jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Imagine how difficult it would be if you had to fight for your liberties in the first place. Consider situations like these the cost of maintenance. If you don't have the financial means to bear risk like this man did, there are certainly other ways to participate like calling your representatives and writing letters.
I feel the same way. As a non-US citizen, I essentially have zero rights when it comes to many things in this country, and probably can look forward to seeing the inside of a cell if I tried asserting any peaceful disobedience at an airport (not to mention say goodbye to any chance of citizenship).

It does seem, however, that the dam is about to break on the TSA. The number of stories I see on the net seems to show dissent skyrocketing, although I admit this is a limited sample.
Great points. VCs (and larger angels) will tell you all day long that there's no such thing as pitching too early (cf. http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2009/10/19/never-too-...). It's simply not true. As Rand mentions the power dynamics in those talks are entirely one-sided (not your side).

This isn't black and white and investors are great at playing the game. Often they'll send an associate your way in the early stages (or send you back down to an associate after a MD intro). If this happens, insist on talking to the MD. If they agree, they're interested and possibly trying to mask that interest. If they don't, they're not interested and just trying to "hang around the rim".

Unless you love pitching, don't spend time with investors that don't have partners chasing YOU.
all that to get out of going to his in-law's
It looks like they got capriciously hellbanned for comments in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1320949 — everything after that was auto-killed, several dozen productive comments over the course of six months.

Items can be fully deleted or [dead]-ed, and users can be silently hellbanned so that all of their contributions are [dead] on arrival for everyone but themselves. AFAIK there are no other metamoderation mechanisms.
Incorrect. If you get a bite to eat and miss the last boarding call (flying US domestic) the flight will leave without you but with your luggage.

The system would grind to a halt if this was not the case.
What a trite and naïve rephrasing of Mazlow's Hierarchy of Needs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs ). I will certainly grant that Economists and Business people need to have these ideas battered into their thick crania, however it's irritating to have the speaker present ideas as if they were novel which are not only not novel, but actually thousands of years old.

If you pay people well enough to decouple their concerns about economic survival from their work, it shouldn't be surprising that there isn't a relationship between increased reward leading to increased performance. That's a pretty fundamental part of the humanist movement which predates the French and American Revolutions (Liberté, égalité, fraternité! or Americans might prefer Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness). Even then, Humanism was merely the popularization and egalitarian movement to provide for everyone the model which the wealthy and elite have been following since at least the time of Aristotle!

Put succinctly, this guy isn't describing the Open Source movement, he's describing at least 2500 years of Academia. You pay people a tenured salary, because they, free of concerns regarding economic security, will produce works for the benefit of all.

And this is telling for two reasons. First, Academia is not free from woe and misery. Second, and i would hope that Economists would realize this, just because you have (partially) removed monetary incentives, does not mean that there is no currency or economics in Academia. The reason why the "Publish or Perish" mentality exists, is because it's what's used to differentiate academics. Academics trade on their reputation, and their reputation is measured based on publication.
It's not matter of features count. It's matter of innovative features. Hardly anything innovative in this product.
Worse that that, you have to be calling someone else with an iPhone, and you -both- have to be using wifi. Don't get me wrong, it is a step up from what they used to have available, but that is kind of a tall order for general consumption.
While it usually annoys me when people reuse data like that when posted on the web, I have to say Kung Fooey, you did it exceptionally well and you made it extremely easy and painless to "claim" my data. Thanks for the good work.
Craplets... It turns out that PC hardware is frequently sold at a loss today, and up to $100 of the cost is paid by craplets.

This stuff doesn't stop until people know what's installed, why, and what resources are being used.
Jobs: "we’re going to make FaceTime an open industry standard."

Should be interesting.
> I'd be very interested to see some real-world cases for lazy sequences in context of client-side JavaScript interpretation.

Please remember that JS is no longer just client-side stuff. Node.js, and other implementations have become quite popular in some circles for doing server side things.
Building codes are strict, but unfortunately building codes aren't often followed closely enough.

I recently noticed in the house I just purchased that a lot of cold air was coming in behind my kitchen cabinets and appliances. I pulled out my range and noticed that cold air was rushing through the gap between the drywall and the floor. Fortunately a can of expandable foam was an easy fix.

This house is only 2 years old. Corners were cut when building which makes this home not as efficient as it could be. I'm hoping to make gradual improvements.

Even though my electricity rate is only around $0.12/kwh and my gas bill isn't high, I'd still like to do what I can both for the environment and to save money.
It's unfortunate that the article ended with advertisement for the author's venture, but I don't think that should take away from substance of the article because a lot of it is valid.

