware, publishing benchmarks of commercial RDBMSs is usually prohibited

I only know that MS and Oracle prohibit publishing such benchmarks - and that's yet another reason not to use them.
There's no such thing as "hate" speech. The label is a tool to suppress speech the accusers don't agree with and I've never encountered anyone who uses the term to do so objectively.
I prefer Google Reader
That sounds common-sense to me, but it seems un-meritocratic to assume it a priori.
I consume less with online shopping.

With groceries, I plan out my week's meals with the Paprika app, shoot the list of ingredients over to notes, and then order only what is on that list, which is delivered to my door.

No more "hmm, this looks interesting" as I'm wasting my time walking up and down aisles specifically designed to make me spend more.

My fridge and cupboard now look almost empty, despite having the week's shopping in it because I don't have jars and boxes of HFCS-laden garbage that I bought on a whim.

As far as non-consumable goods go, I spend the time I used to waste driving to and from stores and trying to find objects hidden in a sea of shelves finding written and video reviews of big-ticket items and I do not purchase anything unless I know it has passed the muster of several trusted reviewers, has all of the features I want, have seen it from every angle, know its precise dimensions, and know it has documentation and patches/upgrades available on the manufacturer's website.

Can't really do that looking at a box on a shelf in a store.

Regarding a steady stream of deliveries, it is too easy to set up a once-a-week delivery, at least with Amazon Prime. I set mine to Saturday.

People who impulsively buy things online are the same people who would have gone to the dollar store for "shopping therapy" pre-online shopping and come home with a basket full of cheap Chinese crap.
What’s not taken into conservation with that comment is that methane at those altitudes does not impact much because the energy is radiate back to space.
Perfect example of why I became a lawyer. You made yourself the victim of a lawyer that doesn't need to care about your satisfaction.

Bar association self-regulation ensures that people like yourself continue to pour bad money after bad on lawyers. But, really, you have no one except yourself to blame. You got duped.
Absolutely.

He's also totally missing the marketing/social point. When a service goes down, say twitter, the rest of the internet is deluged with complaints about the service not functioning.

It is immediately clear what the size and vociferousness of the service's user base is. So long as Twitter, or Tumblr, or whatever is usually up, their user base is going to grow on the news of their trials and tribulations.

"Twitter is so incredibly popular that it crashes their servers all the time!"

Unless you're actually a (good) app dev, people don't appreciate that Facebook and LinkedIn face the same scaling challenges that Twitter does.

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Second, the petulant tone of this video is really obnoxious. I also agree that his point is funny, and that the incentives are perverse, but i think he's setting up DHH and new tech as a straw man as well. It is certainly the case that chasing novelty has resulted in past lessons being forgotten, discarded and eventually reinvented, but that doesn't make everything that was done in the past correct.
"Software is very expensive to build."

Not necessarily. Offshore outsourcing of programming is quite cheap. The question is whether your MVP is so complex it warrants a $100/hour local programmer to handle that complexity. In many cases, it's not complex enough to warrant it, and paying $100/hour to a developer is inconsistent with building a MVP, because you're hiring a bells and whistles developer better suited to a large corporation with millions in profit at stake if the developer screws up. But, sure, if you're building something complex, you're shooting yourself in the foot by cheaply outsourcing.

"If you're willing to throw out the MVP code and have the new cofounder rewrite it, that might be something you could convince a developer to join up for -- but be prepared to "lose" the money for the initial MVP development."

That's exactly what I'm proposing. Who cares if you "lose" the money for the MVP development? If the MVP has shown traction, you haven't "lost" the money. You've paid cheaply for a traction proving MVP. That is money well spent, and now it's time to move onto the next level.

In any event, the idea that a developer would turn down an opportunity to be a founding equity member of a startup, which has a product that's already proven traction, because the MVP contained messy code is absurd. I'm not saying some developers wouldn't think that...I'm saying such developers are irrational.

"...but if you were looking for a partnership, I'd want to know what you'd spend your time doing."

Your attitude puzzles me. You have two hypothetical choices, if you were offered such a partnership.

1) Say no and continue to build software with a 90% chance of failure.

