jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I'm the CEO of Equidate, one of the companies profiled in this article.

The article raises excellent points on the pitfalls of trading pre-IPO stock on secondary markets. The opportunity is risky to be sure, only for educated investors as ready and able to lose money as to make money. Information is limited and protections are only as good as the integrity of the participants. That puts a premium on honestly, transparency, and strict adherence to securities regulations.

The American economy is built on liquidity and rapid turn-around of investments: new company founders, investors, even venture capitalists and private equity fund managers got where they are because an early exit allowed them to cash in early gains in order to re-invest in the market. This used to take a few years, but now, due to market changes, they will no longer see a penny until their company goes public after an average 7.5-year wait. More likely, their company will fail despite years of hard work and success, leaving them nothing. Secondary markets are a relief valve for these founders, early angel investors, and current and former employees.

When shares cannot be traded, even the most ambitious and brilliant entrepreneurs are locked in for the better part of a decade, waiting for something to happen. If they have liquidity they can start something new — perhaps a cure to disease, a new media company, or one that launches rocket ships. This liquidity is how many of today’s great companies got their start.

Collectively, we owe it to founders and investors, and the economy, to create reliable secondary markets. That’s why Equidate was founded.
Almost certainly so. It's got a real bios, so you should be able to change how it boots.
Mint for medical records. I want it.
Consumers do care, they just care about different things that some of us do.
It breaks for input as simple as "for x = 1,10 do print(x) end". It's a shame I can't use Lua for browser scripting instead of JS.
I found this interesting: http://thestartuptoolkit.com/ It's template for developing a startup idea.
another interpreted language running inside of an interpreted language... sweet. All we need now is to write a perl interpreter in Lua and then run it inside of the javascript Lua interpreter and we'll really see the scripts slow down to a crawl.
Thanks for that pointer. I never expected Shriram to propose one :) The parens are quite acceptable if you use syntax coloring options in DrRacket to make them light grey, which is what I do. Imo, P4P is just not worth the learning delta .. particularly because it doesn't solve the single biggest readability issue - math expressions - which exists even if you make all parens invisible.

In my company, I came up with one myself (http://code.google.com/p/muvee-symbolic-expressions/wiki/Tab...) when some aesthetic objections arose to the use of (paren (laden (scheme))) as a scripting language for our product. It is quite telling that we ended up not using the tab syntax in the end, though it is still available in the product :D
Were it granted, the patent would still be a threat, even if it wouldn't hold in court. Organizations that can't afford the legal fees to retaliate against a patent suit are often forced to settle.
I always appreciate mechanical_fish's comments. He's not a celebrity like a lot of the people mentioned already (pg, dhh, paul, spolsky), he just writes good comments.
I tried "for k,v in pairs(_G) do print("->", k,v) end" (I was curious what is and isn't sandboxed) and it just gave me an error.
Check out Boot! HK which launched a few weeks ago in HK. They are only new but the guys behind it have organised some very successful events in Hong Kong.

http://boot.hk is the site for the Hacker Space.

They also run http://startupshk.com
Weed (because it has no real downsides to me personally) and once-a-year DXM (for depersonalisation) were mildly effective, but the clincher has been learning about buddhism / the tao. I'm not talking about any kind of spiritual practice, but moreso a change in perspective that simply isn't expressed by anyone around me. Doing the unambiguously right thing in the best way in any circumstance with no effort or conscious thought is powerful. I started with the question "How do I talk to people correctly?" and found "right speech" and went from there. Nearly two years later I can say it's been transformational at lowering the anxiety that I once had. Automatic negative thoughts happen infrequently instead of constantly. Though, this is not setting me up to be rich and with lots of worldly possessions or friends, but I'm alright with that.

edit: disappointing that all of the replies are about the first word in this post, but I kind of asked for it. Talk about whatever you want to talk about.
wow nice game
Blaze is, Numba is a JIT compiler to LLVM. You can write numpy functions and JIT/Multithread them with just a decorator and zero to few code changes. Blaze makes this transparent to the user, chunks backends, provide out of core array object, abstract expressions etc.
Ceylon is that language.
In New Zealand we have a service called Zenbu (http://www.zenbu.co.nz) that is a CCBY database of POI's. It's great because we're able to dump a csv and integrate everything into our app. If that was available with this that would be seriously powerful and a great step in the right direction towards open POI DB's. There's no reason anymore for that sort of data to not be easily accessible.
I realize that I'm fighting the tide, but I'm going to ask anyway: please don't do this very often. And when you do, please have basic respect for other people, purchase from the business frequently (every hour or so, at minimum), limit your total seat time to an hour if the place is crowded, and don't be "that guy" -- the dude spread over two tables, with the laptop stand, the iPad, the backup drive, the portable keyboard, mouse, etc.

