jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
"When the time is on you, start; and the pressure will be off." -Yogi Bhajan
I think that naming consultants provide quite a valuable service -- but one must remain realistic. This story depicts everything that can be wrong about that industry, especially the fact that most participants don't even realize how silly they are: http://www.igorinternational.com/clients/wynn-luxury-hotel-b...
Actually Civique sounds like a very nice option for a car brand...
I think you're right, the whole "problem" he's addressing stems from the fact that someone called the original graphics a Venn diagram when they shouldn't have. However, I do think that one of his alternatives is actually quite good, and does convey the same information as the original diagram: http://eblong.com/zarf/pic/thod/venn-inside.png
But that's exactly what he did in the post (see 3rd diagram from the end).
Nice example. Here's another: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Magicicada

http://www.baltimoresun.com/bal-te.ms.cicada10may10,0,563814...
You're thinking short term, Groupon just needs to get to the stage where people think "I'll just check Groupon to see if I can get this cheaper" before every purchase. Then there's a million things they could do to take advantage of that visitor's purchasing intent, local price comparison for example
The power of the GPL comes from copyright. It's siily to embrace one and reject the other.

However, several artists encourage the sharing of their works.
I'm surprised that this site, which is more sophisticated than most out there, still has a relatively high proportion of people who think copyright violation is "stealing".
What are the quirks—both false positives and false negatives—that you discovered through years of evaluating this interview question?

(I’m planning to give the interview question a shot before returning to read any more of your replies.)
Welcome to hacker news! I learned a lot from the video (watched it all, not something I expected when I saw the length :))
It keeps rather well in my experience. The cooker is sealed with an airtight gasket and stays at 140F when the feature is active. That's a pretty inhospitable environment for mold, I think. For context: I live on the east coast in Georgia, which can get rather swampy. Any bread that I buy has a tendency to mold up within about 4-5 days.
> They also expatriate profits from economies

All non-local trade does this.

> probably using international tax minimisation methods.

All companies and individuals make some effort to minimize their tax liabilities.
Huh? Last year, Alphabet spent over $31 billion on R&D and $0 on dividends.
Or during special events.

I remember one Super Bowl weekend trying to get home via cab from Tribeca after the game was over.

Looking down West Broadway, you could see multiple groups of people at each intersection with their arms up trying to get the first cab to go by.

Or during just times in general. When I first moved to NYC, I was my normal polite self when people would say "I hailed it first" and let them take the cab. After the fourth or fifth time this happened with cabs I was 90% I had hailed first, I realized you had to pretend to be some alpha male and shout "Get the F away from my cab!" in order to guarantee you got in the cab.

I don't know if anyone keeps stats on this but I would bet money that the number of fights in NYC due to the above must have gone down once Uber became common.
That makes it seem like a great test, right? It detects environments with mutual lack-of-fit. You don’t want to work there. They don’t what you to work there. Outcome from experiment: both realize this.

As far as interviews go, it’s pretty good.
So I hacked it out in under a half hour. Basically, I wound up cloning some code paths instead of modifying "add_delta". Not sure if I'd pass or fail... but it is a good question to see if someone is comfortable navigating a new code base.
Have not checked HN in couple days, hope you notice this. I misspoke in my original comment I was referring to a jack not gambeson as arrow protection oops. And even bigger problem is that mail he uses is bad quality you can see from ring density and thickness. here is a great set of tests http://www.myarmoury.com/talk/viewtopic.php?t=11131&postdays...
Often tech stacks are in place even before people actually decide what to do

This is a key warning sign IMHO - it means that technical decisions are being made by managers based on fashion rather than engineers based on what's the right tool for the job.
No, it's probably classism instead. Mandating that people rent or own a minimum amount of land means that you can keep poorer sorts out of the neighborhood, which also means their kids don't go to your schools.

It's gated communities, enforced by the government. And proponents want to act like it's morally acceptable because...democracy, or something? As if the fact that people democratically voted on something always means they're right.
They have access to the file system and OS apis
I disagree. Once you learn IAM and able to segregate users into groups each with its own layer of security, then it is good enough.

Often the UI, and docs make it seem like everything is all over the place but AWS feels like lego with some pieces tucked away. That is where I think AWS can be improved upon with a better documentation UI and discoverability.

I do have to commend Google on Flutter + Firebase + Firebase Functions. I think if Amplify focused on serving Flutter users more it could pull me away from Google altogether.

Unfortunately, Google has done a fantastic job with making Flutter integrate with Firebase through Android Studio and there really is no product from AWS that matches its developer friendliness and low learning curve. This makes it very easy to switch.

