skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might not even be pretending, who says children can't enjoy hearing about the stuff their parents are involved in?

My early memories are a bit hazy, but I still remember my father explaining to me the similarity between a rotating wheel and the vibration of a spring. I'm not sure what explanation he actually gave, but it might have involved gestures.

So you probably shouldn't expect your children to understand and remember everything you tell them, but random bits and pieces might stick to resurface later in the process of learning them "properly".
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This reminded me of a newsletter I received from angelList once which title read: "Startups are here to save the world" [0]

I un-subscribed.

[0] https://angel.co/newsletters/startups-are-here-to-save-the-w...
Bitwise Investments has a fund (the HOLD10 Index: https://www.bitwiseinvestments.com/) that handles a lot of the hard work around rebalancing/taxes/security. We are currently only open to accredited investors to, but have plans to open up more widely.
It's still unclear to me what DHH's goals are for these pieces.

And look, some of them do end up changing the world.

So, if you as a founder have the desire to reshape the world in the way you want it, then you should not try because the probability of success is low? That doesn't make sense.

Is the goal to have people lower their expectations? Ok, that's at least a psycho-social argument for contentment, but are they preaching that people should embrace mindfulness?

Generally DHH and Fried like to antagonize the idea of moonshot startups with audacious plans and goals stated as such. Sure, some of them are silly and over the top and worth a bit of ribbing, however it's been years now and (having been on the receiving end of one of their rants) it seems entirely unfocused with no prescription for WHO exactly should be trying to do moonshots that actually do "change the world." After all they admit that it is possible to do, so why should people not try?

Make no mistake, they are trying to influence people - like we all are - by writing these posts. What's the purpose of them if none of it matters?
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I always work with a picture of my gravestone in front of me engraved with the immortal words "I wish I'd spent more time at the office"

You are old a long time. Don't waste your youth on stuff that will be forgotten by the end of next year.
I'm not sure this is such good advice. It means you're guaranteed to miss out on high appreciation of anything but the largest coins. That's all well and good for a less volatile scenario like the stock market where the top20 is pretty well correlated with the top2000. But given the volatility of digital assets, i would worry that this strategy leaves more on the table.
>corporations display many of the characteristics we typically associate with AI...

I agree with your comment. This is how I think about corporations too. But I'd like to mention something about the name "Artificial Intelligence". I think that Artificial Intelligence is not artificial and it is not intelligent. I define AI as the ability of an organism to make right decisions to perpetuate its existence. Not only this is not artificial it is a widespread natural process. I also use it as the definition of life. An organism that can make the right definitions to perpetuate its existence is said to be alive.

Or maybe, more generally, the ability to make decisions.
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About a decade ago, I worked at a beige box store. Someone brought in just his hard drive, and asked me to recover all his files, as his thesis was on it. So, I ran our recovery software (can't recall what it was) and found the drive was completely blank. No system files, no data, no temp files, absolutely nothing. The customer didn't seem upset or irritated at all, and thanked me, paid his bill and left.

At the time, that puzzled me a bit, but now it occurs to me that he may just have been making sure his data was destroyed.
I tried a few charting libraries including Chart.js, Taucharts and D3.

Much of Taucharts is undocumented, Chart.js requires a lot of configuration for something like a mixed chart with stacked bars, and D3, yikes. Its API documentation is thicker than Ulysses.

Highcharts required minimal configuration, had an intuitive and clear API and - most importantly - handled all sorts of messy data I threw at it. It just worked, out-of-the-box.
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The report says they were "corked and sealed". Probably with wax to prevent the cork rotting.
That's not really a benefit. If it's on the server it's far more secure, unless you've messed that up, and you have less/no issues with running out of space on the server.
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I feel like you didn't read anything in the article.

The point is that you don't advertise it unless you're full of shit. It's a bullshit marketing/hiring tactic.

If you really want to change the world, you make a thing, and focus on the thing, not on how you're "changing the world".
Of course they know. But to punish them for annoying you we have deprived them of their modesty above.
I think their main goal is to serve as a counterbalance to the prevailing voices in the industry and to show people that there are various definitions of success - not just the definition that TechCrunch and the VC circles elevate.

