jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
This is quite accurate. On top of that:

1. Build an opinionated solution that you control fully (e.g. difficult to fork).

2. Convince everybody to adopt it. Nobody gets fired for choosing $bigcorp

3. Grow it complex and expensive to maintain over time.

4. SELL software and services to manage its complexity.

...and the industry is getting more marketing/fad/resume-driven every day.
Daily Standup is wrong if you are doing it wrongly. It shouldn't take more that few minutes for each person to do a briefing. Any other meetings with substantial scope are scheduled with later time.

It's like shell scripting of the meeting, use it when you need to. You don't use bash as your primary language
Higher signal:noise is good, right?
yes, can someone explain? please and thank you!
Legal craziness aside (would be nice if people could just have a drink, track it, and not blame a website for their problems), would their Terms page cover them?
"Instant On" is actually the norm, not the exception. There's really only 1 popular device that isn't "instant on" and that's the computer (smartphones and video game consoles are just extensions).

Think about cars, microwaves, TVs, virtually any audio component, etc.

In general, the more software a device has, the longer it takes to use it after turning it on.
Tried Kotlin, honestly I was not impressed. Tools (maven/gradle) wasn't as straight forward to setup as one would have expected. I am not impressed with the language itself and I had issue with conflicting libraries and kotlin versions.

I switched back to modern Java and did not regret it.

Java is catching up at a fast pace, I don't think Kotlin will ever replace Java or see mass adoption.
If you mean by dedicating workforce (which costs money, and a lot for them because of their salaries policies) they are buying a seat? Yes. The same way a major contributor (not just code, but doc, funding, community building...) to a FOSS project often has more power on the decisions than users.

Now I would be unhappy to see a company that just pours millions in a project, gets to take decisions but doesn't do anything else to make the project better. But I don't believe that's the case here.
Yes. But that's how reporting (sadly) generally works.

“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them.

In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” - Michael Crichton

I was first mentioned at a very young age in a newspaper when Der Spiegel reported on my dad. What it mentioned was that he had two children, my sister and myself. It then stated our ages, and got both of them completely wrong. This is not hard. It's also not important, but if it's not important enough to get right, maybe it's not important enough to simply make up?

And later, I discovered the effect Michael mentions: every time they reported on anything I knew even a little about, they got it comically wrong. Except I don't suffer from amnesia.

UPDATE: the only news source that I've found the be reasonably reliable over time is The Economist, if you ignore them on executive compensation ("our valued readers and sponsors: everything is fine with your outrageous salaries") and GMOs.
The culture you're describing is just utterly foreign to many people. It's certainly not how my social networks work; nobody's ever asked me to denounce my friends for believing bad things, nor would I ever ask someone else to do so. What you're reading as "fetishizing fact and logic" is an earnest attempt to understand what your unfamiliar cultural standards are.
All the overthinking on motivations here is entertaining :)

Disclosure: I'm the Googler that got this funded. The process was roughly:

- We have some extra budget at the end of the year! What are some ways we can spend this to get results while giving back to OSS?

- Hey PSF, do you have any ideas for what you could do with some funding?

- Looks good to me!

We're just getting started, but we're working on ways to make this all more sustainable, scalable, and less ad-hoc.

If you have ideas here, please reach out! I'm dlorenc at google dot com, or join in the OpenSSF (openssf.org)! We discuss these topics and more in the Securing Critical Projects WG, info here: https://github.com/ossf/wg-securing-critical-projects/
I work in a fintech company, most of our backend is in Kotlin with "legacy" functionality in Java.

Can't think of a single developer that would choose Java over Kotlin.
> I don't really understand the fascination with wireless for fixed services.

The local DSL can barely reach 5 Mbps -- direct quote from the guy who installs them around here. The local cable television doesn't support cable internet. I'm currently on a point-to-point wifi link to a small local ISP, and while the wifi works perfectly, the ISP's uplink is often congested. I'm quite eager for Starlink to reach my latitude, just to shake up the competition.
also put in blockchain, everything needs blockchain :O
See everyone's gripes about SWE interviews and LeetCode prep. People will find ways to prepare.
I'd switched first to whatever later became WPS Office and then to FreeOffice. So far no problems but then of course as a proper dumbo I am probably using 1% of the features available so it is hard for me to judge which tool is really superior for advanced public.
I don't really see how the pricing is ridiculous though. They're still way cheaper than what Intel charged for the same cores a year ago, and they have more cores than Intel can even offer on their best workstation chips. If you compare against 28 core Xeons, the new Threadrippers are a downright bargain.
You don't need to run NAT to have a firewall. Even a stateful one.
> Office 365 feels like a cheap beta test even on the biannual channels.

