jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
But then what value are you adding over Craigslist? You are basically a list of offices for rent, and owners put their space on your website, and maybe you crawl other sites to seed your offerings, too?

In most areas there are sites that are set up by real estate brokers. Their agents or licencees or franchisers or whatever input all properties in their central system and they all end up on that brokers website, and submitted to big sites as well. Is your schtick to squeeze out this middle man? To offer a platform to people who don't use agents? If so, how are you making money? Do people pay to list their properties, or do people finding properties pay you?

Look, not to be shitty about it, but you said e.g. this:

"We believe that Spacious can help liquidity in the market by making landlords and space operators confident that if they react to shorter contract lengths, they won't have to worry about long periods of vacancy as a potential tenant would be able to find them easily."

I see no other way to interpret this is 'we list your properties on our website so don't worry about losing 3-4-5 months of rent on a short term contract because we can find another one like that very fast'. Actually I didn't understand it like that at all when I had only read the OP, but the more you explain, the more I get the feeling this is it. What makes your site find tenants faster than other sites?
> Perhaps you meant on a site that's designed to also serve the needs of proprietary programmers, as opposed to just FOSS programmers?

I've never noticed a shortage of GPLed projects on Github. But I think it would make sense for Github to nudge programmers into choosing licenses other than the GPL. When I start a project, I appreciate the ability to build off of permissively licensed libraries. At the least, it means that I don't have to worry about various pretend lawyers wasting my time with emails about how the GPL handles some edge case.
Yep. Time's TV critic was talking about this when the Apple TV streaming service was announced. The gist was that people who expect these streaming services to give them the same TV for less money are probably dreaming. But they may give people the option of less TV for less money.

That's certainly the situation I'm in. I don't really get my "money's worth" (whatever that means exactly) out of cable but I sort of hate to give up live TV entirely. But as new streaming options become available, at some point I'll probably decide that I can live without a regular cable package given its cost even if that means I lose access to some programming.
Not even dreams. It's PR. Daddy runs an "archery academy".
totally, but another channel will take him, we just have to wait
Interesting project, yes, I also like the idea of having a common consensus for generating config.h files. Any idea why it is just C? Cause extending it to C++ seems trivial, and cannot find the rational about this.

IMHO, most dev tools have practically no real need to distinguish between C and C++
If that were even remotely true, they wouldn't be enacting laws to protect the entrenched ISP monopolies. They'd be passing laws reinstating things like local loop unbundling.
Many confusing operators certainly exist(especially in Control.Arrow), but the ones you have mentioned are the worst possible examples you could give. All of those have a clear meaning, and are extremely useful

f . g y . h z a . f'

is certainly much clearer than

f `compose` g y `compose` h z a `compose` f'

The same goes for (>>=)
> “School” is bad for us because it implies the trappings of traditional schools – teachers, classes, and curricula – instead of simply a place where people learn, which is all we intended by it.

This is a perfect example of focusing only on the negative aspects of something. Furthermore, I find it at odds with the goals of Bootcamps such as this (and yes, this is a bootcamp, no matter how they choose to label themselves). Are there not instructors? Is there not some form of curriculum? Are members not evaluated in some way?
Packaging is best thought of as another hardware product itself. Form and function have to be design-gineered, and materials and parts and assembly have to be corralled into a schedule and budget.

The idea that software is eating hardware, while true on some level for some class of products, is also what leads to lots of startups with solid software backgrounds offering a beautifully designed product that suffers from cost overruns, delays, mechanical and firmware bugs (you think having to test an app across a couple of phones is a pain, try field testing your smart lock). "Move fast and break things" is very different from the mindset needed to build hardware.

Be mindful of the perspective of the authors when reading these tragedies:
https://medium.com/@stevekreyos/the-rise-and-fall-of-kreyos-...
https://medium.com/@Haje/how-a-half-million-dollar-kickstart...
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No Sourcetree either on Linux :~(
> I usually just have an investor-type relationship.

Then in a way you do get paid (eventually, I hope...).

> Yeah, maybe just consulting?

That's one way to keep it simple.

But there has to be a better way, especially because the nicest flowers grow at the edge of the abyss.
They don't need back doors if they can just get warrants in this way. Aboveboard, paperwise, and less risk of PR blowback (defunding).
For me, the "coding music" must be simple and not distracting - something that doesn't make me concentrate on the music instead of the code. Or no music at all.
> Yahoo Inc. cut CEO Carol Bartz's compensation by 75 percent to $11.9 million last year as the Internet company struggled to revive its revenue growth, regulatory documents filed Friday show.

