jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Anything can be achieved (OK - I'll never play for the NBA, but almost anything can be achieved).

You may have some legal issues regarding IP if you stay at the current gig and have any degree of intermingling of your 'work' and your 'side work'. You should probably review your current work contract, and perhaps seek legal advice on this point.

You will never have enough time for your side project if you're working full time for someone else. That said, many people working full time for themselves still don't have enough time. At least some of this comes down to being disciplined and focused. You can practice being disciplined and focused while keeping your fulltime gig, at least for a while longer.

"Burn rate" or "runway" - how much do you have in terms of savings to see you through? Are you independently wealthy, or do you need a steady stream of income? If so, calculate out how much you need, then determine what your comfort level is in terms of 'i could survive X months with $0 income'. My tolerance for risk isn't what it used to be - I'd want at least a solid year of expenses banked before I struck out on a venture. But you may be different - everyone is (kids, bills, etc).

As romantic as 'quit the day job!' is, have a strong plan in place first (imo). You can accomplish quite a lot 'on the side' while testing the waters before quitting the full time gig. Not everyone can, but many can.

I think we had a session on this at http://indieconf.com a couple weeks ago. :)
Can you please elaborate on that? It is not so clear what are you talking about.
I had to learn to use it for a linguistics class that I took out of curiosity, but I haven't memorized it. With a reference, I can usually work it out.
Barrett's response to today's sentencing:

“Good news! — The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex. For the next 35 months, I’ll be provided with free food, clothes, and housing as I seek to expose wrondgoing by Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world’s greatest prison system. I want to thank the Department of Justice for having put so much time and energy into advocating on my behalf; rather than holding a grudge against me for the two years of work I put into in bringing attention to a DOJ-linked campaign to harass and discredit journalists like Glenn Greenwald, the agency instead labored tirelessly to ensure that I received this very prestigious assignment. — Wish me luck!”
I was looking for intelligent discussion about why even a small percentage failure rate is worth being alarmed at and how this can be communicated to Average Joe effectively. Instead, I get this inane straw man reply.

Obviously a very small failure rate is impressive in the abstract. We're not talking about the abstract here, we're talking about foundational concerns about whether there can be an expectation of privacy in any online communication.
In my research for my masters degree we found that the security of ehr systems was terrible (systems had Xss, SQL injection...pretty much the SANS top 25 most dangerous errors). In talking with a very large vendor (about 2 years ago now) we found that they were just starting to think about security issues, but were years behind best practices. (For more info http://andrew-austin.com/publications).

With the push towards health information exchanges and interoperability, I imagine systems are indeed wide open, not just to government agencies, but also random people walking hrough your hospital.
I would never interview you this way. It's counter-productive. Besides, good people can be shy and talented intelligent people maybe anxious by nature. Hazing people might be good for "team dynamics," but there's other more fun ways that don't just brutalize people by not giving them a fair shot at performing.
This is a great deal no doubt.. But don't see the benefit of choosing Mixpanel over Google Analytics. The one thing I see different is that Mixpanel can break the chart down to the hour.
> Really? All of the vegans I know care a lot
> about eating a balanced and healthy diet (at
> least, more than the average non-vegan).

Not necessarily. I know a number of vegans that don't necessarily eat that healthy.

The thing that irks me is when vegans proclaim that the 'vegan diet' will make everyone healthier, cure obesity, etc. There are plenty of unhealthy foods that are perfectly vegan. I say this as a vegan myself. I see these people as 'hurting the movement' because they are spreading un-truths, even if they are well-intentioned (and the messengers believe the false message).

[Edit]
Don't take this as a claim that the 'vegan diet' (I use quotes because it is such as broad term) is necessarily unhealthy. It's just that there are many foods that are completely vegan, yet unhealthy:

- Skittles (since they removed gelatin as an ingredient)
- Oreos
- Sugar
- Soda
- A lot of potato chip varieties
- Transfats (i.e. burned oils)

(note: That I can only confirm things like Skittles or Oreos in the US. I know that in different countries the formulas are different. Skittles may still have gelatin in Canada, for example)
[/Edit]
I personally like this one http://www.smugmug.com/
They don't seem to take IDs or boarding passes.
So..

How come when Oracle bought Sun the DoJ and EU looked into the anti-trust issues around Oracle owning MySQL (which obviously was never going to be an anti-trust issue while there are other SQL databases out there) and yet there is no noise about it when Microsoft gets some kind of IP rights to Unix?!?

Obviously it isn't clear exactly what MS got, but this could conceivably impact every single commercial and open source operating system in existance except for IBM's midrange & mainframe OS's.

