jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Both times the United States bounced back, boosted on the first occasion by Paul Volcker’s conquest of inflation and on the second by a productivity spurt that sent growth rates soaring in the mid-1990s even as Japan stalled.

In the late 1990s the usual chime was Robert Solow's observation that "computers show up everywhere but the productivity statistics". It wasn't until after 2001 that business investments in IT began to pay off in productivity growth (which became one of the dominant explanations for the jobless recovery at the time).
Agree that more use of 83(b) would reduce the frequency of startup equity taxation horror stories.

The value of startup equity, given all the risk factors and historical outcome data, is extremely low. It's usually easy to show that an entire startup is worth less than $1K. Using 83(b) to pay tax on the equity FMV when awarded rather than when vested/exercised/etc can make a big, big difference. If you win the equity lottery, that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restricted_stock
The first part of PiHKAL, written by Ann Shulgin, is also completely non-technical and is a spellbinding story. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the subject matter of the book, whether they know chemistry or not.
I've been in students club of computer science, meet many people from older and younger years that were interested in programming. We were doing hobby projects and starting in team programming competitions.

At the last year of studying I've mailed one of friends from that club (he was working in one of a few big software companies in my city) asking if they would want me. I've been interviewed and got a job.
I was waiting in line for an iPhone 3G when someone called out "I need a web developer, who's interested?". We talked for a few minutes in line, then I did an interview the next day.

I'm still working with them now.
Craigs List.
d0m, that's a great idea! "Get Started" definitely should show you quickly what you can get. We'll start on that ASAP. Thanks for your feedback.
When I visited that link, Safari crashed and I got this error message http://cl.ly/2b1e46a0b769f6a7dd5e
http://www.destinationrx.com/ - I work there
It would be awesome if you can hook up live play-by-play updates for each match.

I really like the app since I'm an avid sports fan.
Not all those jobs were development roles.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Pandora-Salaries-E262334.htm
ah, right, that's why I don't work there, I had forgotten.
Do the branches happen at run time or are the optimized routines selected at install time (or something else?)
Am I the only one to think that it's time some asked the question, 'why are mediocre/sub-standard (and even non-programming) developers still being paid a good programmer's salary?'

Am I wrong in thinking this way?
Contrast with _why:

"when you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."
Marco Arment (co-founder of tumblr, creator of instapaper) is also working on a static site generator called Second Crack http://www.marco.org/secondcrack . What sounds cool about that is that it has a friendly dynamic backend that generates a static site. He's trying to get the best of both worlds.
I can see this being a dangerous tool for people already kidding themselves about how many calories are in their food.

Eg:"That sign says this donut is 350 calories, but this app says it's only 100 if I take a picture of it from this angle"
The real reason to buy a $45-95 wine is so that is has the structure to withstand 10-15 years in the cellar to blow your taste buds out the back of your neck when you finally get around to drinking it.

If you've never done it go, just once, to a high end French restaurant order lite and spend $300-400 on a bottle of wine. You'll remember the taste for years and top down is a much better strategy for building an appreciation for wine then starting with two-buck-chuck and working your way up.
Well written article. Thanks for sharing.

The service that we are building is not ground breaking or unique, but definitely a market validated one. My friend (now my partner as well) & I decided on one particular idea that is not unique, but a market validated one. We used to debate about several ideas while pursuing our day jobs for the last couple of years, wrote business plans and were searching for THAT unique idea that we should pursue.

Thanks to HN community, reading various articles on these subjects cleared lots of things for us. I now understand it is not necessary that the idea needs to be unique that nobody else has ever solved. (Thanks to patio11 for his excellent blog posts. Thanks! :-))

There is always scope of not just one or two but several companies to thrive and solve customer's problems. We can always take a standard market validated solution, innovate & make life better for those specific niches around us. Like it is always iterated by various folks here in HN, it is execution that matters.

In my case, I think starting with the market validated idea is the best approach to get started and I could pursue my unique ideas using this as a platform. Plus it helps that I have a greater chance of bootstrapping it all without taking external funding (not that external funding is bad, just that you have the freedom to execute as per your plan).
Two other major advantages of static site generators.

First, security, particularly compared to wordpress.

Second, you can host the resulting HTML anywhere, for instance, a subdirectory of a web server you don't want to write a blog engine for. my corporate site is powered by Nitrogen (Erlang) and I just whipped out a Jekyll template this week for the blog we're adding - then we can host the blog under that site without having to go write a blog framework in Erlang.
Most funds end up so large that they can’t help but to be basically the s&p 500, just with slightly different weightings.

To majorly out perform or underperform you have to be drastically different.
“Arrant bonkers” is grammatically correct if one is using “bonkers” in the plural noun sense of “several of those who bonk” and not the adjective sense of “mad, crazy” (which seems likely to derive as metpahor from the noun sense.)