I welcome their voice. I think it’s a nice counterbalance. We need both kinds of voices in the room.
Bingo! You just described 23andme, Anchestry and some others.

Fun fact: you can't make any reasonable profit off of sequencing human DNA at $49 per pop. Its just won't happen. Maybe with technology in iPhone250 in year 3560, but sorry not today.

Back in a day when I was a Noogler, I had interesing conversation on data scraping and purity of infornation in DNA sequencing database. Basically I was explain it will eventually be sold to insurance companies so that they could estimate your premiums better based on probability of your future diseases. As you can imagine that's a gold mine for any large or mid health insurance provider out there. I was also explained how data verofication makes sure of consistency; for example, if male order a kit (via credit card [prepaids dont work bc they cant know your identity]) but result came as female, such result would not be marked as purity and never sold. There are many other checks and balances, but you get the point.

Bottom line: if you want to get the kit and test your DNA out of fun, at least make sure your identity is not obvious.
I beg to differ. Just today i was watching this story unfold https://twitter.com/ColinLevy/status/971124112440487936

He was lucky all his grand father's note were on paper.
I worked on an app based on this timeline like flashcards, it reset when you get a card wrong. Https://www.studysauce.com
Flutter renders both iOS ("Cupertino" theme) and Android components - check out the gallery app, you can see both in action. It's beautiful.
Ugh I'm tired of these articles that declare SF / SV are over. This is my last rant...hopefully!

They take a small group of people that actually are moving and blow it up into a trend. It's been going on for years.

Yes home prices are insane. No salary doesn't make up for it. Yes your house will be smooshed in between others unless you got a lot of money. Yes you could get 2x the house for 1/2 the price anywhere else.

But it ignores two huge factors keeping people here. One the network density for tech. There are more jobs and support here than other places. More investment dollars create more startups which hopefully have more exits which attracts more investment dollars. It's a virtuous cycle.

Two is the lifestyle. Yes there's a liberal bent but it's traditionally been one of the most open minded places in the country. There are few other places you can experience so much of life's variety within a 3 hr drive.

And the whole remote working thing sounds logical but I see few companies actually widely adopting it. A lot of people prefer to connect in person, even though there is no rational reason why anymore.
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Then you have to deal with password resets and account creation, which if you know how those work, don't really sound all that lightweight compared to OAuth 2.
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Arguably SF doesnt have stricter regulation than any other big city (save for seismic) - but the demand far exceeds the units the type of regulation the city has, will allow to be built.
Read the guidelines! they explain how: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Let's not have a pronoun flamewar please. Everyone just resist.

The guidelines that say "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says" and "Don't feed egregious comments by replying" combine to give good guidance here.
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https://github.com/antirez/kilo

A text editor by the guy that made redis, in less than 1000 lines and a lot of comments.
Some people are missing the point. The project does not have the idea of seeking congressmen who spend a lot on their meals. Of course, that could help them spend a little less.

But the idea is to find irregularities. That is, a congressman who says he had lunch at such a restaurant, but by analyzing the invoice and the address we find that this restaurant never existed. Or a gas station that does not really work anymore.

This is very common. It is not an analysis of what they do with their wages. These congressmen receive compensation beyond their wages to spend when working in their regions. This compensation has a value of four to five times more than their salary.
Can't wait for the inevitable r/bestoflegaladvice post
I guess in court you ‘prove’ that a person has no knowledge of the smell of marijuana by all of:

a) they make a statement under oath to the effect that they have no knowledge

b) they and their immediate family / propuesta they live with have no relevant convictions or charges that would contradict the above, and no known links to anyone who clearly does (no electronic communications collect as evidence)

c) they are otherwise a just, upright, and moral citizen
I used C2EE before Java was invented, where do you think those ideas come from?

Enterprise architecture looks the same in any language that gets adopted in this space.
How's $6700 relevant?
Polyester has it's own problems. As you wash polyester clothing, very tiny pieces of the polyester break off and get washed down the drain and into the ocean. It's contributing to plastic pollution.

