jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
John Doerr is clearly a visionary, but it seems he's trying to play catch-up with the likes of Fred Wilson's USV, Sequoia, Benchmark, Accel, etc. as Kleiner has taken a backseat when it comes to recent hot deals. His enthusiasm is almost a marketing tactic to get entrepreneurs excited about the iFund and sFund (further marketing attempts to generate interest, vs. having their main fund focus on social and touch-screen technologies regardless of having specific funds that should do that).

John Doerr is clearly a legend, and if anyone can race back to the top in this current "bubble", it's him.
Steve Blank has a nice series of posts on the history of Silicon Valley:
http://steveblank.com/category/secret-history-of-silicon-val...
demo: http://addyosmani.com/resources/coverflow/demo/demo.html
I agree with you, which is why I pointed out asymptomatic diseases (a tacit nod to the fact that they aren't causing any symptoms for these people at present moment).
Well, I've read and re-read this comment hoping to glean something useful, and all I can gather is that you find familiarity to Ruby/JavaScript programmers to be the chief selling point of a language, and that you expect Erlang to be effective in heavy data processing applications.

> The build tool was not immediately apparent, and it
> seemed like the community had still not settled on one.

Hm, there are a handful of projects that try to get by with essen's `erlang.mk', but the community has settled pretty well on Rebar. Even essen's projects include a rebar.config because that is standard for distribution and dependency specification.

> The repl is pretty shit compared to every other repl
> I've ever used: ruby, python, clojure, scala, etc.

That's a strong claim, could you elaborate? Because to me a REPL that includes the usual bells and whistles (code reloading, good autocomplete, fast startup) along with job control, the ability to connect to remote systems, and being uncrashable is a whole lot better than "shit," and in my experience is miles ahead of, say, `lein repl` or even the wonderful IPython.

> I don't think the rest of the world goes out of their
> way to find awesome uses.

"Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang" disagrees. Indeed, that book's author claims that Erlang is the language for representing "thinking" systems.

> its inability to market itself as letting you move
> faster and break more things.

Huh? That's the core of Erlang's value proposition from what I've seen and any "marketing" efforts focus on Erlang's robustness (that said, nobody should be specifically championing "break more things"). Going way back into Erlang's history you can find "Erlang, the Movie," and writings by Armstrong that emphasize hot code reloading, the system's ability to recover from any error, and the VM's support for incremental improvements in software without downtime.

> environments that get people "most of the way there"
> without having to learn a totally alien ecosystem ...
> Erlangers will argue that with Go or Scala you may get
> some of the features of Erlang, you don't get the whole
> package.

Systems you mention like Go and Scala have their own considerable strengths, but they're just not comparable for the applications at which Erlang excels: Highly reliable, low-latency (soft realtime) systems written at a high level. At the same time, Erlang is slow and provides none of the assurances a statically-typed language offers. I can't imagine an experienced engineer seriously considering Go for a project that requires Erlang's strengths, or vice-versa.

What I gather from all of this is that Erlang isn't a fit for your high-throughput data processing application(s), and that you've somehow conflated this with a "marketing" failure on Erlang's part or that Erlang's goals are not focused. But Armstrong's message about what Erlang is good for has remained consistent for decades now.

As an aside, if your Ruby/JS guys didn't take to Erlang, I'm not sure why you expect to get far with Scala. Go seems quite popular with the Ruby crowd and sounds like a strong fit for what you're doing.
It is no coincidence Ronco is the most coveted Angel in the Valley - he epitomizes integrity. This value is the most desired aspect an entrepreneur will strive for in finding early stage investors. We, especially in the early stages of building our company, need people who will do the right thing.

I remember one example of Ranco's unyielding integrity:
http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/09/24/angelgate-ron-conway-...
I think it will automatically disappear once all of us would donate...
Yeah sure, but the Jimmy Wales's picture on every page annoys me !
IMAO the last year compaign is better ...
Migration of neurons occurs primarily in utero and very early childhood, and as you might notice, during this time very few memories are formed.

That's because memories are built on those very synaptic connection you would need to rewire. Any cure that deals with reorganizing the brain could very well wipe out who they are. If it's even possible. And for that kind of technology we're talking at minimum centuries, not decades.
As a former Sevilla resident, nice to click around for a while.
If you honestly think a college student can't find $5 somewhere to paypal for a one-time fee, you're kidding yourself. And I say that as a college student.
I thought the same thing when I came across the logos on the page earlier today. Thought it was very smart
So let me get this straight. Your big pitch is "Sharing privately with groups is broken right now ... Multi-attachment, inbox-cluttering emails."

And you're solving that problem (a few sentences later) with "Every time you post to the group, she'll receive the full content as an email. She can reply directly to your email and everyone in the group gets her update."

