jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Totally agreed. But which is it?
The decision on any of those models, if not properly considered, could have impacts that reverberate through their product and userbase. Advertising, done wrong, could break their clean aesthetic. Affiliate marketing, done wrong, could hurt people's trust. You get the idea. The business model is a part of the design, in that it works in concert with it - and people are eager to see the fuller vision of posterous realized.

That said, I agree. I think it's great that they're taking some time to see how their product evolves, especially when they seem to sincerely want to "change the game." One thing YC companies seem to do well is that they have the patience to take the time to explore those markets alongside their users, instead of dragging them into a business plan that detracts from how users want to use the product in their daily lives.

EDIT: Whoops, this answers part of the question, from their FAQ:
Yes, Posterous is enthusiastically a free service. Later, we'll be adding premium features we know you'll love, but there will always be a useful free version you can use.
I've been using Redis for 2 months now. It's a real pleasure to use.

I especially like the simple protocol. It's possible to write a simple client without any external libraries within days --maybe hours if you're really good ;). Try to do that with SQL or MongoDB (Javascript parser anyone?).
I just upvoted this comment as well. So apparently Card can make idiotic comments about the media and the left which are stupid beyond belief but we cant.

What do you mean "we can't"? You can say whatever you want here (subject to YCombinator's terms of services and any applicable laws), but the voting system is supposed to encourage "content that contributes to the site" to make the site higher quality and I don't think astrodust's comment "he's a frothing lunatic" is a high quality contribution, it's just an unsupported personal insult and I'm annoyed that it's being upvoted by agreement.

id say i will be avoiding his books like the plague.

Ender's Game makes number 1 in a top 100 SciFi books list ( http://home.austarnet.com.au/petersykes/topscifi/lists_books... ), don't avoid it because you don't like the author personally, only avoid it if it looks like a rubbish book.
YouEye offers gaze tracks over videos of individual user tests as well as aggregated heatmaps on each page visited by a group of testers with the same task. Gazehawk offers a single heatmap of one static image. There is no user testing with Gazehawk.
Yep, docker in wsl2 is great, including GPU support

wsl2 mode is super impressive -- none of the overhead of docker on os x
so, "social networks" are a "very special" kind of webpage that uniquely require suppressing "bad ideas"?
How are 90s baseball cards, pogs, and yo-yos looking? Or "regular" opened copies of NHL 94 or what have you? I think we often overlook all the shit we were into that hasn't gotten expensive. We'd have to basically index-fund this shit if we had really been trying to invest in it in 2000 or so, and I think the losers would be a big problem for our fund. Maybe you bought a 3000GT instead of a Supra because you didn't see The Fast and the Furious coming. Whoops.

Let's try to predict the future instead: which of things that 2022 kids are into should we be buying up for 20 years from now? Roblox items? New Pokemon cards? (I don't know if I actually can come up with any other things off the top of my head, lol.)
While I appreciate the idea, it's so primitive that using draw.io (lucidchart) or miro or basically any other diagramming tool with a grid is going to match and exceed the need.
I'm aware. I meant personal homes not intended for rent.
And _that's_ the work that is needed to have a spam-free-ish setup. Why can't FOSS ship these defaults and do these trainings semi automatically? Something totally could based on specific folder contents, but nothing does, it's always this "reinvent the wheel"-type of stuff.
Looking at chat records.

There are already enough laws to put top executives in jails, it's just that the laws aren't used.
Yeah. I had stopped using LSD before using SSRIs.

Later, I used to vacation in Amsterdam for the shrooms. But I'd go off the SSRI maybe a week or so before the trip.
It is imperative that you do not combine psychedelics with antidepressants! This can lead to dangerous side effects / behaviors! If you take a combination of drugs this is even more important to heed.

The proper path is to wean yourself off of the antidepressants for the experience, and then only undertake the experience with an experienced sitter or guide.
Red State Revolt (referenced in parent) has material in it showing how in practice class battles have the potential to cut across other social questions like party loyalty for example. There was a new-found unity in the teachers strikes. Economics is the sturdiest division in society because it is most rooted in the day to day life of everybody. Some people are bosses, and some people have to work for them 8+ hours every day.
> but certainly not on big bill items such as housing and education

On average, housing expenditures only makes up about 25% of American household income. And education expenditures are nearly a rounding error at 1.8%.

Adjusted for inflation the median cost per square foot of a new home in the US actually fell by 8% from 1992 to 2018. It's true that Americans are spending more on housing than in the past, but that's mostly because they're buying significantly bigger houses.

The median new home saw its square footage increase by more than 50% since 1985. Despite a decline in the average household size. And that doesn't even cover the significant increase in quality in things like central AC, attached garages, fire safety, higher ceilings, high ampere electrical circuits, better insulation, etc.

