jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I totally hear your heart behind these posts. See my other response to you.

This isn't really a binary situation; we were friendly with our goats, but our dogs were practically members of the family.

Having said that, I'd have no trouble raising dogs for food if it made sense, and if we liked the way dog tastes, which we don't. Which has all kinds of cultural relevance.
Does anyone know of any good WebAudio based looper apps ?
https://www.simplybuilt.com
Trees are not that bad in Rust, it's when you have a cyclical structure that Rust is really difficult.
This blog post answered a lot of questions related to the internals, allowing me to make a better (real) comparison between SQL Server and PostgreS.

For all of these issues he pointed out it is simply done differently in SQL Server and suffers none of the stated pitfalls. Well, you can't get the source code, and it is not free.
I think curent zeitgwist is that you can't tell if someone is trolling or is bonkers! Otherwise,-I appreciate it.

Never been to US myself, but fair enough.
The close button takes you home from any other page.
> And that we need to tap the wealth associated with providing iPhones and cheeseburgers and handbags..

Well, we could do that by adjusting the income tax rate and capital gains tax rate.

That is going to my central point here, the outcome looks a lot like an income tax, except instead of targeting rich people we're targeting the systems that support people who eat cheeseburgers and think iPhones & handbags are signs of being classy.

You're describing a world here where resources are directed towards healthcare and I'm pretty sure the rich aren't actually going to give anything up from their lifestyles. Where are these resources coming from? It is better to stick to CGT and income tax. And a land tax if you want to soak the rich.

Maybe the low hanging fruit of stopping the printing of money and giving it the the rich too, most everyone agrees on that point in practice.
I'm learning rust myself this year, I have to say the book - The Rust Programming Language - is not very well written, in comparison, from what I've read, The C book and C++ book and Go book are way better, and unfortunately the other two books I found - Programming Rust and Rust in Action - are not updated yet, for the 2018 edition, to be clear.
The solution for artists and writers is to work consistently. Obsessing about whether or not you're "in the zone" isn't productive. Instead, just get started, work every single day on your field. Seinfeld had a calendar and he had to write an X on every single day after he wrote jokes. I don't see why any high-functioning individual in any field couldn't learn something new every day.
I feel like saying "after you!". What's that Google? No phone number? Oh...
If this means the government's moving everything to Wordpress...
Remember your competitors are people too. They most likely have families and bills to pay. A polite email would go along way.
@nacs Thanks for your inputs. Will fix asap !
"Incidentally, PCI-DSS 3.0 went into effect today, so anyone using Heroku for commerce became non-compliant today!"

Can you elaborate a bit on that? Thank you.
Report to whom? PCI isn't a law.

If you want to use this as a selling point when engaging his current customers, I see nothing wrong with that. If you offer greater security than he does, it's fine to point that out.
Location: Europe

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unlikely

Technologies/Skills: Growth hacking, marketing, sales, IT, telecoms

Résumé/CV: upon request

Email: d at mesoconcepts.com

I help startup and small business owners get more sales with less efforts.

I do so by focusing their marketing efforts on qualified leads, and by automating their sales process. The practical steps I introduce them to reduce their costs (by not chasing random traffic) and increase their revenue (by improving their conversion rates.)

In addition to this business savvy, I’m gifted with a wide range of in-depth IT and telecoms skills. I can draw on this varied expertise to lead an interdisciplinary team to execute every step towards launching, growing, and managing a product. In a staff-constrained startup, I can also fill in many positions. In particular, I can sell to businesses small and large, write marketing copy, engineer software, or mine a database.

Among the colorful highlights in my career to date, I’ve been put in charge of designing an SDSL startup's network while still an intern, and I've turned a personal blog into a 4,000-customer strong business while globe trotting.

I’m open for short consulting missions and long-term opportunities.
http://zhen81.com/

Low-cost, self-hosted PHP-based applications for small businesses that can't afford expensive enterprise systems. Built the first system (CRM) to scratch an itch, and it sold a few copies as soon as I put it up, so have expanded to other applications as well (ticketing / issues, documentation / wiki, HR / timesheets, etc).