I’m in one or more Office 365 apps for most of my work-day. They work well and are stable, at least on macOS (which I assume gets less love than the Windows version).

In contrast, LO on macOS is a train wreck when it comes to stability and usability. It’s not competitive.
I've been told by several women they'd never meet someone on dating service they didn't have a chat with first. No idea if these women represent the norm.
I can see your point, although it's ironic that the final refuge of mechanistic behavior, after being cast out from math, would be poetry.
What's the use case for this? The way I see it is that `git submodule` and `git subtree` (and it's much better variant git subrepo) have two different optimal use cases with a huge amount of grey area in between.

Git subtree is your better option if your repo is one logical thing, and git submodule is your better option if you repo is a sparse collection of things.

AFAICT, git subtrac is aimed more at the git subtree / git subrepo use case since it stores the submodule commits in the parent repo? If so, what are the pros & cons versus git subrepo?

https://github.com/ingydotnet/git-subrepo
Which experts are proposing the way forward is actually a total lockdown? This article is distorting what experts are actually saying. This virus will not go away, it needs to be managed. Please consider the following articles of what experts are ACTUALLY saying:

https://medium.com/@AmeshAA/covid19-a-path-forward-868d5e8dc...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/17/coronavirus-us-must-confront...
AR display = optics.
If improper response allows the outbreak to get bad then why are CA, WA, NY having bad outbreaks? Could it be that negative feelings about Trump do not protect from coronavirus?
There is no evidence that dogs can spread coronavirus to humans.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/animals.ht...
Is it possible that the original author of these tracks is the one who has uploaded them to DistroKid? In which case it's not stealing at all. I guess it's fairly unlikely, though.
I didn't specifically have you in mind and I'm sorry I made you feel that way
So the Federal Reserve is admitting to a Martingale strategy. Interestingly they’re the one entity on the planet that can pull it off at scale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
I've used it sparingly but recognize that I should be using it more. It is really powerful for cleaning up messy data. I'm not sure of the stack but I did reach out to one of the developers about being on HackerNews. Hopefully they can respond.
> And if those essays are homework and a student turns it in late, you get to the end of the semester and the student asks why you didnt give them credit; they have to notify you they did the assignment after the due date, otherwise you wont know its completed. The alternative is checking all your assignments online periodically to see if any new submissions are posted from previouse assignments. I know this sounds like its not a big deal, but multiply these frustrations by 120 students, and you start to get an idea that its not as simple as you make it out to be.

Isn't the right thing, just to mechanically enforce due dates without excuses or exceptions? Students tend to procrastinate enough already.
They can't get their next-gen fabs (chip factories) into production. It's been a problem long enough that they're not even next-gen anymore: it's current-gen, about to be previous-gen.

So what you're seeing isn't really anti-Intel, it's probably often more like bitter disappointment that they haven't done better. Though I'm sure there's a tiny bit of fanboy-ism for & against Intel.

There's definitely some of that pro-AMD fanboy sentiment in the gaming community where people build their own rigs: AMD chips are massively cheaper than a comparable Intel chip.
I could think of it this way. Covid hit, and it did a lot of damage to economic activity. The various authorities responded by pouring a bunch of money into the system, trying to avert catastrophe. They overshot a bit, and that money wound up in places like the stock market. (Note that it's better that they overshoot by a bit and create a bit of a market bubble, rather than undershoot a bit and let the real economy suffer some damage.)

Note well: I am not sure that this is the correct explanation.
In a nutshell, the problem with the "family approach" is how it puts a very powerful tool into the hands of one's employer they can hold against you: your committal, loyalty or even reliance on others in the same situation. Should you ever want to switch places, you will likely have to rebuild your circle of friends, as they often do not take kindly to people "leaving the family" or simply lose contact due to no longer sharing anything big in common.

Similar things tend to happen when one has a circle of "friends" related to a physical activity: when they stop or change clubs, they often lose most of those "friends", as often the only thread holding things together is a shared activity and location.

At least by recognizing this, people can opt to not put all their eggs in one basket, which lessens any potential loss. Also, it allows them to look at different ways to establish friendships, in a way they can withstand more changes. Finally, there is no third party (the employer) that can use a potential insecurity against them (e.g. less financial growth because Bob is so afraid of rebuilding his circle of friends, he'll accept a stellar performance netting him 1% wage growth).

And as others point out: forced participation into social activities is not something everyone is favorable towards.
I’m guessing he means “Advanced Placement” here.
Scheme gives the ability to capture where you want to. You just have to be explicit about it.

Seems like the right default to me.
Lots of now very successful businesses were constantly losing money until they weren't. This is just not a compelling argument on its own.
Can you provide more detail?

