jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
#1: You're being totally anonymous all the way down to protecting the identity of the person controlling the domain. This does not inspire trust.

#2: In combination with the above, you're using a brand new, minutes old, entirely empty HN account, but of course you somehow know enough about HN to consider the people here would somehow be "prominent" on your site. Again, this doesn't foster trust.

#3: There was a very strange and oddly worded "Ask HN" post requesting or better said reprimanding HN members to do similar non-profit stuff about 22 hours ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2474522

#4: One person's charity is another person's nemesis. There are supposed "charities" on all sides of disagreements.

#5: I don't care about being "prominent" so feeding me marketing drivel is less effective and more damaging than you might imagine.

#6: There are a number of organizations like this already. Since the goal is to both pull and pool tech volunteers to work on charities, it makes sense to work with an already established organization rather than dividing efforts. My personal favorite is http://www.rhok.org/ (disaster relief) and if you look through their site you'll see they have very wide support from a lot of major companies. Instead of making an anonymous, half-thought proposal, I suggest you do some research first.

If you're serious about all this, then you need to rethink how you approach the people who might be willing to help you.
Bravo. More companies that support this trend the better for the rest of us* (the non founders cohort that is).

This movement only makes me appreciate the management and culture of Pinterest; quite the opposite of the Zynga fiasco [1][2]

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-to-employees-give-back-our-st...
[2] http://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-uses-stock-options-to-keep-em...
It was Excel that used p-code.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000007.html
Josh, given that the Smartspot is using a Kinect, are there plans for this to become an Xbox app? The motivational "hump" for working out in your living room is much lower than going to the gym (and cheaper too).
Small nitpick: Chrome implements CT for all certificates and shows its status, however they only currently plan to downgrade an EV certificate to a normal certificate.

Firefox has an open bug for implementation[1] but it's inactive for whatever reason.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944175
Yes, you're absolutely right, and YC and other SV funders really have no clue what they're doing. It's a boon for biotech startups because the relevant VCs are very puckered up right now when it comes to biotech/pharma.
I'm curious about how this works. I thought, legally, ISOs must expire within 3 months of leaving the company. Assuming they've been issuing ISOs up to now, are they converting them to something else, like NQSOs or RSUs?
One of the biggest challenges they've had to and continue to try to overcome is an outdated policy system around personal health data, within the U.S., and I'm not sure if Jack Andraka has attempted to mass produce and mass release his pancreatic kit. The statement was about their recent FDA battles, not about 'advancing science'.

The 23andme dataset provides more value than HGP since it's an dataset of active participants. I don't know too much about the specifics or privacy mechanics, so I can't comment on how, but this article is an example (http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27487046/23andme-quest...). The way researchers are using the dataset is very different because they are able to do followups. That's a very significant difference, it's why they have pharma companies lining up to get access to the dataset.

Last I heard, they were closer to 1M than 850k, unfortunately can't find any live stats. Maybe someone else can chime in?

I don't have any affiliation, and I'm surprised that you'd assume so. I recognize that there's an overeagerness from both startup people and academics to crap on biotech startups, rightly or wrongly. I haven't quite figured out why spectators are motivated to do so.
I think it would be impossible to get good performance using normal (one dimensional) indices.

The problem is, when your time-zone information changes, you'd need to recalculate all your materialized views. Most popular databases lock the index/materialized view when it is being rebuild, blocking all access. When your tables are in the order of 1B rows, you can't really afford that.
I've worked for a series of employers whose motto is "be as little as you can be". For instance, one place was a relatively young job shop that spent freely on cheap praise, pizza, junk food, cookies and such, but didn't want to invest in my well being or professional development in any way. (For instance, health insurance, sending me to a conference, etc.)

The general pattern is that there's a glass ceiling that you can only get through by being an entomologist, a second-rate salesperson, or whatever it is your organization values. IT isn't it.

And no, I'm not stagnating. I'm starting my own company.

As for chasing young people away, they're chasing themselves away.

So far as being angry, Americans should be getting angry -- 30 years of conservative orthodoxy have all but destroyed the American Dream. I see a lot of complaining about my position in your comment but I'm not seeing what you say the root cause is... I'd like to hear that.
Depends on your language - in Scala XML is so much easier than JSON, mostly because Scala allows you to do pattern-matching and do functional programming on Xml.

But if you are working in Javascript, then yeah it is properly easier.
First, how many times are you willing to spin the wheel? It was pretty clear that he tried to start a business at least once before, and it blew up in his face. That probably changed his outlook on risk-reward tradeoffs.

Second, it confuses me that this guy is living off Social Security.

"After Apple, he spent two years creating the model shop at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then was chief engineer at Thor Electronics in Salinas for 16 years. He holds a dozen patents, but he has never had the money to develop them into products."

