jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm 24 and I agree with you 100%.

Entrepreneurship isn't a lifestyle I suggest to anyone, however, it is a great tool/means to fulfil something you want. Approaching it from the view of avoiding mediocrity is not only gonna put you in the difficult 'lifestyle' column, but it will also not be a very useful perspective for your entrepreneurial goals either. If you're really committed to living the entrepreneurial lifestyle, the best way to view it is as a journey to greatness: aspire to be with the best, not to avoid the 'average'. The former gives you hope and encouragement, while the latter is insulting to the those around you. If you're using entrepreneurship as a means to an end (like I am), it'll still be hard, but once you have that perspective it becomes easier to lay out a path for yourself regardless of the circumstances.

I've been snuffed out of jobs by friends I helped hire, I've had relationships fall apart to the point of becoming suicidal, I have no medical insurance and have endured multiple visits to the ER, I've had my apartment robbed and then got promptly kicked out because new roommates decided to get overly rowdy while I was gone, I've been shot at in broad daylight, I've unintentionally contracted with shady characters that fled the country and left me empty handed with silly lawsuits and court dates that I had to go out of my way to forfeit, I've been identity thefted losing all my money just as rent was due along with some of those ER bills, I haven't had more than 4 figures in my bank account for about half a year, my credit cards are maxed, I've had most of my belongings locked up in a storage unit for over 2 years because of these fiascos, and I'm now back to living with my parents because I couldn't afford to continue living on my own after quitting a job at a startup that required an overly-long commute that took a toll on my health to the point where I developed muscle spasms and began getting panic-attacks in the middle of the workday.

But you know what? It's all good. All that stuff might have been hell and made me nearly hysterical at points, but I know what my end goal is, and I know entrepreneurship is the only way I'll ever achieve it. If shit gets in my way, oh well, I'll just come up with a new plan to adjust for it (and I already have). I don't care about 'mediocrity', I just care that I achieve what I set out to do, because that's what makes me happy, and the only way I'll ever fail is if I give up pursuing it.
It is kind of a Google Reader alternative but in a much creative way than all those Google Reader clones such as Feedly or AOL Reader
Actually, Tumblr isn't included in the comScore report - its listed separately at #28.
Ha! Same here. I completely forget about Yahoo! until I get that invite every year.
I can't see anywhere in the post where he's claiming that women programmers are a recent development.
I know what you mean, everyone else knows what you mean.

The problem I have is that this decision as written is very poorly worded and therefore has no business being law.
I could do what cloudmailin does with ~6 lines of Perl and a procmail recipe...

Uploadjuicer can be replaced with imagemagick. Should be less than a days work to write a web service if you really need one. Host on AWS and bring up more nodes if you need to process more images than one node can handle.

Recurly looks like it offers real value. I would use Recurly, but with the intention of replacing it with my own custom system after a while.

Pusherapp - Trivial to replicate in house. Their front page also refers to browsers which don't support WebSockets as "crap"
Hence why they're using QT. If you develop for QT it should, theoretically, compile for Symbian as well as for MeeGo.
So on the technical side of an SE attack there's SET (the Social Engineering Toolkit): http://www.social-engineer.org/framework/Computer_Based_Soci...

And then I guess the rest of the resources on http://www.social-engineer.org

iamelgringo's suggestion of "How to win friends and influence people" is worthwhile if you've never read it.
"Miyamoto said he wants the game players and the developers to have [the feeling of a shared experience called] kyokan: for the players to feel about the game what the developers felt themselves."

This is an excellent piece of advice to keep in mind when developing an interface. An application is certainly a tool, with features X, Y, and Z, but at the same time there are experiences that go along with the usage of those features. Miyamoto likens it to telling a joke or writing a mystery novel: timing is key. You mustn't overwhelm the user with too much information nor leave the user wondering where to go next.

Miyamoto's games are excellent examples of Donald Norman's affordability. In some of his newer games characters may give a long speech to the player via a modal dialog box, but the keywords are highlighted in certain colors to denote that they are either important people, places or actions; and after you have talked to character, walking past him may cause a small non-modal speech bubble to pop up with some small blurb summing up the info given by that character, e.g. "Find the key to unlock my friend!" so that you don't have to go through the longer speech again.

