jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This guy's idea of what happens at a Demo Day is so far removed from reality. E.g.

investors walk around committing $100K checks to their “favorites.”

All that happens is they exchange contact info. The investor will want to meet (often multiple times) before writing the check, and the founders will meanwhile check up on the investor.

This too is completely false:

with the acceptance of outside capital they are making a 3-5 year life commitment

Neither founders nor investors believe there is any commitment to keep working on the startup any longer than the investors' money lasts. In fact, investors have even lower expectations than that. I've seen several startups blow up while they still had some investor money left, and they just returned what was left and there were no hard feelings.

And as for this piece of advice

If I were running an accelerator I would be brutally honest and advise the bottom 25-50% of their classes not to move forward with financing post-demo day

the problem is, we don't know that early who the big successes are going to be. E.g. Greplin now looks like one of the top startups in their batch, but after Demo Day they would probably have seemed in the bottom half. They were down to one founder, and a new idea he'd come up with 2 days before DDay which at that stage consisted of nothing more than mockups.
Yes. Clearly it makes logical sense to completely ignore the experience of people who have been doing what you're doing longer than you have.

Seriously though, I'm not saying you need to worship everything that these kinds of posts say. I'm just saying that one shouldn't go to the opposite extreme.
I am 45 and you all ruined my internet back in 1993.
The fact that he has two kids means that he and I have different value systems, and that my judgments of what is best do not apply to him.

That said? Yeah, you do right by your kids, and you stay in that shit job, and you give them as much stability as possible.
A lot of people like Mailchimp's UX.

I lean towards Hacker News' style: boring/minimalist/functional.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Design strategy, UI & UX. Prototyping, Figma, concepts, user testing, flows&journeys

Résumé/CV: https://beckmanstrandberg.se

Email: pelle@beckmanstrandberg.se
WSL 1 or 2? WSL 1 has very slow disk access, so compiling can be pretty slow. I.e. I would expect WSL to be slower for disk reasons even it was running on an M1.
Sharks are viviparous, oviparous and also ovoviviparous.

[..] There are over 500 species of shark living in waters around the world and the majority give birth to live young. The remainder are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs. [..]

[..]Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are the largest species of shark. Although these animals produce eggs, they don't lay them. Instead, the young hatch while still in the female's body and are born as miniature adults. This is known as ovoviviparity.[..] In some species, the female will produce unfertilised eggs, which are eaten by embryos. This is known as oophagy ('egg eating') and occurs in species including the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and bigeye thresher sharks (Alopias superciliosus).

Embryos of other sharks survive by feeding on their smaller siblings. This is called intrauterine cannibalism or sometimes as embryophagy ('embryo eating'). This is known to occur in sand tiger sharks (Carcharias taurus).

Placental viviparity occurs in some species of shark - once the yolk sac has been depleted, it attaches to the uterine wall, acting as a pseudoplacenta.[..]

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/do-sharks-lay-eggs.html
Not OP, but when my dad had cancer in Poland, the national health fund covered his entire treatment over 8 years. Few operations, monthly dose of Glivec(google the cost of Glivec treatment in the US to see how insane that is), hospital stays, and like OP said - he would get reimbursed for travelling to the hospital and back. And this treatment was never tied to his employment, he never had to prove to anyone that he definitely has cancer still, we've never seen a single bill for any of it, I simply have no idea how much this treatment has cost over the years. Which is the point of it all I think - if you need treatment, you simply get it, a regular person never has to worry about billing, dealing with insurers or anything like that. The only interactions you need to have are the doctors telling you when to appear for the operation, and the pharmacy calling you to let you know your drugs are ready to pick up. That's about it. I know there are outliers in that system, but for my dad's entire 8-year long treatment I'd consider the way this all works as 10/10.
I have used both and like maven better. I do not like the idea of using a turing complete language to define your builds. Every Gradle project I worked on eventually devolved into build code insanity.

Give me any maven project and I can figure out how to build it and modify dependencies and stuff within minutes.

With Gradle, it can be an hour of messing with code if the project maintainers got creative.

I've never had a project that maven, with it's mostly fixed build setup, couldn't handle. Having a turing complete build script is like turing complete cooking recipes. Pointless and definitely going to create more problems than it solves
I'm not sure if this is specific to Matomo. You could use headless agents over web proxies around the world to inflate Google Analytics as well. It just costs less to do it in your own DB.
For the record, a 'Directive' is not a law upon people. It's something that individual member states must implement. So Each EU member state must implement this law. The EU has no courts for people (you can only bring countries to the EU courts), and likewise it has no prisons for people. It would not be the European Union that charges you with this, but it would have to be an individual member state.
Derek,

Do you guys have a timeline on that? As I said, I don't mind sitting down and trying to knock it out but schedule wise it won't be in the immediate future. If you guys are already on it (as in someone is currently working on it), I can just wait till the first feature branch on github and go from there.
Congrats! I remember when WolframAlpha tried getting DuckDuckGo's app off the app store for linking to them... Glad to see them playing nice, now.
They're all suing each other. I'm sure someone will post that chart that shows all the mobile players and their largely reciprocal lawsuits amongst each other.

