jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Are you willing to provide any additional clarity on "very competitive rates as contractors"? I understand if not but would be useful to help some of us externally think about this model.
Adjusting it in either direction seems detrimental.
The world is analog, not digital, although many on HN forget this probably due to working with computers so much.

There are an infinite number of positions between China-style full control of speech and, say Parler or Voat style "anything goes including things such as calling for killing all the n__g__s and k_k_s and f_g___s".

Most systems that attempt to do useful work require some kind of friction or impedance or damping. I've seen nothing that suggests that information systems are any different.
The fact that Telegram can give keys to begin with is what makes it insecure. WhatsApp and Signal can't provide any keys that would decrypt a user's messages.
The spirit of the law says that it should be universally accepted

No it doesn't. In the U.S., the law is explicitly clear that censorship by the government is subject to strict limitations, but censorship by private parties is part of those parties' exercise of their own rights to free speech. Compelling one person to spread the speech of another person is a form of censorship that censors the former's opposition to the latter's speech.

There are only a handful of cases that compel private parties to tolerate speech they disagree with on their own property (basically, malls), and the scope has been narrowed over time. (See Pruneyard and subsequent cases.)
Traveling to Mars will now require a Google+ account.
#1 - Go through psychotherapy until you root out your self defeating behaviors.

#3 - There is a ton you can do to foster and project and image the leads to more positive results. I would recommend reading up on human perception and branding to better understand how to project the right image. Robert Ringers, "Winning Through Intimidation" is a good anecdotal strategy... Dan Kennedy's takeaway selling is another..As is Jay Abrahams Law of Preeminence.

The basic idea is to not care that much about the end result. When you raise VC money when you don't need it, you are in a much stronger position to negotiate. So too with Image, create the impression that you don't need the opportunity, deal, or whatever you are getting screwed out of and you will be in a position to demand the protections you need.
Whether this is "good enough" for them to keep doing what they do wasn't the question. The question was whether they were doing their best to influence public opinion.
Is being nice a choice? I don't think so, it should be the default. But if I need money for my startup I would definitely go with the nicest investor.
>Considering the actual missions flown over the last 50 years I think the Air force’s priorities are much more reasonable.

That is a very, very difficult point to defend. The vast majority of USAF missions over the past 50 years have been CAS missions against ground forces, not jet-against-jet duels against other air superiority fighters. Yet, if you look at the design priorities of not just the current state-of-the-art fighters, but even previous-gen fighters like the the F-15, F-16 and the F-18, you'll see that they privilege air-to-air combat capability over air-to-ground.

IMHO, the only plane in the USAF's inventory that's actually suited for the missions the USAF is actually flying is the A-10. And if you look at the A-10's history, you'll see that the USAF leadership fought tooth and nail against the program (it was essentially forced on the USAF by the Army), and at every feasible opportunity they've tried to retire the airframe.

Stealth isn't magic. Stealth doesn't make you invisible. Stealth is, at best, a very sophisticated camouflage that makes your plane harder to see with radar at a distance, and its advantages end the moment your plane starts shooting. Contra your point, stealth is actually most suited for the "blitzkrieg" style missions which are designed to crush enemy air forces in the opening days of an engagement. That's actually what it was designed for. The F-22 (and other stealth aircraft) were designed to wipe out Soviet aircraft and air-defense systems in the opening days of WW3, at which point more conventional fighters (like F-4s, F-15s and A-10s) would do the majority of the "grunt work" of wiping out Soviet ground armor.

Stealth is far less suited for the kinds of "patrol" missions where your planes are going to be flying the same airspace day and day out, supporting ground troops or enforcing a no-fly zone. As the evidence from the F-117 shootdown in Yugoslavia demonstrates, all the camouflage in the world won't help you if your enemy is able to deduce where you will be based on your past activity. Stealth is poorly suited for close-air support missions, where you're flying close to enemy troops, for long periods of time, and shooting at them on a regular basis.

The Air Force's priorities have not been reasonable, by any rational measure, nor have they been reasonable for quite some time now. The Air Force should be investing in developing UAVs and the accompanying swarm tactics that allow for effective use of large numbers (e.g. 100+) aircraft in a combat theater. Instead, they're blowing billions of dollars on a "unified" combat aircraft that can't actually perform any of the roles it's supposed take over.

EDITS: Added points and restructured for clarity.
ahh, that explains it. Thanks for the quick answer, are you also trying to get it on the Amazon market place?
There are a lot of ways to do it as proved by the comments here. My personal move from freelancer to "company" was a slow transition that involved moving away from clients that nickel-n-dime and moving towards those who do not.

For me, life did not really get easier until I had a roster of clients that wanted repeat work - either as a formal retainer, or just a somewhat regular billing amount each month.

