jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
When i put my manager hat it turns into a nighmare.

If you, hypotetically, are managing a cash cow business, your first mission as a manager is to protect that business. You have to develop long term relationships with clients, spot early all the competition, grow organically your main business and control costs so you don't end in jail when the bad times arrive.

Here comes the first problem. Usually, in the business sense, innovation isn't something 100% new, is something 10-30% new. You know, the car still have 4 wheels but now it comes with a sensor that makes parking easier. The problem appears when your innovations start to compete with your main product. To compatibilize that stuff (think the way MS killed the IE team) requieres very large amounts of quality managment, something that is as scarce as high quality programmers. Think politics (hey, that is MY business!), incentives (you told me to control costs, else I would have done that!) or resistance to change (that will be a failure, it will make us look bad in front of X and Y), etc.

The proposition of the author is one of the classics propositions to sterilize change: to spin off. Make the change independent from the current managers, let them suffer their rigidity... but it may not be the better business decision to spin off somthing that will compete with yourself in 80% of the business.

The article just tries to (mis)analize a management problem without relevant expertise in management and from an investment point of view, and commits the usual mistakes that inexperienced managers make to a level that is doesn't even spark the usual insighful analysis from a engineering POV from the HN crowd.
when you have a cash cow you can either take the money and run, or reinvest and try to milk it for all it's worth. sometimes the former is the best idea, sometimes the latter works out well. MS, google, apple, facebook, etc. are all examples of the latter. which completely goes against the premise of the article -- google wouldn't be google if they didn't have a wide breadth of products and would have likely gotten bought out if their only concern was a quick return on investment money.
Without getting into it too deeply, money is not wealth. It is a wealth transfer mechanism.

When wealth is converted into $100 for trade with someone (e.g. Microsoft, by buying Windows and Office products) and Microsoft takes that $100 and converts it into something that can only be traded for $80, it has destroyed wealth, even though the original $100 of money is still around (it paid for materials and labor after all). The "world" still has the $100 that Microsoft used to have, but instead of having $100 worth of wealth to trade it for, Microsoft has stupidly destroyed wealth and now there is only $80 of wealth to trade for.

So yes, the money is the same, but the wealth actually did decrease, by $20. Someone, somewhere is stuck with $20 and nothing to buy after the Xbox is sold for $80, thanks to Microsoft. Global wealth was destroyed; the amount of $100 bills stayed the same.
Wordlens, wow and thank you!

(Here's me desiring this a couple of years ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569558 )
> (I have a second copy of that sheet left with a friend in an envelope)

I love jgc but here he's making the same mistake most people make when they speak about security: assuming all readers have the same need for security and run the same risks. They don't. There is no point for my mom to adopt this system, it's way overkilled for her. (I think there's no point for me either).

One needs to explain to users two things: the first is that there is a big difference between being A target and being THE target. If you are just A target, picking one password for each website you subscribe to is more than enough. If you are THE target, then people will get to you, no matter how secure you think you are.
Optimal? No. More than sufficient? Yes. You can use all numbers in your password, so long as it's long enough (and the website actually uses all of them).
If anything MS mis-calculated with XBOX, thinking Sony was the threat in 2000, but the real threat was Apple. Now it's 2010 and the money is not in the living room (and it never was really), it's in mobile.
You seem to imply the point of the foundation is to avoid paying taxes on the capital interest of great hordes of cash, or at least to have direction over what happens to a portion equivalent to the tax.

Okay... but the elephant in the room is the capital itself. Once it's transferred to the foundation, how can it be transferred back, or spent in a personal, non-charitable manner?
I'm not saying that FF or other browsers doesn't innovate. I'm just saying that I've seen tons of features that have started in Opera that end up implemented in other browsers.
Just being able to have matter that has gravitational attraction and little or no inertia or vice versa doesn't open the door to inertialess drives. To do that, you'd need negative inertia to cancel out the inertia of payload and bits of spacecraft that have inertia. And I don't see anything in the article to suggest that there was any hope of that. In fact, I'm not sure how this would be useful unless you could turn gravitational attraction on and off. If you could do that, perhaps you could rob the mass energy of the one or both of the bodies to create energy? It would basically function as a mass energy converter. But we're a long way even from a theoretical framework for that.
The only thing in Vegas that is free is the wireless at the airport.
Try to learn WHY some particular technologies exists and popular. Try to understand the Ruby's style (describing, rather than coding) and the Python's way (simplicity, clarity, readability). Try to realize bloatedness, meaningless syntax fluff and limitations of Java (NIO2 is just a spec). The approach to C programming of Linus (once again clarity and readability), and then compare it to FreeBSD and OpenBSD projects. Look at webkit, chromium, qt and try too figure out which sub-set of C++ is portable and safe to use, and when it a right tool. Read the source code of nginx, varnish, openssh, sqlite, v8 or whatever you like.
Hand down a kickass designer. Great design will lead the way for your startup. Scaling will always have a different meaning "tomorrow", and there's no need to keep your site up if it's not worth using. So start w/ the basics, clean it up, and go from there.
Charlie is right, but we aren't really Yodlee competitors. As far as I know Yodlee is the sole commercial provider of the type of services they offer.

