jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This happened to me yesterday. First thing I did after verifying that it wasn't a malware infection was Help → Submit Feedback, only to be met with:

> We've paused submissions to this form so that we can improve how we collect feedback.

Stonewalled à la Google; insult to injury. “Unfck” indeed.
I'd look for a ticket about the poor contrast of matches, either green or magenta.
Israel is a apartheid regime that needs to be dismantled and replaced with a country that is fair to all its citizens, rather than an ethnostate based on racist ideas of Jewish supremacy.
It's happening already! The Abraham Accords are the first step. Another half- generation or so, leadership issues will have resolved themselves. There's no point twiddling thumbs and waiting for bibi or abbas to expire.
If you need to send payments instantly, there are many other options out there, not the least of which is credit/debit card which is virtually instant and used... *everywhere*. What exactly do you want here?
That's so neat. I wonder how many people here work in a terminal all day? I think I'd be tempted to try it again these days, since there are so many different terminal apps available now. From recently-updated Nano (5.6 landed today, congrats on improved search highlighting), to Newsboat, to various games--minesweeper, wolfentext3d, various rls, and then you have tmux, fp keeping the old IDE style alive, and so on...
Are we talking about west Germany?
There are many dimensions that different languages prioritize. As you increase the number of dimensions you consider important, the number of languages that are better than $language on all of your important dimensions tends to decrease.
> The “types do not impede, they help [clarity of thought / program structure / catching many important classes of bugs]” claim is hogwash.

You say this, but then never address this claim in the text below. Could you expand on it?

You also do a lot of conflating typeclasses and OOP concepts like interfaces and inheritance, while those OOP concepts don't have much of anything to do with static typing and exist in object-oriented dynamic languages as well.

The "types prevent you from easily changing things to meet business needs" argument is one I've heard a lot but I'm not familiar with any concrete scenarios where that would be the case. Do you have any examples you can share from your time working with Haskell or Scala?
wow great, I've got a few clients i'm sending your way. You're a life saver!
Is this company an employer, or a business partner, or is it just some random company that we are talking about?
I'd say it pays a lot of dividends to remove programming from that lineup. It eats up almost a third of the links.
I am almost guaranteed to read the post if it has something like that, whereas I sometimes skip
ones like "Application Developer II" or something lame like that. It's usually obvious from the rest of the post whether it's a phony HR ploy or a company truly searching for top talent (most of the time). And if so, I know that 1) they are willing to pay well, and 2) I'm going to get to work with other smart people. Sure, it's a cliche and sometimes abused, but so are lots of words, like agile, lean, software craftsman, etc. Just bc someone says it, I don't trust it 100%, but it's still sometimes useful to use it to convey an idea in a single word.
Under what circumstances would a company fail to IPO successfully? I'm assuming this would happen if they didn't create enough interest among investors to raise a specified threshold of money. Is my intuition correct?
True. Actually one of the most impressive things about XMonad is as a proof of concept of both Haskell in general but also Haskell as a configuration scripting language.

That said, it was more important for me that it was a tiling window manager, not that it was XMonad (it's simply the one I use). Dwm would probably work just as well.
I think this is spot on, but it really depends on the target audience. Having a nice design will help separate you from the crowd, it could even be one of your distinguishing features.

But if you were creating a craigslist for web designers, I would strongly recommend having a nice design - know your target market :)
Except "Web Design Bloggers" is next to meaningless compared to the true title of "10 Web Design Bloggers You Should Follow."
The rest of his blog is quite good as well, recommend reading it.
I'm also interested if there are any first-rate deafblind Web design bloggers in Poland who have to use a colostomy bag.
It may be better to pigeonhole people depending on which sex chromosomes they have (and how many of each), rather than what reproductive organs they have.

This helps cater for aneuploid people, as well as people who have underwent gender changes.
I've left one and turned down countless jobs that came with a "we own everything that comes out of your brain" clause. For creative people, it's a huge deterrent. For those who take the job anyway, it dampens the qualities that make one valuable to one's employer in the first place. Good for Imvu to have noticed this and found a way to work with their employees.
As someone who has programmed Lisp commercially for a long time, I have to agree with this essay. I've had much the same thoughts over the years.

At one point I was one of five Lisp engineers in a 10-person company. I think we had no fewer than five hairy macros for creating complex UI layouts, because everybody wanted to do it their own way, and you could hack something like that out in an afternoon.

You'd never get the same kind of phenomenon in a Java-based project, because creating something like that in Java is a major undertaking, so you'd have people settle on one that probably came from outside, and a whole ecosystem of sponsors, books and whatnot.