I guess it is somewhat of a threat because the Firebase Cloud Functions also offer something of a counter to AWS Lambda as much as I love using it with API Gateway.
F-16 was a joint Northrop and General Dynamics project. Manufacturing rights were only sold to Lockheed in the 90's.
Why use Snowflake over BigQuery?
That's not what the extension does, it 'expires' tabs you haven't looked at in a few minutes. Clearing up the memory.

Clicking on the tab will load them.
I'm sure that the 50th time in the last 20 years I've heard we will have hyper inflation will be the time it happens. Any day now the house of cards build will fall and gold will be the only currency worth anything.
Ideas are a dime a dozen, execution and luck are what matters.

Twitter in various forms was done about 5 times (that I saw) before the Twitter came up. Quite a few social networks predated Facebook.
Isn't it just called Go?
>It sounds from the article that the Israeli airport security personal are all ex-IDF.

Every Israeli adult is ex-IDF, except for those adults who are still in the IDF.
Of course, maybe it's a different situation. For example, I know people that have recently switched out all their Cisco gear for Extreme. I think a better indicator would be to look at the earnings of the top five switch makers.
It can be a huge deal if some disgruntled shareholder causes legal problems. Binary outcome - most of the time, no consequences, occasionally, massive ones.

No stats for you but short-term employees seem pretty common. I've had them, and I've been one. I bet you've left jobs before a year was up as well.

Zero percent of short-term employees exercise their options when they leave, because they can't. But options are really cheap prior to a Series A, so I imagine a lot of the early people would if they could.

'Blindly' is the wrong word for going with an established industry standard. Job candidates and investors both understand it and expect it - you don't have to waste cycles thinking about it or explaining it. Startups are fussy enough as it is, no point messing with something that works.
Here's a little secret:

Nobody really knows what they are doing; they're just winging it, more or less.

That's not to mean extremely talented people aren't doing some amazing things, it means that there is no documented pattern to follow that once completed equals success. It also means that you can in fact be as good or better at every "expert" in your chosen field, and that many of the people reading this probably already are.

Everyone is using a blank piece of paper, and everyone is painting their own portrait their own way. Knowing how to both create demand and deliver a perceived value is much more valuable than whatever it is you are actually doing to deliver the product. There is nothing fraudulent about it. Every mechanic is a genius to a person that has never seen a car.
Google realizes this too, and there are a lot of people here that would like to help. There are a few huge issues that always come up.

1. Paranoia about giving competitors the edge they need.

2. Paranoia about giving spammers the edge they need.

3. Privacy. It's nigh impossible to anonymize user data enough to release and still have it in a useful form. The AOL logs debacle hurt everyone.

One of my friends had a really interesting take on this. His belief essentially was that the industry advances when people switch companies and (legal or not) take their institutional knowledge with them. Unfortunately, academia is hard to transfer into.
I was just talking to my wife yesterday about this concept of "not for nerds, but rather for teens" when I was describing an iPhone app I'm working on. The app as it is now works exactly the way I want it to work, then I realized that I may not be the demo I should be targeting.

At this point, my options are to redesign and reprogram the app to appeal more to teens, or release what I have now and go for people looking for utility, then after that work on a version for people looking for fun.
ydzsltg@Dwuftlanv.tce : e-mail address
black socks... now I have no excuse not to make a $5M/y business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topics_in_cryptography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_cipher

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_analysis
Why this won't have the same problems that Google Wave faced:

+ It incorporates existing modes of communication. You HAD to have a Wave account to talk to someone else on Wave, and the biggest issue for me when I got my account was that I didn't have anyone to use Wave with. Facebook doesn't particularly care in this case, it wants to aggregate ALL your communication. You'll stay in touch with your less techy friends who still email you or text you.

+ Large user base with existing friends list. Google Wave started you out from scratch.

+ Really smart product video. Most people didn't want to watch the Google Wave video or got confused by it, whereas Facebook's video is super clear about what it is. It focuses less on the cool tech (unlike Google Wave) and focuses completely on why you will want to use it.
One of the largest consumer electronics merchant in Japan does give you a discount if you pay with bitcoin, coincidentally.
This article suits one HN guideline perfectly: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".
HTML5 means nothing on its own. It is just fluff, a keyword for marketing people to use to look new, hip and buzzword compliant.

It is like AJAX which refers (incorrectly) to techniques that had been in use for ages before the term was coined, and the many names being given to old techniques for dynamically loading Javascript and/or breaking the same-site barrier in order to make them sound new and fresh (rather than just rediscovered now they are more generally relevant as browser use and capabilities have evolved).

