jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Choosing to live in a city you can't afford in a nation with nearly 4 million square miles worth of other options is also a choice.
Aah got it. Thank you!
You're still accountable to the subcontractors you hire.
I am in the same boat, I'm not personnally using AWS anymore but i'm still charged x.1x$ a month. It's not worth it enough to track the charge down and I might just delete my account without forgetting to change my email adress beforehand (since you can't reuse a deleted account email).
>Throwing out the patent system would be quite fine. Patents are literally only used to stop things from being made, never to enable something to be made.

I don't think you're considering the bigger picture here.

For example: it costs billions of USD to create a normal prescription drug. That's an insanely serious investment. How likely do you think that investors will be willing to help fund drug research when a month after your new wonder drug hits shelves there are generics sitting right along side it? Generics which cost considerably less because they don't have to recoup all that R&D. Same thing applies to any other product with a sizable R&D budget.

Now, I'm definitely not saying the current patent system is without problems, but saying that patents never enable development is a tad short-sighted in my opinion.
Darn, I just bought a bunch of Sonos gear...
Minnesota's winter of 2013-1014 was brutal. I have never experienced such cold in my 16 years here. Schools and businesses closed regularly for days because it was unsafe to be outside for any length of time.

This is anecdotal, of course, but it ties to the cool summer, I think.
Thanks I am always willing to give it another shot with more tools.
I liked the first two papers. Also when two years prior I did read the Shannon's paper. Must read for anyone looking for some Theoretical Mathematics.
Yeah, those hexagonal offices are on the next floor down.
I'm not sure I buy that. Maybe from a technology underpinnings perspective, but from the perspective of the mainstream consumer, things changed radically from ~1985 to the present (give or take a few years).

PCs weren't really mainstream in 1985 (though C64s and the like were relatively common)

Hardly any consumer PC could connect to the pre-WWW Internet. And I'm not sure a lot connected to online services in general. (As I recall, a service like CIS had hefty per-minute charges at the time.)

So relatively few consumers had email or any way to get information online.

VCRs existed but I'm not sure how widespread they were; I know I didn't have one until the late 80s so there was relatively little timeshifting. Cable TV was fairly widespread though.

Few had mobile phones and air charges would have been significant. Answering machines were readily available but I don't know what the penetration was.

Anyway, my basic point is that the mainstream consumer would find the pre-eighties and the post-eighties to be enormously different world from a technology perspective, especially with respect to communications. I frequently think if I were to go back to my job in 1986, I'd throw up my hands in horror at my inability to do my work--given the difficulty of getting information and generally communicating (though we did have internal email).
The property is considered guilty, not the people whose property it is. There are even court cases against the property. John Oliver did a really good segment on it. "It is really legalised robbery by law enforcement".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
Oh yeah, Cucumber Quest (http://cucumber.gigidigi.com) is pretty excellent for any age and has multiple female protagonists.
Libertarians need someone to enforce property rights. Police/Private security firms have always been the strong-arm of the ruling class, nothing about the ideology contradicts that. As that strong-arm, they will be granted special privileges and authority that they will abuse.
A comparative usability study on a language is very simple to perform: you basically print out some code samples, let people with no experience in the language (but general programming experience) read them for a set time period, and then evaluate their comprehension.

That is just one axis of usability, optimizing for comprehension by someone unfamiliar with the language. Usability is also optimizing for the experienced programmer. Some designs do a good job for both, some work well for one at the expense of the other.

Hef Raskin had some interesting things to say about this:

http://www.asktog.com/papers/raskinintuit.html
I know this isn't the point of the article by any means, but the first sentence (Raising millions of dollars from VCs is still the tech entrepreneurs’ dream.) bothers me a bit. I don't know about anyone else, but my dream is to run a profitable company, and how I get there has no bearing. Am I in the minority here?
The last five minutes of that are extremely disturbing.
An awesome PivotalTracker.com interface. When multitasking comes out, I want to be talking to my team on Skype while I move around stories and check stuff off.
If you were playing the S-Corp distro game, my understanding is that you were already living in a world of uncertainty, because (a) paying out distros that are large relative to your wages is an audit flag, and (b) the IRS already has the authority to retroactively decide what fair market value for your company role is and then whack you for the money you tried to stash in distros.

