jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
An addition to money and disputes could be 'things beyond your control.' If something is bothering your mind, yet there is nothing nothing you can, or will be able to, do about it, then there is no reason to bother with it.
Why run windows at all?
Oh it has just started.

The Buffett Indicator.
The code was mildly obfuscated. The data was encrypted.
Apple definitely controls the mind share of users and developers everywhere. Not because it's a luxury brand, per se, but because of the hard work by developers, engineers, scientists, and yes, even designers and artists.

It’s not one thing (like “luxury”) it’s everything working together.

This manifests itself by how everyone — even other device manufactures — compare all other smart phones to the iPhone.
Although it happens so often it should no longer be a surprise, it is nonetheless often surprising how stepping away from your desk and doing something totally unrelated to the problem you're battling with or the bug you're tracking down - like watering plants, going for a walk, etc. - provides you with a solution in a few short minutes.

That's why I often tell employees who are blocked on some problem or are visibly frustrated with a bug to just go do something else for a while. It's more of a waste of time to keep working at it, then to "slack" and quickly achieve a flash of inspiration.
Ulimate design?
Traveling around the world solo while running a business is not going to work out. If you travel in a group, it's possible.
You don't work on your internet connected computer.

At home, true. But I don't have to worry about what others think when I'm working at home.

This technique is for when you're not at home, but at your employer's or client's site, which probably applies to many people here. I don't even remember the last time I was in someone else's office not connected to the internet.
The biggest attention-grabbing-headline to content-supporting-that-headline ratio to reach #1 today.
What's the situation with cyber-crime? Is it a bigger problem than in rest of the world?
There's no email in your profile...
Can you elaborate on what exactly do you do with it, and how?
It's $0.01/GB, the same price as their nearline cloud storage option. On the work side, they are pooling the capacity at the business level.

In an enterprise environment that I'm familiar with that has 100k users on a shared file store solution... Something like 10% of users use less that 1GB, the 99th percentile user uses 1TB, the 90th percentile users is something like 30GB.
Actually it can make your setup far more secure.

You could move all SSL validation off to your proxy, and generate certificates from your own CA on the fly. Then within your browser or OS you can remove everything except your own CA from the trust store.
I would also add to the list Bassem Youssef, Egypt's satirist, who happens to be a cardiac surgeon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassem_Youssef
> In lumping together black and Asian people in an amorphous group assumed to have a common experience of racism, ...

> Be wary of the white, straight men who call out lesbians and women of colour as bigots...

In awe of the mental gymnastics to achieve this level of cognitive dissonance.
> …missing the primary point.

Like GP, I would have to guess what your point actually is.
Well yes, if you go to a school that thinks so little of their students that they try to get away with not giving them proper food there are other issues too.

And supposedly the entire point of the private schools is to give you freedom of choice, so why would you object to a student changing schools?
Such a competitive market these days, I would suggest committing 100% on your MVP AFTER you find your first few customers and know the market better.

We created our prototype in 5 days during summer vacation while working our day job. I quit my job when we got into the accelerator, the other founder kept working with his day job for about a year until we had an adequate funds.
In VC, given the state of the industry? Probably forever. But if he wants to take up gardening or programming with the "bros", I'm sure 4 years will suffice.
I can’t help but find the introductory quote a bit much, given that Parler’s moderation scheme (judgement by other Parler users) typically resulted in the removal of all opinions other than those held by the majority of Parler users.

In any case, Parler’s problem (well, one problem of many) was that they had MASSIVE hardware requirements that dramatically cut down on the number of places that could practically host them.

It also seems that despite assurances and good sense, Parler had deeply tied itself to Amazon’s APIs, making migration off AWS slow even once a host was found.
initial reaction (site unseen): This has to be a grift. Upon glancing at the site, they put at least a little effort into it. That logo is genius. It straddles between being utterly on the nose and being parody.
> I am wholly against imposing my own personal virtues on other people though. Why are you so comfortable doing so?

I'm only explaining the world as I see it, just as you did in the comments above. You shouldn't be so dismissive of dissenting opinions.

In my opinion, your viewpoint that you should be able to choose everything you want to pay for will never work. A sizable portion of the population will decide to pay nothing while still receiving benefits, leading the rest to stop paying.

It's not like you can deposit a nickel for every street light you pass, or every crime prevented by the police. Some services must be paid by everyone if they are to exist at all because their value is not directly tangible.

Education is a good example. You may not go to a school and say "well, I don't go so I shouldn't have to pay for it". Yet you still reap most of the benefits of the rest of the population being able to read and write. If most of the population couldn't read or write the affect on GDP and job availability would be terrible and definitely effect you directly. The value is provided to some extent to everyone in society. The only way to avoid any personal benefit is to live isolated from the rest of society in the middle of nowhere.