Cotton is nice because at least it degrades naturally. We can regulate fashion to remove the most environmentally damaging parts. If distressed jeans are the most egregious offenders, then just ban them. (And for what it's worth, cheaper clothing brands do have noticeably less distress marks on clothing than expensive ones - it's clear they recognise it's a huge expense and have optimised it)

Also, the fashion industry is fully funded by what mobile devs would call "whales"; a small group of people who do most of the purchasing. I haven't bought many clothes in the last 10 years, an item here and there. But there are others who buy new stuff every week and then stuff it away in closets. Perhaps we need to have more awareness around wasteful shopping?
I turned down a phone screen at Facebook.

About a week later, a tech recruiter called and asked me if there was any sort of company I wouldn't work at. I said, yeah, I wouldn't want to work in any social media company. He challenged me by pointing out that the money and prestige has to be tempting, right?

I told them Facebook contacted me the week before and I declined.

The hem and haw, followed by 'uhhh.... well" and silence was revealing.

To be fair, I have zero chance of getting into Facebook, especially for what they contacted me for.
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The zoning definitely is more restrictive than other major cities.

And it's even worse in the Silicon Valley towns - Palo Alto, Mountain View, etc. The zoning restrictions there are absolutely bananas.
I also have had a similar experience early in my career of shorter stints.

If you don't mind sharing, what were some attributes that made the company the right one and what were attributes of the companies you didn't like?
Very nice.

I’ve been working on Lambda apps in Golang too. Here’s a boilerplate app that can help you get started and understand the pieces:

https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas
~90% according to the report.
It's a shame that people want to turn los angeles into nyc or sf. We have that already. Can't LA remain unique?
Wait a second. Is this recently? For all of Obamacare's problems - I thought that it at least solved this particular abuse.
On the "fudge guy" who was using the recipe from the marshmallow container, or the Toll House cookies winning 2 of the top spots: there's a lot more to good results than just the recipe. Equipment, skill, the idiosyncratic ways you don't follow the recipe or fill in where it's underspecified... Don't necessarily give in to the temptation to ascribe the phenomenon merely to irrationality or sentiment.

Plus, it must be said, the Toll House recipe is pretty darn good. Not what I use myself but sometimes the classics are classics for a reason.
I get that we should strive for less emotionally charged discourse. But as I'm sure you're aware, that's actually really hard for most people to do. It's very easy to get riled up and hard to calm back down. Most of the time, people don't intend to be hostile, they are just reacting to the stimuli around them.

So there's poison in our food. Are we going to keep just wandering around looking for sick people and then saying "please stop poisoning people", or are we going to try to find what causes people to be poisoned to begin with and try to prevent it? In other words, what active steps can HN or its users take other than simply telling them to be nice to create civil polite discourse?
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Sounds like an expensive way to avoid using a hammer.
What happened? I'm always interested in the stories where things didn't work. People don't hear those.
I don't think not knowing enough about computers to realize that "delete" doesn't actually delete the data qualifies someone as an idiot.
> You can set expiry fields in JWT, so revocation isn’t the concern everyone is saying it is.

The issue with JWT revocation is if someone has a JWT that says they are an admin and then you make them not an admin or if an admin (or any for that matter) account is breached it's difficult to remove access from the attacker. With a session you just change the password and kill the session. This can be mitigated by short expiry times but a lot of damage can be done in a short amount of time by a determined attacker.
> San Francisco’s median two-bedroom rent of $3,040

Is it? It's hearsay, of course, but I was told it's closer to $4K.
There are a lot of causes for this. But one of the easiest to fix: VCs don't like getting on planes.

I've lived here since Bubble 1.0, but I still keep in touch with people in the midwest. There are plenty of startup-oriented people there, but in their view to get real investment, they have to move to SF.

It'd be great to see more companies starting and growing in places where housing and office spaced is reasonably priced. The Internet has made location much less important for so many things; we should make that true for startups as well.
Two things on that: first, moving money between banks but in a single currency wouldn't generate a taxable event - there's no possibility of profit or loss like there is with a currency exchange (i.e. you're not buying euros and then selling them, you're just moving dollars). Second, all the Irish and Dutch craziness relies on multiple corporations (all owned by the parent, of course), which complicates the tax situation a bunch.
It's a SNP chip, not PCR, but similar level of information at ~100k sites.

