jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
For this reason I think such a study should be focused on Europe and compare the countries there with each other, to see if this theory is a good one or not.

I don't think it makes much sense to compare it to US, because there are other factors contributing greatly to the success of US entrepreneurs and it has nothing to do with "being more risk-averse or not".

It has to do with the fact that the US is actually a huge single market. EU really isn't right now. It's not easy to just launch a company in a country and easily have success in another. Certainly nowhere as easy as it is to launch an online business in one state in US and have success in other states.

There are other factors, such as concentrating many entrepreneurs in one place, which also leads to a concentration of investors in one place (talking about Silicon Valley here).

There's also a huge concentration of media in the US that is followed by other countries as well. How many European media sites or blogs do you know? I bet you can count them on one hand. It's much harder for a company in Europe to get promoted across all European countries, let alone to have Americans hear about it.

I'm sure there are many other factors as well that make the US a much easier startup environment than Europe.
It costs a few dollars to transfer money via Western Union, and the receiver can pick up the money almost instantly.
I have 3 different brands of what are claimed to be KN95 masks. All do not fit in different ways. All use plastic nose bends, ear loops and either air comes out sides, chin, or nose area. I have 3M trifold N95s from before the pandemic and those fit perfectly without significant effort. The nose area uses metal and dense foam to ensure seal. I think the main seal issue with KN95s is that they are thin, flimsy and are missing some basic features like the foam, metal nose piece and head band.
Because suitability for use in secure algorithms is just one property of the random number generator. At what point do we then decide it needs to be uniformInsecureBoundedRandom?

Why don't we apply the same logic to string comparisons. Should we replace String.equals with String.shortcuttableEquals()? Since there's plenty of circumstances where that is inappropriate for crypto uses also.

What about other functions with important caveats? Should we have mailGmailMightReject()? fsyncCantFixHardware()? file.existsAtCurrentInstant()?
But if there's an alternative tax/regulation structure that can make distribution more equitable without affecting production too much, then the game can be zero sum, or close to zero sum.

We don't have to choose between America and Venezuela. That's a false dichotomy.
Pretty sure exchanges need to follow KYC laws.
At one point this was approximately true; I'm honestly not sure if it still is.

The problem was how the difficulty was decided -- it looked at the last N blocks that were successfully mined to decide whether it needed to up or down the difficulty. If you suddenly lost 90% of your mining capacity, it would only adjust the difficulty after several more blocks were mined, each of which would take ~100 minutes instead of the usual ~10. The system would eventually right itself, but it wasn't fast.

I can't recall if this ever became a problem in practice, or whether there was a code change to make it resolve faster.
This 100% with looking for recipes. I understand that they need a lot of "rich content" in order to improve SEO rankings, but when it takes a good 20 seconds to scroll on a phone, past 3 inline ads just to get to the recipe, it's beyond frustrating.
Speed of transactions and less fees.
in all fairness, comparing numbers of micro businesses across countries is tricky. differences in tax laws can create incentives to register as a micro business vs some other way, but not much of a measure of large scale entrepreneurship. But, either way, little evidence that US is more entrepreneurial
I've never looked at this before, but it seems like OS Open Names could finally let me do address->coordinates searches without a third party.

I thought post code data was strictly copyrighted by the post office and you had to pay them to do that, or use a provider who has.
This is great. Does anyone know of a similar primer for Angular 1.*?
Well we do, we are still paying them after all. Part of creativity is that it is not one size fits all, and you can actually repeat the same thing with minimal changes and have it appear new again.

I'm just saying we can never have a creative economy because we already have a creative economy meeting all our creative demands, and that our ability to demand more creativity will only degrade over time as most people get poorer.

There will always be a market for new art, because not everything possible has been drawn yet, etc. Someone will always want something new, and now there are millions of artists at your fingertips to create it for you. The problem is a lot of them are already creating what they want for free to enjoy, and once you have whatever you want made, you have no more money to be spent on that industry.
lmao i actually used to do that once but the overhead was too much (i save frequently), so i just bought a desktop and i x11 over ssh on the remote's sublime. SFTP was a really good extension though.
Go's channels aren't a concurrency primitive, they are a concurrency abstraction. Goroutines are the primitive. I also don't think it would be hard to implement Go channel semantics in Python.
Fixed. But the criticism towards ST3 shall continue, since Jon doesn't seem to hear the community at all.

(But the strategy works for him, so...)
More effective, yes, but more practical, not so much IMO.

I'm eager to see your github repository for fixing the police. :)
Welp, I just signed up. There goes my day.

Is there any info for developers wanting to contribute? I looked around the site and didn't see anything mentioned.
Hum, downvoted again...

Not only am I bad at joking, it seems I am also bad at apologizing for it.

Sorry HN.
Great. It's my user name at gmail.com.
Here:

1) http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjcolao/2012/10/29/the-ten-best-...

