jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
First of all: remember that you are lucky. I know it's hard to see it that way right now, but you were given an incredible gift in the time that the two of you had together. The fact that it was cut short so abruptly and meaninglessly doesn't take away from that; if anything, it highlights it.

In terms of "how", there is no magic answer; you just try to keep learning, and keep giving to others, to the best of your ability.

You say that you used to speak for an hour each day; I'd suggest that you spend a portion of that time writing down things you remember-- lessons, anecdotes, etc. The time may come, years from now, when you'll be glad you have some tangible reminders of his advice.

Good luck to you.
Great work. So well structured and easy to browse. Thanks
Sorry to hear about your loss. Like the other's have said, time will make things easier to deal with. Be alert though for signs of destructive behavior, as this can make your life even more complicated. Increases in drinking/drugging, isolating oneself, excessive risk taking, etc.
The article does do that. Towards the middle of it.

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Once someone has said “It’s (really) none of my business, but...” it’s entirely permissible (if slightly rude) to reply “You’re right, it is none of your business.” It’s also reasonable to reply “Well, then, don’t!” to someone who says “I don’t want to make you feel uncomfortable, but...”

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That doesn't work as well for others, Imagine "I am not racist but ... " <interrupt> "Oh, but you are racist". So now you accused someone of being a racist. Sure you have stood up and called them on their racism, but you also created an enemy. Sometimes it is worth it, sometimes it isn't. Depending on the situation.

Or for example "To be perfectly honest ... " <interrupt> "Oh but you are not honest". Well now you are the one accusing them of dishonestly simply because they started the phrase with a stupid "but-head".

I think the point of the article is that some such phrases should raise red flags. They are not 100% proofs of lying or deceit.
What harm is there in viewing data? None.

Yes there is – you've consumed other people's data without permission.

Would the same apply to physical trespass in your mind? Is there any harm in entering an accidentally unlocked house and snooping around? There's nothing preventing you from doing so...

I'd argue that it's wrong, and equivalent to consuming data which is obviously intended to be private. It's not like there's ambiguity about it's status.

Which do you find is indefensible, seeking to consume data or consuming it

Surely you can only consume data if you seek to do so?
I won't because I'm neither American nor a lawyer, but I will answer your question.

The person in question wanted to remain anonymous for good reasons, they didn't consent to have their true identity revealed and yet a powerful news corp decided to do that anyway, clearly in bad faith and for their own gain, violating that person's and their relatives' privacy. It's obvious the aim was to incite verbal violence against and "cancel" that man because he committed the heinous crime of wrongthink.
I used to read Alexander's essays now and then. I tried to read this one, but the site complained that I had javascript turned off (why do I need that to read an article?) and, even with scripting turned off, used a lot of CPU while the tab was open. I get the impression that substack is doing something shady, and I think I’ll avoid them in the future.
I feel like the NYT used to be more credible and run fewer hit pieces. I'm not trying to argue zero, by any means, but I feel like in a very short time -- basically the past 4-8 years -- they've gone from one of the most credible source of media to where I trust them as much as I do Fox News (and I read both, as well as a number of international news sources, to have a complete picture).

This sort of stuff seems to be their modus operandi now.
The annoying thing is that all these new libraries can only be used from swift. As interop with swift is a pain from any other language.
It looks to me datasette (https://datasette.io/) could fill the same need: load the data into SQLite and explore it with a host of tools and visualisations, all profiting from the power of SQL
No it doesn't. It's about targetSdk, not minSdk.
It's worth considering that if someone disagrees with you, they might be right. Or at least be worth listening to without insulting them or insinuating anything.
They also account for 17.7% of global population.
As far as I can tell Reuters and the NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/world/asia/china-world-he...) are telling the truth. I'm not that convinced it's propaganda. What's in it for them to lie over this stuff?
Uh, are you suggesting the municipalities should just deny education to the unprofitable students?

Not sure how concentrating easy students would help if you still have to teach the complex ones too, and since the municipalities must provide education to eveyone they can't avoid them like the profit schools do.
Became friendly with the organizer of the Silicon Valley New Tech meetup, mentioned to him I was looking for a Python job, he put me in touch with the director of engineering at my current company. Networking _works_ -- but I should point out that I didn't get to know the organizer to try to get something out of him.
Obviously you do not know any drug dealer :).They love those Nokia prepaid phones.
of course. That's why I want a git for the non-technical user.

non-techies also have a need for version control. They just don't have access to it.

If I had said, "I want rsync for non-technical users" a couple years back, I'm saying I wish there was something like Dropbox. You might have said "rsync isn't for non-technical users", which is besides the point.
Also it predicts too much time on your hands spend commenting or searching for submissions.
I'm guessing StayFocusd. At any rate, that's what I use and it is good.
I don't think you need a reverse, just to reconsider what the alarm you're setting is for.

