jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Yes and no, if a startup has experienced designers, they can work around issues. I've often done this and I have access to AEs, as to get an issue resolved externally takes more time than a bit of debug on why the tool is not doing what you want. Rarely is the issue an actual tool bug, but often a tool quirk with some esoteric solution. The issue with most of these EDA tools is their million configuration variables, and that they rarely do something useful out of the box. And experienced designer knows the edges on this and will work fine without support.
A nicer and more detailed presentation is available at https://greenprint.schoonschipamsterdam.org/ (both in English and Dutch).
I have a USB stick that I can use to reload Windows at any time. I downloaded Windows and put it on the USB key using their utility and if I were to replace a drive, my OS eats itself, etc. I just grab that stick. It really should be that easy with macOS too.

Most people don't have multiple computers and most people that own a Mac are unlikely to have two of them.
> It's even been done with Conway's Life.

Well that was the whole point, he was looking for the simplest possible cellular automaton that was complete. It wasn't necessarily the original point of Dwarf Fortress.
Lotta people in this thread are quick to defend a corporation that has no vested interest in them other than a labor vehicle.

Check yourselves.
Recognize that technology is the source of most of the world's problems and aim for gradually eliminating it from your life. Try to get others to do the same.
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"My problem with your original statement was that it was very much a blanket statement. It applied to some parts of USSR's history and less to others."

I am pretty sure the statement applied to the whole run of the USSR. Maybe more in parts and less in others, but they ignored the reality of their situation.

You seem to be trying to add things to what I said that have nothing to do with the statement and truly I am never happy with the "well your just as bad/worse" argument. It really doesn't have anything to do with what I said or prove me wrong. For example, the whole second paragraph of the above post has nothing to do with what I said.
Never give away control of your company for money. If the investor had your vision he would have built it without you. What is going to happen is you are going to fight over the direction of the company until it ultimately fails. The is especially true in equal partnerships. Disagreement quickly leads to stalemate.

The amount of money and valuation are extremely low. Show him examples of funded companies in your space (see CrunchBase) and talk about typical startup valuations based on your space and how far along you are (maybe $1M to $5M). Offer him an investment opportunity of a maximum of 20% of the company for the money he is putting in. That should bring your valuation to roughly $1.5M which is still fairly low and keep you in control of the company for this round and the next.
Since the definition of 'Killer App' is an app that makes people buy it because it's not available on other devices, it doesn't make any sense to eliminate the ones that rely on Android-only features. That's what enables a Killer App.
That's like saying integers are an optional thing, and it's no big deal if your programming language doesn't have them. True, they aren't necessary (look at peano arith or pure lambda calc) - but it sure makes things a lot easier. It's much more concise and intuitive to write some search or divide and conquer algos recursively than imperatively.
You should change the name.

Because of it, I was expecting some ultra fast github search ... it took me about a minute or two of staring at the interface to figure out it was just a repo browser.

Nice job otherwise though.
It's kind of creepy when people quote Paul Graham like it's gospel.
I disagree on both counts.

1. Costs: I think the value of preventing a terrorist attack greatly outweighs the $76/passenger cost of screening. Besides, it contributes a lot of value to the economy by (a) reducing the long lines we have in our airports today and (b) eliminating the unnecessary intrusive procedures

2. Racial profiling: Behavioral profiling is not the same as racial profiling. Besides do you really think that the low-paid unskilled TSA workers don't currently do any racial profiling ?
The other thing it omits is the difference in treatment between Arabs and non-Arabs.

Profiling is inevitable. If you don't know who is threatening you and pay special attention to those people then you are a fool. But most of those people aren't threatening you and will feel aggrieved, this is how resentments grow and fester. EDIT choosing who you pay attention to is obviously key, casting your net too widely is what ticks people off.

These are not easy problems to solve without removing the cause of the discontent which is making people threaten you in the first place.
> That said, you need to do more and move beyond SHA1 since you can now reverse a SHA1 into plaintext with the computing power EC2 gives you.

But this only works for small numbers of characters. You cannot inverse-hash a book length document. You also still can't inverse-hash a 16 character or probably even 12 character password.

This fast hashing stuff is only a problem because people use ridiculously short passwords. The examples in the article are a lazy, pathetic 6 characters. I think people vastly underestimate their ability to memorize passwords. For instance, I am able to memorize a 16 character password by just writing it down a few times and then testing myself. And since I can remember many such passwords, I could easily memorize 32 character passwords, which are probably impossible to crack for the next 50 years or so. And you really only need to remember one such password, because all your other passwords can be put in an encrypted file.
The title is likely a hat tip to a famous functional textbook: _ML for the Working Programmer_.