2) Say yes and build software with a 90% chance of success.

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. 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?

In reality, the non technical cofounders wouldn't sit around and do nothing. This would be a group of people who've already proven they can go from zero to traction proving MVP on their own, and surely they'd continue to work in non-technical ways to make the product a success. I don't understand why you'd be so skeptical about what they'd do with their time, unless you think their success was dumb luck.
I'm still waiting for the UK government to remove VAT from eBooks like paper books.
We still do not know what information Rand had when she wrote what. The whole point is something made an impression on her and then she explored that emotional response to come up with ideas for a story. If you want to judge her on her emotional response, you at least need to be sure what she was responding to: for instance, I might have an emotional response to Saddam Hussein grandstanding in the crimes against humanity trial if I saw that on television, one quite different if the tv spot had simply featured images of his chemical attacks or torture victims.

"Even if that was all that fascinated her about Hickman (doubtful), it's quite interesting what conclusions she drew from his words: not that that kind of attitude could lead egomaniacs like Hickman to senseless murder but rather that they are ideals to be emulated and praised."

It's less interesting when you consider that other parts of her philosophy include a total rejection of violence.

"Are you kidding me? The section she wrote it in is titled "The Hickman Case", and it's clear she is talking about that case in particular from beginning to end. The entire section reinforces what she said in that quote. She said it and meant it about the Hickman case. There's no doubt about that."

Maybe you misunderstood what I wrote... but I strongly disagree. Here's the whole paragraph:

The first thing that impresses me about the case

^ so she starts off addressing a specific event

is the ferocious rage of the whole society against one man.

^ and then picks out a more general phenomenon present in this case

No matter what the man did, there is always something loathsome in the "virtuous"

indignation and mass-hatred of the "majority." One always feels the stuffy,

bloodthirsty emotion of a mob in any great public feeling of a large

number of humans. It is repulsive to see all those beings with worse sins and

crimes in their own lives, virtuously condemning a criminal, proud

and secure in their number, yelling furiously in defense of society.

^ And then describes the general phenomenon as she has observed from other instances. Then she goes back to talking about Hickman. Prescott omitted the middle sentence of the last section above to make it sound worse, which I think is very dishonest
"Otherwise you are using the metaphor to deceive rather than enlighten."

That's an exaggeration. The point is to show where your tax payment is spent, and that's what it does. Emphasizing borrowing does nothing to further clarify the question.

More importantly, there's no way to know what proportion of the debt is attributable to any individual. It's a political question, because it deals in the hypothetical of how much someone would have paid, if we lived in an alternate universe where we ran a balanced budget. Nobody knows what that universe looks like.

In other words: let's stick to the facts. If you want to talk about deceptive metaphors, well...I'm sure that certain politicians would love to have the ability to send every taxpayer a "receipt" that told them that some large percentage of their tax bill was borrowed and used to pay for social welfare programs or pensions or bombs. That would really clarify the debate.
While this is a nice illustration, it is actually a bit misleading to talk about where tax dollars go within a monetarily sovereign government. Conceptually, tax dollars don't really go anywhere - they simply disappear (are destroyed). Conversely, when the government spends, the dollars do not really come from anywhere - they simply appear (are created). After all, those dollars are really just numbers in the accounts at the Fed, which can be increased and decreased arbitrarily (from a technical perspective).

There is an arcane mess of transactions that do happen related to government taxes and spending simply for purposes of controlling the interest rate. Since spending and taxation happen on different schedules, clustered tax payments on one day would drain so much of the banks' reserves from Fed accounts that it would force banks to borrow to maintain required reserves, thus creating a spike in the interest rate. Conversely, clustered spending would add reserves which would cause the interest rate to drop.

Simply to prevent such fluctuations, the treasury and Fed operate accounts in private banks where tax money is accumulated, so that it does not cause a drain on banks' reserves.

This happens to support monetary policy. However, it would be misleading to think that these operations are required for fiscal policy. When it comes to fiscal policy, conceptually taxes do not pay for anything. Instead, they are the tool by which the government takes spending power away from the private sector so that it may spend itself without causing inflation.