Doesn't fully pay the bills yet, but making decent side income, and I'm hoping that one day it will be enough business so I can work on this full time.
As someone interested in functional programming and compilers, I recently tried to use GHC's intermediate output. However, I got a little disappointed about the documentation that's available for compiler writers. From what is essentially a research compiler, I'd expected a little higher standards, also in the department of available tools, and examples. In other words, the experience came too close to what I would call "hacking".

Furthermore, the "Core" language is, I believe, for many purposes, more complicated than necessary (e.g., it is typed). It would be nice if there were a simpler alternative, e.g., for small projects.

Of course, I could be wrong about this (perhaps I looked in the wrong places), but this is just what I noticed.

Besides this, of course, Haskell is a cool language, and GHC an awesome compiler! :)
Imgix is a image web hosting service. I’d assume that anyone wanting to use such a thing would be perfectly at home using a web browser.
Honestly, I thing a dozen Nim users should band together and register at Wikipedia to turn the vote the next time someone tries to delete the article. If the deletionists come with formalistic arguments, just synthesize a few articles on sites that fulfill their WP:RELIABLE criteria. There's got to be somebody working for a commercial (read: non-blog) website who doesn't like deletionism and would post a small article on Nim (or any other topic suffering from the same problem) just to stick it to them.
The user reviews your site and writes HN-like comments about it.
>Yes and no. Here the Rockefellers, Fords, Kennedys seem to be doing pretty well. None, I suppose has the clout of the previous or prior generations, but they aren't out on the street.

Sometimes the appearance and trappings of wealth—social connections, grand houses, an important name, legacy at ivy league schools, etc—can last longer than the money itself. Obviously these can set people up to have great success on their own, but they can also simply mask to the outside world the fact that the family fortune has been diluted among great-grandchildren and squandered by a crazy uncle and a couple of divorces gone wrong.
The economist is taking the position of the buyer (not maker) of software -- the prototypical business that buys a CRM tool to manage its customer relationships.

Seen as a good that increases the productive capacity of a company or the economy more generally, it seems software very much is capital.
I don't think that projects actually attract serious contributors by moving to GitHub.
I think you have a very, very oversimplified and course view of this topic. Nice hook though!
Another example of good use of share issuance would be AMC. They have been raising a lot of capital during the pandemic through share issuing. Saving their business.
What’s left unsaid is that not just the CEO, but every manager down the line has made it clear that it’s okay to toss the blame down the line.

Every individual contributor in that company has just learned that they need to cover their ass for any action that could possibly go wrong.

The cultural outcome is that accountabilities will be spread across managers so that blame can’t be assigned to an individual.
Did you read the article? This is not the usual story of the Kickstarter that didn't deliver.
i meant a cli tool :D but thanks
This might be the right audience for this little vimrc tidbit:

"Press space to highlight current word
nnoremap <silent><space>
\ :let @/='\<<C-R>=expand("<cword>")<CR>\>'<CR>:set hls<CR>

This works just like *, except that it leaves your cursor where it is. You can then use n/p/whatever as normal.
Humility is a dwindling characteristic in modern times.
This can be easily bypassed by cross referencing contact lists on the backend.
So, question.

Does China afford people and companies the same ability to “not work with the FBI” that the United States does?

Because at the end of the day, Apple is following US law by refusing to freely hand things over. That’s what warrants, etc, are for.

In the US we intentionally make it theoretically hard for law enforcement to do their job so they’re theoretically more likely to get the right person if the full flow of law enforcement, all the way through the courts with capable, well-funded and appropriately timed lawyers are allowed to do their jobs.
Anyone who is into your project can be a boon to you. The challenge is up to you to figure out what s/he can offer. Even if it's just beta-testing, even if it's just someone to bounce ideas off of, even if it's just talking the business up to their friends, everybody has something to offer.