HTML5 and AJAX are terms I used to judge people (yeah, I'm petty like this). If someone mentions HTML5 (without more specific about what they mean) or AJAX I just assume they don't quite know what they are talking about until they have proven otherwise...
As a non-typical user with two large monitors, I never notice gnome notifications. They're small and often on the monitor I'm not looking at.
In the OS X GUI, the Authorization Services API handles this. The SecurityAgent process, running as a different uid (_securityagent), controls the window that the user enters her password to escalate privileges.
Well at least they'll remember him and what he said up to that point. Then days/months later they'll disregard some other things he says. Later still they'll realise he was right all along about various things. That's been my experience, and it's taken me ten years to get there. I'd hope that he keeps doing what he does best.
Only a certain type of man can tell the difference between a Jimmy Choo and a Salvatore Ferragamo and that type is immune to the effects you are thinking of. For the rest, the Payless knockoffs will do the trick.
I know you're trolling, but I'll bite. No one is hurt if you use the word "people". People are hurt when you use the words "ghetto" and "sucks". That's the difference.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
Snowboardism: Go Big.

Or, in the words of Frank Sinatra: "If you're going to do it, it's no good unless you do it all the way"

Or Lao Tzu: "Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart"

Taking up a sport? Put in the effort to get good at it. Going travelling? Quit your job and take a year doing it right. Building a startup? Go big.
Another interesting connection between Qt and JavaScript is QWebKit which allows you to run web applications (HTML/CSS/JavaScript) within a GUI widget.

QWebKit also allows you to add custom GUI handlers to events like clicks to certain links, or to prefix each loaded page with a certain piece of JavaScript.
If you're interested in Bitcoin, you may want to check out several other attempts at creating decentralized digital monetary systems.

The Ripple project is creating a system where each node can issue their own unique money, and where transactions occur over paths of mutual trust: http://ripple-project.org/

I just released Rivulet, an alternative Ripple server that should be useful for website owners who want to let their users engage in user-to-user transactions without having to centrally distribute currency to them: https://github.com/jplewicke/rivulet

Pelle Braendgaard has proposed OpenTransact, a standard for RESTful digital transactions, so that we can escape from this mess of incompatible APIs and help people transact in their choice of currency: http://www.opentransact.org/
It seems like it would be a lot easier to simply trade for bitcoins.

That depends on who you are, and what kind of value you can get out of bitcoins. ;)
A retina display is still a backlit screen - not sure how that is perfect for reading. Haven't they been proven to cause eye strain?
That's very true. Not just homophobic, but anti-woman. I try not to say it, but it's been very hard for me to get out of my vocabulary.

And I think "ghetto" as an adjective is even more offensive. It basically means "black". As in, "Ruby stdlib is crappy... like things black people use".
Take a look at the South African Bill of Rights - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_South_Africa_Ch... - it includes rights to education, health care, water, access to information and human dignity (which many of the other rights are a result of).

Perhaps it is a result of our history, but I don't see why promoting a basic standard of living through socio-economic rights is a mistake - you can't properly exercise your right to freedom of speech (which I assume is the sort of right that you are in favour of) without food and water.
yeah, i've heard a lot about this book. just ordered it, kudos
> "Privilege" has more to do with the colour of your skin, than your ethnic background.

This is a ridiculous and racist statement. This places the children of Bill Gates on the same "privilege" footing as a newly arrived Mexican immigrant who happens to have enough European ancestry to have white skin.

There are a huge number of factors that may or may not give someone a foot up in life and their external appearance is just one relatively small contributing factor.
Lots of true stuff in this. Most important point is that this historical idea of individual genius is outdated in a world where scientific progress gets harder. If I know nothing about the world and I want to invent physics any model is better than the status quo. As we come up with better systems that explain more of what we see, improvement is harder, an entire new paradigm shift even more so.

Potential for genuine innovation seems to be in improving collective intelligence. Coordination between institutions, disciplines, communication, and so forth. There's not a day that passes without complaints about how academia, the private sector, the economy and the government don't get along. Fix that and you'll improve innovations.

This Randian hero worship of the VC industry is masturbation and I don't mind the tone of the article because I don't think the message is understood if you'd say it in any other way.
Holy Church of The Order of The Red Breast.

https://419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm

This is a classic from way back in the day…
Is 650mAh/g a lot, how do current battery technologies compare?
Hell, even carrying a backpack's worth of books in your hand is a massive improvement.
I loved the Colour of Magic when I was 14
I think the gain drops off sharply after hosting on your own server.
>Diesel is still a dirty fuel and has done a lot of health damage in Europe.

