jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Taken from my recent YC app:

When I was a freshman in high school, I spent a lot of time building custom PCs for friend's parents to make some extra cash on the side. An issue I ran into early was I never budgeted for the cost of Windows XP Pro so I was left either telling them their order would cost an additional $200+ or use a hacked/stolen/whatever key. I decided that neither was the most opportune option. "The Art of Deception" by Kevin Mitnick was one of my favorite books at the time, and using some of the knowledge gained from that, I found a loophole in Microsofts phone-tree that allowed me access to a high-tier representative. I then came up with a few clever and elaborate scenarios and ended up receiving over $5000 worth of Windows XP Pro keys without ever paying a cent...or buying an initial copy for that matter.
This happened to me but it somehow ended up in Spam. I use gmail.
> while we are trying to tackle being a multi planetary species

Don't worry, as long as we don't any better than fossil fuels, we're not going anywhere soon except a couple hundred of us maybe.

Musk and the others are mostly selling dreams at this point.

And I have yet to understand what's the point to live in a box on Mars, since you could always do it way more easily on earth if the need arose.
That's a good plan. I doubt Microsoft would ever implement it.

And most of what you wrote is what Apple did with iOS, it's actually just Mac OS X with the GUI torn off completely.

Really, a touch API for .NET would go a long way for promoting it in tech circles. The problem is that the bosses are in love with iPads.

Mono for Android, maybe.
The only feature I care about and what I've been hurting for for years is some means of segregating the Groups bacn. Some of most personally significant correspondences I've ever had are in my Messages Inbox. In the early days, it had a sentiment-noise ratio second only to a shoebox I keep in the back of my closet. Now it's 95% garbage from Groups/Events I value just barely enough to not unsubscribe from. I recognize the value of those messages given their own context, and I also recognize that the signal's dropped off since I'm no longer a 19-year-old drama whore.

But the simple ability to sort personal messages from mass bacn is still the #1 feature I've wanted from Facebook, through all these years of feed redesigns and app platforms.
I've read the book and while I enjoyed it, there were a couple of things I wish had been included.

I wish the author had included more contemporary examples of stoicism in practice. He mentions Admiral Stockdale's experiences but does not get into any detail. It would have been nice to see how people in recent history have put Stoicism into practice, instead of just hypotheticals. It would have also been interesting to tie ancient stoicism to contemporary work done in psychology, neuroscience, and sociology.
When we were flying from SFO last year, we spotted an unattended suitcase in the check-in desk queue. Naturally, we told the nearest TSA agent. Imagine how shocked we were when he seemed totally disinterested. He told us someone had probably left it for a minute, and had we asked the people around? After some encouragement, he asked the people around and after finding no owner, picked it up and moved it out of the queue to the side, still in the main terminal.
Didn't seem to state whether the email will have POP3/IMAP access, if not this just seems to be an attempt to push more of our lives onto Facebook without a great amount of gain.
I know, questionable relevance.. but I figured anyone who's had as much late-night code fueled by the previous record, will understand. Audible caffeine.
You could probably recruit ex-military

http://www.mikeroweworks.com/job-site/vetsmilitary-resources...
A well architected DRM could support lending and even support an aftermarket for used "media".

However, it seems more likely Hollywood will eventually decide they're not selling media, but "entertainment experiences", and will try to train consumers to pay for the experience. Hollywood would like that, since one can't conveniently resell a used experience.
We just started out one and a half week ago, joining the Pragmatic Programmer's writing month. We though a 'release early, release often' approach would be best, that's why there are just a few in-progress chapters.

We will keep you posted, and thanks for the encouragement!
Lazyweb: is there a way to get this to be the default handler for connecting to my heroku db?
"Google makes money off advertising, not software"

AFAIK that's not true. While the core of Android is free as in beer, if you want Gmail and any other Google-branded software on your handsets, you'll have to pay.
So it's... Yahoo groups? I hope you've done it a lot better than they did. Their interface is horrible. Almost every group I'm on, most people just use the email list because the Yahoo interface is so horrid.
Excellent, glad you like the idea. If after trying it feel free to drop us some feedback on here or via the contact us section the site. Thanks
I assumed this would be an article about there being a much more even playing field wrt information about pricing.

Back in the day, if you wanted a diamond, you went to one of a few local jewelers and that was your choice. Now you can order from the internet.

However, unlike most other industries disrupted by internet information sharing, a jewelers entire business model was predicated on them knowing more than you, which is now lost.

However, the article makes a good point. All the millennials I know care a lot more about their phones than their rings and earrings.
Another way of putting it is "My current employer regards salary as confidential and proprietary information." If they push, ask if your potential employment would include information that they expect you to keep confidential.
Stated right in the quote you copied "entry-level talent". Are you entry level?

