jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There is no easy solution to the problem, but I can tell you that if your standards are already high and strict, adding yet more elaborate screens to vett suitable candidates isn't going to do much more than create more work for you.

The best way to get people is to network. Are you and your developers going to conferences and being active in developer communities?

Perhaps de-emphasizing "php" and emphasizing hardcore functional descriptions of the work you do might attract better people? In other words, is what you really want a "php guy" or do you want a capable developer who knows the core material. Can a competent front-end guy with demonstrated ability become quickly productive in a php shop even if he hasn't work in php? I think so.
I was going to remark that this thing seems to appear monthly, and you guys just preempted me with illustration. So thank you, I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing repeat posting.
I don't see every pirate copy as lost sale, I know most of them won't buy the application even for $0.01.

The problem is the server resources they consume. If I just ignore the pirates and the legit/pirate users ratio continues to be the same, I'll need 5x more server capacity to keep the app running. That's a really big increase in the hosting costs.
Let's have that discussion when it's actually a significant problem, but it's not right now. Every time I load HN I find 10-15 relevant tech articles and maybe 1-2 articles like this. I'm fine with that ratio. Everyone seems to be making a bigger deal out of this than is justified.
The blog post itself has no links sidebar. You have to click on the blog header, and then search for the links sidebar, where there are very small links.

Make some more prominent links, and it'd be great if you had a sidebar with an image of the product and a short description of what it was.
Try getting paid for ur app using ads instead. Making it free this way for the users would be a win-win situation for all. I don't know if this is possible on iPhone and iPad apps or not, but thats how some jar games on my Nokia phone work, so I'm guessing that should be an option for you too. You could post on your app's website (if u've any) that any interested advertisers can contact you if they wish to advertise using ur app :-)
I was an editor at a cryptocurrency news site and i have been approached by a reputation management “SEO firm” before.

I once got offered money to include the given name of a well known crypto startup founder in an existing positive article about him. Because if you searched for his given name back then, it brought you to his previous career photographing underage swimsuit models.

This is what the redacted email said:

>>

My name is Kyle Kilgore and I am with Sharp SEO Services. A client of mine has contracted me out to work on a reputation management campaign for First Last.

To verify what I am doing for First name please contact Mr.Last name and tell him I am working on behalf of Joseph Chinnock for making sure the changes on Google search engine's first page listing are the same for the keyword "Given name Last name” and "First name Last name”

There are just two changes I need done and will be more than happy to pay for you time to do it. The article page below is the reference content where I need changes about First Last:

[link redacted]

The changes desired are highlighted in BOLD text.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(1.)

The title (H1 headers) needs to be changed from:

First Last Talks Newest Company Name Innovation: ***

To read as follows:

Given name Last name Talks Newest Company name Innovation: ***
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(2.)

As well as the first sentence in the first paragraph needs to be changed from:

company name’s co-founder First Last is no stranger to innovation.

To read as follows:

company name’s co-founder First Given Last is no stranger to innovation.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If there is a fee for having you change this please let me know how you accept payments for doing this. Also, if possible, I need to know if this name change gets approved or disapproved as soon as possible.

I appreciate all your help and look forward to your response.

Best regards,
Kyle Kilgore
While I agree in part, at the rate new content is produced and uploaded to the platforms around the globe, could you even fill enough seats with reviewers at an economically-doable rate to keep up?
I would rather use ngrok for these things: https://ngrok.com/

The reason why is because Alan is awesome.
The author mentions how good KDEConnect is, but I don't think one can overstate how cool it is. Having a youtube video on my computer pause when my cell phone rings, and resume when I hang up; use my phone as a mouse on my computer from across the room, or use media controls on my phone to control whatever is playing; (the list goes on and on). It's the first technology that has made me feel like I'm living in the future in a good way.
I find it amusing that you compare to traffic.

Traffic is one of the other things that HN "just doesn't get" because the rules are fuzzy and the fuzziness is contextual.
They are FedRAMP moderate, which follows NIST SP 800-53, so it can't be that bad?
Yup, and you can even have multiple tunnels that are load balanced, so that you don’t even have to fail over.

We have a single API service which is exposed to the internet, and put the CloudFlare tunnel as a sidecar inside the same pods. This way, it’s actually CloudFlare which handles the load balancing, which is surprisingly effective.
Alternatively, one could go with a one-person framework [1]. In addition to Rails, I think Phoenix is pushing in that direction. On the JavaScript side, Remix and Blitz are interesting, though I generally don't like the SPA approach. I don't see frameworks in other mainstream languages, such as Django, Spring, or ASP.NET Core, trying to unify front-end and back-end like Rails and Phoenix are.

[1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318
I'm not bitter. I never expected to win. I am surprised Amazon even puts on a contest with such lavish prizes.

