jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Mediatek even seems to supply the entire software stack for the phones - and the hardware design part... well, just google for "gongkai" (http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107). No surprise that the speed of innovation with Mediatek chipsets is far bigger than the behemoths (Samsung)
A trackpoint is my way of reducing mouse-keyboard context switching :)
I just paid $7.02, and after that it became $7.03. Now it makes sense.
I have a been working on a replacement http://toadjaw.com but haven't opened it up to the public. It allows importing from delicious.com. Anybody interested in using it?
Cool. Do you have skills? Shoot me an email.
After searching for some of the folks they have spotlighted on Google and not seeing their page listed makes me wonder what is the point?
Oh and it works right from Safari. So just adding a normal bookmark is enough for it to sync.
Ha! Sounds like an interesting perspective: do you perhaps have a link to the source?
> e.g. 3:37PM, $GME trading at ~$73. 2/26 $80c were around $14.

I'd never heard of an option until a month ago.

My understanding: say you have c. $140 to spend

You could buy 2 shares at $73 each

If you think it's going to go up to $100, your $146 turns into $200

If you think it's going to go up to $400, your $146 turns into $800

If you think it's going to stop at $80, your $146 turns into $160

If you think it's going to go crash to $10, your $146 turns into $20

Instead $140 for 10 call options (which are for 100 shares each), so 1000 shares at $80

If you think it's going to go up to $100, your $140 turns into $20k

If you think it's going to go up to $400, your $140 turns into $320k

If you think it's going to stick at $80, your $140 turns into $0

If you think it's going to go crash to say $10, your $140 turns into $0

Is that right?
> I like my fiat and central banks, thank you very much.

I do too! But some people don't. And it appears that there are now options for everyone, which seems...good?
It's not like coinbase has not to worry about regulation anymore.

And for the technical aspect, did you spend a few billion dollars when you tried? Potential coinbase competitors may.

I don't think a valuation higher than NYSE and NASDAQ combined (or CME and CBOE combined) is reasonable.
They still hired Goldman and Citi to advise on the listing.
+1 insightful.

Related: "Win or learn, and you'll never 'lose'."
disk cache is just 'free memory', when swap is used there is no free memory.

Pretty much any OS (linux, windows, macos) use the unallocated memory for disk cache. Disk swap also takes RAM as page descriptors.
I guess Ayende first heard about MapReduce in CouchDB context, while most people talk about MapReduce in Google/Hadoop context.
I'm not looking for a job but I love these threads because I get a nice quick rundown of what other startups are doing and where, and a nice blurb about their team and environment. It helps me feel closer to the other entrepreneurs on HN, like if I ever ran into one of them I'd already have an extra little connection.
I would probably start with the Turtle Rules - an ultra simple system that was used successfully in the olden days, as a good overview of the elements of a successful system.

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/turtlerules.pdf

Possibly of interest -
http://www.amazon.com/Trading-Systems-That-Work-Evaluating/d...

MetaStock - system backtesting software - http://www.equis.com/
New Hope, PA
http://myyearbook.com

One of the top 25 most trafficked sites in the US according to Comscore and still very start-up minded with how we do things. We're about 45 minutes north of Philadelphia and 1.5 hours south of New York, right by where George Washington crossed the Delaware river to attack Trenton in 1776. It's a really cool place to work and a great change of pace from some of the more busy tech hubs. I'm a transplant from Los Angeles.

Engineering at scale is a fun challenge and it's good for honing ones skills with a great, dedicated team of bright, energetic and close-knit people.

We're hiring for full-time on-site positions for iPhone developers, Android developers, Web developers (PHP,Python,JavaScript(jQuery)) and Project Managers. Drop me an email at gmr@myyearbook.com letting me know you saw this and I'll forward on to HR.
NYC - Etsy is hiring developers like crazy. We're building all kinds of awesome stuff, and re-inventing the way people think about commerce and the web. Check out our blog: http://codeascraft.etsy.com/

http://www.etsy.com/jobs/
He's been having some trouble in general over the last few days / weeks. I'm guessing he's aware of it, but I don't know that he's totally sure how to best deal with it.

(By "trouble" I mean "issues with spammers / hackers.")
Oh good, I always wondered who number 1 was
Thanks. Your putting yourself out there for meric made me thankful HN is such a great community to be part of.

Because you are doing exactly what ecaradec said:

> Be indulgent, help others, if they have lesser capacity than you do (on some things, they'll be better than you on other things ).
depending on your leverage you could lose a lot more than you invest....
Their kickstarter page with video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1803756771/trebuchette-t...

I got to give you guy’s kudos for the snap together design. To make something out of wood that does not require glue or be held together by string yet is strong enough to shoot a projectile (repeatedly) is quite a design challenge.

I remember the push out ply wooden toys you used to be able to get that would fall apart when you slotted them together.

