jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm a musician and a programmer, with minimal theory knowledge but extensive work experience in both areas. I can do productive work, but at the same time, can see my own limitations. For instance, I would have a hard time organizing a large scale effort in either area: In music, that would be something like creating a long composition or arrangement involving multiple musicians. In programming, it would be coming up with the architecture for a big project.

Still, in a vein similar to a comment that I made about education yesterday, I wonder if there is such a thing as a "theory" of the formation and administration of work teams, i.e., of a level of reliability similar to music or programming theory.
First, this sidesteps the question. The writeup implies owners will be able to buy out indie.vc, rather than feed them a perpetual stream of dividends. Regardless of how they do this, what is the buy-out amount? It will have to be an integer multiple of the money invested to reach breakeven.

Second, many companies, especially tech companies, do not pay dividends.

In particular, a growing company would be foolish to distribute dividends; dividends are for companies that have reached a steady-state. Waiting for a company to hit steady-state from inception can take a very long time.
I understand your defensiveness to his blasting, but it's feedback (although cloaked in antagonistic language). By responding you draw attention to it. I'd ignore and see if others say same thing.

I do agree with him on one thing: "feed poor children" can send a negative message. For him its scammy, for me it's "ugh another poorly thought through tom's knock off?" Because feeding poor children isn't at all connected to first world people learning new vocab.

Unless you really believe in feeding poor children and you have a good story to back it up and you can quickly communicate that, something that would make more sense is something related to literacy. "Learn new vocab and donate books to poor children" sounds a lot better.
the arabs do well

Do they? The Saudi Arabian ruling classes do very well indeed, but how does the average Saudi do? Hint: google "Saudi Arabia inequality" and "Saudi Arabia oppression". It's the resource curse at work.
> Afghanistan has few mainstream Arabs and very few Africans.

I don't understand what this has to do with it. Do you mean that absence of Africans and Arabs helps in successfully building up a democracy and mining minerals?
You can't learn this stuff by reading about it, you have to experience it. Some of your counter-arguments are outright confusing to those who have programmed in languages with type inference (hint: they don't necessarily have classes).

Experience may help you change your mind. Reading papers and advocacy from people who've used it should provide limited influence.

As an aside, there are solutions to programming problems I would've never come up with if it weren't for experience in other programming languages, so I read "don't have time to learn a new programming language" as "don't have time because I haven't learned a new programming language."
I rely heavily on aspartame-filled drinks because I have rejected most other drinks as not suitable to drink throughout a working day.

I've attempted to drink normal sugar-filled soft drinks and felt terrible after a few days. That's based on 3 cans a day. The amount of sugar is just too much for me to handle.

I can drink water, but it is quite boring. I actually find drinking just water stops quenching my thirst and my mouth dries out progressively. Drinking fruit juice is also not going to work as it is very acidic, and I just can't handle more than a couple of glasses.

A mix of these drinks is fine, but not ideal. I just want a constant I can drink without preparatiog.

Diet soda fits all the criteria for me. It has a taste, unlike water, contains caffeine (diet coke is my poison), and rehydrates. I can also drink it all day without any real side-effects. The downside being the aspartame and phenylalnine it contains which may or may not be an issue depending on what you read.

I do limit myself to 3 cans per day, but then aspartame is contained in other things I consume every day. The most frequent of which is sugar free gum.

If there are any alternatives to aspartame-using diet drinks, sugar filled drinks, or just plain water I should be trying I'd appreciate some suggestions.
I guess I'll stick my neck out, point to the political discussion and ask "what does this have to do with hacker news?". If you want politics, reddit has plenty. If you want a nice discussion site, you can't have politics.
I agree these kids can be entrepreneurs. They are already entrepreneurial in their approach to scams. However I am afraid they will not get any VC funding for any of their gigs. But nevertheless a great initiative. The nigerian govt should take initiatives like what Israel did to promote entrepreneurship. Israel benefitted from the very talented diaspora it had, nigeria lacks this.

It's a difficult problem. Any thoughts?
In my opinion, and I think this concerns almost every African country, the problem is the infrastructures.
If you want to take initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, you need to start by providing good services and prepare the environment:

* Solid ISPs
* Renew laws
* Provide means to transfer money internationally
(Most money services are not really working here in Africa)

These points are probably not true for all African countries, but still, Most countries lack these elementary services.
You want predictability and a company that won't react to destroy your business model because it's a little inconvenient? Develop for Android.

Other than that, the only thing you can do is make yourself so very useful to Apple that they'll grant you an exemption if they decide to turn on a dime again.
Maybe you could add on the homepage for which languages it works. It looks like it's python only. Is it?
They have bigger systems--- https://www.cepheid.com/en_US/systems/GeneXpert-Family-of-Sy...

