jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It's crazy that we got into this spot where places people live are also expected to be an investment that forever out-paces inflation. It's not sustainable.
That's even better of course.
> 1. Buffett bet against aggregate performance of hedge funds as an investment vehicle. If he restricted his focus to the highest performing funds of the past 10 - 30 years, he would have lost handily.

I don't think this is a caveat. I think this is the point. You don't compare yourself to the literally one guy who won the lottery, you compare yourself to everybody that bought a lottery ticket.

> I say this because there is a tendency for people outside the industry to come away thinking hedge funds are a scam. Which...well, many are, to put it bluntly.

I don't think anybody is assuming every hedge fund on Earth is a scam from this any more than they think lottery tickets are a scam. As you mentioned yourself:

> Taken together, this means that Buffett's bet is a statement about the aggregate performance of the industry.

I apologize if I'm being presumptuous, but is this not so obvious that it can be assumed?
Doesn't radiation mostly cause random one-off errors rather than permanent defects? If so, then if the rad-harden stuff is 100x slower (which I think is approximately right?), it is almost certainly better to use error correction on non-rad-hardened hardware.
It would be good to actually get a meaningful reply to respond to, instead of the downvotes.

The OP plainly claims they are using the name of a competitor's app in an above thread. And that simply doesn't jive with the agreed upon terms and conditions. If that is in fact what is occurring, the OP plainly has no legal recourse whatsoever.

How about proving me wrong instead of down-voting?
Reminds me of Apollo 11, where the computer kept resetting on the way down to the lunar surface but still got Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to the moon with the whole world watching.
Six days old. Are there any recent updates? Didn't see much on the official Twitter or website.
I hadn’t even noticed this to be honest. And I’m not particularly bothered. It just works for me. I’m sure at some point it’ll poke me in the eye but so far this has been the least painful OS for me to use for years.
> "It can at least sound like a statement the school will invest more in some kids than others."

Which side of the bell curve do you think gets more investment dollars? Left or right?
How would it take-off and land without runways?

VTOL flying wing designs have been proposed. But the first step is demonstrating any powered flight at all, which means helicopter.
It doesn't match mine since there's usually far more work to do than time available to do it. Most projects have to heavily triage bug reports and "your program fails on my platform that no one has built in 30 years" has a very low rate of "helpful to anyone else but the bug reporter".
> but isn't there a flaw in the explanation that running usually happened on dirt, grass, and not on the paved streets of New York?

This seems intuitive when considering the difference in impulse between a sidewalk and a grassy lawn, but I'm not sure it actually makes any difference if you have good form - the idea there being that your calves take all the impact (remember impulse, again), versus your knees. Muscles can develop - whereas joints and bones can deteriorate. There's a good illustration of this in the following link from Harvard, which elaborates on the mechanics of foot strike with pretty charts showing the force generated in different scenarios: http://www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu/4BiomechanicsofFo...

I started running in VFFs in September, 2009, but didn't seriously commit to running in them until January of this year. I've since logged 1,200 miles in them and haven't looked back. I've done numerous 20+ mile runs in my Vibrams, including a marathon within the past month. There were 2,700 entrants at that race, but only two runners (including myself) wore VFFs. I haven't had any stress fractures or other injuries since I've started wearing them, even when logging around 60 miles per week. (This is not to say that I disagree with the other comments in this thread.)

I'm pretty passionate about barefoot running. I love to see others joining the movement, so I try to encourage best practices to those making the transition. If any of you have questions about how to take the plunge, feel free to follow up here or contact me via email.
I'd like to note that the foundation had already been laid. Considering the foundation work is largely the longest process in the building anyway, I don't see a 6-day building time as an improvement when you've still got to wait a month or more for the foundation to be laid and cured, then you really haven't advanced much.

Considering that they used 6 cranes and crews working throughout the night, this was still a 18-day regular construction for 8-hour work days. Assuming the 6 cranes were performing equally and to their max this would have been 108-days of construction using a regular Western crew with 1 crane. Roughly a total 30-week construction - sounds about typical to me for non-prefabricated construction, if not rather slow in man-hour comparison and we're talking opposed to unionized labor which is possibly the slowest construction workforce in existence.
1. Solving the right problem

2. Managing Expectations
Related:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQscE3Xed64
Sounds like a good description of "sensing" vs "intuition" in the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator.

http://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-bas...

"Sensing" types will definitely hate this book, as they hate all high-level conceptual talks and writings.
If you're talking about the bill that makes something like Airbnb illegal, their founder commented on it during StartUp School. If I remember correctly, he said that the bill was in response to people who would buy apartment buildings and use all the rooms to make them into an unlicensed hotel.

