jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I liked this description from slide 13 the second presentation: "a startup is a temporary organization used to search for a scalable business model"
Just to be clear, and I'm not saying you said that I said that (uh...), I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of doctors are not in the profession for this reason

Sorry, I didn't intend to imply you said anything of the kind. It was meant to be a segue into "molesters have a new career path" and contrast this with doctors in general, not to put words in your mouth. Reading it now, I definitely see that I could have worded it better.

Regarding your later point, though, those practices aren't ok with me. When I was a teenager, I had some issues that I had to see a urologist about, and he asked me a couple times if he could check my prostate. I refused every time because I was uncomfortable with the procedure (yes, medically I probably should have, but that didn't factor for my 15-year-old-brain). Whether or not its sexual assault, or even assault at all, doesn't really matter. What matters is your perception, and what you would be ok with someone doing to you.

I've got a touch of RSI in my right hand. There is a very real possibility that somewhere in the next few decades I may need surgery for it, since I'm a programmer and arm/wrist abuse is pretty much par for the course. If I went for that surgery and was told "oh, and while I've got you under, I'm going to perform a prostate exam on you" then I'd definitely be looking for another doctor.

Everyone needs to have control over their own body, and there are limits to what we should have to endure. Having to choose between having nude photos taken of you, or having your genitals groped in order to travel around the country seems to be over the line of what I, and apparently many others, would deem acceptable.

I will not enter the United States because of this.
Huh, isn't that the whole point of EC2 Cluster Instance. You can specify that you want your instances to be in the same physical location.
Not an expert on this, but I suspect you wouldn't want to move camp during the night if you can avoid. Especially in the rain.
But you still need to type in your password every time you wake up your mac, with this app you don't have to
I think they're all good points, though I disagree with #6. It doesn't steal comments from the source because I would never comment at the source and there's a lot of value in having conversations with people with whom you share a history and context. When patio11 comments on something, I know where he's coming from for the most part already so he can get right to the point without having to give background information I already have.
Someone is about to experience deep depression, and self loathing.
Something about the availability of money for entrepreneurs feels like a bubble, but I suspect that it is not. I've been on both the receiving side and investing side since 1999 and the pace of change in terms of increased availability of money from angels is just weird. I suspect it is not a bubble though and rather it is the early stage of complete disruption of power in the investing community. And of course disruption = opportunity, so as angels we should be investing more right now, not less.
Yes but still need that on canvas or svg before it will be useful in games with many sprites/vertexes.
Surprisingly interesting. I really like the format of this interview. Great follow-up questions.
Why would the Chinese want to invade North Korea?
I agree with Matt on about 75% of these points. That's why I have severely started limiting my time here.

Probably the worst part is the time-sink and the predictable nature of the comments. Most of the time I can tell from the title what all the comments are going to be like. Anybody that tries to swim against the stream, if only a little bit, can be mercilessly punished. In fact, it's somewhat of a game to see how even-handed I can make a thread -- human hacking. Which makes it even more of a time sink.

HN has changed for me from being a site where I can hang out with fellow hackers to being a site where people I like hang out and spend too much of their time. I'm trying very hard not to make the same mistake. Hopefully I won't be joining Matt. (Lunch is over. Back to work)
Where calculators are absolutely not necessary, doesn’t help understanding and more of a waste of time.
And as such, doesn't really protect you. The merchant may use the chip for the transaction, but the card numbers and PIN are still capturable via a camera.
No. There are plenty of medications that have measurable effects on average. That doesn't mean it's a one-shot solution for everyone's depression. You need to find the right medication, get therapy, sleep well, and exercise if you have major depressive disorder. But to say that medication has no effect on its own is misleading.
I think it was a joke about the name of the podcast
I rented a house, and didn't have roommates? I mean, it was in the shithole that is worcester, but its not impossible.
huh? don’t they all do that? i thought this was common practice and common knowledge
Does that mean you use the JS Screen capture api to capture each and every window separately?

I would’ve thought that’s too much for typical (laptop) cpus but have to admit I never tried this
This is the part where I’m going to bust out some stock astrology. We need to trade AMC on sentiment outlook (and by sentiment, I mean literal feelings), not fundamentals.

Pre-pandemic there was little reason to put AMC in the same field of view as other growth stocks. It was visible along a completely different angle, that of a ‘declining industry, streaming will eat it’s lunch’. That’s where people crunched the numbers.

It’s been realigned with beaten up stocks now, and positioned in the same field of view of ‘recovery’. In fact, I’d also say it’s positioned now to answer the question of ‘Will steaming kill the movie theater?’. If they can survive a pandemic and regain attendance, then we get some serious answers about this business versus the one dimensional view of Netflix/Amazon just eradicating them pre-Covid.