Gasoline is also a dirty fuel that does a lot of health damage, but the particles in the exhaust are much smaller and less visible, so people mistakenly assume it's cleaner and better than visible Diesel smoke.

Gasoline is arguably worse, since the tiny invisible particulate matter in the exhaust can stay airborne much longer than the larger, heavier particles in Diesel exhaust.
The Cosmos series. Old and new. They're both great.
It's the server-side GraphQL for me :(
At least it's going to charity.
a fair point. i didn't define "VC" well enough.

if another VC from a top-tier fund with at least $500MM under management would like to take the bet, i will make the same bet once more.
They did. Sandhill exchange for example.
Even though it seems like a strange decision, using XML for the stream framing made the protocol nicely pure. It theoretically meant you didn't need to write a parser (this was a rare thing for a network protocol). In practice, though, you're right, most parsers at the time didn't work well with network streams.

Of course, lack of adoption by the big providers was almost certainly political rather than technical.
We provide shorting at http://sandhill.exchange/, but it turns out most people are fundamentally optimistic about startups :)
Sounds familiar: http://imgur.com/gallery/co5RIAx/new
Thx for the feedback. The 4 step graphic will be updated.

We will be updating with multiple revenue channels. None of them include basic traffic, click ads, make a few pennies.
Bentley's articles on acm : http://portal.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100143310&que...

It might require a subscription, though.

It seems to contain the articles from the book, starting with those from 1983.
from the article: "While it worked fine with Tweetie because most of its users probably only use one or two Twitter accounts, Sparrow built it’s UI around it without thinking it through: What about people with several email accounts?"

Since it's a gmail client, I have setup one master gmail account that proxies to all other accounts (configured through the web browser client), and have setup aliases in Sparrow. It works great
We won't do anything to handle exceptions in 3.1. For 3.1, this is definitely a "use at your own risk" feature. Besides handling exceptions, there are a bunch of caveats for using this. You need to use the right web server (unicorn or specially configured passenger), along with the right proxy (nginx or apache with special configuration) and Ruby 1.9.

I've got ideas for handling exceptions, but I just can't make it happen for 3.1. :-(
Coming back to the earlier examples, I think most of what we perceive as badness or decay are just emergent properties of a complex system in which we cannot focus on all aspects at all times

This is a key insight, and it usually takes banging your head against architectures you've created yourself a few times in order for it to sink in. Early on, you think that somehow there must be a "perfect" way of coding. So whenever the system gets a lot of cruft, you feel as if you made a mistake somewhere. The much more likely culprit is the impossibility of keeping enough of the thing in your head at any one time in order to keep it consistent.

I think FP helps with this a lot, and I think we're going to start seeing larger and larger systems moving to FP.

FP is going to bring it's own problems, though, which is why I think a hybrid FP/OOP model, with classes "growing" up from REPL constructs to meet contractual obligations is going to be the future. You'll code in FP, then wire in OOP.
It's a Lifestyle Business. Not everyone wants to hit big. They are happy where they are. Leave them alone.
Have you watched the TED video on their webpage? Watch that.

Here's a blog from Los Altos which is using Khan Academy for some 5th (and 7th I believe) classes:

http://lasdandkhanacademy.edublogs.org/
Should mention the original Emacs mode http://www.dr-qubit.org/undo-tree/undo-tree.el from where it's implemented.
Imperial is mostly for measurements related to the body, (temperature, height/length, weight), presumably due to the amount of people who grew up with it and it's ubiquity in the American media. Pretty much every other aspect of those measurements not related to the body are done in Metric (It's -10c out, my yogurt is 750g, and it's about 5km to the store). Most room temperatures are in Celsius, or have dual options, and those that aren't are typically because we heavily use American made thermostats due to our trade connections, or it's an older model. Almost everything else uses Metric except for small exceptions like Construction which is again due to long/common use and trading with America. Everything with scientists/doctors is Metric.
Battery life is probably a few years, and it looks like the device is designed to be disposable then.
I agree, and the banks should have been allowed to fail. There should not have been any bail out. But that's a completely different argument to the one of "is there cheap enough housing".
So what is Ovh's reputation as a host? Anyone use them? Any problems?

The prices are amazingly cheap, so might be worth trying them just because it won't cost much.
1) Read a lot in an area you're really interested in.

2) Learn something interesting

3) Teach it to someone else (write something about what you've learned, sit a friend down, ring up your mum)

Repeat.

My problem is that now that I work in the area I'm interested in, and by the time I'm done with my work day my brain is completely exhausted, so all I want to do is lounge in front of the telly or similar instead of getting more into the field other than what I'm working on :( (I'm a philosophy post-doc.)