Ouch. That's pretty harsh. Down to a mere $12 million. That poor woman. How will she survive? It's hard work picking other people to do all the actual work in the company, and to keep a website property humming smoothly along. How will I cut costs? I know, I'll... I'll... I'll cut jobs! handed $2 million Thank you, that was hard work! Herp derp. (Note: I don't care that she's female. Story could just as easily been about one of the many more male CEO's of similar companies.)

This is yet another reminder why it's a good idea to try building your own business. So you can potentially achieve that level of pay, but without having to go through all the bureaucratic/brown-nosing/sociopathic processes one has to go through to potentially maybe rise through other people's corporate ladders. Bypass all that shit. Just make something other people want and scale it up.
You don't get a tax deduction for contributing to a Roth IRA. And if you have high income (above 100Kish) you won't get a deduction for a traditional IRA either.
Oops, I'm thinking of the Saver's Credit, which does seem to be available for Roth IRAs, but you're right that it's only for under a certain income.

http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=107686,00.html
I think it's interesting how selling Arm to Nvidia or going IPO are _wildly_ different and I think SoftBank doesn't mind what happens to the company as long as they get their return. I mean, at the end of the day financiers will finance but if you're Arm employee this must be a pretty wild ride.
If you felt eye strain while reading this, you can blame the `letter-spacing: 1px`. Friends, don't let friends bump the letter-spacing of body text!
Anyone know why there were dumped into the ocean instead of being destroyed? I'd wager a great deal of the dumped ordinance is still in-tact at the bottom of the ocean, albeit corroded. The plethora of buried mines and other unexploded ordinance still being found from WWI and WWII speak to munitions longevity.
I struggle to find something that is improved by requiring a “real ID”
I used to think this was bad. Now I’m not sure. The model where employers are responsible for employee well being leaves a lot to be desired:

a) The employer can always get out of the obligation by just not employing the person, reducing their hours, switching to a contractor relationship, etc. It only benefits employed people.

b) It creates pressure for everyone to be employed by a corporation, as opposed to retirement, entrepreneurship, or whatever else people might want to do.

c) It favors large employers over small ones.

If we want everyone to have something, we should provide it at public expense, not attach it as a condition of other relationships. Yes this might be “a subsidy for employers” but progressive taxation takes it from the employer’s beneficial owner anyway.
It is over-engineering the same way that setting the maximum length of a database field longer than absolutely necessary is over-engineering, so not at all, except even far less so, because resizing a database field tends to be trivial, resizing the IP address size we've been working on for 20 years already and there is still no end in sight.

Really, this has absolutely nothing to do with "over-engineering", as there is absolutely no "engineering" in making the address larger, it adds zero complexity, and it massively simplifies network design because it removes constraints that really complicate the building and maintenance of networks.
Keep in mind that Uber's revenue was $3.6 billion in the last quarter, but they lost $1.2 billion. I wouldn't be surprised if their margin was negative.

Really the problem is not that Uber gets paid too much, but that drivers are underpaid. I think a minimum wage for drivers is a better solution. In California such a law is currently underway.
I come from Morocco. There, until recent times, most left the family house to go buy their first home, after their first real job. "Renter" was an insult because you had to be really poor to have to rent. Now that speculation and foreign investment is flooding the housing markets and land prices have literally went up 3000x in some cities, it's changing. It's not a first world dream, it's a problem that's rising everywhere around the world.
Oh, yeah, a carbon tax would certainly make it more expensive to run ICE ground vehicles. I don't think of that as a "technology" though.

When you say, "when synthetic fuels arrive", do you mean the Fischer-Tropsch process developed during World War I? I think that's the most likely candidate process for synfuels. It's reasonably efficient but it uses a lot of energy, because fuels contain a lot of energy — that's why we use them. By coincidence last week I read a bunch of papers by Heather Willauer et al. of NRL about producing synfuels with Fischer-Tropsch from seawater, using an electrolytic acidification process with cation exchange to drive CO₂ out of the water and generate the requisite hydrogen at the same time. The paper with the most comprehensive workout of the costs was ECONOMIC COMPARISONS OF LITTORAL PRODUCTION OF LOW CARBON FUEL FROM NON-FOSSIL ENERGY SOURCES AND SEAWATER, from 2017. You should read it if you're interested in the topic!
What I find chilling is that Uigher children are being kidnapped from their families and sent to barbed wire enclosed camps as well[1].

There, they are subjected to CCP brainwashing[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ?t=1791

[2] https://youtu.be/v7AYyUqrMuQ?t=1826
And Batman's reaction to this news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzZx8WLKQE
I am commenting on a potential candidate to oversee NSA abuses. In this context his research papers are fair game.
As long as some portion of that $5M eventually goes towards licensure and bonding, or is returned, I'm counting it as forward progress to have that money seized.