Try setting the alarm for when you should sleep, instead of wake.

I need to do this myself, and reading your thoughts made it clearer to me. (Doubt I'll actually do it though...)
Argh... all this makes my head hurt.

Nowadays it seems silly to have to have 3rd party plugins for simple audio/video. HTML5 is good for that.

Then we have a markup language for rendering content for screen/print/whatever, a fluffy interpreted script language and a 90s-throwback framebuffer emulation trying to pass itself off as the be-all and end-all of cross-platform application development. Then it gets itself into a war with a single-vendor browser plugin known for its lack of speed and gaping security holes.

I choose neither. EndOfRant.
> Expect to pay a boatload in refresh rates, as your browser buckles under the weight of rendering that glorious halo.

Chrome seems to cope well--although it doesn't look that nice if you look close enough.
Also a high karma score indicates too much time on your hands spend commenting or searching for submissions.
would you ever build a bajzillion dollar oil rig in the vicinity of a country which had decided to magically nationalize one, for any reason?

not if you could find oil anywhere else.

confiscating BP's equipment and whatever the hell else is not the fastest way to get the mess cleaned up. it's the fastest way to guarantee oil companies think twice about engaging in any capital construction projects in the vicinity of the united states.
Most modern browsers support HTML5 -- probably more than there is gears support, honestly. Gears is end-of-life'd. Even Google Chrome doesn't support Gears at this point.

I'd go with HTML5.
I guess Apple thought they needed Office and IE at the time, but surely not because it was great software. In retrospect, I wonder if it really made any difference at all.

They always have and always will need Office as long as it is the dominant tool used in professional environments. Apple does not need it to be any good, but it needs it to be there. It is one of the big separators between OSX and any other non-Windows OS, Apple needs it as on their list of offerings in order to be able to pitch itself more easily.

Not everybody is savvy enough to know of possible Office alternatives (especially not the Apples "lifestyle crowd" audience), so not having the option of using Office would be very easy marketing against OSX, especially considering that their main campaign until recently has been "Get a Mac".

As much as many people don't like the thought of it, Office is, and will for a very long time be, the prime application used in businesses worldwide.
For airgapped networks, this is great.
Mod: s/sneek/sneak/ please.
This article was great. I especially liked:

“Oh my God,” I thought. “This total stranger, whoever he or she is, thinks I cry myself to sleep while watching public television and texting a paid fake boyfriend I named after an actor.”

To all you folks saying this is really sad, or wrong, this is a novelty. It's like the digital equivalent of a gag gift. It's a great conversation starter and really very funny.
Wow. Just wow.

Probably controversial, but in a dozen or so years of programming I think XML probably represents the most stupid and costly ideas to've gained widespread adoption.

I honestly can't think of a single other relatively recent technology that's responsible for nearly as many wasted lines of code, unbelievably inefficient systems, and legions of developers who are terrified of bytes that don't render nicely in notepad.

I hate it. Just saying. (Downvotes expected).
Their documentation system seems to be pretty cool. Does anyone know if this is spun off as a separate project somewhere? It looks pretty and seems to tie API functions straight to the equivalent github page - sounds like it would be pretty useful in lots of places.
yes, i understand, Friday, end of the week, the humor storage got depleted somewhere around Wednesday.
I've been using Kohana for about a year now, and I'm really liking it.

http://kohanaframework.org/

Supports 5.2+ only, nice ORM, and has a cool autoloader system that I really like. Make sure you have an opcode cache in production though :-)
Much of the code is shared with non-multiprocess ports, and many of the leading WebKit ports have been building a WebKit2 port.

It may even lead to more uniformity, if we can share at least some of the approach to multiprocess with Chromium.
The objective of jsonx is: 1) a loss-less representation of json in xml so it can be reused with xml tools. In a sense it's the reverse of jsonml.org.

jsonx is not (neither it is meant to be):
- a replacement for json
- a format that enables you to query json in a xml database
- a standard (I would remember if I was part of a standard comity, although I do recall playing bullshit bingo in some of these meetings)

I think the use case for jsonx is extremely small: maybe exclusively related to transmitting json over the wire in hardware that is specialized for xml processing. Having worked in it I argued many times that it is not even a queryable format, which makes it less usable even in "xml world". ( for a queryable format example you can check isubiker/mljson@github )

If you are not trying to achieve 1) you can/should simply disregard jsonx. That's certainly what I do: It's completely irrelevant for me and even thought I worked on it I never used it in any of my projects. Why should I? You can't query that crap for the heck of it.