If you want to get data from banks you should download our Firefox extension (which is GPL'd), unzip the .xpi file, and use that to get started. Depending on what you want it could take you pretty far.
Claudia Ng. You probably never heard of her because she's in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

My friends founded a little wireless access point startup back in 2001. This is back before it was even called Wi-fi, you just tried to sell people on something called "eight-oh-two-eleven-bee". They brought Claudia in to manage. She was our former manager at another startup and was very well-liked. Pretty soon she'd turned it into a dominant hotspot network in the entire province (by some measures, all of Canada), and sold it to an ISP. That business went from my friend's apartment to a signature address in downtown Vancouver in just four years.

She's won just about every business award they give out in that city. She's also an awesome person with a great sense of humor. Proof that you don't have to be evil to get ahead.

Since then she's done a number of things and is now working on flat-panel advertisements. I can introduce you if you like.
I hope, firstly, that everyone ends up ok from this. I hope, secondly, that everyone who thought it was harmless to humor the GOP/QAnon theories this election cycle take an early retirement after seeing the consequences.
I have wasted a lot of breath trying to convince people that the right way to go is to have one physical data center, and put all redundancy and edge networking in the cloud.

One of my fears is that as soon as you outsource hardware maintenance, then employees who were good at this sort of thing lose much of their value, either in their own head, or in the group consensus. They start to wander off to work for other companies, and you quickly lose critical mass. Once that happens, the quality of advice you get for architectural proposals degrades, and your number of stupid design mistakes notches up considerably.

These people also provide a lot of your 'informed consumer' qualities. They can explain why you shouldn't have to pay $1000 a month for a service.

I've seen this play out a couple of times. It's too slow to be called a train wreck. It's like watching erosion take out beautiful house. You can enjoy it for a while, but eventually it starts to sag and then fall apart. Slowly at first and then all at once.
Personally, I went from Google Keep to Standard Notes to NextCloud Notes, but the process is similar to go from Standard Notes to Joplin.

There's instructions for how to transfer from Google Keep to Standard Notes here[1]. Then, export from Standard Notes via a "Decrypted" data archive[2], extract the plain text files from the resulting archive (I don't recall the exact path), rename them all from .txt to .md using zmv or a similar pattern-based file renaming program, and import them to Joplin as-is[3].

You'll lose formatting, unfortunately, and probably other things like attachments and checkboxes -- I'm not entirely sure, as I didn't use any of the more advanced features of Google Keep.

There's also instructions to go from Standard Notes to Joplin directly[4], bypassing plain text. That might preserve formatting and such.

Your mileage may vary, as they say.

[1] https://standardnotes.org/help/35/how-can-i-import-my-notes-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/StandardNotes/comments/5sf0id/you_c...

[3] https://joplinapp.org/#importing-from-markdown-files

[4] https://programadorwebvalencia.com/migrate-notes-from-standa...
Trump, speaking to protestors, declares "we will never concede."

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote/tr...
Why would they need KYC if they don't handle any money?
Some footage

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErElEGcXMAE9RLq?format=jpg&name=...

https://twitter.com/jim_newell/status/1346899789347233796

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/134690142014716723...
But her scene and the train wrecking was seen as “cool” by kids. I don’t think that is the case anymore. Kids look up to Elon Musk and YouTubers want to do startups and content instead.
I listed the most innovative things that happened. They were product innovations that could have killed Facebook as a company, not RocksDB or React. At the same time I'm a software engineer, and I could write a database much easier than create something that grows faster than Facebook.

I use instagram and WhatsApp, no Facebook anymore (except messenger), as young people went there (and I'm following).

TikTok is a bit too much for me though, I think creating videos for it takes too much time, while for Instagram it's easy to take nice photos while I'm travelling.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protes...

Video from inside the capitol makes it clear that the police are in on the coup.
They were taking their sweet time processing the application until today.
Ugh, true. I'm pretty annoyed by how many features are missing from 3.0, I won't be able to use it in my hobby app because I depend on MediaPlayerElement for audio.
The action isn’t unprecedented. But that’s a separate company. What has Apple done to make people expect this behavior when they’ve not done it before?
If they arent actively opposing it that can be enough.
> They also pursue nuclear weapons.

I have zero problems with this.