What really sets his games apart from many others is simply the attention to detail and the amount of polish. When once asked about the delay of a certain game he replied, "A delayed game is eventually good, but a bad game will stay bad forever."
He said "Lady Gaga's approach to clothing seems like hacking to me.". There no mention about music and whether it's conventional or not is irrelevant. I can eat food conventionally (without using six chopsticks) and still be a hacker.
Wonder how this would scale
Washington, D.C. is very much a commuter and tourist town. Its population might be 705k, but the average number of people in the city on a given day is much higher. Tons of people who work in D.C. live in Virginia and Maryland and commute. I don't think I need to really get into why its kind of a major tourist destination. It does not surprise me they have a much higher people per officer than the average town.
sort of a tangent, but I wonder if the emphasis on proper scholarly citations gets in the way of the actual critical thinking part. when I was in middle/high school, most of the teachers seemed to care more about us following the APA/MLA format perfectly and using proper "authoritative" sources than whether our arguments actually made sense. I was never very efficient at making bibliographies or sifting through academic papers, so I felt a perverse incentive to cite as few sources as possible.

the one exception was my teacher for a public policy elective. he considered any reasonable newspaper to be an acceptable source, and accepted a simple footnote with a link as a citation. the catch was that he would actually follow the links and dock points if we had misinterpreted the source or failed to address the source's bias. I recall that students actually wrote some good papers in that class...
I use signal and ~like it, but I do wish it didn't require a phone #, and tie everything to that #, when I switched phones I had to make a new signal account & make new group chat rooms.

Also signal needs group video chats..

I've never used WhatsApp so I don't know what is so special that so many people seem to use it.
Tesla valuation makes sense to me.

They control the market of expensive electric cars that sell like hot cakes. And they will for many years.

They build robotic factories at incredible rates.

They have a great solar roof business.

They have a great battery business. They innovate battery tech.

They have a truck and a semi and a model Y coming out.

And they promised a cheap electric car.
> When I delete my account I'm going to lose old conversations, but that doesn't bother me anymore because I already recently lost them once when I switched from Android to iOS... WhatsApp has no way of keeping your history in that case.

This is a huge issue which I've had to come to grips with as well. I use both Telegram and WhatsApp (among other things) and I can't believe WhatsApp and Messenger, despite being supported by a FAANG such as FB, fall short on features - including the one you mentioned - whereas Telegram, a much smaller firm has been able to constantly provide useful features at a reasonable rate (not so fast and not so slow, so that users have time to adapt to changes).

Right now I cannot use Telegram that much because my network is all on WhatsApp and Messenger, but I do miss the good features such as being able to transfer all chats to other devices and use a desktop client without having to authorize it every single time (WhatsApp sucks at this...), literally send/receive any file format and being able to send messages to yourself - which acted as a private __cloud__. I think the fact that Telegram is moving towards ads could actually be a good signal that their main revenue is going to depend on ads, and not so much on selling users' data, but we shall see.
Indonesia is almost like that as well. Whatsapp has replaced SMS almost everywhere.
Finally saw a news report: https://www.thedailybeast.com/one-woman-shot-six-hospitalize...
> Yes, a 192k playback sampling rate is a joke and maybe even superstitious. There's not much of a reason for anything to play back at over 96k and many argue 41k is sufficient for mixed/mastered material. Point granted.

Please don't interpret what I'm about to say as audiophoolery. I'm an EE. I haven't worked in audio a whole lot, but I've looked at things enough that I feel like I could do a reasonable job at designing a DAC.

The one thing that a higher sampling rate does is that it makes good engineering easier. Designing an antialiasing filter that both prevents aliasing and still sounds good at a 41k sample rate is hard. There's just not a whole lot of room between your passband and stopband, so you need a really sharp filter. Add in component tolerances, and your sharp filter is probably going to be a set of mediocre tradeoffs.

I suspect when the author talks about "smoother treble", they're probably referring to the fact that the anti-aliasing filter doesn't need to have a weird phase response to be able work properly.
To me the possession of child porn is victim-less, just as the possession of media of murders is victim-less, or the possession of media of any other crime is victim-less. The purchasing of media of a crime is dubious, as it may serve to reward people who commit that crime, and the committing of these crimes almost always has a victim (excluding cases for example someone wanting to be murdered or something).

The prosecution of these cases seems to look a lot like crimes of morality than crimes that directly impact someone else's life and happiness. Sometimes I've heard people say that the mere fact of media existing of a crime that they were in hurts them, and hurts them more when people watch it. But to me, prosecution of these cases, if anything makes one more aware of people watching media of these things, not less.

The thing that bugs me the most about these sorts of prosecutions of "thought crimes" is that the trail from the "thought criminal" to the actual crime is always hazy, and definitely not 1-1.

E.g Imagine someone who was really into collecting child porn as some kind of bizarre stamp collecting type of thing. They were never into it per-se, it was just some kind of messed up hobby. They'd trawl forums on the dark web and download every image they see, maybe write a script to do it. It would be very hard to trace a direct line to a victim there. More likely than not, particularly if no money ever changed hands, there probably wasn't a direct victim. Someone may have paid for it at some time in the past, but not the stamp-collector. It seems like these are crimes that convict people who hurt others, but also those who do not hurt others.
Testing against the real database? Won't keeping a copy of the database just for that be expensive?

