jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
sidenote: restic can do that too
I think you're approaching this from the wrong direction (the article's framing doesn't really help). It's about how we allocate funds at a high level, not that every city needs to have an equal amount of cycling. From a climate change perspective, we care little about where we take cars off the road.

So while it's true that Siberia won't ever be bike-first, we should understand that each person we can get to transition to biking is worth 10x the carbon reduction of getting them to transition to an EV. It will also be harder! But the 10x heuristic should help us think about how to balance the increased difficulties against increased benefits.

Also, this is a transition that will eventually involve everyone. There will always be people who can't cycle and we need to maintain room for them to be full participants in a non-petrochemical-based economy. This makes low-carbon personal transport like cycling even more valuable in the context of needing to allow people with more limited mobility options access (they will need the parking spaces we increasingly hope to move away from).
> Many of the postings I see are $250k+. That's like 3x what I make.

Proof please.
Quite a few Twitch and Youtube streamers are moving to their own platform. I think the only thing holding them back was finding a way for people to make payments or to have advertising. Apparently people are finding ways around this obstacle?
This is my understanding of wealth. I'm not sure where the original commenter you replied to got that notion. If anything it is known that wealth is squandered over generations.

As a Sheikh once said 'My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Lamborghini, his son will drive a Lamborghini, but his son will ride a camel'.
this is nonsense; the bottom 90% didn't have $50T to "take".
I disagree with you. Determining how well they solve the problem they claim to solve relative to each other is a valid comparison.
How? They are both trying to solve the same problem and they take different approaches, what is unreasonable about comparing that?
Kinda missed the point, replace "do a build" with "do a full build" and you get the same thing, I used to have the exact same issue when installing lxml via easy_install/pip in a virtualenv (which entails a full compile from a source tarball) on an MBP with a factory drive (5400rpm), I could just go and grab myself a coffee because it would pretty much slow the machine to a grinding halt.

Nowadays, I don't even notice I'm doing it (replaced factory drive with an x25M g2.
I have worked for a few years with a company pretending to be many things at the same time. it was a mess of strategy and homepage.
each department and each individual wants a piece of the homepage. that meant fecal widgets just showing up anywhere at random.
The pathology wasnt restricted to design. It went deeper into the mess of css, html and javascript.
And I felt very alone as amongst the very few who had a huge problem with the way it worked. I was kept out of meetings.
My question is if the multivariate testing is really necessary (at-least for smaller sites) ?

With a big budget you can try a lot of designs and find the most effective one by a few percent -- but the changes they made were obviously going to increase conversions.

* A big call to action over a little link in side bar?
* Reasonable sized photo on the right?

I would have just thrown those two in without testing and compared the SEO friendly text which isn't as obvious.
The fundamental criticism seems to be that the authors take kin selection to be a fundamentally different sort of thing from "ordinary" natural selection.

That is indeed a very strange view since the two are really tightly connected logically.
I feel like this be addressed by simply banning all trade with tax haven countries.
The weakest link is some of your contacts that opted (because that is the default) to upload their phone contacts to a Facebook service. Through those phone contacts, Facebook correlates the contact name with your Facebook account.
Sure, tell that to any Indian or Asian parent in the valley or in NYC.
The thing you should keep in mind about stock market commentators, amateur or professional, is:

"If this person actually knew what they were talking about, they would be investing and making a fortune, not telling me about it"

It doesn't matter how smart they are, how many awards they've won, or how successful they've been in business. If they're making a public post about it, it's because they don't really know anything. If they knew, they would keep it quiet and invest.
Actually, bringing in $100/month from a website, even a blog, isn't too hard, but does take persistence and time.
I bookmark pages I want to visit later and take advantage of the location field to search my bookmarks, as I am paranoid a www search engine might forget about my obscure page.
I hate saying "trust me", but since I'm mentioned by name: he is as wrong as it is possible to be wrong about SEO. It's so wrong, its like me suggesting that all the cool iOS developers add their bezels with Photoshop, which is why you can't use Flash on an iPhone.
What you're really looking for is a product. I'll even wager you are probably looking for a product that requires minimal unit production and distribution costs. That puts you in a class of products that are electronic, or products that you can convert from an electronic representation to a physical one and have a supplier to deal with those physical challenges (like shipping) for you. People often forget the 2nd option, but it's there.

A short list of items that meet this qualification: software, writing (books, novellas, blogs, etc.), digital art, digital photography, music (original), sound of other types (background sounds that can be used in the production of music, for example), designs/instructions (for building something) and a probably a bunch of other stuff. If I missed a big one, please reply to this post with it. You should also be looking for free resources online that you can leverage. Are there free services that you can leverage to make your business easier to manage? Can you do some work (collection or processing) of some freely available data that might give it additional value which you can then extract through sales or in some other way?

