jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
IMO, you should always sell the product before you have it. Prove that people are willing to throw money at it.

There are a few tricks you can try - you can put up a shopping cart that crashes into an 'out of stock' dummy page and then track the number of people adding to cart. You can put up a few real world banners, track how many calls you get, then tell them that the system is down. You can visit people with a powerpoint presentation.

Don't be a tire kicker though. Just do it as if you're going to do it, then move fast to secure it.

Another easy trick is to look at what people have hacked together. Everyone has a competitor. Yours is likely an excel sheet somewhere. The competitor for the first car was the horse. The competitor for combat planes were balloons and zeppelins.
Yeah, that's good too. When I don't need nesting, I like toggleable comments because the inactive block gets grayed out.
If you’re the later Wittgenstein, you might just call them “philosophers.” (Rorty certainly might argue for that!)
This is what happens when companies are disorganized and don’t communicate internally.
I wouldn’t be surprised if you need to install the yelp app to read this. No thanks.
I have to say after driving a non-gasoline car for a few months, the sound of a loud internal combustion engine sounds trite and tacky, even when I watch a movie.
Most politicians really _shouldn't_ be using Twitter in the way Trump was. It's a good tool to connect with your constituents and make short announcements, but he was using it as a sole means of announcing policy and change, including firing people.

Those official communications–anything "from the office of"– should be released through official US Government channels.

Regardless, unless you're planning on inciting a raid on the capitol, you probably won't be banned as a politician. Twitter literally bent over backwards to still allow Trump to use Twitter even though he consistently broke the platform's rules.
> thanks to western exploitation

I can believe the exploitation part. There is certainly corruption everywhere which is often part of the cause.

But citation needed for the western part please.
He still has access to the @POTUS account until the 20th though.
20th century in roman numerals
To preserve liberty there must be no tolerance of intolerant behavior like terrorism, sedition and other criminal acts, and some might even say racism/sexism/etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
It's all about preparation. I don't think I could eat certain organs without puking just from the thought/looks. You couldn't get me to eat heart for example. I've tried to but couldn't get over it (chicken hearts actually). And even liver, I'm not sure I'd eat.

German Liver Sausage? That is one of the most delicious things on earth!

How's this for a "recipe": Beef trim (50%), beef liver (20%), beef heart (15%), and beef kidney (15%).

Take a nice piece of rye bread (best is a real sourdough rye bread), spread the Leberwurst very thick, top off with a cornichon and/or pickled mini onion. Heavenly.
It's apparently a semi-autonomous project of his.
Most of this data is for a ten year period. The US has been lucky to have a place like California for the last 2 decades, but that doesn't mean it will be on top forever.

Texas is leading most of these categories (except of course VC funding...) for the last 2 years. Winds are turning. California isn't going anywhere, but they probably wont be the cats meow for the next 10 years.
What do you recommend for those of us that run Linux on the desktop, not MacOS?
I didn't know what it meant, so had to look up 'rort':

1. a rowdy party or celebration
2. a dishonest scheme

Could be either, I suppose! (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rort)
I'm not sure publishing an open letter to Blackberry is going to help Kiks cause. If there was any chance of them getting back onto Blackberry they should have kept the conversation private. The publicity generated by this is just going to cause resentment at RIM and Kik isn't big enough for RIM to worry about yet.
It doesn't, Debian testing and unstable are rolling release, and they package -dev separately.

Lack of separate -dev packages is something I like very much about Arch because I build enough software that I'm happy to pay the storage cost for the headers in exchange for not having to track them down from the eventual compilation errors. It is entirely justified for a distro targeting a demographic that builds less, or with less available storage, to have separate -dev packages.
A cycle is a linear process, which is repeated. You can take the (x) steps of your cycle and make a heading out of each, and then divide those stages into their smaller steps.
Does it allow for easy syncing between multiple machines?
I was in the same situation. Thought the company was going under. Didn't exercise. The options ended up being worth something when the company was bought by Sony (I never found out how much.)
> We need to fight against the idea that private payments are any less moral than private conversations ... Cryptocurrencies at their core are speech, not property

That's an interesting take. Assuming you're American, maybe you could challenge this in court? Maybe Congress will have an epiphany - all this time they've been regulating inter-state commerce, but it's been inter-state speech the whole time. To resolve this contradiction in the Constitution, they'll likely just disband the Federal Government, ushering in a libertarian utopia.

Go for it! We're rooting for you!
I think this is a strawman argument. Can't it be the users from group#3 who's sad to see Signal turn into WeChat? After all the lessons learned from Keybase are open for all to see.

WhatsApp doesn't include payment mechanism in many markets, why is Signal trying to waste developer resources on unwanted features?
I feel like AI is pointed AT us rather than working FOR / WITH us more often than not.

