jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The reason you're wrong is right in the title. There are plenty of countries already, with plenty of different systems. There's great variation from one extreme to the other, but otherwise there are smooth clusters around particular areas.

The point of this project is to create a startup country, a place where greater risk--in terms of the system used, not necessarily within the system--can mean greater reward. Yes, Thiel is a libertarian, but TSI quite explicitly concentrates on enabling anyone to partake of their output. This isn't Galt's Gulch in the Water, nor is it intended to (maybe in Thiel's private dreams, but definitely not in the way TSI is run).

I'd love to find out if the common modes of living we're used to are local maxima, or if we'll find that the various experiments converge again towards familiar clusters.

To be content with what's out there is the same as saying "well, pick one of the many companies out there and join as an employee. What's the point of starting your own company?"
There is a difference between Vim 'the concept' and Vim 'the program'. I like the first one, but I couldn't care less if I am running vim itself, emacs with Viper mode, Vimperator or what have you. To me a person who is running emacs with Viper mode is still a vim/vi user.
You edited the post to include it! It's a Festivus mircle!
> To be content with what's out there is the same as saying "well, pick one of the many companies out there and join as an employee. What's the point of starting your own company?"

Not only that but you don't even get to pick your company. (unless you consider immigration but well, it's not as easy as switching job)
Personally, I know a lot of people who stick with T-Mobile for the customer service. They actually dread the prospect of switching, even though they pay roughly the same as anyone else and the phone offerings are generally worse. T-Mobile is at enough of a disadvantage in other areas that I have to believe their customer loyalty is what's keeping them afloat.
Beautifully designed, but don't see the point.

1. Your friends have to install it too or else it spams their FB wall.
2. If your friend does have it, it appears to only send a desktop notification. At that point, why not just IM it to them, so if they have anything to say about it, they have you in a window, ready to go?
Actually, Apple also provides a "Genius" section on the iPhone App Store app. It's been around for a while, but I don't think they've put it in iTunes or pushed it very hard.

But yes, in general I agree with your assessment of the problem.
>> Can't see why it wouldn't work.

There is a great (no sarcasm) air company in your country, called Ryanair. Don't even try it with them :D
An excellent idea! The public needs effective ways of making their voices heard. Your site just needs heaps more exposure to gain more traction.

You don't mention what your motivations for setting up the site are. Since there appears to be no way to monetize it, there might be some other agenda?

Went off and took a look at govit.com site. A few comments:

The name "govit" just doesn't jell for me. I think you need something trendier, click2vote, SamClick ...

"Beta" suggests that the site isn't complete. Any progressive web site remains as work-in-progress as it adapts to the demands of the marketplace.

The concept appears to be sound. Needs heaps more marketing, PR, exposure, get talked about, get journalists quote your stats, etc. Yeah! lots of chicken or egg problems. But you have enough to build up momentum.
"If we know anything about the internet, it's that's it full of fun"

Go through each of your descriptions and read them out loud. You'll immediately discover many grammatical and typographical errors.

I got to the bottom and still didn't know what "Postman" is. Try to elaborate on that by making the problem/solution extremely clear.

Put the call to action at the very end, not the middle of the process.
That's essentially what you're doing when you are trying to mine Bitcoin :)
I'm firmly in the "email should be plain text" camp but this is nicely done.
Careful.

Apache responds with an HTTP code 414-Request URI Too Large once the URI reaches around 8K in length.

Default limits exist in several load balancers as well.
> Don't you find it gets a bit lonely after a while?

At work we spend 80% of the day pairing over voip and SSH. It's ironic because I moved from California to Seattle because I got tired of telecommuting all by my lonesome from down there, but these days with pairing it doesn't bother me at all.
Finally some solution for consumerism that could work! Yay Bitcoin!
I am living through this right now and have asked this questions on several forums because when you're really in the midst of this hustle you start to question your priorities and constantly get this feeling about if there is a better way. This is a counter-intuitive advice on building a product and a company but the other option would be to get lucky.

Couple of more examples about doing things which don't scale:

Instacart manually built their product catalog for the first few million products.[0]

Pandora analyzing 10,000 songs manually for recommendation. [1]

[0] https://youtu.be/uV4lzz1Z0C8

[1] https://youtu.be/bTtq-M9iDHI
That's why second-layer technologies like the Lightning Network are being built.

Bitcoin doesn't have to function as a currency to be wildly successful (since being a currency isn't the only relevant use case), but with second layer networks it will be able to.
The Foxconn deal had $3-4.8B worth of subsidies attached, and investigative reporting says the branch of the company executing on the opportunity couldn't even accomplish basic tasks like "Decide what to build" or "Decide what skills were needed in hired staff."