It's pretty neat-- they have 1, 2, 4, or 16 slot things that you can slot samples into as you're ready, and they process in the background... or the big robot. It's also neat in that they have combined cartridges to do a couple of influenza detections + RSV in one rapid test (with a different color of fluorescence for each).

But you're spot on in that this has a costly consumable (the cartridge)
I've been working for a while now to get my PC to play the game Robotron directly on the xbox360. Tried multiple reinforcement techniques (DQN, DDQN, Etc) and I haven't had any luck. Converting it over to work with Rainbow now. Lets hope. https://github.com/stridera/robotron
It knows where it is because it knows where it isn’t.
What is it? I have no idea.
There is no way a person at Manning's level could be expected to cherry pick effectively. How can he decide what is in the public interest, know what evidence is enough, know what evidence is dangerous, and so on. Yes to a point, but we must accep that its a highly complex set of decisions that have to be made. For a low level person to whistle-blow the only effective way to do it is to grab as much as possible, and give it to a person or people who can do that sorting for him.

Now, in a decent open democracy, there should be such people who do have the authority, clearance and moral independence, who we can all trust to do that for a whistle-blower. But, the problem is two fold, 1) who do we trust, and 2) the content of the documents proves that the US government could not be trusted.

So, he had to give the lot to some one he trusted would do morally the right thing, and release what was necessary. At that point in time, wikileaks was big and had a decent reputation. His case was, AFAIK, the first to go wrong, and the first to show that wikileaks was not robust and smart enough to do the job properly. Of course after the even, people slag wikileaks off and say he shouldn't have gone there. In hind sight, yes.

With Snowden, I guess that the Guardian and its lawyers are being very damn careful about what they release. I guess they have information that would be dangerous and they are probably rightly sitting on it. But here were possibly see a much better filtering and vetting process. No, not one governments like, but one that give us enough information to point fingers, but not enough to get people killed.

But, for a "simple" whistle-blower, they have no choice but to grab all they can, and trust people who know what they are doing to filter the material to a) prove a case or accusation, and b)protect the innocent and vulnerable. In that I include agents and what not legitimately intelligence gathering. Manning's mistake was a reasonable one. He was right at the time to think wikileaks was a reasonable route, but obviously that has since been tarnished.

Of course what we really need is this independent, trust-able, official route for whistle-blowers. But Im not sure how that can really happen satisfactorily. Hence the incredible value of decent journalists.
Fantastic post, Justin.

I'm a member of a mastermind, and spend most days in a Campfire room with fellow bootstrappers.

I work from home and don't have coworkers. Being able to have immediate access to really smart people who complement you is pretty much one of the best things that have happened to my business this year.
Your process sounds pretty effective to me, especially for a shop with 4 people. I've also only really got experience working with smaller teams. The only thing I would say I do differently before I commit to any ideas and wireframe is to ask everyone part of the team what they think, especially if they are not developers.
This was created for the challenges in http://www.ghostintheshellcode.com/
I would imagine he means trying to navigate the debris when sending other stuff into orbit, or bringing spacecraft home. I've often wondered this myself... at some point do we have so much stuff up there it's near-impossible to get spacecraft out without serious danger to their crews? And what about when it's time to retire them?

Legitimate question.
I don't think of hadoop being built for high complexity computation, but high IO throughput.

When you describe this kind of setup, I imagine things that involve proof through exhaustion. For example prime number search is something with a small input and large calculation time. However, these solution don't really benefit from hadoop since you don't really need the data management facilities, and a simpler MPI solution could handle this better.

Search indexing could fit this description(url -> results), but generally you want the additional network cards for throughput, and the disks to store the results. Then again the aggregate space on disk starts looking closer to TB instead of GB. Plus in the end you need to do something with all those pages.
The response of materials to EM radiation and its attenuation is highly frequency-dependent (at the very high frequencies, this is why we see things having different colours), so it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing; a material could be transparent to most frequencies but appear opaque to the ones radar use - essentially, the filter absorbs all the energy at particular wavelengths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notch_filter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric_electromagneti...
the transition to a surveillance policing state is nearly complete.
Decent article. Appalling title. There was essentially only one paragraph that dealt with the importance of a positive mood on creativity. The article outlined many other more important factors.
Wow. Written like somebody who has never actually been poor. How disgusting
All these "is Foo dead?" kind of topics are made to draw more attention than the usual, even though they don't make sense or matter much in the context of _now_
For me, information consumption is a substitute (in the economic sense) for television. It's a leisure activity. It fills the gap when I'm not doing Real Work. When I get bogged down, I just declare RSS bankruptcy and start over. shrug
I'm guessing he's arguing against people like Nick Carr and Andrew Keen, who've gotten a great deal of press in prominent places. Certainly, Keen seems to have the point of view Shirky is describing. Carr is more nuanced, but still seems to be arguing for something pretty close to that point of view. These points of view are uncommon amongst hackers, they're quite common in other parts of society. Certainly, many journalists seem to want a return to the 1980s.
I'd trade the projector for a pair of glasses with a transparent display.