I want to make interesting / meaningful choices / have input. But none of the stuff (advertising, etc) really ask me to do so. I get amazon ads for things I bought... but not a single thing on any of my wish lists (how much more explicit can I get?)

But rather there's all this AI effort to get ME to do a thing... for someone else, and seemingly so they can be lazy. Want to engage with your employees? Talk to them, engage with them, earn their trust. I suspect it will pay off way better than some wonky software.

All these efforts seem to be without my input, without bothering to ask, just let the computer tell them and somehow that makes decisions that should have my input without me.

How about some AI with some engagement, where i can have input, tell them "yeah man that was a good recommendation", "no way that was way off", or as far as the mood stuff goes "not now but maybe later thanks"?
Won't stop snake oil salesmen from advertising such models and profit off of them. A substantial portion of the detrimental effects will be shared, regardless of the validity of the algorithm.
> Why is avoiding taxes different than any other moral problem?

Isn't a complex tax code a moral problem for the same reason? The other way to attack the problem would be to simplify tax codes more.
I'd lean more towards emphasizing the importance of explainability. If a system is opaque, it cannot be trusted. This goes both for AI producing stupid results and for software that relies on security-by-obscurity.

If AI is made explainable, then confidence in AI should more closely map to actual capability (that is, bad AI will not be trusted because its flaws are on display, while good AI will be trusted because its strengths are on display). It will also provide AI developers with a better grasp of what they need to work on.
Rust compiles to WebAssembly and has a few web frameworks already. Many other languages also have web frameworks and compile to JS. Today it is possible to do web development and avoid JS entirely.
I'd be interested. Can you email me (email in my profile)
I wasn't aware there was such a thing as an "internet identity" to steal in the first place.
I quote Simon Peyton-Jones: "STM requires runtime logging of every memory read and write. In an imperative language (such as C#), in which the very fabric of computation involves reads and writes, STM is bound to be expensive. [Lots of work has been done to omit redundant logging based on program analysis, but it's still expensive.] When do you need readTVar/writeTVar? Answer, precisely when you are manipulating state shared between threads."

http://www.0x61.com/forum/programming-haskell-cafe-f245/is-t...

It looks like STM works better for functional languages and you have to mark shared data somehow. And then you have to mark the code that manipulates shared data somehow (so it won't prematurely launch missiles). Then you're reinvented monad.

I reserve right to be wrong so I'd like to see what are the ways for imperative languages.
> Or how much data Walmart or Fedex or Safeway process from their point-of-sale systems.

Walmart is in its own class. There was a rumor a while back that they were trying to correlate their video feeds (of the POS/checkout) with their transaction database. That would mean matching video of customers with their transactions. All of them.
... I'm going to go ahead and pretend that was intentional... yeah I totally meant to write ironing, not ironic...
Brilliant - I'll be there!

Incidentally if there are any AWS/EC2 experts attending, please ping me an email as I'm looking for a consultant to work with us.
But why surely? What makes you suggest Dutch would be easier than Esperanto to learn to fluency? Dutch looks as daunting as any other natural language to me, whereas the simplified patterns in Esperanto make it much more attractive. No more (goose->geese, but bed->beds). No more (swim->swam, but jump->jumped). No more (row/row) spelling and pronounciation weirdness. (X/malX instead of X/Y) dramatically reducing vocabulary to say the same thing. Looks much easier than Dutch.

(Albeit not Easy because how easy can it ever be to learn to say everything in another way?)

Other countries at other times would have had sufficient interest in investigating an easy-to-learn interlanguage

If they really had "sufficient" interest, they would have funded some linguists and had an interlanguage designed from scratch, then mandated that it be taught in their schools and solved the problem[1]. Language work requires minimal technology, minimal physical resources, and minimal space, so funding from a government scale budget would be a non-issue ... so why haven't they?

All of the central European governments with multiple neighbour countries speaking different languages, international organizations like the EU, the UN, WTO, ISO, any of these people - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intergovernmental_organ... - which of them had sufficient interest to actually try and solve the problem - in whatever way, picking any of the myriads of constructed languages or having their own designed and agreed upon?

Your suggestion is that they investigated Esperanto and found it too difficult, right? But why haven't they done anything, except be happy that English or French is good enough for them and ha ha sod the entire rest of the world who find English and French difficult to learn to fluency.