How exactly does that solve any inbox-clutter problems whatsoever? If anything, it seems like it'd create even more inbox clutter. Am I missing something here? Sending more emails results in less clutter?
They aren't stitched together, they're tiled. When you're loading Google Maps, you're loading dozens of relatively small resolution images.
I have two live-action soap operas that I follow closely as my guilty pleasures. The main one is the Trump saga and related stories, anchored by Ken White and Josh Barro's phenomenal podcast, "All The President's Lawyers."

The second is the swamp called Silicon Valley: Theranos, Wework, etc. But I don't have a good anchoring podcast for it, I only get it piecemeal via HN and such. So recommendations appreciated!
Sure, that's basically giving up on indexing anything behind a gateway. Google could do that, but it's not at all clear they should.
Its funny how people shit all over systemd for doing everything and then people shit all over wayland for just doing enough for the task it was made for.

I think the complaining is 10% real concerns and 90% people upset that it is different than it used to be.
Look for some NASA/US Gov RFPs and open contracts for some low level manufacturing/sub-contractor work on their space missions(or sub contract work from prime contractors). Get the necessary certifications. When you do win bids, hire the right people, then provide the services, and money starts coming in. I'm sure there is a banker or financial institution out there that'll hand out funding to someone that actually holds a contract to NASA or a big defense contractor.
> But don't kid yourself - that would not solve botting at all.

What would solve it? Or rather, what is the best defensive measure these days?
You sure? It sounds like it could be useful for capturing a variety of thermodynamic phenomena provided that you capture the chemistry properly (the stuff about changing elasticity and material properties is really a simplified model of the chemistry, i think)
Facebook and twitter allow the manipulation and coercion to happen faster and more efficiently. We weren’t ready for that massive shift in media.
The BLM riots cost about $1-2 billion dollars of property damage [1]. Taking as given the standard gov't value of life of $9M, this works out to 110-220 life equivalents. This would qualify the BLM riots as one of the deadliest terror attacks to ever happen on US soil.

[1] https://www.axios.com/riots-cost-property-damage-276c9bcc-a4...
Thanks for the feedback. I Just figure out a possible reason and will fix soon.
Did prescription drugs help with this?
Thanks for the heads up, just uninstalled.
ack sorry, I meant how to add a debug statement to an existing pure function

while still having it return the original value

EDIT per comment below, I totally misread this! yes exactly, traceShow ftw

You saved me another N hours
That’s why we have been building https://qbix.com/platform

To have an open source alternative. Want videoconferencing on your own site? You can! See here for instance.

https://yang2020.app/meeting

We have a harder challenge of making all the SDP offers work cross browser, but Chrome should def work.

Code: https://github.com/Qbix
(If you like it, star it lol ⭐️)

Contact me if you want to learn how to use the Qbix platform. I will be teaching classes and put it online. We are following the wordpress model. My email is in https://qbix.com/about

Quick question for the networking experts here... with everyone connecting from home, what percentage are behind a LAN firewall that you need to use TURN servers? What if you avoided those servers and made peer to peer infra entirely, how many people would we lose?

(Is a complete graph of everyone sending to everyone worse than an SFU once you get too many users? Isn’t it exactly the same number of streams, just in a star topology? Can’t we just nominate a few of the browsers to do what the SFU does, namely forwarding video to the others? Is the issue only with resolution?)
Does anybody have a good alternative to zoom that does not do this?
Libertarians don't need the government.
Except New York has roughly 50% of all cases in the U.S --- ~15k of the 32k total as of this writing. Newsom at ~1.5k seems to be doing much better if we’re judging by that metric

https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
By 'lowercase numbers', do you mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures? I've never heard the term before, and initially wondered if it was some sort of joke, but it would seem not.

Interesting stuff, typography.
> a logical functional UI API on top of messy imperative APIs

But without the "messy" imperative API, the functional UI cannot be built. This applies to all functional UI frameworks.

It's funny that one of React's core ideas is to ditch the now old functional/declarative paradigm that is template languages and allows you to use imperative JavaScript to directly build up a virtual DOM.
whenever i read articles like this, i can't help but think how much beneficial pressure a basic income would exert on a system like this. when no one has to do your unpleasant/tedious tasks because it's that or starve, there's suddenly an incentive for those jobs to pay much more, or be automated as efficiently as possible. i can see a post-basic-income equivalent of instacart, for example, being the one person who goes out and does grocery shopping for an entire building, but gets a lot of their other chores done for them as a quid pro quo.
Actually it speaks to the fact that I'm currently renting. If my house was finished, I would in fact have most of them.
The blockchain isn't a good example when latency is an issue. Yes, it does guarantee that values cannot be double spent, but it does so at a very high time cost.
one word, symlinks!
Boks gets you to the same point as Lean Designs - a grid-based layout you can customize. I run into problems taking the layout from Boks and making it not look flat - rounding corners, adding shading, using good fonts, picking colors that go well together - all the little tricks that make a well-designed page look good.

