jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It has to be first and foremost useful to people. So IMO you gotta fake it till you make it and here here's my suggestion: create 'fake accounts' and start scraping tons of recipes online to populate your site. Start working the SEO so when people show up, it doesn't look like the site is dead.

You have to invest time into the bloggers and try to incentivise then to join your site. You can start by listing the food bloggers that you like on the site (do follow) and slowly build up a relationship with them by regularly commenting on their posts.

Your first 1000 active users are going to be super important and will set the culture for the next 1000000 users. So even if the the current marketing efforts dont 'scale' very well, you still need to put in the grunt work to get escape velocity and some level of critical mass in your community.

How about going to events where there might be many of your target audience present to establish comms with them as well?

While Im at it, I think your homepage doesnt have a clear message. I can guess what the site is about from the food pictures but as Steve Krug says, what make me think?
Wikipedia already does this. For instance, there is currently a list of Australian Dictionary of Biography articles missing.[1]

I maintain a reflist of women in the ADB who have no Wikipedia article.[2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Australi...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chris.sherlock/Australian...
> We see Tesla struggle with this, But, Toyota and Honda have this down to a science like no other manufacturer

A lot of us overestimate what can be done in a year, underestimate what can be done in five and can't even guess what can be done in a decade.

I've heard the exact same sentiment said about the Detroit automakers when compared against a Datsun - unquestionable dominance (or Nokia or Ericsson).

Not to say Tesla will be the winner here. But it only takes another oil crisis for this to snowball in a new direction.

If you want a close enough comparison on how dominance can hurt you, compare what's going on with Harleys in the last 5 years vs what an Indian Scout or a Husky EE 5 looks likes inside & out.
Superchargers are rarer than gas stations but plentiful enough (in the US) for long trips if you mostly stick to interstates. Non-Tesla networks are also rapidly increasing in number.

Also you cannot refuel your ICE car at home or at your hotel while you sleep. This is a huge benefit to EVs that makes ICE range comparisons hard to quantify in simplistic terms.
I think going to the barricades is a much older French tradition and labeling it with the modern "woke" label -does tend to indicate your politics.
Hopefully this is a crack in the armor of the x86 monopoly - after all what is an instruction set but an "API for processors"? The novelty is in how you implement the instruction set, not the actual API that says "this instruction takes A and adds it to B", that is purely a matter of compatibility.
Those are protected by patents, not copyrights.
> This whole thread could be true wrt the Monkey Selfies, but I am someone else's paid monkey and they can definitely copyright the work I do at work.

That is "work for hire." You are the creative author of the code, but since your creativity is being applied at the direction of another, it is that person who owns the copyright instead of you. The Copyright Office has a document to explain how to decide whether or not your work is a "work for hire."

As applied to monkey selfies, it's possible that the human photographer who set the situation up owns the copyright instead, but this wasn't argued in court.
SELECT
address,
name,
position,
population,
security,
government,
allegiance,
primary_economy,
secondary_economy,
updated_at
FROM systems
WHERE ST_3DDWithin(position, $1, $2);

With the aforementioned index:

"systems_position_idx" gist ("position" gist_geometry_ops_nd)
For what i'm after, 3D is the only way to go. I'm building it in unity so you can store markdown, webpages, video and images within 3D space and relate them to each other. (so not really a tool for visualizing a production DB or anything)
Overall this looks great but I wish they wouldn't have eschewed the kickstand from the Surface Pro 3; the kickstand on this thing only have 3 levels versus the amazing kickstand on the Surface Pro 3.

Honestly that's a complete deal breaker for me (not that I was going to buy one anyway but if I was in the market I would not bother).
There is no manager in a scrum. There are only the developers and a product owner to communicate customer priorities.
A {hosting, domain, ssl} company doesn’t have to accept another company as a customer.

What about the hosting company’s freedom of speech rights? If a hosting company doesn’t want to host your site, that’s their decision. If they don’t want to be associated with a site or app or spend their resources, that’s their decision.