Secondly, imagine you're talking about someone who is willing to learn programming, with your help. Even someone to just do HTML wireframes. If you spend 20 hours teaching them and over the course of several months they then independently do work that would have taken you 35 hours - that's still a net gain for you.

Part of being a boss is figuring out what other people's skills are and how you can fit them into your team. If they're enthusiastic about what you're doing, you're far, far ahead of Cubicle Corp which has to bribe people into working for them.
Yeah, it's coming back to me now. Thanks!
Finish school. Get a university degree in software engineering. Work hard to become a great software developer - this will be the foundation upon which you will be able to build your future ideas/startups.
The most profitable iteration of such?
Many years ago, I had a friend who was trying to schmooze her way into a development position hoping to "learn on the job." Anyway, she was stunned and even angry that she was asked technical questions during the initial phone interview.

Before hearing her story, I was skeptical that anyone tried to pull this crap. She's now in a field (marketing) where she can put her slyness to more use.
Scores are as follows, all latest stable releases: (edit: incorporating other responses)

OSX stable builds:
Chrome: 288 +13
Opera: 258 +7
FireFox: 255 +9
Safari: 228 +7

OSX dev builds:

Windows 7 stable builds:
Opera: 258 +7
FifeFox: 240 +9
IE9: 130 +5

Windows 7 dev builds:
IE10 PP: 130 +5

Linux stable builds:
Chrome: 273 +13
FF 3.6: 155 +4

Linux dev builds:

I'm surprised that firefox scored as (relatively) poorly as it did, although I suspect lack of support for closed formats had something to do with that. Similarly, I'm a bit surprised at Safari's poor showing given Apple's insistence that "HTML5 is the Future".

I'd be interested to see similar tests on Windows/Linux, with ie9 in there. Also, it'd be interesting to see how the beta/dev builds rate.
Chromium on Linux scored 276 and 13 bonus points.
Blinkist is a great tool for book summaries. We summarise lengthy articles, TED videos too. Plus are pro packages are going to be much much cheaper.
You're right. Content is content and there's no difference between content about social responsibility and any other content. We may be making a big mistake by trying to limit ourselves to the topic of social responsibility.

We did that because social responsibility is the issue we want to tackle. And we thought that providing the tools to that user group is the right step.

I definitely see everyone's point.
Stack Exchange has private offices for their developers, and it seems to work well enough for them. They wrote an interesting blog post about the how and why: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-i...
http://calebmadrigal.com/passion-not-spent/
Isn't this similar to blinkist?
I've been reading a lot of Aleksa Šantić for the past few years, but I haven't seen any translations to English that really do him justice (not that I've been looking for them).

Last night, returning from the warm hamam
I passed by the garden of the old Imam
And lo, in the garden, in the shade of a jasmine,
There with a pitcher in her hand stood Emina.

What beauty! By iman I could swear,
She would not be ashamed if she were at the sultan’s!
And the way she walks and her shoulders move...
-- Not even an Imam’s amulet could help me!

I offered her salaam, but by my dīn,
Beautiful Emina would not even hear it.
Instead, scooping water in her silver pitcher,
Around the garden she went to water the roses.

A wind blew from the branches down her lovely shoulders
Unraveling those thick braids of hers.
Her hair gave off a scent of blue hyacinths,
Making me giddy and confused!

I nearly stumbled, I swear by my faith,
But beautiful Emina did not come to me.
She only gave me a frowning look,
Not caring, the naughty one, that I am crazy for her!

This entry contains links to articles explaining some of the more archaic words:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emina_%28poem%29
Twitter at the core represents an ideology. Pravda (of yesteryear) represented an ideology.
> They wouldn't say do this or you'll go to jail. They would say do this or we won't give you a giant tax cut.

"Won't give you a tax cut" translates to "pay us a percentage of your earnings, otherwise we will throw you in jail." So, I'd like to disagree here and say my original assertion was accurate.

> Negative externalities should be regulated to some degree. Otherwise we could have a tragedy of the commons situation.