Rate hike was one technique which rid me of a client that was too much hassle, but as you know it takes a lot of guts to let go of a paying customer. You claim that raising your rates led to losing work. You do lose clients when you raise rates, that is the point. You don't want to employ this strategy if you have zero clients who are willing to stick around at the higher rate.

Another is actively seeking out your own clients to cut out the middle-man. I found my sweet spot with small (10-50) companies who did not have full-time programmers on staff and were located in my area. It took me about five years of actively seeking clients and word-of-mouth to get a decent business going.
Buffer's app is one example, but I'd like to see others.
https://open.bufferapp.com/buffers-y-combinator-application/
> ou have a higher opinion of the value of Amazon's guarantee and brand in this space than I do.

In my personal experience, they're one of the highest rated companies I've dealt with, in terms of customer service. They've earned that credit with me over the years that I've purchased items from them.
Yes, some sell them. It's puzzling to me, because this effectively narrows down their audience.

> Because the people charging for their work, would do something else if that wasn't the case, thus there wouldn't exist anything at all.

I don't know that this is the case for Amiga enthusiasts. They chose this not for the money, but because they love retro computing. They wouldn't be doing something else, just like a writer or an artist wouldn't. And by making their output proprietary -- and pricey! -- they are narrowing down their audience, which is the opposite of "saving" the platform.

I've seldom seen people more passionate about their hobby (note: hobby, not business) than retro computing fans.
I'm going off my experience with doctors that I know personally. There's definitely a personality type or an attitude there that shuts them off to things that a layperson will bring to them even if it's based on good science (only they haven't studied it before).
I appreciate their efforts and I share their POV.

On a more meta note:

I want to avoid going off meta too far here but .. does this company doing this thing, matter? Or is this article moving up the HN list of articles just based on a general sentiment about Facebook and ... not really anything about the company or what exactly they're saying?

I don't want to take anything away from this company's efforts but I feel like on HN I'm seeing a lot more articles up-voted based on title / sentiment, but not content. Granted I don't know the voter's minds, but it feels like that is the case. I wonder how many people know this is some cheese company and not the larger fancy cooler company.
Except pemmican was usually made without berries unless it was being used for ceremonial reasons. It would have been the way to preserve the meat from large game kills, since pemmican lasted for a very long time.
Unfortunately, your interpretation of facebook's motives require trusting that they'll only do what their PR says they'll do, and not what they're able to do. Or, even if that is their current reasoning, one then has to trust that they won't then take advantage of said ability in the future.

For many of us, facebook's past actions are more than enough to prove that they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt in this case.
There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.
You are using the Android client. This feature is missing in iOS.
It's worth noting that the Xbox 360 uses a PowerPC architecture while the Xbox One will use a x86 core. That will make just strictly comparing Ghz difficult.
In my experience with releasing material, it comes down to the copyright owner releasing property. That means the owner is properly labeled on the contract, whether that's a label, sub corp, or individual matters not.
I was expecting another kinect story. Still cool though. I know the minority report interface with a kinect is only a matter of time though.
It will certainly be Windows only. I don't even know if Microsoft will open it up to 3rd party developers, but internally they could reposition and expand the Kinect and develop in-house products. I'm hopeful for the media center remote control applications.
The best guy I know works at FreshBooks. http://www.freshbooks.com/our-team.php#rich Reach out to him, he may know some people.
Curiously, the only known device that can format the SD cards back to a useable state is the Nokia N8:

https://twitter.com/#!/joshuatopolsky/status/418339383096115...
I think it works great for what it is a database of photos and random stuff in general. But, I don't think that it's an effective use of time and it's being used currently mostly for stalking friends and whatnot. Which is fine, but the main issue is that the company has questionable privacy policies and a monopoly on our data.

Obviously this is an issue with many companies but none are as evident as facebook and google. Facebook has time and again shown that it has little regard for our privacy unless there's a major outcry. Even then their reaction is often to late to little.

Again for those reasons I truly hate fb and for that reason its a pos. Clearly, these are my opinions and I'm not trying to forcing anyone to comform to my opinions. It's just a small rant into space lol.

In general I'm very hesitant to speak so negatively about a company, but this is one of those few rare exceptions that I feel strongly enough about it to say something. That's all = D
Same here, I can spend all day working on a computer, but reading on a computer monitor tires my eyes out. I picked up the new standard size kindle, and while it does not do well at all with pdfs, it does a great job with ebooks. The Oreilly ebooks can be downloaded directly in mobi format, so they work very well with the kindle. Overall I've been very happy with reading ebooks on the kindle, and with the $139 price tag, you really can't go wrong. I'm still looking for a good pdf device, but unfortunately the ipad is the best device I've seen yet for pdfs, but its price tag is way too high for me. The ipad does a surprisingly good job of zooming in on columns, something I haven't seen anything else handle well.
Rich Hickey of Clojure (http://groups.google.com/group/clojure/browse_thread/thread/...)