About saying crap about IBM: That's just plain stupid. The fact that you can't understand something simply means you can't understand it and not that it is of no value. "all I know is that I know nothing." - Socrates, supposed to be smart guy
Lookup Off-The-Record messaging. Doesn't cover the kind of log encryption you're asking about, but it's what you want (instead of what you asked for) I think.
Aha - thanks. And thanks satyr!
Just to expand, when I was in the church, we had what amounted to a sales guidebook called "Reasoning from the Scriptures" that would list common objections and suggestions for responding to them. Your interlocutors were probably just doing as they were trained. The Jehovah's Witness church is in many ways a sales organization.

When I was around, they did't have the wealth or intellectual sophistication to advertise themselves effectively. We had been using the same sales book for years and I wouldn't be surprised if "the reasoning book" is still around. An organization that enforces orthodoxy as thoroughly as Jehovah's Witnesses isn't exactly a breeding ground for creative and entrepreneurial spirits.

I wouldn't expect them to pivot if hard sales techniques proved to be annoying or ineffective. They used to publish their conversion statistics in the January 1st or 15th edition of The Watchtower so you could follow their growth (an anemic 1% or so per year back in the late 90s). That was a shockingly transparent move for such a close-minded organization; it probably helps increase members trust in the central organization. But it is also bad for morale to watch numbers languish.
Point Sur Lighthouse is cool, http://www.pointsur.org/
Do you mean this?[0] I don't see mention of static site generation anywhere.

[0] http://bricolagecms.org/
That's a completely different thesis.

Reading fluff has few or none of the side effects described in the post. You don't learn anything, you don't practice separating filtering crap from gold, you don't look cool. It doesn't (actively) change the way you think.

Of course there are lots of good reasons why you shouldn't read an excessive amount of fluff, but this article is about why "good" reading and consumption is bad for you. (if not accompanied by a healthy amount of putting theory into practice).
Well let's define what you mean by "maintaining a static site." Because if you can change it and update it, a la WordPress, then it's not really a static site.

What you seem to mean is are there CMSes that output static pages instead of rendering pages live when they are viewed. And you're just really talking about caching.

And the answer is, you can accomplish this pretty easily with just about any CMS (including WordPress) by using Varnish or other caching systems.
Should have added a disclaimer. I work for Amazon.
Looking at the skin tone picker. Evidently sub-Saharans need not apply.
https://www.boredpanda.com/zara-stealing-designs-copying-ind...

as I said above, it's an unrelated issue with the clothes design issue itself.
> On Steam it's currently $59.99 too, but at 4K without the extra subscription.

But with a requirement for a $400-$1300 graphics card, depending on the FPS and quality you want. And no hope of running it at 4K on most laptops.
The distinction is the article is some personal recollections about an author whose, you know, actual literary work many (including plenty who don't agree with her) consider important and your comment is a generic dismissal barely even related to said article. As distinctions go, it doesn't seem like a very difficult one to make.
There is specyal type of questions to ask potential customers. The key take here is not to ask directly about your product because sometime people want to make you feel better.

So, instead of asking would you use my solution, ask about

- do you have such problem?

- how do you solve it now?

- have you searched for solutions?

- have you searched for paid solutions?

- how much this type of solution you expect will cost for you?

- are you ready to pay someone who will solve this for you?

and so one
Breaks. Lots of meaningful breaks. Things that are not really breaks: documentaries, games, tv (they use your mind power). Things that are: sleep, nature, walks.

You do not get into a flow, you get into a rhythm of break - work - break - work.
People don’t buy cheap cars to belong to a demographic, they do it because they don’t have money for better generally
I just keep cheatsheets handy. For new scenarios, if I find they aren't already on the sheet, I add them. The best command line tools have good documentation you can find with a command like "help" or the "-h" flag. I am slightly annoyed there isn't a convention for this though. Perhaps it should be made into a RFC standard.
If I understand your point, you are saying that Amazon has virtually made the data centre redundant, so the idea that offices are similarly redundant given the right tools shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to them?

I take that point but let me counter that there is presumably a sliding scale here between "traditional office space is redundant" and "when the dust settles everyone will be back at their cubicles". The majority of people, and the companies they work for, are probably somewhere in the middle. However, even if Amazon are 100% convinced their office space is now redundant, it is probably, from a game theory type point of view, not in their best interests to publicly declare that position. Because to do so would only weaken the value of their existing office spaces.
Your concerns are valid. I think this is really an opportunity to get intentional about networking and learning within your company. Everyone else is presumably in the same boat, so if I was early in my career I would focus on becoming the best remote networker and learner possible.

Most people will just go with the flow and not really adapt intentionally to the situation so in some ways you may be able to actually stand out more than normal with less effort.
The UK hasn't abolished their implementation of the GDPR (yet?) so you should still be to file a complaint with the ICO (AFAIK; IANAL).
I'm no expert and can't answer that. It was just my impression, and I might be wrong, that for scaling purposes MySQL is better suited. Currently I'm working on a Saas product and the test instance that runs on Digital Ocean sometimes causes connection limit issues (with connection pool) sometimes. Sure my code is maybe not perfectly utilizing connections but I'm really afraid that this happens in production and I don't know how to fix it. On my test environment I just restart everything but on a productive environment I can't do that all the time.
For what it's worth I've read that under today's circumstances birth control would not have received marketing approval.

