jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Calling bad genes a form of political force is to commit the same epistemological error ...

This is interesting and telling. I've done no such thing. You seem to be focused entirely on this notion of political force, whereas I'm not. This is what I mean when I point out that you're placing ideology above any practical or empirical concerns.

We did not start out talking about political force. It's only vaguely related to my argument, yet it seems to be very interesting to you. From my side it appears that I've triggered one of your auto-rant keywords. Until your most recent response, it wasn't clear to me that I was responding to a human rather than a chat bot.

Here's is my point, again, so we can stay focused: relieving some of the pressure of immediate survival does not reduce creativity nor innovation. In fact, as demonstrated throughout history, creativity and innovation (as opposed to just cunning) require that people have spare time that they're not devoting purely to survival. Surely you must have heard of Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

> Developing and expressing thoughts clearly (which is what "all-or-nothing" thinking is)

Well, I suppose we're all free to choose our own definitions, but this is quite the abuse of the term. "All or nothing thinking" is generally understood to mean the inability or unwillingness to recognize that nuance matters in discussion.

There are many ideas that can be expressed clearly, but that are wrong. While removal of nuance may result in a clearer message, it rarely results in clearer thinking. This is the peril of the sound bite.

"For every complex question there is an answer that is simple, obvious, and wrong."

Could you please start providing some evidence or anecdotes for your claims (not parables). If you can't at least do that, I'm not really interested in continuing this discussion, as it's essentially a rant.
Very interesting question. Obviously a different situation, but I was also interested in this HN story today:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1926289

There is a never-ending flow of startup advice dealing with all sorts of business and technical hurdles we face. But some of these interpersonal issues are just as (if not more) impactful to the success of a good company.

I've seen situations like this one deteriorate into ousting and proxy battles and public opinion campaigns. And we all see it in the news from time to time.

Maybe this post is way lagged and it's from either M. Arrington or J. Calacanis?!

Is there a need for a startup support network for dealing with more personal issues?

There are a few articles touching on this, but they're more about individuals coming forward in these situations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/nyregion/24bigcity.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20010319/ai_...
http://www.ajc.com/business/entrepreneur-group-fights-loneli...
What makes you think the author is unfamiliar with this?
When someone prefixes a sour message with a positivei qualifier, the intent isn't to lie, but to reassure you.

If I plainly stated "We're going to have to work on clauses 3 and 4 before we can move forward," you may believe that the issues with these clauses are more severe than I actually believe them to be. Or you may believe that my patience has run out. The qualifier "I'm not saying the deal is off" is intended to express a sense of furthered interest in making the deal work. I "invested" more in my statement as a gesture of good will. An indication that I'm not being dismissive. Have you ever had someone ask you why you were "being so short"? Brevity shows a lack of interest or patience.

It's called subtlety, and it seems lost on a lot of people these days.
In my experience they vary considerably across languages and cultures. I suspect they are important language constructs in cultures that aren't inherently blunt. For example, as a British English speaker expressions like "I'm sorry to make a fuss, but..." are there not to enable lying but to express humility.

Sometimes. There's always exceptions of course.
That is extremely interesting, the experiment finding out that the effect on the person asking the favor was the most striking dynamic of all.
I do not know, I see a more profitable or popular use case for a porn detector than for a violence filter.
it isn't only for international viewers.
With Clojure 1.2.0 and the build tools Leiningen or Cake you can get very far along w/o needing to know much about Java.
I don't know the current status but these are things that are core to sandstorm. I'd check their discussion board and maybe ask if you want a clear answer. They're a pretty serious bunch.
just looked at toyota jetloom video on youtube. That was an eyeopener.
The willingness to deal with the complexity and sheer ballsiness of the underground emulator scene is something to be in awe of .. really amazing what the guys get up to in this scene, just because they want to see it happen so the only way to do it is: do it. Whether its hard, or not.

My personal experience has been watching notaz, of the OpenPandora scene, get various emulators running on the Open Pandora hardware (http://openpandora.org/) .. with just a little bit of support from the hardware vendor (EvilDragon, of http://dragonbox.de/) we've seen a plethora of emulators of various systems released for the platform: http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=all&subcat=Emulator&s=new

Notaz, in particular, has proven to be a veritable force in getting these old machines running on the Pandora hardware, and I'm constantly in awe of what can be done by a few motivated individuals, whose principle purpose seems not to be commercial success, necessarily, but rather: wow factor, and more in particular: what 'wow' can be brought to the community. I've come to the conclusion that if this were a commercial activity (which it is, in limited ways) instead of the community-oriented effort (which it is, in huge ways), then there wouldn't be as much progress .. but I think guys like notaz really make the headway they make because the community itself is so approachable, so willing to communicate, and so accessible to the elite individuals doing the hard work to make the community viable. Its hard to imagine something like Dolphin happening without the underworld community that supports it - and I raise my beer to the folks in this scene who work tirelessly to bring the community wonderful new products that push the limits of the hardware we've invested in, in spite of it not being mainstream.