What if you integrated with Adobe Kuler or a similar color-picking tool to generate a CSS file?
I can agree, I'm rarely fair ;) You nailed it about the Ubuntu GUI, I don't really expect newbies to know that though, that's why I wrote the post.
6 months to a year ago, a lot of people didn't believed me when I said RIM was irrelevant. It was quite obvious when the iPhone came out that RIM was going to need to make some big changes.

The only person I actually heard praise the BB UI was somebody who had gotten a smartphone for the first time. Then he used my iPhone...

The only people I know still buying BB's are old and/or adverse to change. That's about the market segment they have left.
Depends on what you mean by "out of the box". If you buy a Ubuntu computer (from, say, System76) then yes, it works out of the box (in the literal sense) as that is their business.

No device drivers just magically work. Someone has to test and ensure that the work; when you buy a computer they do that for you. When you install an operating system on a pre-owned computer your chances get smaller. Most manufacturers upgrade their drivers to ensure they work with the latest version of Windows (and Apple does the same for its computers).

No OS has complete hardware compatibility "out of the box". That's an insane request, of course. So if you want to compare apples to Apple, you have to compare a preinstalled linux box, not some computer you pulled out of your base with 2 inches of dust on top.
I think he is referring to his customers, presumably software engineers, encouraging him to do bad things. He then goes on to generalise that.

I agree the title is stretching it a little.
For embedding a web page display, you're probably best off looking at Webkit/Gecko wrappers for whatever UI toolkit you're using. Getting an image out of the renderer itself is one thing, but tying it into the surrounding windowing environment (using the platform's native widgets, responding to input, etc.) is less trivial. Fortunately, this work has usually already been done for you, and you'll find toolkit-specific documentation on embedding.

For example, for WebKit there is Cocoa/Carbon integration[1], Cocoa Touch integration [2], KDE & Qt integration [3], GTK [4], etc. You can probably find others very easily, likewise for Gecko.

[1] http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/...

[2] http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/...

[3] http://api.kde.org/4.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdewebkit/html/in...

[4] http://webkitgtk.org/
I use multiple lines but if it's more than four or so args I usually think to myself. "Am I doing this wrong?" and try to refractor and do it 20% smarter.
> even if it's not public bodies doing the collection

There already are private companies that drive around scanning license plates and selling access to the data. One of their “use cases” is selling the data to “repo men.”
I suspect these situations are exceptions and the vast majority of landlords can afford even an extended period of deadbeat tenants. Perhaps someone here knows where to find evidence on this.

I'd also like to point out that the landlords mentioned here have an option that keeps them financially solvent, namely to sell the property. The tenants, on the other hand, have no options.
A small minority who overwhelmingly votes and has lots of money. Of course the politicians listen to them.
Pools are expensive. The same weight of gravel or sand would produce a similar effect. Put the server farm under a multi-level car park structure.
Boredom is amazing.

I spent four hours today demolishing a deck alone. I was afraid to break my phone so I left it.

Four hours of work without music or podcast. My brain went to all kinds of places and I solved like five different coding problems I was faced with at work.

I should really bill my employer.
Congratulations on your success!

I hope this is helpful, though maybe a little disappointing. You could get $50,000-$100,000 if you found the right buyer. Just maybe a good rule of thumb my help is somewhere between 2x-5x profit would be the sale price or ($48,000 to $120,000). Usually the 5x is from someone else in this space that wants the users/info.

You could wait until you get a 300,000 downloads a month and get a lot more, but it's harder to scale than one thinks.

I say keep growing it. The same intelligence that brought you this far, will get you further. Stay with it!
> This thread is about giving up the car. Entirely.

No, it's not. I never claimed that. Having biking as an option doesn't mean you're never allowed to touch a car again. This may shock and dismay you, but it is possible to have multiple viable alternatives for transportation. Bike when it's convenient. You'll probably get to enjoy it and seek out more ways to bike once you discover how good it feels and how nice it is to not have to worry about parking.