2) http://www.inc.com/ss/12-historic-serial-entrepreneurs

There's quite a bit of info on them. A lot of serial entrepreneurs are celebrated, but in the US many are overlooked because they're foreigners (like the Forbes article states).

What is particularly enjoyable is serial entrepreneurs who have started non-tech companies. Some are in slow-moving industries and they've achieved huge success in them.
Too bad. While I'm not a large fan of his style in general, I think the chapter in question shows important things.
I'd be interested to know what DBMS they're running

MS SQL Server, latest version probably
Hi there I found a character rendering issue.

HN front page:
"Why do people keep coming to this coupleâ€™s home ..."

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I'm with the submitter's line of thinking here. What those plastic containers are doing in the third image can only be called ménage à quatre.
If there's a heaven and a hell, who goes there? Will you go there? Will I go there?

Who is this 'I'? Is 'I' a collection of thoughts and feelings? Does 'I' include some semblance of physical appearance? Where does this 'I' start and end? If 'I' eat an apple, is it still an apple or is it now 'I'?

I realise these are tricky questions to think about, please try not to worry. If it helps, I can tell you that I've less fear of death after taking time to think about this sort of stuff, I hope in time you'll find a sense of peace too. If you want to explore it some more, I'm here for you.
Curious why you chose this image for your background:

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb3/universomasseffectrol/e...

https://koalah.s3.amazonaws.com/static/img/desktop-landing-b...
Well I got locked in flappy bird and then I got this message "Your account has been flagged as having experienced a security breach. " I made like +30 points... Please take a look if is all right. Maybe I won too much? (1.8$)
Then why isn't there a website to get medical diagnosis on a self-serve basis? (I'm not asking rhetorically, genuinely curious)
Art of Pizza delivers. It's certainly a special-ish occasion to get deep dish, but it's definitely something people get decently often as a whole.
As I understand it, if there's a thing that'll bring most Chicagoans to tears, it's seeing what the rest of the country calls a hot dog.
I can only speak about the Rust side. Seriously, pick it up. It is more than a replacement for C. You get a total replacement of C + a loooot of extra stuff, like no null pointers, memory safety, C compatibility for FFI, iterator and list comprehension goodness, and just a lot of good practices. At least for me, Rust is the perfect mix between C and Haskell. YOu get the low level stuff of C, and the expressiveness and joy of Haskell, without all the brain-hurt from Haskell.

Side note: I do love Haskell, but let's admit it, the learning curve is pretty steep once you hit monads/comonads.
These things will probably come in every box of washing powder, or cereal, or whatever, in the future. Then you can paste them all onto your fridge, from various brands and vendors.
This is really cool! But for price-conscious consumers like me (I'm cheap) it may not be an option. I'm sure this is going to cost more than if I just buy whatever is on sale at the grocery store. However, if this becomes ubiquitous, it may mean the product is even cheaper than it is at the store.
> I worry that government officials who claim to protect all Americans equally can violate our constitutional rights with impunity.

At this point, is there any doubt of this? At least, insofar as "constitutional rights" comprise reasonable interpretations of the Constitution wrt. individual rights, without the sort of tortured, unaccountable interpretations that lead to things like the "100 mile rule".
I hate that "bootstrapped" now means "we had millions of dollars in funding, just not from a traditional VC".
I hope they succeed with this suit. What a disgusting abuse of government power.
the point is, they should have a quota set aside for people directly asking for invites - for people who don't want to beg their friends for them.
this rings pretty true to me. I have a whole host of reasons for wishing I could switch our group into the Clojure ecosystem, but a huge thing holding me back is not feeling confident that I understand how spec 2 would help us efficiently solve the documentation and pre-runtime correctness verification problems that static typing (Flow and typescript and mypy) give us.
One question on my mind (as someone who has a master's degree and engineering degree and has never taken the ACT/SAT) is how kids will go about showing pure intellectual merit?

Like let's say you grow up ok but you can't really afford to join the ski club or for a tutor and maybe you work in the evenings but you crush the SAT/ACT because you're incredibly intelligent. How will universities like MIT take that into account? If we're talking about merit - boy that sure speaks of merit to me compared to a laundry list of clubs, activities, and organizations that the kids with hyper-dedicated parents or lots of money have on their applications.

I'll also say, I didn't take either of these tests and came from a family where to this day I'm still the only one to attend college, but if I had taken the SAT or ACT and scored remarkably well - I think that would have opened doors I didn't even know exist. High school counselor ideally would have noticed a high score and helped with applications.

I don't like these tests but I have to imagine a subset of the population uses them to great effect. Like many things, it seems, I bet that removal of these tests will result in bifurcation in the education system, or will wind up hurting poorer students (while making the middle extremely competitive).