AWS is a low cost way to start an app. They make bootstrapping possible. Therefore, I feel they are doing themselves a disservice by not representing these companies.

I merely wanted suggest a way to include small-timers like myself in this contest. And I did it by being honest about how I felt at the time. Would anyone have preferred otherwise?

BTW, since then I've been in touch with a great guy from AWS who thought my points were valid. Very cool and unnecessary of him. Maybe next year we'll see a "frugal" category. And maybe by then I'll have received funding and not be eligible :)

Anyway thanks everyone who weighed in. I urge all of you to check us out at www.takeoffvideo.com. You can reach me directly at stephenp@.
Sadly, it's actually an interpolation between the headline and everything else that has ever happened anywhere.

When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail; when all you have is political leverage, everything looks like a fulcrum. There is no issue so unimportant that some two-bit con artist on this planet won't try to use it to accomplish his own goals.

Really, the best thing to do is to ignore them, then ridicule them, then fight them, until at last they go away forever. Hang on a tick; something seems awfully familiar about that strategy...
I knew almost nothing about the man, but reading his Wikipedia page (and the article linked above) make me want to know more. Here are some items I found interesting:

In testimony to Congress on why naval nuclear propulsion had succeeded in achieving a record of zero reactor-accidents as opposed to the one recent accident at Three Mile Island:

"Over the years, many people have asked me how I run the Naval Reactors Program, so that they might find some benefit for their own work. I am always chagrined at the tendency of people to expect that I have a simple, easy gimmick that makes my program function. Any successful program functions as an integrated whole of many factors. Trying to select one aspect as the key one will not work. Each element depends on all the others."

From testimony to Congress:

"I do not believe that nuclear power is worth it if it creates radiation. Then you might ask me why do I have nuclear powered ships. That is a necessary evil. I would sink them all. I am not proud of the part I played in it. I did it because it was necessary for the safety of this country. That's why I am such a great exponent of stopping this whole nonsense of war. Unfortunately limits — attempts to limit war have always failed. The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available." Further remarking: "Every time you produce radiation, you produce something that has a certain half-life, in some cases for billions of years. I think the human race is going to wreck itself, and it is important that we get control of this horrible force and try to eliminate it." (Economics of Defense Policy: Hearing before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, 97th Cong., 2nd sess., Pt. 1 (1982))

On education:

"I suggest that this is a good time to think soberly about our responsibilities to our descendants - those who will ring out the Fossil Fuel Age. Our greatest responsibility, as parents and as citizens, is to give America's youngsters the best possible education. We need the best teachers and enough of them to prepare our young people for a future immeasurably more complex than the present, and calling for ever larger numbers of competent and highly trained men and women."
> Why is it okay for phones?

Because phones are not enormous metal machines that could easily get into an accident and kill its passengers.
What's the best way to keep up with modern Chinese culture for someone in the Anglosphere? Is Avocado Toast a big thing among millennials in China? Is there (was there) any Hipster movement in China? To what extent does Western culture penetrate China and what are the latest fads or fashions?
Is anyone born into this position happier than 99% of everyone who’s ever lived?
Already getting spammed hourly by text messages pointing me towards URLs I should click.

AFAIK there isn't much awareness about this leak amongst most of FB's userbase: Less tech-savvy and 40yrs ++.
There's not much evidence that any upgrade actually happened. The photo show someone has managed to desolder the RAM & SSD chips, which isn't really news.

Also, looks like they only upgrade the 8GB/256SSD to 16G/1TB SSD, which is a supported configuration, so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts.

I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.
The canola oil part seems like FUD to me. Of all the oils without taste that is probably one of the better ones. The studies linked doesn't seem great TBH...
We now have a situation were the tax code is intractably complex because of DECADES of finagling by the wealthy and their corporations to set things up strictly and shamelessly in their favor.

Sorry, but I just can't feel any sympathy for corporations and the wealthy who reap massive profit, in part, because they've long ago set up loopholes and laws to avoid paying a fair share.

So what is a fair share? Well, for starters, one that doesn't rely on a 2+ million word tax code and reams of related laws most of which serve to make exceptions for the wealthy.
I think you're missing that github.io is a public suffix but microsoft.github.io or yourcorp.github.io isn't. He finds a publicproj.microsoft.github.io and abuses the fact it shares cookies with privateproj.microsoft.github.io.

I think him mentioning {anything}.github.io not being on the public suffix list is a slightly misunderstanding. While true, it's expected. The same is true for {anything}.com.
AirPod Pros have changed the way I use my iPhone.

More podcasts, more Spotify, more YouTube/Netflix on the phone rather than through AirPlay / Chromecast, and more Siri.