This is standard procedure among the big companies and it's how the business works. They do this to try and get corps to pay licensing fees to each other, and the lawyers encourage it because lawyers like money. I doubt many of these are really adversarial, it's just big business in its normal course trying to get as much money out of everyone as possible, and establish a precedent that if you don't comply with demands, it will cost you even more money. This, of course, is not really relevant to these big companies anyway unless one of these cases establishes a harmful or undesirable precedent.
Thanks Emil.
Does anyone know why they have not decided to focus their energy elsewhere? Why go to the effort to double, triple, or whatever their stake in Facebook when they could cash out and attempt to create wealth else where? I bet there are a number of entrepreneurs who would love to take angel investments from the Winklevosses, regardless of the twin's track record.

Furthermore, they would have much more fulfilling lives if they took the money they have and invested in/ created something new... at least they would have a chance to intellectually participate in the start up environment.
This reminds me of a film quote that has haunted me for 14 years:

"Is the world fundamentally a better place because of science and technology? We shop at home, we surf the Web... at the same time, we feel emptier, lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history..."

Palmer Joss, "Contact", based on the book by Carl Sagan

Do your truly feel more connected due to social networks? Living remotely, about 2.5 hours from any major city, I've found the net usually to be little more than social filler: marginally better than being alone with my own thoughts.

Given that I don't have any close friends out here in the country, how do I feel close to people? I visit them.

We are still animals. Our brains have evolved to socialize with one another in a physical space. Social networking is fast food compared to the repast of in-person companionship.
If you are having difficulty imagining that, just read _Small Gods_, by Terry Pratchett. Maybe also read it if you are not having difficulty.

The premise of that story, exploring the difference between followers and believers can be mapped directly to... well, quite a lot of religions, I'd think.
I'm guessing, like most people who have more resources than refugees, you and your wife would prefer living somewhere with a bathroom, indoor plumbing, and a refrigerator.
Adding power outlets to public parking spaces does not require breakthroughs or innovation. 25% of all lots in the parking garage built several years ago next to my previous work were prepared for or had charging sockets.

Like with the majority of parking in Sweden you pay with an app or sms, and the hourly rate is higher if you charge.
Perhaps the real point of giving advice to Richard Stallman is to give advice to some of the younger folks who might be considering acting like Richard Stallman.

Don't be like Richard Stallman! Even Richard Stallman can barely get away with it!
It shouldn't matter what Stallman knows about the blogger. Either the argument itself is worth responding to, or it isn't.
>http://gizmodo.com/#...

Broken link.
This gets even more weight when you consider that EBS was broken across multiple availability zones, which means that, had they used EBS, their first point would be invalidated.
Radio 4 is perhaps Britain's greatest pop-cultural output of the 20th century.

Allow me to direct you to the rest of the In Our Time archive, with programmes on Science, Religion, Culture, History and Philosophy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/

In particular the recent celebratory 500th edition, on free will, was very interesting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5y9z
> Their contribution to advancing the state of art was zero. Those in the fields were I have a glimpse of understanding, should not have defended.

The research committees that decided to accept these dissertations were composed of multiple experts in their respective fields of research. Every expert took months to evaluate each thesis and decide whether the contribution was sufficient to grant the degree. And yet your glimpse of knowledge is apparently enough to disqualify their judgement.
I intentionally switch handles when I join a new service / community. I don't think of my handle as my "identity" in any sense - rather, it's more like a license to post whatever thoughts I have at the time. Barton Fink happened to be the most recent movie I watched since I started posting here. It has only a tenuous connection to my real identity, and I'm not particularly vested in it at all. If HN generated random ID's for me on posting, for example, I wouldn't mind.
Some comments:

* Transit, while better than all but a few US cities, is still pitiful by world city standards. Many areas of the city are inaccessible by faster transit than buses, and the buses are incredibly slow. Transit connecting to areas outside SF are even worse. The Caltrain is a tragic joke of a commuter rail line.

* Vast areas of the city, especially the whole western half and most of the southern areas are zoned for sparse residential, and don’t allow even moderately dense construction, or a reasonable density of commercial use (e.g. shops/restaurants) mixed in with the housing. Because the same areas are the ones least accessible by transit, there is substantial land spent on cars and streets in those areas, and residents there are stuck as (mostly car) commuters. Overall, a huge waste of space in light of the housing shortage throughout the Bay Area. Fortunately there are also plenty of neighborhoods zoned in a more mixed and somewhat denser way, which are better (but also have commensurately higher housing prices/rents).