People do it anyways because everyone is unlikely to get audited almost no matter what they do. That doesn't mean that closing the loophole is going to throw people's tax planning in to chaos. You opt for chaos when you decide to cheat.
It's also unsound logic that is clearly a result of watching and reading an especially vivid piece on the fascinating mechanations of toxo. If I read a piece on the symptoms of spleen cancer, I'm going to think I have that ailment too; it's just how my brain works.
Gotta do something while......recovering...
There's a big difference between reading philosophy and understanding it. Understanding philosophy requires some understanding of translation issues, historical knowledge of which philosophers are replying to whom, and (especially in analytic philosophy) a working knowledge of the technical jargon involved. It's much easier territory to navigate when you have a guide.
Actually we are running out of helium on this planet.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1236220
I think the poster was referring to Charlie Miller's CSW 2010 presentation, where he finds a number of trivial, exploitable vulnerabilities in Preview. You can see the slide deck here: http://securityevaluators.com/files/slides/cmiller_CSW_2010....
The main advantage of forming an S-Corp should be that it allows you to have a formalized corporate structure with shareholders (including employees with bona fide ISOs or restricted stock) without incurring the rather large overhead of maintaining a C-Corp. An S-Corp should simply be the corporate version of an LLC.

It doesn't seem to me that the intent of the S-Corp structure was to allow a small number of people at the top of the company to exempt half their income from taxes that virtually everyone else in the country has to pay.
Probably they are changing business plan to take 25-30% of each app ever sold for the OS instead of just charging for the OS itself.

Finally, you do not have to port your app to all devices.

And hopefully you, as a user will be able to control how much access each app has to the computer.

Imagine buying a new smart-phone with lets say Android, then you install Windows 10 on it instead and everything just works.

The only problem I see is that they need to make the SDK easier for me to start making native apps instead of web apps. Especially the UI part.
I sought around for one for awhile to little avail; Dropbox works for me. I have relatively modest needs.
It's not hopeless. I went to a no name state school and have a tremendous life. An institution doesn't brand you. You make your own luck in this life.
Rent seeking is just as endemic in purportedly socialist/communist countries.
Hi, author here.

Yes, it's complicated and this is exactly one of the points of this map, to illustrate how ridiculous it is -- that I have to jump over all these hoops to do something useful with the data that's already somewhere in my phone/was in my browser, but hidden and siloed (from myself!) for various reasons.
I’ve always wondered why word processors don’t take this approach out of the box.... ‘resume_v2_2021_final_done.docx’ -> resume.docz using some wrappers around git seems pretty straight forward to me... and I’d be using it in a heartbeat
The hydrogen production is meant to be a feature while the batteries are fully charged.

> "When electricity prices are high, then you can discharge this battery, but when the electricity price is low, you can charge the battery and make hydrogen," says Mulder.

> "useful substances can be generated from it too, such as ammonia or methanol, which are typically easier to store and transport."

> "...it became a better battery when it was used as an electrolyser too. They were also surprised to see how well the electrodes held up to the electrolysis, which can excessively tax and degrade more traditional batteries."
No, you most certainly haven't cited evidence of election fraud. You're asserting a conspiracy based on nothing more than "Democrats hate Trump".
I appreciate your comment and I agree with what you are proposing with your hypotheses. But what caused my loss in confidence? -> my hair loss.

I know you're trying to come at this from a "things could be worse" perspective but at 23 years old, losing your hair has been traumatic and is pretty much social suicide lol. Life is unfair and I get that but my hair loss will get to a point where I'm going to have to try 10x as hard in terms of making new relationship, progressing in my career, and just making a good overall impression. Pretty privilege is a thing and I'm about to start experience not having it anymore.

And while it is only one factor, it's a big factor when you are 23 years old considering a majority of the men my age have a full head of hair. I credit my obsession over this superficial disease to my perfectionism and the idea that I simply don't want to be the bald guy. I just don't. I'm not ready for it now and I'm not sure if I'll ever be ready for it.

I'm done with posting about my hair loss for now because while it feels good to know that I'm alone, it's not going to change the fact that my life is about to get more difficult.
7 seems excessive. One possibly two could be justified since they aren't supposed to be able to decode the secrets inside the encrypted blobs. Not surprised some are strictly for marketing.

Though perhaps it's good to isolate the various ones to minimize their access. Still, each one added is another vector with more attack surface for a highly trusted resource.
Back in the old days there were media outlets for the general public and the specialists. One just has to be pointed to the right direction. I don't think today's media landscape is that different - the professional youtubers are just today's trade journals.

Though there is definitely a much larger barrier of entry when it comes to video because product is much more involved than just writing an article. I've noticed over the past few years was that pros from the few non-tech hobbies have been trying to get into video and many are clearly struggling. I often wonder how much talent is out there that we don't get to see.
in 1853, when the story was written, the term “office”—and the sort of labor that was performed there—had nowhere near the universal significance it has now.