(BTW, if you want a clear and concise insight into this scene, you need only look at notaz' own posts on various subjects - the man is a powerhouse of emulation productivity: http://boards.openpandora.org/user/76-notaz/)
Looking at the generated code:

(function(v) {
try {
v = d.technologies.map(d.function(d.t) {
d.return d.t
} finally {
return !v && v !== 0 ? "" : v
}
}).call(d), ").join('|') }"].join("")

There's two problems: (1) prefixing keywords with 'd.' which may possibly be solved by skipping keywords or with(d){...} and (2) the ").join('|') }" code became data.
As an American who lives in Norway, I understand just how confusing this may be to you. The difference, I have come to believe after living here for a few years, stems from a different perspective on long- and short-term interests.

Americans are, in general, I think (please note this is my opinion and do not down vote me for making this observation) more likely to support solutions that appear to resolve the given issue in the most intuitive and seemingly fastest way. While the intention may be good, this rather simplistic view contradicts the reality that subtler, research-based and longer-view solutions are often the wiser choice. Examples of this include things like research into prison sentences and conditions and their relation to recidivism rates; or ideas about parental leave being better for businesses in the long term, despite the short term loss of productivity.

In this particular case, it is an issue of very short-term thinking from the police who do not realize that their draconian tactics, which seemingly are for the best interest of security today, are in fact more likely to engender civil unrest (or emigration, in my case, since I have no appetite for that) in the long run.
This has become forgotten as the public perception of Glass became dominated by the whole "glassholes" phenomenon, but the Explorer Program was supposed to demonstrate that people could think up these kind of amazing life-altering apps that proved the utility of bothering to wear Glass.

They didn't. Years later, the reason to wear Glass remained "take pictures/videos hands free and shave 3 seconds off the time it takes you to check your text messages."

The MS product seems pretty clearly to be more broadly capable hardware, but I do still wonder if it will have actual applications.
> Enterprise applications must also be platforms if they want to scale into the largest enterprises...every SAAS application should have APIs that allow their users to plug enterprise software together

An API does not a platform make.

The author makes some rather uncontroversial assertions about the "future of the enterprise" but doesn't talk about how the architecture of enterprise software is going to change. This strikes me as the more interesting question since the developer's choice of technology hinges on this. The three points made apply equally to Rails as they do to Java EE.
Much like comedy!
Wasn't really suggesting disruption or a revolutionary business model. Not everything needs to be about the Uberization of X or Y.

Just something small and useful that would be convenient for users from my perspective. I received a ticket in San Diego a couple month's ago because I didn't walk down half a block to see a sign that mentioned street cleaning on certain days.
How about for ephemeral instance storage? I'm curious how the performance compares there to SSD backed EBS volumes.
If the drive has|had the Hitachi brand on it you absolutely can say that's what brand of drive it is|was.

As I understand: WD bought HGST (Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), then sold on the manufacturing of 3.5" drives to Toshiba to comply with EU and FTC requirements (http://www.anandtech.com/show/5635/western-digital-to-sell-h...). WD retained the 2.5" side of the HGST manufacture.

I doubt anyone wants to buy a WD HGST branded drive on the strength of the past manufacture in what are now Toshiba owned factories. WD would want the past drives, sold as Hitachi, to be called HGST as it boosts that brand - but to some extent that would be misinformation.

So back to this:

>Some of the HGST drives listed were manufactured under their previous brand, Hitachi. //

Those Hitachi brand drives were it seems made in facilities that Toshiba own now. HGST is now a WD brand (though they were not quite one company as of Dec 2014) - unless the "Hitachi" drives were made in WD facilities the calling them HGST gives quite the wrong impression.

It's quite convoluted and I don't really follow HDD manufacture news that much; please correct me if I'm wrong.
> Traditionally, debt has no upside

"Traditionally", perhaps, but, "tradition" aside, one upside relates to priority of claims against assets in the event of bankruptcy/dissolution/etc.
Conditional comments were removed since IE10. Not that they've been necessary since IE9... Modern IE is a very decent browser.
The terabytes of data every second was also mentioned in the live stream of the announcement, when talking about the custom HPU chip.
I can only imagine how much worse this all would be if the Presidential election had actually been close. We should be thankful that only an incomprehensibly vast conspiracy could possibly have "stolen" the election.
That’s not what I’m seeing here: https://apnews.com/article/ap-electoral-college-congress-7af... — 1100 national guard deployed. Stop believing hearsay, it’s how we’re in this mess to start.
I’m not aware of a line in the Constitution allowing what is happening. The Declaration of Independence mentions it, but not the Constitution.
You can open accounts online with ease. I posted about it before if you peek in my profile.
Only when it became clear that Biden would win.
This is a big deal and something governments should have in their extensive plans they created years ago.