But I was wondering if trebuchette was for geeks or 12 year old kids? I can see a big brother ambushing a little sister with this. So may want to supply goggles to avoid law suits.

Also you may want to do a fireproof version because I can see someone shooting projectiles that are on fire (I can't remember what they are called) with it just like they used to do in ye olde days.

I can also see a range of snap together wooden toys with this system. From castles to catapults to battering rams to cars etc.

Congrats on kickstarting your dreams.

(Edited for spelling and clarity)
Any in-frame motion probably allows you to align to frame after the fact. This is existing technology, and gives you timestamp to frame alignment.

If you are reconstructing sound, you can now fuzz the time alignments to give the maximum signal for the maximum time (non-correlation will damp to random noise quickly). This allows you to pairwise reconstruct time alignments.

At that point, you put them all together and run your detailed analysis.

Now, I didn't say this way EASY. :) Or cheap. Or real-time.

Just that it is possible.
They might base it on who's likely to pay. It might be better, in their minds, to keep you as a user than to potentially send you away.
Looks like an acquire hire and product kill scenario.
Interesting! Thank you for the info. I'd like to learn more about fonts.
So you think the "no unaccompanied adults" rule in playgrounds is because the swings are too small for them?
Comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1914900
Who says they can't do both? They have over 10,000 employees.
We're talking brand loyalty, not brand slavery. You can be a loyal Apple customer without buying Apple EVERY time.
I don't see a problem with saying that Toyota has a hacker culture.

Granted, I don't know anything about how Toyota (the company) works ..
I also think that it would be very interesting an European Version of HN. But, I'm not that sure that it will reach the critical mass of users that make a community vibrant.
thank you so much, it was driving me crazy. Have a really nice day:)
I worked for startups right out of school in 99. I've also worked for a small/midsize company for the last 4 years. Both situations were great, and very different, learning experiences. I can't speak to the mega-corp option, but there are definitely non-startup jobs to be had that aren't soul-less.
That of course depends on the target audience of the application but in general I would say not quite yet. We have a mobile app we launched recently and we have the benefit of being on-hand when customers use it (at trade shows). There are still a very high percentage of old WinMo and BB phones out there that we had to code for. Now we did make a version of our app in HTML but it is very basic to support the old browsers. I really look forward to the day when we can just do a one for all (or one for 99%) application.
He's probably not nearly as SOL as he thinks. As others are already pointing out, he probably just needs to come at it as a "self employed individual". There is tax for this, but also many deductions. A few choice minutes with a tax professional would probably clear up most of his problems.

Unfortunately, those minutes would have been a bunch more helpful before he ended up with penalties for not filing, but again, a good tax professional can probably help him negotiate a more reasonable settlement.
What is the name of the rich text extension/mod @saurik uses in his talk?
Honestly, I don't know yet. Since there are already some pioneer like Instapaper and Readability. I believe everything will be fine.

( Am I ? )
How did you generate those pretty graphs?
We should be putting funding into a space elevator. Moving things into space with rockets will be always be incredibly expensive and inefficient. If a space elevator were built, moon (and mars) bases would easily be built, almost as an afterthought. ("Oh yeah, I guess it is easy to do this now...")

Currently, all of our space vehicles are also built to withstand atmospheric exit & entry. With a space elevator, we could afford to have elevator -> moon or earth-elevator -> mars-moon/station transports that would be much easier to build.

If there is any foolish government project I am willing to put my tax dollars into, it's this.
I used Shazam to find a tune I had a loop from for years, and didn't know what song it was from. Very useful!

[Edit]Shazam was mentioned in this article in relation to IntoNow.
You might be able to lease the hardware to reduce the large initial cash outflow.
Do any of these apply in say, Wufuu or PushLife cases? As in:

a) Google can't find people as smart as those at Wufuu and PushLife.

b) Wufuu and PushLife might get picked up Yahoo (search) or Apple/RIM (mobile).

c) Google feels disrupted by Wufuu and PushLife.

d) Probable, but the cost is not justifiable for "inject[ing] new blood".
Yes, I think we are on the same page.
Why are most KDE applications so visually inconsistent?

Look at the sidebar for their Word equivalent. Inconsistent font sizes, lack of margin/padding everywhere, etc.

I've always had this complaint about KDE and I really wish they'd fix it, because it drives me nuts.
Usually the lack of imagination is in the opposite direction — “I can’t imagine what can go wrong if we keep a close eye on your health metrics to give advanced warning of heart attacks/summon ambulances when your elderly grandparents fall/tell you when your blood sugar is crashing, nor what could possibly be bad about using CCTV to deter crime, nor from having Google Street View in all the places I live or want to visit”, that sort of thing.
It's a far more remarkable claim that $100B would improve production capacity, since that's a tiny tiny fraction of the costs of delay.

