jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Fernando Pessoa (great portuguese language poet)

TOBACCO SHOP - (excerpts)

I'm nothing.
I'll allways be nothing.
I can't even wish to be something.
Aside from that, I've got all the world's dream inside me.

Windows of my room,
The room of just one of the millions in the world nobody
knows
(And what would they know, if they knew that?),
You open on the mistery of a street people are constantly
crossing,
A street blocked off to all though,
A street that's real, impossibly real, and right,
unconsciously right,
With the mistery of things lying under live beings and
stones,
With death spreading darkness on walls and white hair on
heads,
With fate driving the cart of everything down nothingness
road.

Today I'm bowled over, as though hit by the truth.
Today I'm clearheaded, as though I were going to die,
Having no more brotherly feeling for things
Than to say good-bye, turning this house and this side of
the street
Into a line of coaches in a long train with its whistle
shrieking good-bye
From inside my head,
And a nerve-wracking, bone-cracking jerk as it moves off.

Today I'm mixed up, like someone who thought
something and grasped it, then lost it.
Today I'm torn between the allegiance I owe
Something real outside me - The Tobacco Shop across
the street,
And something real inside me - the feeling that it's all a
dream.

I failed in everything.
Since I was up to nothing, maybe it was all really
nothing.
From learning and training for anything useful I escaped
By slipping off to the country with great plans,
By found only grass and threes there,
And when there were people, they were just like any
others.
I leave the window, sit down in a chair. What should I
think about?

[....]

(Eat your chocolates, little girl!
Eat your chocolates!
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.
Look, all religions on earth have nothing more to teach
us than a candy store does.
Eat, dirty little girl, eat them up!
If I could gobble down those chocolates as trustily
as you do!
But I think, peeling off the silver wrapper, it's only
tinfoil,
And toss it in the floor, just as I've tossed away my life.)

But at least, out of my bitterness at what I'll never be,
There's the quick calligraphy of these lines,
The broken archway to the Impossible.
And at least I reserve for myself this dry-eyed contempt-
Noble, at least, in the great gesture I make
Flinging out the dirty clothes I am, with no laundry list,
into the drift of things,
And stay at home, shirtless.

[....]
When you unpack and plug-in a router, it automatically gets the current time without any tech support. Why not get an SSL cert too?
Agreed, I wondered about that. I was going to spend time doing that, but when I ran it past two friends they both said that by the time the understood the text, they didn't need the labels, and not having the labels made them spend time trying to understand the text.

I guess it's a "Read like Math" issue. You need to read carefully to understand, or skim and get the gist. And I've moved on to the next stage now. I may come back to it if more people feel it's important.
I assure you its not hypothetical.

You would be wrong to assume large companies beat every other offer. Large companies rarely beat other offers. Even Google does not do it unless you are a rock star.

Also I never pitched them against each other ... I dont see that as a professional behavior, I negotiate separately. But I agree I did not do a good job of negotiating with A, maybe I was starstruck
It was from the New York Times [1] they asked Steve about the Kindle reader.

> “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”

[1] - http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-stev...
Actually all of this is almost certainly something like "where I draw the line is the right line anyone who does less has failed anyone who has done more is taking it to far".

As someone else is this thread has mentioned, RMS addressed the issue of Uber wanting to put drivers out of jobs as bad but ironically the comment pointed out that the "free software movement itself, are responsible for the non-existence of numerous jobs."
Are you implying ads is the only way to know about products and ideas ?
The new cables means your cables aren't backwards compatible though - one day you need to plug in a display port cable to someone's desktop/old laptop and you don't have the cable on you, because you replaced it to avoid dongles.

Dongles are both cheaper and more flexible than replacing the cable, at the cost of having a slightly shittier experience.
I would be cautious about airing these concerns in front of the same audience that you want to spend money on your products:

1. Are Braintrust and Tout the right products? Will it make money for me?
2. Do I need to focus on one product to succeed? Is now the right time to focus?

It's hard to get too excited about using either of your products knowing that you're likely to kill one of them in six months.
Apply it after the PayPal step when returning to checkout.
And don't worry about market penetration or adoption; one single hit game will drive the masses to the nightly builds and about:config.

Also, I wouldn't overlook Flash + PaperVision and its other 3D libraries. Alternative just showcased some glorious eye-candy at Adobe's Max 2010 convention:

http://blog.alternativaplatform.com/en/2010/10/26/adobe-demo...

Hard to believe that runs in a browser :-)
You can test exactly what you're about to commit by doing a `git stash save --keep-index`, then test, commit, and `git stash pop` to get your working tree back.
Browsing through the webcam list (child safe mode off), every other one appears to be a bloke wanking.