The takeaway is that either (a) everyone who touched the Wisconsin project is an idiot, but an outlier in the company, or (b) the failure to execute in Wisconsin is indicative of the general state of the company.

(a) seems like a stretch, given the project's size and visibility. Ergo, (b).
Those non-programmers are likely going to have a worse understanding of what is happening when you zip/compress something anyway, but I concede this is probably the most straightforward path if they have some understanding of what a zip is, and can't understand what a diff is. But even then I question if they should be using git, since `git diff`, `git show`, basically everything git exposes, is going to show them diffs.
My favorite:

hayo @red_hayonnaise

I want an app that takes me on a timed, random drive; like I wanna drive around for an hour, map me a course that winds backroads and brings me back home in that timeframe
They had them for Minimoogs, where you could buy a book of patches with the control settings to get different sounds, including those from some popular songs: http://www.synthzone.com/midi/moog/minimoog/MINIMOOG%20PATCH...

But that doesn't convey the melody/harmony/rhythm, only the sound design.
Lol, that website is completely unreadable on my iPhone because of the random jumping while trying to scroll.
Stimulation and information are different. You can feel stimulated by things that aren't really informative, like movies and video games.

Even a lot of "informative" content has very low information content. A lot of news media packages little information in a very engaging way. Sadly, a lot of podcasts and TED talks follow the same playbook. (Those podcasts are my own particular addictive weakness.)
Weintraub also stated during the press conference that investigators determined that the vaping video had been manipulated after analyzing its “metadata,” a term which refers to embedded information in digital media that can reveal how and when it was last edited.

But after contacting Reiss, the officer who investigated Spone, the Daily Dot learned that police never actually obtained the original vaping video. Instead, like what was seen on NBC News, police only had access to a cellphone recording taken by Spone of the vaping video being played on a separate device. Any metadata analysis would therefore fail to include information on the source video.

In response to questions on how it could have been determined that the vaping footage was manipulated without access to the original video, Reiss argued that he could see with his “naked eye” elements that “don’t make sense.”

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So... They can tell by the metadata on a copy of the file plus a naked eye analysis of the video that this is a deep fake? That's much worse evidence for the deep fake case than I assumed there would be.

This does make me wonder though: Should we default to believing video or doubting it? Does the victim here need to prove it is a deep fake or the perpetrator prove it's not?
> we can just build infinite new housing, for free or almost no cost,

Nobody said anything about building housing for free, but we definitely could build way more housing than we currently are. Why is that ignorant?
It's actually case-sensitive, so here's a more accurate comparison: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Christianity,Isla...
I also dont understand the point of the analytics since theres nothing really to see on your page. Maybe the service will improve overtime.
Surely Yahoo can tap this value in their search?
In case you use the firefox extension, you already have a full copy of your bookmarks in the ybookmarks.sqlite file in your firefox profile.
yes, you might be right, I apologize.
okay, thanks for that clarification.
A ridiculous article. The author doesn't understand net neutrality. NN does not ban usage-based pricing plans, for example.

To most techinical people (read: people who know how the internet works), NN only means that you cannot discriminate based on location, destination, or type of traffic.

That leaves bandwidth pricing intact, which would allow Comcast to charge people based on how much they use the evil, parasitic Netflix service.

If ISPs think they deserve more money, then they need to charge more for access, or cap data usage. They shouldn't block or degrade certain protocols and websites with prejudice.

What they SHOULD do is get off their asses and build out infrastructure instead of whining about capacity requirements.
Honestly, this data should be free, and available to researchers who work on social tagging.

You should contribute your bookmarks to a public data set. http://bulk.archive.org has offered to host such data sets.
Someone should build a webservice that allows you to easily share your delicious tags. If no one steps up, you can simply email me your export (turian at gmail), and I'll package up whatever I receive.

Here is a delicious data set, for those who are interested:
http://arvindn.livejournal.com/116137.html

I have some other social tagging datasets in my file. Let me know if you'd like me to dig them up.
That's not just HTML -- it's the Netscape Bookmark File Format. There are (admittedly very old) tools that can work with it.
"Everything is subservient to solving a problem". Correct. And writing good, clean, idiomatic code usually helps you avoid introducing code-level problems when trying to solve your "real world" problem.

You're not wrong so much as perhaps just more experienced to the point where caring about the idioms isn't much of an issue any more, not because idioms don't matter, but because you're writing code that's good enough. i've found the 'standards' and 'idiomatic code' to be useful not so much as a benchmark for "you're 100% wrong if you don't do this" but "you're creating another set of problems for yourself if you're not careful".