I am not convinced this applies here. Solar panels over the parking lot sounds like a solution to an invented problem. Parking lots are not harming the environment. If Samsung is paying for the land, they should be able to do whatever they like on that land as long as it doesn't harm someone else.

This sounds like the typical anti-car communist mindset that I've seen many times over here on hn, which I find highly weird. Cars are probably the best innovation humanity has done in the entire history of the species, and I guess people are triggered by that fact?
What are you exactly excited about?

It's just minor difference to me except it doesn't work well.

Not sure what the laziness was about from RedHat on podman development.
Also could easily be mistaken for "hash".
Ah ok. So just building a separate email system and calling it "secure" without actually doing any crypto. Nice.
touché. Right on my face.

So that helps answer what I was thinking.
There can definitely be a way to have a decentralized system to which it's actors have their actions regulated by a judicial system.

Thanks!
This was a long time ago. RTM was called a "hacker" in the headline of a 1988 article [0] about his potential links to the worm that now bears his name. Since the word isn't used in the text of the article, we can't know it was considered a bad thing. Still, the headline seems to speak for itself.

[0] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2531758/portrait-of-an...
I totally agree that there are questionable studies on both sides. That said, I’m not aware of any studies supporting sleep training that don’t have glaring issues.

I also agree about La Leche League being a biased source. I only posted that because it includes references to a broad swathe of the research on both sides all in one place. I don’t endorse the post itself.

It would be cool if someone compiled a big google doc of what’s out there. I should have done it back when I was in research mode, but at the time I didn’t know what to think and couldn’t have anticipated becoming an anti-sleep training person. Before diving in, I was the one trying to convince my partner that it’s ok. Seeing all the research changed my mind and, honestly, left me horrified that this is the advice pediatricians are giving to new parents.
Do you have any preferences regarding a direction to simplify web development, remove some of the complexity introduced with client-server separation?
Sell the money makers. Keep the propaganda.
they better plant some trees in real life too or we'll diverge from canon
I do a lot of work in the ultra-pure water filtration industry. Given that this has been a recurring problem, I'm surprised that trucking in extra water is more economical than recovering and reusing waste water. It's also amazing just how much water and especially ultra pure water is consumed - about 2,200 gallons of which 1,600 are UPW for a single 30cm wafer.[0]

[0] https://www.chinawaterrisk.org/resources/analysis-reviews/8-...
I have no idea. I usually tell them I'll consider it if I get to keep 80% instead of 20% and then they disappear heh
Instant mobs? Serendipity? Fascinating idea...

It's only doable with extremely high volume search traffic. Guess what, that's exactly what Google has.

Some way of chatting with other people who are searching for the same thing as me would be like a extra-real-time Quora.
Deciding on and Idea

I think you meant "Deciding on an Idea." Right?

[EDIT] Also... Derek Sivers muses this question should properly be written, "...muses on this question."
1. It is much easier to raise money in the Valley than any where else--certainly. However, based on what I've seen from Open Angel Forum, you can raise money in Seattle, Boston, Los Angeles and Boulder almost as easily, and at a similar (maybe -10-25%) valuation.

2. Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin and Boston specifically have a lot of angels and not a lot of great companies in my experience.

3. You will give up some cross-pollination, yes. However, you will experience less turnover and competition for talent. The best thing an up and coming startup could do in my mind right now is move to Seattle, DC or Boston.... there are so many amazing developers there who want to work at a kick-ass startup. If Twitter moved their HQ to Seattle right now they would get a flood of folks from Amazon, Microsoft, etc. to join them.
That argument sort of answers itself.
After all, in his 26 years he’s done more than me or Calacanis TOGETHER will ever do. To detail:...

When they opened it up for questions after Zuckerberg spoke at last year's Startup School, Scoble stood up and asked (I'm paraphrasing) "I see you walking around the Facebook headquarters often with other employees. Can you explain a little bit more about what you talk about with them?"