There's nothing worse than walking into an otherwise pleasant cafe and being unable to sit because the place is filled with laptop zombies and/or dudes (and it's always dudes) holding "business" meetings. In San Francisco and Seattle, there are dozens of cheap co-working facilities, but you still can't get a seat to eat lunch in a place like Coffee Bar or the Creamery for all of the nerds that crowd in between 9AM and 5PM.

Finally, if you find yourself working at a cafe for eight hours a day, every day, you're abusing the system. Go to a co-working facility, and pay the minimal amount of money for a desk. If you can afford paying for multiple coffees every day, you can afford a co-working space. If you can't afford either, you should work at home, or in a library. The coffee shop is not your personal, low-rent office space.
Yeah, I'm not wild about the verb first syntax, personally. It doesn't seem to fit the mental models I've formed over the years.
too bad the spinoff project within google, Quick Search Box (same guy who started quick silver was involved), didn't really ever gain traction and has not been actively developed in a while, it had promise:

http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac
You don't HAVE to build from source:

brew install node

And I think there is a deb package as well.
But, I think I remember someone on the core team recommending to just build from source for now. I have not been doing that and it has been fine though.
Same. While QS is clearly more powerful, there seems to be speed advantages to using Spotlight's database (which is what Alfred does).
This update fixes proxy objects, which is huge. I haven't seen any other program come close to QS's flexibility. I can do "Current Selection > Search/Email/etc.", "Current Application > Show Menu", all kinds of cool stuff.

The last example shows all the menu items for the app in quicksilver, so I can search through it. Kind of like the search box in the app's help menu, but faster and easier (just make sure to bind that action to a key).
FYI the labels in the card (e.g. "Combined median volume of asset sales + purchases.") are not wrapped
That seems like a ton of effort for them to keep up with, though. Would it not be easier to make an appimage?

I use a smaller Linux distribution. I checked the package manager, and there is no Sublime text package. It is available as a "third party" package, which I think fetches a package from the third party's website, then repackages it in the local format. It would mean that I would need to check the third party repository for updates. Alternatively, I could probably find it in the snap or flatpak stores. Not a big deal at all, but I do get nervous when I can't find something in the package manager and can't find an appimage on the company's website.

In short, I really like appimages. Please make appimages!
Many jurisdictions interoperate on the basis of reciprocity. You can discuss this without sarcasm and hyperbole.
For those that haven't seen it, "secret-token:" is an RFC. I've started using it at work.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8959
People take out loans for IPhones in the US too.

You also have bizzario phone deals where if you pay 2 to 3x as much for service you can get a free IPhone. I personally buy a phone for 300$ or so every year or 2. Right now I pay about 30$ a month for 2 lines, but you can definitely spend 150$ a month for 2 lines plus financed phones.

Americans love ZERO down deals, so you can get you and your partner IPhones and worry about paying em next month.
More options are always better than less. This is the reason why people hate the lack of choice in mobile OS, in App stores, etc.

It would be great to understand why lack of choice in tax regimen is different, particularly from people that are of the opinion that FAANGs are monopolies that should be broken up
When it comes right down to it, people hate change. "It still works, so why change it!?" is a popular saying among most users.

You're right, though. In this case, there definitely had to be an update to Apple's charging cables. Now that we're 3 generations into the new Lightning Connector, it's less of an issue for most people.
Just use a framework. Most of these basics are built in.
I would pay for del.icio.us.

If I were in the Bay Area or NYC, I would try to find an investor and wrangle a deal to buy the service from Yahoo and run it in such a way. I seriously hope that someone else is doing so.
I've never been in a Borders, but I assume that the staff are paid, that their bosses tell them to help customers, and that their bosses do this in order to increase sales.
Perfectly legal to install EM shielding or a Faraday cage. I bet you'd only have to install a few of them before the mobile companies agreed to block certain urls whenever they triangulated a phone as inside one of your stores.
They say "Download 1.0.10 for Linux" on the Homepage, and all you get are way outdated packages.

If you don't have 1.0.10 for Linux ready for public consumption, don't advertise it. If it is ready for public consumption, don't hide the download in a forum posting.
Nice web design, looks very professional. (Although I'm not the target market because I don't mind installing Handbrake and Evom)

On the custom encoding options, I only see 4:3 sizes, no 16:9. Is that intentional?
I spent part of last year based in Thailand and attended a few technically oriented meetups. Honestly, the quality of knowledge there did seem very low. It's good to see some good teaching going on.

A few years ago I donated a crap-ton of machines to a poor school in a remote part of China in conjunction with a private American NGO. I am going to visit another school with them next week and will see whether there might be scope for something similar there.

Of course, I have no idea once they have a room full of machines whether they can do much with them .. and I suspect they are probably used for games and web access exclusively. Something like you are suggesting sounds like a great use of these kinds of resources.
Very nice writeup!