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/
Agreed...cost data would be really useful
you guys made me read the menu shortcuts .. didn't know reader mode and all-tabs had them (in order CTRL-ALT-R and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB)
> It's like every single meaningful metrics are going down

Except somehow life expectancy is the highest ever (excluding a small spike down lately in USA).

Plus we took lead out of houses and gasoline, and smoking rates are down across the world... this should not be under-estimated.

The young generation right now is actually likely one of the healthiest comparatively (even with the increased obesity rates)
Most (all?) Western populations are well below sustainable already, and falling sharply. It's a big reason for this unprecedented replacement migration from African and Asian countries, in particular, where women may average 7 or more children each.
Targeted advertising works extremely well. I actually stopped using Instagram because the adverts were so accurate that it scared me.
Fruit picking is a very small part of the cost. Doubling the pay of the pickers wouldn't double the price of the fruit in the stores. Most likely, they'd cost about 10 cents extra or something. Easily worth it.

Whenever the milk price is low, we get farmer's protests that they don't get enough for their milk. Turns out they get 9 cents per liter for which I pay more than a euro. You could double their pay, include it in the price, and I wouldn't care.
I'm worried the iPhone mini will be canned next update cycle. I wish I was in a position to buy one, but I only got an iPhone X in Jan 2020 to replace my dying iPhone SE with great reluctance. It's too soon for me to replace, as it works perfectly and I can't justify the cost or the waste. I just hope there's a mini iPhone in 2 or 3 years when I need to upgrade.

I waited a long time for a new small iPhone and eventually got to the point where I had to buy a new phone, because my SE lasted about 15 minutes & I needed to carry around battery packs just to use it.
Not yet. But they could start any time they wanted to. Who would save you then?
Well, his intuition was wrong too, since the papers he based "Thinking, Fast and Slow" on turned out to be debunked, non reproducible crap...
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That's fascinating. I wish I knew what you read to learn what you know.
This is a pretty tone-deaf comment. Any startup can theoretically scale infinitely (and realistically, at least 10x), whereas you can only dream of those numbers.

They can also be bought/exit for life-changing amounts.
But to effectively use the plumbing tools, the companies need programmers! And in the near future, there will not be any "automation" of your complex business needs. Every business is different, and every business has different programming needs. At a certain level of scale and complexity, i.e. no longer a mom and pop shop, you need to hire programmers.
With Signal not releasing their server code and now this, I regret using and asking a good chunk of my base to move to Signal.
Or the impossible dream advert advert Honda basically won car adverts with that one.
It's really not that hard to have billions of rows in a modern data ingest situation, especially if you allow soft/deleting/versioning.

Honestly anything that fits on one hard drive shouldnt be called "tons of data."
In an exokernel environment, the network stack server wouldn't be privileged.
You think that's bad? Try getting Intel libraries like Embree to compile on PowerPC/OpenPOWER systems. It seems designed to be almost entirely impossible to port to new architectures... just about every piece of software released by Intel is made like this. SMH
Making a mountain out of a molehill. As others have said, the further up the chain you go the harder the decision you have to make. The wording of the question is careful to avoid the outrage that people are stirring up. If you believed the narrative people are pushing on Twitter you would think Eton are training young people to commit atrocities and get away with it. It's pathetic and it's tiring.

Side note: How awful is the design of the https://www.indy100.com website?
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You could probably also scale the price based on other variables as well. Like scaling on the sending side as well as the receiving side, or based on the likelihood the other side responds or something. I would assume the main idea is to put pressure to limit low-effort, low-likelihood messaging from both sides, more than putting a pricetag on a person.
w3m gets a pass because javascript is bad. The FSF is right about that. wasm will be even worse. Not technically worse, but for removing another layer of control. DNS over HTTPS is just as bad in that sense.

If you can make something without JS you should. cryptomarketplot.com has an accessible mode FOR CRYPTO!! If crypto sites can, everybody can.
> You don't think its worth protecting the trade of taxi-driving? Used to be the case you could make good tradesman money to be able to afford a house and a family on a taxi salary.

No. Regulated taxis used to be a racket; of course they provided (somewhat) decent living for those who participated, although most money went to the medallion ownert.

