jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I keep my .bashrc in version control and install it on all systems where I use bash. It's not the best place for platform-specific optimizations. Those 4 lines of code aren't portable, and there isn't a single line in my .bashrc that requires root privileges. I realize the example was a proof-of-concept, but I doubt this issue is easy to solve in userland, compared to just automating it in the kernel.
I'd have to agree. Having worked for almost free for no less than 4 "startups" with absolutely nothing to show for it, I'm a little more hesitant than most to jump in again. There's only so many times someone can say "This time it's different" before you stop listening.

Plus I find it hard to feign the appropriate level of passion for leveraging social graphs in a disruptive manner or making business logic sexy.

I'm always been a cynical type but the majority of places I've had experience with have given me reason to bolster that outlook :)
The back story of Byte (if anyone cares) is that Carl Helmers, who was working at Intermetrics at Fresh Pond in Cambridge, MA at the time (1973? 74?--forget details at this late date), was publishing a little samizdat Intel 4004/8008 hobbyist newsletter on the side (mimeographed, etc.).

I was working at Intermetrics (mostly a government compiler house at the time) as a consultant on a competitor language to ADA, as a sophomore in college. Dan Fylstra, a friend from San Diego high school days, and the future founder of VisiCorp (publisher of VisiCalc), was also working there, and we were both interested in what Carl was doing.

Somehow, he dragged us both into talking to Wayne Green, then the somewhat eccentric publisher of the most popular ham radio magazine, up in Peterborough, NH, and we three got Byte off the group with Wayne's help. (Carl was the main editor, and I was just a part-time editor/writer.)

As much as I enjoyed the work, I was still in school full-time, and also working more than full-time at Intermetrics (hey, it was fun work and paid well), so I had to drop out later that fall. Not sure what happened to Dan's involvement, but I think he also was then at Harvard Business School after undergrad at MIT (and soon thereafter starting VisiCorp), and thus pretty short on time.

The very early Bytes were completely "golly, gee whiz, look what you can do with this thing!" and more like Carl's newsletter--very amateur. I guess it eventually got a lot more professional, but I never really kept up with it.

(Edit: Hunh, looking at some of these scans, I managed to stay on the masthead as an associate for quite some time after I dropped off the map.)
> Perhaps but I think it depends on who's writing it.

Inexperienced programmers write sub-optimal (or plain weird) code. Once they learn their tools, they will write better code. That's not surprising at all.
'Jobs' link also 404s.

My other thought is that it's very monochromatic. To such an extent that nothing quite draws your eye. In fact, I think the first thing I looked at was the 'Add to Gmail' button because it provided some contrast.

Why is the smallest text on the page the text that describes the features you offer?

I think on the whole you need to do a better job of telling the potential customer how you go about solving their problem. I get that it has something to do with tasks, but, for example, it's not clear what it means to "communicate through tasks, not lengthy emails." Does that mean it only works when other people are also using Taskforce?
That is basically why it's free to use Skype. It's free as many of their infrastructure is provided by users.
Rackspace is not cheap. Probably not great for price sensitive customers.

You might try showing them pricing from a competitor for a comparable product and requesting that they price match. They might at least try to come close.
For the most part I think what the user edw519 tells is perfectly correct. If you sure of your competency and confident that you can actually be 10x or 100x more productive than other than you must work for somebody who pays you 'per unit of work done' rather than somebody who pays you lump sum.

Unfortunately unless you make people pay for services they don't recognize your worth. Back here in India, like every where else good hackers don't get noticed until they make some noise. On the other hand even below average programmers who hop jobs often are paid real good packages. The way companies think of it is, that in any project if there say a x people. x-80% people work well, and are expected to compensated for the work of x-20% people. At the project level when the productivity data is measured, it turns out productive people have averaged out the unproductive data of the other crowd. So on a company wide policy basis a uniform hike applies, since data suggests productive was around industry average. The actual work of productive guys never gets displayed at all. This is just day light fraud, and a very scandalous way of rewarding people.
Is there a single Android handset that competes with the iPhone in terms of units, or is it "Android collectively beats iPad and iPhone collectively?"

I think Kottke was referring to specific one off products like the iphone itself. Google and the rest of the handset world collectively has surpassed iOS usage, but we know that the iOS pie slice consists of just 3 broad models -- iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch -- while Android slice consists of seemingly every other phone under the sun. How does the landscape look if you stop looking at it by collective mobile OS and start looking by handset model line?

