jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The article offers “a few tips on how to attract and retain followers, thus ensuring that your gospel spreads far and wide”. Although the tips are presented as recommendations for somebody starting a religion, the important part is that they are based on recent studies about the brain quirks that produce religions or at least enable them.
I find some of those tips are also useful for startup founders, especially when creating a team of “believers” and keeping it focused on the goals.
For example, traumatic rites of passage which are either painful or scary seem to be good generators of cohesiveness. Whether by intention or by the nature of the process, startups engage in this practice: YC forces applicants to take a leap of faith and relocate; founders work interminable hours in not very healthy conditions; some startups adopt some kind of initiation.
Other good tips are to keep preaching the doctrine, and to allow dissent to a certain degree.
Having recently read “Delivering Happiness” by Tony Hsieh, Zappos’ CEO, I could not avoid making some connections between the book and this article. Of course, you have to read the article with the right light o see them.
... and thus we see how the perfect is necessarily the enemy of the good then? Nonsense.

Two people can share a relative ranking of goodness for outcome states while differing on the methods to reach the better of such states.
"Pretty sure the highway system does an excellent job already."

Have you even been in heavy Traffic congestion? The Texas Transportation Institute estimated that, in 2000, the 75 largest metropolitan areas experienced 3.6 billion vehicle-hours of delay, resulting in 5.7 billion U.S. gallons (21.6 billion liters) in wasted fuel and $67.5 billion in lost productivity, or about 0.7% of the nation's GDP. Note: That cost is significantly larger than NASA's ~$19B budget.

PS: Simply building more or wider roads does not automatically remove congestion in the long term. However, mass transit really does help. Just look at how much more people are willing to pay to live near a subway station.
LA to San Francisco is about 350 miles. That's a 90 minute train ride.

Beijing to Shanghai is about 820 miles. This will take about 4 hours when the trains comes online in June, a year ahead of schedule.
I'll turn this into an AMA about demo day / presentations. @dharmesh needs to work on the comments at Onstartups or add Disqus finally :).
This post is missing a possible reason for this acquisition.

Yahoo has their connected TV platform, right now they're just rolling out "broadcast interactivity" where you can have an app on your TV and iPad and mobile device sync'd to the TV broadcast. The way they are doing this is via audio fingerprinting, exactly what intonow has a bunch of IP in.

This isn't just Yahoo all the major CE players doing Connected TV apps and widgets are looking to get into these technologies. Think "popup" ads on your TV because they can recognize the ad that's currently playing on your TV.

Woot!
See, this is your (and most peoples) mistake: Don’t mix up the fear of getting caught watching a cute little cat playing the piano on YouTube and a natural habit of around 95% of all people. A lot of companies which are using this concept are totally fine with you watching cats, they don’t even care.
Try The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner. He wrote this book in the early 70's.It's pretty much proto cyberpunk.
the project is open source and there are contributors who own portions of services under development (such as text adventures and private messaging).

btw, i am the one that created this :)

https://github.com/bigboringsystem/
Go would need to be completely rearchitected in order to move to a single-threaded runtime.
Have you got dedicated graphics ?

To me the issue was present mostly when gaming, not really during normal use (with the Macbook is the same).

It failed me after a few years and sold it for spares.
Office space saving is easy to measure. Productivity loss is hard to measure.
Search for "Prosperity Gospel"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
Yes, totally. I just feel like a lot of e-books are 99p so 10% of that is so small. I guess the upside is 1,000 people could buy it at once, but then you'd need 100,000+ book fans for an ambitious 1% conversion. And even then you'd have to go author direct (so amazon don't also take a cut) which may mean lower quality books, and if people see you promoting bad product, end of brand, maybe.
Fair enough, looks like a nice product.

As I'm not looking for a new keyboard I was just hoping for some innovation in keyboard layouts. The thing has the same damn keys like every keyboard out there. How about something that actually makes coding more efficient. Maybe an extra row of keys below F1-F12, for language-specific keywords or code snippets.

Programming requires me to deal with abstract and unintuitive concepts all the time ... which are then broken down from programming constructs, to words, all the way to the individual letters which I have to type in one by one.

But maybe keyboard design has already reached perfection and all that remains is choosing green or brown Cherry keys.
Yeah, but their weakness (turning away customers because of sexuality) is also a business opportunity.
I apologize for the confusion. The original post is misleading and I should have clarified this in my response above (I'm juggling a newborn ATM).

The Serverless Framework open-source experience does not do this. But there are premium features, like Serverless Framework Components (which this post is actually referring to) which do this.