"Ember or Angular? Don't care. Ruby or Python? Don't care. C# or Java? Don't care"

Well... you may need to care, because one of the problems you may have to consider is long-term maintenance as well. Using Ruby for "project X" in a team of 15 .net developers with extensive C# experience, simply because "Ruby is best for this problem" is probably just trading one problem for another.
Naw, it sucks up here in stumptown. Rains all the time. Can't find a decent pint of beer or cup of coffee to save your life. Place is full of hipsters -- have you seen Portlandia? You wouldn't like it. Best stay away.
write(fd, buf, size);

Can you list all the caveats, possible side effects, reasons of failure of this simple C function call? Hint: remember, fd can be a file, as well as a NFS-mounted file, pipe, network or local socket, FIFO, device, etc. Hint2: I doubt anyone can give a comprehensive description of the possible consequences of this call.

Bottom line being, C can be incredibly hard to understand, or C++ can be clean, succinct and straightforward. Personally, I'm for the second, although I know probably 99.9% of all existing C++ code is just awful.
Speed tests often test last mile. That’s only part of real world performance. Some examples of other factors to real world stuff:

1. If you internet provider has limited bandwidth when it connects to other parts of the internet. I used to have a problem where my ISP has one connection out of its network. That bandwidth was limited and caused real world issues.

2. TCP can and often does involve multiple round trips. As web pages have grown in size it’s had an impact on performance at the network level

Increased bandwidth in the last mile doesn’t solve for these types of issues
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The museum should counter-offer Mr. Rolfe a billion dollars if he can prove how HE thinks it was made.

And let's be real about this: they could produce an exact replica and his reply would be "well MY imaginary friend says you're WRONG".
How frequently do you need to ping speedtest to be prioritized?
Apparently you don't ignore it.
Because regulation is lagging. Call your congressperson (US-centric advice).
The problem is not really related to the OS but the libraries used in the apps.

Android is often used in research since it is easier to analyse an open system but I suspect the same issues are also found in iOS apps.

There are of course some differences. For example it is (was) easier for apps to run in the background on Android. It is also easier to detect and block them.
This is actually reflected in modern FPGA devices. To your point, there's no material difference between "computation" and "retrieval" (they're just two different ways of mapping a set of inputs onto a set of outputs). FPGAs [1] are basically giant arrays of truth tables. These are implemented as look-up tables -- RAM -- paired with some dedicated, optimized, high-complexity logic elements like multipliers.

Could you implement a 16x16 bit multiplier (yielding a 32-bit result) as a RAM or ROM, I mean, totally. It would be a 32 bit address space where each entry is also 32 bits. That would take 16GB. You'd have the fastest multiplier in the West, though, net of propagation delay.

[1] From a combinational logic perspective.
That's still a pretty pessimistic view of what the costs would actually be like. We've got pure renewable generation costs that are now pushing $0.015 LCoE. While high efficiency batteries (90% efficient round trip) might cost around your estimate, it would actually be much cheaper to use other forms of energy storage that might be less efficient, but then overprovision on generation to make up for the loss in efficiency.
No, but in Googling it, it looks like a very interesting book...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point

Dunbar's Number (approximately 150), on the other hand, is (apparently) the approximate maximum number of people in a given group -- before formalized rules are needed for behaviors of individuals in that group.

Applied to Law... you might think of it as societies of less than 150 people -- require no laws, but when you reach that 150 person threshold, then you start needing laws...

It would be an interesting sociological experiment to begin with a desert island, add people to it, one by one, and then figure out when/where/why the first laws are created...

My guess (and it is only a guess), is that those first laws would be related to the concept of property, specifically land-use rights...

I'm guessing that this would vary relative to the size of the island and to the number of people on it... that is, with enough land per person, no one would care, but once land gets scarcer (relative to population) those laws would spring into existence...

All of that is theoretical, of course. Without the ability to try the experiment on several islands of varying sizes, I wouldn't know...
Yes thanks thats a good idea, I was also wondering how OpenVPN behaves with different connections, if it can handle multiple users simultaneously or not
I use redis to replace RabbitMQ as well, but it's all abstracted away in Celery. A question: Don't you need polling when you use redis in this way? Does it have some sort of notification functionality, apart from the recently added pubsub?
Not all startups are developing web apps.

But, yes, a founder's job is to choose to take exposure to specific risks and avoid the rest.
I don't think things are as simple as he states. The ideal company with an intranet that is easily browsable/searchable, completely documents all procedures and remains up-to-date may exist, but I haven't seen it.

Because of that, 'bothering' collleagues with (in your eyes) simple questions can be an essential way of keeping the knowledge of your employees up-to-date ('Is mySQL down?' => 'do you know about the new SMS feature in our dashboard?'

Because of that, I would both give colleagues who ask simple questions fish and teach them where I got it from.