Using McDonalds as distribution points has been talked about because they have the process and infrastructure. People also feel safe there.

But I suspect like everything, it's just what some government officials think today that matters. So they will react on the fly.
Because Qt has fantastic documentations and intuitive examples. Gtk is notorious for lacking proper documentations and unstable feature changes.

Here is a talk when Subsurface decided to go Qt from Gtk: https://youtu.be/ON0A1dsQOV0
I follow Kimi on Instagram and he's posted a story where he's at home sitting in a simulator, with his son on his lap. (Kimi was doing throttle and brake, and gear changes, while his son was turning the wheel.) So he does own one for playing.
They're easier to breathe through than pneumonia.
Small businesses have no chance anyways. Bailouts are coming for Boeing, the tourism and airline industry, investment real estate and banking and of course healthcare. The great majority of people will be better off opposing the Corona Coup.
You must own your source of truth, if your Sheet is unavailable, you can't republish somewhere else.
This is what I understand it to be, as per Doors of Perception. It is on my to-do list when I'm 70.
yep. I've got a chance to study Marxism theory which clearly state main principle of capitalism as "whoever owns the investment owns the profits"
I just can't visualize anyone doing any kind of meaningful thinking while in the influence of salvia divinorum, or scribbling, the effect is just too strong and too disconnected from our reality. The only thing in your story that gives it a bit of credibility is this: "He claimed a woman told him the answer."

Anyway, not enough to convince me.

Edit: of course, I would like to know more :)
There are probably some people reading these discussions and considering taking an "hallucinogen" for the first time.

If you're thinking about it, please, do your homework. Thoroughly. As others have cautioned, drug use can catalyze psychosis, the permanent emergence of bipolar disorder, etc. Consider these risks as they relate to you in particular (your family history, etc) very carefully, and if you decide to go ahead, be sure you prepare with as much care, consideration and thoroughness as it deserves.

And if you do, I'd consider avoiding LSD unless you can guarantee its legitimacy and purity. Mescaline is readily producible from common cacti (San Pedro, et al), has a long history of safe use by e.g. native americans §, and will likely provide you with a more helpful experience. It's also much harder to take too much of than e.g. psilocybin or LSD, which are very easy to consume a psychiatrically dangerous dose of.

There is a wealth of information out there - some of it spurious, but much of it helpful. I would encourage wider use of psychedelics, but I strongly qualify this encouragement. Not everyone should try them: some people are irreparably damaged by their first trip, and I don't claim to be able to say why; nor will they reward being treated without the utmost respect.

That said, after almost a decade of abstinence from tripping, I discovered mescaline, and I intend to continue to use it up to a few times a year. Thus far I've found it to be an extremely rewarding and positive force in my life; I'm an atheist, but you could say it's my replacement for religion.

§ http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2005/11/69477 - "Peyote won't rot your brain"
I get what you're saying but not seeing how to do that in make syntax. Mind giving an example?
I use MongoDB, collecting just under 200k documents a day for months and I haven't lost any data yet so far that we've found. Sqlite looks pretty speedy though - may try going back to something like that for smaller jobs.

The one thing I found funny is that deleting documents from a database leaves the space allocated and you have to manually run the repair command to reclaim the space, but that requires 100% additional space because it creates a new db and copies the data there.... little bit of a problem since we were already a 99% for the device :-| other than that - been really happy with it.
It would be interesting to see ages on deaths.
C'mon. If the condescension of "Silly me, should have stayed in Russia" is kosher, so should be "Yeah, sounds like you should have."

I'd prefer neither, but you made a point of calling out the latter.
It was also a fun time.

Yeah. I've done something similar, but with either people and three reds, mostly to see if a) my friends could determine the wine type and b) which one they liked best. The answer to a was no and the answers to b were all over the place.
I had done a brief look at these patents in a previous thread. I do find some of them pretty compelling, if they do survive invalidation attempts.

Ironically, if MS loses their current case in the Supreme Court, the bar for B&N will be extremely high (the current standard is clear and convincing).
I guess we're reading it differently. I read it as "before getting gigabit internet I had a wireless router that worked fine, but after I had to use a wired router to get the new faster speed I'm paying for." I don't think they went through multiple wired routers because they were unable to realize that 100 != 1000 (regardless, many new wireless routers are also gigabit ethernet routers).
sales cycles that last longer than you can stay solvent
If laws are truly discriminatory, then they should be challenged in court.