So what's the site's business model?
For anyone wondering what happened to Dextrose (the company Bakaus founded to make the Aves HTML5 game engine), it was bought by Zynga back in May. He is now the CTO of Zynga Germany.
You're getting some criticism here, but deserve kudos for being willing to let product decisions come from someone you recognize as better suited to make them for the customer base you've reached.
I think you can connect to your neighbors xfinity hotspot without using up any of their private bandwidth allocation. The hotspot connection gets its own.
Hi,

that's another good point!

Thanks for bringing it up.
I don't know, those tires look hideous and the sound...the best thing I love about formula 1 is engine sound, these e-formula cars look and sound like a bunch of my son's remote control toys on a track. I don't find it exciting to watch
Does the dip in NFLX around noon EST correspond to this?
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX
An artist impression of how the city will look like in terms of smog in 5, 10 and 20 years from now would also be nice.
clickbait; tl;dr phone call saying they get in, email 30 min later saying they were rejected, email was wrong.
Content blocking only does so much, as evidenced by the existence of tools specifically designed for its circumvention, and presumably effective at same.

And of course it's up to the website owner whose content they host. They don't have to take down those repositories. But, unless the DDoS stops, they have to choose between taking down those repos and continuing to stand the gaff.
Thanks for the read. I'm curious to know more about his integral derivations however,at this current moment. I must only save it and keep working. I apologize I couldn;t have beter commentary. Similar to the vector summations, I think that using integral appraoches to be able to account for the inertial dragging of objects like the processing in Maxwell architecture GPU's is a imporant way to look at laser refractions. thanks.
Yes, I did get the Aarons mixed up. Thanks to both of you for noticing.
My first "hack" as a teenager was soldering a USB cable into the place the USB mini port was on a palm I was using as an ereader. The port would just become detached from the board if you looked at it funny; so this worked pretty well. I could just plug the whole device in to charge from then on.

Then I realized that the three volts that were supplied from a pair of AA batteries was really more of a suggestion. That summer, lots of gadgets I had became "USB powered"
A goal of C++ is to enable library developers to create a Go and a Typescript (or an other semantic experience) inside C++, for compatibility with the rest of to C+ ecosystem.
I don't think this is a good example, because it's easy to read in any case. The readability of the easy parts is not what matters - it's the readability of the hard parts, since that's where you'll spend 95+% of your attention.
So how much would you pay?
If you think one gets to know React or Angular because one can follow a "Getting Started" tutorial for a couple of hours and get it to show an example page then you're in Dunning Kruger territory.
Transactions don’t need to ever be broadcast to the network as a whole (e.g. via a gossip protocol) — they only need to be submitted directly to the quorum that will execute them.

Think about physical replication in a DBMS: you only need to transact with the master. Physical replication receivers don’t see logical TXs; they just see the new state (= WAL segments) that the master decided on.

Of course, in a Proof-of-Work network, the quorum could be anybody, so your OPSEC is “leaky” — it’s like having forward-secrecy enabled on a public chatroom that anyone can enter and sit in listening/recording.

But in a Proof-of-Stake or Proof-of-Authority network, the quorum only consists of the stakeholders. So, as long as the stakeholders all intentionally discard transactions, then there’s nobody to recover the data from. It’s very similar to private corporations whose service involves intentionally discaring (or avoiding logging) user interactions, e.g. “private” / “anonymous” email services. Just scaled into a federated, “open-but-audited membership” system. In such a system, network governance would likely declare that new stakeholders must have their infrastructure setup security-audited by auditors chosen by the existing stakeholders, at the new stakeholder’s expense, before being allowed to run as a validator for the network.
Everyone is blind to that which they do not do.

I've seen couples drift apart pretty quickly once their daily experiences diverge.

If she spends all day working at an office, and he spends all day homemaking and with the kids, then each forgets what the other really does.

"The office" becomes an abstract place that someone just goes and isn't stressful at all. "The home" and "the kids" just magically take care of themselves and don't require much work.

Dual income has its own problems, but it seems a healthier default in terms of reminding people that work is... work.
Several times in my life I've been in situations where a) was more important because the bug was causing real issues now. In your industry a bug that miscalculates risk can cost billions of dollars. In my industry a bug can cause a safety system to fail and kill people.
If you are into Lisp Machines, this talk on Symbolics by Kalman Reti (who worked there) is worth watching (1h):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBfB2MJw3qg

If you only have 15 minutes, he gives another demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

He has another video where he does some actual hacking (smooth scrolling of sheet music for display while playing an instrument):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgjL7EUHZ8
I've seen Facebook used for code management. Thankfully not at a business, but still.
My experience with concolic testing has been that single path satisfiability queries tend to be quite cheap and it's actually a bit challenging to write the tooling around the solver in such a way that the solver would actually become the bottleneck. This is not to say that combinations of concolic testing with other testing methods is not an interesting research topic :)
Yes! I think being well rounded is extremely important as all kinds of activities can be stimulating and teach you a wealth about yourself and other people. Be it socially or life skills, dating or networking, everything tends to crop up later in life some way or some how and the more well rounded you are as an individual the better you will be prepared to succeed.