Being a chief anything for 16 years in the Valley, I would think should let you sock enough away for a comfortable retirement, even investing conservatively. I suspect this guy is just bad at managing money all around, which he pretty much admits.

"I don't know why, it just never happened. It's probably because I'm not the businessman I should be."
While no reasonable person would expect the CEO of a large company to personally attend to every customer issue that randomly reached them, it's hardly a bad thing if the bubble of yes men is pierced. I can't help but imagine that a company that makes legal threats of this type is also dropping the ball in listening to customer feedback through normal channels, such as tech support or customer service.

Customer complaints are a gift, a point well made in the classic Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Being removed from the voice of the customer is one of the worst things that happens to business leaders as their organizations grow.
I think you're missing the point of the oppugn.us website? http://oppugn.us/posts/1270018322.html
Nitpick:

"Dreams of eternal youth feature in many cultures throughout history, but it was only in the 20th century that research into longevity really began."

I seem to recall learning about ancient Chinese emperors entertaining Daoist 'priests' who offered them elixirs designed to extend their lifespans, sometimes indefinitely. If by "research" they mean "contemporary scientific research," their statement is a tautology.

Update:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_alchemy

"Chinese alchemy is a part of the larger tradition of Taoism (although some argue it has longer history than Taoism), centers on the tradition of body-spirit cultivation that developed through the Chinese understandings of medicine and the body. These Chinese traditions were developed into a system of energy practices. Chinese alchemy focuses mainly on the purification of one's spirit and body in the hopes of gaining immortality through the practice of Qigong and/or consumption and use of various concoctions known as alchemical medicines or elixirs, each of which having different purposes."

Just because their research didn't lead to correct conclusions doesn't mean it wasn't research.
A free trial is definitely the smart move - it couldn't possibly take away potential customers unless your product is garbage.
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I think that demonstrates a broader version of his point: people are more civil towards each other in the offline world than they are in the online world.
The guys (yes, they were all guys) I meant all had pure CS backgrounds. Either 4 year BSc degrees, some with PhDs on top of that (I'm in the UK so PhD is typically research only).

Of course, YMMV. These were core product developers - the folks who did well in customer facing roles did have more varied backgrounds.
Release now, get some friends to start using it. Get feedback as you work on new features. Iterate, iterate, iterate. People don't mind using an incomplete service as long as they know its being built upon - it also helps build evangelists. Especially if you limit the initial number of users and create a type of scarcity.
I like having a free trial period for things.
Humans like to see punishment meted out to moral degenerates (in this case anyone who could be in/directly guilty of something the judges accept as abhorrent). We're moving into an era of increased righteous persecution, starting with jobs and eventually progressing to greater forms of humiliation and no doubt violence, because we've been denied its satisfaction so long. We can probably prevent it. We probably won't.
Source: Musk said so and provided no proof.

It is the absolute standard in any safety-critical industry to have multiple sensors all feeding data and making up for each other's weaknesses. Cars are not excluded from that.
I wonder if the non-owners think that it's merely a case of those who did buy one trying to justify their purchase.

Those of us with one know that really isn't the case, but of course it's hard to convince someone to spend that much money on something they don't think will make a difference.

Since I put one in my late-2008 MBP at Christmas, I've not seen a single beach ball. Best upgrade ever.
I don't think is that straight forward. Only 1 in 8 tests yield positive results http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/a-b-tes...

Hyundai may have done tens of other tests on this page alone which failed to increase conversions. You would not know about it because only positive case studies are published (we do try to publish some negative case studies though)
>Right - so that's definitely not a long-term business model for sustaining higher prices.

Ah, I apparently missed the part where this was suggested as a long term thing. In that case, you're right. This isn't a method for long term price manipulation.

>Thanks. ETFs acting on a fractional-reserve basis - interesting topic. That's different to futures though. I don't buy the ratios, either.

The info came from a Wall street exec who said that the ratios were easily 100:1, perhaps more but not to worry because blah blah, you can't understand, blah blah, gold futures, etc. I didn't glean much info from it because he didn't seem all that interested in giving much.
Heh, I've had this happen twice now with Google.

The first time was for a role I actually applied for. I was honoured to even be considered, but when the interview went similarly to how you describe I was rather gutted.

The second time I received an email and a subsequent phonecall out of the blue. Again I was excited and told that it'd be an 'informal chat regarding opportunities here at Google'. The call started off great - being told that you could work from any office all over the world, employee benefits, exciting-sounding projects, etc. etc.

Then I was asked to rate myself on a "scale of 1-10, where 1-5 you have some knowledge on the subject, 6-7 you're considered an expert, 8-9 you've published work in this area such as a book, and 10 you're the person who wrote the language or you're considered a world authority on the subject." And from then on in it just descended into madness.