The HN community is biased on this topic because they tend to live in HCoL metros like the Bay Area and to only recently be out of school.

But the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of middle America in flyover states has not seen any significant loss of affordability in housing. That should tell you that the problem isn't globalization, it's the San Francisco zoning board.

> Overall an American worker who lost his well paying manufacturing job and replaced it with a job at walmart lost massively.

Since 1980 the decline in manufacturing employment have been more than offset by growth in high-paying jobs in healthcare, education, professional services, real estate, and financial services.

American manufacturing output is at an all-time. There's huge job shortages in the industry, and American factories are desperate for workers. That should tell you that manufacturing jobs were never "replaced", rather Americans workers decided to move to other industries.

Manufacturing jobs are good-paying, but dangerous, physically demanding and unpleasant. Most workers who left decided to either go to skilled construction trades or natural resource extraction, where pay is significantly better. Or they decided to become skilled professionals like nurses, teachers, or realtors, where pay is still good but working conditions are significantly better.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cesan.nr0.htm
[1] https://www.census.gov/construction/chars/
[2] https://www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf
[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/job-gains-for-the-manufactur...
[4] https://www.reliableplant.com/Read/30044/manufacturing-worke...
[5] https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2016/article/current-employment...
My biggest problem with my Surface Go is the backlight doesn't go low enough. 100% is brighter than my phone goes and 0% is still feels like looking at 75% on my phone.

My phone is currently set to 10%
'Native Advertising' is more sinister than simple sponsored content in my opinion, and should be outlawed. Masquerading a promotion in a journalistic format to trick readers is just plain wrong.
There is still some risk. I think you're forgetting that (1) illegal drugs are hard to obtainn--no walking into CVS--and (2) illegal drugs are not reliably sourced--I trust mass manufactured marijuana far more than I do from the sketchy guy on the corner.
So basically, you're saying that these trips are tech company interviews?
Game recognize game, and you looking might unfamiliar!
Iirc in scheme you can put anything into a lambda that you want.

Of course the Python lambda is "real", the correct word to use would have been "limited" I suppose.
>My argument here is that people designing languages have made choices based on their personal preference as well. It's not really appropriate to take one specific set of features you like and declare it to be the objective winner.

And my point is that I'm not doing that, I'm not picking features based on personal preference (my actual preferences are different), but to describe how a language can encompass the whole range of applications (be the right tool for most jobs, as much as possible).

This wasn't about "my dream language" (that would be something like Smalltalk) but about whether a language can cover all/most bases or we're forever doomed to use a babel tower of "right tools for the right job".

And the "cover all bases" thing I tried to tackle from a technical features standpoint. At this conceptual level of the argument I don't even care much if programmers will like the end result.

>That's a No True Scotsman-like argument

No, it's just a statistical observation. 90% of programmers do use this languages. I don't say the rest are not programmers or not true programmers -- just that we can cover the majority of programmers doing professional work with a language in that vein.

>I'm still not sure what to say about this without repeating myself, except for: go and do it. You say it's a matter of investment, but on the other hand consider the benefits if someone pulled it off. If you really do believe you are the person who has this all figured out, please go ahead and implement this. Heck, make it a Kickstarter project or something, I'm in!

Now, that's disrespect and passive agressiveness!

I never said it's just me that "has all that figured out". In fact lots of people say the same thing, inside every language community there's a trying to fix the same pain points to make each language more universal.

Lots of Python people for example wanted to make it GIL-less / capable of good async operation / faster / typed / etc. All this is for handling different kinds of scenarios that it currently does not.

People using JS asked for more speed, then for server side/native interfacing (Node et co), then for "programming at large" features (ES6) etc, types, things like asm.js to get native memory management, etc.

So, what I wrote was that having a language extend to almost all jobs is not impossible, and gave a laundry list of features (taken from observations such as the above), that could accomplish that.
Rust noob here but couldn't you write

if let Some(element) = some_vec.first() {
println!("{}", element);
// .. more code
}

and avoid the unwrap and the empty check?

Edit: Added a `let` I had forgotten.
Front running victimization.
I still think gopherjs should emit code compatible with and annotated for the google closure compiler. The fact that go programs have all source present, and are statically typed, means it could emit some tiny code.
The more interesting question: Is IE8 significantly worse than the alternatives?

I think not.

All major browsers on all common operating systems have exploitable vulnerabilities often enough that switching browsers will not solve the problem.
Whoops, sorry
Adding to the other replies: because it’s not just about you. A large environment will include tens to hundreds of colleagues in the immediate blast radius of any change you make (and possibility thousands to tens of thousands beyond), including ringers from external contractors, and ranging in skill and disposition from ninja sorcerer to middle-of-the-road unimaginative plodders, and none of whom particularly wish to deal with someone’s idiosyncratic preferences.