Making great companies, products, and decisions can sometimes play into non-technical things, non-computer things. In those cases it's really important to have that "outside" / "neighborhood" background that teaches you the ropes of life without a book.
A lot of comments about training dogs. Anyone has any experience training cats here? I have found them to be too moody for something like this.
> Email is far superior...

nod nod

I mention in another thread that if Signal (nee TextSecure) doesn't take off, perhaps what we need is a super-sexy frontend on top of SMTP and IMAP.

> ...Do you have WhatsApp?...

The thing that really gets me going is the folks who will only send pictures with MMS.
Ramadan is fasting in the same way that only having sex at night maintains virginity.
> There's no (easy) way to send US traffic to the Amazon.com site

You can run a small snippet of JS that replaces all the links with amazon.co.uk to amazon.com. You have to figure out that the user is from the US (maybe reading the Accept-Language, don't know if that's reliable)

// untested
var links = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
for (i=0; i<links.length; i++){
var link = links[i];
if (link.href.match(/amazon.co.uk/))
link.href = link.href.replace('.co.uk', '.com')
}
But aren't some people born more disciplined?
It should also be noted, that when ElAl does decide to do a pat down as part of their security policy, it is not gentle. I know a couple people (men) who've gone through it, and even though they knew it was a possibility, they still came out of it quite shaken - it is the equivalent of a full-on civilian police search, and bears only a passing resemblance to what the TSA is doing.

The difference is, of course, the TSA is subjecting everyone who opts out of the back scatter machine to their pat-down, whereas ElAl does so only to those they find suspicious.
Molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry?
"Why would you need this many employees to build this?"

How many employees at Path?
I think that's attempted murder and torture. Using that as the bar for sexual assault downplays real victoms' experiences as well. (I don't mean this to disagree with your overall point. I just don't want to see the bar swing the other way where people feel like they're being told to shut up about sexual assault unless they were bludgeoned with a cinderblock.)
Amazon are really pushing the boundaries in the vm area, and also making it easily available and quite affordable as well.

It seems like they will never turn evil, but most big companies do, or perhaps they are just hiding it very well. ;)
It's rough but still pretty damn cool.
Software that does this from footage can easily be in the thousands of dollars.
Image the results if you pair a kinect with this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEOmzjImsVc
This is indeed an interesting read. Thanks for sharing.
If you want to learn a new technology, a micro EC2 instance is free for a year. You have an entire year to learn basic admin, mess around with Ruby or Python or Scala or literally -any- language that exists. Maybe you'll even make something cool and monetize it, or get noticed and land a job at an awesome company. The ubiquity of certain technologies is a non-issue when it is -trivial - to host yourself.
until you jumped the api limit :D
why not hot swap any shortner?
I often start with "did you check out Heyzap" or maybe a one line sentence about Heyzap. It depends on the situation but most investors have at least seen your front page and the team/market help a lot in framing who you are and your idea.
That sounds like a bit of an urban myth. How many staff are there on an aircraft carrier?
At the very least I wish we had a 'grellas' for space and astronomy lurking around here, just waiting to do a drive-by and drop a mega comment that answers all of our questions.
Start with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Experiment.
Then read http://blog.legendarylife.com/the-colorado-experiment.

Anecdotally, here's one guy's attempt at repeating the Colorado experiment. http://www.placeintheground.com/2008/07/21/testing-out-the-c...
http://www.placeintheground.com/2008/09/25/colorado-experime...

Re-reading this makes me think that Tim Ferriss is probably advocating the Colorado Experiment's methods in his book. One of the other comments mentioned five-seconds-up, five-seconds-down.
Sort of. Sites are not exactly the same anymore, because we just pushed a new version of the site, but compare splunk.com with webskydev.com. They get bonus points for renaming our employees with Russian names. In our situation, because they're in the Ukraine, there's not much we can do about it. Does help that we're not in the same business.
I was a .NET dev before Python/Django.

All of this is accurate, and he's wise for leaving .NET

It's just not the environment or kind of people you'd prefer to work with, given better communities and concentrations of driven programmers you could be working with.
Former Yahoo employee here, does anyone know what properties and staff type are in this latest round? I've already heard of a Flickr engineer.
It's a trivial matter to snapshot your EBS instance to S3, and start an instance somewhere else using that snapshot.
Pretty sure the NSA is content to sit back and watch people inadvertantly add the backdoors for them.
Yeah it should open out a whole new segment to consumer markets.

Free(but very slow) ad supported internet every where on earth.