His question bothered me for two reasons:

1) "I see you often" was unnecessary and it screamed I'm important

2) At the time (and now), there was a lot of discussion about Zuckerberg's ability to lead Facebook. I think Scoble was trying to get Zuckerberg to tout his managerial skills to the audience so that he could change that perception. If it was more subtle it may have worked, but it was so obvious that it wound up being insulting. I think Zuckerberg realized this and wisely avoided answering the question.

Scoble seems to view himself as Zuckerberg's mentor, which may or may not be true, but something about the way he writes about it always puts me off.
I have lots of friends who went to Stanford and did CS/CE/EE and absolutely loved it. I visited occasionally and was extremely impressed with their ability to merge Business (real world) with academia. Most schools don't do this well.

Also my favorite Quake server (kitty1.stanford.edu) was run from a Quake CS Lab :)
Many of his DVD commentary tracks are packed with similar info. Spy Kids 2 hardly references what's happening onscreen and is one long discussion about his creative process. It's great.
First part of title from this essay: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/06/death-by...

I'll also note that the high deductible insurance plan model has up to now been one of the best ones available for startups, although it doesn't address the not so healthy who need a bigger pool of one sort or another (private or public) to spread out the risk and/or costs.
Listen to the show sometime. The guy actually does a pretty good job of doing the research, and is willing to admit when arguments "disproving" conspiracy theories don't work.
Because tours are not online?
More to the point: would The Beatles ever have bothered to make Sgt Peppers given its preclusive relationship with live performance (which in this 'model' would be how they made most of their money)?

(incidentally, I too have zero interest in attending concerts for most types of music I listen to. I'm not interested in buying T-shirts either)
Don't go to Purdue. Whatever you do, avoid it at all costs for CS.

Yes, you will learn Java. Yes you will learn compiler design. But you will not learn ANYTHING about real world programming and you will find very few people with an entrepreneurial spirit.

If I had to recommend schools it would go in this order:
1) Stanford
2) Carnegie Mellon
3) Anywhere in NYC (only because you are exposed to the opportunities of the city, regardless of school)
Is that bad? The ease of getting a vaccine needs to be enough such that it's not a burden to do so. Once that's achieved, 23% effective is actually quite a good benefit, given that those 23% also fail to infect others and improve our overall herd immunity.
>In particular are comic cases of when companies fail to secure things at all and then someone gets prosecuted because they "hacked" that company and "stole" that data.

<devil's advocate>If I leave my garage open, and somebody takes my golf clubs, is that not theft?

Yes, the potential punishments are disproportionately harsh.
Yes, the company is silly for leaving data exposed.
No, it's not ok to take data because it's unprotected.
Here's the obligatory reference to Feynman's biographies.
To compare a 1.3 or 1.5 liter engine making well under 90 HP to a 2.0 or 2.5 liter engine making 150-170 HP and saying "both 4 cylinder" like they are the same engine is disingenuous at best.

Combine that with the fact that the modern car is probably 1000 pounds heavier (as well as much taller) it's very obvious where the fuel mileage has gone.
Making the CFAA apply more broadly and criminalizing hacking behaviors that are currently misdemeanors will have the following effects imo:
1. As stated in the article, restrict legitimate security work and creation of useful tools.
2. Glamorize becoming a hacker for the misfits of the world. ( It's a criminal behavior; you'll get underground respect for doing it... )
3. Drive hacking further underground ( this is like suddenly making weed illegal again in places where it is currently legal ) More crime will result.
4. Cause me to release code I write under an alias through multiple proxies in combination with Tor.
Oh yes my friend. Just last night, I was watching clips from Wall Street and Money never Sleeps, and Boiler Room, while listening to Rick Ross & Nas' song Usual Suspects:

We're the usual suspects,
The real definition of success,
Throwing money cause I can and I love it,
From nothing, to something..."

What's your story?
"Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi."

A very simple observation, but so true, and so common-sense that you would almost overlook it.
If you actually spent 15 minutes to audit these picks you'll realize its a massive failure.
This is exactly why I hope, in the long term, that HTML5/6/whatever marginalizes apps. Technical and editorial control over what we read and write is just too much power to invest in any single company, however well-intentioned.