jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
That first graph doesn't really show the bursting of a bubble. Yes, the number of rounds have gone down, but I think an important metric is the amount raised, which has only slightly decreased. This make it seems like there have been stricter requirements by seed investors before jumping in.

Which to me sounds like not a bad thing. Ideally we'll get less Yo apps this way.
The Onion nailed it: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...
GA is definitely ubiquitous, but people serious about attribution aren't limiting themselves to GA :P
Good article.

This is why I quit watching the main networks and only get news from infowars.com.
So the rocket just explodes and the trash goes in the ocean? Thanks for polluting our oceans. Can I take all my household trash and just dump it in your living room?
Right, like "Vaccines cause autism" and "Homeopathy is something you should say without laughing". Also hilarious.

There's a dark side to bullshit. There's a side which creates endless pain for no good reason, because things 'sound good' or are 'too good to check' and nobody likes a party-pooper, do they? Especially when the party-pooper is pointing out how this little piece of bullshit could kill someone.

No. Go along to get along. Don't be so serious all the time. Don't imagine you know better. It's rude.
I keep hearing about Servo (and compiling it every now and again), but I really don't know - is Servo meant to eventually, maybe replace Gecko? Or is it/will it always be just a Rust playground?

It seems like it could seal Rust as a player if Servo became "A Thing" for real. What's the plan?
If this just affected the Yo apps it would be great news but that does not seem to be the case.
Yes, because attacking people and bullying them is a wonderful way to make friends and influence people.
Previously reported:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937215

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1940672
System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Application Shortcuts > All Applications > Show Help menu > Command Shift /

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but the 14% are split between yourself and your employer. only your part is taken directly off your paycheck.
Absolutely. And speaking as someone closer to fifty than forty... The Beatles are big news, but not new news. They aren't relevant to music distribution for the same reason that Miles Davis isn't relevant to music distribution. It's not like having The Beatles' catalog would get people to switch from iTunes to Zune or from Zune to iTunes.
There are so many feds on hn it's insane
'We' never really came to an agreement on that question. Some people always thought it was a pretty good idea to keep things that belong together close together and some people didn't. The separation people have been dominant for a couple of years, but a bunch of people didn't really like that approach and are now taking a new stab at finding a new solution the problem.

It's just two different schools of thought and really comes down to personal preference. Fashion ebbs and flows and what was old is new, and what was new is old.
divorce rate also increased considerably, not necessarily because of earning gap.
Exceptions don't break trends, they break rules. Claiming a trend is not the same as claiming a rule.
A small glimpse into the power of vim.
Thought about releasing it?

I help run a local dance and have been looking for a simple, small POS setup to help tally people (students, adults, seniors, and association members) through the door. Right now we put tick marks in a log book.

I was thinking about developing a jQuery / PHP / PostgreSQL system with nightly updates to Google Docs. Something that would run on a 5-year old laptop.
I worked for myself for 4 years (did consulting work, co-founded a startup) but, due to various reasons, decided to find a full-time job. The job I found is fantastic and I still work there. I love it, I love the people, I love my work. I build apps and do some consulting in my free time, and could easily leave and work for myself again, but I choose not to. I'm sure if I worked for a company I hated I would have left long ago. I do what makes me happy, and right now that involves having a full-time job and also working on other things I love to do on the side.
> Funny though, his ISP is likely guilty of the same thing. I wonder if Zed takes that into account as a part of his paranoid fantasy.

You don't need TOR. You do need an ISP.
Not only that, but asking you to refer other developers feels shady. I'm not going to refer anyone without their permission, and I won't bother calling them just to get access to some potentially crappy job newsletter.
From the ACLU⁰:

"Both Congress’ Government Accountability Office¹ and an independent scientific advisory group² found that there is no evidence that people can identify deception by observing the behavior of others."

Claiming the opposite without showing any proof, like the TSA is doing, looks disturbingly like "junk science" to me.