I don't know the likelihood of that honestly but I would certainly be more ashamed of my own government than already this month if it was simply "appropriated" and not returned or counted.
I find myself reminded of a claim that a issue with the early leadership of Jobs at Apple was that he was instigating competition between project teams. In particular surrounding Macintosh and Lisa. While the Apple II (with Woz) was off in a corner, keeping the ship afloat.
This would be for adult and I don’t think they would actually play with the completed kit?

A lot of adults are into aviation and they are probably the target audience.

Personally growing up with lego sets in 80s I prefer kits that do not have too many specialized blocks and parts because it kills composability, so even though I love planes and Lego, I don't think I'd buy this.
I've got a sample size of 1 on those things. Glad it's not more, cause it made for an unhappy thanksgiving time when it failed.
Really curious to know what is the breakup of the 114 companies between biotech, enterprise, consumer.
I strongly disagree. My kids have benefited tremendously from virtual learning for a decade. It enabled at least two of them to graduate on time.

We started remote learning this year and we find it, in every way, better than no schooling at all. In some ways it is even better than norm-year, in person schooling - eg: quieter edu time, no between-class cattle herding, no time lost to transportation.
We may be arriving at a time and place where we must consider broadening the scope of the First Amendment to not just apply to government.

I'm fully aware there's good reason for organizations and companies to limit free speech, but it often (lately) has gone way too far, dabbling in political witch hunting.

I can think of few things less inline with classical American Constitutional ideals than to cheer on organizations that hunt down individuals and silence them for thoughts expressed on other platforms.
Yeah and the issue here is the marketing claims behind YouTube Kids are straight up false. It's setting up parents for failure by piling onto the already-exhausting burden.

It's just plain wrong.
how about a small video screencast?
Incidentally, what is that distinctive font that seems to be used by every academic paper (and this website)? And is there a story behind its ubiquity?
It could be related to Lenovo buying IBM's x86 server business http://news.lenovo.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=1755
And text-only cache for the spartan:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tjZs5Ve...
The debt driven economy is collapsing under unmanageable debt load. There is some refreshingly frank language used in this report.

"An early objective for government
should be to put an end to the state of
national denial over the true condition
of the economy"
> Not really related, but it's also extremely scary how much of this industry relies on convoluted, fragile excel spreadsheets.

Why single out this industry? Every company I've worked for large enough to have an accounting department lives and breathes by those evil spreadsheets.
I'm pretty sure hunting a mammoth involved an unbelievable amount of teamwork and communication, actually. Whereas picking fruit can be done very easily without talking to the other fruit-pickers at all.
The costs of perpetual war may become the real reason for that same perpetual war.
A polyfill of <picture> much more expensive. First you have to shiv IE to accept it as a DOM node. Then after the DOM is loaded, you have to re-write the DOM to replace the <picture> tags with <img>. Polyfilling "srcset" is trivial as in:

if browser is modern and high-res,
replace the value of src.
else
pass

Doing a flash video polyfill of a video tag is okay because there is probably only one video on the page. Polyfilling <picture> would produce some seriously janky page rendering, and would be a pain in the ass to maintain.
It should be noted that this is from July 2011.
Where do you work, if you don't mind me asking? This sounds a lot like the interview process for research/academic positions; if you've made it to the interview day, there is really no reason to doubt your technical skills anymore, and the interview becomes more about finding out whether you would find your place and collaborators to work with.
Why??? Well at least the link is not for Medium.com :)
Make sure you don't use any Apple mobile devices. I refuse to buy an iPad because they won't let LastPass work properly. And I haven't updated my iPhone apps in months since I changed my Apple password to something secure.
You are anonymous until you are linked to your wallet.

Anyone who has transacted with you can do that, so then anything sent/received from that wallet address is linked to you.

You can get around this by having many wallets. If you don't reuse those wallets, then a counterparty cant directly identify your other transactions. That means you need to have your balance distributed among many wallets, in denominations small enough that they would be consumed in a single spend.

But - you need to get the funds into those wallets in the first place. You cant simply split up your wallet, as these wallets would be linked to each other via a common ancestor. Instead, you would need to receive from a 3rd party, but then they would be able to identify the transaction from that wallet as coming from you...

So to remain anonymous, you simply never transact with anyone other than yourself ;)
That looks like Jinja that outputs YAML, doesn't seem fair to blame YAML (which I think the author sort of does) just because someone wanted to bolt an include statement onto it.
> What about company.com loading some cookie-dependent content from company-cdn.com ?

I've always tried to set up delivery of all static assets w/out cookies so that I do not incur the performance overhead. Not that it makes a huge difference except on very large sites. But last time I checked, performance & speed-test tools even remove points if this isn't done. Seems this is a feature not a bug or am I missing something?
It's great if the system is built directly on top of it, e.g. spago. Not so much if you're trying to type yaml. Dhall is very opinionated, so trying to use it like TypeScript to type an untyped structure is... interesting.

