jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
i think he means it more along the lines of the "unfortunate" meaning of the word.

and it is, kind of. it doesn't seem to fall in line with HNers expectations of articles. there isn't any content. it is just a "lol look at this" submission, which doesn't typically float to the top here because of the nature of the community, but will at reddit.
See also: http://www.penisland.com/
except whereas Virgin was about being hip and cool, Zappos would be about offering the best service.

According to Branson's autobiography, that was Virgin's initial brand ethos too.
The video introducing Dreamweaver's new "HTML5 Pack" extension ironically only showcases its CSS3 capabilities:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/adc-presents/introducing-the-dream...

According to Wikipedia, the colloquial use of "HTML5" actually means "HTML5 + CSS3".
That's a really good point! You'd get to re-discover all the cool stuff... thanks :)
From the video, it looks like their target audience would be excited by a tagline reading:

Digg v4: now with more Facebook!

The styling, the focus of the UI, wow. I mean, sure, it'll probably work, but yikes.
I found the "Little Schemer" an enjoyable tour on exorcizing the power of lisp. Depending on how far down the rabbit hole you want to go there are a plethora of information in various AI memos as well as the READscheme web resource with the original LAMBDA papers (readscheme.org) which most certainly worth PRINTing if anything to get primed for SiCP.
There's a little work in this area, but it looks like people have just scratched the surface. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1149800
Yes. Never use split(",") or equivalents to read or write a CSV, always use a library. Otherwise you'll get a nasty surprise next time your code encounters a line or row separator in a value.
Couldn't agreed more. After seeing the first "Video conferencing" tool with spatial audio I was so excited. This excitement got lost instantly when we had our first online christmas party. Being able to hear everyone clearly and loud is not a bug its a feature.

IRL I can change my focus on someone further away without moving at all. Only if Im really interested in that other conversation I will start moving.

A pre-listen feature on mouse over would be awesome.

While I'm still fascinated by the technical aspects imho theres still a lot of room for improvement in the implementation. But its great that there are so many projects tackling this problem and improving online get-togethers
Growing up in poverty and seeing it all around you will do that to people. It's not a special thing that Indians only possess.
All to sell ads.
Cigarette smoking causes about 480,000 deaths per year in the US alone. Does Facebook have a body count?
He is suggesting a solution - self governance. Trust the people to make their own decisions, because there is no better alternative. What else can we do, have some committee that decides what the public is allowed to hear? That is fascism.
You just made a listen of unsubstantiated lies. Trump and his team had dozens of opportunities to provide ANY evidence of ANY of these lies to many different judges and they failed to every single time. If the full power of the Executive branch and an army of lawyers can't find evidence to show to judges, what makes you think any of the lies are true?
I've moved some group chats to discord and have had pretty good luck with it so far.
"they sift through all of that crap to find the few good stories."

Wouldn't customers be a better sifter than the publishing industry? Word of mouth and discovery? Samples and free reading demos (like Barnes and Noble does when you go into the store with a Nook)?

And, for every published nugget, there are tonnage worth of published muck and runoff polluting the shelves; their filter isn't so great either.

"If you want to disrupt the publishing industry, you need to develop an alternative solution for helping people figure out what is worth reading (probably not too difficult) and and alternative solution for developing the skills of writers (much more challanging)."

The publishing industry is plenty disrupted by the fact that eBooks are now 30% of their entire market in copies sold and is the format with the biggest share (2nd place is mass market paperback). Amazon sells more eBooks than paperback and hardcover. And, an increasing number of self-published authors are finding their way to the top 100 on Kindle and Nook paid eBook charts. Some self-pubbed authors have multiple titles in the Amazon top 100, meaning they sell at least several hundred of each of their titles per day.

As far as developing professional writer skills, you're ready for the business the minute you've made a sale and perhaps a fan. The idea of the minimum viable product (MVP) in the professional writer's world is akin to the dime novel or "penny dreadfuls" of yesteryear, where some of the greatest genre writers (Raymond Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Edgar Rice Burroughs, HP Lovecraft) started their craft with generally bad writing. Believe me, nothing says "welcome to reality" like getting a godawful review or even a return (which you will see when you self-publish through markets like Kindle, Kobo, and Nook).
orgmode for emacs (http://orgmode.org/) is a swiss army knife for note-taking. If you use emacs, you owe it to yourself to take a look. If you don't use emacs, take a look anyway; I know more that a few people who adopted emacs so as to be able to use orgmode.
Every time I get on a plane I wish I had an Air, but it's just not justifiable. Not only do I have and use my 8GB RAM (Photoshop, Parallels, browsers, Rails + large test suite), but the peripheral ports are critical. I don't think my Time Machine backup would ever get off the ground without the initial Ethernet plugin, not to mention the times when the DSL goes out at the office I can just plug into the hardline normally reserved for our Mac Pros. Also Firewire is another thing that may not be needed every day, but hurts bad when you don't have it (need to transfer a couple GBs between Macs quickly? Compare to wifi to Firewire Target Disk Mode). Even the SD card reader is quite handy. I'll leave the optical drive out because honestly that would be fine as a peripheral (although I do salivate at the thought of a top-tier 64GB SSD boot drive + 1TB data drive in optical drive bay).