These aren’t regulated monopolies that have to serve all customers.

Now, if you want to claim that they should be a regulated market — that’s a whole other discussion.
I would assume that the point of the study is to also quantify the amount of mutations so that future twin-based studies can more accurately attribute differences that also exist between twin pairs.
That sounds exactly correct to me. Apple isn't policing content on Twitter. It isn't policing content on Facebook. It isn't policing content on Reddit. And it most certainly isn't policing content on iMessage.
Do you have a source? I can’t find any myself. I (and others in my family) have owned several Samsung phones and have always been able to install APKs, so this would be news to me.
There's a vast gap between not going along with baseless and unprecedented attempts to overturn a democratic election, and being left-wing.
> But it’s unlikely Signal would choose to federate with any other servers.

Could you communicate with both the federated version and the centralized version? If so, I don't see the issue. If not, why?
In all seriousness, if most people you have met are 'gullible idiots who are looking for excuses to believe nonsense', then it may be you, perhaps, who has 'not met enough people?'
To be clear, we had another peaceful resolution to this on November 3rd, but unfortunately the President refuses or at best refused to accept this.
> Do you really honestly believe that a few hundred people marching onto the capitol has the ability to destabilize the country?

How are we to know? Four years ago everybody was like "do you really believe a senile ex-talk-show host will withstand a round of debate^W^W^W^W^W become the Republican candidate^W^W^W^W become the president? Come on."

Yet here we are.
Yep, I often hear people say their favourite language would be great for scientific programming, it only needs scientific libraries and people to use them. Julia already has those things, they're not easy to get.
iOS on phone is 50%+ market share in the US. I thought the US antitrust laws cared primarily about US consumers, or am I mistaken?

Still doesn't explain why Edge is bundled with Windows and why I can't uninstall it from my PC without going to the system files.
I'm not sure social media platforms will ever settle. I have already seen one round of proprietary IM networks being toppled and replaced with Jabber. Only for some evil bastard to apply a EEE strategy to Jabber and actually succeed, so we end up in the current situation of yet another round of proprietary IM networks.

It is also not a matter of "catching up in functionality and usability". It will never catch up. Proprietary networks can build on top of free ones, but not viceversa. Also, every pseudo-feature introduced by a proprietary network soon becomes mission-critical (e.g. people will say free network X is not "up to the task" because one cannot easily send animated cat pictures with it, in the same way IRC suddenly became "not up to the task").

In summary, it is absurd to wait until free networks "catch up". They will never "catch up", for some users definition of "functionality and usability", and network effects will take care of the rest of users. The only way this works is if users are willing to actually prioritize free-ness and to actually trade off some features to gain it. Boycott closed networks, even.

But that will never happen.
Presumably they start a new process and then exit the current one. `CreateProcess`[0] can allow the new process to inherit handles, etc.

[0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/processth...
You can, to some extent, using the play history API. https://output.jsbin.com/ribat
That kind of sounds like a worse Common Lisp.
> EMACS is a nice editor too, but because it costs hundreds of dollars, there will always be people who won't buy it.

That surprised me too.
Mind if I ask why these functions are laid out entirely differently from almost every other function in the go standard library ?

Yes, I know the Go authors do it too. And of course we know the answer : they're ashamed of just how bad it is, and mask it by making exceptions in the style guide for this specific case. You also left out the type declaration and the actual sorting call. Here's the full code :

type myStructSlice []struct

func (ms myStructSlice) Len() int {
return len(ms)
}

func (sl myStructSlice) Less(i, j int) bool {
return sl[i].MyKey < sl[j].MyKey
}

func (sl myStructSlice) Swap(i, j int) {
return sl[i], sl[j] = sl[j], sl[i]
}

...
sort.Sort(myStructSlice(sl))

And for this trivial example we're at 15 lines of (properly indented) code. You also have polluted the name space with one-use names for types. Is it really so hard to believe that this easily explodes to 30 lines of code for real life examples ? The Less function is not going to be nearly as simple in real life struct examples (natural sort + field precedence).

