jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
So hypothetically if you didn't care about people sniffing your non-https traffic there's little to be gained from a VPN? Besides various metadata collection and DNS queries.
Perhaps you could find people that are willing to install these sensors outside their windows. You could run them from a power adapter to get more than 3 days worth of data collection + less hassle from cops.
If you are moving this project into the Tendernob and need a place to put equipment on Pine St, I'd be happy to help out.
I had similar problems when I had someone from Vietnam working for me (she had worked with me here at a larger corp, then went home and worked for me.) I was able to break through to a human on the US phone number, got the account unlocked, and then made sure my Vietnamese employee did everything through a NAT/VPN setup that gave her one of my US IP addresses.

The phone support wait was long, but I haven't really had any trouble since. Of course, I don't really let money build up in my paypal account; I'll spend it on hardware or move it to my bank account. it's pretty rare there's more than ten grand in paypal, and usually it's more like one to three grand, so that might make it easier.
As the Times said, "As you no doubt realized, the entry with the highest rate of look-ups per use isn't really a word at all. Baldenfreude is a nonce word -- a one-time coinage, in this case Maureen Dowd’s fanciful twist on schadenfreude.", so your ire seems a little misdirected.
Thanks for the pointers,

Ive been looking into WD raptor drives, I dont really need much space. Itll only be my root&home partition so a 150-300gb drive will do.
Even though i havnt had the best experiences with Seagate, i was also looking at the Constellation ES drives, which seem to promise high reliability, but after consulting newegg reviews i decided otherwise.
This is really true for me. I've been singing for a few years, and I'm still really bad. But I noticed that my pitch wasn't good all the time and had a hard time correcting it.

Now I try to focus on each note and listen to the tone I'm actually singing and that corrects the whole thing. I also pull myself into a kind of a mode where I hit the notes.

But I'm still not good, but at least my pitch has changed dramatically in the last couple of years or so.
typical, williams.
HARO sounds good! I'll take a look into that.

Thanks for all suggestions
Umm, that's a bit backwards -- the 10k hours number comes from research by K. Anders Ericsson et al, and the first papers mentioning this are from the early nineties, if not earlier (as for book references, it's discussed in Ericsson's "The Road To Excellence" that predates the Cambridge Handbook by a decade).
I would suggest that the data is more useful when combined with information on the negative effects of noisy environments. For instance see http://www.designshare.com/research/lmaxwell/noisechildren.h... for some information on impacts of noisy environments on children's ability to learn.
It looks like a plumbus.
I read a book or something online by Michio Kaku where he was passionately against launching any kind of nuclear material because of the possibility of the rocket exploding before reaching space.
Literally the first thing I'm tempted to test with that thing is how much force it would take to break it. It looks like it would not take much.
I don’t the the BDSM connotation is the main issue. It’s a slur for “disabled person”.
I like the idea, but it looks like there are tons of tasks offering $60 for some simple feature.

Someone asked for an Angular.js dashboard for $1600. After taxes, that would be less than $1000. That's not an appropriate payment for a week's work. It's not an appropriate payment for two days work.

Have you been successful with this?
What's a "layering violation"? Who draws the borders between the "layers"? Isn't "layering" just another way of invoking the status quo?
Can you find the original problem? That sounds intriguing!
Google doing it too doesn't somehow absolve Microsoft's transgressions.

People are also weary of Google doing this and you see comments on it in almost every discussion on HN of a Google product.
The same happens a lot in the industrial control arena.

The machines have far outlived their electronics.
Loud, yes. Extension springs are still found on single-piece doors.
...at least spell it right :-/
Indeed. Even the word "slave" comes from Slavs, who were white, and enslaved so much it got named after them.
Smallish subset here perhaps but then HN is not representative of the wider programming community.

I for one think JavaScript is an utterly hideous language full of all kinds of gotchas and abortions and that the only reason it has any relevance is it got their first.

I will take PHP over JS (and Python over both).
I'm glad I know enough to realize how utterly terrible this post is, but I really feel bad for someone who doesn't know better and actually thinks there's something of value here. They will come away a worse JavaScript programmer then they were before.
It depends on what your ethical framework is. I'm a consequentialist, so whichever action produces better consequences I think is the right action regardless of the rules. You sound like a deontologist, to whom following the rules (not necessarily the law) is what it means to be ethical.
I don't know if they're hiring, but I love the guys over at Venmo. It's my favorite Philly startup.