There is an entire chapter on those monetary operations in Randall Wray's book "Understanding Modern Money".
As many blog posts this one focuses on the "false positive" candidates, the guys who get hired but turn out to be bad.

But I would be curious about the false negatives, the guys who were rejected (or almost rejected) but turned out to be truly good. Why they gave the impression they were bad in the first place? How did they proof the initial assumptions were wrong? What were they doing bad in the interview?

Does anyone have experience with these "false negatives"? How not to miss them in spite of a bad interview?
A good "business person" should be well-versed or at least dumb and ambitious in most of the following:

- Hiring
- Usability
- Accounting
- Copywriting
- Customer Service
- Project management
- Business development
- Knowledge of the market
- Website optimization
- Online advertising
- Fundraising
- Analytics
- SEO

And the biggest job of all is to make money. This is a skill that requires practice and time just like any other.

Most of the people schlocking their half-baked, consumer-oriented, web 2.0 knock-offs at these events are looking for "technical co-founders" because they have no money. If they haven't made it before, I wouldn't trust their ability to make it in the future.
If it's just to find a better job, then I wouldn't worry too much about the prestige factor. You will get a better job through quality of work and the ability to prove it. The prestige factors plays more into jobs in academics. Don't get me wrong, a degree from a top notch school can make a difference in finding work, but not as much as your ability to code and display your ability.
It's gonna be interesting to watch TikTok in the next few months.

Other large social medias gonna copy what they do (like what Instagram did to SnapChat)
will be interesting to see them surviving it
The US want ‶free″ markets, but with bonus if they are using dollars, have no problem taking bribes from US firms, respect US sanctions and give a few oh-so-subtle advantages to US firms there and there.

Note that I don't blame them, any world power would do the same.
Not exactly. Fees are high in Bitcoin because they want it to be. Bitcoin Cash could for example handle at least 20x of transaction throughput, with the same low fees.

Of course scaling is difficult. But Bitcoin isn't a good example of that.
Reminds me of https://timeai.io/

I thought these companies only existed in movies... But obviously they got their inspiration somewhere.

(Yes 'they' can intentionally be read both ways)
Why though? If you don't like a service, move elsewhere. They're not obligated to serve your site. It's the same as any brick and mortar business. If my clients attack me, I cut them loose.
I'm sure at least a few gaming related YouTube creators are wondering how this affects them and if a Twitch presence -- which many of them maintain anyway -- isn't a better alternative. YouTube doesn't have a monopoly in that subculture at least.
Eh, it doesn't dictate how you handle routing. I think you're misunderstanding the dependency here: what StackPHP depends on is the HttpKernel interface. Basically the function signature for a HTTP request handler.

It does tie you into the Symfony Request object, but otherwise there are no other dependencies.
related: http://www.ganshani.com/blog/2014/12/shell-script-to-setup-n...
Its maybe worth noting that it's about 11 years into a three month mission, so there's that...
If I need a rapid prototype, I would build it in AngularJS. It allows me to get a nice prototype finished in days (in part due to my mastery of it).

Depending on longer term goals, I might consider React (with Flux), virtual-dom, or Polymer (for Web Component polyfills).

On the backend, I would likely go with Node.js, largely due to JS being my forte.
Number sentence is an equation explained using words a six year old understands. Children use counters all the time. Ever played air hockey? I'm not sure how that would be confusing. A number story is a word problem.
CameronBanga, appreciate you sharing this! As a long-time iOS designer and developer, I appreciate you helping and effort in finding a great one.

I unfortunately think that all of your questions are at best, filtering questions to ensure they have base familiarity with pretty benign facts and at worse, questions that give no insight at all into iOS abilities. Your design questions are, in particular, extremely trivial and almost silly.

Feel free to reach-out to me if you'd like to collab on a better list.

Everyone else reading this, no even semi-serious iOS developer or designer would endorse these questions as a robust way to filter candidates or even teach yourself.
Great points. See here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8828209, but if you have questions, I would love to add. Send over a PR or email them (email in profile).
In the olden days there used to be 3 channels on TV max. That's how I see Hollywood. It has maybe 2 and a half concept it keeps selling whereas TV, let alone Internet, wouldn't be able to get away with it these days.
> For most of human history people lived in small groups where everyone knew everyone else very well.