(Ok, realistically I'm sure Apple & IBM & Oracle have iron clad licences for OSX and AIX and Solaris, but surely the point is that Microsoft - a convicted monopolist - shouldn't be allowed further market power in the operating sytem market)
Hey nick, I tried checking in guidelines section on how to edit the article but unable to find any info.

FYI: I was able to edit for few minutes after posting, but now I don't see that option.

Any suggestions?
That is a very subtle emoticon. It evokes Totoro, for me.
I got the same thing this morning, was expecting it to be 2 part as in install, reboot, install again, but it just installed and rebooted and has done nothing since.

Why prep new release with 380kb of code beforehand? What are google up to here?
I'm sure there are still problems that we'll need to solve. That said, how else are we going to solve them? It's not like the nutrition field is going to suddenly start figuring this stuff out, at least judging from its past record. I feel pretty confident that Soylent is at least a better diet than fast food, and the best way to continue improving it is to have data to work with.
I am in the exact same boat, I left my corp job and started looking around for a CTO position with some start-ups (east coast). I started freelancing in the mean time to buy time to find something I really wanted to get into. Did not see anything, so I just continued on with the freelancing. I am doing about 200k a year, but man, I don't think I have seen a week under 80hr in 3 months. I would be interested, but I am rooted in the east coast, I have aging grandparents that I am the caretaker of. If you are looking to do the whole thing distributed, let me know I might be interested.
There's another story on this from Renai LeMay (ex-ZDNet) who is an IT writer who started his own IT news site, Delimiter. An underdog worth supporting I think:

http://delimiter.com.au/2010/06/11/govt-may-record-users-web...
Proving myself that I have what it takes was not my only reason, I apologize for making it seem like that I just want to go there because its prestigious. I stumbled upon a book that sums it up nicely. Its called The Idea Factory by Pepper White. Just a little summary of the back cover: "When Pepper White enters MIT, one of his professors tells him that it does not much matter what he studies there. What MIT will do is teach him how to think."

I want to learn how to think. For some reason this reminds me of Richard Feynman..he had such clarity in his explanations that came from a deep understanding of things. I want to try and reach that level of understanding and clarity. The way he told stories just kept me wanting more. I want to have people at the edge of their seats wanting more, I would love to teach anyone the most complex of subjects, and have them getting an a-ha! moment and just having as much fun as Richard Feynman did. You could see the joy in his face when he explained how certain things worked.
Say it ain't so!!
Yes just a simple swap, except every dialog, grid control, status bar and tooltip has to keep track of which way round they are.
Yeah, essentially. Or she took advantage of an economic inefficiency by acting outside expected or normal behavior.
South Africa has a novel coordinate system, at least for people who expect North to be at the top and east on the X axis.
Well, by definition, half the investors (by portfolio size) beat the market, and the other half fail. And everybody assumes that they are in the top 50%, which is unlikely since the winners stay and losers cash out.

So most investors can't beat the market. I guess you could also look at the risks - betting a small amount (and finding out if you have the chops) could be a reasonable bet. Leaving large sums in the hands of someone else (as opposed to say an index fund) ... less good.
I thought there would surely be reference to this Onion article:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/6day-visit-to-rural-african...
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Am very sure the above comment would get downvoted. Well, the West is always right, cause they have got the money!
It would be down in the dumps without a great luck anyway. Thousands of so-challenging games prove the point.
Cell phone companies have already done this. Airlines as well. So have insurance companies.

While I agree with you in general, airlines in your example are clearly wrong.

As a matter of fact: It's precisely the other way and airlines are actually unbundling their services.

Bundling is when everything (luggage, food, seat assignment, check in fees) are included in the price of your ticket, if you want it or not. Unbundling is exactly the opposite.

I.e: You pay for the basic service (the flight) and if you want to check in luggage, order a meal, assign a choice seat , or whatever you pay for those extras.

I actually don't mind this practice, provided that an airline is transparent about it, it's clearly lined out during the booking process (if the final price say 232$, I don't have any mystery charges for that booking on my credit card) and as long I'm not sandbagged at the airport (for example: paying an additional 10$ "check-in" fee).
I've seen articles saying that to do a hardware startup you need to sleep in the factory in China![0]

[0] http://pioneers.io/blog/hardware-startups-to-succeed-you-hav...

Survivorship Bias

There are many success stories of hardware startups (pebble[2], fitbit[3], nest[4]) and as far as I can tell, they all have the same qualities: they are beautifully designed and have done very well on crowdfunding sites like kickstarter. Are these requirements for a successful hardware startup or am I succumbing to an observation/confirmation bias?