[1] I conclude, either the problem of agreeing on a more-simple shared language is unsolvable, or they didn't have "sufficient interest" in solving it.
I wasnt talking about making money, but cleaning dirty money, different things.
Geez this wesolows guy seems bitter as hell. I guess it's helpful to have a reference of what not to become as we grow older.
thanks! will add customizable shortcuts https://github.com/fouad/chrome-tablight/issues/1
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I wasn't able to get the hotkey working until after I restarted Chrome. After that, I could use both [CMD] + O and [CTRL] + O on my Mac.
I have heard Christians use the term "prophetic". Search Amazon for the term and you will find many books on the topic.
The author is in the military - I've read a fair few things by current and former service members and two of the most common themes are:

- the disregard for health and wellbeing of each soldier

- being required to do nonsensical things that are counterproductive and likely compromise medium-to-long term goals of the outfit you're attached to

So I agree with what you said - there is very likely a way to schedule these shifts so that these problems do not occur. The Army has little interest in this though, their requirement is that the shifts need to be covered and they currently are so there is no problem.

edit: updated comment to be country agnostic
I think the Zig community/BDFL might appreciate adding an APE target "os" to their buildchain (LLVM-based); that could be a match made in heaven!
Compared to which country?

I agree with the bureaucracy and government inefficiency, but public roads and shit housing quality? Much larger difference between our and rich? Compared to what? Certainly not the US...

And for healthcare, the public health system has many problems but if you have the money/insurance you can use the private one, as you would in the US.

Biggest cons of Portugal are: poor economy (when compared to the leading Western countries; this results in low salaries, lack of strong international companies, external dependency, lack of autonomy, fragility to crisis) and a big state (causes high taxes, big companies dependency on the state, corruption, brain drain...). Still probably one of the best countries to retire to in the world.
I think moderators should have responded to the replies here, this is why "assume good intent" or however it's called is in HN rules.
Ah nice. Yeah, SSM is awesome, we use it as well.
For real.

It's hard to grok cause there are no words to describe it.

When people say that something is cross-platform, they usually mean
a) that the software will build on multiple platforms
b) there is some sort of vm which runs the executable (jvm, beam, wasm)

This is the SAME binary. Running everywhere. Could be super-useful as an archival format for mission critical code. sqlite comes to mind.

Maybe it's late at night, but I'm struggling to find a suitable word for the project that is better than portable or cross-platform.

Literally, I can't find a better word than the project name - "actually portable executable."

@author - if you're reading this please set up something for a few bucks a month on your github sponsors. I don't think I have any use for the library, but this is so outrageous it deserves something more than imaginary internet points.
ASDF requires nearly the same amount of effort for every language
Hey IndySun,

at the moment these configuration options are not available in tastemaker as they involve quite some frontend work (as you might have figured from the website that is not my strength)

And to be 100% honest I am not planing to add a in-depth filtering system in the next 3 month as there are already so many other things on my backlog. But I added it as feature request :)

Hope the other playlist that are less configurable are cracking your taste :P
> scaling stateless web app backend nodes written in scripting languages

K8s solves a far wider problem space. Need to run a data store? Use a StatefulSet and PersistentVolumes. Need an occasional task? Jobs and CronJobs. Need to know what's happening? Metrics and logs have APIs. Load balancing? Ingress? Firewalls? Security?

If someone knew nothing of operating systems other than a class on MINIX, I suspect running a massive datacenter would be easier with k8s than running a medium system of debian boxes.
And then, there is Alex Grey.

http://www.entheology.org/edoto/anmviewer.asp?a=295&z=4

http://www.google.com/search?q=alex%20grey&tbm=isch
I've heard stories about people who were able to solve problems faster -- and tackle much bigger problems in their head -- while rolling. In fact they recommended using the drug for this purpose rather than just taking it and dancing at a rave or something, because the latter increases the risk that your brain will burn out. A bit like flooring it in neutral vs. flooring it in gear.
Nice is a language, not a VM, so I'm guessing you're talking about C#.

In which case... uh... no. Of Nice's "advanced safety features" it only got generics (in 2.0) and internal iterators (in 3.0, via LINQ methods)

* It's a single-dispatch language

* Its instanceof (`is`) is the same shit as Java's (and the compiler is just as stupid)

* Object types are always nullable, it's not optional and it's not opt-out

* Its arrays are covariant (covariant arrays were added to the CLR for java compatibility, and C# got them from there because it was "free")
seems to me there's still plenty of life in the social bookmarking/link-sharing market. Reddit for example seems to be doing quite nicely.
Hey, Tim Erickson here, one half of the team that built this. Feel free to ask me any and all questions.

We built this in a weekend because we we're constantly emailing links to each other, family members, colleagues and friends. The problem was, the emails didn't provide much context unless we took the time to copy and paste a segment of the article, or an image. The URLD does this automatically.

Wether you're sending important business articles to coworkers, or lolcats to friends, The URLD will help you send it quick.
I mentioned it before and I'll mention it again. Delicious' time has passed by but you've got ask why one would acquire old technology. The answer is simple, to do something with it. I'm excited to see what they come up with.
For emphasis:

> There are guys out there who will argue about different tools/methods in a religious fervor. Pay attention to the people who get things done, break new ground, or get you pumped.