I'm asking out of genuine curiosity, not to try and prove a point, so if this post sounds smarmy or anything its not deliberate. Culturally, collectively, "Android" seems like it is going toe to toe with iOS, but when you get down to single models, everyone talks about the iPhone and iPad, but not much about specific Android-sporting handsets. Android, in those conversation, always gets abstracted back down (incorrectly) to a nebulous brand/make, or (correctly) a platform.
To classify people who start companies that build web sites as being superior to others in any way at all is laughable. (I make web applications for a living).

He didn't mention "companies that build web sites" or call anyone superior.
>Every piece of software has terms and conditions, so seeking those out seems like a low bar.

I consider this evidence against Uber's case. For example, I recently set up a new smart TV and Google Home sound system for my parents. There had to have been 8 separate legal agreements, each very long, just to get to the point where we had a picture and sound came out the speakers. They are sense blobs of legalese, and most people assume they know what they say, but they don't.

It is ridiculous to ask people to either retain a personal lawyer or pursue their own education in law, just so they can understand and agree to the Terms and Conditions, EULA, and privacy agreements for all their apps.

Is it specifically Uber's fault the vast majority of users don't actually understand what they've agreed to? No. But it's reality, and we can't just ignore it.
They then also refused to give a unique license to the product for Amazon to my friend

This is a deal-breaker always for these types of arrangements. I've walked away after months of negotiations when suppliers renege of this key part of any distribution agreement. You cannot be in a position to build up someone else's product or brand, and have them take it away from you at their own discretion, with zero compensation to you. You should not also be diluting your marketing efforts for said product if the supplier is handing out distribution rights like candy.

Get exclusive agreements always. You'll likely need to pay some sort of minimum guarantee, but you can negotiate a rolling start, and if the product is not present in the market, you have leverage to get terms in your favour (ie, exclusive to you, but no sales guarantee for the first 6 months, to "test out the market"). This should still be outlined in writing and signed by both parties.
Your guy couldn't even build a wall, so good luck with that.
Used car pricing went sideways after the cash for clunkers program, and the market still hasn't re-normalized, at least here in California. I'm surprised at how long the effects are lasting.
What was the intent? Do you know or are you assuming?

I think if their goal was to actually take control of the capitol things would have gone much differently. I find it hard to believe this was anything but a protest.
I wouldn't say that Twitter is in my good graces, just that I think Facebook is worse. I don't have any empirical data to back that up, so it's just a general assessment from watching the industry. In my mind, Facebook pioneered a lot of the bad practices and has been the leader in unethical practices.

For me, that makes Facebook worse than the others because increasing profits by being unethical is easy and as soon as one company in an industry starts doing it, others are left in an impossible situation. Either they become unethical to compete or they get outcompeted and fail.

Facebook has also demonstrated they're not going to change until someone forces them. Even with all the pushback in the last couple years, they're still pulling anti-consumer stunts like the forced account tying / data collection with Oculus and Instagram. I tend to judge companies by their actions rather than their words and Facebook hasn't ever done anything to make me think they care even the tiniest little bit about the public good.
I think the real conflict of interest is when other services are layered on top of google.

For instance, you cannot make an appointment with the California DMV without using google services. Just accessing the website will try to log you into google.
> They should be, they attempted a coup against the democracy. However, as I said, what do I care if they destroy each other?

Political violence, once normalized, will inevitably be turned against its practitioners and supporters. Indifference in the face of this violence is nothing less than tacit approval of it, and invites reprisal.
> Most wouldn't pay the $1 for WhatsApp.

It had explosive growth despite (or to some degree because of) the yearly $1 fee.

I'd happily also paid for my kids and a number of my friends to keep them on old WhatsApp, pre-Facebook, if they needed it.

Instead they sold out.
It's worked out extremely well for AMD... and recall everyone was saying it would be the end of AMD when they spun off their FAB into Global Foundries.

Fabricating, and design are very different businesses.
Yeah. This is why I shred any document with my name on it. If it's junk mail and has my name, it's shredded. If it's anything, and it's got my name on it anywhere, it's shredded. You can't be too paranoid.
I really liked this Planet Money episode, Pigeonly's story is quite inspirational, both the founder's story, and the market it serves.
Access to internet services is not some fundamental human right. No one HAS to use these services. You can live a perfectly fine life without FB, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, Google, etc. I don’t have accounts with any of these services. My life is better for it.

