jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
FYI, kiva is a scam (in as much as the company is incompetent) that primarily props up predatory lenders in other countries
I don't think anybody yet knows.

Note that it could also be negligence and fraud. For example, they might have discovered the losses early but hushed them up in hopes of making it up later. That's a classic way massive financial issues happen.

However, the transparency of Bitcoin only helps if it's used that way. There have been proposals to develop approaches so that anybody can externally verify an exchange or "bank". But as far as I know, MtGox hasn't released enough information for other people to verify their story.
top of HN = leak well done = planned? maybe.
I particularly like "...strengths that did not raise animal body temperatures excessively." No sense microwaving the rats to death. For a 70kg person, that exposure (using the rat scale, 105 - 420 watts) for your entire life. Vs a cell phone which has an effective radiated power ERP of about 1 watt[1]. So somewhere between 1% and .25% of the power.

Cell phone signals fall off with the square of the distance so the bulk of the power of a cellphones RF energy that you are exposed to comes from the handset.

[1] "Meanwhile, the total power emitted from the cell phone itself ranges from 0.75 to 1 watt. According to the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), this is an acceptably safe amount of power for a cell phone since their cut-off or specific absorption rate is only 1.6 watts per kilogram (W/kg). As a result, the power radiated from a cell phone is considered as non-ionizing as opposed to ionizing." --
https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/EbruBek.shtml
Well I hope I understand that. However, widespread obesity is a relatively recent problem. I'm not convinced that human bodies somehow started to work in a very different way over the span of just a few decades. The amount and compisition of what we place inside those bodies did change though.

Overcoming the urges and impulses would require a certain amount of effort and self-control, but don't other positive changes in life do? To become stronger would involve regular and fairly intensive exercise. To get that better job may require extra studying and less going out. To save for that vacation may require restricting your spending. My approach would be the same in general: set a reasonable goal, formulate the plan, follow the plan. If something is not working, try to find the reason and adjust your goals or plans.
That reminds me so much of the article about the guy who fluked the highest ever recorded Scrabble score.

Oddly enough, I THINK (I'm not looking it up, and if I'm wrong, let me believe the lie) the first word he dropped in that game was 110 points as well.
Colorschemes that use italics are hit-or-miss for me. Sometimes I prefer to use Terminus which doesn't have an italic typeface, but vim will try and emulate one horribly. (Or when using DejaVu Sans Mono at 9pt (?) because the lowercase 'd' has it's tall part cut off when in italics causing it to look like an 'a')
pg wrote an essay about this method of idea creation, found here: http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html

I tend to agree with this method most strongly. The first goal of any new product/service is to find a small group of passionate and dedicated users. If you can be one of them, you've already got a head start.
I guess it depends on what you are farming. Where I grew up the farmers grew commodity crops like wheat and soybeans and did mostly take the winter off. Sometimes they'd have a 2nd job as a pee-wee hockey coach or something like that.
Yuck. I hope it's a rolling average (i.e. the average from the last 30 days). My account is 1368 days old! How the heck am I supposed to change my average in any significant way?
Do I put it in a bag and bring the bag?

If theft's that big a problem then yes! Seriously, that's several hundred dollars-worth of gear you're leaving out in the open, all for the sake of two minutes of convenience.

I think my point about false sense of security stands as well - how much do a pair of clippers cost against the value of your iPad? Again, if theft issues are that bad, it won't be long before someone notices that your iPad gets frequently left behind during the day and that it's a 10-second job to cut and steal.
"The designer met with each of the original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and convinced each computer manufacturer to add a small, security slot in their laptop designs. Compaq was the first OEM to incorporate the Kensington security slot in 1991."

http://uk.kensington-press.com/news/article.aspx?id=232&...

The also are very open with the details, not trying to charge a licensing fee or anything:
http://us.kensington.com/html/1356.html
"Reality" is the key word here. The more programming you do, the more you'll know your limitations.
The iPad is the ultimate bathroom device. Take it with you! Then all you need is an iPad condom to keep from contaminating it.
The article paraphrases the situation as if they bought the first search result, when all they really did was buy a targeted ad at the top of the search results.
"I think you're making part of Zed's point - better than he did, in fact. There are no famous car/guitar designers, cell phone engineers, or construction workers either. "

There are famous car/cellphone/guitar designers, (I am not sure about construction workers!) but they (like programmers) are famous within their communities. Even Linus would probably be better recognized by a programmer than a non programmer I think. There are also many many programmers who have contributed to the Linux Kernel and don't have that kind of celebrity. I see this as perfectly fine way for the world to work. Zed seems to expect (or crave) something else.

I agree that engineers of products are often unknown (as people) to their consumers. As other people pointed about that is almost the definition of how a product works, except in very rare cases.

