jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Excuse me for being completely ignorant of this kind of thing, but why does working remotely automatically mean you are a contractor? Is it not possible to work remotely as a normal employee?

Perhaps there needs to be a distinction between remote workers elsewhere in the US and international ones as well. I imagine there are many talented developers elsewhere in the US that don't want to live in SV.
AKA racketeering.
There are several definitions of "Solar System edge", and all of them are so diffuse that we get these periodic reports, and we'll be getting them for a while.
I agree there's a lot of this talk happening right now.

In my view, the point here isn't that ideas are worthless, it's that ideas are worthless without execution - this guy had an idea, and didn't act on it, and then saw a very similar idea succeed.

I think ideas are very important, but I think persistence is even more important, and I like the fact that the initial idea doesn't need to be perfect since you can pivot (yes, another increasingly overused term!), e.g. Microsoft, Paypal, Flickr.
The trouble with systems like this is that as soon as it becomes used by a lot of people, the value of being able to put false data on one becomes very very high.
I sure hope this kind of "Kinect hacking" was Microsoft's original idea: watch the community come up with all kinds of crazy applications, and then use them in the next Xbox and blow everyone away.
The OP wasn't arguing for public transport, so I don't get where your comments on that came from from. I totally get what you mean about "symbols" though.

> Trucks also tend to be more durable than cars

Surely the engine, drivetrain, clutch etc are the same parts you'd find in cars? Curious about what you mean here?
You could take this argument all the way down. Why did valve pick it up? I don't think they saw dota2 as a profit engine necessarily, though there is some argument for that. The company does tend to engage in bus ticket obsessions (VR, dota2). Sometimes it fails (artifact). But I strongly suspect that Gabe Newell bus tickets dota2. I would guess that like myself, he has no real skill at the game, but he just loves it. And he hired the guy (icefrog) that bus tickets dota2 mechanics. The combination is an enormously entertaining (for us fans) wildly unlikely tournament that has a 30 million dollar purse.

Tarn and Zach Adams are also bus ticketers.
Well, most of science is also just curve fitting.
While I understand where you're coming from- I'd look at it slightly differently- Microsoft has a huge cloud business where people access outlook using web. If MS can secure it, apple won't be that far behind. Then again I don't know if apple has ever cared for user security much...

Anyway, I didn't downvote...
It's also possible that an autistic chess-winning machine is not actually reproducing the full range of behaviors humans mean by the phrase "playing chess".
It can simply be a form of risk-management by Dell/VCs.
How likely is that Apple going to sue them?
How likely the company going to succeed and deal with the issue?

It's rarely black or white.

We have seen it with the case of Uber and the self-driving cars.

In their own words, they said they will reuse knowledge from ARM and Apple (including Desktop CPUs).

As public investor of Apple, yes I think it's a very legitimate question.
Pretty rare that someone would come on Hacker News and advocate for torture. Do you have any data that shows that what you are advocating for is effective or are you arguing that public policy should focus on using sadistic practices for no reason?
I'd say this is outdated. Since its publication, transfer learning has really started to pick up speed.

Taking a model trained in one subject, and reapplying it to build out new vertical is pretty much how children learn new things.

We'll have models using models to train new models sooner rather than later.

If a program can create it's own curve functions and decide which one to use to evaluate a problem, is it that much different than a brain?
> But if Ron's angry at you, it's because you did something wrong.

An example of Ron Conway being angry at someone (video at the bottom of the article): http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/09/eruption-over-sf-housing-an...

Disclaimer: I don't know enough about the personalities, politics, finances, or economics involved to have a substantive opinion on the matter under discussion.
> Paying with bitcoin is so much easier, I don't need to copy stupid numbers from a card with my keyboard ever again.

Things may have changed, and this is by no means a critique of Bitcoin as a protocol, but I've had the opposite experience so far.

For online purchases at best, in order to make a purchase, I've needed to copy the address to send payments to, log into my wallet, paste the address, go back and copy a code from the website and paste that in the memo, and enter the correct payment amount. At worst, it's required multiple emails because things were broken.

For online credit card purchases, it's been as easy as clicking a single button (Saved CC info), and having everything simply work. Entering the CC info is a little more work, but I wouldn't say its significantly easier than the Bitcoin experience.

In person purchases are slightly easier, but it still requires some form of taking a picture of a QR code and waiting a minute or two for the payment to go through. With a credit card its as easy as making a swipe and sometimes signing.

I have hope that one day paying with bitcoin will be easier, but so far I haven't experienced this.
I view this in the light of the Prisoner's Dilemma.

In a one player game, it pays to be nasty.
It only pays to be nice in an ongoing game.