Because your goal is to make a living and give yourself some extra freedom, you don't have to overengineer this. This isn't your masterpiece. It doesn't have to be pretty or break new ground necessarily. Don't chrome plate it if you're writing software for it or to support it.

Frankly, I just started taking advantage of this type of business and I feel almost guilty. The code isn't that great. The idea isn't that great. It's not something to write home about in terms of engineering a solution. But it makes me money even if I don't touch it for a month at a time. I'm not living off this business yet, but I am seeing good growth and I see a virtually infinite path to expanding the digitally based offerings of the business (more offerings = more money).
Not particularly inspiring for hacker types, unless you consider it a list of potential customers for whom to build tools. Most of the businesses listed require specialized skills or significant startup capital.
I think Chris Dixon said it best in this tweet: http://twitter.com/cdixon/status/13437285168

"People capable of making enough money to never work again are the same people who will never quit working."
gmail tasks is way too one-dimensional. workflowy is cool, the closest i've seen to an idea i've had in my back pocket for some time, so thanks for the tip and i'll try them out. however, no mobile client.
A review that goes out of its way to keep saying how nice the author is and where the reviewer isn't sure they should say what they are going to because of said niceness leads me to wonder how unbiased the review actually is.
Bose spent over a decade working with Wiener. It started when Lee recruited Bose (as a grad student) to work under Wiener.

Bose often told the story of the initial encounter, in which he spent 6 months fearing for his life because his level of math versus that of Wiener was equivalent to a child who knows basic arithmetic versus someone well versed with Calculus.

They worked together on a wide variety of projects, including bio-engineering projects where they measured brain signals of hospital patients who lost, say, their arms but was asked to pretend to move their fingers as if their arms were still attached.

According to Bose, Wiener was a total genius who had an amazing memory. He fully memorized AND understood the human anatomy down to every detail, and often corrected experienced Harvard doctors from mistakes, large or small.

Wiener told Bose that he resented his upbringing because his parents wanted to see if they could raise a genius. By age 7, Wiener's eyesight was nearly shot from so much reading, but his parents pushed on and made Wiener do everything in his head instead.
Which nation is this? The world is a big place; the article headers you write should be free from bias and assumption.
I don't think anyone is saying it's that much different. To me, that's what makes it suspicious. Sense, MotoBlur, & TouchWiz all fragment the android platform, break/change certain view widgets, and lag behind the major release. If you've ever written an android application, you probably remember how you have to remember to set the fonts, colors, font sizes, and just about every property of every widget just to make sure your app looks consistent. WP7 being brand new has the same advantage that iOS does. You don't have to guess what you're UI will look like on someone's phone because they all have the same environment. On Android, it's absurd.

[Edit]

I'll take this a step further and say that this is at least one of the reasons that there aren't as many high quality apps in the Android Market. Though, there are obviously several more.
I am not sure it this could simply be "worked out". I think this TSA issue could get nasty.
Yeah, I was annoyed with Google when they announced Chrome because I thought it would cause some confusing collisions for the technical crowd down the road. I really would have liked to see them choose a different name for their browser. The interface and trappings of the browser has long been called "chrome" by Mozilla, so if you see chrome given in a non-proper-noun context then it probably refers to that, not Google's competing browser.
Exploring steam tunnels isn't "messing with pipes." To be "messing with pipes" you would have to be doing things to the pipes in those steam tunnels.
My sister was his student, he gave her a free pair of the original quiet comforts. Those were so sweet.
I started using vim when I had first started to learn to program. I'd say give it a shot if for no other reason than it's an interesting paradigm shift, and can be really effective.

I'd say give Vintage mode on sublime a shot. It does the basic keybindings/motions of vim and will give you an idea of whether or not you might be interested in it. It's also nice because in insert mode it's basically just normal sublime, so you can just switch back to that if you get frustrated.

Are you on linux, osx, windows, or something else?

If you use vim/vintage mode, remap capslock to be escape.

This took me forever to figure out, for whatever reason, but if you're on windows, the easiest thing to do is get autohotkey [1] and write a script with one line:

Capslock::Escape

You can compile that to a portable binary and use it anywhere as well. It's really straight forward.

I also added two keybindings to make Alt+movement to add cursors above and below:
{ "keys": ["alt+k"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": false} },
{ "keys": ["alt+j"], "command": "select_lines", "args": {"forward": true} },

It doesn't always interact naturally with vintage/vim mode, though, but that was just a personal preference.