When you use these premium features you must log into the Serverless Framework SaaS offering via your CLI, accept a TOS, etc.

At the same time, we need to make sure our communication on these SaaS offerings and how they work is more clear. With respects to that, we'll collect all of the feedback we can to get this right!
> Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts?

Yes. If you read the terms when you sign up to pay them money for GSuite, it says that your data in not used for advertising, targeting, or any other analytics. Basically the minimum terms for a large organization to be willing to entrust their internal data to Google.
Keeping Google as a secondary/special purpose account should be fine. I would personally consider that as “already gotten out of Google”.
Speak for yourself. I hate public transportation and sharing commodities. I’d much rather have my own car and large private spaces.
> it's just that their business model is to be selling hosted e-mail services

Does anyone know if pro/business accounts with Google GSuite have better privacy than free accounts?

Another counterpoint to my original post is - you can call someone at ProtonMail, can't do that with Google.
> The best answer is the humble integer. (...)

...and then you proceed by suggesting ID code generation methods that replicate UUIDs.

It sounds like you are trying to criticize UUIDs while being totally unaware of what UUIDs are.

I mean, UUIDs are nothing more than integers that are generated following one of half a dozen different methods so that they can be probably unique without relying on a central authority.

One of the UUID versions is a pure random number. Another is a MAC address concatenated with a timestamp complemented with a local counter. There are literally two UUID methods that consist of hashing data.

Your supposed solutions to the alleged problem posed by UUIDs is a reinvention of what UUIDs have always been. But UUIDs have been though through and are standard and ubiquitous.
> If only an email service as good as Gmail existed anywhere on this planet

Office 365, which is Microsoft Exchange under the hood?
> And where there are, a fee schedule is published, publicly, in advance.

So you're saying the patient is responsible for the payment when the service is not covered...
Or people are just sick of being shown ads on everything Google. Sure $5 you get X, Y, Z but you also get 000's of ads pumped at you constantly. Even though you pay for that access you are pretty much opening up all of your inboxes etc for crawlers to scan for your likes, dislikes etc.
I’m a middle roader. We need both simplicity and complexity. I wouldn’t want to completely cut my internet connection but it’s more conducive to my productivity to confine it to a single room or device.

I appreciate my current life in a rural setting more than I ever did living in large cities.
This is a terrible website. It gives you three different links/buttons to download the thing and wants you to sign in (e.g. with Google or Facebook) before granting access.
The "original" digital work is identical in fidelity, form, and use to any reproduction. Your metaphor is wrong because in an NFT system, you don't get a photograph, you get a molecule for molecule identical replica of the original painting. In that case, yeah? Why buy art if you can get a copy that's literally an identical clone of the original?

If anyone could, at no meaningful cost, download a physically identical replica of a Jackson Pollock and have it, you can be sure the price of art would suffer quite a bit. Your ability to prove that you are the person who owns the work is meaningless if anyone can just also freely have the exact work itself.
What about if the supposed "bubble" lasts until it's unfeasible to continue mining on the same speed as now? Eventually, bitcoin will have been mined, and then there is no need for as much mining, depending on transaction fees only. By then the energy use is massively lowered as well.
I think that the most murderous conservative decision was to not allow early human challenge trials on the ethical grounds while hundred thousands of people were dying.
I am a happy EV owner (charge at home, drive within range), but I can confirm that the charging network is a disaster. Those rare times I have to charge away from home, I am faced with a spotty, confusing, unreliable, and most of all stressful charging network. I almost got stranded the other day during really cold weather. I was low on charge and the level 3 charger I planned on using almost failed though it did eventually work after a few tries. And the charge cord was like trying to handle a full grown boa constrictor. It still took almost a full hour to charge my 2015 Leaf.
I think in the case of Lascaux it's more than just the use of color to show different planes.

Aerial perspective - "In addition, we note that the hooves in the foreground are more accomplished – their cleft mature is visible – than those in the background, for which the drawing is limited to an outline. We note the simplification of lines based on the relative distance of the viewer from the various elements in the scene."

And then to foreshortening, you can see the bison on the right in particular is illustrated in such a way that the hind quarters are abnormally smaller than the front of the animal. Further, the artist is making use of the contours of the cave wall to amplify the effect - "The choice of the location of this panel contributes to the illusion of an explosion of the diptych's elements. To heighten the effect, the artists chose a wall with a very obtuse angle, and painted a bovine on each plane. Additionally, we can see that the wall is not vertical but leans forward. The corbel created by this position strengthens the illusion that the image is falling towards the viewer below."