Why do America (The only country to actually use a nuke) get to decided who gets national security and who gets "freedom and democracy" delivered by a predator drone.
> I don't think it's Python's fault. Probably all the programming toolchains are this hard to a newbie!

Python is a little worse in that in pushes its dirtiness downstream to your users too.
> Changing the clock does not alter the amount of daylight. I'm sure you don't need to go and adjust your clock now to convince yourself of this.

I never stated otherwise.

> The only single reason I can think to choose one clock over another is that one synchronises with the solar system and one does not.

Why are you being deliberately obtuse? Having extra daylight in the morning (i.e. pre-12:00) and the afternoon (i.e. post 12:00) are reasons. The amount of light before and after school/work/etc. has real effects.

> ...there is nothing else to consider.

This is factually untrue. You may not consider other reasons as important as your own, but stop pretending they don't exist.

By the way, you are an extremely irritating person to discuss with. I started this conversation specifically to hear your side and you are taking the opportunity to ignore and belittles ideas other than your own. It's pretty childish honestly.
That’s just for Apple
Technically Speedpass was RFID, Apple Pay and most modern tap-to-pay tech uses NFC
> Fun fact, UTF-8's prefix scheme can cover up to 31 payload bits.

It’d probably be more correct to say that it was originally defined to cover 31 payload bits: you can easily complete the first byte to get 7 and 8 byte sequences (35 and 41 bits payloads).

Alternatively, you could save the 11111111 leading byte to flag the following bytes as counts (5 bits each since you’d need a flag bit to indicate whether this was the last), then add the actual payload afterwards, this would give you an infinite-size payload, though it would make the payload size dynamic and streamed (where currently you can get the entire USV in two fetches, as the first byte tells you exactly how many continuation bytes you need).
You can configure your iPhone not to use FaceID for Apple Pay only. That's what I did for the same reason as you. I just quickly enter my PIN to use Apple Pay.
I get my sense of purpose from my family - my wife and daughter - and not my career. Work is something I do to enable the other parts of my existence.
Lay off implications about bad faith, please.

The argument is not that general purpose computing was a mistake, but that general purpose computing is not necessary and is to some extent counterproductive for the majority of consumers. Consumers moved away from flip phones because they wanted more capable phones, that doesn't mean they largely want capability to the extent of general purpose computing.

Consumers will be the judge of whether a platform or product is worth using. Given the unparalleled success of iOS and Apple's locked down ecosystem, it's pretty clear that many find this level of security is very much worth using regardless of imperfect moderation.
You cannot eat your real estate, or your computer.

Demand elasticity of food is near 0, either you eat more calories than you spend, or you die. That's very much a truth.

Would some smart economic theory tell that's not the case?

A grand lack of common sense.
Agreed. This is the "Francis Bacon" I was expecting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Grandparent was talking about Germany, not the UK.
And given the density of Venus' atmosphere, here is a fun thought experiment.

It may be possible to make 'titanium' balloons for longer term operation. The would work by creating the balloon envelope on earth, have a sealing mechanism that you activated in orbit so they had vacuum inside. And then drop them into the atmosphere.

Same idea a glass floats on fishing nets[1] except with titanium (so they can withstand the compression forces given they have a vacuum inside). It might be useful/necessary to put some additional structure inside the envelope for strength but like eggs, the sphere is a pretty good shape for distributing compressive force.

Anyway, put a number of them on tethers attached to the instrument payload and drop it off into the atmosphere once you've gone trans-sonic with parachutes or retro rockets. The platform will then fall to the point where the lifting force of the floats is equal to the weight of the platform.

Ideally the titanium would be impervious to the atmospherics's corrosive effects.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_float
Oh please no. Why would you ever do this? Please use the <video> tag to embed your actual video with a GIF fallback if you wish. Why are we using an ancient 8-bit lossless format for video when pretty much all browsers support video embeds these days?

<video width="320" height="240" autoplay loop playsinline muted>
<source src="foo.mp4" type="video/mp4">
<source src="foo.ogg" type="video/ogg">
<!-- GIF fallback for ancient browsers but it's 2021 and you probably don't need this anymore -->
<img src="foo.gif" width="320" height="240">
</video>

With H.264 or any modern codec you'll get 24-bit color and smaller file sizes than GIF. It's better in every way I can imagine.
I mean, you’re engaging with the espoused opinion of someone who simultaneously advocated class warfare and drew Google payroll, so you may as well be arguing with a figment of our collective imagination. If that’s not obvious by nature of how incongruous it is I fear for the Internet.
I agree with most of what you have to say, but I want to make a note about this:

Opting out of meat entirely does nothing to change the industry, because most people will always eat some meat if they can afford it.