[1] http://www.autohotkey.com/
All those things you mentioned in your last paragraph are illegal in Germany (or at least in Berlin). You just cant easily compare between countries like that - it can very well be that it "always" makes sense to buy in England because the rules ensure it while the opposite is true in another country.

The rental/real estate markets work differently in Austria and Germany and that's (partially) why home ownership patterns in those countries are so different to England's. Vienna and Berlin both have something close to 90% of the population renting rather than owning, and it's not because they are idiots.

There are massive incentives erected to keep renting tenant-friendly in a way that would never fly in a more capitalist country like the UK or the US.
Did someone actually vote for Algol? Hard to believe in 2021. Or, maybe the vote count started at 1 and nobody actually chose it.

If someone here really does use Algol as their go-to language, I'd like to hear why.
Most major industries should be nationalized to an extent, healthcare especially, but also a nationalized rail system, electrical network, and yes, communication networks.
In charge of what? There's a lot of different problems I commented on there.
> . A combination of low interest rates, a historic tech bull run, and the resulting torrent of fomo has tethered us to our monitors to watch candlestick charts.

He forgot one: the death of defined benefit retirement plans. Back when people knew that their pension + Social Security could allow them to retire with at least a decent lifestyle, nobody needed to care about the stock market. Only rich people needed to work with stock brokers.

Take all that away and force people to fund their own retirement with 401(k)'s and IRAs, and now people are interested in what the market is doing. This is typically to their detriment, since people want to sell when the market drops, rather than buy and hold. Continuing to buy and hold quality index funds is certainly the easiest way to generate wealth over a time period of 15-20+ years, but it's not very comfortable psychologically in the short term.

> Many “smart money” investors don’t rationalize investments by talking about the fundamentals of the business, or even conviction in its future. Instead, we’ve seen the emergence of chartism, which advocates for investing not based on where the business is today or where it’s headed, but its likeness to a “cup and handle” or “head and shoulders” pattern. This is the astrology of finance.

I've said this before, except I typically call technical analysis "numerology for smart people who should know better." Its only real saving grace is that it tends to capture momentum, which is one of the known and fairly reliable ways to generate alpha.
Let’s suppose all these things are true. So what? It’s kids playing ball. They’re just having fun regardless. I’m not seeing any reasons to collect all this intrusive personal info here, just excuses.
Where would one find some interesting matrix servers/channels?
Accusations of being smug are usually made by people who chose a team and you've encroached or offended that team somehow. There's often an aspect of admonishment in using that word as well.

As for my part it wasn't based on arrogance as you'd likely expect. It was simply the result of a bet. I won that bet since no one noticed.
Aww ... sad about WeirdStuff
Sports don't tap into tribalism in the same way Disney does. Sports also have loyalty to an inferior product. Disney would not be Disney if it were the media version of the Cleveland Browns.
>The good faith argument for no minimum wage is that those people would have a much bigger chance to find jobs and build job skills.

That isn't a good faith argument at all. That the "nice job you have there, stop asking for a living wage; it would be a shame if anything happened to it" argument.
Looks interesting, however I can't view your webpage - I am getting this error: "The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature."
Even more reason then.
I like your style, booking.com growth hacker.
Ok, we've switched to that from https://invidio.us/watch?v=J80J4oaGVnY. Thanks!
> Its comparing 1 dimensional space to 2 demential space

Although I love the coinage "2 demential space", I think you mean "comparing one-dimensional space [audio] to three-dimensional space [video]". A two-dimensional signal might be a still image or a temporal sequence of samples from a one-dimensional array of sensors, such as those in a single slice of a CT machine or a linear MIMO antenna array. A video signal is three-dimensional, not two-dimensional, and probably not "2 demential" either.
How many do they need ?

They have the two largest smartphone manufacturers outside of Apple and RIM, in HTC and Samsung.

Among the large manufacturers, all they are missing is Sony Ericsson and Motorola. And I believe only Motorola has hinted that they are Android only.

And Nokia is still larger (not for long) than #2 and #3 in terms of worldwide sales.
Another good one from him:

"You're not paid to write code. You're paid to ship products."
There is a theory that the connection between the right and left hemisphere of the human brain has been diminishing over generations (The ancients used to audibly hear the voice of the gods, which was likely the right hemisphere, but that ability diminished around 4-5000 years ago).