I don't see why the needs of a few thousand cabbies (per city) should trump the needs of the millions who clearly prefer Uber.
> a UI that is essentially unchanged since Office 95

Back when I read slashdot, I swear every thread about office had a top comment complaining about how office’s ribbon UI ruined their work flow. One of the biggest weaknesses in open source is that the people who contribute to these projects seem to love 90s style UI.
Maybe take time to investigate what women-built dating apps look like too:

https://www.thegoodtrade.com/features/best-dating-apps-for-w...
There is no mention of the "importance" for the partner to be American. The author only describes the uneasiness that stems from the suspicion when dating Americans.
FYI, If you live abroad in a foreign country for years, it is not uncanny to develop relationship with 'locals', as they tend to be the majority of the people you interact with (even in a very cosmopolitan city like NYC).
> If you are a historian with all the time in the world, an Etherpad session of T.S. Eliot composing The Waste Land would be awesome. But would it have been so awesome to Eliot?

This is the key. We want to see that revision history and only in retrospect for a tiny proportion of writers in the world. I'm not convinced that the writers themselves have any motivation to do so, especially with the UX complexities that as you point out would be necessary.

If the people in the position to do it have no motivation to do it, it won't happen.

And then there's the other side of the coin. A writer may prefer not to show people drafts. Imagine a politician doing it. At the moment we vet things before we publish them. We do this for various reasons including for confidential information and to avoid upsetting people. How much more of a burden will it be to vet all revision history for this too?
QQ has reached 500 million users in 2007 [1]. Recently QQ announced they have 100 million simultaneous online users [2].

[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/qq_china_im_web20.php

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent_QQ
Hoping to make it to StartupRiot as well (assuming I am accepted to present). Andrew Warner and others (like me) are hoping to have an HN meetup of sorts.
Shouldn't this be titled "Reasons Google is still awesome"?
I may be missing something, but from the article it seems like they've just demonstrated that Pavlovian conditioning works on bees. On the other hand, the real story is kids getting excited about science; I would like to know how many of them are going to end up going into science when they get older as a result of this experience.
> the 'rebels' they funded with their payment to Iran back in 2015

What rebels were funded with a payment to Iran? What are you talking about?
I think I agree with your sentiment, but saying that nothing is as good as Bitcoin for sending money over the internet, and that’s why it has value, is just really not a compelling argument.
I'm not sure why the parent comment is being downvoted, it seems like a compelling argument backed up by data.
To stay under the 2°C limit, we need to cut emissions by 4% per year. It happened exactly twice in the past century: at the worse of the great depression in 1932, and after the annihilation of Germany and Japan in 1945.
It turns out that both of the Koch brothers that people are talking about when they say that have masters degrees from MIT.
Ehrlich's reagent will tell you if you have something in at least the same chemical family as LSD, which rules out almost all of the dangerous substances that are sometimes sold as "LSD."
I like this as a compression method, but not sure how I feel about sticking it in a URL.
It seems silly to talk about Facebook "knowing something". Even an individual who knows something does not necessarily incorporate the implications of that knowledge into every decision they make. A whole company certainly can't.
It doesn't have an emacs lisp interpreter right? It's funny, for me, emacs is emacs lisp. I sort of don't understand why one would emulate emacs without a lisp interpreter (given it's Bellard I'll probably find out I'm wrong and it does have a complete emacs lisp interpreter).
I installed this, just to see:

"added 242 packages from 179 contributors and audited 1098 packages in 13.598s"

how can I trust that this doesn't contain malicious code?
"Why do we still think modern society has no place for corruption."

What do you mean by that? Clearly corruption exists as you pointed out later but "has no place" usually means "unacceptable". I think the reason people believe that is because it's accurate.
I actually just did some research on this a few days ago, and the most promising thing I found was this: http://re-timer.com/

I've been using a NatureBright SunTouch Plus for a couple years, and it's good, but not particularly convenient to sit in front of for half an hour a day. The glasses are expensive, but would be great if they work. (And most of the reviews I was able to find were positive.)
In the middle of my PhD I got offered to work on some major Python projects. I had to turn it down since it would have hurt my already shaky PHD progress. I couldn't have used it to contribute to my degree.
There is already a wireless USB.

WBE would essentially replace the cable. It is invisible to upper stacks. There is encryption/scrambling. I'm sure there are vectors for snooping attacks but I don't see viable "imitation" attacks where you could issue commands on behalf of the other device.
Edge cases, I love exploring edge cases and even better, the intersection of edge cases (corner cases?). The more edge cases there are, the more interesting something is and sometimes they lead to discovering entire new spaces. I consider myself lucky to have stumbled into an opportunity with my startup that I find endlessly fascinating.
> I am the lead developer on Axiom which is a very large lisp
project (about 1 million things of code) to do computer algebra.
The help system and graphics were implemented in C but browsers
did not exist at the time (1970s). These are being reimplemented
in lisp using Firefox and the canvas facility.