The true power of this is really in the software.

It's amazing, stunning, work.
May be it's because programmers are slightly more in touch with reality?
:-)
They must be finding guy from google pretty hot.
Being happy won't buy a car, a house, health care for you and your family, happy won't buy vacations or trips (though they in turn do buy more happy & health), etc.

Happy is good. Wealth + happy is even better. :)
Interesting how times change.

I remember as a child, being bitterly disappointed with how bad Ferrari Formula 1 was on the Amiga, and I ended up blaming the slow speed on C. That colored my attitude toward the language for years, though once I started working, I ended up writing C++ mainly.

Nowadays, I've reverted to coding in C99, simply because I can easily find libraries for 'hard things' like generating jpeg files, and because cleanly written C performs like almost nothing else, and because console programs have a refreshing simplicity about them, especially if you put all the cool stuff in a library, then just hash up a text-based front-end.

There's a heck of a lot you can do in 1000 lines of C, and it's fun to write too, without the hassle and slow performance of an IDE like VS or XCode.
Me and Greenpeace, yes. When we're talking square miles of ecology reduced to sterile dirt in the dark under panels, we're talking about disruption similar to plowing, or mining.
Actually, we're working with gyms and letting them and their personal trainers make more money by revenue sharing. There are a lot of talented trainers out there who are underused during off-peak hours, and we're providing a way they can continue to train people in that time.

We're targeting gyms because, frankly, that's where most Americans work out, but we've already had a lot of interest from home gyms, so we're definitely going to work on that as well!
The point was, that there is a language close to java which can pass objects by value or by reference. (It passes object references by value or by reference if you want to call it like that)

To pass an object by reference, it looks exactly like C#'s out/ref parameter.

void function(ref SomeClass arg) {
arg=null;
}

var a=new SomeClass();
function(a);
// now a is null

Which is different from what happens without ref. (or by default in Java)
Solar has the disadvantage of disrupting ecosystems in geometrically huge areas, unexperienced in human history. Worse than strip-mining. Worse than city growth. On the order of the invention of agriculture.

Compare with Thorium reactors for instance, which could supply all our power needs for centuries, with negligible impact on the ecosystem. That's the tradeoff.
Your path will be your own, but here's what has helped me:

Try Meteor (meteor.com). That way you start from a complete development environment, and you can focus on actually using JavaScript, as well as feel good about being productive. Bring in new libraries to play with using atmospherejs.com. Try to think of a small website that you can build (a todo list, a checkbook balance sheet, a notetaking app), so that you can have real problems to wrestle with and a real goal to strive for.

Use Meetup.com or other community groups to find other people to talk with. Be honest about where you are at ("I'm a total beginner"), ask people about what they're working on, be nice and apologize for not knowing much. Be confident about your ability to learn. Talk about what you're doing. ("I'm working on a small pet project so I can learn"). Go into detail if you can.

Be patient. Be persistent. Also practical. The JavaScript world is vast, you can't know about everything. Ask yourself, do I need to know about this cool library/technology right now, or should I spend my time doing something else, like actual coding? Think about the bikeshedding problem, i.e. "shipping" (finishing your project) is better than bikeshedding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_trivialit...)

Read an authorative book on JavaScript (e.g., JavaScript: the good parts). There's no substitute. No website or blog article will get you familiar with the "deeper" concepts of the language. Don't worry if you don't remember everything, just try to understand each of the concepts and then plan on re-reading it again 6 months from now. Plan on reading more than one of these books.

Have fun!
Thanks bbcbasic! You nailed it. I debated using the term "awesomer" prior to posting. Mainly because it's not a real word :-). But, the whole point of the post is to knock people out of their current mindset. "Awesomer" makes you pause for a second and take notice. "Be even more awesome" didn't have the same effect. From the comments, it rubbed some people the wrong way. But, the fact it's even being debated means it accomplished much of what I intended to accomplish with it (cause you to take notice).
What if cryptocurrencies do not have the inflation problem?
sure, but i think the focus is on the magnitude and speed at which the wealth gap is widening. And its impact might be something we haven't encountered before
the flu vaccine is delivered annually by experts. now they are creating a whole new vaccine distribution system run by people who have never done it before. the politicians are celebrating their megasites as if that is suppose to impress us. I have no doubt if the money was ever counted that we're spending ten times more per shot for covid then we do for influenza, just on the distribution.
Grand juries give you the result the prosecutor wants. The ham sandwich tounge-in-cheek joke is that usually the prosecutor wants to indict, otherwise why would they bother going to a grand jury. For police officer involved brutality/killings, it's usually the opposite. The prosecutor doesn't want to bring the case (since their office needs to work with cops to prosecute civilians) but there's political pressure from the community, so the prosecutor brings the case to the grand jury & scuttles the indictment.