Related: I got a couple mails about raytracers in pure bash. It looks like they use fixed point arithmetic in bash rather than floating point, which works well:

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2021/01/audio-and-graphics.html...

https://github.com/aneeshdurg/bash-raytracer

https://www.bouledef.eu/~tleguern/articles/shell-fixedpoint/
Upon reflection after a second read through, you’re right: we agree more than we disagree, and any disagreement I have on my end amounts to mere nitpicking when I put it in words in a box. At least in this thread.

Cheers, mate!
My network isn't nearly that large. I've got them all to phone home over wireguard so we can manage. Pi is a great way to ship a managed software solution.
What are some big poster-child success stories for running MVC on Mono in production?
You can do this for broken links on your own server using code from the Internet Archive https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...

You can do this with a client-side extension, like Resurrect Pages, which presents links to the Google cache (for recent sites under load) and the Internet Archive (for old links that have rotted). https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...
> It's not meant to be a simulation that's actually accurate.

Most computer simulations aren't. That doesn't mean they aren't accurate enough for some real world applications anyways. Take the fluid simulation in blender for example: It was designed for visual effects, not for sea defence simulations. It works really quite nicely for both however.
Good luck! I hope it works out for you!
I went to fanpulse.com, said "huh?" and was gone.

I've never understood the clever domain names for real websites. It's cool for your techie project that you hype here on HN. If it's meant to interact with your average citizen, then forget about it.

website == .com for 99% of the people out there. Just ask Yahoo who paid like $100k to finally get delicious.com
Full disclosure: I'll be starting in a parttime MBA program this fall, in a top-10 B-school. I write code for living, but want to explore what else is out there for me.

I find some of his advises interesting, especially proposing your own internship project.

However, I strongly disagree with him just dissing a person who wants to get involved and is willing to do "anything". I really would like an MBA like that. One, who is willing to learn, take on projects beyond his/her comfort zone, make a contribution where it is needed. That person, IMO, is almost an entrepreneur, as s/he is taking a risk, which most other MBAs aren't.

Saying "I'll do anything" doesn't make the MBA-intern clueless, rather makes him a lot more motivated and open-minded about his career and future path.

Just for example, imagine a Product Manager/Marketing person who can actually do QA and comes up with product vision after playing with a product, rather than just doing surveys. Imagine an HR person who would actually work with the Dev/QA to understand the company culture, as it grows, rather than just follow the path that has been laid out before him/her. Etc...

Edit: I take criticism very well and would love to learn the fallacy of my argument. If you do decide to downvote me, please do but I'd love to understand why.
Excellent point.

Perhaps it should have been obvious that I was joking.

By referencing the somewhat deragatory nicknames used by soldiers in WWII, I was calling to mind our nations' shared heritage of the British Common Law.

When I see Common Law countries misbehave in this fashion, it is always especially irksome. It is the ultimate "could it happen here" test.

I expect more from the Common Law nations, and I wholly agree that us Yanks have had some embarassing episodes in this regard as well. We should all resolve to hold ourselves to the high standards of human and civil rights guaranteed under our shared legal tradition. And we should hold each other to it.
I'm working for the family business currently - it was a good opportunity for me the learn the ropes of running a business right out of college and it gave me a chance to help my father out with some issues he was having in my area of expertise. I'm working on starting my own startup as an extra-curricular project, but the lessons I've learned from working here have been fantastic and I keep learning new ones every day.
I actually haven't used craigslist as much. Will check it out some more.

But this still goes back to my point that craigslist, like monster and all others is a basic listing service of available opportunities. Is there anything out there, like a match.com for employers and employees?
Healthcare is expensive.
These smiles aren't fake. People are excited every day at LinkedIn, or the high five program would suck.
It depends on how big of a problem you want to tackle. The biggest problem I have every day is that I get tired and have to go to sleep. This time spent sleeping could be better used by doing more productive things. Finding a solution to the "sleep problem" would be a huge win in many ways.
If you spend 2-3 months reading HN daily for 10-15 minutes you will get a great base level exposure to startups. I also highly recommend http://steveblank.com

Assuming BP = business plan templates, lesson #1 is forget those.
You can get AC routers for under $80 now, and they are basically just Linux boxes.
I can see why Dropbox would be upset about the existence of such a thing, but trying to force people to take it down seems incredibly foolish. The whole issue will garner them negative publicity and people will see it anyways thanks to the Streisand effect.

I had actually missed the original post, but now thanks to their takedown attempts I've downloaded a copy for myself as its very interesting.
Hi rlobue :) You are the first one who noticed it :) That was done on purpose since i had a www.zbugs.com as a default input text :) so people can see how the tool works i had to leave the CSS and JS untouched and uncompressed :)
Thanks again.
So don't sit on your saddle—take it off. (Bonus reason: saddles {with a nose} also cause erectile dysfunction; I don't have any sources at hand but I'm sure if you search you will find).
Congrats! Wufoo is awesome, and you deserve the acquisition.