See also:

> Birth control pills can also cause thrombosis. So why is there all the fuss about the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca?

> It is true that for birth control pills thromboses, even with fatal outcome, are known as a very rare side effect. They are listed in the Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC). The birth control pill is available only on prescription. Every woman must be informed of this risk by the prescribing physician. For the COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, there is currently a suspected very rare side effect of sinus vein thrombosis with accompanying platelet deficiency, sometimes fatal. It is not listed in the SmPC.

> The consideration of whether the vaccine can continue to be used even though it may cause this very rare side effect (if necessary, after this risk has been added to the SmPC) will be made at the European level by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and at the national level by politicians. The procedure has been initiated.

https://www.pei.de/EN/service/faq/coronavirus/faq-coronaviru...
getLastError (or safe=true) does not force the write to the disk. Checking getLastError determines whether the server accepted the write, or whether there were failures (uniqueness checks, for instance, or whether any rows were updated).
Something not covered here?

http://www.diggz.org/index.php/about/
To clarify, this is 500,000 sales for the lifetime of the app, and not just the past 2 days.
You write:

"I would say the only startup worth working on is your own."

I think you are, without realizing it, criticizing the small amount of equity normally given out to people who join startups. Yes, if you are getting less than 1% of a startup, and making a big sacrifice for that startup, then the sacrifice may not make any sense.

Ellen Beldner does the same thing, in the indirectly linked article. She writes:

"Senior engineers / VPs / early directors may get somewhere between 50 and 150 basis points (0.5 - 1.5%)."

Those are very small amounts of equity. Such small amounts do not make sense if the idea of the startup is utterly unproven. It is valid to criticize those amounts, but the conclusion should be that early employees should get larger stakes.

For the first 3 or 4 people working with a startup, I agree with you that they should be working on "their" startup. And that is the point of equity - to make it theirs. But clearly, early on, with the idea unproven, the equity stakes need to more like 10% or 20% rather than less than 1%. Give someone 10% - 20% of the company and then they are doing what you suggest: the only startup worth working on is your own. They are substantial owners at that point (10% to 20%).

And yes, the equity stakes will get diluted later on, if the company is successful, but that is fine, since that is such a great problem to have to worry about - it means you've been successful.

Right now, I'm trying to get friends to work with me on my startup. The shares we are considering are all in the 5% to 10% range, rather than the less than 1% range. (It helps too that my startup has already had a few customers, so the idea is not completely unproven.)
The problem is not a BOP deficit, the problem is how we are financing the import of cheap goods from China, and that is in fact cheap money from China. We are currently caught in a sort of circular flow of cheap trade with China and even cheaper money to finance this.

We can guarantee that we stay on top of the vertical stack by continuing to innovate by designing and commercializing new products. This is what Joseph A. Schumpeter called creative destruction.

How can we stay ahead of other countries in this endeavor? I do not know. Economic theory tells us that national boarders and countries have no significance in economic growth. If we have open countries that allow trade and the movement of capital all countries and people should benefit from new innovation regardless of whether it is made in the USA or in Pakistan. This question was answered nearly 200 years ago by David Ricardo and others.

Obviously countries are not completely open to trade, however the trend is toward higher levels of international openness. One need only look at the succes of Singapore. Others will follow slowly.

The us vs. them mentality will not get us to the land of milk and honey.
Can someone provide an example of someone actually using a coffee cup icon?
Most manufacturing will be done by robots.

It will be your job to build and maintain these robots.
Any time I hear a politician say "those are just facts" I immediately get suspicious.
A nice POC would have been to write some XSS code which adds your SSH key to a users account if they're logged in when viewing the XSS. I wonder how many HN'ers that would have affected, and git repositories that would have exploited.

I don't think it is an exageration to say that an XSS flaw on something like github has the potential to be disasterous.
"Fit" almost exactly == "hot"
The WP7 phones are much more similar to each other though, both in software and hardware (same chip). Plus, Nokia will have NO control over the OS. And they wouldn't benefit from Android's huge momentum. Even late entrants like LG are selling millions of Android phone units.

I thought they wanted to make their own OS so they don't get commoditized and distinguished only by hardware. How is WP7 helping them doing that? It's much worse than Android in that respect.
At first I thought it was Kevin Connolly, the actor from Entourage. That would have been something! :)
A little note, if anyone ever posts anonymous comments about my physical appearance in public, even complementary ones, that are identifiable as referring directly to me, I will make it my mission to find out who they are and persecute them until they beg me to stop.

Just putting that out there.