0: https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-sues-tsa-records...

1: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-159

2: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100526/pdf/465412a.pdf
> On the other hand, if taken as a literary statement, it can hold some truth -- or maybe many truths. Except that is a different kind of truth.

We can learn from people telling stories, we don't need to call these stories "truths" to do that. No need to muddle up the terminology. There's a hilarious proverb about kinds of truth BTW, but I can't manage to translate it to English, idioms just work differently.

> It would be one that believes that anything not quantifiable is not worth knowing, and would try to plug any missing holes in our knowledge with data and quantitative theory, even if that's mathematically impossible.

I think you misunderstood. It's not that it's not worth knowing. It's that you don't really know it if you can't quantify it. You're just slapping together some explanation to feel better.

> But just like we'll likely never write a computer program that can fully reason about other computer programs

Not about ALL the possible computer programs, but about many useful ones - why not? If our brains can do it - surely turing machines can do it too. At worst it would take exponential time and space.
Most of my ideas I first test by a simple sketch of boxes up on a whiteboard. Going from there to some toy code to try out what I suspect are the tough parts of those boxes.

I realize with liberal use of undefined, I can get something similar in Haskel. So, I am not trying to claim in precludes this behavior. Just claiming that it is a rather drastic change to the flow many people are used to.

And really, I don't like claiming many people are used to this. As, I can really only speak for myself.
Please elaborate your argument instead of using opaque ad-hominem shorthands.
Relevant:
https://medium.com/@gzanon/no-end-to-end-encryption-does-not...
After a windstorm my outlets weren't working but the lights were. Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but one of the hot wires had come loose at the weatherhead. The other hot and neutral were still connected. PG&E came out to fix it within an hour.
People get other offers and counteroffers and stay at their jobs all the time. In most of corporate America, this is one of the primary ways to get ahead. Maybe not at the most enlightened employee focused development shops, but most programmers don’t work there.

There are a number of good reasons to give your current employer the opportunity to give a counteroffer:
1. It’s the polite thing to do. Even if you say no, your former boss will appreciate being given the opportunity.
2. You may be able to use it as a bargaining advantage in setting your compensation at the new job. More bidders = higher pay for you.
3. Your current employer may decide to make you a really good offer. I’ve seen it happen. They may even create a new job description that didn’t exist to accommodate you.

Ideally we would all work at places that properly valued our skills and contributions, and updated our salaries to reflect our value every year. In the real world, there’s nothing wrong with a little negotiation and competition.
Don't start one. Hosting is dead or dying.
There's one he forgot: if you drink enough of it you get drunk.
Hmm, total dick, says controversial things, is supposedly "cool" in person, and hacks a lot of code.. Sounds like he could be HN's next flavor of the month.
No, but they might degrade the exclusive identity of pork as "the other white meat."

If enough people were to make jokes about "the other white meat" referring to various products, the pork board could theoretically lose the trademark altogether.
I guess it's to each their own, but I just cannot understand running with Javascript disabled. Especially with all the sites that rely on Ajax-like technologies and such...maybe it's just me?

I think by disabling Javascript for yourself, you're missing out on a lot of the modern Web.
It is *nix, ish. Everything works, ish. Sometimes there are really isoteric workarounds for certain things, and some things plain just don't work. I've been much happier just switching to Linux than if I had continued to struggle with OS X.
Wow, congrats. It's a really cool product and the UI is amazing.
Till what point did you work on it part time and when did you decide to take it full time (I'm assuming you did given the polish of the app).
> If they said "this" person said "this" thing, as-long as they hate him, they'll instantly jump on believing and ridiculing.

This is such a perfect observation! My very intelligent and well-educated friends, most of them successful engineers in the Silicon Valley, behave exactly as you described. And it's not at all limited to the current political divisions in the US.

Why would seemingly smart people trust random posts on internet, as long as those posts confirm what they want to hear?
Ah well that's interesting, thanks.
That doesn't make sense to me. Where do you draw the line between a framework and a product?