I do have a bit of Air envy from time to time, but then I count my blessings that I live in a time where I have a portable workstation that I can use as my primary machine and carry from home to work every day. That is amazing in and of itself.
I'm glad that you think it's useful! I'm going to try to rework the foods box in the next few days to have a bunch more foods. I thought I fixed the spillover, but hopefully changing the whole thing will take care of it.
Save the pedantry for execution, not micro-managing equity splits. To me, job No. 1 is keeping your small team happy, united and focused. I don't think you maintain the camaraderie necessary when you're tossing 5% and 20% bones to people who did this vs. those who did that. IMO, people who come in at roughly the same time should get the same stake, assuming they're equally focused on the task.
IQ is not a measure of intelligence, just as measurements of facial features is not a measure of beauty. It's qualitative, not quantitative.
It's not even a DMCA request. You just fill in a form and claim infringement, without even having to authenticate who you are. So, I don't see this as following any sort of "fair" process that gives the other side an opportunity to challenge or object.
I have noticed a similar graph on Twitch viewership - you hover around 1000 viewers for a year or two, and then suddenly start gaining hundreds of viewers, and in just a few months, you may have doubled your numbers.

Congrats on your success!
You've missed my point. If you gave me 20 Billion dollars and several years later I gave you 1 Billion back that's not a 'profitable' business proposition, even if you write that Billion up as a yearly profit.

Can you find anything to suggest that the XBox project as a whole is in the red or black for Microsoft?
Is a shortage of apps a major concern for Apple?
Bugs can exist within a coding session. I consider that a normal part of the development effort. You think of some change you want to make. You make it. If you discover you made a typo or overlooked some issue and thus it has caused a bug, during your dev-testing, you fix it. Once the desired change is done, working as intended, with no bugs, that change-sprint is done and commited to your VCS. Then you end the dev session or advance to the next desired change. The key is that when your dev session ends, and when you are just wearing the user's hat, there should be no bugs. In my experience, bugs can be found usually quickly and easily within the same coding session that introduced a new feature, while the code and your recent change are all fresh in mind, and you are in The Zone.

That was a good heuristic you suggested, but I think it applies to situations where a bug survives beyond the end of a development session, accidentally.
Yes it was a real question, and I note that you've failed to answer it.

>I think you're underestimating the number of existing businesses who have .NET at their core, in which case the question is what justifies moving off of .NET? In my experience .NET can be - while not as hip - a very solid framework.

I wanted to know why you'd deploy on that platform initially. Of course if you're already fucking using it, you're probably not going to switch.
To quote Ricky Gervais, "It's funny, because it's racist."
That reminds me of the book written by W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis, where he is consulting with a US auto manufacturer, and the manufacturer asks a similar question, "When will we catch up with Japan?" (paraphrased).

Because of Japanese continuous improvement, or Kaizen, it is difficult, if not impossible to do.

As long as one is constantly improving, the others cannot catch up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
The dystopia is in that it's become not so much a society as a machine. A cog is not discontented with its position in a machine, but much like the cog, it's difficult to truly consider the people in Brave New World alive.

I know it's a bit of a value judgment, but while happiness is hardly something to look down on, I find it difficult to believe that it's the only end worth pursuing.
So what's the alternative? I don't think the author is offering any ...
"yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt light bulb to run and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

Make fart apps.
Am I missing something? Why not just use Google Voice?
Assuming Evite got a registered trademark on their name, then they should be able to stop you from doing anything using your domain in their trademark class(s) in the US. Presumably, your project is related to event listings/invites? They can probably stop you from using that domain in the US...or any other countries they have registered it in, for that matter. (Even if they didn't register the trademark, which is unlikely, they have been using it in interstate commerce for quite some time while you have not, so they would almost surely win in court or in an ICANN dispute.)

I think it's a weak domain/name that is likely to be confused with them anyway...I'd find another name to save the headaches and let them have it. You might ask them to reimburse you for your actual domain registration and renewal fees. If it is <$1000 they might pay, because it takes about $1000-1200 to seize a domain anyway.
Twitter comments don't pay the bills.
Let me add (cynically):

1. When nothing else works, copy the examples and proofs from the text. Over and over again, thinking about what it all means, writing out the intermediate steps.