But if you think that producers are intentionally holding back, and don't understand mRNA vaccine differences from adenovirus vaccines that have been used forever, this might help:

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/02/my...
Doesn’t help with carbohydrate intolerances. If there’s any carb structure your body can’t crack apart, you will get those exact symptoms due to over feeding the microbiome.
> The rethinkdns app keeps track of connections an app makes from the Android device and tracks its data usage

Thats not something pi-hole can do.
Hah! I didn't know of any Zen languages -- just to find one a stone's throw away from Zig. Thanks for pointing that out.

(And that news story... what an absolute mess of a situation.)
While it isn't due to less economic opportunities necessarily, price discrimination is absolutely a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
http://www.information-age.com/channels/the-cloud-and-virtua...
My original comment was "We're going Madagascar on the servers." Then I remembered I was on HN, not reddit. :)
President Madagascar is doin' cloud biz, too?
No, I don't want to forget about no damn grep, sed, and the like.
Once you found your way in, it's really addictive. However, if you could make the introduction a little easier to grasp, more people would give it a try.
You said 6 words in your original post. And now you're trying to suggest I was to get the above 166 words from the original 6?

You raise perfectly valid and interesting points. It's just a shame they're not the parent comment because then they would have invoked some thoughtful discussion.
Couldn't do it w/o logging in, until I copied the url from the author's picture.

http://www.amazon.com/XSS-Attacks-Scripting-Exploits-Defense...
Two fingers 180 degrees apart and rotate them in a circle in either direction.
Easy to remember, not so easy to type into a password box. Or maybe for you it is easy, but it wouldn't be for me.
Yep, you probably got confused that the site got defaced.
I disagree. Find me one person who lives in the bay area, working in tech, that doesnt believe they are in silicon valley. Including SF and the shores of the east bay.

Especially considering much of silicon valley's manufacturing history is on the east side of the bay south of Oakland to San Jose.

To say that San Jose is not a part of Silicon Valley is ridiculous.
This list is only focus on programming languages and they are lacking fundamentals.
Geez. Tried to do this myself. 10k generations in and still not a recognizable string.
http://padmapper.com is the best tool for finding a place to live.
Oh, huh. That's weird.

I wonder if Chinese Internet users for some reason think they'd be caught evading the filter if they put their actual city in their profile?

Or maybe his sampling method was just abysmal? ;)
Well, if that's what people need, then we shouldn't be wasting the time of tenured professors and grad students—who have much more interesting and specialized things to do—by making them into whip-crackers. I think the ideal "teacher" for a completionist education system would simply be someone who could juggle the roles of motivational speaker, hard-ass, and Socratic. In other words, although they would have their own particular skillset, they wouldn't need to know the material at all.

Lecturing would be left to professional speakers backed by a writing team and subject-matter experts, filmed remotely and either sold to schools as materials on the free market, or produced for the public by government media arms such as the BBC. If anyone had a question about the material that couldn't be answered by the lecture, the books, the rest of the class, by the "teacher"'s Socratic deduction, etc., the school would have tutors on-call as well (by remote from a tutoring group, or locally as a service of alumni.) There would be no segregated "classes" or "classrooms", but rather an integrated environment more akin to a combination library/study-hall, with gatherings for people working on the same class of problem at the same time, etc.

In fact, there wouldn't really be a need to "graduate" at all, or to "register" for specific semesters. As long as you could get a print-out at any time proving you had 100%-ed the problems relevant to the job you're applying for, that would be all you would need. You would be able to show up one day, leave for years, then come back and resume your studies as if you had never left. In fact, done this way, people would probably stop considering themselves to be "in school", but rather just say that they "go learning" in the same way one would "go hiking" or "go to yoga." A life-long hobby, in other words—just the way an education should be :)

Ah... but if only.
This seems to be part of Microsofts general decline lately. I don't believe consumers want to have to choose from 6 or 8 different tablets. They just want someone to tell them what is the one ideal tablet. There will always be a subset of users who like all the options and configurations, but I think a larger group of people fear buyers remorse over choosing the wrong option. Not to mention get overwhelmed by having to research all the different choices in the first place.
It's really interesting that you can clearly see the differences between West Germany from East Germany, even 20 years after the reunification. Also the borders of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 80 years after the end of the World War I.

I also wonder who those users in North Korea are.
Buy a motorcycle. 10k probably won't get you any new car, and certainly not a luxury sedan.
Wow, very interesting, thanks for that!

For others interested, here's some links:

NPR Article

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-isla...

Milton Friedman paper on the island.

http://hoohila.stanford.edu/workingpapers/getWorkingPaper.ph...
Great management is about great delegation and great empowerment. What they are NOT involved in is as, or more, important than what they are involved in.