Moreover, paying for goods and services is how the economy works. Netflix does not have a free tier. Are they fucking over poor people?
If that fails, try asking a neighbour to read your messages aloud and write down what they say on some A4 size sheets of paper. When they finish talking, you should find that your chat history is now on the A4 sheets of paper. Don’t lose this however or you’re back to the same problem you had initially!
I don't think you know who DeVos or her family is. Her family owns the largest private military in the world. They don't need jobs; they aren't going anywhere. They are going to continue shoving billions of dollars of government funds into their pockets.

They will be standing right there to fill key cabinet roles for the next Republican administration.
> Moreover, they've gotten threats from their ISP that they have to delete certain posts or be shut down. (which seems scary to me)

Agreed - though I find it's more of a headache than scary. On end, I don't like the fact that increasingly internet infrastructure is acting as a de facto judge in deciding what speech is and isn't allowed. I empathize with both parties. ISPs don't want to host speech they feel is abhorrent, and I'd probably do the same thing were I in their position.

I'm much more accepting of platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, et. al. taking down groups and banning members than I am of infrastructure providers doing the same. The former kicks people off of large communities, but people can still put together their own websites. When it gets the the point that I might not even be able to serve plain HTML that I wrote myself, because nobody will even let it go through the wires that's when I start thinking utility regulation in ISPs, DNS, etc. is necessary.

Cloudflare's CEO was very humble when taking down sites. When talking about taking down the Daily Stormer, "Literally, I woke up in a bad mood and decided someone shouldn’t be allowed on the Internet... No one should have that power.” [1] I largely agree, though I'd offer the caveat that something needs to have this power but it should be an institution like the courts rather than individuals in corporations.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/17/cloudflare-ceo-says-removing...
It may be shocking, but sometimes companies try to make decisions that benefit them in the long run. Even advertising companies! It makes sense that a toxic environment will turn off people in the long run, and most well intentioned people (ie the majority of Reddit, Google, or FB employees) want to run a platform that adds value and is not a cesspool.

The realities of staying in business sometimes override that. I don’t think we should consider it a default.
The oft-quoted 4% figure is accounting for inflation. The nominal average return of a balanced portfolio over time is more like 7-8%.
As the op said, your contacts could choose to become Apple customers. As the op also said, there are probably easier/cheaper options.
Resign in the last 2 weeks of his presidency when their jobs don't really matter, make the transition process marginally more complicated by leaving, avoid having to take a stand on the 25th amendment, and they can start trying to rehabilitate their images by pretending they were shocked by the administration they've been a part of for 3.9 years
Well, it depends on who's the One True Left. Most TERFy folks also identify as left wing and structure their arguments around historically progressive concepts like anti-essentialist conceptions of gender, but they're already kind of on the chopping block.
Is your contract on the blockchain? At what address can it be verified? If I buy it and trade it, can you verify or receive a royalty? That’s the token part.
Thanks! It looks like it does. This is validating, and cheaper than I estimated.
That implies nothing about their suitability as an interface for shooters. The military has other concerns that don’t apply here, like field reliability, and decades of established practices and equipment.
Did you follow a pattern for recording and tracking those class states? I stick to the business realm of our industry and Iv'e used a pattern called event sourcing that sounds kind of similar. Every update to an entity is an event and you can rewind/fastfoward any entity to a moment in time. It consumes a lot of memory/db space and if you don't snap shot occasionally, it's time consuming to build the events into a model so I'm curious what you use. Might give me some ideas.
You're right. I wasn't really trying to give a broad definition - I was making a narrower argument - and I agree that Chomsky's is a better definition. I guess my "whole premise" phrasing was a bit overly broad.
I realize google reader was a popular app, especially among the hn crowd. But there's been how many years since reader? Why hasn't anyone duplicated exactly the reader experience?

The truth is that you miss the world in which google reader could exist. Free, unfettered, unabridged access to full length articles in a highly consumable format is not a thing that most publishers are behind now. They want your eyes on their ux and their ads.

It's a bit like saying you miss street fighter 2 cabinets. Ok but, there are no arcades left.
Why is this number 1? Void lost their founder in weird circumstances, and haven't had a release in 2 years.

Not knocking the distro, just not understanding the attention.
Not surprised by the London - Dubai route being so popular. Ever since the month long lockdown got announced, a lot of tourists from the UK have been pouring into Dubai.
Simplicity is the key. Tags and labels may make it heavy and overwhelming. Syncing with Google Calendar sounds promising, but I like the idea of exporting to .ics so that it would cover more applications. (though I do love GoogleCal)

I've also considered the different colors idea, and this might be implemented if I decide to build something like a comparator of schedules.