2. Hunt around the internet for classic and introductory texts on whatever, if you need it. Just like Cliff Notes, dont tell anyone, but use them anyway. Take your prof's recommendation of "introductory" of introductory with a grain of salt.

3. Brown nose the grad students and ask their advice about teachers and texts. Go with their consensus above the profs...

4. Put in more hours than anybody, but always get enough sleep and save three hours a week to excercise, and make sure you eat decently
That won't stop people from expecting it and emailing you about it.
Often I have wished my texts would show up on my computer screen. Texty does just that.

I've been using it for a few weeks and it's totally awesome. It's threaded, syncs with my phone, and is essentially instantaneous. Honestly one of the few killer apps for Android.
<insidejoke>MOSS_DOS!</insidejoke>
"It's that they (the stereotype) are so inherently driven by self-gain, so you always have to be wary that they won't use or backstab you."

Yep, I think it is one of the flaws of "legacy" MBA courses. I bet this is to blame for the high CEO pay problem.
It seems contradictory to attribute savings to owning your own tools when you admit you are not using the same oil. The dealer probably doesn't use the same filter either.
user may be Chinese national, but name calling ("brainwashed") probably isn't the best way to encourage the sorts of open dialogue that will be necessary to change their views
Ah, my heart. It was sad for such a long time and I just didn’t know what it wanted.

Reminds me of my son until he was 1 year old(ish).
So YC's own China-version startup effort flopped basically.

It's at an awkward time per se, nobody wants to get serious business started now at current climate, which could be the beginning of a sea change policy from what has been here for the last 3 decades between US and China.

Techstars etc have lots of offices in US and Europe, how about YC expanding to NY, Boston, Austin first? That will help US economy and foster some local startup ecosystem as well.
> They could probably implement the Win32 API as an API for a distro

I'm no sure the powers that be at Microsoft have any great love for Win32.

Back when Windows 8 was released they introduced UPM (Universal Windows Platform) and that looked a lot like an attempt to actually kill off Win32.

They only backed away from this strategy after the backlash they got from Win32 Windows developers.

Move on to today and I think they are now using platforms like .NET Core 3.0 to gently move developers away from Win32.
Are people on Earth safe from GRBs?
I kind of wish they'd deploy a posse of geniuses to support.apple.com to address some of the more prominent issues with thousands of "I have this issue too" upvotes.
Except most customers are stupid, so you have to be careful with that, too. If you accept customer input uncritically you get design by the biggest possible committee.

There is not nor will there every be a substitute for good judgment.
It's more correct to say that this is an economic bubble (look at academic cost inflation), within a larger societal change (the form of education is going to be massively disrupted).

It's not like the classic investment bubble since the investment in completely illiquid outside of purchase - making it a one way market. Also, education's affect on the majority of the people wasn't as beneficial as they were led to believe - therefore the "collapse" of this bubble won't kill those who've invested. Instead, it's going to hurt those who are directly/indirect selling assets into this one-way market: school, publishers, etc. when the population decreases demand.

In the mortgage crisis there was a sell-off bubble, but here this isn't relevant since there was never the possibility of liquidity except by extra "rents" generated by getting better jobs.
Isn't a podcast, by definition, not live?
Or, if you want Guy Steele's opinion, every call is essentially a goto and should be treated as such. Thinking about function calls as graph traversal instead of a call stack allows you to do any call without any unnecessary variables.

http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...
Markdown > HTML

Just sayin' ;)
> Give real code

Yes!

Also if possible provide both imperative, maybe python, and functional, maybe haskell, examples.
I bought an iPad2 the other day, the apple shop girl seemed pretty shocked that I had never owned an apple device before and even more so that I had never used iTunes. I might have showed her my £10 phone but that might have been too much for her.

As far as putting music on the iPad, I am not sure if I will even bother. There are plenty of cheap mp3 players which don't require converting wma files and itunes hastle.
If you put your photos on Facebook, they will probably be available forever. They will certainly be available for your grandkids' lifetimes.
Strange Loop is the one I'm excited for
This https://github.com/hugo53/awesome-RemoteWork would add more information for yours.
A quick look at two of the companies' hiring pages for various positions reveals no use of the word 'remote' (Khan Academy and Automattic). May I ask that some evidence be presented in your companies list that testifies to the veracity of your claim that they allow remote employees?
What's fascinating about the progress of science is the discovery of hidden laws that govern our universe. Discovering how the weather works doesn't mean it arrived by accident. We both know that laws don't and have never had creatorial powers. Governing laws are defined by a creator before/during creation, and are discovered through observation. So the laws of the weather, among others, were waiting to be discovered. But they must have been set by someone.
So, at some point, the people need to be made aware of the efficacy (or lack thereof) of the policies enacted by the politicians they vote into office. How do you propose we make that happen? Because otherwise you're asking everyone to place absolute trust in people who you've already admitted will lie to the public as part of their job.
I'm not sure it's possible to argue someone into enjoying a work of fiction.