Google et all probably have lots of internal tooling and frameworks. Hell, react started as internal to FB didn't it? Does that count as a framework or as a product?

Lots of other companies have similar internal frameworks, probably with less resources devoted to them, but in the other hand with less use cases.
Do those not similarly count as frameworks written by experts?
Indeed.

It is true that Scott linked to Nick Land (and also Charles Murray but that is a different discussion) in his blogroll.
If Facebook was in a position to do it, they would've already done it for more profit.
I was under the impression that while the exact time of a landslide is hard to predict, it is relatively easy to predict that an area of land might suffer landslides. (ie. by looking at the angle of every layer of rock and looking for any that are near their critical slippage angle)

Surely that is checked for all land surrounding any hydro project, and the land stabilized with piles or grout before the hydro project starts?
I used to be a big fan of Open Office and Libretto Office but with Microsoft’s support of more open data formats, and their best deal ever of $99/year for a family plan for Office 365, I have switched sides. I write my books using markdown and LeanPub but everything else is Office 365.
When that threat model necessarily includes bored script kiddies and automated APTs?
I’ve seen people on YouTube build a wood box around a small rack, put a bathroom fan inside, and run a foil hose for a dryer to the outside. The racks I saw already had a glass door so it was easier to build the sides and foil tap the cracks.
But it will select a certain type of people
If they tried it tomorrow, yes. If they wait four years everyone will have forgotten.
This is an interesting question (quoted in full in the article) for an exam because it forces you to face a difficult issue outside of your comfort zone.

In addition, let's face it and rightly or wrongly, Eton educates many of the future elite (CEOs and Cabinet Ministers) who will have to carry out this sort of task during their professional life, both in terms of making hard choices and in terms of taking responsibility for them and explaining them, even if hopefully in less extreme circumstances.

It would be interesting to have Eton explain what they are seeking in a 'good' answer.

If anything this 'outrage' about the question highlights the issues with social media, not Eton.
Sounds like you are suggesting a clear cut antitrust case.
> asked you to search for ‘Dalit’

That's what I did btw - eye opener if you are a simpleton basing your opinions on what the media chooses to highlight and what google tries to show you :)

Also I don't remember using any ALL CAPS words so not sure where you got "shouting match" from :) - probably a gut feel based pre-determination I am guessing?
>ARM and RISC machines

What OS would they run? Linux?

I wonder if Windows will ever run on ARM/RISC?
Curiously and coincidentally, I bought several of Ted's writings recently. I think he has some salient points but without colleagues, he fell in love with his "solo-founder crazy ideas," effectively delusions that couldn't be realized by his methods. If he had others around to temper his thinking rather than retreating completely from civilization, he might've had a chance to make a positive and constructive impact rather than causing random, impotent harm.
We tend to take an in-between approach, baking base AMIs as needed but configuring and installing code with Ansible at boot time. We've got scripts to cut tarballs with an Ansible playbook plus support files from any tag in our repo. Then it's just a matter of specifying the tag in user-data when starting an instance. We do that through CloudFormation.

edit: grammar
I once experimented with small math calculation programs and found if I added a heuristic for selecting programs with less length, given equal correctness, the former is preferred. This helped evolve shorter more readable programs.
> most [cruise ships] are registered under flags of convenience for tax purposes

I wonder why countries allow this. For example, by withholding (dis)embarkation services from vessels known to be flouting the local tax system. It's one thing to travel around the world on a ship registered in Panama. It's another to book a one-night hotel stay on a ship which never leaves radio distance of your home, yet claims no tie to your country.
I love these videos, but the production values are terrible. Invest in a good camera and microphone setup.
I've seen a few before, and a quick search yielded a bunch for me, right off the bat. By no means exhaustive:

Julia: https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl

Python: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/0.6/

C++: https://github.com/nholthaus/units

etc.