One thing the author neglected to mention:

UX is becoming a function and domain of IT.

That's why you're seeing IBM hire UX people in drove, because IBM wants to make UX bigger part of its IT services offering.

And it makes sense. Whether you like it or not, IT can make or break success of UX.

I manage a small ux team in a fortune 50 and I've come to conclusion that it's basically impossible to instill design centric thinking to business and product owners on consistent basis, which is something that agencies have tried to do in the past.

But with the right IT people, I've had great success in building the best products.

my 2 cents.
PouchDB dev here. The map/reduce API is definitely a bit cumbersome, which is why we're replacing it: http://nolanlawson.github.io/pouchdb-find/ :)
This has profound implications for how we legalize marijuana, where the same dynamic holds and the real money is in supplying the heaviest users.
Here is something strange. I have constant intestine issues, i go poop 4-10x a day, for 25 years now. Except when i go sleep in a new place like vacations, i wont poop for 4 days in a row.
navigator.language will return a string like "en-US", "en-GB", or "fr-FR" depending on the user's selected locale. That could be used to map different Amazon URLs, although it looks like you may get a fair number of en-US false reports. See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/webappapis.html#navig....
There is a pretty decent framework (Genie) which can be used for building web apps, API backends with database connectivity etc. It is also quite well documented.

https://genieframework.github.io/Genie.jl/dev/guides/Working...
> nobody expected their postings to live beyond the spool expiration lifetime.

I know that a number of posters in groups I used to frequent added the X-No-Archive: yes header to their posts in the early 2000s. The Google and Deja news archive before it did honor that header apparently.
> (2) Is there something like python's `requests` lib?

For HTTP (etc) requests?

There is HTTP.jl which I have never had problems with; tons of packages use it.
I have used it to wrap a ton of different REST APIs etc.

And in 1.6, as mentioned, there is the new Downloads standard library, based on libcurl.
Despide the name, I believe it can be used more generally than simply downloading things.
Can also be used as a normal library in Julia 1.3+
https://github.com/JuliaLang/Downloads.jl

And there are several other projects
I'm not one to go to parties drinking or smoking illegal stuff, although this is very common in certain groups. So I can't comment on that. I've actually avoided that on purpose because it would worsen my mental state with my diagnosies. But I guess that criminal stuff would happen in those groups.
As someone who knows very little but wants to learn: what's the best way to get up and running with Julia? On the website, they link a lot of videos, but I prefer textual formats. Is there something like the Rust Book for Julia?
no true scottsman? This reminds me of arguments against STM, which efforts previously failed because they tried to enforce it across the whole system. The way forward was to demarcate clearly which vars were in STM and which weren't, and it is very useful - note doesn't solve the "hard theory cs" formulation of STM.

Just because typed ActorRef aren't as hard as implementing this other property which has some other "hard cs" property, does that really devaule the utility of typed ActorRefs?

I admit I'm not sure exactly if 'the interaction between actors cannot get stuck' property is something that is an existing pain point, or something that would be introduced as a result of typed ActorRefs
This is becoming a massive issue in London with the met actively conceding that gangs have the codes for JLR cars such as Range Rovers.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/pull-over-all-range-ro...
The right poster has better layout, and is more "beautiful" but less readable. I want to get the important details, not admire the use if indentation and italics.
your preference for linux distributions is unrelated to my comment
I think that's kind of the point the author is making: westerners don't expect Singapore to feel like a western country; they expect it to be "exotic".

> And from what I understand, Hong Kong is richer than Singapore

No, it's not (according to their respective Wikipedia entries).
But perhaps someone else is working on the same ideas you thought of already? If you found someone like that, would you want to join them? And perhaps you'll find someone with better ideas than yours, so their project would be a better use of your time?
>what other, more useful knowledge could they have gained otherwise?

How does one rank the usefulness of knowledge? Language acquisition (and the acquisition of a particular language) is not a skill in isolation. It enhances other skills such as problem solving, logical inference, the ability to recognize patterns, knowledge synthesis... skills I daresay are useful in other fields, such as computer programming. I hear your argument a lot among people who just plain don't like learning languages and think it's "worthless," or that they'll "never use it" -- but the same thing could be said of some mathematical disciplines. However, there is little doubt that those mathematical disciplines contribute to other areas of knowledge.
If I hide gold at home, that’s virtually zero energy and is fairly secure. It’s not perfectly secure but it’s good enough for a lot of people. It’s distributed and zero energy.

Bitcoin will require banks at scale and an increasing amount of energy for the duration of its existence, or at least until mining is done. The network can’t handle transaction volume so people are forced to settle transactions off network. That’s the job of a bank.