[2] https://getpebble.com/

[3] http://www.fitbit.com/

[4] https://nest.com/

Knowledge and Resources

There aren't that many resources to help hardware startups in terms of product design, manufacturing and marketing. There is a wealth of information available for free on the internet for software startups including design, content marketing, seo and growth hacking but not much for hardware startups[5]. Some VCs appear to be getting in to Hardware Startups (I know pg / YC does a few and Tony Hsieh of Zappos hasthe Nimbus Portfolio) but slowly.

[5]: http://www.berkeleysg.com/2014/02/a-great-list-of-helpful-re...

The Little Guys

There are many great products out there that get some exposure but perhaps not the amount they should (CubeSensors[6], GetNarrative[7], TinyHardwareFirewall[8] are great examples). Ultimately, perhaps some/most will fail. Is there any hope for the little guy if they have a good product in terms of utility but don't make that 'break'?

[6] http://cubesensors.com/

[7] http://getnarrative.com/

[8] http://tinyhardwarefirewall.com/
Chrome and Firefox's extensions are better. Although Firefox's extension model is a little clunky due to how old it is.

New-style "Jetpack" add-ons in Firefox and add-ons in Chrome are very similar. I have the same add-on for both platforms, and there's about 80% code commonality. If Microsoft does something reasonably similar, that would be convenient for add-on developers.
There is also couchdb day in February

http://day.couchdb.org/
The most terrible reality is that the capability for tracking virtually all long-haul airframes (99.999%) already exists. It's called Inmarsat FANS-1/a ADS-C, which is now being offered to all airlines for free, post-MH370. It was present on the MH370 airframe (but for a cost), and could've located it to within tens of square miles instead of millions.

http://www.inmarsat.com/news/inmarsat-provide-free-global-ai...

http://www51.honeywell.com/aero/common/documents/FMS_DirectT...

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~cjr/CPDLC.htm
I'm down for naming it, but I think "bug" is the wrong term for what we're talking about here, since we're talking about deliberate misbehavior.
It would also be interesting to have the "top X most corporate-spin control pretending to be content but got caught reverting and adding edits" pages.
It is much easier to tell the truth than to convincingly fake where you are from.
Knowing that, it would be your fault if you took your dog on an airplane and she messed that airplane.
Thanks!

Not quite, I'm working on Cachet; https://cachethq.io but I'll be doing consulting as well :)
The SSDs in this case are M.2 NVME which is a PCIe-based standard. I have no clue if the M.2 or NVME standards address hotplugging but PCIe based hotplug is almost never a thing on consumer hardware iirc.
Aren't most of us under employed? I currently work in a maintenance-only project that hasn't seen really change since Obama's first term. There is not much work here. These give me an outlet to think, problem solve, and express myself.
I honestly think the main culprit is local news. They're essentially non-journalists, so they basically cover violent crimes as sensationally as possible.
I am annoyed. I haven't updated my Facebook in years so most of the data is out of date and I use a separate phone line for personal correspondence, but I do still have a Facebook account for the occasional friend/family that uses messenger. This might be the final nail in the coffin for me and get me to delete my account.

Maybe I can finally get my last couple of friends to switch to Signal.
Just to clarify, it is build 4100 that adds native Apple Silicon support.

We weren’t originally able to include it because we had to backport Mac arm64 support to Python 3.3, since we include that for compatibility with ST3 packages.

Edit: I should note that my original tweet thread has a few more details https://twitter.com/wbond/status/1379401771911643136
I thought this was the norm. I've had the same number for 20 years now, though have moved through many different area codes since. But, I must be the odd one, because I get asked regularly why I have the area code I do, and the answer "because that's where I was living in 2001" doesn't seem satisfactory.
Looking at income alone is misleading. To be in the top 1% of income you only need to make about $500k per year. But to be in the top 1% of net worth, you need to have almost $12M.

Just to make the math simple, supposing you made $500k/year and saved every penny that’s 24 years of savings before you crack the top 1% in net worth. Of course in reality you don’t save every penny, and you may have a lot of student loans to pay off, and some of your savings is surely investments that compound so it’s impossible to say how long this would take in practice, but it’s still fair to say at least a decade if not multiple decades.

This is why I think it’s misleading to say that FAANG engineers are all 1%ers. There’s a huge difference in someone who just cracked $500k in income for the first time at age 35 and someone who has been earning that foe their career and has more than $10M net worth at the end of their career. Even more difference with someone who started off with a $5M starter fund from mom and dad.
I don't know. What's the right amount of tax?

Broadly, retail people like you and me, we don't have an opinion of a specific value, like 22% or 44% or whatever, we just feel up and down or whatever. That's fine.