And yes, it has always struck me as strange that date/time/calendar utilities are standard as canonical functionality shipped with language distributions, but units are not.
I'm not really in a position to suggest a good book on viruses. I found out about this from a pop-sci book on latest research on aging and longevity.

When it comes to viruses though, there's one more very fascinating hypothesis. That the cell nucleus itself was once actually a virus that took over some bacteria to do its bidding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_eukaryogenesis
Posted this above, but that's a lot of money. The median household income in the states is about 60k. And these folks may be less likely to have held stable employment while they battled with cancer.
As others have said Google Photos backup via RClone has some caveats, mainly not downloading at original quality. Google Takeout does solve this but but in weird hierarchies.

I stumbled on a new project which simulates a browser download using a headless Chrome Developer tools session[0]. Looks interesting, supports continuation and can be ran on a cron job. Worth a look.

[0] https://github.com/perkeep/gphotos-cdp
A better comparison is getting into Harvard. Do you really want to go to a school where getting in is a matter of acing a prescriptive test? There's a reason college applications value experience and diversity.
In the demonstrations click on the underlined keywords and you can select alternates from dropdown menu.
Unless I am missing something, that's trivial to block.

Any tracker can be made to work around ad blockers by making callbacks to the site itself and having a small shim there that forwards these pingbacks to the actual tracking service. But even then they still can be blocked based on the request contents.

PS. Here's how your website looks in Firefox - https://i.imgur.com/uFKEB4X.jpg. That's with uBlock off. No console errors.
Thanks, I did not know that units is able to work with constants. I always used Insect[0] for this.

0: https://github.com/sharkdp/insect
Interestingly I’ve only found one commercial product to simulate Magstripe cards: https://ims.ul.com/6-benefits-ul-brand-test-tool
It's a bit of a reach: "sahara" in Arabic means "deserts", and soviet means council or board.
Why is biking far healthier than the gym?
Wonder if this means Cloudflare - and/or the other termination points for DNS-over-HTTPS - could be an interesting place to start adding an alternative DNS resolution system?

Then it wouldn't need to be done by any browsers... if the DNS-over-HTTPS end point provider does the additional name resolution, it should "just work".
This is a drawn game according to the rules of chess, since checkmate is impossible.

Other draw conditions include:

* Stalemate (=The side to move has no legal moves)

* 50 moves in a row without any permanent changes happening ("permanent changes" means a pawn moving or a piece being captured)

* Exactly the same game state occurs for the third time ("game state" is whose turn it is + status of castling ability + status of en passant possiblity + which pieces are where)

* Agreed draw

Fun fact: In normal time controls (not blitz) at competitive levels, chess games virtually never end in one of the termination conditions. I don't have statistics on hand but I would expect resignations and agreed draws account for 98%+ of grandmaster-level games.
Not if it's the same card used on a limited PayPal account :)
It's not that fish oil is an unalloyed good, mind; just that we get way too much Omega-6 in western diets, and it seems that Omega-3 "cancels it out." In cultures with balanced Omega-3/6 intake, like Japan, fish oil has no benefit.
You don't need to be the nerdy kid in the room to be a good programmer.
Based on what you write, I guess you don't practice sports.

One interesting fact is that people attempting to hack their sleep never talk about it, and from the perspective of sporty people, the reason is obvious.
Yeah, I've heard a bit about that one, but have lumped it into the commercial ones that you'd have to have a solid need to justify a license cost like running something important in production that requires support or you'd probably need an academic license.
>16FFC - late 2016......

2012 28nm

2014 20nm

2016 16nm

2018 7nm

2020 5nm

2022 3nm* ( Non-GAA )

Every node is full 2 year cadence in accordance to their customer ( Lately Apple ) iPhone releases. 10nm is Pre 7nm, 12nm is 16nm's optimisation node. Nothing High pace about it. As they have been doing this prior to becoming a "leading" node manufacture.
Tons of junk survives and thrives in the market. Your great grandparent specifically brought up content farms as an example. Homeopathic remedies, counterfeit SD cards, the list goes on.