If there’s a crisis in which your unexpected novelty is an impediment to resolution, or (worse) a direct contributing factor, it’ll be your head on a pike.

Conversely, if you introduce a tool that takes “only” fifteen minutes to learn, but a thousand people have to learn it, that’s six weeks of aggregate human productivity you just appropriated. So it’d better be worth it.

You absolutely can introduce new ideas and utilities and capabilities, but you have to bring everyone along with you, and it has to be a material benefit. Good news, the leadership skills required to do so are not innate, they can be learned.

Some organisations are better at fostering change as a matter of their overall strategy, and anyone whose professional disposition is towards constant reinvention would be well advised to seek them out.
Maybe with a Raspberry Pi camera.
A change in perspective might be helpful. If you only look for the bad, that's all you'll see.

We have, among countless other things:

- mobile devices, networks, and services that are allowing developing countries to leapfrog their progress in the world

- development toolchains and frameworks that empower a single person to create an order of magnitude more output, enabling smaller teams or even solo enterprises to create major value

- reusable rockets bringing high quality and affordable internet access to the underserved

- mass produced electric vehicles for goodness sake!!

And that's only a few tech-related advancements, the world is largely moving in the right direction in so many areas. I'd never bet against the steady drumbeat of technological progress.
Indeed, I believe there is now not a single Arab country in which KSA did not try to stage something at some time. From staging coups, to financing armed insurgency, to economic warfare, to an outright invasion.
I think the sensational part is where it describes transhumanists as wanting to become deities, not just live long healthy lives. I personally think it's a natural path to go down, in a similar vein as clothing, tools, and air conditioning. There are definitely ethical issues, like poor people not being able to afford augmentations and compete in the world, but I think elective medical/mechanical enhancements are an inevitability.
Another B.S. article about negotiating IT salary's.
If IT salary's kept pace back before the Dot bomb days everyone would be making 150k starting.

Here is why we don't

IT has for the most part never been a money maker of a lot of companies. They see it as a loss leader.
IT is seen as the "Oh boy here comes the IT budget again."
Unless of course your business is making software for the masses. But then I have been at 3 companies like that and IT was always the first on the chopping block.
You are paid only as much as it takes to replace you, unless you walk on water then you should be at Google or FaceBook.

The only way to get a 20 to 25k raise is to find another job. Unless of course you are doing the job of 4 people which in IT 99.9% of the times you are.
Don't believe me? Go ask for a 20k raise if their eyebrows shoot up like Mr. Spock then you know how much you are worth. I sure hope you have another job lined up because that's the queue to them you are looking.

This has been my experience and I have done exactly what I have stated above.

I now do security and compliance. No more wake up calls, no more you can't go on vacation because Oct. through January is the time of the year where we make our money.

Oh and that 100K salary mark gets very hard to justify every year especially when the CFO looks at the books and has a list of who is making over 100K per year. Unless of course you live in California and NewYork then that's welfare wages.
Probably 'Readit' for Windows Phone 8.1 It's a Reddit client.
I think I met this bug myself once, the tower can attack the archer but you have to manually make the tower do so, the automatic attack doesn't reach far enough. Thanks for the reminder.
It's under LGPL. The LGPL allows you to relicense your work under the GPL, if you want.
I believe it's still a "feature" in the sense that HN wants to discourage text submissions, but I think it's very arguable if this a good way of doing it.
The problem with Understanding Comics is that most comic readers are sensible enough to know that American style comics are bad, so they all read manga instead. Most of the books about that aren’t translated though there is Even a Monkey Can Draw Manga.
I thought a balance would be great, but neither of my kids liked the balance bike we bought. They rode with training wheels for quite a while.

What got them riding without training wheels was learning to ride Razor scooters. One afternoon when I saw them both riding sweeping S curves on their scooters, I took their training wheels off. At 6 and 7 1/2 yrs, they when from total terror on their bikes to riding comfortably in a few hours. It only took a few rides with me running alongside holding on (continually holding on less each time).

It was amazing.
Absolutely fair and agreed.
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If anyone does want to get more into the internals of Git without playing with a production repo, I built a "playground" awhile ago which creates a simple Git repo of synthetic commits which you can then play around with:

https://github.com/dmuth/git-rebase-i-playground

I know it says "rebase -i", which originally what I built it for (and what the exercises in the README are for), but you can really do whatever you want in it, and blow away/rebuild the repo with the included script.

Enjoy!
It’s so fun!

I learned this a while back when I was deep in @font-face and web fonts and style sheets.

I was almost immediately discouraged because, modern features like @font-face were inconsistently supported.

