jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is just back of the envelope, but 24 years ago Microsoft's [EDIT: split-adjusted] stock price was .10. With today's price at $28, that is an annualized rate of return of a little over 26%, which should exclude the $5.79 they've distributed in regular and special dividends since they instituted their policy in 2004.

Also, the criteria for investing money you've described is baffling. I thought return on invested capital was based on earnings, not stock price.

I think you are confusing sentiment with fundamentals.
If you take away the cost of college, would it ever be a bad idea to go? It is only 4 years (3.5 if you are ambition, but again, ignoring the cost I'd do it in 4 to gain breadth).

Not only was it a really good learning experience, but it was a hell of a lot of fun and I made a lot of life long friends. 4 years seems like a long time to 18 year olds, but it is a very short time looking at it from the perspective of someone who has graduated and is working.

So the issue is cost. I absolutely 100% agree that running up $100k+ of debt on an undergrade degree is insane. The difference in value of the degree is so much less than the difference in cost, you have to go to the cheapest place you can get a quality education. You can do the entire thing for very little money if you work your butt off in high school and pick a school you can get a scholarship to. Or just go in state.
It's a joke parodying http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/WMFJA032/en/US

I can't imagine Scott or a tiny git website is in need of money.

Amusingly, if you try to enter an amount greater than $25000, google checkout just dies.
Yeah, I figured this out afterwards as well - and I even read through the comments and saw the post about this question. The rep didn't exactly lie but was certainly not super clear about it.

This offer should have been stated: "Purchase the first 1.5 months _then_ receive a $100 credit." IMO, they made this purposefully vague.
The basics are:
1) Get good clients. Low-end clients typically aren't worth your time, and it will be hard to make money.
2) The best way to get new business is via referrals. The best business can found through happy customers
3) Don't try to compete on price, or hire the cheapest the employees. It doesn't work well in this business.
4) Have contracts and get everything agreed to in writing
5) Pay careful attention to your costs, and learn basic accounting. Overhead for offices and such costs money. You also need to overhead to cover downtime, sales, project management, and collections. You may need 100% overhead.

If you agree to do a project for $3000, make sure you can really get it done for that prices. You also need to figure out how to deal with change-requests. If you allow too many free change requests, you will lose money.

When setting the prices, you need to think like a businessperson. A lot of designers and programmers don't understand how to price their work very well.
To your thorough response, i would simply add that experience with large established companies is a good way to get an understanding how these behemoths operate, what the typical pain points they have, and how mature companies establish processes for everything.

Moving on to a startup as an employee, esp. an early one, is also a great experience and usually gives you experience outside of your specific discipline (e.g. developer). Everyone wears multiple hats, you operate in a small environment, and you'll be privy to VC meetings/ pitch decks/ cap tables/ board meetings/ etc.

Networking throughout those experiences will serve you well when the time comes to start your own.
I assumed the totalitarian themed background & gin referenced Orwell's 1984 and Victory Gin.
> In addition, I can't access the video - it says something about share/tweet

Yeah, you have to spam your friends with it in order to get the video.
The author is talking about landing pages, you're referring to splash pages. Landing pages should not require any additional clicks: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7177/What-Is-a-L...
Not too long ago, the fact that I've paid my mortgage every month for over a decade (even during times of unemployment) would have been considered a sign of responsibility and financial security.

But reading this, I can't help but think that doing so simply makes me look like a chump.
Pretty sure it predates even that. Some of the earliest lenses, especially before the ability to grind glass accurately, were water based.

> Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) describes how glass balls filled with water could set clothes on fire when placed in line with the sun. Both Pliny and Seneca the Younger (3 BC-65 AD) also describe the magnifying effect of a glass globe filled with water.
Not so much imperfect as deceptively irrelevant.

"Growth" has absolutely nothing useful to say about "things getting better for society."

Things get better for society when jobs pay well, high quality education is freely accessible, talent and creativity are rewarded, cost of entry for entrepreneurship is low, and ecological support systems are stable.

There's nothing even remotely difficult about measuring these factors.

"Growth" is just a convenient way to disguise increasing inequality and decreasing economic freedom for the majority of the population.

If the growth is never distributed it's a useless metric.
CPI is a horrible way to measure inflation. This is a pretty biased piece coming from the former chairman of the Fed. It takes for granted that we need centralized organizations to control the supply of money and that our only option is never-ending inflation. There are many who believe we'd be better off it we ended the Fed and the tax of inflation that devalues our money and punishes savers.
I think it's a look into what he world looks like without social norms. The folks stealing bitcoins probably would never take $200 out of grandma's purse when she wasn't looking. Society has acculturated people to understand that's bad. But butcoin is novel, and doesn't have social norms surrounding it. It doesn't feel the same as taking money out of a purse.
You add a layer of complexity to try to manage the complexity. Which works, but it ain't a free lunch.
'should'?