* Traffic lanes are wider than necessary on many streets, many streets have more lanes than necessary, and there is an absurd overabundance of street parking. Streets are engineered to encourage faster driving than the posted speed limits: On some residential streets with posted 25 mph limits, the median traffic speed is >45 mph, especially at night.

* The road system is pretty bad for pedestrians (though again much better than most US cities), with too many traffic signals all on relatively slow cycles, and streets and intersections designed for cars first with pedestrians as an afterthought. As mentioned in the previous point, many streets are wider than necessary. Roads are very dangerous for cyclists, with few separated bike lines and many poorly designed intersections.

* There are too few public spaces directly facing and open to the street where people might sit and hang out. What spaces there are need more people walking nearby, better seating, and better/more street food and entertainment.

* At night, almost all streets are much much brighter than necessary, probably about an order of magnitude too bright. On many streets it’s possible to read a book by the street lights, and light pollution in general renders the night sky all but invisible even on clear nights.

* Most areas would benefit from more trees.

On the flip-side, at least this awful plan from the 40s/50s to cover the whole city in freeways never came to fruition:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~25... ; many US cities weren’t so lucky, e.g. http://iqc.ou.edu/2015/01/21/60yrsnortheast/
Do you mean https://github.com/libos-nuse/net-next-nuse? There's a COPYING file:

https://github.com/libos-nuse/net-next-nuse/blob/nuse/COPYIN... (GPLv2, taken from the kernel)
Ok, fair.

It would have been correct for the original author to have written that most collections have ϴ(n) space complexity, where radix trees only have O(n) space complexity.

It's common for people to use O when they mean ϴ or Ω. All the original statement was saying is that most collections use as much data as you put in, but some (like radix tree) can use less.

(for fun, if we don't give O(1) pointers: If I'm not mistaken, radix tree has O(m*log(m)+n), Ω(m) space-complexity, which is O(n) iff the average size of an element is ≥ log(m); which it almost certainly would be)
Agreed, that's why I wanted to do it!
CU Denver undergrad students seeking a degree are forced to take a few 3000+ level courses to meet a cultural diversity requirement. Most other general education requirements can be met by taking equivalent courses at a community college which is what I did. I've always speculated that these are required in order to help the college get some extra money from students. Some of the options for these courses have required materials that can only be purchased from the university bookstore and they consist mainly of printouts of wikipedia articles.
gentrification is a ridiculous term. Why would anyone want their community to stay poor??
Probably won't be long before Google starts applying similar pressure.
What's right, though, is you can implement an interpreter in a weekend. That makes it usable in a lot of places. Once you add exceptions, that goes away. File encodings and character sets are nice, but short-sited. R5RS was eternal. No one predicted the move to Unicode 35 years ago when Scheme was created, and that lack of definition let it make the transition fine.

I'm all for recommendations on things like those, so if you chose to implement them, there's a standard way, but I'm not in favor of making those part of the standard.
I can already do free transfers to anyone's bank account: it's called BACS, every UK bank account supports sending and receiving BACS transfers, the vast majority through a web interface. Takes 3 days, but who cares?
I think it will have a lot to do with the knowledge of the speaker. I saw lots of nihongo looking stuff, plenty of swahili and polynesian looking things too.

Edit: Though it all starts to blur together after the first 10,000 :-)
Wouldn't this make gems like Devise irrelevant?
Amazing reply, thank you (Grasswire looks amazing, I'd love to hear more!) I somehow don't feel like I should be running an affiliates for other people business, and wonder how much my heart would be in it. I'd prefer to do something more transparent, pointing traffic to my own site (but not competing with those companies that pull in thousands of shops and have data scientists working around the clock, like Lyst)
There's a company called the social chain doing this really well (influencer marketing as an agency) they have mulit-mutli millions of UK people in their network. Then there's the audience, who claim a billion people can be influenced by them every month. Woah.
Any country in a retrograde economy has the benefit of existing modern technology to adopt as well as the absence of legacy encumbrances, making it easier to play catch-up.
This leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Unclear how much practical damage this caused (how many security analysts are using the Signal server source to look for vulns?) but this is damaging to the project's claims of transparency and trustworthiness.

It’s quite clear that this crypto integration provides a perverse incentive for the project that points in the opposite direction of security.
Should we stick to Java or C/C++ then?
>What should be on the Christmas list of geeks everywhere?

What should be on the Christmas list of mods everywhere? Of goths? Of clubbers? Of poly people? There are no answers to this type of question that aren't bred of ignorance or absurdity. This second question is silly.