Or if you want to trek across the state over here, we (Pittsburgh) have a serious lack of good programming talent.
>Google gave away phones at I/O last year

Knowing and hoping are different things. This year I/O sold out very quickly. I got around to signing up, during the early bird period, and my dreams and hopes were dashed by a registration full notice.
Which don't run Symbian
What a waste of everyone's time. You know where else it's hard to delete your account? On a ton of Web sites. Many sites do not include this option. I also don't see an (obvious) way to delete your account off of Hacker News. Would you have to email Paul Graham?
Actually, I'd argue that a high karma score predicts a higher level of writing skill. In that vein, I would argue that writing skill is almost as important as hacking skill in most jobs, startups included. I believe PG and others have said something about this but writing skill allows you to accurately convey your own ambitions and competence to the people who will matter.
He was referring to the technical sessions.
I'm in the same boat but for different reasons. I find learning a new language challenging and fun, I've just become bored with .NET and decided to pick up Ruby on Rails. I've seen great community in RoR, beyond what can be found for .NET, but that's not to say .NET has no community.
It sounds like they're not interested in those types of businesses though. They want to invest in the easily scalable.
Not lame at all, the ability to think in and see abstractions is one of the most significant realizations in any/every area of life, regardless what field it occurs in.

My biggest Aha moment was when I realized that abstract art uses similar thought processes as computer science and software engineering to produce abstract representations of some aspect of reality. The specifics and logical rigor differ, but the general idea is the same.
First off: Mania only describes the up phase, bipolar is the term for describing both up and down (depression being the down phase).
Insomnia is usually more a symptom of depression (as in not being able to fall asleep), manic people generally just tend to be overly energetic, needing very little sleep (like 2-4 hrs a day) for long periods of time.
Trigger wise you can induce this energetic up feeling by depriving yourself of sleep (by which I don't mean insomnia, but actively keeping your sleep cycles short), but you will pay the price at some point.
If you own 1 share of Twitter and you're on the board, and you own no other shares, will that 1 share be much incentive, do you think?

And what are the chances that a large publicly held company has board members who own just that company's stock??
I have a Palm Pre. Previous Palm devices weren't that great from the little I've used them. WebOS is amazing though. It is, without exaggeration, the best piece of software I've ever used.
I agree wholeheartedly with all of that; in general, actually, I think lambdas in Python should be used sparingly, if at all, and I think Python makes up for any limitations with its other features (e.g. generators, function decorators, list comprehensions, &c.)

The issues with Python's lambdas really come up when you start trying to do things the Haskell-esque way—which is to say, the super-functional category-theory-on-the-brain way—which can be the right solution to certain problems (e.g. monadic parsers) but tends to be difficult to express in a way that's pleasant, non-hacky, and Pythonic. But I am of the personal opinion that Python's design choices make sense and I don't want to rail against it for not being Haskell or Ruby; I just wanted to show how anonymous functions in particular differ from language to language.
This one isn't a prisoner because he hasn't been convicted.

In the US system, there's a distinction between jail (i.e. pre-trial detention) and prison (i.e. post-conviction incarceration).
I switched from XEmacs to GNU Emacs a couple years ago, when it got font antialiasing. Pretty trivial reason, but boy is it easier on these old eyes.

Porting over my key combinations was trivial, of course.
I don't understand why we can't apply what he seems to suggest (treating governments and politics in a smart efficient manner) without navigating the high seas and creating new land.

That's just giving up on all the land we already have. That, for a starter, seems pretty defeating.

edit: We keep on forgetting that our government (the US) was created on purpose to be very slow but ultimately fair. That's the inefficiency, yet it's still a great place for startups. That, coupled with our 300m citizens, makes something like this harder to do in a country like this. That's why we haven't been too successful in creating startup communities outside of 2 or 3 places in the entire United States.

Yet, this can work in a lot of places. Or, rather, we can try to start applying it in a lot of places. Smaller places that have seen similar successes. I'm thinking Dubai, Israel, etc.
Lying to people and manipulating their sympathy to validate a business idea is wrong. I imagine the OP didn't imagine this was something that had to be pointed out to people--even if you don't agree with that viewpoint it's not exactly a difficult one to imagine, and it's better to state as a premise that it's a bad idea rather than bog down a blog post--which seemed more focused on discussing alternative methods--into a tedious moral argument that won't convince anyone.
No, but Gladwell is.
Bad news for this guy:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2318859
The central problem is lack of incentives, or misaligned incentives. It has relatively little to do with the character of the developers. Developers are generally not stupid. Many of them could learn to be better designers, and they could certainly learn to consult with better designers. But why should they?

If software is sold based on a checklist of features then it is more important to build ten ugly features than one beautiful one. If software is sold based on beautiful demos then it pays to make the demo awesome but skimp on the corner cases. If software is sold based on gorgeous screenshots and icons then the median icon or screenshot will be gorgeous, even if the app itself is missing or broken. (Even the broken iOS apps have beautiful, beautiful icons.)

If your company has so many layers of management that the feedback from end users never makes it back to your desk, you'll generate designs that please your management.