A huge improvement is probably actually to just remove the grand jury. That way prosecutors can't hide behind the "well I wanted to indict but the grand jury didn't let me" while removing the guilty by association act of "well a jury clearly thought the indictment had merit".
Like Tether? They’re currently in the middle of a fraud case alleging they are not at all backed by USD and thus the peg is supported by fiat and liable to fall off.

(I mean this in the dictionary sense of the word fiat that gives meaning to the phrase fiat currency. I don’t mean tether is supported by fiat currency)
Sure. But that challenge smells of whataboutism.

And it's also looking at the finger rather than where it's pointing. I could just as easily have picked on health care, for example, or housing assistance programs. But I'm not trying to write a book, here.

I think the more interesting phenomenon here is that seeing the negative consequences of a largely fiscally conservative cause is bringing fiscal conservative thought leaders to the point of putting their support behind a traditionally socialist cause.
That $36B is a drop in the bucket on the scale of a country. It's 25% of Jeff Bezos's net worth. How many $B spent on enforcement is it worth to reduce that to, say, $30B?
100%, it's completely changed how I approach DL projects.
The big difference is that you have to put up with the toddler's tantrum for perhaps 15 minutes. You can even choose to walk away if you need to - the toddler won't go anywhere.

A manic adult is more coherent, but goes on for days. I mean that literally - mania keeps you from sleeping.
It can be MITM-ed on any connection. Whether you approve the host fingerprint is, and has always been, entirely up to you.
At the earlier 2000's there were (black hat) hackers getting rich by selling books. And books that teached how to hack where quite popular.
Not hard to find proof NK was threatening American company and citizens.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-hackers-threaten-911-...
What you are arguing is either wrong or tautological. What is the relevance of the fact that nobody can get rid of all corruption? How do you even know it's a fact, except by some appeal to history?

You might as well be arguing that humans can't possibly fly because up until 1903 nobody had. "The Write brothers will surely fail! Show me a single case of anybody having ever flown."

Corruption is an extremely difficult problem to combat. But what reason do you have to say that it can't be solved? Maybe you should produce an example of some corruption for which there can be no possible manner of correcting.

The ease and at which you've adopted this attitude of cynicism and helplessness is not making the world a better place, nor does it provide an example of good decision-making or maturity. It's classic FUD.
I was surprised North Korea had such a large army. I checked; 48.5 active per 1000 capita, whereas US has 4.4.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...
who quotes the BBC's selective quote of a NK representative saying: "The hostile forces are relating everything to the DPRK (North Korea). I kindly advise you to just wait and see."

down to "Wait and see." with a headline: "North Korea refuses to deny Sony Pictures cyber-attack"

The more I read about this whole controversy the stupider I feel.
Unfortunately 3dpd is all the rage, barely anyone does 2d.
I honestly think that the term "tracking" is too benign. If I followed someone around, taking notes on them as I went, so that I could try to sell them something, I would be called a stalker.

But do it online and it's just "tracking".
The dot is just for the foreground app. If a background app uses the mic, your clock turns red (for recording) or green (for a phone call) in an even more obvious way, and tapping it takes you to the app that is doing so.
You really don't have anything better to do than spamming the whole discussion thread with this low-effort systemd critique?
Every voting system on the Internet, from discussion forums to product reviews seems to confuse popularity with quality, rewarding one as if it were the other. You can crowdsource popularity but not quality.
Tracking should be illegal. I see it that simple.
I have a friend who relocated from Saudi Arabia to America. He said MbS most likely watched the dismemberment via video link as entertainment. Nothing in the Kingdom like that happens without MbS' approval. It's unlikely that anyone went rogue because it's a very hierarchal society with strict rules.
OK, but... why? Do you really have so much configuration that you can't just store it in memory on boot? Or is it for another reason?
Should be possible using the Browser Toolbox to inspect the entire interface? I just checked and the HTML is definitely in the inspector at least, but I'm not sure what your requirements are.
BLM took over an entire section of Seattle for weeks.
Don't say that. That makes people reluctant to be adults and do what needs to be done. People deserve some recognition for, eventually, doing just that.

edit: Guys. By resorting to ad hominems and offering no incentive for changing one's mind, you are practically guaranteeing calcification and re-entrenchment. Are you happy that you contributed to the situation in a positive way?
I am American, but thanks for your sanctimonious dismissal.

Discussing political events in a rational manner will never be a bad thing.