I was addressing Zed's (implied) expectation this state of affairs was somehow surprising, unexpected or bad, and worth bewailing. At least that was the vibe I got from the post.

The idea that we should (in some normative sense, in an ideal world) know the people behind the products we know "better than we know the products" at the risk of being "second class citizens" was what I found bizarre. He takes an obvious truism - most normal people don't know much (or anything) about the creators of the products they use - and then goes off on a rant on how he still gets asked "meaningless" questions for his job interviews. What I was trying to say (no doubt I could have written it down better) is "But that is as it should be".

"People like Linus, Carmack, and DHH aren't famous because of their code - they're famous because of their products."

I mostly agree - except that a good part of their products (or their leadership position on their products or "fame" ) is or results directly from the code they wrote.

" even though I'm completely non-famous - my meager contributions to the open source world have opened a lot of doors and given me more credibility than I otherwise would have had."

That is my experience too.
Jeffrey Law, Richard Kenner, Mark Michell, Ian Taylor.

That wasn't hard. I apologize for any misspelling, as I went by memory. On the other hand, I don't know the names of any startup founders more recent (or less successful) than facebook.

I believe Hacker News attract a certain non-typical brand of programmers, if they are more likely to know about "VCs and term sheets" than about who made their tools.

Of course programmers are rarely famous (for programming) outside their profession. That is a fate programming share with just all but a select few professions.
In that case, most celebrities arguably aren't famous. All people know is a fiction and nobody knows who they are.
I prefer to think that he has an entire closet full of that same shirt, like superman or bugs bunny.
Hadn't seen this one before:

http://www.cs.northwestern.edu/academics/courses/325/reading...

Useful stuff in there.
I don't know how you'd get that from what I wrote. I don't know how to respond without repeating myself, as nothing in your post indicates where I lost you.

Fundamentally the problem is a "lack of exposed forward planning". I'll believe they're interested when they have a docking station as an effective means of switching between desktop use and laptop use and stop suggesting that people spend 60%-70% more in hardware alone per person by purchasing both a laptop and desktop.

Either that, or they'll manage to get their philosophy so engrained that immediate cost is trumped by some other value proposition.
Mozy will indeed work for the scenario you described. I easily have over 100GB of photos and 300GB of home videos and have had no problems. When I purchased my Mozy account, it was for unlimited data (not sure what it is now). Syncing of new data is transparent and works very well (though sometimes I've had 5000 small mozy_temp files in my TEMP folder that never got cleaned up). Restore from Mozy will not be fast but they do offer DVD burning service at a decent price. Mozy has an online login but don't expect Dropbox.com quality browsing. I also use Dropbox for personal documents and it works perfectly fine with Mozy.

If you're adding 50GB/month, that's at least 1GB of upload per night. You'll definitely have to have a good internet connection. I haven't had any network speed issues with Mozy personally.
Congratulations, Perl 6 developers. You are beginning to catch up with Django. (See http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial03/ if you think I'm being sarcastic.)

Once upon a time, Perl was the de facto language for web development. Then there was a bit of falling out between the web-centric folks and the server-centric folks; resulting in PHP. Perl, as a language for web-development, never really recovered.

I find it kind of sad that it took over a decade and a half-hearted attempt at rewriting the language before the server-centric folks are even beginning to understand what the web-centric folks were talking about. :-/
By "cramming" most people mean the kind of studying that enables you to remember information for one or two days, which would not result in good AP scores. Are you sure by "cramming" you don't just mean "intense studying?" If you and your classmates got good AP scores, then you must have understood most of the material well enough to retain it, since you would only have had time to cram a small amount before the test.
I would amend this to something more like: find customers first, then build the thing they want in simplest way that satisfies their needs.
Yes. It's spectacular.
You can buy a docking port for your Macbook.

http://www.bookendzdocks.com/Docking_Stations-Docking_Statio...
KP decided to pass. Why? "Silicon valley had stopped believing in games," KP partner Bing Gordon tells us.

I doubt that's the only reason there was to pass on Zynga. I'm sure Pincus gives off an odd vibe even to the money jaded sand hill road crowd. At some point, surely, a company segment can be defined by how they do business instead of what business they do. Just look at various multilevel marketing firms that are defined by MLM instead of their end products like beauty.