If you're at a bootstrapped startup, searching for product-market fit, it pays to design incrementally. Even if incremental design is the wrong approach for the problem, it still pays to design incrementally, because a better-designed app with no market is a disaster. That means that there are many theoretically possible designs that are difficult or impossible to achieve in practice.

The trick to improving the design of software is to figure out how to make it pay. A major enemy is the rate at which the landscape changes. Computing still changes so quickly that there's a premium on disposablility. The jury-rigged contraption built of metaphorical duct tape may be barely usable, but it's cheap and quick to build, and in a year nobody will care: They'll have traded it in for the next model, or the platform will be obsolete and everyone will have to move, or you will switch jobs (perhaps by selling the product to Cisco) and you won't care anymore.
You had me me on board... until you made the claim the app store was clearly in the users best interest.. I was a user for 2 years before I was a dev.. and the app store is still the worst part of my iPhone ownership.. It's an awful mess that feels mostly unusable.
One theory I've seen for tech firms building up vast cash stockpiles is that for many shareholders, dividends are not what they want. They want share price growth, because of the relative tax treatments of dividend income and capital gains.

Of course this will vary from country to country etc.
This is pointless. It's impossible to create two pages that link to each other, for one. Also, as noted, most browsers won't allow URLs greater than 2k in size.
I see what you mean, and wish you the best.

Thanks for the reply.
There are also many featured (top-billed, "New and Noteworthy", "Staff Favorites", etc) apps and, at least on the iPad, there's a "Genius" function that recommends apps based on what's on your device already. I agree the store could be considerably better, though.
I didn't read closely, but looks like an ES6 version of angular.
Oh boy, we don't need any more Excel abuse then there already is...

You wouldn't believe the kind of behemoth Excel monstrosities there are out there. Because when your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
As software developers, we can help by building easier-to-use frontends. For instance, GPG is a great program, but the front end is lacking a bit the last time I used it.

We can also build systems designed from the beginning to think about users privacy and data security.
I'm a digital nomad, but no I don't think that would be attractive. It sounds like you'd likely leave the villa after a month with nothing to show for your efforts. In a vacuum maybe itd be cool. But in a competitive market, it doesn't seem like a good opportunity. If they wanted to go to Costa Rica, the average nomad (in my experience) could easily rent their own accommodations, pay their own travel, and have lots of money left over if they just took on regular contract work instead.

So whats the pull with this? Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.
> You see the point I'm driving at, though?

Yes, absolutely. I thought you were right on the money with the words but I figured a bit of code would do wonders to hammer it down.

Erlang does an even better job I think:

[X * X || X <- lists:seq(1,10), X * X > 10, X * X < 100].

Or:

[Y || Y <- [X * X || X <- lists:seq(1,10)], Y > 10, Y < 100].

Slightly longer, but without that X * X repetition.
My theory is first while it is not rare, I think a majority of developers want to stay developers and not really take on that type of role. Just like Captain Kirk, we've rather be commanding a starship than be an admiral. However, I also think it is rare to find an opportunity like you state. Normally a person would grow into this role in a company. I've never seen some one looking for a VP with zero experience. So the people who would like that position probably aren't looking for it. I would love a role like you mention but never been offered anything like that. So part of your problem is just a search issue. The people are out there but you need to find out how to look for them.
That's weird, I'm not seeing these popups, and Google says the site is OK: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=savedeo....
Enumerate the STEM jobs that won’t create a life for you.

Go. To. Medical. School.

Stop thinking a Bachelors in STEM is enough. It’s a not a bet. The literally moronic other majors half of you pick is a bet. I’ve seen all of your resumes and there is literally totally dumbfounded major choices.

In fact, I’ll go as far as to say web development will create less of a life for you long term than most other STEMs. People in serious STEM majors just don’t want to put the work into post-bachelors education and cop out. We all know this.
Compliance can be forced by law in a country which is capable of self regulation.
Write a script to curl speedtest every minute and have fast internet speed all the time?
The parking requirement is just a symptom. The problem is everyone with some stupid pet interest tries to use the zoning code or other local laws as a backhanded way of legislating a monetary bar to entry. They don't want triple deckers, they want classy luxury apartments. They don't want a distribution center. They want a white collar office park. They don't want industry and jobs, they want high end retail and dining. But you can't go from suburbia to downtown without the middle steps so of course no meaningful development happens.

If we just respected property owner's rights to do as they see fit we wouldn't have these problems or not nearly to the same extent.
Doesn't Netflix also provide hardware with caches to ISPs? Thought I saw that somewhere. (Not saying you're wrong; just mentioning what might be another factor.)