Matt Mackall of Mercurial, before it was acquired (http://selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2010-April/031543.htm...)
Hmmm, that's why he's making all these crazy decision, because his office looks like yours or mine? I thought it was because his job is to create products that people like and buy while raising the stock price. Seeing as how AAPL has gone from $64.56 to $307.04 over the past 5 years, I'd say these crazy decisions are working out pretty damn well, huh?
That's not what I wrote.

30 is a great age. Take advantage of it and do some traveling.
Here what helps
If you scared about ppl dying or smth,
1) repeat in your head "Humanity is the disease, Inferno is the cure"
2) repeat i can control only my actions, actions of other is their own responsibility
3) control is illusion
4) humanity (retards) deserves all this shit that happens

You should abstract yourself from the environment. Somehow force yourself to don't give a fuck because it's not your choice everything is shit. And let it go to ashes.
> How do we stop money laundering.

Hm, so the dollar won't reach wide adoption until we close Wells Fargo, HSBC, and other major banks that have been party to large-scale money laundering?
It was the KLF
I’d imagine the writer doesn’t have experience working any other white collar job, they are writing from their own experience. Maybe a bunch of my own gripes with the software industry might apply to paralegals or accountants but I’d never know.
They must get some credit for full disclosure and giving you a discount for it. Unlike Airbnb which is charging you normal fee and still live-stream your stay. The other thing good about this hotel is that you can put measures in place to minimise exposure of your genitals because you know it is livestreamed.
So pictures were taken in selfiedefence?
I'll tell you what would really change the world: forcing our legislatures to use version control when writing our laws.

No more sneaking in cryptic revisions in the middle of the night without anyone noticing! No more anonymous additions from lobbyists!

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/change-gov-revision-control...

Unfortunately if teaching our designers and managers to use git is hard, the prospects of teaching our elected representatives to use it are very slim.
I stopped "uploading" files since I started using Dropbox.
I don't know if this varies from location to location but it is pretty common here in the UK for a criminal defense not to lead any evidence - it is for the prosecution to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt, not for the defense to prove the innocence of the accused.

There are also enough high profile cases where police have lied and/or fabricated evidence - not something that happens a lot, but it has happened.
Hah, thanks for that. However, this was significantly less impressive than what the reddit commenter did, who worked it in a chemical sentence to the effect of:

In our experiment, we used two chemicals, iodine (I) and carbon (C) to observe their effects when burning. In one particular instance, the fumes produced after burning I were highly corrosive (we observed I smoke crack rocks and other similarly hard substances).
Well, I did mention this:

"My guess is that Google is factoring in high page rank of the blog and then if title matches it ranks the post highly"
To love learning. What are you trying to market? Find a job? Get a raise?

Anyways for some actionable advice: writing well is in shore supply as well as being able to give a good speech. If you are a technical person learn usability as that gets overlooked very often. (see don't make me think by Steven krug) I think anything you learn will give you a context in which to learn other material so no learning is in vain.
It's not the temperature so much as the chronic lack of sunlight for most of the winter...
Noone likes a grammar Nazi. Especially an SS Grammar Nazi.
Maybe the point is maintainability?
I can't agree more. I remember the remarks of my fellow Computer Science colleagues at uni when I was off to my business courses (I did a double degree): all the reading, the essays, they were looking at it as the 'easy' , 'boring', 'irrelevant' things - because what can be more important than writing code?
Well - it helped. It helped a lot. How are you going to sell whatever it is that you're building without putting together a good description of your product or a convincing sales pitch?
Huh? C has had the <tgmath.h> header for 15 years, which lets cos(x) do exactly that, and work on complex types besides.
My apologies. I normally rely on the URL checker in submissions to weed out duplicates - I should probably be a bit more pedantic. Thanks!
Nice article - this kind of retrospective is always really interesting. One little thing that caught my eye -

It turns out that postgres has an ‘auto vacuum’ setting that when it is enabled will cause the database to go on some introspective tour every hour which was the cause of the enormous periodical loads. Disabling auto vacuum and running it once nightly when the system is very quiet anyway solved that problem.

Often vacuum problems can also be fixed by running auto vacuum more often too - this means it has less to do per run, so should be able to keep up a little more easily. Loads of stuff on vacuum on the postgres wiki: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/VacuumHeadaches#Perverse_Fe...
It worked well in the past. They made significant improvements to it.