Compare to the same code in Java:

Collections.sort(theList, (SomeType s1, SomeType p2) -> p1.field.compareTo(p2.field));

D:

sort!("a.field < b.field")(theList)

C++:

thelist.sort([](const someType& a, const someType& b) { return a.field < b.field; });

So Golang is 5x more verbose than Java in this instance. This a particularly bad example, but that Golang is actually more verbose than Java is not an exception in my experience.
This title got pruned back too far; put the word "Free" back into it.

HN pro typosetters: some expert critiques of these faces --- particularly the ones that aren't just offering a teaser weight, and aren't display faces more appropriate to deviantART than a magazine --- would be awesome. Are free typefaces improving, starting to break out of the foundry system?
Another good article about mathematics education, by William P. Thurston, a Fields medalist:

http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~mustopa/thurston_edu.pdf
Add "inurl:pagewanted=all" to your search query.
In the places I've worked that were large enough to actually have names and levels and whatnot, manager/non-manager was always a totally separate dimension from job level. You could easily have a level N engineer being managed by a level N-1 manager. A level N engineer becoming a manager produced a level N manager, it was not a promotion.

So I've never seen how becoming a manager means going "up."
Article leaves out the very real and very big catch:

"Israel values its security, and pays for it. According to an analysis by Bloomberg News, Israel spends around 10 times more per passenger than the United States does."

A little more on that:

"[An analyst] estimated El Al's security bill at $100 million a year, which amounts to $76.92 per trip by its 1.3 million passengers. Half is paid by the Israeli government," Peter Robison wrote. The United States, in comparison, spent in 2008 $5.74 billion to monitor and protect 735,297,000 enplanements, or around $7.80 a passenger."

The TSA system is a production line - hire cheap unskilled labor, and train around a process and manuals.

In the USA the Israeli version would be very difficult in addition to very costly.

That doesn't even take into account the question of the uproar the system would cause with the suggestion of racial profiling.

References via:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a...

and

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/07/would_you_pay...
Just use R -- the stats support is IMO the best in the world and it has very high adoption amongst stats grad departments and practitioners of statistics. The visualization tools work well -- I've written about basic plotting tools, but if you're just starting in R, skip the built in plotting tools and just use ggplot2. It allows you to build astounding graphics.

Of course, any of this is a time investment, but I'd say the only alternative is Matlab - S-plus is stupidly expensive and no better than R, Stata is a pain for any sort of automated processing, SAS is overpriced by an order of magnitude with a hideous learning curve for functionality that lags 10 years behind R, and Mathematica is brand new to the market. Let someone else work out the kinks.
Great article, really. The hard ones are the edge cases. If you can answer these questions in a clear-cut way then you probably already know whether freemium is for you or not, if you're on the edge the only answer is probably try and see where it leads you, stay flexible and you might be able to push an edge case in to a 'yes'. But be prepared to do a lot of work.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/Handbook+Freemium <- shameless plug.
It's an interesting paper that I intend to dig into more carefully, but I kind of wish that a paper "for the Working Programmer" used a language like Python rather than Haskell. I'm aware that Haskell has a very nice type system for doing things like this -- and I'm a language nerd myself, so It's not that -- but it just seems like it would be more practical in something more "mainstream."

That said, it is interesting from what I've read so far.
That's quite perceptive of you. I hope more people look at Google that way. I especially hope Google management looks at it that way. I think this perspective always gets lost on people both inside and outside Google when they talk about Facebook overtaking Google, or when they fret over Google not making big in the social networking space.
> R has some basic visualization libraries

If you include CRAN packages, then this couldn't be further from the truth: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/

R can be made to produce beautiful visualizations.