Also, should devs really be seeing potentially sensitive data?

On a side note, "I use SQL so I can change the backend language" is the hottest take I've heard in some time heh.
That's because a different database may have different transaction isolation than an another one. Fairly complex SQL queries cannot be used between different major databases.

I am one of those who don't care about SQL, I assume it will fail and in general avoid transaction as much as possible.
The goal of the breakup is to end a monopoly and a undeserved power-grab. For democracy to thrive, nobody should have too much power. Particularly corporations.
That's a good point, and a nice bottom-up view. The other side, the "do not deserve to exist" position however seems also true. It's a top-down view, coming from empirical observation: under competitive pressure, businesses will end up abusing everything and everyone that they can get away with abusing. Your bottom-up view relies on your own moral character - you were able to find people willing to work for below-market rates while making it a win-win and non-abusive situation. Top-down view correctly notes that ethics don't scale under economic pressure - and I have a whole collection of second-hand anecdotes demonstrating that - things people I personally know experienced.

My point being, I see both views as correct in principle. The hard challenge lies in reconciling them - letting good people craft better deals, while preventing malicious individuals from abusing their fellow human beings.
> Makesite.py is "sold" as an alternative to Jekyll for people who prefer Python.

That's a really strange argument to make. If you see the README, it mentions, "But then did you yearn to use something even simpler to generate your blog? Do you like Python? Perhaps the thought of writing your own static site generator crossed your mind but you thought it would be too much work? If you answered "yes" to these questions, then this project is for you."

Makesite.py is being presented as a do-it-yourself blogging solution with makesite.py serving as a good starting point to start hacking. It is very different from Jekyll. How does it make sense to mention Pelican which is, if anything, similar to Jekyll and not similar to Makesite.py?
Checklist for freelance React developers. What you need to do before starting building a freelance React.js project and after agreement with client. You can get this checklist as email template, which I use as a follow-up message.
They didnt, otherwise they would show you eye view instead of third person impression of what its supposed to look like to the user.

Most likely it suffers the same shaky snap laggy tracking like every other AR setup.
> You don't need an automobile to travel beyond your neighborhood! You can take a bus or a train or ride your bike, even in suburban areas.

Optimistic at best. Some cites like NY are better equipped for alternate transport, but my experience in California is less than stellar. Although it is my primary transport, outside of a ride between classes in university, I rarely see people my age cycling for non-recreational purposes. No only is there no desire, but most nonresidential streets I ride on have inadequate accommodations for bikes.

Trains in some cities are usable, but the coverage and stop frequency leaves much to be desired. I didn't even bother with the bus in LA. Not only did I have to travel 1 mile to get to the nearest stop, but when I wanted to travel on weekends waiting 40min+ for a bus wasn't worth it. In stark contrast to my experience Seoul which had a fantastic system of buses, trains, and taxis!
Did snapchat not delete messages?
That's true, but in my experience you have one at a time.
For south east asia it's normal to have one SIM for your local number and one SIM for your international number. Or just SIMs for different networks so that you can get free calls to friends who are the same network. But even then people usually have only one whatapp account at a time.
Because they are claiming that they released a "web client" that doesn't actually work on the web but only on a single browser and is not independent (it requires a mobile app running on a phone connected to the internet).

People release crippled software on the web because they don't understand what it is all about. The day we lose interoperability between browsers it will all be doomed. The fact that most of the websites work well on the top browsers is a victory that only those that lived thru the 90s will appreciate in its full glory. ;-)
It's like talking to a climate-change denier.
So, are those fish residents of that area? Or did they happen to just wander in? If it's typically pitch black there, why would they still have eyes?
We'll sometimes do SMS group chats with a small number of people. For videos, other files, scheduling video calls, etc. we mostly just use email. For video calling, we use Zoom, Google Meet, etc. I'm not sure I've ever seen someone doing a poll outside of Twitter.
You're buying into propaganda about British unions, blaming them for the car industry is ridiculous, and when it comes to mining you seem to think that the mines would have lasted longer had unions not been against shutting mines?
But Doom Eternal wasn't developed from the original Doom engine, same with the new Flight Simulator.
It would be far better if they described how they managed to let Google Tag Manager be included for so long, and how they've changed their deployment process to avoid third-party scripts from being included in the future.
It's kind of a moot point because we still don't really have the infrastructure (read: charging stations) to support EVs. At that point, the most competitive EVs will be whatever integrates with the infrastructure the best. Even if some luxury brands that attempt vendor lock-in are still around cough Tesla cough, they'll probably have to make some offering that most people can use to remain competitive.

But until that point, it's all based on luxury status and branding (imho).
Isn't this also treating the symptom rather than providing a cure? Keeping important state only in volatile memory and hoping user clicks Ctrl+S often enough? Just resume wherever the user left off regardless if its a cold boot or not.