In short, fundamentals don’t mean much for this stock right now. It’s set up to answer bigger questions. Will people go back to movies? Will people travel? Is remote working here to stay? We can’t crunch numbers for questions like this yet.

So I think it’s good to trade on sentiment right now and once we have answers about where things stand after the shuffle, we can go ahead and evaluate it’s exact price.

BUT, all bets must go in now. The sentiment will be priced in well before we ever get to their first real earnings report in the post pandemic world.
Yes. Wtf kind of clickbait question is this?
Well said. Cheers, author.
No one is saying that since my father wants the tv to just know what he wants to watch, that we should even attempt to make it that way.

What the "lay people" want, if we are going to use this term, is the same privacy that the internet had 2 decades ago. It's not like things didn't work this way previously.
I mean that was a pretty recent sale in the grand scheme of their company, so I’m not sure if that’s really fair. Regardless, if their designers are still making products that represent their principles I would think that’s okay. I personally don’t wear Branded clothing but I understand the appeal of their brand.

On the other hand Apple has always had a similar mystique and they’re one of the largest companies ever. I think you’re conflating underground/cool with hip/street wear. I don’t get the hate either way. Let people express themselves without judgement :)
Looks amazing! I am trying this out and hopefully all the way to a production app.

Great Work!
Also your network infrastructure is much cheaper than a lot of places around the world. This is a large part of the price of electricity where I come from (which is far more expensive).
Reliable as IT offshoring commercial services?

You said any.
Nice site.

In running PricePlow (https://www.priceplow.com), I can say that our products (vitamins / supplements / protein) are complete and total chaos on Amazon. They clearly don't care about this corner of the market and let the marketplace stores run wild.

Despite some of the monumental volume that some of these products have, their listings are nothing short of unorganized disaster. There are definitely places where Amazon could (and should) have better pricing, but is actively neglecting it - and so are the marketplace stores for various reasons.

But that said, over the past half dozen plus years of doing this, there's been a huge, distinct shift towards deeper trust in Amazon.

In some of our smaller PricePlow-driven sites, when in doubt with where to send traffic (like if a product is out of stock or the price is a tie), I used to send them to Bodybuilding. Now, that's no more - the demographic is still cautious, but far more friendly to buying on Amazon... mostly for the reasons stated here in this discussion.

A lot of the industry hasn't figured that out yet, so it's been an interesting transition.

End of the day, from what I've seen, Amazon is a mess and could be doing a lot better with certain segments, but still does well despite their worst efforts. They're heading towards unstoppable status.
Jersey is a tax haven (40% of the economy is evading tax), lying 20km from France and 160km from Britain, so there's no reason the internet access has to be bad.

http://www.jtglobal.com/Jersey/Personal/Broadband/Products/H... — it's a bit expensive, and has a usage cap, but that seems more to do with the lack of competition than it being an island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGsds9s615E

"And despite the cuts that removed its goriest details, the Cauldron-Born sequence is still a glorious outlier in the Disney canon—loud, gross, and delightfully scary, with dramatic gouts of green flame and melting fiery skulls."
I think you give them too much credit. I think Microsoft, having little to lose in the way of targeted advertising, simply wanted more people to use DNT to hurt or even just embarrass its competitors. I don't think they intended to torpedo the whole spec on purpose. (And, indeed, I don't see any severe legislation on the horizon)
Michelle, you are in inspiration!

Have you found yourself having different design ideas after this change? Or having developed a new style in your creations because of "mistakes" you make when you can't control your nose very well?!

Can you mention examples where you ended up designing differently?
This sounds like the same concept from Kelly McGonigal's TED Talk, "How to Make Stress Your Friend" [1]. For those who don't want to sign up to read the Scientific American article, the video will give you the gist of the article.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_...
http://transferwise.com/
https://www.xoom.com/
I see the dateline of this interesting submission (which looked familiar) is "Jan 18th 2014 | From the print edition." There seems to be a whole spate of year-old submissions to Hacker News this weekend. Are we trying to do a year in review, to see which predictions of 2014 turned out in reality?