Edit: here's a link to the top-voted thumbnails of R visualization: http://addictedtor.free.fr/graphiques/thumbs.php?sort=votes

IMO, since it can be scripted from the command line, it's high time Gnuplot died a graceful death.
> Potty training is also something that differs widely between developed nations and rest of world.

And between kids. My daughter just up and decided at around 18 months or so that she was done with diapers and would use the big girl potty. Not one accident. My son was more apathetic about the whole thing, and it was sometime past his third birthday before he finally started using the toilet to poop in.

The piece of advice that stuck with me ... don't bother trying, they'll do it themselves when they're ready, and you probably can't accelerate it.
Ah, now I get that. Adding my two cents on this discussion: if there is a profit motive for any modern basic human need (food, shelter, energy, communications, healthcare) it should be very well regulated to protect society. It may sound paternalistic when seen with a neo-liberal eye to it but I have developed a firm belief that neo-liberalism has utterly failed as a societal experiment to move us forward.
Thanks for the link.

It's absurd when any party imposes political-correctness social engineering policies on companies about who can participate on their boards. It may sound and feel "good" or "progress" to implementors, but it merely continues racial and gender discrimination in different forms, doesn't heal society, and is ultimately intellectually dishonest. It's curious how often racism "doesn't exist" when it primarily harms white or Asian (unless it's about Asianness) people and sexism "doesn't exist" regarding straight cis men, and anyone in these groups who mentions it is a different form of unfairness are "racist," "bitching," "entitled," or "not checking their privilege." Can't we get to the point where we're friends and calling each other ethnic slurs jokingly-ironically (this was a case internally at a UK startup in Victoria, and the vibe with all sorts of people in our motley crew was family. It was unintentional, unplanned diversity because we hired the best.)?
It's not military. It's private weapons development company. There's no payload, so they do not need to notify commercial airliners, and it's a classified project, so they cannot anyway.

They are testing hypersonic missile systems for both ABM and warhead delivery.
People who don't use HTTPS apparently. :P
Another Linux datapoint, X1 Carbon 6th Generation, daily use.

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning: 0x00
Temperature: 35 Celsius
Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 25%
Data Units Read: 22,242,132 [11.3 TB]
Data Units Written: 74,693,212 [38.2 TB]
Host Read Commands: 540,582,518
Host Write Commands: 1,857,635,922
Controller Busy Time: 5,131
Power Cycles: 884
Power On Hours: 3,497
Unsafe Shutdowns: 261
Media and Data Integrity Errors: 0
Error Information Log Entries: 882
Warning Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time: 0
Temperature Sensor 1: 35 Celsius
Temperature Sensor 2: 37 Celsius
The average cost of all their btc is like $23k
I think it's trying to say "by being known as the Bitcoin guys, we'll get free advertising for our existing products!"

I don't believe it, though, as all I know about MicroStrategy is they're betting on Bitcoin.
Interesting... Why has this mechanical transmission setup persisted so long in American Navy ships? Perhaps it is more efficient? I would naively expect it to be more expensive, require more maintenance, and be less flexible than a diesel-electric setup like trains use.
My partner has a ReMarkable 2, I have an Ipad pro 11. I got mine earlier and thought writing on it was pretty good. But it's not even close. ReMarkable feels 90% like paper, it's crazy. Ipad (at least without one of those paperlike screen protectors) isn't even comparable, it very much feels like writing on glass. She loves it (for her PhD), if you take a lot of handwriten notes it's amazing.
Haha, fair point! I'm the droning Englishman giving the presentation. If you'd rather read than listen, check out the http://darkpatterns.org - it's a public wiki that I curate. Here's the definition of Dark Patterns from the site:

"Dark Patterns are User Interfaces that are designed to trick people. Normally when you think of bad design', you think of laziness or mistakes. These are known as design anti-patterns. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind."
I just finished reading Bill Carter's The War for Late Night. The book recaps the Leno/Conan saga. I thought it was excellent. Lots of little lessons in there too, believe it or not. Not on the list, but highly recommended.
Oh I don't know, I tend to disagree. I think he found a way to get into a college that he'd otherwise be unable to attend.