Now if only more of Siri was processed on device (which is slowly but surely happening), I can see AirPods+Siri becoming a “platform”.
That's the first time I've gotten a real answer to this question!

Of course, the available information allows one to believe, not believe, or assign significantly differing severity to these, and I do, but I wasn't aware of this before, so thanks.
In this case, it actually was. That's what makes it such an interesting study. Anyone who touts the Phoebus Cartel as evidence of cartels being good is an idiot, of course.

The price-fixing aspects, not so much, lol.
You should have flagged it. HN is not made for derision.
So, let me guess; you only read the HN title. The substance of the post proclaims nothing of the sort
IANAMedic: I assumed you/a loved one had CF. As I understand it CF creates a thick mucus that blocks the lungs.

But Covid19 reportedly destroys pilii, and the cells that bare them, and when the immune response kicks in fully it attacks lung tissue as well as the virus.

_If_ this understanding of mine is corrext, then it seems clearing the lungs in CF opens them to take oxygen that's there (if the mucus is moved the underlying lung function is still enough), but in Covid19 even if cleared the lung tissue is damaged and can't process enough oxygen from a regular supply; people need higher pressure and/or higher saturation oxygen for a period in order to recover lung function.

Maybe I'm wrong.

It's certainly not wrong to share how you clear lungs affected by CF if you're explicit about any limitations in your knowledge.

As an example of this that seems counterfactual to me -- as a medically uninformed person -- BiPAP, which is commonly used for CF sufferers I gather, at least one critical care source suggests is not really useful for Covid19 (https://emcrit.org/ibcc/COVID19/#noninvasive_ventilation_(Bi... ) treatment.

The problem with suggesting treatments is that people may resort to self-treatment alone and not seek proper medical care; that could cost lives. So I think your analysis is wrong if you're suggesting 'giving advice can't be harmful'.
I don't see how that DOESN'T get broken on the second use, honestly.
Are you planning to have an option that is CPU heavy with 1xGPU for CPU-bound loads? Like a g4ad, g4dn type of configuration?
Bitcoin is not stored on your HDD, or on a local wallet. The "local wallet" simply points (or references) an address on the bitcoin blockchain. There are obviously more details, but you can do your own research.
One sentence has decimated my digital marketing career and I honestly couldn't agree more. I think this has something to do with more than just Google itself though and good old capitalism.

There are heaps of SaaS platforms out there (from my last point of reference there were 2000+ MarTech companies, I would guess double that now) that focuses on; A/B testing, email marketing automation, customer success tools, heat mapping and much more. They have funders who want their returns, one way or another. Which then leads the marketing team of the SaaS to develop growth hacking articles which startups tend to absorb.

As a marketer you are backed into a corner of having to test everything because there are so many articles out there showing us how A/B testing a button from 17px to 18px increased sales by 50%. Or this genius new AI content tool that can swap things around for each and every user to match up with their purchase intent. It's gambling. There is data and some poor calculations that lead you astray hoping for that quick win. You will also find that one 'unicorn' SaaS will also dictate the UI/UX for the vast majority of others out there, look at Intercom which basically has been cloned in design across the board.
I hate Windows laptop trackpads because they seem to interpret everything as a click. Fortunately you can turn that off in Control Panel. Apple's default trackpad settings are good.

EDIT - my new problem with Windows 10 is that it somehow interprets certain accidental motions on the trackpad as me wanting it to move to some sort of strange workspace overview screen that appears to be completely useless and not at all what I wanted.
There are here as well, but I can only think of one brand in an aisle of water that uses glass.
I'm sort of looking for something that will attempt to narrow down possibilities. The way I'd do it is by providing some visualizations based on the user selecting what data types and lengths they're looking for.

So for instance, if I know I'm looking at triangle data, I can guess that it's probably compressed, ask the app to decompress the data based on some common compression types, look at that data and guess that I'm looking at some floats or doubles.

Maybe I'm wrong, so then I can ask the app to search for other data types at that point.

To me, that would be a tremendous help over my experience with existing hex editors.

Edit: It's not fair for me to say there aren't tools that do exactly this, but to be more precise, a decent user experience is lacking in most cases.
you could use analytics such as https://splitbee.io :) ux is great and you can use it without being a data scientist
My tax attorney said that California does this as well. I am moving to a state with no state income tax, but California apparently will push for me to pay their tax since our corporate HQ is in California, even though we have offices in other states and countries. Our employees in those other states don't pay California taxes. The situation can get really muddy apparently.
> ...applying the value investing style. I thought this style is pretty much dead, because market efficiency has increased compared to the times when Benjamin Graham analysed securities by hand

I thouhgt this style is pretty much dead, because the Fed is out of control stimulating the markets. Even purchasing bonds and ETFs. As if they embraced the "stonks only go up" meme.