Not bad for a bunch of Neanderthals. :) Chauvet cave would be another example, I think.

Some further reading on them, in these examples the foreshortening aspects are mentioned, though I'm sure there are more/better sources of material with some searching:

https://mindfuldrawing.com/2019/08/07/crossed-bison-of-lasca...

https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/arts/visual/prehisto...

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/prehistoric/cave-painting.ht...

This following quote is from a read you may find quite interesting:

"It was not until the Renaissance that artists in the West, after a long apprenticeship, routinely drew with such realistic perspective, as did the Aurignacian [paleolithic] artists. "

https://jamanetwork.com/HttpHandlers/ArticlePdfHandler.ashx?...

Also, an awesome podcast episode on cave art:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mqn7
It is encryption, but not very convenient. You forget that there is one important use of encryption, and that is in military operations. A one-time pad would be a good choice in this situation---you give soldiers who need to receive encrypted messages the keys on paper so that they can be teared and destroyed, one by one. For each message, you take the next key, decrypt the message, and then destroy the key so it's never used. Of course, if they compromise the keys on any end, it's game over, but mathematically it's as secure as it gets.
Another brilliant mind tragically cut down in the prime of his life by the scourge of illegal drugs :(
A pill? I'm not sure you know what you're talking about.
Yeah, I agree. I used to believe that employers are being malicious and selfish when they hide salary details (and maybe some are), but over the years I've come to realize that most employees are simply too immature to accept that they may not actually be as valuable/important as they think. I personally wouldn't want to deal with all the awkwardness and drama introduced into the workplace even if it resulted in a 10-15% pay raise for me (although that's just me).
Yes, you'll get better. It's one of those things that just takes practice. My advice is to just test, test, test, test, test. Test until you're sick of testing, then test some more.

My second piece of advice is to just slow down. I don't know if you're a fast coder or not, but in my experience, any problem can ALWAYS take another hour or two (or day or two!) to ensure that it's done perfectly. It takes far less time to do it right the first time than it does to "hack it in and fix it later." Slowing down also means that you spend more time on the details -- and your detail spotting gets better!

Good luck.
Am I missing something? How does something being calorically dense make it nutritious?
I am talking about _computer_ scientists.
Take biochemists for example.
Or biologists.
I'm a bit surprised that Scheme-based languages, especially Logo and Racket, are not mentioned.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational_programming_languag...
The article completely ignores noise. I personally have a box fan filter, but I don't pretend that it's appropriate or better for most people-- it's loud and annoying to work in the same room, and almost impossible to sleep with. And it is important that they're constantly on [0] (air quality generally reverts to normal levels in less than 2 hours), because all homes breathe to mitigate moisture and mold growth.

[0]: https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/can-you-turn-off-your-pu...
Offering your app as a pure http server seems superior to opening a webview, not to mention simpler.
Thanks for putting those points in a very coherent framework. Looked at it this way, it's quite an asymmetric gamble.
There is no reason to make Bitcoin illegal. Just set up a carbon tax at the amount it costs to remove carbon from the air and build renewables. At that point who cares what happens or how people use their resources.
not really. the key mistake here is treating gdp is a proxy for wages when there is no direct connection between the two. in a pathological case, you could have a $1T GDP and have zero wages paid. the question of whether mean or median figures are more appropriate when talking about wages (what I assume you are alluding to with your statistics quip) is a side issue. no amount of statistics knowledge will help someone who insists on comparing apples to oranges.
That Edmunds test is flawed in so many ways.

Not only they fudged the numbers:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/tesla-tsla-the-inves...

There was also a fatal flaw. They did not perform the testing under the same conditions. They tested the Teslas with temps being 10F (~60F) colder and using the cabin heat.

https://twitter.com/AEONde/status/1359599422733172736?s=20

While other being tested under ~70+F with no heater used. Any EV owner knows that will significantly affect range. I guess they don't really care about being an authoritative source.

Other offenses:
https://twitter.com/enn_nafnlaus/status/1331154577387905024?...
I'm not sure I understand how that would help the issue of transferring terrabytes of data over the Internet? I've not come across the "Cluster Instance" though so maybe I'm missing something?
Correctly handling namespaced QNames is a requirement, not a bug. It makes things awkward at times, but that's a job for lib writers to provide decent interfaces.