As someone who spends all my time thinking about decision-making group dynamics, I thought this excerpt was totally spot-on:

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The Big Decision Meeting. Scott created this after recognizing all the angst around her staff meetings. Everyone wanted to be included because they felt like big decisions were getting made there, but this was hardly ever the case. “Make fewer decisions in your staff meeting and create a second meeting explicitly to deal with important decisions,” she says. “Delegate these decisions to people who are closer to the information.”

Consider using your staff meeting to set the agenda for the big decision meeting. Identify the three most important decisions that need to get made that week, and who should make those decisions. Who is closest to the work involved? “This is how you push decision-making into the facts,” she says.

Citing James March’s book A Primer on Decision Making, she recommends that managers exclude themselves from big decisions as much as possible. “Somehow people’s egos get invested in making decisions,” Scott says. “If they get left out, they feel almost a loss of personhood. So you get ego-based decisions instead of fact-based decisions. The more you push yourself and your managers out of the process, the better your decisions will be.”

Most of all, don’t let decisions get pushed up. “A lot of times you see decisions get kicked up to the more senior level, and so they get made by people who happen to be sitting around a certain table, not the people who know the facts. Don’t let this happen.”
I believe you mean that the courts shouldn't have to intervene. In theory, the market should create its own institutions to deal with these situations. But until then, the good old fashioned courts will do fine.
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It's certainly a bad comment but it was flagged and killed. By "wars" I imagined you meant much larger threads, of the kind that we should have moderated and missed. If you or anyone have examples of those, sending them to hn@ycombinator.com would be helpful. Best of all while they're still happening! But after the fact is helpful too.
While talking with my parents I realized how little of their generation is available to us. What did they eat in there travels? Where? What music did they listen to? What kind of cloths did they wear? I have a few fragments of photos, anecdots and not much more. I was thinking about how highly detailed memories of our generation would be available to future generations. Facebook, Twitter etc are in a way digital monuments of our entire generation. Looking at these misguided arbitrary corporate decisions of culling data isn't comforting. Archive.org is trying to do its best but there needs be better efforts in preserving memories of who passed away and we need to be more sensitive about that even though they are going to produce ad click revenues.
They did this for chip years ago, and even brand new gas pumps are swipe only.
I've found FAANG experience typically a negative in hiring. (note: "typically" not "always"). That kind of big company experience doesn't really prepare you for the day-to-day, frantic, resource-starved environment of most startups. The consequence of most decisions is more immediate* -- and can be company-killing. Whereas at any big company there's rarely true pressure (lots of pressure, very much so, but in my gf's experience mostly due to poor planning or politics leading to "must have immediately"). I think this is why ex-FAANG folks, in particular ex-googlers for some reason, are caught out as startup CEOs and almost always (or always?) fail -- the things they've learned just don't apply. Doesn't mean they aren't smart, thoughtful, hard working etc; it's more like having to write poetry in a related but different language from the one you grew up in, and one you have never actually spoken.

Someone who's left a big company and successfully gone to some other small company can be great -- let them make their mistakes and screen themselves out on someone else's dime. Or someone who worked already at a startup, went (perhaps through purchase) to a big company and wanted back into the fray.

* I'm a startup only guy and my gf has worked at most of the big guys (FB, Goog, msft, LinkedIn, Amazon). I would hate the idea of working for any of those companies and she would not really be comfortable with the uncertainty I face all the time, even when the startup is well funded. Neither of us is wrong.
If all the above is reasonably easy to verify, you might like to email Krebs about it for wider dissemination. ;)
> VSCode is fast, native-fast.

Not when starting up…
School districts are separate from municipalities and often will span multiple.
I've been on the Fediverse for a while and I run the blob.cat Pleroma instance. It's a lot of fun and I'd highly recommend it - it's only a few dollars a month to host, too.
Bad news, there is no now.

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2745385
To be honest I'm surprised they don't sell flying cars on Amazon. Unless Alibaba got there first...
An Architect's drawing of a building contains every single detail of that house. It's not a high-level sketch of what needs to be built, it's an exhaustive plan for every part of the finished product that has been extensively iterated with the customer to make sure it's correct. Changes to this plan once complete are expensive.

So yes, it's exactly like code.

But I just wish people would stop comparing software development to construction. They're not alike at all, not even vaguely.

Programming is not like bricklaying, because bricklaying is deterministic and uncreative: there is one correct method of laying the bricks, and any two competent bricklayers will lay the bricks in exactly the same way. But there is never one single correct method of writing a program, and no two programmers will implement a feature in the same way.

Any attempt to create a specification so exhausting that it allows no deviation by individual programmers should stop pretending it's a spec and just write the damn code. In fact, the author of the article should probably stop writing specs and just iterate prototypes to achieve the same end: there's no difference between "understanding our programming task" in formal English or understanding it in code, except that the code is more useful and a lot easier to test.