If not, then your recruiting emails mean little.

If yes, then your assessment of other entry-level programmers who happen to have come from bootcamps is perhaps less valuable.
There are also whole leap days once every four years
That's a negative externality which doesn't pertain to how valid the current valuation is, which is the subject I was addressing.

Externalities by definition don't feature into the price, although perhaps they do only to a very small extent in the case of BTC because of political/regulation risks leading to a risk premium effect.
First, thank you very much for taking my criticism so well. I did my
best not to be harsh but I know I could have done better. I'm sorry.

Second, I'm gratified to learn that you're not teaching the more
potent forms of breathwork. That makes me walk back a lot of what I said
above. I apologize for jumping to that conclusion from a superficial
reading of your page and what you said above.

> All of our teachers are trained by professionals, including trauma
informed training from professionals at UCSF. We always make sure the
customer is empowered to stay in a zone that feels comfortable to them.
Additionally, when we breathe in this way we are doing similar things to
the body as we do with cardio exercise, so it's generally totally safe
and the physical sensations of the breath subside when you stop the
pattern. Of course we are not doctors so we recommend, in the same way
that any gym or physical exercise solution does, that you should consult
your doctor before engaging in cardio vascular work.

Ah, well, shut my mouth. :) As you say, that doesn't sound any worse
than e.g. those indoor climbing gyms, eh? (Why not put the grippy things
on a big cylinder suspended over a ball pit and slowly rotate the
cylinder? Much safer and more fun than climbing up and down, no?)

Still, there's a little bit of the "blind leading the blind" if you're
teaching homemade techniques without a depth of experience (as in decades
of experience.) There are good reasons why Guru and Lineage figure large
in the structure of traditional methods of transmission, beyond just the
economic obligations. (One invisible problem in the West is that we have
almost no modern tradition to fit this sort of knowledge into our
society. I.e. Venkataraman Iyer would have died homeless on the street
somewhere if he had lived in the USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramana_Maharshi )

To put it in concrete terms, are you going to know what to do if one of
your students has some sort of abreaction[1] with your methods, as mild as
they may be? I've seen a lot of weird stuff go down out there in the
wild, among the bush psychologists and street shamans, and while it
mostly turns out okay, I've had friends become shattered shambling
homeless madmen.

Good luck and God bless. :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abreaction

> a psychoanalytical term for reliving an experience to purge it of its emotional excesses—a type of catharsis. Sometimes it is a method of becoming conscious of repressed traumatic events.
Jan 12 2021? See https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commits/v2.1
"Google's algorithm is smart enough to recognise Neg SEO attacks"

This is mysterious to me. That bad links hurt your site unless someone else bought them. Google's smart and all, but?
> I don't understand which stakeholders will actually materially benefit from Brexit.

Two types:

- the spivs who felt harangued by all those reasonable EU rules, and are now free to again abuse the unwashed masses (like Farage selling scams on Youtube, or the gentlemen selling flammable cladding to builders). I knew a guy like this, holding dangerous chemicals in his garage and moving goods from China to Iran without ever entering the EU, to avoid any scrutiny of their debatable quality... Kind man but ethically challenged, so to speak.

- the oligarchs who couldn't bend Bruxelles' ears as well as they can make the weather in Westminster. Some of them are not even English, but London is their plaything.
We're scaling out Scala to a larger team here at work, and part of the effort is certainly about putting in guardrails.

In fact, a lot of it is putting in thr guardrails people like from Go: enforced autoformatting, banning unused variables, fatal warnings, etc. are all just a flip of a switch these days (though we only enforce these things on-merge, people are free to test locally regardless, which I understand is a big pain point in Go!)
bots really don't change anything about penny auctions

Hm, surely they would put the naive users who don't have bots at a further disadvantage?
And never mind the fact that in the vast majority of the US, you'll be burning coal, petroleum or NG to recharge it.
Does this mean that vegans are more likely to be Vitamin D deficient (and vegetarians to a certain degree)?
The solution for that is to reverse positions and have the consequences of your logic performed on you.

In a good system you don't care on which side of the ledger you're on, which is something that that same logic would allow you to deduce.
> Spotlight is also a very capable calculator

And a pretty nice dictionary and PDF finder.
You only need a couple of good things

1. Exceptionally good at technology and engineering
2. Marketing - so you could understand what markets are out there. We (Sequoia) weren't interested in creating markets, but in exploiting markets early.

The art of storytelling is very important. Many entrepreneurs who come to us can't tell a story. The money flows as a function of the stories (24:45). Learn how to ask a question. Because you want to have a person comfortably telling you what he thinks is important so he can get help.

Only one metric matters in our world for a CFA: cash flow.