How does an average, even an above average person, ever rate themselves - if they're being reasonably modest - above 4? "I see you're keen on Python, how do you rate yourself there? By the way, you know the guy who invented Python? Yeah, he works here, heh heh" and so on. Following on from that little taster (which made me feel approx. 1" tall) we then had a 'quick fire' round of relatively obscure questions. A held my own here but given how my confidence was undermined at this point I don't think it was especially representative of myself technically.

And that was that. The only thing that I can take away from these is that I'm not the 'type' of person Google are looking for. Good luck to anyone who is.
Look, as an average individual, I'm not limited by drive interface (PATA, SATA and SCSI u320 are all OK for me), nor disk size (be it 2.5'' or 3.5'' or any other, really), nor capacity (I have a 1.5T drive for bulk storage, and only need about 20G for home & system & some breathing space), nor power usage. The only two real constraints for me are: 1) budget and 2) information on actual (``real-world'') performance of drives. As opposed to cute benchmarks.

> You should probably investigate the current hardware (...) -- that has never been an option to me, and probably won't be for some next 25 years. Budget, ya know.

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TBH., I'm irritated by folks comparing top-of-the-line SSDs with slowest harddrives on the market (5.4k and 7.2k RPM, especially in 2.5'' form factor) and making a big woo about SSDs being faster. Get yourself a decent 15k harddrive, you'll be pleasantly surprised. Perhaps even short-stroke it if you are a racer.
Can't agree with this enough. If your workload is IO bound, SSDs will make a world of difference. Measure before making a decision though. You'd be surprised what's bound by CPU (Loopt's iPhone and Android builds) and what's bound by IO (Loopt's server builds).

On Windows use perfmon or Resource Monitor to look for a disk IO queue frequently over 1. On Linux or OS X use iostat and/or Activity Monitor.

If you don't check before taking the plunge, you could be in for an expensive disappointment. On the same machine, Intel X25MG2s made a 2% difference in Loopt's Android build time, but a 50+% difference in Loopt's server build time. Don't spend the money if you don't need it.

Also, it may be worth it to spend the extra money on a reputable brand drive. Loopt has had 20+ drive-years on 15 drives without incident, but they're all Intel. In fact, we run our primary user database on 4 X25-Es striped in a RAID-0 configuration. I've heard horror stories second hand from friends who tried cheaper GSkill and Patriot drives and lost some or all their data.

Loopt server developers all get 80GB X25-M drives + 160GB RAID 1 platters. Totally worth it. Buy SSDs for your employees!
To misquote Bob Dylan, "Beethoven could have written Mr. Tambourine Man. Dylan could not have written Fur Elise".
Nice site. A big problem I see is that it only uses Amazon for pricing. This results in the Nexus 6 being listed as 70% more expensive than the Google Play Store. Kind of defeats the whole purpose of price comparison.

Being able to compare laptops' processor speed (or at least displaying it) is pretty important, especially since Intel's model numbers are meaningless and are completely divorced from their specifications.
not somewhere someone in internet comments told you to put it
One of the explicit goals of the Document Foundation is to be able to answer this question "yes". LibreOffice already does better on ancient Word documents than Word 2013, and the Document Liberation Project is all about the old formats.
The dataType is set to "script" in the AJAX request options. Per the jQuery docs (https://api.jquery.com/jquery.ajax/#jQuery-ajax-settings), this dataType causes the response to be evaluated as JavaScript in the browser.
Very cool. Searched for 'Christmas' and read the strips that are charged with emotion.
FlameGraph [1] renders profiling results into svg. Profile is essentially hierarchical; a user can zoom into subtree by clicking an element. Probably not an inspiring use of script in svg; but boy, how handy this feature is!

https://gist.githack.com/mejedi/90eac4f11f794f43808f90e38b1a...

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html
Your argument seems to be against all zoning of intensity, possibly against all zoning period, and doesn't address the fact that living in a rowhouse across the street from a high-rise building or factory can suck.

Certainly, R1 zoning is a scourge: low-intensity should never mean "large lot, huge setback, short house, one door". Certainly, also, a land value tax that is allowed to grow with actual value should charge folks based on what they're taking from society by living somewhere (or whatever other use), to make single-family homes and parking lots and the like pay their fair share if they are going to exist. But I still think you might be making too sweeping of a statement in this post.
It's disingenuous because the problem isn't that the root keys were released, but that Sony was singlehandedly trusting the security of all their customer information to the assumption that the client would never be compromised. It's bad (and even negligent) design, and while, yes, the root keys being released might have been a component of the break-in, if the system had been designed with the proper security principles in mind, then it wouldn't have been an issue at all.