This is a nice piece of writing. It's a pity that it's technically wrong. While it's true "clerks" have become less significant, "office" has pretty much always been at a fairly high level of use[1]. There's a quote that seems accurate here[2].

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=clerk%2Coffice...

[2] When Geldermans told me that Anquetil always moved his water bottle to his back pocket during climbs, so his bike would be lighter, I began paying attention. I noticed that in all the old pictures of Anquetil climbing, his bidon is always in its holder. That’s straining at gnats. Geldermans’ story strikes to the soul of the rider, and is therefore true. Those pictures are inaccurate.; "The Rider" - Tim Krabbé.
I highly suggest Dharma Punx if you're in California. Have some friends who have gotten a lot out of it.
Vagrant and Ansible to provision a vm with nginx python django supervisord.

Then if you want to load the database we have a shell script wrapper that can do a few things.

Load an sql from an s3 private bucket to refresh your local database, so even if you crash anything you can always fix things with a quick shell command. We also tie things into newrelic and sentry to help us debug code locally before it even gets to sandbox or prod.
Already posted in 2016?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366537

So not just launched as I’d expected
I've done builds in /dev/shm/ on Xeon and Threadripper with only a trivial speed-up. If it can fit in tempfs, make/cc can just load it all into RAM anyway, so I guess you only reduce the build time by the time it takes for the first read. Which would explain why '-j' on a big codebase tends to trigger my OOM killer.
Sure, but you cant turn around and say that momentum isn't conserved "because gravity".
Emacs is a fantastic editor (and I think I can say that I am what you call a power user), but Emacs Lisp is a terrible, terrible language. The more I use it, the more I hate it. And it's not because of the lispiness or parens -- Common Lisp was my Language of Choice for many years.

Having an editor that I could extend in a real programming language (and JS is actually very nice once you grasp stuff like prototype inheritance and learn to avoid the... uhm, bad parts) would be simply awesome. And if it was pretty and integrated with OS X I would be willing to pay hard cash for it.
Beyond the distiction 'mquander drew, note also: the court acknowledges you haven't violated copyright by copying a program into RAM if you own the copy of the software. However, Blizzard went way out of its way to ensure that it had licensed the software, not sold it, with the result that it retained control over the precise nature of any copies you made, temporary or otherwise.

Then, like 'mquander points out, the court gutted any value Blizzard got out of controlling the right to make temporary RAM copies of the software.
Is it possible to use this if you don't own a smart phone?
It's because Emacs is one of the few editors where you can actually manage 90 and more buffers -- thanks to the fact that you can refer to them by name.
I really have to agree here. I have several successful companies and invested in myself.I am one who lost most in the real estate market.I because of my previous entrepreneurial experience believe in myself. No school can give you that only life experience. I took all the plus and minuses of the previous business and develop a real for profit business that meets all the things I want a business to do for me.
Also, I can for see problems easier and have more patience for somethings and less for some others. but I know the difference.
Also, because this is a later life business I have an urgency that I think younger entrepreneurs don't always have
this makes my concentration stronger, at least for me.
The summary does a good job of summarizing:

> It is interesting in that a lot of the ‘magic’ side of Rails is actually not that mysterious at all, in that follows the idioms of Ruby and that whole stack is still vibrant, changing and moving forward. At times it seems chaotic, but I think that’s part of why it’s still alive and kicking. So far so good.
Fair enough I guess, although "doesn't look like crap" is pretty subjective. Based on the number of "switching to Vim" blog posts (some on OS X) submitted to HN over the past few months, I would say the old editors are still putting up plenty of competition.
I remember this article distinctly. Hard to believe I was 9 years old when it came out..
This is a compiler, not an interpreter

This phrase, what does this mean anymore? Do these things exist in the form of real, non-toy software anymore? What's the difference between compiling to an AST, byte code, or LLVM intermediate? I think these words have more to do with cultural expectations than with VM/compiler technology.
I sent you one earlier, Eric. Happy to hear feedback at kyle AT forrst.com
Funny story:

My wife is really smart, particularly with finance and the like (she's an academic accountant). So buying a car mostly involves me sitting around and playing on my phone while she works out the details.

So my wife goes in knowing to the dollar what she's going to pay. The car guy (certified used) attempts to obfuscate things by talking about the monthly payment. She must have told him 10 times that the monthly payment was irrelevant as far as she was concerned. The guy was desperate to introduce that monthly payment variable...it obfuscates things and anchors you on what you can afford as opposed to what your spending overall.