They talked with the sponsor of the bill and he said that they wanted to work with each other, or something to that effect. I haven't looked into it any more than watching his talk, so I could be wrong.

That's not to disagree with you, though. I find it a cowardly move, as well.
The same was true for YouTube comments, and that's why they switched to Like/Dislike buttons. When it comes to judging the value of things, people tend to be all or nothing.
I don't think he was suggesting that it's not newsworthy, just that he had an expectation, as did I, to get an insight into the apps used during production.
There is probably value in asking why it is appropriate as that will clue readers in to a different meaning due to the fact that writing is not exactly perfect way to convey meaning.
For the record, I got wind of the link from Matt Cutts' twitter feed.
As someone who has had 4 younger siblings diagnosed with ADHD, and who has self-diagnosed with ADHD, I can assure you it is highly overrated as a mental illness. A cousin of mine has hyper-encephalitis with major retardation; that's a mental illness.

*I don't mean to say what you said is irrelevant... having ADHD definitely makes it harder to handle the day-to-day chores... but it doesn't put you in a category where you can't relate to other people about these issues. ADHD is more like a shift in cognition strategy than a genuine disability.
Thank you for the bluntness, at times -- especially now, I think it is needed. I have been in this position twice before where I have been debating what to do in terms of leaving/staying. However this time is different. I have never felt a depression like I have over the past two weeks.

Mentally commiting myself is something I believe I can take hold of. My main issue and worry will be finding a new employer. The area I am in currently, Northern Eastcoast, lacks tech companies. I would have to relocate to Philly, New York, or Boston to get to any hub. And currently money is too tight to do something of that nature.

With this job I got myself into this nasty living paycheck-to-paycheck situation. I will have to have something in place before I leave.
I find reading newspapers to be a waste of time, I much rather just listen to pure news on the radio, news that has no opinion. It just says "10 killed in Hurricane", "BP tried to stop the leak this way, and it fauled, will try method X tommrow"

Thats all I really care about. I don't need to be fed opinion, especially not social liberal ramblings from the NYT or WSJ. If I want to know more about something, I read a book on the matter.
One could perceive antibiotics alone as ignoring a deeper root cause, such as the patient engaging in risky behavior (not washing hands, eating rotten food, etc.). A prescription for statins doesn't necessarily address why the body is producing excess cholesterol.

But, of course, I am not in the medical field.
what happened with Google? They left themselves AFAIK?
You're talented and hardworking. Stop taking this crap and ask him to meet your reasonable demands or leave.

I'm sure someone on HN here would be more than glad to hire you for another startup.
http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/10/six-rules-of-building-s...
It also requires a man to make a child, so isn't it reasonable to expect the father to pay rather than the employer?
I'm really interested in the TextMate hype as I haven't used it myself. But, it's concerning that updates rarely come. Wasn't a 2.0 version suppose to come years ago? It leads me to believe the developer(s) lost interest.
With only an E-mail field to keep track of users who post you are obviously trying to speed up and increase the ease of use, however it could end up decreasing post quality and increasing spam.
I tend to agree; however, if the issue was important enough I think that a significant portion of our population would organize to achieve a goal. Look at how many people showed up for the rally to restore fear and/or sanity which actually didn't have any stated goals.
I passed the CAPTCHA when I signed up. Do I get one as well?
For reference, Perl 5's version: http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-perl-737.html

My personal favorite is the Malbolge version because it made me read up on Malbolge :)

http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-malbolge-995.html
Really? You're writing a C book?
Any product recommendations?
XBMC just changed its name to Kodi.

http://kodi.tv/
How is that relevant here and not just meaningless whataboutism?
There is no absolute right to be heard.

A fire-and-brimstone preacher on a street corner is a nuisance to me, and I won't want to hear him. But it's a public place, so I would just move on to avoid being annoyed by listening to him. Were he to knock on my front door I would tell him "no" and close the door again. Were he to be granted a lecture at the local university I would not bother to attend.

Yes, my mind is already closed and made up on the topics that this hypothetical preacher would like to re-open with me. Both of us think that we know better than the other. So what?
a mobile readable version:

https://getscroll.com/r/6mzz6
I think I know who Dave is making fun of, and yes, there are plenty of stakeholders who are hopelessly lost and willing to "buy agile" to make it look like they are doing something. Just get all the useless project managers to call themselves scrum masters and hold daily stand-ups (which in the old days we called micro managing) and hope and prey that something works...