Lesson from worst investment: Technology always worked. What didn't work sometimes was the dynamics of the market.

(Stopped at 50:39; will finish later)
"Personally, I think that fixing someone else's bugs is one of the hardest tasks in programming. Depending on how the interview went, it can also be a very depressing and alarming task (autonomy? creativity, opportunity to influence the project? we've found that our recruitment success increased by 10% every time we used one of those words. now here's your task list, go fix some bugs)."

Indeed!

Many developers view fixing bugs as a punishment. Perhaps that is part of the reason why so much software is riddled with bugs.
I've mostly moved over to ebooks myself, but I still have two big concerns about it.

1. How will I share books with my spouse? Is having the same account across multiple (duplicate) devices going to be the norm/permitted?

2. How will I share books with my young kids? Will it require buying an expensive destructible device?
I'm on a 2+1+1 team: 2 hard core techs, 1 manager (but with a serious tech background), 1 sales/marketing/bizdev/business intelligence person.

The sales/marketing person has made connection with all the right people in the industry, has generated a huge interest in our product, has gotten some RFQs running, and has mapped the competitive landscape better than any of us techs could do. (Especially since we are busy coding) - things that you wouldn't necessary look at, such as - who are the key decision makers with a customer organization, what are their internal conflicts and pain points.

Do not underestimate the value of a good bizdev / bizint / sales / marketing person (bbsm).

That said, it is much harder to evaluate the capabilities of such a person -- even for people who do that well -- than it is for a tech guy to evaluate the capabilities of another tech guy. So not every bbsm person is worth their weight in some precious metal - but some (including ours, luckily), do.
I just ordered a suit from them because I kept reading about them and had to try it out myself
Have them write FizzBuzz (or something similar) give them 15 minutes to do it (more than enough time). Leave the room so they don't feel pressured. Offer them the OS and compiler of their choice. Ask them to write it in two or three languages, but only one is OK if they run out of time.

If they write something that compiles, give them a point. If it is well commented, give them another point. If the results are correct, give them another point. More than one language would get another point as would finishing early, etc.

It's pretty easy to weed-out people who cannot program by doing this and it doesn't take that long.
Not only that but he could gather information on the use of those accounts. If they are ever used recklessly then he potentially has information about the group, giving him leverage with authorities. A very crafty play indeed.
That parent company would be GeekNet, Inc. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=GKNT+Profile
You're not an economist are you... graphs could be better but the way it's done takes an extra 20 secs to interpret.
Same: I bought a Nexus One because I was upset with Apple's approach with the iPhone.

My primary concern with Apple and the iOS platform is how they block applications that they view as strategically damaging. The best examples are Google Voice and any ad platform other than iAds for use within apps.

Do I miss the iPhone? I miss the "Apple experience" in some ways, but not enough to move back.

I think Apple is underestimating the power of small but influential communities like this one (followers of Hacker News). The more technologically fluent one is, the more likely you are to move away from the iPhone . . . even though you may have used and loved Apple products for years.

Losing this community will not affect sales numbers directly, but it will affect investment of ideas into the iOS platform over time.

I anticipate more innovation on Android than on iOS until Apple changes their protectionist ways.
Agreed. Anyone that tries big things often enough will have both successes and failures.

And I do seem to recall an overwhelming success like Windows starting off as somewhat of a failure.
I don't understand why you post that having a 'moral' view is something that atheists don't normally do.

Morality and ethics do not come from religion, they were only absorbed by religion the way bacteria absorbs advantageous genes.
I'm glad you mentioned it. I'm not certain if Atari Logo at school, or GW-BASIC at home was my first encounter with programming.

My dad was a EE, and he set me up with GW-BASIC after I checked a book out from the library that had each chapter ending with a "Try it in BASIC!" section. I figured that there would be no problem getting GW-BASIC up and running under dosbox.
In plain text I use name @t domain d0t com
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Spring is not standing still, and I'm not trying to claim it is, but there's still a fair bit of ceremony around a lot of features

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but usually people who are giving the JVM a "second chance" via Kotlin were initially turned off by that ceremony

-

So when someone asks me "What should framework should I try for Kotlin web services?" my answer is usually Ktor.

Because if they had to ask me, they probably aren't going to be that in love with Spring Boot (people coming from Java from example, are usually just going to default to Spring Boot)
Kotlin is taking off on the backend. It took a little longer than some people might have hoped but all the big boys are doing backend development in Kotlin now. Square/Netflix/Uber/Twitter/AirBnB all traditionally Java houses have adopted Kotlin in one way or another.