If Zynga could be just as defined by their techniques - such as offer based revenues, don't innovate only copy, or abuse your users - as they can be defined by being in gaming - I wonder how fair it is to say they were getting passed over for their niche. And maybe KP would have been right despite leaving money on the table - surely at some point % return isn't the only metric. I'd assume that even if heroin became legal tomorrow they wouldn't be investing in heroin pushers at elementary schools.
> that housing

That's sort of the problem though - "that" housing. If there were more housing, if it were not the zero-sum game that it is in SF, then it would be less of a problem.
The shortcut's E h(X) = ∫ h(x) f(x) dx. So, math.
no, when I read "try" I thought the book isn't finished. And of course Elon is what 40 years old. He's not really cooked well enough for a true bio yet. So I'm also not ready to buy the book yet.
Steve Ballmer is the perfect example of why a business person should not run a software company. The opinion that "Steve knows how to make money" is a poor indicator of a successful leader. Microsoft has alienated developers leaving only enterprise developers to create boring interfaces for users causing many personal computer users to find something more aesthetically pleasing (OSX/Ubuntu). A company based solely on making money is like a marriage based solely around sex and benefit to social-status. If you're a .NET developer and this offended you; good. Money != happiness
> What this could do is make the same electron package work on different OS without rebuild by using a portable browser binary.

Likewise for non-GUI apps, like command-line utilities that are implemented with NodeJS. As prior art, Fabrice Bellard's QuickJS is able to compile JS programs to spit out a native binary that requires no external qjs runtime. If you modified it to output Actual Portable Executable binaries instead, it would be even more portable than the programs installed with `npm install`.

I've done some experiments and progressed to writing tooling that approaches that I-want-ridiculous-portability problem differently. It doesn't use APE, so it still requires a separate interpreter (such as NodeJS) capable of executing the compiled output, but the object files it outputs are such that even if you don't have a copy of NodeJS installed on your system (or the right copy of NodeJS installed), then you can piggy back off the interpreter built in to your browser. You get a similar double-click-to-run experience, but when you do double-click to run, it launches in the browser, and you can go from object file to modifiable source trivially, since the object file and the Git repo from which it is built are automorphisms. The downside, if you consider it one, is that it doesn't work with arbitrary NPM modules. You have to really buy in to the scripting language dialect and the development philosophy to get anything out of it.

It would be interesting the use the QuickJS+APE strategy above so that there is _no_ reliance on an external interpreter, at the cost of marrying yourself to x86 and introducing some small hurdles in the path to modification and also giving up the safety of the browser sandbox, since you're back to running arbitrary executables.
I can second caprover. Personally I find it easier to use than dokku. The admin ui is quite nice.
No I didn't assume that, I fully agree with you. Funds which are capable of consistently (and safely) beating the market on an absolute basis eventually cap their AUM and return outside capital.
No, his bet is that these products which provide exposure to hedge funds for retail investors are not worth it. If he wanted to bet against hedge funds in general, then the bet would have been constructed like that (i.e. average performance of funds which aim to beat the market).

> * It's reasonable to be skeptical about any fund having a goal that's anything other then maximizing long-term returns.

I really don't think it is. If I'm a sophisticated investor, I may want to invest in funds which hedge against tail-risk, or provide broad exposure to some specific sector, etc. Neither of these things are about maximising returns relative to the S&P500. There are strategies with negative expected returns in the long-run, but when added to a portfolio can improve its returns. Portfolio construction can get very complex.
From my experience nomad and other hashicorp tools required more learning how to use all the pieces together / figuring out edge cases / debugging.

K8s was definitely easier to setup.

I feel like nomad is appealing to people who don't really need orchestration but feel like they do.

It's perfectly fine to run apps with just docker. I have small projects on the side which are just a couple of servers with docker: one nginx container pointing at a few docker containers containing some services.

Once my needs grow, I'll just roll them over to k8s.
Yup, rate of change, the same reason hot water freezes faster than cold water ... maybe http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/422/which-freezes-f...
It is simply not possible to "jump in front" of trades, except by offering a better price. If you place your order first, it will be filled before my order unless I outbid you.
I can't use my scrollwheel to navigate this page. Thanks for reminding me that I didn't really need that feature!
The reason I don't think that will happen here is Wit's pricing model - it's completely gratis to use, with the proviso that your commands and associations are public. You cough up cash if want that to remain private.

As long as new users are using Wit, Facebook continues to get value from the product. Closing it down wouldn't gain them much.
Ah, didn't catch that, my bad.
Not yet, not at scale.
Wow - totally cool - you've definitely gone wild with this! Reminds me of a quote I read from the great weight-lifter Vasily Alekseyev, who talked about what he called the "white zone", and how amazing it was, and how you would work for years to get into it again.

I totally agree about the continuum - for the most part it is so strange from ordinary experience that it seems like a binary shift, but yes, I think it is important to see it as a continuum (perhaps a bit stepped/quantized, but not sure).