I think opting out does a few things. It puts pressure on restaurants to offer alternatives to meat, so we're not all forced to eat it because it's the only healthy option. It pushes our culture to give people a choice. Honestly, all I really want as a vegan is for people to have a good choice every day, at each meal, about how much/what kind of animal products they consume. Right now in most places there just aren't choices, because 99% of people have a "well, I'll just keep eating what I always have" mentality.

Also, opting out of meat does get me into conversations regularly about the meat industry. The fact that I only eat very specific kinds of meat in specific occasions opens up conversations with other people about when and why they eat meat. I don't care if people eat meat on purpose, for their own reasons, but I do care that they wolf down pounds of it every day for no particular reason because it's what's put in front of us. My opting out creates a context for other people to consider opting out.

And given that's my motivation, I'm pretty careful about how I engage people. I don't shame people, I don't push them. I honestly don't give a shit what they decide. I just like having the options all out there.

Note: I consider myself vegan. I eat meat and dairy sometimes. I eat vegetables, and vegetables are grown with animal products. Meat and dairy are not the basis of my diet. I eat a plant-based diet, so I consider myself vegan. You can call this "reform vegan" to the "orthodox" if you like. But anyone who's really looked at the realities of the situation (including the OP) comes to understand that there is no such thing as 100% vegan, and that what matters most is the health of the whole ecology.
That's interesting -- have you used this group in the past and thinks have turned out well? I've heard that some recruiters really can be great but often can only be found through recommendations.

Any other recruiter recommendations would be great too. I'm just afraid to go off of a random recruiter from Google Adwords (or even the organic search, given SEO's effectiveness these days).
I don't know what part of the world you guys are from, but it's a fairly well known strategy in Turkey. I've had a friend who did that growing up. He had dual citizenship, one by right of birth and the other by right of parents. When you think about it, doesn't it make so much sense?
I'm very interested in how infiniband works out for you. I've considered it myself, as used infiniband switches are available for the same price as used 1g ethernet... but while I'm pretty comfortable with fixing ethernet when it breaks... I'd be much less confident in my ability to fix infiniband by swapping out hardware than I would be in my ability to fix gigabit ethernet. As far as I can tell, infiniband is something of a dying technology vs. ethernet, market wise.

On the other hand, infiniband is fucking awesome. DMA over the network, anyone?
"Opting out of meat entirely does nothing to change the industry, because most people will always eat some meat if they can afford it."

FWIW, my opting out of meat entirely has motivated at least a few others to do the same. On a larger scale, I've seen an increase over the last 10 years in the number of vegetarian restaurants and vegetarian offerings in general-menu restaurants. I'd say there has been some change in the industry, driven by people who have opted out of meat entirely.

Even if you're skeptical about just how much change any one person can effect I fail to see how one might go about changing an industry while not at the same time demonstrating commitment to the ideals feeding that desire for change.

"Meanwhile, as vegans focus on the elimination of meat from our diets, they practically ignore the industrialized food that wreaks direct reproducible havoc on our metabolisms causing epidemic obesity and diabetes"

Really? I've not seen that. If anything the vegans I've encountered, either personally or through books and magazines, seem quite zealous about replacing meat with quality nutrition. In fact, I don't see how one can be a vegan and not have to bend over backwards to select food carefully.
They're not getting that kind of equity upside from not-startups.

Note that you are valuing them more than folks who are actually producing the first version of the product. Do you really think that the VP of HR is more essential than a lead engineer?
To be fair, what we call a "job" is more than the transactions of skills and currency: it's also the presumed security of constant transactions for an extended period of time.
> I wouldn't really call those arguments. They assume that animals can suffer without giving an argument that animals can suffer. Whether animals can suffer is the core issue which should be addressed, and is not addressed by these statements.

No, you're decades out of date. It is established fact, on all sides of the animal rights argument, that animals suffer and feel pain. I'd be shocked if you could find a single credible source arguing otherwise at this point.

This shouldn't be surprising to anyone. If you kick a dog, which you shouldn't, it'll exhibit all the same physiological responses that we do to being kicked; it will be in obvious pain and distress, and measurably so; it might cry, it'll hide, it'll be scared of you in the future. What else is there?

> But animals do not have preferences

No, that's patently ridiculous. Many adult animals, and most especially other primates, hold long-term preferences and have tested at the cognitive level of young human children (toddlers). Again, why would you possibly expect anything else?

> You haven't even said what you think suffering is.

There are books upon books written about animal suffering, and I was giving bullet points, so not exhaustively defining my terms is hardly a fair criticism. You could read Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_rights#Animal_suffering
For bonus points, keep track of hidden meat, like gelatin in 'yogurt' and marshmallows, isinglass in your wine, or bonechar in your sugar, or lard, oyster sauce, fish sauce or chicken broth snuck into otherwise vegetarian dishes.