Did he go too far robbing other kids of scholarships because he lied? Perhaps, but I don't think it's as black and white as "he lied."

Had he gone on to graduate, he'd be lauded as a hero.
That's a really crowded space. If you don't already have a killer feature or user base, your time is probably best spent elsewhere. Digg clones are a dime a dozen.
To be honest, I think that boat has largely sailed.

There have been so many similar sites since Digg. Not just Reddit, but I think a large portion of that initial fanbase are now loyal HN users - if not Redditors or both.

I would say look for the next trend, or innovate on a new way to experience news rather than trying to copy Digg/Reddit.
Instapaperandminimalistambientsounds. I like it!
Is it like readlang or different? Do you have anything online I can check out? email me if you want.

(Background: made a rails6 app for learning vietnamese and it looks similar. my main problem was to nail down the text to match the student’s level).
I'm not sure I'd call any of these billion dollar ideas, but some of them are interesting nonetheless.
I now have two left if anyone wants one
I agree there are some parallels between ad-blocking and piracy (though they do tend to be in the realm of the "piracy = theft" idea rather than copyright-related parallels).

However, I think it's also important to recognize that by similarly-strong analogy, advertisements in general are inherently a sort of mental manipulation or brainwashing.

Now, I'm not saying that mental manipulation is inherently a bad or evil thing. When I'm writing this post, I hope that those reading it will become in some way more mentally accepting of my point of view. But I think we don't look enough at how susceptible we are to advertising, and how much advertising depends on exploiting cognitive biases or implying untruths that are not explicitly stated.

We (humans) are really bad at not being affected by advertising, even if we know we're being advertised to, and even if we know the ad is deceptive. When sites depend on ad revenue, they're saying "We're offering this content for free, but in exchange we want to be able to bias/prime your brain so that when you see Product X, even far in the future, you are more likely to desire it." That's a very powerful thing, and while it's certainly necessary for many business models today, I think we should think of this as a "necessary evil."

There are sites where I disable ad-blocking, often in response to a genuine plea on the part of the website. If it's a site I particularly care about and feel that I trust, then I allow ads as a way of helping them out. But if ad-blocking is piracy, then ads themselves are brainwashing -- exploiting failings in human cognition to unconsciously guide people into actions or purchases that may or may not be optimal for them -- and with the subject having limited defenses against it once infected.
Does Spain have an equivalent to the UK government's "forced marriage unit" ( https://www.gov.uk/forced-marriage ), an agency whose job is to help people in this kind of situation?
The program stops when nobody has enough pieces to force a checkmate. In three tries, I've seen that twice, and one rook/pawn checkmate. It's a nice Javascript demo.
In my experience you do get a better programmer as you add IQ points. In fact I think that the technical interviews for software companies are in part measuring general intelligence, although in a programming context. As people rightly point out, you are very unlikely to actually need to solve the kinds of problems they ask in these interviews while on the job.
I'm desperately wanting this also. I found that you can have unlimited nested _tags_ but the UI just doesn't support tags as first class citizen and doesn't have convenient way to move notes between tags while showing hierarchy (for notebooks I'm doing Ctrl-Cmd-M all the time).
This is an area which I've personally experienced, having spent the first half of my school years in Europe, and being a few days shy of the cut-off point for being held back another year, I was always the youngest in my class (I guess on a large enough population, it would mean that similar kids are the smallest as well, on average).

Later on I switched to a southern-hemisphere school, which was out of phase by 6 months, and I was all of a sudden roughly average age in class. Not that it had a huge impact on me, but it was noticeable, which probably means it has some effect on average.
I guess if we empty the oceans, and cover every inch of the earth with tree, it might work.