Nothing about markets magically solves the problem that if it's hard to evaluate quality, there will be junk masquerading as quality.
It is an interesting conundrum right now. I am considering investing in using Ruby/Rails DUE TO Heroku. If djangy was ready and of comparable quality it would be an easy choice for me (I am comfortable in python, completely new to Ruby/Rails). But having to compare Heroku vs GAE vs Python-Stack is much more complex. I am not a fan of the limits in GAE, but I don't want to deal with system administration at this point. But I want to use python. Arg.
Thanks for pointing that out. A more interactive demo would certainly help. Also, the current webpage misses out the text-to-speech feature. I might work on that.

Thanks again! :)
geez sorry :\
Ah, yes... come to the dark side (of coffee). We have cookies! :-)

Coffee is also healthy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_coffee

Fluoride is mentioned on Wikipedia, but was new to me. No details. Is this new?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_of_tea#Effects_o...
And I think it's partly because they do do a lot of research, so they get some of the research prestige. With the number of full-time researchers and publication output they have, the research side of Google would rank as one of the larger institutes if it were standalone. See e.g.: http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html

I think the same is true prestige-wise of other research-heavy companies. Bell Labs was prestigious; being at Microsoft Research is prestigious; etc.
It is obvious from the fact that we are discussing the original article at all that this issue is more complicated than you make out.

I already addressed the underlying issue you raise in my original reply; it was point #1. Perhaps you would care to further the debate by replying there, instead of resorting to sarcasm and mockery?
Do you post HN comments using your touchscreen? If not, why not?

I've done the keyboard smartphone thing, and the touchscreen smartphone thing (incl. swype with the latter). I prefer a real keyboard overwhelmingly -- even a miserable keyboard like on the HTC Dream -- and I know I'm far from alone.

When someone sends me an email or a text requiring a response, honestly it is a sad, defeated feeling when I have to respond on the touchscreen keyboard.

I know I'm hardly alone with this: iPhone toting friends and peers tend not to author any content on their device beyond the occasional "lol" or "brb" type response (you know instantly that they're hacking it on the screen), whereas others with Blackberry devices or physical keyboards...I often can't tell from their response whether they are at their desk or remote because they don't artificially abbreviate their comments.

I'm sure there are non-typists or those of few words who are completely satisfied without a keyboard. Most others simply accept it.
SEEKING WORK - Remote, Cologne, Germany - http://mygnu.com

Hi HN,

my name is Ujal - http://mygnu.com
I am a Frontend Engineer from Cologne, Germany.

For the past 8 years I've worked exclusively as a freelancer
and I am currently on a search for exciting new projects.

My past clients include

https://universal-music.de
https://minglabs.com
https://dunckelfeld.de
To be fair, I didn't clarify a timeline. I'm just curious what HNers think would be the fastest option. Fastest could mean 2 years.
Here's some main differences:

- Different design options (there's even preset headers, link styles, etc.)
- Our app is a full blown contact hub, not only allowing to display links, but all kind of on- and offline contact data (social networks, rss/ links, phone, mobile, address, email, messaging, fax ... all classified by private and business data) & downloadable as v-card.
- DooID allows selected data to be password protected (scalable privacy protection).
- Accounts include a site-version that's optimized for mobile devices (besides the desktop webite).
- Add Ons provide extra value & -customization: maps, email signature, blog widget, cv, video embed, photostream, status and more
Feature request: make every "enter" key press complete the current line.
Similar project of mine, but which is "blogging using only git" rather than "via git": http://gitorious.org/fugitive

Example blogs: http://shebang.ws/, http://a3nm.net/blog/, http://vlog.antonin.delpeuch.eu/ :-).
I tried that but somehow it didn't work ... Thanks!