As for the substance of this interesting submitted article, the historical facts are reviewed in a key paragraph before the article goes off into speculation about the future: "For much of the 20th century, those arguing that technology brought ever more jobs and prosperity looked to have the better of the debate. Real incomes in Britain scarcely doubled between the beginning of the common era and 1570. They then tripled from 1570 to 1875. And they more than tripled from 1875 to 1975. Industrialisation did not end up eliminating the need for human workers. On the contrary, it created employment opportunities sufficient to soak up the 20th century’s exploding population. Keynes’s vision of everyone in the 2030s being a lot richer is largely achieved. His belief they would work just 15 hours or so a week has not come to pass." The nub of the article's argument is that new forms of technological change might not leave us with any new forms of gainful employment.

After its interesting text discussion and chart predicting what kinds of employment are least likely to be automated out of existence, the article points out one difference between the world of the past and the world of today: "Another way in which previous adaptation is not necessarily a good guide to future employment is the existence of welfare. The alternative to joining the 19th-century industrial proletariat was malnourished deprivation. Today, because of measures introduced in response to, and to some extent on the proceeds of, industrialisation, people in the developed world are provided with unemployment benefits, disability allowances and other forms of welfare. They are also much more likely than a bygone peasant to have savings. This means that the 'reservation wage'—the wage below which a worker will not accept a job—is now high in historical terms. If governments refuse to allow jobless workers to fall too far below the average standard of living, then this reservation wage will rise steadily, and ever more workers may find work unattractive. And the higher it rises, the greater the incentive to invest in capital that replaces labour." Indeed, it may be that the funding of governmental benefits will become secure enough through rising productivity that many current workers will have children who do not need a job at all.
There is still a lively community around the n900, as certain folks love its features. Though it has some drawbacks like only 256MiB RAM, no BT 4.0, no LTE, propper USB OTG, no gyro, no compass.

The point of the neo900 project is to perserve the features of the n900 and gently deminish the drawbacks. It is not about having a octacore and 16GiB of RAM which people using the n900 don't even care about.

For me the most important features of the n[eo]900 are:
modem properly seperated from CPU/RAM (not the case for basically any smartphone of today),
hardware keyboard,
propper linux environment
It never made sense in the first place. It was an opt-in, voluntary restriction that destroys all of advertisers' supposed value with no legal consequences if they ignore it.

The only real solution is client-side, and we have that technology now: hosts-blocking, Ghostery, AdBlock, etc. If enough people cared, it could be enabled by default on new browser installs.
At the risk of stating the obvious, Do Not Call has not stopped phone scams and telemarketing and CAN-SPAM has not stopped actual spam. It's hard for me to get too excited about a Do Not Track solution that only really applies to the sort of companies that follow the rules in the first place.
> The open source initiative to create a JSON-based standard for job posts. Inspired by jsonresume.org
"Seventy" indeed was touching and sad. Made all the more sad by the delusional statements of grandeur.

It must be truly sad to think you're a genius who was never appreciated. I say that without any sarcasm.
> Good, move to a place where your salary is worth more, and work to enrich that community. Why should SF and NY get all the benefits of economic growth?

Do you really think Globalization should force everyone to move where their salary is worth more?
Same here.

Your IP: 91.64.84.221
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> This request was blocked by the security rules

It might be requests from outside the United States.

Anyway:
* The cache from google:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...

* Arhive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030515/http://www.ercot....
Nowhere is building enough housing for growth

Factually untrue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16704501
"Farag recalls a prototype presentation meeting with Jobs where he and the design team presented possibilities for what would be the next Apple mouse. The team had several versions to show Steve, some of which "were fully done, with all the parting lines cut in for buttons and different plastic parts, and all the colors just right," according to Farag. At the last moment the team decided to include a prototype that echoed the look of the previous gen Apple mouse, but it was not finished and didn't include cut-outs for the buttons.

“We were going to put that model into a box so people wouldn’t see it.” Farag said.

Jobs darted right for the unfinished one saying, “That’s genius…We don’t want to have any buttons,” according to Farag.

As one would expect, someone from the design team quickly jumped up and agreed with Jobs as if that was one of the options all along."

https://www.techspot.com/news/55958-how-a-misunderstanding-w...

As far as not thinking about a button to click - that only works if the idea of 'right-click' doesn't exist. In the real world where it does now you just have to know to control-click, which seems strictly worse.
Lori Gardi, widely believed to be a crackpot, in my opinion has made a breakthrough in our interpretation od quantum mechanics.

If I understand her correctly, she proposes that the reason waves behave like particles is because they transfer energy essentially every zero-crossing : for example a photon is just one half of a wavelength of light.

She has a much more interesting explanation of what i am very poorly tryingto spit out here on youtube. Bear with, because honestly she is a whackadoo but she is a smart whackadoo.