With the new engineering resources, I'd love to see some awesome features like:

1. 1,000 field entries per form instead of 100 (http://wufoo.com/forums/discussion/3020/workaround-for-100-f...)

2. A "Form Building API" so we can programmaticaly create forms. (http://wufoo.com/docs/api/v2/#makeforms)
Location: EU
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Rather not, but if that's sunny place where you can surf I might consider it :)
Technologies: Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Java, Python, RxSwift, Combine
Résumé/CV: Available upon request
Email: iosdeveurope@gmail.com

I'm a product-focused iOS engineer specializing in high-scale apps used by millions of users. 8 years of experience in mobile development. I'm open for any mobile related work, Web3 projects are welcomed. I'm open to work in Swift, SwiftUI, React Native. If there's need I can switch to a different technology. I would love to work at a company with a mission that resonates with me and with a product that brings real value to the users.
some years ago i worked for 1 & 1, and when I think back to their customers, i can imagine that it would work. And I see the reason also because they were one of the first to have offered in Germany emails that were in vain financed by massive advertising, and AdBlock is certainly no fun for them.
Just to compare, this looks my Landing Page with, and without AdBlock.. http://i.imgur.com/bgTCRJN.png
Cardano will prove PoS sooner than Ethereum, and it has hard cap.

Yes I am a Cardano shiller.
Why compare a web browser with a programming language? An equivalently rich OS would be a meaningful comparison, built with full debug symbols.
It's both retail and institutional.

Retail traders can't swing that kind of volume in the underlying shares, no. But retail call buying as a proportion of total equity options volume is up massively in the past two years. The trading leverage inherent to retail call options herding together combined with the requirement for market makers to hedge the options they sell induces these huge movements. From there, momentum traders exacerbate the spark that's already lit.
When there are books literally explaining how to pass FAANG tech interviews, people have to get creative with their hiring process.

IMHO the interviews are justified.
I'm a Mac user, mostly because I like the simplicity of the hardware.

If/when I return to Windows, a Framework laptop is definitely appealing. I'd rather change the ports than deal with a handful of dongles and adaptors.

One thing to consider:

I really want to try a laptop that comes with a good, well-supported Linux installation. (I haven't tried desktop Linux since the early 2000s.) I'm less concerned about "distro of my choice," because I really just want something that works well out of the box and is easy to learn.
SIP and its cousin SDP are wonderfully readable plaintext protocols used for VoIP. If you don’t think so, have a look at SIP’s predecessor H.323.
There are two "sliders" - net salary, gross salary, then the total cost of the salary to the employer on top of the gross salary. One starting a job negotiates the gross salary. In EU positioning of these two "sliders" varies widely from country to country and one could rarely have mistaken impression that the contributions and deductions are low.
I stopped reading after that sentence, as I figured any such characterization immediately showed bias - your comment pretty much confirms my suspicions.
I have dealt with Rackspace exact 2 times and both times, it has been a horrendous experience.
Is BTC still a hedge if it's 50k+? I don't know whether it's a good speculation or one to hedge against. I've avoided it all this time and with banks and corps getting on board, I feel left out.
Seriously. I get that the setup with Facebook/Twitter having so much social power is less than ideal, but the government telling you which trolls or assholes you're allowed to boot off your website, that sounds infinitely worse (and in the US, it's legally infeasible, it would never make it past the first amendment).
What do you think you're doing right now?
You're exactly right; this isn't entirely cut-and-dried, and there's a chance a court could rule in a way that would surprise me.

However, I don't entirely see how a court could come to the conclusion that merely developing film is creative, and I don't see how a court could rule that a new copyright was created if the work done wasn't creative.
Okay, that will gives us total transaction costs with hardware, electricity, rental, profit and so on in the range 1.5 to 2.0 of the electricity costs which again makes electricity costs a pretty good proxy for transaction costs.

So the remaining question is how the total costs of running the Bitcoin network will evolve with changing transaction volume. Will competition among miners drive up or lower the total costs? Will total costs evolve proportionally to the transaction volume - which I think is important for security - or will they decouple? It would probably be interesting to model the whole system and see what happens. Is there an equilibrium for transaction costs and Bitcoin adoption? And is it stable or will the system run away?
It looks like he's using template metaprogramming so he can write C++ as if it were Haskell.

So why not just use Haskell?
He mentioned he's still involved in legal proceedings and expects to be deposed in further trials. I imagine specific implementation details, things under NDA, etc. are what he's trying to avoid.

In work like this, you certainly wouldn't want to accidentally cause a negligent company to get off the hook because of an unimportant public statement.
"when a programmer analyses code he's actually executing it inside his head"

I have never thought about it that way before.