The US is secured by its foreign policy. The foreign policy exists to protect the world’s strongest economy. The dollar’s value is a product of the strong economy. It is not directly secured by the military. Without a military there would be no US, and no economy, only then could you say there would be no dollar. So unless you plan to eliminate the US economy, Bitcoin’s existence doesn’t affect the need for a military, even if it was the world’s standard currency.

If you actually care about the environment, I can’t think of a worse idea than promoting an energy black hole powered by coal and tech garbage.
Have you explained this to him?
Some related advice: some management actually LIKEs folks that are primarily money motivated. It makes the picture much simpler for them compared to others who are motivated by vaguer things like “interesting problems”, “career progression” etc

At one job during goal setting with my manager I put it like “I wanna be making $x by next year. Let me know what I need to do to get there, and if that’s too much, how close can we come, and what’s needed for THAT”

Later on he’d tell others how impressed he was by that and how the clarity made life for him easy
The confusion is deliberate.

Copyleft curtails the options of capital interests.

"Open source" creates turbidity that obscures the win-lose pursuit of self-interest allowed by other licenses.

I'm not saying there's anything wrong with MIT or BSD.

Only that they are primarily structured to serve the interests of wealth and power.
It's also great for internal debug tools, where I want to give people an easy "put some data here and get back relevant info from various different systems / logs".
When she was in the office she was covering the southwest US from Seattle.

Visiting a customer site for a sales meeting is not the same as "working remotely". She does not need to go into the corporate HQ every day to do software sales. Yes, she did and will in the future visit customer sites.

> Only one example, but I think for most jobs something is often lost by having no physical presence and no in-person collaboration.

Sure but this ignores benefits. The question is if remote work is a net negative, in terms of utility.
Oh, the thing with bootstrapping attacks is you never know are there any real examples.

I recommend this[0] paper by Ken Thompson dated 1984 and still relevant.

[0]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rdriley/487/papers/Thompson_1984_Ref...
That's orthogonal. As our root comment says, the point is that it happens more often with Rust evangelism.
I would look at either government jobs, or working for a university, they both tend to pay less but are often low stress, low expectations, and great benefits, from what I hear.
I've been in organizations that allowed earmarked donations for certain funds / projects. The ACLU can totally allow earmarked donations for projects they are undergoing.

Ex: A policy of %80 towards earmarking & %20 towards the general fund to help boot up new projects / general admin would be totally fine with many donators.
it's not a dupe. This is the follow on.
You can get air exchangers with filters. They use the hot/cold air from inside to heat/cool the air from outside as they filter it. It reduces co2 by venting it outside.

I’ve seen ads for medical “oxygen concentrators” which involves a face mask. No idea how they work, or what they do.
If it's a simple proxy tunneling HTTPS traffic to Google, Apple probably doesn't know anything about the content of the queries, and Google doesn't know who sent them. If each kept records, they could get together and combine them to get the hashed URLs, but still a much better situation than directly querying a single endpoint.

Signal actually uses a similar approach to anonymize queries to GIPHY from users of its app. https://signal.org/blog/giphy-experiment/
Many people who live in apartments don't have furnaces.
> now earn less than half what they would have had incomes across the distribution continued to keep pace with economic growth.

but did those workers' productivity grew in line with the same economic growth? If said workers were _still_ doing the same jobs as they did before, and had the same output, does it make sense that their wage growth should keep pace with the economic growth?
I have a linkedin account, but I only login when I'm thinking about getting a new job. I find the whole thing disturbing and annoying.
I have another fun story. I have a contact at LinkedIn whose name matches a famous Bollywood star. One day I get a notification from LinkedIn "You contact xxx is in the news". I enthusiastically click the link, only to find out that the person in the news is the famous Bollywood celebrity. Who is writing these algorithms in LinkedIn ?
I don't trust either but knowing how each makes their money one might be less inclined to abuse my data over the other.
Having more injection points, for example, UBI.
No silver bullet. This is a counter against surveillance capitalism but not against surveillance states. In the long run the only sure way to prevent data misuse is to remove the data, but moving existing data to entities without the financial incentives to misuse it is still a step in the right direction.
The only thing I've found so far is age discrimination and race discrimination lawsuits. Nothing having to do with the working environment or promises.
Docker feels like the equivalent of the teenager that doesn't want to clean his room so he just pushes all his mess under the bed.

The complexity is still under the bed. We're all going to have to dig under that bed one day. Or we're just going to end up buying new hockey sticks, football pads, etc. Which is to say, we're going to end up with Linux on top of Docker on top of Linux.
Totally agree with this. It's great if friendships naturally develop at work, but you shouldn't rely on something like that to happen or expect it to happen. That's just setting yourself up for disappointment.