However, it's not as well-suited for multi-datacenter usage. For example, they needed another replication layer. I think they're working on a current system that will replace memcached, and it seems to be causing some consistency problems...
Yes, an excellent point to remember. PDF's are de-facto any time you want to control the content in some fashion (formatting, copy/pasting, etc), and they do a good job- but the thing about e-readers is they need to be in control the formatting of the content.

This is why ebook formats (mobi, epub, even azw) are important.
I did it last week, I know what you mean :)

But what is the alternative? If scripts like this[1] or homebrew are the solution I don't understand how it is an improvement over macports.

(As a side note: I highly recommend you try out GraphicsMagick, it is mostly equivaklent but has a third of the dependencies and does not pollute $PATH with a dozen commands)

[1] https://github.com/maddox/magick-installer
You can store a key escrow on the dropbox server protected by a password or a token. Just a matter of designing something secure and useable. Not easy, but possible.
You're looking for two files f1 and f2 that hash to the same thing? And hoping that f1 is randomly generated by you, but f2 is someone else's original file which can be downloaded because of dedup?

In general, solving for f1 and f2 (i.e., you get to control both) such that h(f1)=h(f2) is called finding collisions in hash functions and hash functions like SHA are considered collision-resistant. It is very difficult to find collisions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_resistance

Of course, if f1=f2, then you've magically guessed the original file, so that is highly unlikely. What you're asking for is something stronger than collision resistance; you're asking for a second preimage, given a first. This is for all practical purposes (requires at least 2^120 or more computations) impossible for any well designed hash function.
Kind of makes me wonder if similar reporting styles played a large part in the late 90s boom/collapse.
It bodes well for this app to still have a few problems to address that are inherent in the current platform - its indicative of any real technological advance. I'm reading a huge success here.
Hasn't Vertex already run an experiment on people and cured sickle cell disease using CRISPR last year? What's new here (except that the organizations are different)?

https://sicklecellanemianews.com/ctx001-sickle-cell-disease
This conflates too many issues; people dislike police unions because they are a powerful lobbying force against police reform. They prevent innovations like liability insurance [0] from gaining any traction.

And no, I at least personally think the Chauvins of the force shouldn't be paid at all, because maybe their 18 cases of misconduct should lead them to being removed from the force.

[0]: https://www.npr.org/2020/06/07/871751070/liability-insurance...
It's funny how so may drivers will say "Stop stealing car lanes and turning them into bike lanes! Roads are for driving, not bikes!" and at the same time they'll complain that their "free" parking was turned into bike lanes because apparently roads are for driving and parking, but not bikes.
First, Don't go to "startup events", meet with customers, other in your industry, find advisors (either technical advisors, or non-technical advisors who have a proven track record of raising funds, doing "business operations" et al). Attend technical conferences to find programming partners and (most importantly) potential customers and advisors. Don't waste your time around "biz dev" types (especially the ones without a "biz" to "dev"), they're the ones who form the "9/10 startups fail" statistic.

To answer your question, not all non-programmers are equal: much like not all programmers are equal. The types you see "seeking a technical cofounder" are the equivalent of 1990s "HTML programmers". On the other hand, a seasoned startup veteran who may not be actively coding (but, most probably holds a BS or MS in CS or EE) but has a track record of raising funding, selling the product, effectively handling business operations and the like has a lot to contribute (if you're at a stage where you need assistance in anything beyond product development: when this stage comes depends heavily on the kind of product you're building), even if his role won't be development.
Some unicode issues on that site "âš ï¸ "
It turns out that most countries go into negative growth once they hit a certain level of development/stability/richness. The solution to the problem is therefore, obviously, to ensure that all countries reach this level.

I remain a perpetual technological optimist, we'll solve this problem as well.

Btw, it's very hard not to read your comment like "wouldn't it be better for everyone if all these poor people just died off...?"
I disagree. It should be both. Specifically because what was tested and run by the person sending in the request was the diff to the master at the time the branch was created.

Please let that sink in. Nobody ever tested the diff that this is going to be showing to the user.
If I recall correctly, it's the same as dropping UI components in Visual Studio and then assigning methods to events.
Why is signing up with a mobile number an issue? Where I live, you can buy cards freely l, so I could just use a throwaway card to sign up, and use it only when I need to sign in/restore account.
> I imagine...

That’s moving the goalpost.

There isn’t any barrier to programmatic banking. The use case is too narrow for it to be a widely-advertised service.
> The benefit of BTC is that when your bank mismanages their assets a la 2008, resulting in a bank run, you know your assets are safe instead of having to rely on the Fed to bail out your bank. Your money is in your control, not in the control of someone else.

I don't think that's true. Most companies providing services on top of bitcoin control the private keys, so they could do the same thing. You give up absolute control of your money to get access to a service, except now creating the money is terrible for the environment and consumes as much power as a small European nation.