But I guess the optimum strategy depends heavily on one's personality and the environment one works in. For example, in some environments, politely answering every "where is the any key?" question, but reporting to your boss that those questions take a day a week might be the best way to handle this.
I was trying to generate random string identifiers to make some element ids unique and took the most popular library, which was accidentally crypto levels of secure:

https://blog.prat.ch/2020/11/10/randomstring-bundle-size
>Personally, I think that it will hurt the media in Oz a lot more than it will hurt FB or Google. People looking for news will find ways to get around the 'Google/FB blackout'

One doesn't seem to follow logically from the other. Surely people going around FB/Google and still getting the news would be good for media and bad for FB/Google?
Nice, thanks, but I use Safari
That’s really cool.

I used to support a similar need with an enterprise tool that cost exponentially more to implement and support.
What are you using right now to document your life goals and follow your own progress? What are you trying to solve?

Have you talked with people who have a similar problem? What are they doing to solve it? Are they using any applications or websites? Why, or why not?

Why do people not write down their goals, or why do they use pen and paper, or why do they use other apps if any?

If you're doing this only for fun and you don't care about the outcome, then it doesn't matter the stack. Choose one you like.

If you're doing this as an actual endeavor, which is likely given you've mentioned users buying subscriptions, then I suggest you start by digging a bit deeper into the problem and figure out the reasons for nonconsumption.
great classic !! I didn't know it was still maintained, thanks beej !
> Originally appeared in Coindesk on May 14 2019

Blockchain Industrial Complex still trying.

IBM decided they don't need a blockchain

https://www.coindesk.com/ibm-blockchain-revenue-misses-job-c...
I think you're disagreeing with the OP because you're using different definitions of "Europe".

One of the more insidious psychological techniques the EU and its adherents like to use is using the word Europe when they mean the EU. The EU is a political institution. Europe is a continent. Switzerland and the UK are in Europe but not in the EU. EU officials and the media of member states constantly conflate the two, and it leads to confusion like we see in this thread, where people literally can't communicate with each other.

The largest financial centres in Europe the continent will likely remain London and Switzerland. NB: "financial centres" do far more than trade Eurozone stocks. Financial services is a very large market that encompasses many different things, like insurance, pensions, private wealth management and software development.

The largest stock trading centres for shares in companies traded in the Eurozone will move to within EU member states and stay there, largely because EU the institution is a protectionist bloc that spends great energy finding ways to create trading barriers that sneak past the WTO's definitions. The Commission's notion of "equivalence" is one of those: the plain English reading is that two jurisdictions have equivalent financial regulation if they're the same. The Commission's definition is that equivalence is an arbitrary label they can add and remove as they see fit as part of unrelated political games (the EU/Swiss "row" mentioned in the article is one of those). No actual changes in financial regulation are needed to gain or lose financial "equivalence".
Companies pay whatever makes sense to pay from a business sense of view. If there is supply of software developers working for 65k/yr, and they don't know how to get 50% more value out of a 100k/yr developer (either because they're unable to figure out, or not interested, or because their business hinges on something else and doesn't scale with better software), then it does not make any sense for them to pay more.

And of course, they will think that whatever they pay is whatever it is worth, because they have no other indicator of fair prices.
Wasn't there the salary of a new employee who would not have been hired at that stage?
I don't even think they would need to do it in house - if they can offer all of the on-line services that Google offers - gmail, maps, an app store etc, then Android vendors could use that as a way of distinguishing their offering from that of other Android vendors. I'm thinking of Nokia specifically - it would give them something that a plain-vanilla Android wouldn't have, and it would give them the freedom to get out from under Google's thumb, and really allow them to innovate.
I saw the first word of your comment, and thought, "downvote"

Then I read the edit and thought, "downvote, then punch this guy in the mouth"

Hey, you know what's respectful? Moving the videos to youtube. Or emailing download links to their users. Or giving them more than thirteen days notice. What are you, a MBA? How can you possibly consider this a good decision?
> Code shouldn't be generating other code, it should be generating more structured values.

How is code not a structured value? Do you mean that instead of some properly typed AST you only have lists, symbols etc?
I'm guessing there's a view at the back of the lot.
No one has said anything about the language or platform?

Please don't make this an argument about what language is better, blah blah blah, but the language you specialize in makes a difference -- at least in terms of salary.

From my limited experience, Ruby/Rails pays significantly more than PHP or .NET . I hear Java pays even more... Just sayin...

Edit: This is why I love these salary threads. We could have just potentially changed the OP's life (for the better I hope), even if to most people its just an annoying topic that keeps coming up on HN.
You might find my relevant blog post helpful: http://artsyeditor.com/2011/04/how-did-i-get-38-willing-to-p...

I had the idea of Artsy Editor a month ago, and decided to find customers instead of jumping into code.