Ron Conway seems to have been playing the ongoing game long before increased transparency made it fashionable, and has reaped the benefits of it. I have never met him, but he seems to be the one guy people universally acclaim for support, integrity and doing the right things. It's easy to see why he's Call #1 for folks seeking an angel, and he's the call who entrepreneurs take.
Good question. The only way to do it is to detect and encourage them to turn both Airplane Mode and Mute on. There's no way for an app to prevent incoming phone calls, which is probably a good thing. We've considered enforcing Airplane mode, but that would be really annoying if you're just testing the app out.
Computer Modern & coffee stains. What a beautiful combo :-)
In the same vein, couldn't this extension be implemented simply as a filter subscription for AdBlock?
If you want to work hard, feel appreciated, and have opportunity, start or join a startup.

From my experience working at Microsoft, the author sounds clueless. Large companies will eat your soul because they like the souls of naive young developers who think they can get ahead by being smart and working hard at large companies.
What features are you looking for in the CMS? Just content on pages? -> use a password protected wiki?
Quick recommendation for you. Google "sticky footer", it'll make your site look better. :)
I don't know much about the rest of the process, but it looks like the name checking part is slightly less convenient in CA: "A free preliminary check of the availability of a name can be requested by mailing a completed Name Availability Inquiry Letter (pdf~62KB) to the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento. Email or online inquiries cannot be accepted at this time."

http://www.sos.ca.gov/business/be/name-availability.htm#chec...
Agreed - that's why I'm not buying the idea that the gender of the employee had anything to do with the amount of the pay.
I agree. I thought the Loren Brichter lecture was quite good when I saw it a year or two ago. He doesn't do many interviews or blog posts as far as I know, so it was interesting to see the man behind Tweetie speak on various development issues.
Even if all insurance companies are using fear to sell their product, they still have to compete with each other. The insurance industry is the boring financial industry, but is very vast with many nooks and crannies. The companies are making financial gambles estimating risk. And not every company has the same model or the same strategy. Some risks pay off, and sometimes they don't. And from what I understand, in the property and casualty business, the profit the companies make typically comes from investments of their capital and not their loss rates.

If you don't see the value of insurance, then don't buy it unless the law requires. And if you don't like the law, then do something about it.

But if you're family has money, or if you do, it would be smart to put a few bucks into your insurance policy and relax knowing that your capital is not at risk. And if you don't have a lot of money, its nice to know that there's cash available for you when something bad happens.
Talk about famous last words, 3 month ago before this hammer came down, wow! Wonder if it crossed his mind if this also applied to his own crypto deals
No one painted a too-rosy picture. They just pointed out that Uber killed Taxis because Taxis ran on horrible service plus a government mandated monopoly. Take away the latter like Uber did, and there’s no need to put up with the former.
I went from a 64GB RAM ThinkPad to a 8GB RAM M1 Air, and ditched my PC entirely. No fans, no noise, no heat, it's like a fairytale. Watching videos in 4k60 has very low CPU usage if any thanks to excellent hardware acceleration with modern browsers (especially Safari for obvious reasons). Many things to be impressed about.
What requirements does Laravel meet that Rails does not?
Any non contrived example would be thousands of lines of code. Rust is meant for those areas where you are forced to do weird things, it does it's best but they don't know how to solve the problem of what they need in a way that can't be misused.

Seeing how contrived the examples are makes me more interested in rust.
The nature of the business is that artificial intelligence of all flavors is extremely poor at being 100% correct. 90%, maybe one day, but not now.

The concept that automobiles will travel without human assistance to override IO mistakes from sensors is ridiculous.
There is, at some level, a Java VM that is functional with Inferno OS. No idea at what capacity it can be made to function, but I've been meaning to mess with it for awhile now. https://code.google.com/p/inferno-j2d/
Agreed. In fact, that's actually one of the things these critics are attacking: that the Gates foundation employs extensive effectiveness analysis and channels the majority of funds towards treatments which save the largest number of lives.
> They are clearly building a walled garden for their own benefit, while selling it as the user's benefit.

Unless violence is being used to force people to buy things, there doesn't have to be a big difference between "the company's benefit" and "the user's benefit."
I get the impression that unless you’re going through an auction house or selling super high-profile items, there’s no 1099-Misc or whatever going to the IRS - in other words, cash sales and unreported.
The thing LGR found is called Sony SAPARi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPARi

It actually has an active fan community believe it or not.
I would say, rather, that it is priced to have very specific sorts of customer using it.