> In the past I helped develop a product for building rule-based
programs which was sold by IBM. It was entirely in lisp.

> I helped develop an expert system (FAME, a Finance and Marketing
Expert) to price and sell IBM mainframe hardware. It was written
entirely in lisp.

> I developed a language (KROPS) which was a symmetric representation
of a knowledge language (KREP, Knowledge Representation) and a
rule-based language (OPS5 A rule-based language). It was entirely
in lisp.

> I developed a robot planning program to build and assemble objects
from their computer-aided design descriptions (BOXER - A Design-
to-Build system). It was entirely in lisp.

This sounds a bit like if he hasn't needed libraries yet, lisp probably doesn't need libraries.
Another thing: once logged in, I cannot find a way back to the Chrome extension. There should be some "tools" page or something :)
Brython: http://www.brython.info
Exactly, people have been evicted from their homes because a drug deal took place on the front porch. It doesn't matter that the homeowners' names are on the deed. All that matters is that the house was "used in the commission of a crime". The police often times evict people with only an hour notice, so if you aren't home when they come to evict you, expect every worldly possession you own to disappear forever.

The most egregious part: No conviction for the crime is needed. Just a police report that says that illegal activity occured: http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/03/us/philadelphia-drug-bust-hous...
What is it that prevents Toyota and Mazda from selling those diesel cars when most manufacturers are already selling pickups with large diesels?
You have to store those products somewhere. 25lb - 50lb bags or buckets of flour, rice, beans and/or other dry goods are not small. Buying produce in bulk may save you money, but you must use the produce before it goes bad which can start to happen within a few days or a week.
Sure, of course you're a global moderator at the bitcoin.org forums, right? With nearly 4,000 posts there in the last 9 months? It's hard to imagine you need to come to HN to see links back to your own forum and other stories that you've already read.
True, some greedy people are almost certainly looking to profit by speculating on Bitcoin and generating buzz about it.

But, foremost, I can assure you there is a real, vibrant, and quickly growing community of users and merchants: http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?board=5.0 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
Google Docs? LibreOffice? Just make it simple, if they are about box ticking then it does not matter at all how well your resume looks (as e.g. a PDF version would).

I mean I feel your pain, Word Docs give me the cold shivers, but there are some tools.
There are two types of fiber, soluble and insoluble. Insoluble fiber is good for the digestive tract and soluble fiber is good for lowering cholesterol [1]. From what I understand, the liver will recycle cholesterol back into your bloodstream. Soluble fiber will bind with the excess cholesterol and carry it off as waste.

For most people it's probably okay to eat foods containing cholesterol as long as you keep everything in balance. Several years ago my blood tests showed all the bad signs - high cholesterol, low HDL, and high triglycerides. I knew I would never stick to a really low fat diet, so I just shopped the perimeter of the store, avoiding processed foods. I flipped by blood test results in two months.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol/CL00002
Funny - I (the OP) go to El Castillito a lot, actually, because my co-founder and I work a couple minutes walk away from there.

You are right about preparation time, though you can cut down on prep time a lot if you cook a bunch of food at once and then reheat it when hungry over the next few days. That can actually be even faster than walking to get a burrito on the days you reheat.
You can do it, make it smart but very simple.
Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology.

Watch and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo
Are there any examples of successful companies where the founders aren't flexible enough to expand their knowledge of the other disciplines?

I'm not convinced that a successful team can be built upon a founding team with a technical founder that doesn't understand some sales/marketing and a sales/marketing founder that doesn't understand some code/tech.

For that reason I think this post is marching down the wrong path and is just as wrong as one which would state: "Technical People: Stop falling for 'founders have to sell'".

Obviously both need to be done as they're both pretty critical tasks. Someone on the founding team has to take ownership of each and to function as a team they can't operate in silos.
do you mean that's a bad idea ? why ?
In spite of all the cool features, this update suffers from the same issue that drove me away the last time I tried Textmate: single-character undo. I can understand why this would appeal to some users, but most other text editors undo in bigger chunks, something I've come to expect and prefer.

My original feeling about Textmate overall remains about the same. It probably appeals to recent OSX converts--it's a giant step forward from any Windows-based text editor I can think of--but lacks a certain "Mac-ness" long-time OSX users expect.

Thus Textmate risks falling into a no-man's land: users less set in their ways in the Mac world may settle for the relatively clunky IDE text editors; stubborn old-timers will prefer the more familiar feeling BBEdit.

As for the paucity of updates, let's cut Allan some slack. After some 20 years, BBEdit is only at version 9.6 and vim is only at version 7.3. Quality takes time.