The first was sensible. I suppose I could use a sweater.
Right, so i agree with the author on this front, but it's not to say that there are no tools with which to do analysis, but many of them are pretty rudimentary.

I'd love to see more people pitch in and help develop tools that would make scientific analysis easier.

I did a presentation at RubyKaigi on this general subject actually: http://www.slideshare.net/knowtheory/mapping-the-world-with-...

(and a video: http://rubykaigi.tdiary.net/20100829.html#p09 )
Memory has been updated now :)
BTW, does anybody know why I can't edit my comment?
They are probably not living under the illusion that theirs is the greatest country in the world.
More to the point, while your hypothetical eccentric billionaire can probably afford a helicopter or two, a Harrier is currently the only kind of fixed-wing aircraft that can launch from these ships--good luck finding one on the open market.

The Harrier actually launches horizontally on carriers like the Invincible, but they require the ski-jump to launch, and the deck isn't, I think, long enough for conventional carrier aircraft.
There is a vast difference in "knowing" who was doing it, and having proof.
Ironically for people still criticizing "len" as a function, it is now the more acceptable way of accomplishing the task than what Ruby is doing in many circles. In Python, len is a generic function that can call anything that implements a certain interface. This is more correct that baking the "len" function in somewhere in the object hierarchy, or implementing it relatively randomly throughout the hierarchy with a series of "len" methods that may or may not actually be connected. (len isn't the best example since it's in the "standard set", but in general just because two methods have the same name doesn't mean, well, anything in particular, really.) Favoring interfaces over inheritance leads you to the Python solution, not the Ruby solution. Python's arguably not merely "OK" but more right than Ruby here, if you are really going to be an OO purist (of certain flavors).

Python then actually ends up taking advantage of this by having len able to use any of several interfaces. It may call double-underscore-len, but it may also traverse an iterator. It could potentially do other things as well. It's actually a straightforward application of the "prefer interfaces over inheritance" to the dynamic language case. You can criticize the spelling of the double-underscore methods (which if you are really grumpy, can actually be fixed by a metaclass, though I think the cost/benefit tradeoff is bad unless you are the only person who will ever use that code), but if you haven't used them you may not realize just how finely tuned they are, and how well they work with the functions that actually search over the interfaces to find the best one to use in a way somewhat difficult to replicate directly with a "method".
Broad generalizations are always false. Smalltalk's influence on Ruby is undeniable, but matz has specifically said Lisp influenced him, as well.

You're speaking of Lisp's _features_, I'm talking about Lisp's _ideas_. It may not have 'Lisp macros,' but it does embrace metaprogramming, for example.
My experience- I had my first kid when I was totally broke. Working multiple minimum wage jobs. Everything was thrift store, hand-me-down, government assistance. Instead of child care, I worked every day and night so our kids could be with their mother.

As I built my career, my lifestyle inflated, and so did the kid’s expenses. We make in 3 days what used to take us a month.

The kids get to share our lifestyle with us. It’s probably different for us because we’ve never been well off + not have kids.
11 seconds into the trailer of A Plague Tale demonstrates what, I believe, Pulcinella is referring to as the "Rat System":

https://store.steampowered.com/app/752590/A_Plague_Tale_Inno...
I don't agree with him. I think things will remain highly segmented for many years to come. Mobile devices are far more personal than desktops and there's less chance of a one-size-fits-all solution. I don't see any killer app that is going to make one platform vastly superior to another. It's not like the old days of PCs where you needed a DOS/Windows PC to run your applications and there wasn't much choice to the end user or enterprise user. These days many enterprises are giving their employees a choice of different SmartPhone platforms exactly because there is no one-size-fits all. In the consumer space it's even more of a wild card but the same theory applies. There's simply not enough lock-in to allow one company to become dominant. You can easily jump from an iPhone, to Android, to WM7, and back to iPhone without losing any major functionality.

I would agree that Android based platforms will likely be the single biggest player but that's not exactly the same as being a dominant, homogeneous, platform in the style of Windows. We could see the Android handset market evolve (or devolve) into a Symbian-like future where the operating systems share some common DNA but are effectively different platforms. For example Sony's possible PSP phone with games incompatible with other Android phones. You can technically still call it Android but in reality it will be "baed on Android" This is something that was never really possible with Windows. I don't know if we'll be able to group all these Android based platforms together in any meaningful way in the future. The differences between Android Device A and Android Device B might be as meaningful as the difference between iOS and Android.
Or, just factor in performance bonus programs, unvested stock, other benefits, merit raise schedules, etc. Estimate optimistically.
The Mythical Man Month, Peopleware, The Pragmatic Programmer and all the classic Joel On Software Articles - they taught me so much. Unfortunately, just like you I have encountered very few people in my day job who have heard of these books. I am not sure if that is reflective of a big company, or IT folk in general?