”Running MobileCoin in an SGX enclave allows nodes to securely manage keys for users. A client can perform remote attestation to its MobileCoin node before transmitting its keys into the remote enclave along with a short recovery PIN. The MobileCoin node can then rate limit authenticated access to the keys, while the enclave prevents the node operator or anyone who compromises the node from circumventing the software and attempting to brute force access to the keys directly. In this way, user keys can reside safely in a node and survive across application reinstalls or lost devices, without having to trust the node operator or the security of the node computer, and without having to memorize or safely store extremely long recovery passphrases.”

https://mixin.one/assets/MobileCoin-Whitepaper-EN_FINAL.pdf
A gruber-approved link with a pro-Apple explanation of the iPhone's limitations:

http://davidquintana.com/entry/mobile-multitasking

Quote: There are only three types of actions allowed to be performed in the background and each is handled differently. They are:

* Background Audio
* Voice over IP (VOIP)
* Background Location
My company iCouch has what you're talking about in the new version we're launching Feb 6. However, we are HIPAA as well as HITECH compliant. The HIPPA compliance is a bit with the code, but more in how your infrastructure is organized and your policies in place. One of our (almost) competitors TherapyNotes does almost exactly what you're describing. I say almost not to disparage but because notes are their core business, while for us, notes are just one feature of the platform.

If you want to chat more email me at brian at iCouch.me. I'd be glad to share some knowledge about the space if you want.
I don't think it's as common as you think for parents to pay for college.
Direct link: http://www.ben-morris.com/why-rest-is-not-a-silver-bullet-fo...
I think experience is one thing I'm not short of.
That's not a rational argument, it's an emotional one, and I'm not sure if I believe it.
Plumbers make more than software developers?

I know some blue collars, plumbers included that are doing really well in the grand scheme of things, but I don't know any that make more than I do, and I'm 20 years younger than them.
If RIM gave them no indication of why their keys and access have been revoked, that'd be understandably weird.

However, RIM previously took them out of App World because of privacy and battery life concerns. These are two of the most basic concerns of mobile app users.

If that's why they were permanently yanked from App World this time, RIM is acting in everyone's interest.

Regardless of how viral your company and it's products have become lately, your users should come first.
My group tends to drink yerba maté: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_maté
Wave function collapse? http://lesswrong.com/lw/q7/if_manyworlds_had_come_first/

(I don't understand it, but I like it).
The problem Javascript-to-javascript compilation and even minification of Javascript is that it makes debugging very difficult. A byte-code with embedded debug information (such as line numbers) would make compilation a much better option. And then you also get minification for free.

There are advantages to using other languages besides JavaScript. Many of things currently being done by libraries and boiler-plate code could be handled by a compiler (e.g. CoffeeScript). And libraries like jQuery might be less necessary if your compiler handled the cross-browser issues.
I wonder why package monitors are not a standard equipment. The monitor would comminucate wirelessly through encrypted channels. Once at the delivery location, the customer may inspect the package logs and he could refuse delivery, or demand compensation.

An accelerometer, a gyroscope, a small battery and microcontroller with bluetooth connectivity. Should be possible to build a contraption for around $100.

All so stuff like this: http://www.gadling.com/2010/02/23/videos-bad-baggage-handler... dosn't happen more often.
I'm working on similar goals right now, but focusing on making a bookscanner (see http://diybookscanner.org ) instead, namely because many of the books I have are out of print. I figure I can later just use the bookscanner for documents as well
Clickable link: http://www.snolr.com
I'm an active member of HN, and I often plug other open source distributed social networking projects as well (ie, GNU Social).

I feel, as a participating HN member, I do have a right to talk about my projects, and I usually take the time to discuss philosophical differences between the projects as well, in order to spur discussion, and not simply post a link. I do see distributed social networking as a group effort, and I think the hype is tilted in favor of the weakest link, so I do try and balance that out.

If this is an issue, I apologize, but I thought talking about the projects we were working on was why this site exists. If people feel differently, though, I can delete my comments, and not post on related articles anymore.
How does this compare to other question answering systems?
Option 3: Facebook builds its own online store.
> I'm sure other VCs are copying A16Zs playbook

That’s how most of the valley venture firms I’ve worked with have operated for decades.

I once gave a presentation at an LP meeting, after which once of the GPs came up to me and said, “Oh, so that’s what you do.” This is after the firm had participated in two rounds.

(This was before a16z had been founded)
Yeah, same here, (not the 30 years part, the React FTW part) and for me the virtual DOM is the least cool thing about it. Separation of props and state is what I lust over.

Anyway, where I live React isn't getting noticed; it's Angular that's all the rage, so maybe the author is fighting the wrong enemy.
This is so vague... Me breathing air has real consequences. You probably mean "societal" consequences, and it's also way too vague, moderating has real consequences as much as not moderating.
- by helping others. Recording valuable talking points, refutations.