If a situation arises where a car is truly necessary, then use a car. I'd estimate for most people probably 90% of car trips could be replaced if they lived somewhere more bike and pedestrian friendly. That would be a huge win for the environment. The other upshot is that if everyone does that, then when you do need to use a car, or for people who are, say, disabled and really can't bike, then the roads are much emptier and driving is more pleasant.
I'd love to chip a bunch of my belongings (camera, keys, ...) with this right away, but it seems there is no way to do that so far. I hope someone will release a product to do this; I doubt it'll get adopted all that widely otherwise. Not that many people are into Van Moof bikes.
I haven't been following C++ for quite a while but when I did, I wanted modules. And now it looks like they're here and they've done it wrong. Or at least missed an opportunity to do it really right.

They've done the equivalent of * imports in languages like Java and Python. And style guides in those languages universally recommend against doing that.

Why? With named imports, if you see a symbol anywhere in the codebase, its declaration is somewhere within the file itself. If you see a call to foo(), it's going to be either a local function or a declared import. With C++ modules (as with C++ includes) it could come from any of the imports, so you have to look outside of the file to figure out where it came from.

Sure, IDEs help paper this over somewhat. But it just seems sloppy for a post-1980s language feature to throw all imports into the global namespace.
YAML is not a language, it's a data format. Why does nobody in the entire tech industry know the difference? I didn't even go to school and I figured it out.

Most software today that uses YAML for a configuration file is taking a data format (YAML) applying a very shitty parser to create a data structure, and then feeding that data structure to a function, which then determines what other functions to call. There's no grammar, no semantics, no lexer, no operators, and no types, save those inherent to the data format it was encoded in (YAML). Sometimes they'll look like they include expressions, but really they're just function arguments.
It is an important part of the job of the CEO to say what the values of the company should be, and make sure that the company tends towards following those values. The culture then follows by that. It is allowed but insufficient for the ceo to declare that the company is to be more open or collaborative—they must also make sure that management below them are deciding things (eg distribution of work to teams, how performance is assessed) in ways which promote those values. And sometimes values do need to change quickly to change the focus of a business. Maybe VC money runs out and profitability becomes more important than growth. Setting values can distribute the work of changing a business across all its staff.
What the article actually says is that flat-earthers do not typically subscribe to other conspiracy theories and UFO / ESP / ghosts cults. This is considered a surprising fact, worthy of explanation independently of the whole flat-earth delusion.
Legally, the Fed can't do that. Only the government can. Anyway, the Fed is mostly buying government debt or government-guaranteed debt. By buying up the existing debt, this creates space for the government to borrow and spend on supporting Average Joe.

Alternatively, the Treasury could print money and mail it out to Average Joe. But then there's no way for the Fed take the money out of circulation if we get inflation.
> Someone has to eat the losses, and in an actual free market there are two options: the equity holders, or the bondholders.

The equity holders are eating the losses; have you seen the stock market?

> Now, the Fed provides a third option: the holders of U.S. dollars, whose currency is devalued as money is printed to paper over the void which was opened up by the pandemic. And so the charade will continue.

Money is being temporarily created and lent, in exchange for collateral (bonds) to avoid a lack of liquidity caused by decreasing asset values and more hesitant lenders. Once things go back to normal, the money will be destroyed since corporations will return the money in exchange for the asset again. The net currency devaluation is 0.
It seems like the comment would be better as a note for the next Sprint retrospective / planning meeting since it should be a separate card. Under the ticket/card/issue/MR seems non-productive to me but if your coworker seems to do it often, it might be because he doesn't understand or didn't have clear instruction for where comments like that can go.
I don't think it's that simple. You need EMT's/ambulance crews at a minimum diverted from somewhere, and some amount of presence at airports. You can maybe find nurses from other services to fly, but it's not just them. You'll need specialized cleaning staff, but can probably train them quickly. The medical staff though, that's trickier.
And yes, I was wrong.

As we say in my household: "You were right. I was wrong. You are the superior being."
Physical exercise I would define as moving a body part.
> They United Stats Government should do it

That's what they're doing and what the article is about. [Edit: not buying the companies outright, but buying their debt]

The person I was responding to was proposing something else about clever entrepreneurs buying up all of these industries in bankruptcy, or something.
https://playartifact.com/news/1821083382556531528

Valve is working on it still.
There are zillions of things that impact BP, sweating, heart beats or oxygen level (being in love, for example, to mention a cause from the other end of the spectrum), and they heavily vary during the day. It will at best be very, very hard to filter them out, and likely will require having months of measurements for each person.

If you try hard enough I would guess you can get statistically significant data out of it in areas where a significant portion of the public is infected, but it’s a huge step from there to diagnostically significant data, with both few enough false positives and few enough false negatives.
I got more work done without constant interruptions. There is no place for constant interruptions. Either you trust your workers or you do it by yourself.
This is hilarious. Will they also buy their own intensive care doctor to intubate them?
I would consider my number to be an upper bound.
You do realize that you can buy land and pay to have a house built right? You could even build it yourself.