That notwithstanding: your business profits come from somewhere right? Maybe your customer's customers, seeing as it's probably a software business.

How much lower would taxes get until your customers spend money on health insurance / health catastrophes? On cars to replace a worse metro, or on apartments closer to work? On private schooling? On vacations out of the country?

What if people stopped moving to London? If its services got worse and people left, how could that possibly be good for anyone?

I don't really want to generalize why because I don't live there, it is of course an amazing place to live. Is the underlying problem that London and the UK, the way they are, are expensive?

What you wind up not paying in taxes, your customers will pay anyway, and maybe not even in a strict sense of Non Tax Compulsory Payments - the accounting mechanism typically used in the US - but simply to enjoy a high quality of life.

And maybe this is why so many low tax locales have such primitive economies, people are spending on other things besides sophisticated software services.

Ironically this aligns me still with a "right" amount of slightly lower tax. It's probably about 38-44%, and it ought to be simpler. I really don't like people leaving California, especially high earners, but I understand that they also blame tax for other grievances. So maybe the real takeaway is to not generalize, and instead support technocrats who can explain and analyze these issues.
That last two sentences sum it all up perfectly.
At that point why bother getting it in the first place? The whole appeal of it is that you can just say "hey google" from anywhere in the house and it would answer you. If you have to walk over and turn it on, you might as well use your phone.
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I think when you look at projects like Tracy, there's no question that immediate mode UIs also work well for non-trivial use cases:

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy
Yep, agreed. Here's an article for the bimodal nature of starting salaries for lawyers for interested parties: https://www.biglawinvestor.com/bimodal-salary-distribution-c...

The upper end of the biglaw salaries was capped because of an unspoken "cartel pricing cap". Big law firms don't want to compete for the upper-echelon talent.

Not sure if tech companies will be able to informally collude in such a manner to cap the upper end of the bimodal curve.
When he whines about how difficult it will be to replace you when you leave, remind him that management’s failure to plan isn’t your personal responsibility.
I think it is reasonable that companies wouldn't pay silicon valley prices for someone living in middle of nowhere Idaho. With that being said I think part of the issue is that most people are not being paid enough in general, and with the increase in student loan debt, stagnation in wages, and overall less buying power that people have today, the idea of having wages cut feels very bad.

That compounded with the fact that companies already look for ways to pay you less, this is just adding another reason. It's also important to bring up that the company will save money by not having as large of an office (or even having one), saving on any commuter pass subsidies, etc so just cutting wages for remote workers, puts more money in their pocket.

And what are they doing with all this extra money? Are they hiring a few more employees in those teams that have been begging for extra hands for years? Are they reinvesting in the company, giving more employee benefits, setting up funds for employee hardship, helping employees set up a remote work space, helping employees relocate? Or are they just using the money and doing stock buy backs, pocketing the extra change, and expecting people to continue working in the same environment as before, just from their bedroom?
Yes, absolutely. Outside of extremely narrow programming niches, discussions on HN are generally very bad.

I don't think that's anything particularly unique to HN but is simply a fundamental weakness of the "one forum for all subjects" approach that HN takes contra Reddit.
If you're going to lie, make you sure you fake the timezone in your git commit timestamps.
This is fascinating. Where can I read more to learn more about how to think about economics like you?
Another comment brought up optionality, and that's certainly part of it for big companies -- so much of how much you're paid is directly related to their perception of your own optionality and how you and others like you bucket into their leveling system to keep the buckets full enough.

For smaller companies, I think fungibility is another way to look at it. Fungibility is sort of taken for granted at big companies because it needs to be there to grow past a certain size without imploding. But small companies can make a lot of money by accepting non-fungibility and keeping total headcount minimal.

What I think this means is that they'll probably be a lot more inclined to dismiss location-based pay because for a growth inclined company, it's basically a rounding error in their cost benefit analysis. You need capable people to do stuff /and/ work well with other people, it's hard to find them anywhere (even if you're looking globally). If someone's doing good work and you want to pay them more to incentivize them, it's not going to be a huge pain to get that checkbook control and the CEO is likely to implicitly sign off on it. The same can't be said for big companies.
I’m not sure about classical liberals, but this is generally the same concern I have with respect to the identity-obsessed strain of progressivism—that it conditions everyone to reject their broader collective identity (humans, citizens, etc) in exchange for racial identity, and to ultimately vote and lobby on behalf of their race. Further, proponents of these kinds of views regularly make arguments that suggest that race tells us about one’s politics (the same sort of idea TFA rails against), experiences, wealth/privileges, and even competence and virtue (consider the “white male” sneer). This is bad juju.