Anyway. There are so many problems with the university system, starting with using universities to train workers, that it's difficult to feel emotion anymore around the issue because it's so overwhelming.

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For what it's worth I don't know if the SAT/ACT are a good show of intellect. And these tests can be effectively gamed - not just illegally as we saw with the recent scandal but with tutors and test prep.

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Many students who are intelligent but grow up poor have a difficult time in universities, especially when they don't get to take the same classes as their peers did in high school. I know I'm probably an average student, but when I went to my calculus classes after being out of high school for around 5 years I could grasp how to do derivatives and their meaning, but couldn't understand the log functions or trigonometry. So I'd do most of the homework and take the quizzes, then bomb the exams when these concepts came into play. I felt miserable and I didn't know how to study or how to even really get help - I didn't even have a concept of what I didn't know. I just thought I was dumb. It took 3 tries but I eventually got enough help and practice (thanks Khan Academy and others) to make it through, graduate, and go on to do other things.

Fortunately I had training in resilience from the military. What about that kid who grows up crushes a standardized test and fails a class and then thinks that they're stupid and they don't know how to ask for help or can't afford tutoring? Those kids maybe they fail out, or maybe they have mediocre grades so when they go to try and get a job they're competing against 3.8s with tons of on-campus activities. Yet again perpetuating the cycle of getting dumped on. Needs lots of luck or persistence to break the cycle.
Test prep has a more or less negligible effect size. Extra curriculars and paying someone to write your essay for you on the other hand are all about privilege.
Standardized national exams on proficiency in math, languages, science, etc... are very different from IQ tests and only somewhat correlated with IQ, being instead much more strongly correlated with consciensciousness, and generally how good of a student you are and will be.
http://i.imgur.com/zQ1m75U.gif
It's interesting that you mention TCP/IP, because that's the most famous example of a technology that "works in practice, but not in theory". Take a look at Van Jacobsen's presentation on the history of ARPANET:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCZMoY3q2uM

Packet switching was "utter heresy" (20m in) when it was invented. It "wasn't a network, it was an inefficient way to use an existing network". And it almost collapsed 25 years after it was invented; the presenter is famous for inventing the modern TCP/IP congestion control that saved the Internet [1]. The TCP/IP flow congestion algorithm has been redesigned several times since [2]. It works not because it was designed well, but because it wasn't designed and instead evolved over many years with many contributions from people devoted to keeping it working.

Alan Kay is usually who I think of for great ideas that "work in theory, but not in practice". He's done some crucially important work in OOP, programming languages, and GUIs. But note that we don't actually use SmallTalk; instead we got C++ and Java. Nor do we use Dynabooks and Altos; instead, we got Microsoft Windows.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jacobson#Career

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion-avoidance_algori...
I was thinking it was a deleted chapter written by Douglas Adams.
Recent articles have tied omega 3 intake to increased risk of prostate cancer. Got a lot of press last year. I took Omega 3 for the last 14 years. Spent thousands buying Nordic Naturals from Whole Foods at $25/bottle. Whenever I'd stop taking it, I felt a decline in mood so thought it had good systemic benefits. When I went off it this time, I felt zero change before or after (haven't taken since last summer).

This study was the last straw. I'd already given up supplements and even a daily multivitamin as studies indicate no positive effect and possible harm. Now I take no supplements. The more I read the more I'm convinced it's faulty science and marketing. A healthy, varied diet of mainly plant based foods should provide all that most people need. If you look at links to omega 3 studies on Wikipedia I don't recall there being conclusive positive evidence, but maybe I'm wrong. Couple of links on prostate cancer study and whether it's accurate or not:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/news/omega-3-fatty-acids-linked...

http://health.heraldtribune.com/2013/08/26/dr-oz-omega-3-can...

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/07/3...
> We will announce the list of accepted mentoring organizations on the Google Summer of Code 2014 site on 24 February, 2014 at 19:00 UTC.

-- https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_progr...
You are mistaken. The ration of 6&9 to 3 is what you want to reduce. And as the others have said, ALA is a drastically less useful version of o3.

Now..feeding flax seed to the chickens in your backyard and eating those eggs is an even better (and sustainable) way to get omega 3s.
Note that PackageCompiler.jl's author no longer wants to work on it and there are still many rough edges. However, there are several exciting successor projects making quick progress right now!
Why do you consider it a fundamental right to be able to go on someone else's private property, even if it was allowed public usage in the past? Maybe CA should have passed some sort of beach front protection like Oregon did in 1967. Nobody can own the beach. It's all public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Beach_Bill
Or for the Mac, just leave the machine in normal mode, and use the "invert colours" hotkey.