Lemme know if you want a link to the video
Comparing an integrated GPU to a discrete GPU seems a bit Apples to Oranges, if you'll pardon the pun.
For what it’s worth, we work with them and thus have been following closely. Databricks’ value add is that are end to end for interfaces to use your data. From ingest to exploration to DS/ML.

1. Your metrics are wrong about revenue/employee. We’ve heard they’re growing well by all standard SaaS company metrics
2. Hadoop consulting business is just a completely incorrect description of the platform. Hadoop is dying because of companies like Databricks, and all that needs to exist to justify their valuation is people bringing them large data workloads.

Their biggest problem is release maturity. Between Azure being down and them being down, stuff is down too often
My speaking skills. Currently, I`m trying hard to improve them (by different courses, tips like this - https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-improve-your-speaking-skill... and so on), but it`s hard. At least for me.
> I'm not sure why so many Americans feel the need to "kit up" for the daily commute. I think it actually turns a lot of would-be commuters off.

I think it comes down to distance/time on the bike, for some, but others probably think they have to wear it if they're cycling. But that annoyance goes beyond commuters.
Yeah, seems like a sensationalist title tbh. The project README doesn't giving any info to support that claim as well.

It doesn't make any sense.
Doesn't anybody else find the "equality of opportunity" and other phrases way too abstract for analysis?
There are many facets to how an economy functions and how individuals navigate it, and I think a proper analysis of the action on the ground is needed. For example how individuals learn skills and what prerequisites are needed in terms of access to information, ability to focus and think abstractly, and how one trains those abilities. This affects competition in the market, who gets rich, who gets an opportunity and so forth, and yet all the articles I see talk in these distant abstract terms, like they're appealing to someone in the government to fix it or something.

Another aspect is consumer responsibility and the way we tend to buy what we want but not think of the large scale consequences. People use gmail and facebook out of habit. They buy groceries in a big store out of habit. We use products dependent on petroleum yet expect someone else to fix global warming. Being interconnected and living in a rather fragile world where systems affect each other is not a responsibility us as individuals are ready for, and I haven't even touched on civic responsibility and the need for everyone to almost be lawyers and critical thinkers for law to function. There are so many complex interconnected parts and we always fall victim to the movements of the herd
The website was down for a few minutes. I added more resources to the server ;)!
Just for context, solar provides <1% of world electricity and nuclear provides >10%, both of which produce very little CO2
I've found piracetam to work as described, but that the benefits just don't match up to the price/costs.
Awesome :)

Great work on the blog by the way, it's going into my morning reading list.
Not sure about the baseline but the article gives a clue: "he claims to have increased his IQ by 20 points".
NATS is a simpler, faster alternative: http://nats.io/
That would require reading the article before quickly dismissing it, an all too common trend these days on HN.
I've worked remotely my entire career and one shared aspect of the most successful teams was a chat room named "watercooler" or similar where people were free to chit chat. Everyone knows to ignore the room if busy, so there's not that worry of IMing someone and distracting them. Some times people may reply back hours after you say something, but when a few people have spare cycles at the same time nice conversations can break out.

It's curious to me how when a lot of discussions on remote workers, especially those negative to the idea, I rarely see mention of chat rooms, when I've used them at every single place I've worked remotely. Most of my career success is due to connections I've made on IRC. I don't think this is that rare of a scenario, see the #w00w00 folks.

In the era of "catfishing" where people can fall in love with people based solely on chat and online relationships, I think it's hard to deny it's possible to form meaningful connections online. Emails, conference calls, and video conferences aren't going to do it. If you spend 8+ hours a day "talking" to some one in a chat room, you can learn more than 15 minutes at a water cooler now and then. As well, the whole team/group can read the backlog and know what's going on with everyone else. No need to repeat the same story to x, y, and z.

I agree with what you've said about having some informal conversation during lulls on calls. Those moments can be very valuable. Another thing I've done on some teams is after a major release or milestone achieved, everyone grabs a drink of their choice and joins a group video chat and virtually goes out to the bar to celebrate as a group.

Lastly, one of the things I've done is occasionally send small gifts to other team members. As an example after explaining rubber duck debugging to a team member who solved their own problem immediately after asking me and wasn't familiar with the term, I sent them an awesome rubber duck overnight. (Total cost <$10 via prime)
This. Seriously: a company makes a product which has the ability to be broken by hackers using a method (ddos), which is widely known and extensively used for over 20 years. And the product is closed source so no one can fix it. So... hackers break it on christmas. Oh no, it's not the companies fault! downvote! downvote! I'm tired of hacker news proprietary loving bullshit (except when the open source can somehow help them build proprietary products).
Rather than switching to perl, most python programmers i know always badmouthing perl