Another clear example is government provided healthcare for infectious diseases. The government does a lot of vaccinations and it's impossible to avoid benefitting from that without cutting off all interaction with other humans. You directly benefit from others being vaccinated by having a lower personal risk of getting infected.

I think your view is too narrow and focuses on transactional exchanges, like buying gas or paying a toll. But it doesn't capture the larger benefit to everyone including yourself for things like having less criminals, illiterate people, and junkies running around. Which is the societal benefit to a lot of government programs and why everyone is expected to pay for them.

Your idea of not paying for services you don't use falls apart when considering that many of these services directly benefit you even if you don't directly consume them. And the only way to avoid the benefits is to avoid society completely.
Rationalists aren't Basilisk believers in general, so the connection you draw here is stillborn.
Sounds pretty serious. Have you reported the bug to Mozilla?
Exactly. Also, diverse teams outperform -- Scott Page's book The Difference presents the underlying cognitive diversity model for why, and there's been some great recent empirical work as well.

Conversely a lot of white guys don't believe that diversity leads to success -- and many of them talk primarily to other white guys who reinforce their views (or to women and people of color who agree with them). So, companies they run wind up with mostly male and mostly white development teams, building products optimized for white guys. It's a crowded market space ...
The theory:
Warming -> artic ice melts -> reduces salinity of north atlantic -> stops "atlantic conveyer" (which bring warm water from southern hemisphere) -> mini ice age for Europe at least.

"The latest climate models predict the overturning circulation will slow down as greenhouse gases warm the planet and melting ice adds freshwater to the ocean. "Warm, freshwater is lighter and sinks less readily than cold, salty water," Willis explained.

For now, however, there are no signs of a slowdown in the circulation. "The changes we're seeing in overturning strength are probably part of a natural cycle," said Willis. "The slight increase in overturning since 1993 coincides with a decades-long natural pattern of Atlantic heating and cooling."
"
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/atlantic20100325.h...
One important detail: we're not releasing all these components right away, although we did package and test them all.

We'll start with the fundamentals, and gradually expand to the full catalog.
I upvoted you and downvoted him because I really don't want HN to degrade into Reddit/Digg/4Chan/etc. I come here specifically because it's _not_ one of those, and has a good signal-to-noise ratio (e.g. relevant conversations not overrun by silly memes)
It's a hotfix that does not work [yet].
Well, the typing is not the reason we're looking at lines. With exceptions for outliers like APL, a line of code is generally a decent approximation to a unit of thoughtstuff.

Within any program, you have nitty gritty bits that deal with things like vector multiplication, and you have high and mighty bits that define the sequence of actions in the main loop. But writing code in those two places proceeds at a similar pace -- regardless of whether your function calls are doing a lot or a little. So it is with programming languages. Whether you can say a lot with a line of perl, or a little with a line of C, how much you have to think about that line, how much effort goes into organizing and composing a program from those lines . . . well, it turns out to be a pretty similar pace from language to language.
It's unusual as most programming languages allow keywords to appear in identifiers (for example, new_thing is a legal C++ identifier). Further, if I understand the language correctly, the literal "end_of_file" becomes the same identifier as "end of file". And the stated purpose of allowing white space in identifiers is to avoid camel case and underscores.
What is your point though?
It seems to me that now it is very difficult to get an audience, and you need to be a very unique product and at the same time be in demand. Honestly, there are not many of them, and it is difficult for me to help with your question, but I like the strategy of https://audext.com/
Unicode was originally meant to fit everything into 16 bits. UTF-8 is just a way to encode, it doesn't decide what goes into Unicode.
Is it that much of a hindrance? Or rather, if you're only market is helping people win at the Olympics then there isn't really a market for your product...
Yes, the world can function without jobs of desperation.

The market will find a new fair price that pulls people away from what they want to do into doing the thing that everybody wants them to do.
I said "I'm being downvoted into oblivion by people who believe children should be able to choose to have sex with adults" I didn't say the were pedophiles. Some people believe the age of consent should be lowered. They don't necessarily have to be pedophiles and I'm not calling them that. Also, I've been on HN long enough to know most people don't bother to downvote. They do if they feel strongly about an issue. I think the opposite position of mine is that children should be able to make their own decisions about sex.
Using censorship as a tool to silence the voices of the other side side is shocking to me. In the US, freedom of speech use to be very sacred and a third rail no one dared touch. Now young people (who use to be the staunchest defenders) actively call for it. Strange times.
"Cops violate citizens rights, but if we stop them their feelings might get hurt and then they might willfully stop doing their jobs, can't you see that cops are the good guys" isn't exactly the slam dunk defense you think it is.
Yet you did’t cite any...