But what about the US dollar? Hmm...
That's fantastic! Thanks for sharing!
Azerbaijan is also a small country, although it's correctly painted as the bigger and richer of the enemies in this conflict. Additionally, Azeris and Armenians hate each other. So Azerbaijan is too small, weak and culturally different to subsume Armenia.

The big powers in the region are Russia, Turkey and Iran. If you must argue that Armenia should pick a big power to cosy up to, those are the options. Turkey is likely committed to Azerbaijan, but Iran and Russia are willing to play both sides.

Pursuing closer links with Europe and the EU is a fourth option. As the article points out, Armenia has historic links to Europe (although in the same paragraph it concedes that the strongest of those are to Russia, not the Western countries...) and this would be more attractive to Armenians. Unfortunately, it doesn't have much to offer the EU. It's poor and geographically isolated and the EU, which doesn't have unified armed forces, isn't interested in projecting military power overseas.
“You don't need to buy electricity, you can just build your own power plant!”

Sure. You can easily create your own conventional fiat currency too, you just need to set up your own nation.
I'm a matematician, so from my perspective, figuring stuff out without having a clear idea how/if it will be useful doesn't sound weird at all. In fact, it's where most of the fun is!
Python. I adopted when it wasn’t popular and I believe I’ll probably never find a better language for my sensibilities.
Institutional investors did do what people suspect wsb of doing. Retail investors where net sellers of GME during this event. The short squeeze happened because other institional investors went in hard under cover of the WSB memes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/05/gamestop-mania-may-not-have-...
To date, no one has presented any public evidence these spy chips exist: no one's pointed at board and told the world, there, that's the spy chip. And many respected security mavens, including Google's Travis Ormandy have expressed deep skepticism of Bloomberg's claims.

From "The Register": https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/12/supermicro_bloomberg_...
I specifically said the Grimes connection isn't the point being made. OpenAI is in fact influenced by, if not rooted in, Rationalist rhetoric about AGI and alignment: https://openai.com/charter/

Are you claiming it is not??
I'm no Python expert, but I liked doing this in Haskell:

http://www.partario.com/blog/2009/10/a-spelling-corrector-in...

https://github.com/timrobinson/spell-correct/blob/master/Cor...
We are keeping up in terms of manufacturing output.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/INDPRO

We just do it more efficiently, resulting in lower manufacturing employment.

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/USAPEFANA

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/OPHMFG
I imagine when you're talking about a code base the size of the Linux kernal, there is likely something to be said for code brevity. (There is also something to be said for "readable")
The way I see it, the product category we are dealing with here is "internet access."
I agree. I recently worked as an Engineer at a startup for 2 years and helped take them from nothing to large scale. But after n many rounds of fund-raising and no additional stock option bonuses whats my incentive to stay? Founders, don't think that you can maintain a developers interest and enthusiasm in your idea over a period of years w/o some additional cash or options on the table.
So is this because he reads your blog, or because you gave them a ring? Would be funny if it were the former.
I think the problem is that the feedback loop between UTCS and the Austin startup community hasn't hit a critical level. I can't name a single product made by an Austin startup that I've used, while I can think of dozens within a few miles of Stanford. Additionally, plenty of SV startups are within walking distance of Stanford, whereas most Austin startups are at least 10 minutes (by car) from the UT campus and are located in office parks, rather than the open pedestrian environments of University Ave and Castro.
True, but it's more a case of a small number of users resulting in tremendous loss of profits.

Suppose you open a restaurant and offer free bread and some customers come in and buy the cheapest item on the menu and eat $10 worth of bread. It's just not sustainable.
Has someone found the actual cable yet? All the cables released so far have been posted on http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/ but after sorting through them for a while, I can't find the one referencing Google.
Determining sentiment (the topic of the NYT piece) is considerably harder though, because it would allow for spammers to write negative articles about a site and link to it and negatively affect its rankings.

This could be solved by making sentiments act as a weight (i.e. a multiplier in [0, 1]). Positive sentiments would give a particular reference more weight, negative sentiments would give little to no weight. Then it would be impossible to negatively affect a site's rankings - only positively affect them. Just like now.
do is intended to be like do in Arc or Clojure or progn in Common Lisp. It is not supposed to be a loop. Does this clarify or have I misunderstood your comment?
This is a different paper. Did you even glance at the author name? It is from 2010 whereas the paper the article is talking about is from 1964.
Isn't this what branches are for? This seems ridiculous.

I applaud the ingenuity but I think the author would be better off making a shortcut/alias to create a branch from the current head with some interesting name and commit message and commit the changes to the new branch, then switch back to the current one.

One accidental "git stash clear" and this dude's setup is wiped!
Surely such a system could differentiate between a search match and saving the entire document to a hard drive.