I've been in this business since the 80's and a consultant since '98, and I can say that although I love the agile approach, busted organizations and "enterprise" consultants are killing the ideas. Agile is a software development approach, not an organization development methodology. The last gig I was on the customer tried to "go agile". All the departments started holding daily stand-ups which quickly became silly repetitions and micro management kill-zones. Picture this, the daily help desk standup: "Yesterday I answered phones, and today I plan to answer phones again." Everyone was doing 'agile' except the software development teams. Maybe Dave is right, all you can do is laugh about it. And then put it all on the cloud.
I never did get the chance to use Octopus for any length of time, it always looked a bit over complicated. I guess it didn't help that the talks I saw on it were Spanish people taking in English. Not all of the subtlety came across.

But I think it was Francisco that came up with "It's not Universal, it's not Serial and it's not a Bus", I always liked that one.
Now, from the people who brought you "Iraq was behind 9/11", we have "North Korea was behind the Sony hack". This is embarrassing for the FBI. They used to keep quiet until they were ready to arrest someone.

Gawker says one security firm thinks it was an inside job by a laid-off Sony employee.(http://gawker.com/researcher-sony-hack-was-likely-an-inside-...)

"Don't embarrass the Bureau" - internal FBI motto, Hoover era.
source?
Or am I missing a joke here?
The Instagram and Etsy crowd need to popularize fashionable home-made masks like the ones the new Slovakian president wears.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/fmeyis/corona_fashi...
If you don't have a linkedin profile you should set one up. Recruiters can vary in terms of quality but they are a useful resource when looking for a job and most of them hang out on linkedin. There's also careers.stackoverflow.com. For more startup oriented jobs there's hired.com and I think interviewing.io. Aline Lerner is one of the people behind interviewing.io and as far as recruiters go she's pretty good so sending her an email can't hurt.
> Are you talking about the Windows 95/98 49 day time rollover bug?

Yes.

> That didn't affect NT either.

Oh. OK.
Functional programming used to mean programming with first class functions and closures; they even put it in the name "functional"al programming (just like OOP meant program with objects, whether this involved classes or not).

So that is Lisp, the first FP in the 60s, and then the MLs of the 70s/80s. They knew about purity, and even preferred it (for things like list comprehensions, it is very useful), but were never very dogmatic about it.
Is the board continuously flashing for anyone else? Mac OSX 10.10.1 Safari.
Well, Jeopardy was 4 years ago, so there that. If Watson were really believed, internally to IBM, to be as revolutionary as their marketing copy says, then I would expect to hear great triumphs of how IBM deployed Watson internally to, say, their sales department (which has got to have communication issues, given their size) and let it absorb information and then let it answer questions sales guys have about their products, turning them into believers.

The fact that we've seen little of Watson since Jeopardy makes me wonder if development hasn't stalled.
What does Watson have that those services don't?

IBM sales force - on a non-tech level that is.
I'd be curious to know why this was down voted.
We'll fix this right away! Thanks for taking time to read through an email without any context of what the company did. Let me know if you have any questions or have run into any issues.
Disregard everything else that is draining your energy. Mind you studies and start-up but keep away from all other college activities except couple of them that help you unwind or give you the support you need. After you do this, you should be just fine really!

Abshir
Looking down the /leaders list, I don't think I've met any of them in person, nor had a preexisting relationship with any of them. I've been in email contact with tptacek, RiderOfGiraffes, jgrahamc, epi0Bauqu and probably others for whom I don't have a HN name <-> email address mapping cached in my brain.

But as other people have said, it all comes out of seeing each other's comments here. There is no secret cabal, unless you count the YC founders mailing list (which I'm not part of).
The scientists are not "upset" about the inaccuracies of this. If they truly thought that the Big Bang has a lot of problems, why would they not call it the Big Bang Hypothesis? Scientists don't propose this as a "possibility that may have occured", they speak of it as a fact where only tiny details need to be worked out.
Much the same as it does in TextMate, probably. As many tabs as can realistically be identified plus an extra drop down menu with all of the rest.

(But I use the project view anyway, because I also see tabs as pointless, and most other developers I know rely on things like PeepOpen or Cmd+T's file finder.)
Hey Wakemate team... I haven't got an email from you since April 1st (amusing with the first line "WakeMate's are shipping"). What's the deal?

International pre-order, I sent paid my paypal deposit on 24/nov/2009, the refund came through -- but I'm not getting any emails. (Doesn't seem to be in gmail spam either)
Its really simple as time management. Do 1 task per day/every other day for your startup (maybe 1-3 hours if you can spare) and at the end of 1 month, check your progress. Rinse and Repeat until launch. Then do the same with marketing.
You're as likely to see us bickering with each other as not.

I prefer to call it debating. :-)
I wonder if there's a future where you have a language model that actually inspects the name of your functions, does an automatic code-gen of them from the context and then compares your implementation and gives you lint errors like:

fn add() { ... }: mispleading name or incorrect implementation `a - b`

You know, once upon a time I would have thought that was categorically impossible, but now, you know, it actually seems like something that might not be that far off.