The relationship between the pricing tiers changes fairly drastically, depending on how much you are already spending on Amazon Web Services. Gold, for instance, starts out at 4x the price of Silver support, but by the time you're spending 80K/month on services, it's only a $900 premium (and stays there no matter how much bigger your bill is). At the $150K/month level, it's a 2x jump from Gold to Platinum, which may or may not be a huge jump, considering the extra level of service you get.
More accurately, the more unstable your infrastructure is, the more you will need to spend to ensure stability.
Yes, this is the second-chance mechanism described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there. See also https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

And yes, we put the OP in that pool, so it got a placement on the front page. That only lasts for a few minutes, though; after that, if users don't upvote it, it will fall off. Users upvoted this one.
Your analysis is correct, just missing one thing: apple can pretend to refuse the domestic government requests. It is good for their reputation and profits.

But given what they do abroad, I have no reason to believe they don't do the same at home. If they don't, a secret court order with a gag clause and jail term for those who refuse to comply will make them obey.

Neither apple nor the government has any interest in this public display of force. Plausible deniability again: make people believe apple stand for their right, even if you don't get stuff to pin down a know bad guy or two - doesn't matter if you still have plenty on them or if they're dead
I wouldn't really consider "JFK shooter" a negative connotation, although it's interesting you bring it up given that Kennedy's assassination marked the initial deployment of the term "conspiracy theory" to try and discredit questioning of or alternatives to flimsy official narratives.
> it’s not because you’re a savant who is above these things, but because you have simply neglected to develop that skill set.

The problem isn't that savant's are above these things, but that they matter very little to them. They aren't helpless geniuses who don't know the path to learning social skills, but understand that the reward of those skills just isn't high enough for them personally as it is to most people.

Its hard to relate to that because most human beings are wired to feel good in social situations, but there are those who feel good only when they obsess over the things that they're interested in (and find deep satisfaction from). Put differently, the reward centers that guide most people don't guide them as much. They understand what they're "giving up", but while for others that might be something of great value, it means very little to them.
Interesting take on intelligence. It also explains why people who have such passion frequently end up "bad cultural fits(tm)" among those who don't.

Edit: I'm always surprised by which of my posts get the downvotes. Wonder whom I'm offending this time.
Yes, I do and I think a lot of it has been driven by hard and fast (reckless) development of really odd frameworks like react native:

class AnimatedCollapsible extends React.Component {
state = {expanded: false};
render() {
return (
<View style={{overflow: 'hidden'}}>
<TouchableOpacity
onPress={() => {
LayoutAnimation.configureNext(LayoutAnimation.Presets.spring);
this.setState({expanded: !this.state.expanded});
}}>
<Text>
Press me to {this.state.expanded ? 'collapse' : 'expand'}!
</Text>
</TouchableOpacity>
{this.state.expanded && <Text>I disappear sometimes!</Text>}
</View>
);
}
}

Look at this code. How is this okay? When were framework developers taught that mixing business logic and UI is a good idea? Seriously?
That's usually easy to opt out of and if bootstrapping fails (e.g. Outbound dns query for DoH provider fails//direct connection by IP is blocked) it falls back to the network/OS defined resolvers.

Even still filtering based on SNI will work for a long time yet. Yes, ESNI is on track to becoming to a standard but support for legacy devices/browsers means it to will rely on network tests for support - so it can also be disabled.
The two things about software engineering:

1. You have to figure out what you need to build.

2. Engineer the solution in such a way that changes in the requirements result in relatively minor changes to the code.
Filtering based on domain name probably isn't the best idea.
Nope, can't think of one. Well, except my own, but we're not shipping a product yet, so that doesn't really count.

If I was a Fanboy of any company though, I think the best shots would be Red Hat, IBM and Sun (before the Oracle acquisition).
If coconut cream pie were a Schedule I substance, I would argue it be removed, even without a health benefit—and I don't even like coconut. Also, I do not smoke.

I don't agree with most restrictions on businesses, so perhaps the California law is overly restrictive (I really didn't follow the proposition since I don't live in California).
Do you apply the standard of launching in every country to all companies that are talked about here? If you do, that seems pretty ridiculous.
I'm late to the thread but Ed Byrne expounds hilariously on your point in this classic standup bit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg
I was interested in Atomo-in-Atomo, because I'm working on CoffeeScript, a language that is written in itself:

http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/documentation/docs...
>You also say it's your body and you can do what you want. The law proposed in California would make it difficult to fire someone that smokes pot. I don't agree with this. This takes away my right as a business owner.

So do you consider your right as a business owner to be more important than the fundamental right to do whatever you want to your body? Seriously?

And EVERYBODY IS DRUGGED in this country. Some drink coffee. Some drink alcohol. Some take anti-depressants. Some take anxiolytics. The performance of your workers should be your only concern; the "why" behind their performance should not bother you. If someone gets high all the time and is able to produce amazing output, then why would you fire him? On the other hand, if someone gets high all the time and is terrible at his job, you have a reason to fire him that is cause-independent: he is not performing well. Why would you care how people like to cope with reality? The only thing that should matter for you is how useful they are to you for a given purpose.