Actually, modifying adjectives that are exactly nouns used metaphorically as if you were modifying the original noun (thus invoking the original metaphor, directly) rather than the adjective it has become in practice isn't all that uncommon.
The biggest culprit in an overwhelmingly large inbox is often newsletters which we signed up for but are no longer interested in reading. Unsubscribing from these can make e-mail a much more manageable and pleasant experience.
I have a soft spot for "Meet the Robinsons".

I went looking for the exact Walt Disney quote at the end of the movie, and discovered "http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Disney which includes quite a few quotes that can relate to entrepreneurship.
TokuDB doesn't currently have a drop-in replacement strategy, so you'd need to migrate your whole cluster.

A daunting task with hundreds of shards!
You can't. But a large number of people seem to not care, because they're already so used to putting every thought that pops into their head online where everyone can see it.
This has been argued a multitude of times already. Cars are massively less efficient than coal power plants at converting fossil fuel to energy. Massively.

More concerning to me about 100% electric cars is the dependence it places on the power grid. The 2003 NE Blackout(1) was caused by a software bug in a small office in Ohio. Two days without power. At this rate, it's really only a matter of time until our electric grid is compromised by someone with an agenda. I hope you have at least a few gallons of gasoline lying around and a gasoline-powered car to maintain locomotion.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003
FWIW (not much) his sentence included a credit for 100-something days due to "abuse" received while in detention.
Texas can be pretty grungy (downtown Dallas) and is fairly sterile suburban when dirt isn't involved. Austin core is quite nice, but the poverty is just weird: there are no obvious homeless people, but plenty of people living in their cars. San Antonia is also a nice city in its core.

I would never live in Texas again because of the heat, as well as the values even in liberal Austin. Also, I don't like to drive everywhere.
Wasn't "garbled" for me ~
That's what we do - dozens of databases, containing one collection.

It's perverse.
So... how long is this going to last? The article says Holder's leaving his office. When he leaves, what stops the next person from simply reinstating this policy?
What does the length of the track have to do with anything? They're making the pod that sits in the track (independent of length).
The term "dependency hell" comes to mind...
Basically everything in FB has one main goal: Ads

Secondary goals might be: Spam detection and extracting info from the graph/pictures, etc

FB identify people from your Social Graph in Pictures, for example
Three? Don't forget about Hyperloop.
They're a very unpopular feature among users. I'm not super thrilled with mine, and wouldn't mind going back.
If you don't quash quips it gets all redditty.
Try driving politely like this some time.

Letting people in isn't going to increase your drive time by more than 5%. Probably closer to 2% on average.
That is just lovely.
Why do you think Google knows about the Amazon purchase or the Facebook post? They don't.
> car makers' home-grown solutions are almost comically bad

Exactly. Judging by how they are managing to make the worst possible decisions wrt touchscreen offerings, I'm not holding my breath for siri-like voice activation from car makers
Cool advice.

What would you improve in the post?

Edit: I actually changed the blog post title to "Can you develop a great advertising app?" which sounds a lot better. Thanks for that :)
Being a (hopefully) talented introvert myself I definitely don't optimize for that :-)

I don't think it's fair to see our system so black and white. First of all, i'm sure it has problems. Probably many. However, bonus systems all have problems. The traditional top down, performance review style bonus system definitely works best for the extroverts. From what i've seen of unicorn, the people who are most rewarded are the quiet but helpful kinds.

Also, if unicorn helps to get people into the habit of sharing their accomplishments with their friends and coworkers then I think that's worth it all by itself. You have to share your accomplishments. Everyone loves to work with people who do great stuff. But if those people don't tell you about the great stuff they do then you cannot know about it and you cannot partake.
Indeed, the usual marketing often combines the worst aspect of sleazy sales guys and irrational artsy types. Never mind that marketing departments have a high female percentage, and girls are scary.

Scientifically-minded marketing seems pretty rare. Or to put it another way: Quite often there are some scientifically-minded marketeers in the team, but no one tends to listen to them.
I think some people are rather contemptuous of individuals who brought art down to the standard of "simply a bunch of paints splattered on a canvas". So much so that it become indistinguishable from a mess.

I could even imagine a bunch of every-day normal freelance laborers cleaning an art gallery and accidentally throwing thousand of dollars worth of art piece simply because it is indistinguishable from a mess.

Art may be subjective, but people can perceive skills in the painting of a nude human figure. They cannot however, see anything in an art piece that are simply lines, colors, texture, with no forms whatsoever.