> It's just not something Rust is designed to protect against - at least, not today.

...maybe, one day. :)
Yes there are chips that support multiple ISAs...although typically one ISA is more native. At least, I believe NVIDIA Denver qualifies as that[1]. Also I believe some Itanium chips had a (slow) x86 hardware decoder that changed the instructions into the native EPIC instruction set[2].

However, unifying the memory models sounds like a performance disaster for the ARM code. And having multiple decoders in hardware (as well as having enough of them) doesn't seem like a justifiable use of silicon real estate.

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

[2] https://www.techsupportalert.com/pdf/r1048.pdf
Don't forget the time spent in your app.
It's a story about AI, media monopolies and the dangers of new forms of advertising.

Implications include the need for heroic journalism and cyberpunk media channels.
Haha, same here (but I started -81-82). Love programming but get my kicks out of running code in production, not written code in a repo, so I'm always in a hurry to ship and usually don't have time to learn the new, shiny tech and practises. Which makes me feel out of date, ignorant, impostor:ish. But then I realise (or tell myself?) that I'm shipping working functionality way faster than most, and that I can't be so bad. I think.
Well, they’ve filed a LOT of patents: https://patents.google.com/?q=Graphene&oq=Graphene
If everything is as corrupt as some throwaway states why build a new domain registration system more free and open?

I know it's work however if done right (or better) a .org should be low cost for a NGO and how about a decent non profit tld so they could have it lower cost or free?

Sure it sounds hard but the automation and handling enrolling new domains is the real work
As I said, these places are maintained by the village, so it doesn't fall in the police's jurisdiction. Even if the police were to be involved, I would imagine they still wouldn't be effective because of corruption, apathy, etc.
I think it's not so much its impact on racing, it's just an indication that VW doesn't care anymore about showing off its internal combustion cars.
Just have some respect for yourself - do not accept job offer if you don't get an office (unless it is a very early stage startup)
The problem wasn't that you're not the first to build it, but that there was a complete guide to build something like this published somewhere, you definitely knew it existed and people thought you used it and didn't credit the author. Since that's not the case: awesome work, your implementation looks great. Have fun at Valve. :)
Honestly, it depends on what you want to do.

If you want to keep doing Web development, I won't lie to you: you are probably not going to use 75% of your CS course knowledge. You'll be hacking in JS, HTML, CSS and some backend language, and will probably only come across a CS-related challenge once every year or so. (Depending on your clients' industry and requirements). Your biggest challenge will probably be scaling, but that's something you may never even run into.

If you're talking about more corporate-oriented desktop or integrated software development, you will probably be using more of your core CS skills.
Identical twins separated at birth tend to have more similar personalities than identical twins who grew up together. The hypothesis is that, due to the presence of each other when growing up, they actively (though subconsciously) differentiate themselves. It's reasonable to assume the same effect would happen to some extent with other siblings. The fact that twins (or siblings) are more similar when raised in different environments would seem to contradict the idea that subtly different environments are responsible for the majority of sibling discrepancy.

I'm working on finding the citation. The phenomenon is known as "twinning" but that apparently refers to a bunch of other junk that makes it hard to find what I'm referring to. I may have to dig out my bioethics book when I get home.
Why not use HTML5+JavaScript? Remote IDE here: http://www.cloud9ide.com/

I wish somebody had already recreated the native widgets of Android/iOS in HTML.
It's only dumb and short-sighted until you look at the amount of money at stake.

BBM truly is the only app holding a great many people back from ditching their blackberries for android or i-devices. The second we find a reliable way to transition away from the blackberry, today, we would. The blackberry has to keep a lock on it's last and only killer app while it finds a way to stay relevant.
I can think of potential use cases similar to what 280 North are doing with Atlas and Cappuccino.

Check out http://280atlas.com/
If this turns into a complete and mature implementation, I won't miss anything when Ubuntu drops X11 next year, quite the opposite!
Not sure how obscure these would be here (I first learned about them on Hacker News), but I've found Backbone.js and Underscore.js to be extraordinary projects.

Links:

http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/

http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
Trauma and large life changes can also have a similar effect of reframing our views. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is based around the idea of framing/context being important and largely habitual without applying concious effort
in at 50B valuation or less, several months later - out at 70B. With such a good deal, it would be very unreasonable to wait for 100B, 200B or whatever, if any, in the future. Especially if one thinks that initial swell of valuation typical for the days right after IPO has already happened without the actual IPO taking place.
See, at the bottom of that link, I have three links that are supposed to solve my session problems:

- one is dead

- another is the raw Hackage page for a session library spun off from another project

- the last is a cute hello world for the framework that underpins Scotty.

No Node.js tutorial would finish without a working session manager.