EDIT: Here's what I was thinking of: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/
That’s pretty defeatist. A cartel of corrupt politicians and large cable companies conspired to regulate against it.
These regulations can just as easily be removed and replaced with proper net neutrality rules.
I would like to see the specific textbooks in question here, but for anyone who doubts there are attempts to shove “CRT” or similar ideological issues into math classes, here are a couple of examples:

- NYT: Should Social Justice Be Part of Math Education? Proposed guidelines in California would de-emphasize calculus, reject the idea that some children are naturally gifted, and build a connection to social justice. [1]

- Math Suffers From White Supremacy, According to a Bill Gates-Funded Course. "White supremacy culture shows up in math classrooms when... The focus is on getting the 'right' answer." [2]

[1] https://archive.ph/Dm1HH

[2] https://www.newsweek.com/math-suffers-white-supremacy-accord...
Would you even know if DDG stopped returning results for site:cnn.com?
You also have a lot of women doing the same to men. Gamergate is a bad situation all around.
Not all JavaScript runs in the browser
How does this help people coordinate? If your time is different from mine, how do we get to the same place at the same time?
It's not every American, it's every human being. This isn't just happening in US but most likely in every democratic country as well. We're not special or unique in this area, yes we should be leading the world in terms of how to protect our privacy but we haven't led in that area for decades. So I'm not surprised about this.

Now, as for the question. The problem is after 9/11, everything changed. People did task the government to prevent further 9/11 attacks and sadly, they can only do that by doing what they're doing now. IMO, 9/11 wasn't the point of what the terrorists were doing, but the aftermath of it.

I'm the man who believes that we don't deserve security if we use it to justify the loss of our rights. However, that belief is easily shaken when and if my family are harmed in an attack that could've been foiled, and my first reaction would be, why didn't the government stop it? So, you can see the problem right here.

Nothing is worth losing our rights over, we fought so many wars to protect it, suffered so many loss as the result of the wars, and yet, we're giving them up easily for terrorism.
Ok, similar, yes. But isn't that still a bit of a different issue? To my knowledge that had nothing to do with moral judgements and everything to do with conflicting laws at the federal & state levels, and the open debate over states' rights.
“pedantic as this article makes them seem to me.”

The article doesn’t make them seem anything.

You have done nothing but attack the author, rather than the substance.

At best that’s a poor kind of reasoning.
Analysts and data engineers these days mostly work on seperate data warehouses? Do they get involved in the OLTP work in your case?

I was talking about using SQL specifically for the OLTP workload not analysis. If a query that is necessary for a backend response in some REST API ends up taking 10 minutes, but could have taken 100ms if the backend developer just knew what they were really doing over in the SQL land....the backend developer will probably waste a lot of time doing silly things with the tools available to him/her (perhaps introduce redis to cache stuff there is no need for caching, build their own fragile homegrown index table or aggregation table manually using 100 to 1000 lines of backend code plus tests, and so on).

I mean, noone ships a totally broken application that noone can use because it is so slow then asks the SQL expert to optimize it onve it has shipped!! Instead any lack of knowledge of underlying database will just mean reinvention and needless and fragile cruft in the backend code.

Note: I am against abstracting away the specific database technology you sit on (whether some SQL or not). If you are on SQL, know about indexes and materialized views (and their limitations) and so on and use them to implement efficient API endpoints, let your model in SQL directly handle any questions about idempotency or races in your API, and so on.

If you are talking about just abstracting away the SQL syntax, not the DB technology as such... such abstractions I am "meh" about, not very against them but they are usually very leaky so... They don't seem to bring anything fundamental for or against just syntax candy (getting in the way in my case).
I predict that a carbon tax (or something similar) would motivate replacement of all ICE ground vehicles with battery electric before carbon capture becomes cheap. Then later when synthetic fuels arrive they'll only be used by airplanes. It's possible technologies could arrive in a different order though.
I’m no fan of Google these days (I use DuckDuckGo) but I’m not sure I can entirely fault them with the decline of search quality. Spamdexing is burying the web in mountains of garbage. Malicious SEO and fraud have exploded and continue to grow at an accelerating rate.

What do we do about all this? I don’t know. I want to see a new kind of search engine that can mine through all this crap. I would build it myself but I’m too busy with school right now. I would like to see an experiment with static websites that have no JavaScript and no cookies. The kind of thing that was the original promise of the web: a collection of information connected by hyperlinks. How we get a search engine to achieve that, I don’t know (it may take other tools as well), but I think it’s worth a try.
She performed the valuable economic function of separating fools from their money.
It's also worth noticing that the author of the Forbes thing is a "Forbes contributor" i.e. a person using the Forbes blogging platform, not a Forbes journalist. Serious topics deserve better journalism than this article.
Read or listen to ‘The Company’ for a fantastic look back at spying during the Cold War. It introduced me to Philby