Connection to the cloud for a million different kind of Internet-Of-Things class devices. I think this is pretty big as these devices consume very little data, but generally have issues getting connectively at all in some the more remote areas these things tend to get deployed. Think ocean current mappers, artic ice melting detectors, or a multitude of geo-sensors that would love to have a connection in extremely remote areas.

Satellite-based emergency beacon in every phone?

Slow but usable internet for remote villages. Pushing news, weather, education materials. Perhaps combined with solar power One Laptop Per Child class devices.
Consider adding a "don't care" option.
Most people mean ~$150k when they say "mid six figures".
There's also a release of version 5.0.0.1
Apart from the totally out-of-whack industry percentages (I think it's closer to 60% "other", the more I think about it), I think this is a really clearheaded and insightful post, which is unsurprising given that Dan Guido is hip deep in this industry.

For what it's worth, I found DDZ's Amazon list from this post and was motivated to write my own, which you can see at: http://amzn.to/cthr46
Technicallly, they're almost twice as likely to be unemployed as whites:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t02.htm

Which is why using a black man for the picture isn't particularly smart. It's offensive because it's true, and nearly any conclusion you can draw from it is going to piss off someone.
Thanks Marcin!

There was also some discussion of this article on Reddit too. Readers might want to check out some of the comments there:
http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/cc4ye/information_se...
I hope that it's not a coincidence. A pretty neat idea was provided for nothing a year ago and has been doing nothing but sitting around in the two of your heads. Danielle brushed the dust off, executed, and shared the results.

What did you do with it?

I'd say this is a timely example of the "Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything." mantra from just the other day.
Debt has to paid off and you can't just take it on endlessly.

That is simply not true. Governments are different than you and me. James Galbraith:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/05/galbrait...

"Government does not need money to spend just as a bowling alley does not run out of points."

"Since the 1790s, how often has the federal government not run a deficit? Six short periods, all leading to recession. Why? Because the government needs to run a deficit, it's the only way to inject financial resources into the economy. If you're not running a deficit, it's draining the pockets of the private sector. I was at a meeting in Cambridge last month where the managing director of the IMF said he was against deficits but in favor of saving, but they're exactly the same thing! A government deficit means more money in private pockets."

"The way people suggest they can cut spending without cutting activity is completely fallacious. This is appalling in Europe right now. The Greeks are being asked to cut 10 percent from spending in a few years. And the assumption is that this won't affect GDP. But of course it will! It will cut at least 10 percent! And so they won't have the tax collections to fund the new lower level of spending. Spain was forced to make the same announcement yesterday. So the Eurozone is going down the tubes."

"On the other hand, look at Japan. They've had enormous deficits ever since the crash in 1988. What's been the interest rate on government bonds ever since? It's zero! They've had no problem funding themselves. The best asset to own in Japan is cash, because the price level is falling. It gets you 4 percent return. The idea that funding difficulties are driven by deficits is an argument backed by a very powerful metaphor, but not much in the way of fact, theory or current experience."
We live in Europe and prefer using housetrip. It's based here and seems less dodgy/tacky and has what seems to be very close in number listings. I believe they were around before airbnb, although I'm not sure. I know I was using then before I heard about airbnb.
If you want something functional (written in Haskell), try Shake (http://www.shakebuild.com).

"Shake build systems are Haskell programs, but can be treated as a powerful version of make with slightly funny syntax. The build system requires no significant Haskell knowledge, and is designed so that most features are accessible by learning the "Shake syntax", without any appreciation of what the underlying Haskell means."
Which Tetris engine does this follow? The newer engine found in most recent releases of the game or is it off the basic GB/NES engine?
Well, if the dude is right, then under the current system I guess you won't find out which chemicals were the toxins for a few more decades.

It sounds like fear mongering, but the point about using a bunch of chemicals that are not really tested because they are presumed to be safe is a little suspicious. Might be worthwhile to actually run tests on these things and find out how bad they are before it makes a bunch of people's lives worse.

One thing the article is good at is pointing out that we have a history of using various chemicals without really understanding what the adverse health effects are.
"11. Alternative out-of-date determination

Sometimes the modification time is not useful for deciding when a target and prerequisite are out of date. The P attribute replaces the default mechanism with the result of a command. The command immediately follows the attribute and is repeatedly executed with each target and each prerequisite as its arguments; if its exit status is non-zero, they are considered out of date and the recipe is executed."

When I want this in GNU Make I end up hacking together something resembling:

define test-exec
$(filter OK,$(shell if $1 >/dev/null; then echo OK; fi))
endef

define test-docker-image
$(if $(call test-exec,$(DOCKER) inspect $1,,docker_$1))
endef

target: $(call test-docker-image,foo)
$(DOCKER) run foo ...

docker_%:
$(DOCKER) build --force-rm -t project/$* $*

It seems this can be replaced with:

docker_%:VPdocker inspect: %
$DOCKER build --fore-rm -t project/$stem $stem