Haven’t checked I a while now, maybe it’s better.
Correct me if I’m missing something here - but a lack of conflicts during rebase only means that the few lines surrounding your changes weren’t changed in the upstream. The rest of the repo changed, and this will often cause some kind of inconsistent state. I’ve encountered this situation frequently when using git bisect.
I am not sure how to interpret this comment. :-|

edit: Heh! Go thank Elm's author, not me. :-P
Yes, people definitely thrive more on complaining.
Actually I found two things very scary.

1. The ignorance on the part of the police and agents was stunning. Conflating Hindu and Muslim?

2. The explosive alarms.... Evidently they are set to detect some very common household chemicals. Based on the story I am assuming the culprit in this case was household ammonia. It isn't clear to me that the agents would have any idea as to what could trigger a false positive either.
Hey Chris, you mentioned watching people use Light Table, but have you done any full usability studies? At the startup where I work (also aimed mostly at programmers), we've had great luck with usability studies.

Basic idea: bring in 3 or 4 programmers who've never seen Light Table before, explain that you're testing the app and not them, and ask them to perform a few simple editing tasks without help, narrating their thought process, while you watch and take notes.

It can be painful to watch people struggle the first time you do a study, but you learn a lot about what people find confusing in your app — and how you can make it better.
Then fix the biggest issues you identify and do another study in a month. I've seen this approach yield massive improvements, and I bet it would for you too.
I imagine it's something along the lines of "ok device, you have 10ms to play with the link before anyone's watching, do what you need to do." For example, electrically detecting the wattage of the power supplied over the link by examining its responses to various inputs. (I have no idea whether that's at all relevant here or if it's even the right part of the stack, I'm just offering an idea of why the device might like the controller to say "I'm not watching right now".)
Doesn't seem like Nginx Plus is hugely different from the open-source offering. I don't get the backlash. You are paying mostly for support - not the product. I'm fine with that.
> I wonder how much longer these services are going to stay free. I like to download all the content just to be sure that it's not taken away when they eventually go to paid models.

I also download everything. I'd hate to want to reference a lecture later only to find it missing.

Last I heard, Coursera was still searching to find a revenue model. I've noticed their "resume" section expand, and you can now opt in (or is it out, by default?) to job hunter searches. Which makes me curious as to what Coursera's revenue-generating product is going to be. Is it the database of people with certified(-ish) skills, or will it be the content they provide?
It's pretty bad when the author continuously does what he is accusing the rest of the world of doing wrong.
What system do you use to answer the support emails? I'm looking into this for my small team (4 of us) but don't want to pay the $30+/month it costs to have each of us setup w/ Zendesk.

Is it just as simple as forwarding the e-mails to everyone?
Lot's of people form Shopify show up for the regular startup drinks events.

By the way, we love the Tony's Tim program. We hired 2 people directly from there. You should track our careers page and apply for some coop positions when they come up :-)
Oh, Nikola -- missed your chance for an extra jibe in there. "...a little theory and calculation" -- and a big electromagnet, assuming a ferric needle.
Sorry, I meant feed as in RSS...that content-wise, those are exactly what I'm looking for. Just wanna get 'em in Google Reader!
I'd love to see one completely done in html5/css3/svg/canvas
Love it. Also worth trying Southampton to Swansea :)
Yahoo stores was a great product for as long as Paul worked on it.
Exercise does not guarantee a good night's sleep and can actually hinder it. Good health does (guarantee a good night's sleep). The link between exercise and sleep has more to do with the fact that people who exercise are mostly in better health that the counterparts.
This is something that I seem to disagree with a lot of people on. Dupe-police have existed on reddit, digg, slashdot, here, and just about every other social bookmarking website I've ever used (including my own).

I hate them. Why? Because the entire point of social bookmarking is to find things you find interesting, not things that you find unique. That little arrow to the left of the title means "I found this link interesting. I think other people will find it interesting as well."

It absolutely does not mean "This link is unique. Nobody has seen it before." If that were the point, we could just pipe RSS feeds into the URL submitter, couldn't we?

The very fact that links are appearing on the front page means that a lot of people haven't seen them yet. It means that they got some utility out of reading them, and it means that they thought others would too.

Sometimes, dupes are good. I don't remember who said it, but that Louis CK interview that gets posted every once in a while, where he is talking about how we're surrounded by wonderful technology and yet nobody cares, they said something to the effect of "I wouldn't care if this was stickied to the top of the page and everybody had to watch it every single day before they post. He is making an excellent point."

Now, I think this is a bit excessive, but the point stands. It isn't about being unique, it is about being good.
Indeed. For example, retaining a method name like "defn" seems more than a little suspect in an era of gigabyte memories, terabyte hard drives, and auto-complete IDEs.