E.g. for Kubernetes: https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-kubernetes
This has interesting parallels with the financial crisis of 2008. People also first assumed several national economies were 'insulated' from each other. This assumption broke down very quickly.

We are very good in underestimating the multitude of ways in which complex systems are connected.
Talk with a patent lawyer, generally the first consultation is free and is protected under attorney/client privilege.

Once you know roughly how much it will cost and what you would need, you can file for provisional patents (at least here in AUS, IANAL), which are much cheaper and don't end up in the public domain but do establish a priority date.

Then you can easily get any monies required to secure your patents/start work, without having to worry about disclosing too much/etc.
Thank you very much for your feedback

Concerning "on-demand", this is how it works:
It is a system for us to prioritize the mp3 accompaniments production and it is 100% free.

When you find a work where the sheet music is available but for which we don't have the accompaniments ready yet, you can upvote this work by clicking the "thumb up" button.

We produce the most upvoted works first. When we have pushed the accompaniment online, you receive an email.

Of course, once the accompaniments has been produced, we make it available for every weezician.
We have plenty of sites at http://BuySellAds.com that earn a $5-$10 CPM from direct ad sales. In any tech related niche, $5-$10 is pretty darn good. It also depends how you define CPM. You won't find any single ad unit itself commanding a $5-$10 CPM, but in aggregate, based on what is ACTUALLY sold, they hit that $5-$10 CPM range. Networks love to throw CPM figures around, but what really matters is what is sold at a given CPM rate and for how many impressions. We like to look at CPM from an overall site earnings perspective. I.e. Your site has 1mm pageviews per month - what are we making for you off of those 1mm impressions in total (which includes what is unsold and naturally reduces the effective CPM for the site)?

Fill rate (i.e. sold vs. unsold) is something to think about. Let's say you can command a $15 CPM from some advertisers -- would you rather have a 30% fill rate at the $15 CPM or a 90% fill rate at the $7.50 cpm. If your site has 1mm pageviews per month then you're looking at $45,000 vs $75,000. I'd be perfectly happy with a $7.50 CPM in this scenario.
Is Yandex paying Mozilla to be the default for Turkey?
What would be really great is if it could learn how often to order refills. Then I don't even have to think about buying essential goods at all, and it could optimize, e.g., how to package goods together to minimize the amount of wasted shipping costs.
> that would require Baidu's cooperation

Don't count on that. Baidu is part of the Chinese government gang. It is notorious for censoring/altering search results both for political and commercial reasons. I wouldn't be surprised if they were notified about this beforehand.
A Swedish startup launched the same product last year: http://flic.io/
One possibility, if you really like the Surface hardware but want to run Linux, is to run Linux on a VM on the Surface Pro 3 (only the Pro, though, not this new Surface 3), which comes with a version of Windows that includes the Hyper-V hypervisor. That way you get the Windows drivers backing a Linux instance. From reports (haven't tried it myself) it works fairly well, with the one catch being that the Surface Pro's "connected standby" power management is disabled when Hyper-V is active, and it falls back to more traditional hibernate/wake power management.
>Was your friend wearing a MAGA hat?

does that somehow excuse the actions of the DMV person in any way? I don't see how it's relevant, given that a public official shouldn't discriminate against political affiliation regardless.
The problem is that everyone claims to want open silicon but nobody wants to put together the tools for custom VLSI which is where an individual can do interesting things.

Getting custom silicon in older processes (>150nm, but even 90nm has come down dramatically and that's a pretty modern process) just isn't that expensive anymore. It's under $50K, and can be under $5K if you catch a "shuttle" that one of the fabs runs.

The VLSI CAD tools, however, are ferociously expensive. Even the old Tanner tools are now being flogged by Mentor for north of $100K. And they're probably the cheapest around.

We're not even talking heavy digital--old 2um or 5um (especially metal gate since they have 18V voltage tolerance) processes are interesting for analog audio. Guitar pedals still use analog bucket brigade delay chips that haven't been manufactured for decades. At $5K, you could make your money back on a boutique pedal if you sell 100 of them. At $50K that gets dicey and at $250K that will probably never happen.

The ability to slap a couple hundred transistors down on a chip, simulate it and get it manufactured for less than $5K would enable a lot of interesting, low-volume stuff--look at what happened when PCBs got so cheap.

Right now, the entire electronics industry is constrained by the fact that volumes are "millions or bust".
Why would you not spin off the product as a separate company? I can't think of a single situation where "having X" is better than "having X and also $25mil/year".
No problem! This is a topic of interest for me, so I look forward to seeing your next post on HN with your V2 product :)