What's wrong with calling them Zip codes? That's how they're written everywhere.
Europe is unequal, not quite as much as the US, and yet they are implementing austerity. Why? Because capital needs to flow to where it is most useful. If it does not your economy suffers and everyone loses.
Women tiptoe around male anger about being rejected 24/7, especially on online dating. Lots of "evolved" males still become scary when turned down and don't handle rejection well. There is no way to filter them out because they all walk among us, they're our friends and brothers, and sometimes us.

Every woman who's gone on online dating can give you a list of stories of creepy, scary and/or off-putting experiences.

My point here isn't to start an online debate about gender equality, but to say: one of the main things that would help bring users to an online dating app is making it safer for women. If the women come, the men will follow.
WhatsApp calls and messages were used by Facebook. The point is that even Telegram does the same they have much less data about me that they can use. It is a good enough replacement of SMS and GSM calls even with broken crypto. For sensitive communication I would definitely use Signal or Keybase instead. Those are the tools that we use for work related things like software development. Keybase is actually pretty amazing. I think even the crypto backing it is solid.

https://keybase.io/docs/crypto/overview
> VC-subsidised

This boogeyman trope needs to die. Uber is not funded by VCs anymore.
In practice we'll still be traffic shapred on ISP level so not so much P2P. It's far more likely that IPv6 will be used to give everyone one single unique trackable address* and we'll all be easily tracked down by IP again. The practical semi-privacy IPv4 let people have will be gone.

Ultimately, technologies are less important than public opinion, politics and commerce in dictating how the net goes.

* Or a single trackable address range, no matter.
Yes, ISPs could do differently. Why would they? All the incentives are on the other side.
Maybe a 'best value' option would help.
Nowadays you can book most of them via apps as well, either a company's own app (e.g. Addison Lee), or an aggregator like Kabbee.
I am amazed that Uber still exists.

Of course a blind woman was refused rides. Their goal is to be a taxi service minus that ignores the regulations that were added to taxi services for a reason.

As a large healthy white male I know I could probably use Uber safely, but I refuse to support a business that makes rides much worse and more dangerous for those that are more vulnerable. Taxis seem bad enough with the oversight in place.
>ln this example, if you had a hypothetical AI that understood the UK class system + the political system + the press system + the way these interlocking relationships work from a particular elite PoV then sure, but that's magical thinking.

It doesn't have to understand any of those in any "human" sense, where it would be able to articulate what it understood on a meta level, etc.

It would just have to reinforce the right patterns and fuzzy connections that lead to success in writing credible looking articles....
It's a win for all open software. Torvalds and Stallman didn't ask Bell's permission before re-implementing Unix
I just wanted to mention that I remember the Baumgartner freefall for a specific thing: I watched it streaming live on youtube and I remember looking at the number of active viewers climbing above 3M (I think maybe up to 8).

This was 2012, and I realized 1) youtube had insane scalability 2) live streaming was going to be a much bigger thing then I could ever imagine.
That's a useful & intimate, definition of politics. I think a lot of folks are uncomfortable contemplating the power relations that rule their own social circles, so they unconsciously externalize that mess to outside, negative forces. They want to distance themselves from that unpleasant questions like "Who do I have power over? Have I ever abused my power? How have I abused it and who got hurt?"

With enough gymnastics, "politics" becomes a scary game that faraway, bad people play to get ahead, whereas we, the good, close people who are all equal, have no need to think about power in our daily lives at all.
Having a unique gauge stymied Nazi invasion logistics in the Great Patriotic War.
Thanks for the reply. That makes sense to me. I am totally fine with taking the meds forever.

I am one of the lucky cases where I experience basically zero side effects and it's been 2 years so far. I have heard of the horror story side effects like getting really overweight, not being able to bone, feeling fatigued, constantly napping etc. But I have never felt any of that. These last two years have been the best of my life.

I always have this concern though that these meds must be doing something sketchy to my brain chemistry.

But it makes sense that the constant terror of anxiety could also produce some neural pathways and brain chemistry that would be very bad...
Considering how little Uber drivers makes per drive (and they are independent contractors and not workers in most places) a simple divider would probably come close to the "unreasonable cost" in the ADA. It is not that I don't empathize with disabled people but ADA as it seems to be written and all the "support animals" these days would probably drive many small business to bankrupcy.

In Sweden "our ADA" only applies to lead-dogs and they have a special "blanket" and most people that want to bring their dogs into restaurants and hotels don't have licensed dogs. But still, if all the "dog rooms" are taken then the deep cleaning required is a pretty big cost to bear and I have seen customers turn in the door when there was a dog in the restaurant.