Just very different worlds. But Lisp programmers can't reinvent the wheel all the time, so I'm very glad of things like Cliki, asdf, and Quicklisp that are promoting sharing and standardized libraries.
Fair enough, I'll keep both of those in mind for future submissions.
No bartering is not illegal. Neither is buying, selling, and trading collectible Barbies. What is considered to be illegal (and I'm not a lawyer so I can't say definitively if it is or isn't) is creating an instrument, which represents a value (possibly fixed), and engaging in commerce using the instruments in lieu of the actual thing.

So trading a Malibu Barbie for a Space Barbie, or perhaps a Barbie Dream Home would not be a 'currency' transaction, giving someone a Malibu Barbie to pay for a lunch that was nominally $25 and having the person who got that Barbie then take it and buy $25 worth of groceries, and having the grocer be able to deposit it in their bank account and get credited with $25. That would be treating it like a currency.

There is a wonderful discussion on currency and what it is in the course Economics [1] offered by "The Great Courses". There is a wonderful story about an island which trades ownership interest in large rocks on another island as their currency. If you commute to work I highly recommend these courses as a way to pass the time and learn something (or at least get something to think about) while doing it. Don't be afraid of the price they regularly put things on sale for lots off. And if you have a library nearby you can sometimes check them out.

[1] http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...

update: I remember that one of the key things about the test of whether something was a currency or not, is if it could be exchanged back into another currency. Its one of the things various "points", "miles", and other systems avoid is an explicit path to turn them back into cash. Sure you can buy a $50 VISA gift card and sell it to someone for $50 but its not like you can go to the bank and turn it back into $50.
CPI is useful as a baseline for understanding higher education pricing, but check out the Commonfund's HEPI modeling of inflation specific to the higher education market, which this posting compelled me to add: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2451737, http://www.commonfund.org/CommonfundInstitute/HEPI/HEPI%20Do...

Inflation was lower in '10 than it's been in decades, 0.9%, after several years of 2-3% inflation, generally around 1% higher than CPI every single year.

Recently, the inflation was driven by volatile, high energy prices, since research labs especially are growing increasingly electricity-intensive as high-powered computing becomes a key part of more and more research fields.
Not a whole lot of content here. Is anyone surprised that someone managed to use foursquare to find a nice restaurant?
The internet sales tax honor system is more of an oner system. You have to go out of your way to do all the bookkeeping yourself to reward unwarranted rent-seeking.
mabs are not a straight small molecule synth. Scale as much as you want, growing them takes a while even in parallel.

(this is more or less also why vaccine timelines are so long; chicken eggs take a bit of time to get going, and that's the best breeding ground we have!)
Poorer relative to the other neighbors, not poorer in absolute terms.
So the network that was lauded as being anonymous and that people should use it if they want to have secure transmissions wasn't so secure.

Nice.
http://www.comw.org/qdr/fulltext/100223williams.pdf

> Growth in Budgets for Military Health Care

> The DoD's health care costs rose from about $20 billion in 1998 to $47 billion in 2010 (FY 2010 dollars)—an annual growth rate of 7.4 percent above inflation. Absent changes in policy, CBO projects they will at least double between now and 2028.

It's no sale because it's ~2% of the budget masked in emotion, which is at best an irrelevant distraction and at worst a deliberate attempt to demonize opposing views.

Limit the focus to just the (increasingly ill-named) "defense" budget and even then it's only around 10% and is dwarfed by the cost of discretionary operations within that budget/department.
> Forgive me if I'm wrong, but this just doesn't exist for Rails.

Snarky answer: "Yeah, it's called GitHub."

Real answer: I'm not sure what you're suggesting. All of these things are available as a Ruby gem, either directly or as Rack middleware.
I installed it locally, but for some reason the .gem folder was root user and not my local user so it would not allow me to run gem install rails unless I used sudo. To fix this I had to chown the .gem folder to my user and then everything worked as it should. I just found it strange that I was the only one that seemed to have this issue since it looks like it should happen to everyone who follows the steps.
And also a HUGE improvement in a lot of different areas! Speed, especially.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/ =~ s/emergent/fractal/g
Read OP: "But I 100% understand the value of a tech co-founder, and am not looking to be stingy with equity. I know I can't make it succeed on my own."

Not mentioning exact equity, how do you assume 5%!?!?

It is very common for cofounders at an early-stage startup to take no salary.
We engineers live in an information economy. Many, if not most Americans do not (pardon my lack of statistics). They work in service jobs that will be trivially automatable in our lifetimes. Wealthy people will actually own the means of production in a very meaningful way, and those that aren't equipped by their genes, upbringing, or education to participate in the information economy will be unable to earn an income.

Secondly, despite the information economy, it is still very much about what you own. If you are capable of making something amazing, you still need savings or investors who will feed and house you while you make those things and pay the still significant costs of infrastructure that many products require.