If you’re doing fentanyl or smoking meth under a freeway overpass, it’s highly unlikely you could have afforded an apartment at any price. The problem isn’t being solved because people are trying to blame the wrong cause. Despite all the money we throw at the problem, the homeless and drug addicted live in a much worse situation than any any comparable developed country. California is clearly making the problem worse, not better:

>How did things get so bad in California? The state has long prided itself on being humanistic and innovative. It is home to some of the world’s largest public health philanthropies, best hospitals, and most progressive policies on mental health and drug addiction. The Democrats have a supermajority. What went wrong?

>According to Bales and other experts, California made homelessness worse by making perfect housing the enemy of good housing, by liberalizing drug laws, and by opposing mandatory treatment for mental illness and drug addiction

> Other states have done a better job despite spending less money. “This isn’t rocket science,” said John Snook, who runs the Treatment Advocacy Center, which advises states on mental health and homelessness policy around the country. “Arizona is a red state that doesn’t spend a ton on its services but is the best scenario in every aspect. World-class coordination with law enforcement. Strong oversight. They don’t let people fall apart and then return to jail in 30 days like California does.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/12...

California is making asinine policies that increase the problem.
If Facebook has since deleted some of those accounts or associated phone numbers, they may no longer have a way to contact those users.

The GDPR in Europe would require them to delete that data in a bunch of circumstances.
> Waiting for Cross-Platform standardized SIMD vector datatypes

I’m not waiting for anything, I’m writing non-cross platform ones for years now http://const.me/articles/simd/simd.pdf http://const.me/articles/simd/NEON.pdf

These things are specific to CPU architectures, but other then that they’re cross-platform and de-facto standards set by Intel and ARM. Same source code builds with all mainstream compilers, regardless on the target OS.

> nonstandard extensions, libraries or home-baked solutions to run computations in parallel on many cores

OpenMP is not part of C++ standard, but it’s still a standard in the sense they have a complete specification: https://www.openmp.org/specifications/ Mainstream compilers are reasonably good at implementing these specs.

> Debugging cross-platform code using couts, cerrs and printfs

Debugging story is not great outside MSVC, but it’s not terrible either. When I needed that, gdb worked OK for me.

> Forced to use boost for even quite elementary operations on std::strings

I agree the ergonomics can be better, but I’m not using boost, and I see improvements, e.g. std::string_view in C++/17 helped.
Programming work is so readily available it’s ridiculous. A quick search on monster.com or dice.com will show that there’s a constant need for decent programmers. I say decent because you don’t even have to be a top shelf developer to enjoy this kind of programmer’s market. Most companies are looking for a programmer that can just get a job done.

This sounds a bit like solving the pharmaceutical chemist's problem by pointing out that there are lab tech positions available in a lot of places.
The site looks great.
When I tried to add a site, the link for the js to be included was missing the scheme (http|https):

<script src="//usecharm.com/xx.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

If we could have a restricted live demo, or a video to get a feel of how things work before needing to get some fair amount of data, that’d be even better.

Great job and good luck with it.

edit: apparently // is the way to go, see comments below.
An interesting, but crucial aside: who still works a classic, 8 hour workday? It seems like an anachronism this day and age, at least in my experience. While companies technically demand 40 hours per week and no more, most corporate cultures unofficially pressure employees into 10 or even 12 hour days. 8 to 7 has been pretty typical of many of the firms for which I've worked. Sometimes those hours are extended on either end; sometimes they're condensed. But they're always more than 8 hours.
Interesting, you wrote both the blog post and the medium.com article. I really do think you did a good job in the article, but your blog post is just... not very good honestly.

I appreciate you getting back to me, but your blog post suffers from "false analogies". http://onegoodmove.org/fallacy/falsean.htm

Its a common fallacy to make arguments from analogy. And honestly, it weakens your argument significantly compared to the article you wrote elsewhere.

Arguments by analogy "feel" good because it sounds like you're getting the point across in fewer words. But really... you're preaching to the choir at best. An argument from analogy is only as strong as the connection between your analogy and reality.

Unfortunately, talking about water jetpacks and occulus rifts break your analogy wide open. It is clear that you aren't talking about reality anymore, and the analogies barely serve their point when they're so disjointed to the reality on the ground.

If you do take this argument form again in the future, please stick to something more real.
There are lots of different kinds of sand, some pretty specialized.