I've been doing that for years.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21640351

Maybe HN should treat bbc.com and bbc.co.uk the same for the purpose of duplicate detection.
I'd argue that AI isn't the "author". It is simply a tool (like a camera). The person who fed it input and tuned its parameters ("pointed it at an object and pressed the shutter") is the "artist" and owns the right to the resulting artwork.
Yeah definitely, I didn't mean to imply that the weight/rep ranges don't matter, just that the specific number you can do within that range on a particular set isn't so important as long as you're reaching failure. If you're doing the 5-8 range for strength and your form breaks down after 4 on the last set, just note "cool, I did 4 today" and stop, rather than trying to do more with bad form or feeling discouraged that you didn't reach an arbitrary number.
Ok I’ll wait here you go invest in legos if you think they’re gonna be worth 200x as much in a few decades.
Depends largely on set and setting.
Set - your mental state going into the trip and your personality type.
Setting - the surroundings and people around you. You want to have someone to take care of you in case you have a bad trip.
Also, if you use webpack (directly or through scalajs-bundler), the use of webpack-dev-server makes live loading automatic.
This is the original and first argument for patents and copyright. The point is that it is very naive.

Patents don't actually work that way. No engineer looks at a patent in order to make something. Have you ever read a patent? A few that cover useful technologies? They do not provide information useful for implementing anything useful, they only use strange language to cover a couple related ideas as generally as possible so they can apply to as many independent creations as possible, to maximize their offensive, defensive, and monetary value.

Copyright has been extended to last way way too long and the idea of it is often abused to threaten people who are actually abiding by the law with expensive and hugely inconvenient court cases. Throwing out copyright altogether would probably have strange effects and not be a good idea.

Throwing out the patent system would be quite fine. Patents are literally only used to stop things from being made, never to enable something to be made.
Why? If WEP is vulnerable, then if victim connects to a WEP fake and enters their password, we should be able to read that. Like a downgrade attack.
This is a very complicated issue. I don't know laws/regulatory system in the UK, but in the States the FDA has to approve a medication for a specific indication. So if later people discover X drug is great for unapproved Y condition, then doctors have to prescribe it 'off-label.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use

I don't know to what extent manufacturers can limit prescribing their branded drugs for off-label use. I feel like if I wrote a Rx for any drug for any indication, it would get filled without hassle... although if it was really outlandish, the Pharmacist would probably give me a call.

Source: I'm a doctor.
>> I also think that Android TVs (or Ouya, if you want) could make use of some hefty power, to finally get that console gaming revolution to topple the big three that have been in the cards for quite some time now.

Having been a console guy since the 80s, the PS3 is very likely the last console I'll ever own. The thing that toppled the consoles for me? Steam. All of the games I play on consoles (in particular, 2D/3D fighting games) are now on or are coming to Steam. If I want to play on my TV, all I need to do is hook the TV up to my laptop.
Not one single thing in your comment is factually correct. In fact, both points are demonstrably the opposite of the truth. Apple is not perfect. It is very good at marketing, very good at aesthetic design, decent to good at acquiring marginally above average hardware, and ranges poor to decent at software. The most important thing Apple is good at is marketing, and your comment demonstrates why.
Keep in mind this guy's reasons for leaving. He's focused on his own vision for his own framework (Durandaljs).
I don't think there's anything wrong with any method that also makes me tea :P
I've heard that all Microsoft employees are being given a free WP7 phone. Given that they have ~100K employees, that's a sizable number.
Notably absent: Anything to do with profit.
Highly recommended: Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (Paul Kennedy) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_the_Great_...

You're absolutely right about the Spanish, but it would be more appropriate to say the Hapsburgs, because what we're really talking about here is Spain, Austria-Hungry, the Balkans, The Holy Roman Empire... a huge portion of Europe all controlled centrally.

The French followed them, and for a period, the state of power was essentially France vs everyone else. England took off later, and that's the history most of us (Americans) are more familiar with.

BUT... this is a very Eurocentric view of history. There was a tremendous amount of other stuff going on leading up to and during this period in China, India, and what was once the Ottoman empire. In hindsight there are many reasons why our planet eventually became Eurocentric, but in 1500 that was not at all apparent - if things in China had gone differently; if they had not closed out new, outside, innovative ideas, we could very well have a very Chinese world today.
some people, even on news.yc, might not know that you run http://duckduckgo.com (which is a search engine.)
If I had some important secret documents to leak which provided evidence of wrongdoing on the part of government officials, I'd leak it to the New York Times or other major newspaper. They're the best place to go for stuff like that -- they have a huge readership, a staff who will dig into the surrounding issues, and a heck of a strong reputation (as opposed to ugly-website-run-by-creepy-alleged-rapist).

I'd only leak to wikileaks if I (for some reason) wanted to leak ten gigabytes of randomly selected secret documents of no particular consequence. Wikileaks is the open mic night of leaking -- it's where you find the random crap, not the big stories.
I doubt they could use web fonts for the texts written with Comics because of its license.