It's so easy to get sucked into endless debates. Do stuff instead.
> This is true everywhere.

Not quite. Other nations have easier access to understanding how many people are unemployed due to unemployment benefits being so readily available. Look at Australia as an example. Anybody can qualify for benefits and it doesn't expire. On top of that they will pay for training and education.

> As an aside, all non-wage benefits that employees receive (like free dental plan or paid vacations) is eventually subtracted from their own pockets.

I think you missed the point of the article. Europe pays dramatically less, and receives dramatically more.

Europe spends "9 percent of GNP on medical" and receives nearly 100% coverage on all health insurance.

USA spends "between 15 to 16 percent of GNP on medical" and has 80% basic coverage and 60% dental insurance. On top of that 20% of the population have access to basic rights of first world nations like sick leave, and roughly 15% of the population has to use food stamps to get buy.

Your assertion of having to pay more to get more is flatly wrong.
I declare that you don't have any good reason to complain about something that's really your fault. If you use any outdated OS the amount of features are about the same.

You could honestly spend $100 on craigslist and get a computer with XP on it.
"just because the font is a different color doesnt mean the shadow should be any different."

Shadow color -- http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=486505&s...
These cheap Android phones are a bigger threat to Nokia than Apple. Internationally Nokia feature phones are still incredible popular and pretty soon Android phones will be priced low enough to be extremely competitive.

I bought my first smartphone yesterday. A Huawei Ideos for $150NZ about $100 US (I actually payed $300NZD but that included $150 prepay credit). http://reviews.cnet.co.uk/mobile-phones/huawei-ideos-review-... Sure it's not as slick as an Iphone or Droid but the gap is closing. It runs Android 2.2 and has all the popular features eg gps/wifi/radio. Considering that an 8gb Iphone 4 costs $919 here in NZ ($600 on a contract) I think I got a pretty good deal. The next wave of smartphone users are going to be people like me that are driven by price more than features.
BSODs once a day or so with the high-end Windows 7 64-bit boxes.

More often, if they try to run backups with them.

Yes, diagnostics have been run, etc.

Microsoft has problems with the permutations and the qualifications and all the anti-malware stuff, unfortunately; they're phenomenal with dealing with all that, and phenomenal is just holding even with the complexity they have to deal with.
I really like these puzzles. After you get through the first few trivial ones. The submission process is a little frustrating in that you have no idea if your code failed because it's wrong or because it simply took too long.

Taking too long is a real problem with a few of the puzzles (eg breathalyzer). If you read the comment threads there are some astoundingly fast solutions out there. My C breathalyzer solution was pretty quick but I was running it on an Ubuntu VM running inside Windows 7 and that did impact performance (particularly I/O). I've been meaning to run it on a real Ubuntu setup but haven't gotten around to it.

Anyway it all became moot as I ended up getting a job at Google but I did find it an interesting exercise.
I bet it doesn't run at all.
i'd love to know if there's research that's been done on how each additional field reduces conversion?

thanks for passing along the related link. don't doubt checkbox can be useful in certain situations.

A/B testing could surely help, but this is one of those you want to get right off the bat because it's tough to recover the information that you don't collect upon signup (integrating a linkedin % complete is the best example i've seen of enticing users to add more)
Why are people forgetting they can get infected through their eyes? We need protective eyewear in addition to N95 face mask + gloves.
was almost entirely a homosexual thing, and mainly promiscuous homosexuals at that.

In the US. This is not true and was not ever true in some other parts of the world.
The market is crazy right now. Take what you can and save it. Seriously on Friday we lost some really important supports and we can see a horrible market going forward. Take what you can make. You have to put food on your table. With the number of EI claims in North America the contracts will likely dry up. For now, make the money and increase your clients then you can charge more once we get over this economic activity issues.
So what's the administrative process of transferring a ventilator from one hospital to another like? Is there any precedent for this? I could see this kind of thing working in a socialized healthcare system but in the US wouldn't it create all kinds of liability and insurance problems?
That's consistent with what other people in the thread are saying, that Bavaria has declared an emergency and is taking it much more seriously than most other German states.
If GitHub doesn't automatically support the feature (article says it doesn't) I don't think it'll be very useful for many teams.
for the more subversive folks out there, check out an automated way to do this to your friends: http://apps.facebook.com/bannerbuzz
There are economic issues, as the article notes. But a gradual decline is not catastrophic. A slightly less crowded country is almost certainly a good thing in the long term.
People everywhere on the internet are going crazy about Roblox IPO. I initially thought about gambling a small amount of money with Roblox when they go public. But I start to question if it would be even wise for me to put money in Roblox. It just feels its too good to be true as everyone mentions that they're gonna buy the stock. What do you folks' think?