To use an analogy, Sony's system seems to have been designed like a a car that starts with a push button, no key required. It's assumed that you'll never be able to start it without being the owner because you would have to open the door first. George, being the owner of one of these vehicles, figured out how to get into it without using his keys (in case he ever locked himself out), then people took that information and used it to steal these cars, because once you can open the driver door, there are no additional security checks (like an ignition lock) to prevent the car from being stolen.
Good idea. How about replacing the big screenshot slideshow on the landing page with a smaller, interactive agenda that is pre-filled with some items that you can edit / add to?
Just tell them it's really good PHP.
So at 1% fees, Square is making $1.37 M in revenue?
Wow, can't wait to see how this develops! Someone's about to lose their spot at the teat.

I know Matt Cutts checks up on Hacker News...
Can't wait for beginner programmer books in CoffeeScript.
You don't know what you're missing until you have tried lower latency.

My regular gaming setup is a 144 Hz monitor with a PC. Everytime I try gaming on a console with a 60 Hz TV I feel like I'm completely drunk because of the noticeable input lag. And that's not even cloud gaming. That's just the Console + TV input lag...
You might need to go to those places, though, and not have alternative transport.
There’s quite a few odd things in their setup, whether it’s inflating numbers to seem cool or terrible inefficiency I can’t tell.

Doing 80B predictions a day for 500,000 conversions would make this the lowest efficiency ad platform I’ve ever seen by several orders of magnitude.
To be specific, arable land. Not all land is fertile. And as the old saying goes, they arent making any more :)

Then there is the time aspect. They dont grow as fast as one would like.

"The need for arable land to feed human populations and the needs of wildlife have been in tension for millennia. One can look to Easter Island to see what the end game of man's resource overexploitation can lead to. Currently more than 1.4 billion hectares of land have been committed to agriculture. As human populations swell, especially in lower latitudes, even more forests will be cut, surface water and aquifers tapped, fertilizers applied, and pesticides broadcasted—all of which threaten insects and other biodiversity either directly (e.g., land conversion and pesticide exposure) or indirectly (e.g., water use and nitrogen and phosphorus pollution). Savannahs, prairies, and grasslands, with their deep fertile soils, lend themselves to immediate use for crop and pasturelands, and as consequence are collectively among the most threatened biomes on the planet. The clearing of tropical forests for farming and pastureland is happening at alarming rates and will have especially grave consequences for insect species diversity"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sci...
I'm assuming by "upvotes" you're referring to positive reactions to the design as opposed to the HN voting buttons.

The design, of course, is subjective. We'll be seeing professional commentary which may sway our opinion. I would be interested to see if there were design constraints which weighed heavily in the final design.

There's a prism of ugly and this truck fits in the region which I can live with. I have mostly found Ford designs to be ugly (1995 for example.) I also feel that truck designs have mostly been similar. If I find X year Ford to be ugly, then it's relative to the same year of Chevy. There's also utility ugly and the sort of ugly which attempts to be artistic but which fails into something I would be embarrassed to drive (curves and paint schemes which aren't meant to be functional and just look bad.)

The Tesla Cybertruck has the feel of minimalist utility. It's also bold and different. Unlike the Rivian, it's not trying to be anything like the current state of the art of trucks. I think it will have a lot of appeal for being different and for having crazy specs. It's ugly, but I want one.

I have been seeing good comments pointing out problems. For example, it doesn't seem to be accommodating to accessories. Maybe this is something which will get worked out before it hits production.

History will judge this thing better than we can. Regardless of our opinion, it will be interesting to see if the design sticks.
Not a whole lot but you do see them. Naturally, nobody ever uses it for working neither catched one ever hauling a payload. But they do look really great.

It's like somebody else already said, it's just too big to park. Subterranean parkings that are the norm in European cities are pretty much impossible with them.
Do you know that Apple releases a lot of open source software

False. Proportionately they release an insignificant amount.

even maintains the open source CUPS print server, which is heavily used in Linux and Unix systems?

This is only because no vendor or developer would use anything compatible with mac OS were it only supporting macOS.

just about all of their past releases of MacOS, iOS and OS X Server are open sourced as well

This is false, and you haven't done due diligence. (XNU being free software (though usually not anything touching ARM) does not mean macOS, iOS and OS X Server are free software.

It literally invites developers to make your platform better for you, for free.

Last I checked Apple doesn't take external commits.

I'm not an Apple fanboy, but you gotta give Apple some credit here where its due.

They are due no credit.
foids are evil
To be fair, Apple and Google's store are also crap to navigate. I wonder what is the difficulty.
There isn't any reason why Vlang can't have both autofree and boehm-gc. I don't understand the "must be this or that only" logic being applied to it. Other popular programming languages also have multiple memory management options, and so can Vlang.
One thing is that elections are up to the states to organize as they see fit.

The other thing is that US politics has reached a point where the political parties care only about winning. They don't care about functioning institutions.