- by understanding more and more deeply, instead of possibly less.

- by having a jumpboard to learn more.

- by seeing where you stand compared to the larger picture. Understanding the opposite side instead of just seeing them as enemy of ones' own opinion.

- by seeing more people that argue similar to you. Requires categorization and grouping of votes.

- by being able to share discussions more easily and not to be bound by a single group for answers.
I found its 2 easy. my first attempt is always 23+45=68. at that point i covered most of the possible symbols.
you can make guesses that you know won't be the correct answer but eliminate the other choices (i.e. don't include 2, 8, or 1 in your guesses)
I wasn't replying to a claim that a high conviction rate is a good thing (or better than a lower one).

I was replying to a claim that a high conviction rate somehow suggests we should dispense with the idea that, as a society, we should not presume guilt.

grumple, who I replied to, seemed to me to be suggesting that because the federal government has a high conviction rate, we should assume the accused are guilty.

I'm suggesting that because there is compelling evidence that many guilty verdicts are obtained through coercion, we should not make that assumption.
The problem with torture is that in that case you also have no reason to give them a correct answer, no matter how much they hurt you.
Anyone who is going to be buying PoS from Square at a rate greater than just the phone attachment reader, this won't be sufficient for. Using a phone for a business you personally run is fine, using a phone as the central point of your business for even a relatively small fast casual is going to be a nightmare.

And for those even on Square Apple's ipads are still the preferred choice as far as I can tell. So there isn't much of a benefit other than fees.

For anything larger than a small fast casual you quickly run into greater integration needs with things like KDS (of which a few do use tablets, Toast, Fresh, etc, and even then I think ipads are preferred. I know Square integrates with a few of those as well as NorthStar so, I don't think they may have much to fear other than at the low end mom and pop stores.
There’s increasing support for UTF-8 as an ansi codepage on Windows. And UTF-8 support is also part of the modernization of the terminal: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-command-l...
What's changed is our ability to detect authorities are lying to us. It's higher than it's ever been. That erodes trust, because over and over we see authorities lying to us.

Then, add in disinformation and propaganda that makes incomplete truths look like total lies, and truths look like at best half-truths. That makes us perceive lying more perhaps more often than authorities actually lie.
So this is basically a PHP version of Yeoman?
Even when you look at deaths per billion vehicle-km the US still seems to be quite bad at 7.6, with the UK at 4.3 and Sweden at 3.7:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-re...
Not necessarily Ads in the traditional sense, but FB also sells content reach (Promoted Content) and targeting

Shaping the feed is certainly one part of it. But I guess that part of the success of FB is that they don't make it, as you said, not make the ads feel as much part of the experience.
"Premature idea" is probably better phrased as "not feasible on technical grounds." Even tlb said it has huge problems. The steel expands in summer due to heat. Where does it go? Roads can expand using those interlocking teeth things, but hyperloop has to remain a closed system.

Oh well. Everyone should dream once in awhile.

EDIT: So... is this incorrect?
Quite a lot of people appear to be under the impression this is about comics.
> There is a finite amount of the stuff that is economically recoverable. We don't know exactly where the limit is, but when we hit it -- assuming we have no alternatives -- we will begin a downward spiral toward the collapse of modern civilization.

Whoah, that seems a little overly pessimistic. We _do_ have alternatives, they just aren't economically competitive with fossil fuels. So I say bring on supply constraints... anything that raises the price of fossil fuels helps to make alternatives more attractive and increase investment into their research and refinement.

So I'd still be way more concerned with the CO2 problem, overfishing, pollution, mass-extinction... all that stuff.
Link for easy clicking : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162965
Do the conversion math there: 12 people in the room, 2 actually visit your site, .4 sign up for an account, .02 become long term users. (These numbers are not accurate but they are roughly to scale.)
Does that apply to both the Special Edition mode and the Classic Mode?

Haven't tried the iPhone version, but on the iPad, the classic mode has the 'drag to move cursor', but the Special Edition mode has updated controls that work really well on the touchscreen.
At least the US doesn’t have idiotic libel laws.
USBus snooping?
If id can sustain the 1.99 price point and stay in the top 10 (and there seems to be price sensitivity the higher in ranking you go in the iPhone app store; not so much so in the iPad app store, oddly), there is a chance id could make between $2 to 10 million in a year, post-30% Apple's cut (assuming traditional sales breakdown goes that #1 on the app store is ~20,000 units a day and #10 is ~5,000 units a day). That's on one game, on mobile. It doesn't consider the fact that Rage on mobile was more of a marketing vehicle to give everyone a taste of Rage coming for the PC, OS X, Linux, PS3, and XBox 360. Now _that_ is where id makes it's mark.