Reality is harsh. People try to cope with it with their own tools. Different tools work for different people. Drugs are such tools.
1) They did launch, just not internationally. 2) This is Hacker News, a place to "spam" about your company. This type of comment is exactly what will keep people away from the community, rather than keeping it a place of great people and great startups.
Has anyone compared this to a Sleep Tracker Pro?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0026RHFPS/ref=oss_product
Except that policemen and prosecutes only ever interact with a jury once, and judges are often former prosecutors making them sympathetic to what prosecutors have to do to win cases. Have you been following the "Videotaping the police" meta-story thats been coming up these last couple of years? Even when video evidence laters shows that a police officer was lying on the stand there are seldom any consequences, and those are usually just a period of paid leave.
lol dogs lol
Compared this to apps friends have shown me, this is really concise.
Peremptory answer: Dogs are our pets. Sheep are our dinner.

Peremptory answer redacted for inherent biases: Dogs are our slaves. Sheep are our murder victims.

Somewhat sympathetic answer: Sheep naturally flock together. The dogs just reshape and redirect the flock. "Dog-broke" sheep, as mentioned in the article, are used to the dogs and know they are not to be feared.

Sympathy-trumping counter-answer: given the steady destruction of sustainable farming practices in the face of agribusiness hegemony, why begrudge the local shepherds any extra source of income? At least these sheep aren't growing up in a tiny stall in a factory farm.
No, he's not being unfairly downvoted, and I cannot upvote you either. You are basically talking out of your ass...please cite figures to back up what you mean by "a not insignificant number". And how, pray tell, is some unhappiness essential to "social stability", whatever that may be...
So the answer is for the government to rob people of what they've earned? Doesn't sound very American to me.
That doesn't make any sense. If P(whatever Lamos wrote | whether Wikileaks aided Manning) = P(whatever Lamos wrote), then your posterior probability always equals your prior probability, and you haven't learned anything.

If you don't trust Lamos, nothing written in the transcripts will (and should!) change your mind.
yeah, sorry about that, I should have proof read it. Also messed up on the apostrophes.
"Kurzarbeit" is part of the reason, where the government pays 60% of the difference. But a lot of the low rate of unemployment is due to considerably less socialist reforms i.e. more lenient labor laws (compared to the previous German norm, of course). Temp jobs especially have seen a significant rise, with the usual lower wages, short-term contracts and avoidance of union restrictions.

And a lot of that has been initiated during the time when Schröder was in power – then head of the Socialist Democratic Party.

So it's really not that easy to ascribe it to certain political leaders or certain political ideologies. Unless you count pragmatism…
Agreed. I share Glenn's skepticism of the Lamo's changing stories but y'know it was the New York Times who published it, not Wired. At some level it comes across as sour grapes and jealousy that Kevin knows more about than he does.
That’s super extreme. Of course I’d call the cops the same day. It’s your job to protect your children.

If some adult I knew said “so and so made me feel really uncomfortable 2 years ago” or “so and so touched me 2 years ago” I’m not going to say “hey let’s get them fired!!!”

It’s not my place to be a vigilante. I wouldn’t get involved at all. If I had a good relationship with the accused I would probably even help them out, eg hire them, after someone “cancels” them.
> Docker in my experience is the same way, people see docker as the new hotness then treat it like a Linux box with a shell script (though at least with the benefit you can shoot it in the head).

"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones." —Alan Perlis, Epigrams in Programming (1982)
Perhaps. My email is in my profile - reach out if you want to chat.
I think there is a difference between taking technology, framing it into own mindset, getting parallels, and diving into presented story full of unicorns. Unfortunately seconds scenario is what often business wants, technology is mostly same, story is specific to the company.
But does the CRISPR method require the patient to remain on anti-rejection drugs the rest of their life?
Step 1: stop subsidizing car travel. Make automobile owners pay their way--to include negative externalities such as noise and pollution.
Perhaps it would be possible to modify mosquitoes so that they don't need blood to reproduce. Other insects manage it somehow.
Indeed! Hoare wrote about his self-reflection on the failures of his own software group.

There was also failure in prediction, in estimation of program size and speed, of effort required, in planning the coordination and interaction of programs, in providing an early warning that things were going wrong. There were faults in our control of program changes, documentation, liaison with other departments, with our management, and with our customers. We failed in giving clear and stable definitions of the responsibilities of individual programmers and project leaders,--Oh, need I go on?

What was amazing was that a large team of highly intelligent programmers could labor so hard and so long on such an unpromising project. You know, you shouldn't trust us intelligent programmers. We can think up such good arguments for convincing ourselves and each other of the utterly absurd. Especially don't believe us when we promise to repeat an earlier success, only bigger and better next time.