Thanks a lot for your feedback.
Google doesn't like link-buying, and it's within their rights to weight or punish that however they'd like.

However, the term 'black hat SEO' should be reserved for dishonest/unethical practices – not just those that don't meet one company's preferences.
You seem particularly worried that you won't get hired since you're from a lesser known school. Don't be. Especially in fields such as software, they care a lot more about talent than name dropping. Do some cool projects and put it up on github. Have an idea for an app? Flush it out and launch it. Don't have an idea? Look at a successful app and try to port it to another platform -- you'll probably learn a lot along the way.

As students of a relatively small school that doesn't do a lot of advanced scientific research, my friends and I were able to get jobs/internships at some of the companies you've listed, so all is not lost :)
Am I the only one who's been jaded by all those Buzzword-driven "methodologies"? If anything, its development-driven-development. Anything else is practices.
Fantastic to see Manu put his neck on the line for a company that isn't even a part of K9's portfolio, but that he really believed in.
I was just wondering, actually, if Apple would make something to compete with Instapaper. The iPad is not necessarily an ideal ebook reader - it's heavier, more expensive, and harder to read in the sun than the Kindle or Nook.

Don't get me wrong; I love the iPad, and I've read a couple of books on it too. But what I really like doing is reading articles on Instapaper. The iPad seems ideal for reading and collecting Instapaper-length stories or essays. To me, it would make a lot of sense to integrate something like "Reading List" into iBooks, and market that as a feature. It may not replace Instapaper/ReadItLater for us, but I'm sure consumers who have never heard of either will love Apple's Reading List.
scp twice a day to keep the plebs at bay
I got what I needed for implementing interpolation from one of these videos, definitely recommend them. Godot is great but it would rock if interpolation support was as deep as puppet/rset support (which, it turns out, works great at lan speeds but can fall apart in high latency situations)
> Either google gets slapped and stops being a parasite that lives in the cracks of copyright law, or newscorp dies.

Seriously? Snippets are clearly fair use. The open web has operated on those principles for decades.

You're doing the same as those who cheered on software patents.

I don't care if Facebook and Google are the targets, ultimately this takes rights away from all of us and will undoubtedly spread out of Australia if it goes well.

Best thing that can happen is News Corp collapses and other countries stay away from legislating the internet.
I'm in Australia and have a few air filters around the house. They're good when you live in semi-rural and have neighbours who like open fires, not to mention occasional bushfire.

A couple of different sized Philips which I like for the big colour led circle; two have PM2.5 count displays. But the air filters I have that really work are two Inovaair beasts. Solid all-metal construction and big drum filters that move a huge amount of air.

Had an oven mishap recently which filled the house with burnt oil smoke. One of the older Philips (a 6000 series) was soon showing well over 250ppm but was struggling to bring the numbers down. The big Inovaair had the whole downstairs clear and the Philips happily reporting single digits in about 20min.
Roughly how would you write code to solve this particular problem in your ideal language?
As a German it's amusing to me that a translation was given for Kummerspeck, but not for Wanderlust.
Exactly. Comment from 11 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22526189

> The only project at Amazon that uses Clojure is one legacy project in maintenance mode.
The real problem is this. How do we determine which speech to punish in 2021? The algorithm is if one person in a non dominant group reports that the words made them feel bad, after the fact, then the words caused actual harm and must be punished. How do we know ahead of time? I don't know. But I do know that it leads us to strange situations where certain words cannot even be quoted, and the even the banning itself cannot be discussed. And the outlawing of discussing the ban cannot be discussed. And so on.
> Nullifying DDOS doesn't take ingenuity, it takes a big wallet

The problem in this instance relates not to the absolute size of Github's wallet, but the relative size of its wallet compared to whoever is sponsoring the attack. State-sponsored actors (if that is what is happening here) have many dollars at their disposal.
"... I do want a fast text editor that can operate on arbitrarily sized files."

Ever try radare (now radare2)?
Apparently those saving the lives have to function in the same marketplace as those working to increase the cost of living.
I'm still apprehensive about entrusting a single party to handle all of my infrastructure. Technical and business failures occur in even the best of the hosting companies.

Granted, my computing needs are basic compared to the needs of Netflix.
Often you need someone to start the conversation and set a positive tone.

Do you have any stats to back this up? Unless the responses you're providing actually contribute to the conversation in a meaningful way, I really don't see how just "getting the ball rolling" does any good.