In Minnesota, we're losing our beloved Renaissance Festival grounds to sand mining. The sand is uniquely useful for the kinds of drilling and fracking techniques used in the North Dakota oilfields, so it's worth more to strip-mine than to support a multi-decade business that generates millions in income every year. Sigh.
All very good points, in line with my own experience. I skipped university and went to work for a big software company instead. I've transferred internally half a dozen times in six years, with half of that time spent in management. I've continually learned new things, and couldn't have got a better education anywhere.

Now, however, I'm ready to do my own thing. Thanks to the experience I've gained, I think I'll succeed, too.
I am an introvert myself, but even us introverts interact with other people daily. If you voluntarily spend days on end utterly alone with no human interaction, you're unusual even for an introvert
In the US, employers pay a medicare and a social security tax. If you are self-employed, you have to pay those taxes in addition to your regular taxes, because you are the employer too.
Know of any promising Edinburgh startups ? I'd be very interested in getting touch with them.
I wouldn't put both of those guys between the same parentheses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Gelsinger
Are you really supposed to look at your customers data?
The PR is now on their website: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/06/07safari.html

The Safari page is not yet updated (– edit: now is) but Safari 5 shows up when you check for updates. I’m downloading it now.

– edit: And finished. A quick rundown:

There are no (big) UI changes, Top Sites was visually updated and you can quickly switch to your history: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/topsites.png

The Reader button (where the RSS button would normally be) seems to only be displayed when Safari recognizes a article (until now it recognized everything I threw at it – blog articles, magazines, newspapers). It then overlays the article pretty nicely over the page: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/reader.png

One really cool thing about Reader is that it recognizes multi-page articles. I tried a New York Times and a Ars Technica article. It doesn’t immediately load everything but rather as you are scrolling.

Bad news, by the way, for all who hoped that Reader would get rid of (all) ads, it still displayed one of those small ads placed in the body of the article: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/ads.png

The adress bar now sort of works like the one Firefox has (I typed in “aja”): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/adress.png

You can now make everything open in a new tab, that was previously only a hidden preference (sorry, German): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4073000/tabs.png

The developer tools seem to be much improved. And they look a bit Chromy (fixed width font and all ;).

Ahhhhh! I must have been completely blind! The old “fills-up-the-adress-bar” progress bar is back! I thought something was odd :)
That apps are killed slows it down. On Android it takes just over half a second to switch applications.

For apps that start fast (notepad), this is no big deal. But for things like the browser or skype, it is. It takes 4 seconds for him to switch back to swype:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkbDcZ_9-k#t=2m30s

This is also seen when switching to the browser near the end of Techcrunch's video:
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/04/08/first-video-of-iphone...
Considering that another very large tech company owes its valuation to an ad driven business model, I'd say its not a huge surprise to anybody.
I totally agree, and just consider how many "instances" of sqlite are deployed with all the mobile applications using it.
but there can be some interesting not-a-failure modes, I know because I suffered one and the recovery was a nightmare due to overly-protective UEFI. Fortunately, anything on my local SSD is only in cache and not to be worried about ;) (and I managed to put the UEFI in dumb mode so it wouldn't interfere)
I believe that the TB reference comes from listening to Alex Kipman at the Microsoft announcement event.

In speaking about the so-called "HPU" (around 01:50 in http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/21/7867593/microsoft-announce..., second video) Kipman mentions "processing terabytes of information from all of these sensors". This is straight from the proverbial horse's mouth, and while it seems hype-ish it should be looked into.

Anyone in here know about this HPU?
Smart move. If I were Uber I would be trying to siphon as much cash as possible from investors before the company starts hitting its inevitable roadblocks.

The fact is that government regulators will end up banning Uber in most countries. You can't continue to operate outside the law flouting vital safety regulations that protect the interests of consumers for long.
I'm with you and see this as the solution to this mess as well. Give me a high % no monthly and lower my risk, once I've gotten some business and scale we can do the monthly thing.
Are people really okay with both giving lots of details about what they are working on to an untrusted third party and committing to a tool that may uncontrollably change or disappear depending on what the maintainer decides to do with it?

I suppose I could use it for hobby projects. For work stuff, untrusted third parties having a free view at my workflow is just straight out, so there goes one big use for the system.

For everyday household stuff, my TODO list could be leaking medical and financial information, which is again a privacy problem. At the very least I would have to make sure both my account info and the contents of the tasks were carefully scrubbed of any identifying information. Seems like troublesome enough that I'd probably give the thing a pass in this situation too.
The shock meter could be certified and sealed by NIST or an agreed third party. The delivery company could then advertise as "the world leaders in package handling". Insurance companies would have a stake in this as well.
Note that this guy's blog seems to be mostly about ragging on the financial industry and how it's going to kill us all. Using scary words like 'derivatives' is much more effective for that sort of fear-mongering than using 'investment fund' which was much less tainted by the economic woes of the last few years.