People like me and others will never be able to understand the extreme abstractionism that exists in art today and ages past. Art to me are nude painting, landscape, cartoons, and comics, not the silly cubism, the colors and the texture, or just a bunch of splattered paints.
Try looking at more indie games: Cave Story, Spelunky, Hero Core, and N all present polished gameplay experiences for the convenient price of free. There's plenty more where those came from, and as you branch into the multi-person studios who have the gall and audacity to charge a nominal fee, you find mid-length games in more and more genres. (I'd point out Aquaria, World of Goo, and Knights of the Chalice.)
Will try this.

My initial thinking was to try to shorten it since people are busy and don't have time to read everything. Get to the point.
Great paper -- I hadn't heard of it.

I read the abstract and a lot of feelings I've had about testing in FP coalesced: I knew this intuitively but wasn't able to put it into words. Codd can be your pair-testing buddy for a LOT of FP testing.
The novelty has and will continue to wear off, but the Pony won't be going away. Once an unofficial mascot, always an unofficial mascot!
Ah, I see what you mean. Should have checked my source before saying that. If I got into YC, it'd be extremely tempting not to do that, though :)
One of my favorite aspects of Uber is that the tip is factored into the price. Please consider just adding a $1.50-2 surcharge and specifying that the tip is included.
Here's a hypothetical situation that will give you some perspective to consider:

Eating unhealthy food with a high fat and sugar content in your country is highly illegal. In this hypothetical country you live in, the offence of eating unhealthy food is a felony and punishable by time in prison. This law makes sense: It's for the good of the people. It's a victimless crime, but the war on unhealthy food needs to be enforced or else society will become so fat the entire system will collapse. People will be gorging themselves on big macs instead of showing up for work. Think about the children! The kids will get so fat they'll be unable to find a partner, and won't be able to get a job. People will become addicted to unhealthy food and permanently damage their bodies, causing them to die early.

We need to ban unhealthy food, and throw all of the law breakers in prison like they deserve.

It doesn't matter if you disagree or not, it IS illegal.
I think its like most things - people with bad experiences talk about them a lot. If it works perfectly why would you post about it.

I've also had good experiences with linux laptops. Maybe not perfect, but more like easily resolved in 20 minutes of googling, which is totally reasonable to me.
Dang, title is misleading. Should be shallow neural networks
I was about to ask the same question about the hypothesis.

Offtopic: sometimes HN audience gives weird scores. Don't take it personally (but it's kind of part of the etiquette not to explicitly discuss the scoring since it's never directly related to the topic of the discussion).
In theory Chemotherapy is a research-backed approach. In practice it is simply the best we have for those that reject proper nutrition and exercise.

For example, Colon cancer has a 1.8% success rate with Chemotherapy and Lung cancer has a 1% success rate.

That is pretty abysmal research.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15630849
Hey Hacker News,

this is an extremely early version of a benchmark for terminal emulators to improve feature parity / compatibility across the zoo. It's open source (https://github.com/krasin/termwarts) and can be tried in just a few seconds, just 'ssh termwarts.com'.

I would appreciate if you can run tests with the terminal of your choice - even though it's extremely early (only Level 1 is implemented), it would be very useful for me to see, if it even makes sense / works for anyone except myself.

Thanks!
I agree, it's a bit dense, but like somebody else was saying on this thread, I think picking one or two things from it and trying to include it in your worfklow for a limited period of time (say one week) will work better than trying to learn everything at once.

Then you can try new stuff the next week, and so on. Rinse and repeat :)
Agreed. I haven't used Notch but I have played with TouchDesigner and VVVV and are quite intuitive once you get used to node based layout. I also had trouble installing OF on Windows so I started with Processing/p5.js which was a breeze to set up. I don't know whether that's a fair comparison or not though.
All the more reason to standardize on what we use literally everywhere else.
Good luck with Void. I wish you plenty of success.
Very good point. I'll fix that. Thanks!
No.

It's not about the order of words but that grandparent seems to have misunderstood something about glosses. He is thinking that grammar is simplified. It is difficult for written glosses to express the complete grammar spectrum of Signed Languages.

It's unfortunate and similar to the Blub paradox: some people will unavoidably believe that Signed Languages have a simple grammar similar to Chinese when looking at glosses.

Additionally, my local Signed Language (Swiss German Sign Language) has quite a free order. Often topic-comment is applied. An example:

[Concerning the] weather, [I] think [it's] quite fine.

As glosses: WEATHER THINK GOOD.

The word «quite» is omitted because it's an inflection. In SGSL I would make a slightly kissing mouth, lower the eyelids somewhat and make very small and fast nodding movements.

That's not Subject-Object-Verb order.

Additionally there is a slight shift between WEATHER and THINK, it's difficult to explain, but perhaps a colon after WEATHER would help. WEATHER: THINK FINE. This what I called «shift» is an inflection: it puts the word WEATHER in topic mode.