Androids Activity-model provides a more modern solution to this (putting its lack of multitasking aside). Did you ever think of what happens when you swap app and did you ever care about shutting off old apps? There is no need, it automatically hibernates individual apps that were not used recently but you don't notice, next time you open it magically continues exactly where you left off. Assuming developer of the app cared about state-management.
Once you use someone's API, then they dictate where and when your program works, unless you rewrite your program to not use that API.

Given the countless and fundamental APIs that are typically used in any program, do you not think that is a Bad Thing?

Given that most programmers have assumed that to not be the case, it would be very bad for existing code at the very least.
It’s not an endorsement, it’s information. As a reader, I want to know which legal theories specifically were disproven. For example, would my own employer’s “no public statements” policy be invalid based on this ruling, or was the problem something specific to Amazon?
I immediately thought of Microsoft Visual J++ as well. I will add that the Android Runtime/Dalvik did not really add such extensions to the Java language, only an additional library, so it isn't quite the same embrace/extend/extinguish approach, but the change in opinion is curious, and perhaps more a sign of the times than anything else.

I wonder if Microsoft's actions could have been ruled at the time as violating antitrust laws instead, if the copyright interpretation had fallen flat? Perhaps upcoming antitrust investigations into Google will look at their re-implementation of Java interfaces in the same light?
Really? That's a huge oversight.

At the very least, none of the original new mail images, sound, etc (all PCT, SND resources). I miss hacking Eudora with ResEdit.
the supreme court has repeatedly affirmed that speech that incites violence is not allowed.
If that was the case, why do the people invading the capitol feel "betrayed" by his video condemning them?

No, it wasn't legally incitement. It was absolutely stoked by him.
I think it's worth noting that the supreme court case 'New York Times Co. v. Sullivan' referenced in the paper was over an ad taken by supporters of Martin Luther King Jr, critical of police treatment that had a gist of truth but factual inaccuracies, resulting in a suit by the police department. I think the spirit of the court's unanimous decision is still relevant.

I'm not sure it's possible to restrict speech that is clearly false, harmful and should be restricted, without also opening the door to restrictions on speech that is considered undesirable, such as the aforementioned NYT ad. This is especially difficult the more complicated the potential falsehood to be considered.
It isn't decentralized but I'm working on a new alternative and you're welcome to check it out. It's focused on low-friction, open, live discussion (messaging meets news aggregator).

While some may not be interested because isn't decentralized, I'm a firm believer that we need more options, more competition.

https://sqwok.im/p/QBKItu9bkEPXfA (cross posted this page)
They'll feel marginalized and play the victim no matter how we treat them, so it's about time to marginalize the fuck out of them.
This is a very naive take. Millions of Trumpers still want to engage with him on Twitter. The business equation hasn't changed.
https://getaether.net is decentralized reddit.
How is that pathetic?
Can't remember how many jobs I did where the interview questions were the hardest part of the job. In the beginning you think wow I'm going to get a nice and existing job.

Just to be dissapointed again because the job consists of fixing bugs in crappy legacy code and writing CRUD code.
Good point. China has money to spend in comparison to the U.S. - most of the money the U.S. has spent has been on war, while China's been collecting money from the world. It will be interesting to watch how the landscape shifts in the next few decades.
that is my understanding, yes (though I have no idea what "NPI" means, sorry).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars
The executive answer begins "It connects you with the world, but moreso, connects us all as a society..."

(This answer continues for two hours.)
I don't know the details of that section myself - I'd love to find out, hence my disappointment that it wasn't there.
no one claimed that Coinbase came up with btc wallets.

but usd wallets are definitely something novel (bitstamp also allows you to hold usd, but not for the use cases that coinbase is enabling)
Yeah, Amazon is actually the worst at this because of their e-book DRM. At least iTunes eventually removed DRM so you could move to Amazon MP3 or Google Play.
I'd suggest find something you want to make before the specific technology to use it. Think of something you want to make (web app, something for iphone, whatever) then figure out the best tools to make it. It will make the scope of "what to learn" to be a lot narrower and allows you to do some analysis about what to use that's tethered to something real. It would be nice if your project was "something people want", but the key thing is that you find it interesting enough that you have a lot of intrinsic motivation to work on it.

In my case, I didn't make my latest side-project (http://laughlitm.us) because I wanted to learn Rails and the Twitter API, I wanted to make something for my friends and I to share funny tweets. From there, questions weren't "what should I learn?", they were more "what framework can I use to get this up and running the fastest?" and "what DB or cache should I use to store this specific data type?". I learned a lot doing it and it never once felt like work. I also had a lot more to show for it than doing a bunch of examples from a "learning rails" book.
Identify that maximum amount you'd be comfortable charging, then add 15%.