Scala on the other hand is facing a decline. Less so in Big Data where it is still doing well but I find increasingly it's not being chosen for new backend development.
It's not surprising that the company behind the language would promote use of tools native to that language. They have the incentive to fix the tools if bugs are found to make the ecosystem more attractive. Whether it's a good choice for your use case - you need to evaluate it.
not that is changes your point, but 78s are usually shellac rather than vinyl.
It is also ridiculous to smear Nick Land because he is "ebraced by white nationalists".

For fucks sake, just read something Nick Land has written in recent years and let him smear himself. He literally argues for "hyper racism", composed of scientific racism and eugenics. He also has promoted Atomwaffen affiliated Order of Nine Angles. A literal neonazi terrorist network.

A pathetic hit piece.
What happens when the transmission distance approaches the wavelength?
It's an interesting thought that the reason there's no new Instagram is that Facebook left Instagram as its own thing. If they'd fully absorbed the brand, then there would be a sort of vacuum in the category and someone else could come along.

Instead there's Instagram, dominating the niche.

Instagram isn't just not a competitor, they're a whole new line of defense for Facebook.

It was a really smart play.
Slaves, serfs and human organs were sold on free market in times of feudalism. They are perfectly compatiable.
So this does seem to use some voting mechanism instead of scarcity through PoW.

How do you prevent the sybil attack then if there is no scarcity?

I.e. what prevents an individual from spinning up 10 million nodes to get more voting power?
A. GitHub / GitLab + local clones

B. self-hosted server + self-maintained offsite backup

A is obviously easier than B. And also A has tons of other benefits.
Jane here on the line. Thank you for making this happen, Benedikt! There's a very pragmatic reason why most email providers don't support companies — it's hard to build, firsthand :)
Windows Mobile may have been there before iOS but it came after Blackberry and palm. iOS and iPhone was also revolutionary. Smartphones changed substantially from that.

Internet Explorer wasn't the first browser on the market but by the time Chrome had come around Microsoft had let it languish and it became pretty awful. For a long time Microsoft had convincingly won the browser war.

Same with MSN messenger, it didn't keep up. And nobody has ever decisively won that chat app war anyways .

Smartwatches have been around for a very very long time. What Apple did was get smartphone integration right.

Zune Pass isn't a streaming service, its a DRM laden online music store. So more akin to iTunes than Spotify or Apple Music. And it was very late to the game.
The police in Washington, DC, are definitely interested in CC theft. I question whether the thieves are homeless, because they arrive and leave by car.
> Now would you rather have code that is having a bug but is readable or having code that is incomprehensible but afaik

I don't know the answer myself, but the "Practical C Programming" book argues that clear code that doesn't work is preferable to unclear code which works but is hard to understand (because of its messiness). This is because you understand what's wrong about the clear but non-working code and therefore you can fix it.

I don't know if this maxim works for every situation, but as a general rule it seems ok.
Classic example of justifying a thing with the thing itself. The reason companies need the wealthy to innovate and invest is precisely because capital and credit is privatised. So in effect you're saying people deserve a reward for private capital because capital is private. x) Regardless of your feelings about this, the argument is unsound.
Is there any difference with another audio codec? It's great to see that another player in the market—this time, it's machine learning that produces high-quality calls. I'll keep an eye on the impact in the future. This architecture will surely disrupt our communication industry.
Yep. Neighbor of mine was looking for MUMPS programmers about 6 months ago.
It's not fair that you can't see anything good about Discourse just because of the JS requirement. That's just one handicap.

It has its good points and all of its current features can be implemented (and already has in other projects) with HTML fallback in PHP. But I feel the biggest problems Discourse is attempting to solve is sociological, not software based. Whether software can fix human nature is another topic altogether.

Full disclosure: I don't use Discourse and don't plan to any time soon. I still believe any site/forum worth it's salt should be available via wget so that rules out most web apps (I don't believe a forum should be a web app).
I am very disappointed that this.getSize(); at the end fixes the issue. Since it has no side effects and the value is never used anywhere, I would expect the compiler to remove that call.
An ivy league school and you ended up 10K in debt. Congratulations, you ended up owing very little for a very expensive education.
From what I've seen arXiv has a lot of papers that are new and related. It might be a good place to start.
The company I work for offers bursaries to undergrad students. If I'm not mistaken, they even offer guaranteed industry experience by employing them afterwards. Not exactly the same as your suggestion, but on-par.

These things do exist, and higher education is not solely in the realm of government or colleges' doing. All it takes is for some sparky individual/group to implement it if the need is there. That is why it is very important to let the market price things using regular signals, instead of distorting it with government intervention.

What I mean is that currently there is a big shortage here for good software developers. So companies are willing to spend money on training up, paying college fees, whatever it takes.

On a side note. People are very wary of things such as "indenture agreements". It reminds them of slavery too much (I would hypothesize), as it seems they've conflated historically indentured workers with defacto slaves, despite consent.