Concentration of wealth matters. That doesn't necessarily mean that government intervention is a good idea.
Those are examples of them trying to change things back to how they think it used to be. In both cases, they see it them defending themselves and their values against those who disrupt their world.

That's not trying to change things, that's trying to stop change, in the former case, stopping the invasion of the growing drug culture and in the latter the repulsion of those who want to destroy their freedom. Unfortunately, in these cases, they don't mind giving up other peoples rights in the name of safety, because their entire world view is dominated by fear. So yea, liberals tried to maintain the status quo of things like civil liberties, but those are the exceptions, not the rule.

So it isn't just the literal definition of conservative, it's the prevailing attitude of nearly every one that I've met. They aren't just coincidentally called conservatives, nor are progressives coincidentally called such either. Both are fairly accurate descriptions of the general attitude of both groups; not everyone fits both groups, but most do, whether they admit to the label or not.
yep, at the expense of all your RAM.
What's your take on his accusation of funding the bottom 25-50% that should really be cut and regroup?

EDIT: You edited in a reply to that while I was commenting. I can agree you don't know who the winners are going to be, but more money = more commitment to an idea, so you'd think it still is an incentive for some to pursue something they shouldn't for longer than they should.
> many of the issues brought up in this post can be reduced or eliminated by using a managed database service like Heroku PostgreSQL, ...

They come with their own issues though. I was unable to change a ludicrously small variable (which I think was temp_buffers) on Heroku's largest Postgres option. There was no solution. I just had to accept that the cloud provider wouldn't let me use this tool and code around what otherwise would have worked.

That said, at least backups and monitoring are easy.
I wish you good luck then!
> What specific violent act do you believe that quote calls for?

> "mowing down dipshit protesters"

... it says it right on the tin.

> I suspect you’re being uncharitable because you personally support the arsonists’ crime spree.

We don't shoot criminals, dude. Even if you thought there were arsonists out there, you don't just invite random people to come and shoot them.
How many people were engaged in activities that fit the definition of “insurrection” and how many have been charged with more than just trespassing? How many with conspiracy? If that number is nearly zero, out of hundreds who entered the Capitol grounds, who in turn were a small fraction of the tens of thousands in DC that day to support Trump, how can all of it and all these participants be described in such extreme terms? That seems like a false description.

The reality is in the end, very few will serve jail time (https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/jan-6-capitol-riot-...):

> Although prosecutors have loaded up their charging documents with language about the existential threat of the insurrection to the republic, the actions of many of the individual rioters often boiled down to trespassing. And judges have wrestled with how aggressively to lump those cases in with those of the more sinister suspects.

> “My bet is a lot of these cases will get resolved and probably without prison time or jail time,” said Erica Hashimoto, a former federal public defender who is now a law professor at Georgetown. "One of the core values of this country is that we can protest if we disagree with our government. Of course, some protests involve criminal acts, but as long as the people who are trying to express their view do not engage in violence, misdemeanors may be more appropriate than felonies.”

> The prospect of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters cutting deals for minor sentences could be hard to explain for the Biden administration, which has characterized the Capitol Hill mob as a uniquely dangerous threat.
I came across iranian classical music by accident years ago and keep coming back to it in a way I don't even with western classical music (I'm european). It's beautiful, highly skilled, passionate, and very much its own thing.

My starting point was Hossein Alizadeh and Masters of Persian Music (which also features Mohammad and Homayoun Shajarian). Unfortunately their albums come and go a bit on streaming services.
Don’t mean to threadjack, but this has been an incredible addition to my cooking: perhaps these projects could share some data: https://recipe-search.typesense.org/index.html
> Most acquisitions of FPGA companies

> any example of a FPGA provider

Are there lots of FPGA companies that have gotten acquired in the first place? Only Altera comes to my mind.
There's https://ens.domains/
Government's promise to pay back its debt is a promise to tax its citizens to pay it back. So at least to the extent that the Fed finances the US government, the Fed "lends" money it creates but expects to be paid back in tax money (money the citizens have worked for.)
I saw this link on a Scottish skiing site - it predicts 50 years of severe winters for the UK and Europe based on solar activity:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/newsandevents/releases/pr3256...
Yes, Yes, and Yes. Languages and the relationships between them has received a lot of attention / study. Grated not all linguistic family's have received the same attention but there are thousands of reasonably distinct languages most of which have been reasonably well documented.

PS: Learning the language is not just about learning _ as a second language, primary schools spend a lot of time teaching the proper way to communicate. And English requires far more instruction time than some other closely related languages like Spanish.
Giving someone a "lifetime" of anything is a huge liability. No business should dig a hole for itself like this.