Someone already mentioned issues with your statement, but I will add on another issue. Even when living in small, tight-knit communities, if you screwed up your social standing (for whatever reason), you had the option to leave the group, possibly to another group, without your entire life-history following you.
A monad is any pair of functions (usually called `bind`/`>>=` and `return`) that fulfills the three monad laws:

1. bind(return(a), f) = f(a)
2. bind(m, return) = m
3. bind(bind(m, f), g) = bind(m, x -> bind(f(x), g))

That's all. Any pair of functions with those properties is a monad.
Its my understanding that some hydro facilities do this. One issue I can think of is the losses of transmitting that much electricity from 1 area to another (1000s of miles away). the losses of transport coupled with the losses of "storage" and "generation" make it more expensive. I don't know the actual costs, just ideas I think about.
It seems like using hydro as a demand-smoother changes the aspect of how much damming you need to do. Instead of having to construct a massive reservoir to provide constant power if the hydro is only intended to provide peaking or off-demand power then it seems like the reservoir could be much smaller - and conversely less environmentally impactful.
Semantics seem to somerimes get in the way unless they are fully specified into well defined profiles. Which is amazing when they are, in the form of "Any port of this type can meaningfully connect to any other port and it does what you think it should".

But a lot of the time you wind up with something that STILL needs config on both ends.... because programmers hate arbitrary choices and always like to leave room for omitting features or simplifying later.

And of course, programmers also like to break things, so even if semantics DO work, they won't hesitate to make v2.

As much as I really love modular pluggable systems, it seems like semantics free things are unfortunately easier to build an ecosystem around.

Nobody gets excited for a chart of data types it seems.

OSC has survived surprisingly well though.
> absurd amount of traffic

Not sure what platforms you've worked on but "6M requests/day" is peanuts in my neighborhood. (No offense to dang and team which do a fantastic job, but that's not high throughput compared to almost any platform I've worked on over the past decade.)
The peloton subreddit is a good place to start. It’s easier to see it in the posts than explain it.
I believe it will end up stabilazing on one image or a sequence of images whose text return themselves
What if the hardware that runs us is not based on a deterministic 0/1 silicone technology?

We could be running as part of a biological computer that can not be perfectly „programmed“, which creates all those artifacts.
Applicants to top universities are already doing (a) through (d), so removing the SAT should help - it's one less thing to worry about. If the AP/IB exams are just as good a proxy for "college aptitude", we should just us those, right?
If you are going to make an accusation like this about previous FBI practices, you should provide some sources. As is, this is FUD.
> So why is this met with warm welcoming arms especially when they are also going into cryptocurrencies?

In the other thread it was not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713953
I recommend this episode of This American Life if you're interested in hearing more about the current debate over the SATs and schools choosing not to use them:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/734/the-campus-tour-has-bee...
I can't even find your podcast on Overcast
Startup idea for ex-googlers: backdoor access to GCP support (frozen accounts etc)
If you actually try following the steps you'll see that you don't actually have to switch around. :)

Once you have leiningen installed and you run the 3 commands shown a browser window will automatically open up showing your site.

The documentation has detailed instructions on how to customize and configure the site from there on.
Content attribution happens at the time the Tip is made, so it will be there even if the content is taken down after a user makes a Tip for it.
How hard would it be to get an old prius from a junk yard, extract the ECU, extract the software from there and reverse assemble and annotate the whole thing?

The hardest part I figure would be getting around the inevitable read protection but there are some folks that have done very interesting things in this arena (for instance, reading out pic chips that had their read fuses blown).
> This is just a visualization issue of the debugger you're using

No it's not - it's (apparently) a JDK issue. See the discussion in the Jetbrains bug report. BTW if Eclipse can do this, Jetbrains want to know.
Which can also be used as 'Assassinate the senator'...
Are people not getting the sarcasm? HN posters abuse the term "hard problem" daily.
Yes. I guess I think games ought to be more awesome than life.
Ah, great stuff, thanks! This small piece of the whole set of container features may be exactly what I want.
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