I've worked for four companies in my career. I'm still great friends with my coworkers from my first company.

I don't talk to anyone from my second and third companies at all - not because I don't like them, but because we just never built rapport or "jived" with each other beyond work. Our relationships amounts to at best, liking each others' posts on social networking and saying happy birthdays.

I'm still good friends with some people I worked at in my current company that have since left.

Then again, I'm fairly introverted. YMMV if you are highly extroverted. I know some people that can quickly become best friends with a room full of strangers.
I would say that many (not all) things Twitch has banned users would not be so far fetched as reasons for terminating employment. Aside from obvious non-comparable things that only pertain to online interactions, there is probably a great overlap between ”would I get warned/banned from Twitch” and ”would I get warned/fired at my job”.
I highly recommend the YouTube channel PBS Space Time's coverage of this, it's informative, well organized, and accessible even to someone like me who doesn't have any background in physics.
yeah, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it's impossible to learn these lessons when you're young without direct experience. I just meant that it's not uncommon (in my experience) for young people to be extremely, unflappably enthusiastic about joining on at a large corporation, naïvely buying into the company line of BS. I can easily see myself as having been this kind of person if I got a job at a company like Google when I was young and impressionable.
My near misses have never been at intersections or due to missing hand signals.

My near misses have been because some idiot decides to hug or even drive in the cycling lane (usually while texting) or when someone parks a car in the cycling lane forcing me to move into the road (with cars being incapable of waiting for me to get around the idiot that decided to park in the cycling lane).

Those are instances of following the road rules perfectly yet still nearly getting in a dangerous wreck.

It's not a problem of rules, it's a problem of cyclists not having safe places to cycle. It's a problem of cities not planning for cyclists. It's a problem of cities not enforcing rules that ultimately protect cycling.
I feel like OP was joking
It's not only entertainment.

You behave badly in a bar or restaurant as a doctor for instance, your hospital or clinic will fire you and good luck getting a job anywhere else.
Follicle transplants, the hair loss treatment that works.
Are all art grads in China that well off or only the few rockstars?
cool that you felt there should be a solution to this problem too. Let us know what you think about the tool, I'd happily share point of views on how to solve this problem.
Man, I remember their stuff from 20 years ago, I'm actually surprised they're still around and with this sort of cash.

Then again, for some of the hard problems in their space, it's not like we've seen much evolution... the BI space is dominated by fads.
> You don't look poor because you get the white label, you look financially responsible, unwilling to pay a branding premium for essentially the same product. Especially with things like corn where no one could differentiate between the white label and name brands.

In many cases, it's not just that nobody can differentiate between them. They are literally the same product from the same factory, sometimes coming right off the same line. As in: Some of the cans of product go left for the "name brand" label and go right for the "store brand" label.

It's excellent price discrimination. Get consumers to spend as much as they can afford for the same product.
We opted against Minio, mostly because we had a storage solution that provide S3 api, but also because managing Minio seemed painful. It’s just not clearly versioned, we didn’t figure out how you where suppose to rotate cerificates and documentation isn’t great.
Thinking about this statement.

The inflation rate causes rich people to get richer since they have assets and the poor get pushed further and further from being able to own assets.

> Real inflation has been tame over the past 15 years for precisely this reason.

I don't like this use of `Real inflation.` Maybe nominal inflation as viewed by the poor. Real inflation should include the ability of poor/middle class to buy assets as well.
Speaking of net neutrality, I was a bit on the fence but overall a proponent of it, but it's now been a few years since the failure of net neutrality under Ajit Pai. By now we were supposed to be living in an internet dystopia.

Has that happened and I missed it? If not, why? Are ISPs just afraid of provoking the bear so they're behaving themselves?
Sounds like that could be fun to try an enforce.
> despite my general misgivings about the huge energy cost of crypto.

Are you really concerned about people utilizing electricity, or are you actually concerned about carbon footprint? If the carbon thing, look where crypto-mining happens. It's almost exclusively with overflow power from areas that get their energy from hydro, wind, geothermal etc, so the additional carbon produced by mining is negligible.

Second, Ethereum, on which all serious NFT activity is based, is midway through a transition from PoW to PoS (proof-of-work to proof-of-stake) where people demonstrate their commitment to validating transactions by locking up their funds rather than burning electricity. There are over 3 million ETH locked, which is over 6 billion dollars at the moment, and growing, all to validate transactions on this new PoS network.

https://www.duneanalytics.com/hagaetc/eth2-0-deposits