I haven't used LXML in a while, but ElementTree, for example, forces you to use the QName in XPath expressions, which is technically correct but a huge pain; it would be nice if there was a ScrewNamespace option that would allow "simple" searches, although this might blow up in your face one day (when two namespaces define the same element name, and your xpath search brings up elements you didn't really want).
It looks like the actual best answer is to use ssl - apparently most apps transmit their password in the clear, and just rely on ssl to keep it from being observed. I'll amend my post.
If possible, do it outside. A dark roast will be smokey. It doesn't smell bad, its more of a burnt toast type smell. The biggest problem is the chaff that comes off. I finish up by giving myself a quick dust. The beans each shed a thin layer of their shell as you roast them. If you are doing a dark roast this can also catch fire.
If I was doing a light roast with a small volume of coffee (say 2 handfuls) I'd do it inside if my wife wasn't too close by.
I live on a canal boat in London (http://everythinginthesky.com/tagged/boatlyfe) that I'm looking to do up in a similar fashion. It's a long road, though - I installed solar panels and a basic 3G wifi setup, but it's all been delayed while I have it stripped back to bare metal and rebuilt. The nice part about the boat is that the arrangements for moving it / living on it are a bit more formalised than I imagine this is and are part of the lifestyle. Still, this seems like a much more mobile solution. Good post!
awesome. he should sell advertising on side of bus as he tours the country.
Vice: http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/larry-summers-and-the-secret-...
You can read more about this on Intel.com (http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-0119...)
Well longevity in terms of "not much performance increases per generation" but the quality of goods isn't necessarily there. My middle mouse button of my thinkpad just randomly fell a day ago. I don't think I've ever even used the middle button... My laptop is about 3years old and for the first 2years was barely used because I used a different machine... My old pixel 3 phone had a few issues with it too. The USB-C port stopped working perfectly after a software update and wasn't being rma'd at the time. Battery bulge popped off the back.

I wish devices were made to last for at least 10years, only my modular desktop with haswell gen CPU has lasted that long. I downgraded it from daily to something else.
That's because Google gives points for word count.
I doubt the product/ad/business team sees any benefit when page content shifts around and Google downranks the site for it.
I have a friend who used to be a cop in Dallas. He's a dentist now.

He says he makes many times the money with much less stress. Being in law enforcement in this climate seems like a pretty rough job to me. And that's not to excuse bad law enforcement behavior (of which there is plenty) either.

"Actually make society a better place". << What do you suppose your world would look like with no enforcement of any laws?
It's not the wage that needs to change it would be the prices of housing in the city. This can't change because it's not determined by some governing body. It's called gentrification. It's currently happening to me. I could not afford to buy my house now and I just bought it a few years ago. Of course there still needs to be staff in the area working retail etc. but I haven't seen anyone over 25 in a store near me for over a year.
If you’re smart it’s a much better deal to live in the USA. It’s why you see so many Europeans move here and not the other way around.

Europe is better if you’re dumb as there are better social systems. You can just exist more easily there.
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It's understandable being anti-intellectual when spelling the thing you're deriding is out of reach.
I think it is more that software is going to be "garbage" regardless (whatever that means, if the software writer disagrees with the user about what the software should do it is unclear who has the most right to call themselves correct).

A generally good software system is agnostic about the quality of its components. There are going to be bugs everywhere and it is important to guarantee outcomes. The pinnacle of this thinking is something like TCP creating a reliable connection out of fallible parts. It doesn't matter that the parts are unreliable, we get a reliable outcome because the system has realistic expectations of its components. This instance has overtones of the same thinking.

Also, Chesterton's fence is often a red herring that leads to poor practices. It is appropriate to just break things that look suspicious if the risk of failure is low. When it turns out the strange construction is needed, repair the damage done and add a comment or documentation.
Late to the party, but Solana is proof-of-history not pow. Not that it matters, or actually, kind of makes your argument even stronger.
You're probably correct. I've been very lucky to have mostly been around smart people, and so it's likely that the average middling person I come across is, well, just that. Middling status-climbers are still dangerous, though, and still work to ruin averages.

That said, Haskell actually has a lot of great resources available, and I think it is learnable by just about anyone these days. It usually only takes one good book for a language to become available to average people, and Haskell has a great volume of beginner-friendly books. It can be debated as to whether this is a good thing or not, but I think it's always nice to see new pathways into programming become available, even if I'm not necessarily in love with a language.
>change their strategy if needed.

I think that's somewhat the point of what Steam is doing. Positioning themselves to exist without MS in the worst case while applying pressure that may curb MS's most user hostile or competition-limiting (in the app ecosystem) initiatives. Especially at a time of chip shortages and price premiums, users are more likely to hesitate buying a new computer just to have the latest win version when their existing hardware is still fine.

I think this is especially the case with gamers where and older CPU is much less likely to be a bottleneck in performance.