So it is not a simple issue and I sympathize with the small independent contractors. Uber, not so much.
I just donated, can't wait to have my name over Apple's lol.
Slide 3? https://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/event/4/contributions/290/...
typical IT staff on some .adoc text, folding via vim, so its nice organised, casual notes: on a pocket Filofax.
As someone who grow up with very few opportunities, accelerated programs and standardized tests were far and away the single biggest reason I was able to go from growing up poor and without any connections to a top 10 school and then a great career in software. In turn, that's allowed me to support my family in everything from mentoring to financial support.

This is a heartbreaking example of how some people today take equality to mean taking everyone down rather than trying to bring everyone up. Or in other words, "they don't love the poor, they just hate the rich"
Call the DoJ Inspector General hotline number:

https://oig.justice.gov/
I assume these numbers are for the lifetime of the product. Perhaps a more reasonable assumption would be to only consider touches within the first 3 days, since the surface contamination is essentially non-viable past that point.
You also need to give your developer keys to Telegram if you want your client to receive push notifications.
There are only 4 US states that allow you to take the bar without going to school: California, Vermont, Virginia, Washington.

These states don't allow a random to come from nowhere and take the bar exam. They require you to be an apprentice at a law firm:

https://barprephero.com/learn/take-the-bar-exam-without-law-...

This is CA, for example:

* Four years studying in a law office

* 18 hours per week

* Five hours of direct supervision

* Monthly exams

* Bi-annual progress reports

* Supervising attorney must have five years of active law practice in California

(you can see the reqs for other states in the article)

**

According to this article: https://priceonomics.com/how-to-be-a-lawyer-without-going-to...

Only 60 apprentices in the nation took the bar in the year discussed. 17 passed.

I'm not sure if I'd call that accessible.
Hi,
I still have to read the docs more thoroughly, but given that these HN threads die out quickly, I'd rather ask now that I have the chance, so forgive me if some of these are answered in the docs:

1. how does MobileCoin make money?

2. how many coins do you / does MobileCoin own?

3. related to that, are there mechanisms in place to prove that this is not a pump and dump? Or simply, how do I know it's not one and it's here for the long-term?

4. what's the threat model of the blockchain you're using? E.g. for Bitcoin, the chain is compromised once 51% of the hashing rate belongs to collaborative evil miners (as a rough approximation). What about MobileCoin? When would something bad happen? How is it prevented?

5. how does MobileCoin compare with privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies such as Monero?

P.S.: you might wanna add a F.A.Q. section somewhere for the questions I've mentioned and the others in this HN thread, right now we either have to blindly trust the claims on https://www.mobilecoin.com/ or going through the 133 pages of https://github.com/UkoeHB/Mechanics-of-MobileCoin, there should be some intermediate tech documentation (or does it exist already?)
I just might dust off my windows-98 and visual-studio 6 CDs and write software like it's 1999.
The research done on manipulation of the mind based on the post ww1/2 which most know as artichoke/mkultra/monarch and it's variants in other five eyes have been condensed into a science later solidified and tested in modern wars across the globe (not just GWOT psyops) that is now being exploited on a massive scale via consolidation of power via mergers, aquisitions, and more subtle extension of control over all forms of media (print, tv, radio, and now the internet, as the oligarchs finally recognized it as a primary threat vector), academia, and politics (largely via a progressively worse bribery, coercion, blackmail (Epstein goes here), threats system) that is being used as part of a divide and conquer strategy that enables the hegellian dialectic mostly via limited hangouts and false opositions to create whatever state of reality the supranational elite want.

The reality is there is a conspiracy/are conspiracies that are coordinated by various disparate secret and not secret organizations whose goals sometimes don't but most often do overlap, and occurences like Q-anon and these protests are likely psyop techniques to distract potential genuine movements that might respond or create desired counter-responses in order to limit the fallout while the oligarchs catch up in the race against the internet as the last bastion of freedom of speech that could cause a neo-peasants revolt if the people found out the truth.
Unfortunately, that happens because most regulations try to enforce a black-and-white rulebook, which is easy on the auditors but extremely difficult on those being audited.

I now thinks most compliance regulations are by auditors for auditors... :-D :-D
Gore lost because of the poor design of the Florida butterfly ballot. The official 537 vote margin is a political expedience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_United_States_presidentia...

> About 19,000 ballots were spoiled because of overvotes (two votes in the same race), compared to 3000 in 1996.[18]:215–221 According to a 2001 study in the American Political Science Review, the voting errors caused by the butterfly ballot cost Gore the election: "Had PBC used a ballot format in the presidential race that did not lead to systematic biased voting errors, our findings suggest that, other things equal, Al Gore would have won a majority of the officially certified votes in Florida."