I must agree with you that there is likely more harmful legislation coming out of this process than beneficial, but I think that is largely a result of a lack of honest communication, as well as a lack of follow-through on the part of participating citizens.

I believe my proposed solution of having citizens sign petitions for an overarching policy goal, and then having them choose from a list of implementations under that goal, would do much to limit some of the more egregious manipulation of those signing petitions. People could sign a policy goal petition, providing a mailing address and email address, and once sufficient signatures are collected to get on the ballot, signatories would be sent a packet of competing initiatives to select from. The variant with the most votes gets all the petition signatures and gets on the ballot. This would give participating voters an opportunity to review what they're signing up for, and perhaps become more informed of various alternative proposals which would address the same putative issue. This will ultimately force special interests to fight on a more level playing field with competing interests.
It is, but unfortunately, the importance of retaining these highly educated people is too subtle a concept to express in the immigration yelling that happens at the national level. Most of my colleagues are not American, but they have to jump through hoops to remain in the US - despite being educated at public universities. We've already invested in them, the rational thing to do is to try to retain that investment.
Its funny how people seem to be whining about Amazon.

In fact Amazon is one of the best places in terms of innovation. In addition to having a strong core business, they also have AWS, kindle, android app store.

Who cares if their legacy codebase is 40 milllions lines of C++ and not your hip Ruby or LIPS nonsense. The truth is that they get work done. AWS is one of the best cloud computing system out there. Nothing else comes even closer. Dropbox, Heroku and Reddit all rely on them.
Who cares if they take resume in word format, they pay well.

Its sad to see HN turning into a language fanboi and apple fanboi club.

The AWS EC2 outage did not even affect 0.01% of their revenue.
Maybe I just don't get it, but I can't even get anything from the landing page. What concerns does this library address? What are the general abstractions like?

Why would I even consider digging deeper without knowing the answers to those two questions?
I think if I did this using purely tables and background colors, I'd probably get tons of down votes. Just saying.
Hmm, so the Maya were off by just a couple of months, they predicted December 2012.
"Atom is free during the beta period."
https://github.com/atom/welcome/commit/86790ef7cca263ca0943f...
I sought to compare it for gmail users (which I suspect the majority of us are) - the gmail experience on Android blows away the iPhone.

It would also be valid to point out that Android can't sync with iTunes - if you are an extensive iTunes user, music transferring on the iPhone blows away Android's.
kudos.

its nice to see this attitude. :)
It almost certainly is. Sky Map works well on my G1, and that definitely doesn't have a gyroscope.

I suspect the difference will be in both speed of updates and accuracy. It doesn't matter (in fact, you won't even notice) if the phone is a little "off" when pointed at the sky, but I can't see the compass+accelerometer trick providing accurate absolute positioning for a fast-paced game.
I can't remember where chem majors fit in. I think it was higher than bio majors.
It seems like any testing regime would lead to a state where people with time and money could afford to take test prep so they'd know what answers to write on the test without actually having to change make their voting consistent with knowledge.

That would actually be ideal. That way you'd get smart, driven people voting who in reality thought for themselves. My real worry is that the tests would end up being designed to filter out people of the wrong ideology, thus giving power to the test-creators. The way to avoid this is to test for basic factual questions - who is the prime minister of Israel, who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, etc. This information is freely available. If you can't be bothered

Seems pointless. But I never did get people who were eager to disenfranchise lots of their fellow citizens at the drop of a hat.

I never get people who assume universal suffrage is a great thing. People who vote have great power over your life. You wouldn't want to give a pilot who wasn't qualified control of a plane. Why give voters who aren't qualified power to steer the ship of state? Have you ever listened to talk radio before? Does it scare you that those people have so much power over your life?

Or to put it more succinctly, would you rather be ruled by the commenters at Hacker News, or the commenters at Digg?
That explains the promotion jingle: "80% discount, 80% chance of getting your own genome!"
It's an awful article -- with lots of upvotes. Third one from the same website on the front page just today.
the sign up is quite simple, just add username/pw and you done
This is a key point. Part of the reason they have such a piracy problem with anime is until very recently only a handful of series were released in the US. For most titles a fansub was your only option if you wanted to watch at all.
I dont wish to knock on the comic idea but the purpose of the pitch is to demo how the the app will make their lives easier...in my experience comics usually do a good job demoing the overall process; which is PERFECT for investors - but not overly useful to the user.

Unless of course your plan was to move the pitch from comic to a hands on demo when the time came, in which case just ignore everything I say!

A question for my own benefit - how eager were the doctors to meet with you? I can't decide if doctors in general would bother with hearing pitches...it would make more sense for them to hire IT Consultants
Have to imagine they are heavily mining bitcoin as well.