Apple ran into a bit of trouble because they had offered iTools for free to anyone who bought a Mac. But the costs of maintaining were high, so they renamed it .Mac and began charging for it. (Now the service is MobileMe.)

http://www.applematters.com/article/july-17-2002-apple-kills...
Sure but that’s a significantly worse ROI of the effort of trying to get that out of me.
True I think that is another application of gold using vaporization but I have no clue about the details.
Doesn't this mean we shouldn't have any laws, because one day the laws could be used to imprison everyone and use their internal organs to produce email spam?

The point is, I think we still have travel alternatives and legal protections from abuse.

The federal government only has the authority to affect travel between states, not within a single state. If the TSA starts interfering with movement in a single state (like on the NYC subway system), we'll see pushback from the state and local governments.
Yep, sounds like you win this one. GG.
Maybe that's how it works if you are doing it "right". But nobody ever seems to do Agile "right". If Agile is so hard to do right, and breaks down so badly when it's done wrong in a small way (like letting your manager in the scrum), then isn't that in itself a problem with Agile?
A fantastic, worthy project which will allow everyone to experience Chopin's 24 Preludes on the instrument Chopin composed the music on (the TYPE of piano that Chopin composed it for, and on, not the actual piano); the recording will also be added to the Wiki page about the Preludes - for FREE - truly, a wonderful example of the democratization of music. The performer, Kimiko Ishizaka, has also released the "Open" Goldberg Variations, and, most recently, the "Open" Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 - both by J.S. Bach (which are available to be heard for free) - which are both brilliant performances. She is an amazing, sensitive pianist who will, undoubtedly, perform the Chopin with marvellous musicality and sensitivity.
The development and adoption of technologies that will (and must[1][2]) replace fossil fuels are accelerating[3][4]. The combined effect of better technology and legislation will drive demand for fossil fuels into the ground over the next few decades. There is some speculation[5] that this is why Saudi Arabia won't cut production to drive oil prices back up.

[1]http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/20...
[2]http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v517/n7533/full/nature1...
[3]http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/24/us-solar-energy-capacity...
[4]http://cleantechnica.com/2014/02/06/technological-advancemen...
[5]http://www.energypost.eu/historic-moment-saudi-arabia-sees-e...
For AEAD, We'd most likely look at ChaCha20(Poly1305(Text)+Text) and I think that's a great idea. :)

We're definitely looking at non-NIST algorithms, we've just had enough of those.
"To think that someone almost three decades younger, with only a high-school diploma (or perhaps even less education) could motivate himself to complete a large number of MOOCs is naïve, and is not borne out by the evidence."

Why is this naive? I think this attitude is prime evidence of the REAL problem of the education system today - that we don't motivate younger people enough to be curious. no amount of MOOCs will solve that, only good and devoted teachers combined with a renewed curriculum will. MOOCs are great for subjects involving computers and mathematics, but for subjects like sociology and biology I would deign to argue that even traditional college is better equipped.
I'm in Germany, my tax rate is ~40%, and we do get all those benefits.
All I want is to know what products are offered for same day delivery. That way we can make services that empowers the consumer to purchase items they may need on a weekly basis or need by days end. If there is currently such a way, by all means please let me know.
> History has shown

I'm not well educated in this regard, but my general understanding is that such agencies tend to protect their own. Police men will protect other police men. The CIA will protect employees against crimes they may have committed.

In general, you're only going to have a problem like this if you do something to piss off the rest of your organization. But as long as you conform they are more likely to protect you than turn against you.
The longer we stay in a zero-interest rate environment the more distorted things become, particularly here in the Bay Area.

Every day more and more cash pours into the Bay Area because it's one of the best risk-adjusted investments. Be it tech, real estate, or biotech, everything is booming. Without an alternative things will continue along this path. There's just more money here now than there otherwise would be. Some call it a bubble, some don't—it doesn't really matter.

From a certain perceptive, it's a good thing. If things stay like this perhaps the giant pool of money will continue to pool around things that are relatively riskier than the traditional financial instruments.

This seems strange to us, but maybe this is actually a better allocation of capital. Maybe we are just moving into a world where a relatively higher portion of the world's capital flows into biotech instead of treasury bills.
True, but HSTS (which HN uses) solves that problem on all but the first visit.
There's some good advice in this article, I do a fair amount of networking so consider myself somewhat of an expert in the field. I'm not comfortable networking, but it's required for my local market and B2B business model.

"Be flagrant in your pursuit of the powerful and the soon-to-be-powerful, and when you have their attention, praise them to the skies."

That's one strategy, there's also the "hard to get" strategy. Successful people get "sold to" and flattered all the time and are generally sick of it or at least aware. In my networking, sometimes I will specifically avoid the alpha of the room, and build contacts around them, possibly leading to a more qualified introduction. Found it works better than the direct approach "I'm a huge fan" tactic.