Fascinating that you managed to get there with the tapping game doing speed drills. I often had ideas but it was before common MRIs and other technology that we had for examining brain functions at high resolution. That is something you could get into an MRI, and/or an intense electrode-sensor grid and measure! So, yes, I'd think some funding might be possible. I know academic funding is it's own labrynthine nightmare, so probably best to be in a program supported by an experienced professor/primary researcher who knows the ropes. OTOH, if you can get to show some results that improve performance, perhaps approaching some top pro sports team owners for funding? (I know if I were a billionaire with a team, I'd be interested in something that could give us an edge!) The question is whether you can generate useful results soon, and in what sport. You seem to have made a lot of progress in eSports, there might be some money there... Let me know if you're interested in chatting offline (is there a DM function here to exchange contact info w/o publishing?)
> But it doesn't happen enough for it to be worth setting up an entire bureaucracy to prevent it

But perhaps it would happen vastly more if that bureaucracy wasn't trying to prevent? I don't know, but I suspect there are an awful lot of people who would commit fraud if they thought they'd get away with it.
I could be wrong, but it is possible that fraud is low because of the bureaucracy
It speaks poorly of some on HN that you would be downvoted for making this argument, which is based on well-known, documented facts. Are there Intuit shills lurking this site?
No currencies are "stable" inflationary, deflationary or neutral. Stabilize means that volatility reduces, not ceases to exist.
I am a non-expert in the exact semantics of C and C++ layout, but as far as I can recall off the top of my head, they do not, because the general semantics are "lay out the struct in the order as declared, add padding for alignment reasons, done."

Whereas the semantics in Rust are "we can do whatever we want unless you add an explicit #[repr] attribute, in which case you choose the semantics of layout and we don't mess with it."

It's not about the strength of the type system, it's about history.
Or you could use any of the far cheaper options for international payments (Transferwise, etc)... why do cryptocurrency enthusiasts think that all international payments need to be done via Western Union?
Many craftsmen do not get the tools they could wish for.

Your craft is your personal responsibility; you use your tools, they don't use you. So, your product is the result of what you do, not what your tools do. Limitations of your tools leave you with greater responsibility to ensure results that satisfy whatever standard you work to.

Blaming your tools for bad results tells people much more about you than about the tools.
As long as it stays "Hacker" News, I think the audience will stay small enough and comments will remain to be mostly high quality.

If it branches out into "Cat Video News" and God knows what else then we may be in trouble.
> All this does is change the location where a judge may issue a warrant.

This is patently untrue based on a reading of the document. This proposed amendment also changes the command "must give a copy of the warrant" to "must make reasonable efforts", which seems to me to be a bigger issue although others seem to be ignoring it. Basically the courts would like to say, "well, we aren't really sure how one leaves notice of service electronically, so, whatever, we won't actually require it."
"Wikileak's job is to take people's secrets and show them and who's hiding them to the world."

Here we see the again the conflation of organizations and individuals in an opinion piece connected to Wikileaks. Why does this happen so regularly?

I don't know anything about Appelbaum, but it's perfectly possible that he believes in personal privacy and institutional transparency, a not particularly radical, surprising, or unusual stance which would resolve this "conflict of interest" perfectly.
I should certainly hope so
There really is no point in trying to "build a business" when you don't even know your idea is even remotely feasable

Exactly. And a large part of the problem is the way people approach this by trying to find a "new idea." Most businesses aren't new ideas, they're either copycats (nothing wrong with that) or fresh approaches to existing ideas.

A social network for dogs is something that you can't know is feasible before you try it. OTOH a timecard app for remote workers almost certainly is feasible and its success depends on your execution.

If you want to start a business, solve a problem a business has in an interesting way. If you want to build an app, build the most amazing thing you can think of and forget about how to make money with it.
Don't set off to build a business for the sake of building a business, build something for the sake of building it and then see how it goes.

How come?

(I personally don't think there is a right answer here. At different stages/situations, I have done both: set out to build a business and set out to build an app. I am just intrigued by those who believe one is inherently better than the other.)
DHH doesn't lambast side projects, doing things for fun or even giving things away - Rails is the obvious proof of that. DHH lambasts the weird aversion we software guys have to charging money for things.

Absolutely build apps for the fun of it, feel free to scratch your own itch, but if you build a useful product, try charging money for it before you give it away for nothing. If nobody wants to pay for it then you can always GPL your code and hope for the best, but releasing software under Free licenses by default robs you of big income opportunities.
I think this gives one a good feel for the relative accuracy of amateur engineering on the Internet. Lots of people post as if they're experts, but most are way off. A few people have something of a clue, though.
The problem with this article, as with Rands' "Nerd Handbook", is that it's impossible to get the extroverts in your life to read it. They're too busy socializing and Facebooking :)