And yet the protests then were level-headed, largely peaceful, and fully justifiable.
I dunno - the us has a president doing everything he can to stay in power and has been blocked at every turn... that would not end the same way in most places
> 2. Having access to a diverse information diet

I am fully for it, but I believe the ones who need to change the informational diet are not ones who you think they need.

If today's events make any surprise to HN readers. I will tell them they spent not last 4 years, but like 20 years under a rock, and have no idea whatsoever what moves the political pendulum to the right with such force. And they don't want to hear why it is so.

Here on HN, 3 years ago I said that US is inching ever closer to the second civil war, and the point of no returns gets gets more, and more visible.

Then, I was told that such talks are not welcome on HN, and it's below the esteemed patrons of our establishment to think of such lowly matters.

Voila, sealed ears, what they lead to. Not only on HN, but across the elites of entire Western world.
The article is about Floria rejecting some maths textbooks without specifying which and why exactly:

> Worth noting: The education department described the review process as "transparent," but did not name the rejected textbooks nor provide examples of passages that failed to meet the criteria.

I'm not from the US, but I fail to see how Californian guidelines are relevant in that regard, however bad they might be.
It's a lot easier for the rich to "just not borrow" that it is for the poor. Capitalism was designed so people HAVE to borrow money to do things, so saying that you can just avoid things by not borrowing is elitist at best.

University, Medical Bills, Housing - all are things that many people (in NA at least) need to borrow money for. Borrowing money is an integral part to move up the social and economic ladder for most people alive today.
Depending upon a rapid rise of income is a very good way to wind up buried in debt at the slightest complication makes it not come when expected. There are a few times when it can work like say medical school's debt stack.

Saving in my twenties gave me good returns despite issues starting my career but that involved some exceptional circumstances from getting in on Tesla relatively early.
This might incentivise "below the fold" clickbait, or simply pretending that you have the answer to a query when you don't. It could also encourage splitting content and keep the user bouncing from article to article (when looking for a specific answer).
So, what do you mean?

I am in Ukraine and I do not feel like I am in a destroyed country.
For what it's worth, I found the exchange to be highly enlightening.

Classic case of personality clash! Don't be bummed out.
I sent it in to TechCrunch.
Why on earth should developers ever say "Ok, it's fast enough. We're done."

I mean, maybe temporarily done so that you can patch up some higher priority (more broken?) stuff, but DONE? Pushing the envelope is how you progress, and in this case also how you can learn.
> That Washington 'quote' cannot be found before 1902. I agree with the sentiment, but false attribution does nothing to help our credibility.

Amusingly, in checking this out myself, I found this:

"If they have real grievances redress them, if possible; or acknowledge the justice of them, and your inability to do it at the moment. If they have not, employ the force of government against them at once."
To back up your point, in what world is having a good job, nice house, and large retirement savings "mediocre"?
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When you come from the country club life (first paragraph) it is indeed mediocre.

I would consider that mediocre as well, and I grew up about as far from "country club" life as you can get. As in, dirt-poor, below-the-poverty-line, white-trash from rural southeastern NC.

Of course, some of that is that we constantly raise the bar for ourselves (well, I do anyway). Maybe the scenario above would have sounded like heaven to me when I was 20, but it doesn't now. Just the "job" part gives me the creeps. I, for one, don't want a traditional "job" at all. My standard of the line between mediocre life and successful life involves a big element of being able to control my own fate to a greater degree, and some ability to call my own shots. Translated, that means running a company I own, not working for somebody else.

The OP seems to have a lot of priorities out of whack.

Meh. Who are we to judge? A person's priorities are their priorities... there is no "right" or "wrong" on this.
> Many of us were running Apache httpd prior to Nginx

Ah, ye olde dayes of Apache. Cast my memory back there, lord!

Many of us still are running Apache, as well as MySQL, & even PHP :)
I didn't mean to sound like that. From where I'm standing (and it's OK if this opinion isn't common), iOS and to a lesser degree OS X show outward signs of the internal struggles at Apple. There are some things that should have been caught, or that at least would have been more likely to be vetoed. It's a very feature/product-driven company, high-level oversight is expected but seems to be missing in places.

To use another example, with the new iCloud apps (especially iOS backports like Notes and its ilk) on OS X, because there is no save button there is no way to tell if the document has actually been committed to storage or not. If you close the app, the document might be on the cloud somewhere, but it's just as likely to be trapped on a Mac's harddrive that has just been put to sleep. Not a good experience.