I wonder if all these psychadelic drugs are doing is enhancing the communication between right and left, or perhaps suppressing the left such that the right takes greater charge? The left does, after all, have very narrow focus as opposed to the right, which processes greater but less focused patterns.
I think it is because the older you get you realize that all those projects are anyway just notches on some stick. For example everybody with some experience will choose a boring project with aweseom colleagues over a cutting edge project with a bunch of self-obsessed nerds. Life is short.
It's not the default mode, but you can select JSDOM as an alternative parser and interact with / scrape pages as a headless browser
Eh don't worry, it's merely a choice. You can choose to use a bunch of different skins for some of the characters and there is also a HD version of regular Alyx.
I really disagree with this. Far from being more than anybody needs, a million dollars is actually not enough to secure a dignified existence in the US. Sure... a "trip to Thailand" doesn't require a million dollars, but what if you want:

Not to face bankruptcy if a major health problem arises?
Not to worry about the cost of college for your children?
To own a small home in NYC or SF?
To afford competent legal representation if the need arises?

And that doesn't even touch the reasons people want to be rich - like private jets and angel investing and art collecting and space tourism, etc. Have some imagination!
What do you mean by "the typical HN oh no"? Not for nothing, but I see literally only 3 comments that could be considered "negative", and they're all pretty mild.

That out of the way, I can't help but think you're missing something else. Who exactly are you assuming is the likely purchaser of this product?
Please stop referring to "blacks"? I swear to God it's not PC-ness that's prompting this comment; it's my nerdy inability not to bristle at a sentence that misunderstands something so fundamentally.
Right on the money...The fact that Public Storage was only founded in 1972 is a testament to the fact that we are accumulating more stuff. I have a rule that if I haven't touched it in a year, I get rid of it. It will be easier to buy a new one than find the old one buried in a storage shed or closet.
Hi guys,

I'm in the process of launching an early prototype version of a Clojure/MongoDB web application I'm working on called Wusoup (www.wusoup.com).

Basically the thing functions as a people-matching and messaging service for dating/friendship/chatting purposes.

The single biggest difference between Wusoup and traditional dating sites (the closest comparison), is that matching is done in a learning fashion by observing user interactions over time.

I'm using cluster analysis to produce a metric space over the profiles, which lets me (or rather, will let me) do some pretty interesting stuff for matching.

Now I've gone about this completely the wrong way: building a non-niche product, and building it before any kind of marketing plan. I realise the odds are pretty much against me on every front. The two biggest obstacles I see are heavy SEO keyword competition and, well, zero user base to start with. Adding insult, this isn't my field so I've got no networks to lean on for support.

Despite all that, I feel strongly about the idea. If I don't pull it off now, I'm convinced that someone else eventually will: I'm convinced this is the right direction for the people-matching problem.

If anyone's interested, I'll be blogging very openly about the whole startup (link on homepage). In particular, I'll be publishing detailed analytics as I go along.

Would seriously love any kind of feedback from HN: especially if anyone has any particular ideas or suggestions to help get me going on the growth/marketing front. You think anyone will actually care?
I've been getting familiar with Tropo lately and they are really pretty cool. Their support is generally good and their docs are solid. Their biggest shortcoming was the lack of this new event API (or something filling the same role) and I'm very happy that it's so close to release.
The justification for a fee of $15,000 is saving $24,000 a year. If there's a licence fee of $15,000 then the savings is only $9,000 per year and the first year has a negative cash flow of $6,000 and there is only $3,000 positive cash flow in year two [not accounting for the time value of money].

None of which consider a the legal fees associated with drafting a licencing agreement or the administrative costs of managing such an agreement.

The thing is, you see, that BoB is all about helping other people make money. B2C is more about 've much money have you got?'
Yep, classic example of giving the people what they want. I was tired of super hero movies years ago. But unfortunately I'm in the minority (and even in my nerdy peer group!)
Neither does studying computer or electrical theory alone make you a better programmer. It does help though.

It's nice that there's a 'Human Dynamics Laboratory' out there that does so much research and puts out the findings.
With all the security experts coming out saying that it's really likely it wasn't an attack by North Korea, maybe this is one of those things they call a "false flag" operation.
I would imagine you can submit a PR at https://github.com/martanne/vis/pulls. He says "As always, comments and patches welcome!" in the README.

Edit: Maybe not, the mailing list mail says "git clone git://repo.or.cz/vis.git" instead. I'm not sure where the canonical source lives.
> The fact that xor eax,eax is just a register operation doesn't mean it can leak sensitive information.

AIUI tfa's point is that you can't assume that

xor eax,eax

and

xor eax,ebx

take the same amount of time, because "x86 is a high level language". Similarly for his other examples. This, he claims, makes it difficult to write code that resists timing attacks, if you ever want to have a branch that does nothing. Thus the discussion of cmov.