I explained why it didn't work for me. Any work of fiction- the successful ones, anyway- will always be about people. If they're too different of a people (genetically engineered out of their humanness), then people simply won't enjoy it.

There's a reason that there are virtually no popular science fiction novels where the protagonist is an alien that has a completely different value/mating systems to us. I got like a page into a story about an alternate history of Earth where birds resembling jacanas (a species where the females are behaviorally like the males of other species and v.v.) were the intelligent species on the planet. Then I realized that no-one could ever relate to or care about my characters. They were just too alien. That isn't to say there can't be great fiction where the conflict between alien races is over that difference, like 3 worlds, (Ender's Game comes to mind), but the point is always to reaffirm what it means to be human. You just can't do that if the humans in your book are alien.
Just to be clear, this is a double standard based on your priors.

Vote No propaganda is bad because unions are good.

Vote Yes propaganda is good because unions are good.

If you are not convinced that unions age good in the first place, then it all falls apart.
Just as it’s not possible to provide “Lawful Access to Encryption” (master keys) without weakening crypto, it’s not possible to “quickly and easily add your own custom programs without asking permission” that _also_ provides the safety so your mom or grandfather don’t install something that allows crooks to drain their bank accounts.

General purpose computers are great for people who know what they’re doing (although there are some _really_ good phishing scams out there that can even fool trained people), but they’re an absolute disaster for the vast majority of people who _don’t_ become specialists in computer security.

I _just_ had a support ticket opened by someone who goes between different stores for a client…and this man sent his password in the clear in the support ticket. This man isn’t an idiot, it’s literally _not_ in his job description to be a computer security expert (his job has to do with hardware sales or lumber or something like that).

This man would be better served with two things we’re building later this year (AD integration and an Android version of the employee app), because then he can just log in with the same (probably simple and insecure) password that he uses for his Windows log-in at work. He is the type of person that, when told to do something, would simply install program X because someone told him to do so (never mind that program X is actually malware).

So no, while I think that Apple’s signing restrictions are a little on the draconian side, I don’t think that that Windows 95-like “permissions” are what most people want or need.
And to those who point out "China, Taiwan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand were able to suppress COVID through lockdowns", it's important to note they were able to nip it in the bud, before community spread had become established. This does speak to the effectiveness of a drastic lockdown, combined with travel restrictions, in eliminating COVID if there are only a small number of infections, and we should commend those countries for being able to do so. However, if you don't lock down very early, lockdowns don't seem to be able to control spread enough to eliminate the disease, only to somewhat reduce the infection rate, and even a successful suppression of COVID spread in a country will fail in the long term if travel restrictions are not extremely strict (see the EU).

In other words, suppression achieved through lockdowns is an unstable equilibrium. Only herd immunity, ideally achieved via vaccination, produces a stable equilibrium for suppression.

Similarly with global warming, while we may be able to temporarily reduce emissions, at significant economic cost, via political and sociological solutions without new technology, this reduction is an unstable equilibrium. The only permanent solution - the only stable equilibrium - is via technological means (cheap renewable energy and carbon sequestration).
I worry that eventually the major investment firms and banks will demand that in order to buy or sell securities you must have a license, and only a licensed securities trader is able to do that. It would be horrible for the day traders and companies like E*Trade but it’s possible.
How exactly are you using the lightning network without an initial transaction to charge up your metaphorical gift card?
John Gruber has been around too long for like this to appear on his blog, but then he is not the writer of this article and probably doesn't much exercise much of an editorial influence.
Wait, with http2 a webbrowser never closes the connection it has to a webserver?
Incentives in my opinion leads to Goodhart's law [1].

In fact, I will go a step further - most incentives are chosen by well meaning people. There is neither malice nor incompetence going on. What happens is that every incentive can be perverted, and will be perverted over time. Over time, then that incentive, that was once chosen with good intentions, becomes perverse.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
But people almost invariably don't need BTC to transact with people they care about (the number of people with BTC denominated payment obligations is relatively small, and most stuff that can be bought with BTC can be bought with other methods). And as flawed as many exchanges may be, they make cryptocurrencies very interchangeable, especially compared with phones.

Blackberry actually did have a proprietary messaging system, it just wasn't anywhere near enough lockin because most people used Blackberry for other reasons, the non-proprietary messaging layers were actually better and Blackberry's popularity turned out to be nearly all down to being first in class.
monopoly == evil
Wow those are big numbers! I'm training for body re-comp (I'm fat, I want to be muscular with some endurance) and my numbers are half that.