We ended up buying the car for exactly what she was going to pay (about 10% off the ask) using our own financing... that guy was clearly not real happy with how that turned out.
Woot is based in Dallas, TX
I said this before, but I'll say it again: we're selecting for people who don't find this uncomfortable. Everyone else will eventually quit for their own sanity, even if they can't really afford to be out of a job. If it weren't for this bad economy, it would be happening even faster, but we're selecting for perverted TSA screeners (and possibly creating them).

The only fix is to stop these insane searches.
I agree that GAE has its share of problems. However, many of the complaints listed are about limits and limitations, and can be found in the documentation; at least points #1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 11.

I developed an app with GAE about 2 years ago, and ran into many of the same problems (although some of the limits were probably lower then). Fortunately I could work around them, and the app wasn't used by tons of users anyway. I can see how it would be a serious problem otherwise, though.
Unrealistic goal, crazy prize for specs that should be widely available when phone is finally shipped after almost a year. I wasn't that surprising :)
I think the problem with this is it works great in a bull market but when the recession man comes the stock values get pared down to what the companies are really worth.
Doesn't look anything like Armenian to me. Or Georgian (which looks like upside down Armenian)
I also liked the heading “legal tax evasion”.
Pihole doesn't work on the road, also it is a blanket solution - I can't choose to selectively allow ads (e.g. in games).
Those are nice renders. Has anyone built one? If so, how has it held up?
I 100% agree with that breakdown. But I disagree that the game perspective "matches the market".

The beauty of the marketplace is that there are all types of people in the sandbox: fundamentals, macro, hedgers, short-sellers, punters, high-frequency traders, mean-reverters, money managers, pension plan managers. And all of these people have slightly different time horizons ranging from microseconds to years.

The market concept is this beautiful thing that supports all these people: aided by strong regulation, strong oversight, and better technology.
Just to give credit, the title is not mine but Roger Ver's: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/ltc9g9/38m_usd_moved_f...
Thanks, I did not know those websites. I am thinking more and more about a monthly subscription to help me pay for the maintenance of the platform.
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I am language agnostic, prefer backend development.
Motivated to learn new things and solve problems.
This does work impressively fast until you realise that it isn't doing any OCR, as parent comment points out.

The site also throws up a certificate error which might make some people nervous; "Technical Details: pdftotext.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is only valid for the following names: www.github.com, .github.com, .github.io, *.githubusercontent.com "

I think if you put a note on the site explaining what you are trying to do [practice running microsites on the cheap etc] that visitors would be reassured.
Depends on what type of company you're working for and what type of work you do. In general, the bar for journeyman programmer is "Given a rough description of a system that the client wants to have, you're capable of reducing two pages of text and a few sketches into a system which actually exists in computer code, is successfully deployed into the target organization, and more-or-less meets their needs as expressed to you." You do not get tripped up by junior engineer foibles like "I don't know how to deploy this", "Those requirements are ambiguous", "I need cooperation from X and I'm not getting it so I have accomplished nothing since being blocked on that", etc.
I've considered changing from iPhone to Android mainly due to iOS 8 update. It was such a disheartening experience. Sometimes I wish I even still had iOS6 installed.
Ideas would spread the exact same way. Most people follow their friends and relatives. Most of those people usually live near you. It wouldn't take much for ideas to spread on a sort of mesh network of these interconnected groups.
That’s just not feasible for most projects. Why ship a blockchain along with your product, when you could just go with a GET request? The technical complexity, server space, and additional bloat that would be needed to be added to the app would be a waste, IMO.
This. am I really expected to review every change that 179 authors make to 242 packages?

And if I don't, am I responsible for the malicious code insertion, or is NPM going to take responsibility for that?
Yep it is a solid way to meet people who might also have an inside track to influencing the institutions of a given government. It also gets eyes on your cause when it's not right in the front of society at large. A lot of it is just to get otherwise ignorant people becoming aware and seeing the activists are just people like them trying to make a fair go of it.
What about restic? I'm pretty happy with it
Forget sage phrases, just look at the SPY graph. Doesn't matter where you enter, the market always goes up over all.

If you buy today and the economy crashes tomorrow, it's only going to be a problem for you if you sell. Wait 2 years and you are back where you were today, wait another 2 years and you've made money. Recessions only really affect people about to retire or on the chopping block for layoffs.
Cheers, me too. Too close to home haha. We should chat
Tell me more about "derived data rights". So you tell me the cost of materials and I factor in labor and come up with a price for my product. I derived my price from the data you supplied. And I can't use this price because it's derived data?