Caveat emptor: I am not a linguist, but always have been very interested in linguistics and talk SGSL every day.

Edit: many little things.
There are a lot of otherwise appealing jobs that I don't apply to for ethical reasons. For example I have experience with C++ quantitative investment work, but I won't do it anymore as I came to regard it as immoral - that kind of code is used by those who understand finance, to take money from those who don't.
Sure, but in this case it was a case of me not knowing one could check their Smile balance. GP posted their balance, prompting me to check mine, and the total was the same. That feels more akin to me going into a room and the first person I talk to having the same birthday as me than just finding 2 people in a room who happen to have the same birthday.
Because it is so easy to stop the government from doing absurd things once it gets the power to do them? Like kicking in a door guns ablazing because someone might have smelled weed? Yeah, we stopped that the first time it happened, didn't we...
Thanks for the shoutout! Product Manager at Relay here. We also have an API if you want to build your own solution with it. relaypro.com/api & api-docs.relaypro.com
> We can treat this essay as a historical document

It's why I'm rereading this book today.

One thing I've been thinking about since morning was ESR's "Linus Law", "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". Today the idea is heavily criticized. The very existence of fetchmail by the author was a counterpoint - the code quality was below average, it had numerous security vulnerabilities, and arguably basing the whole book on fetchmail is the book's greatest flaw (not to say the criticisms of ESR's personal qualification from many hackers).

But if you read the original context...

> Linus was directly aiming to maximize the number of person-hours thrown at debugging and development, even at the possible cost of instability in the code and user-base burnout if any serious bug proved intractable. Linus was behaving as though he believed something like this: Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.

The original context was strictly about beta-testing - about how the Linux kernel didn't collapse on its own weight despite the lack of a BSD-style "core" team and heavily scrutinized release. Instead, it achieved system stability with the help from a large number of beta-testers and co-developers who are willing to run on the bleeding edge. It's still how the kernel and the majority of the FOSS world. "Build today's git snapshot and see whether it explodes" can be quite effective.

Then ESR simplified it to...

> Or, less formally, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."

And now it means "people can find all bugs, because there are always a lot of eyeballs to read the source code". Now it can refer to all sorts of things beyond its scope. It is a serious mistake. Notably, security vulnerabilities are different - it usually does not have any user-visible effects and can only be triggered by carefully crafted malicious inputs, not normal uses. This is the reason it doesn't work for security. Thus, maybe a more accurate reflection of this rule could be: Given enough eyeballs, all user-visible bugs (e.g. crashes) are shallow.

At the end of the day, my conclusion was: Perhaps "Linus Law" was not as wrong as it seemed. ESR simply misinterpreted his observations.
Good point, I was trying to state Google’s position.

I want control over my data, the data I “own.”

But practically speaking this is impossible and I assume that anything I interact with produces data that’s owned by someone else.

So while I want to own my data, if I use Chrome then Google makes their own data from my behavior and it’s theirs, not mine. To stop this, I have to stop the data being transmitted. That’s hard, but not impossible.

Once it leaves my control (laptop, computer, whatever) it’s no longer mine.

That’s what I mean about it being so squishy. And there’s lots of scenarios trying to understand what’s right. If I take a picture of you in the grocery store, it’s not your data. It is certainly rude. It might violate privacy. But the data is mine even though you are the subject.

If I am a private eye and follow you around noting everywhere you go, the data isn’t yours, the data is mine.

This is why I think that laws need to define ownership and privacy and use. So we can better regulate as a society.

I still want some control on data about me, even if I don’t own it.

In the US the consumer lost almost every case and that’s why stuff like 1970’s Fair Credit Reporting Act [0] allows credit bureaus to collect information about people and do stuff with it even though many people don’t like it. Effectively merchants “sell” data on people to credit agencies who collate it, analyze it, and sell insight (eg, FICO scores) and all that data are owned by people who aren’t the subjects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act
There's no location element in domain names. Also there's an indefinite supply of them unlike real estate.

The problem is that the real estate investor had to buy that land to make it into a parking lot. That's fine. Others had the opportunity to buy the land and do what they want with it. However, domain names are effectively free. This means that instead of 'whoever wants to pay the best price' getting it, it's simply whoever grabbed it first.

In summary, land is priced based on its worth. Domain names are all priced the same at a negligible cost (Initial sale). That's why the domain name system is so broken.
I think I would be able to make it work in IE6 with css and a bit of javascript.
I'd like to see you make it all work like that and with fonts in, not all images ;-)
There's no relevant physics without mathematics, one has to work out the math before trying to answer the 'why' questions. There are no short cuts. (Note: I'm also a theoretical physicist :) )