Definitely not sequencing, though.
I suppose you could assume a portion of that argument from the paragraph on companies that have "changed the world" not setting out to. However a lesson like "don't fake it till you make it" wasn't the takeaway. I interpret the last paragraph:

"Set out to do good work. Set out to be fair in your dealings with customers, employees, and reality. Leave a lasting impressions on the people you touch, and worry less (or not at all!) about changing the world. Chances are you won’t, and if you do, it’s not going to be because you said you would."

as: You shouldn't try to make a huge impact because just saying you would won't get you there.

Which by the way DHH is wrong about what Jack Dorsey wanted Twitter to be. A few of his early quotes

"My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction."

"We get to design what we want to see in the world rather than doing what other people think should be done."

Doesn't get much more "changing the world" language than that.
Anyone who is learning something new is a genius in my opinion - especially if they are excited about it and want to share their results so that others can learn.

This is just condescending vitriol.
Welp, gave up facebook a year after they opened, been using linux as a main home computer since 2001 (tho I am multi-os), always used a condom, and I always buy local (amazon, in seattle) and starbucks (same)...
If there's one thing that makes me highly suspicious and mistrusting of any company, it's the absence of a pricing link right on the homepage. It reminds me of "Contact Sales" schemes where the price is decided on how much can be extracted from each customer. I'm not saying that Shogun falls in that category, but putting a pricing link on the homepage would make it whole lot easier for people to decide if it's for them or not. [1] Features and pricing — both are important for decision making. Please don't force people to sign up or search through help pages to find out how much it costs.

As of this moment, when I do a "Find on Page" and look for "pric" (just part of "pricing"), I don't find anything. Whenever I get to such sites, I just close the tab and move on.

[1]: https://getshogun.com/
I think that's fair, however the tone seems to be more aggressive than simply saying "hey there are other options." It's more "there is no place for this ecosystem and you're broken if you play in it."

For example just from this post alone:

These people have "delusions of grandeur" and "congitive dissonance" are making an "existential cry for help."
What makes you think you will be better off with more money, and are you sure that your successful peers are not thinking the opposite from you - wishing they could have explored more subjects instead of jumping straight into a career that will give them a better "return on investment"?
You can't estimate the time required because an attacker can crack keys in parallel.

"devices can differ dramatically now even in the same computers; to take the example of Bitcoin mining, my laptop’s 2GHz CPU can search for hashes at 4k/sec, or its single outdated GPU can search at 54M/second [...] it would not be very useful to have a time-lock which guarantees the file will be locked between a year and a millennium, depending on how many & what kind of people bother to attack it and whether Moore’s law continues to increase the parallel-processing power available"

A better (but still not great) way to do it is to take 100 random numbers, hash them a trillion times (in parallel), then use each hash to successively encrypt the starting seed for the next hash. The last hash in this chain is the private key you encrypt your data with. You release the first seed and each encrypted hash and the encrypted data.

To brute force your key someone would have to hash the first seed a trillion times, decrypt the seed of the next hash and hash it a trillion times and so on until they get the key. This can't be parallelized, but you can generate the hashes in parallel.

It's still not great because you're probably not using 100 of the best possible ASICs for your chosen hash, whereas an attacker might or might not.

https://www.gwern.net/Self-decrypting-files
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There is generally an obligation to report child pornography, child sex abuse, and so on. Absolutely, and rightly so.

There is no obligation to search. But if you consented to a technically-unnecessary search and the tech has an incentive to do that search...

The only real question is whether the techs here were government actors. If the government pays them for the actions that nets them the evidence needed to convict, then I'd say the tech is a government actor indeed.
The takeaway here is that our efforts aren't meaningless, just that they won't be noticed in the context of "the world". Progress on the grand scale isn't necessarily brought about by giants; their contributions, while having weight, are dubious in value. Focus is the most valuable thing, as some of the greatest influences in the average individuals life come from a source shared by few others (in the grand scale), whether it be a religious congregation, a nice barbeque joint, or this very forum.
The Dutch East India Company was a private business...
“The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.”
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Thank you, and agree on the PayPal fees being on the higher side.
What is the average 1BR apartment going for now in SF? (I'm not sure that Craiglist or quoted outliers are entirely representative, and am interested in the experiences of people more familiar with the market.)

> This is how people outside the area imagine living in San Francisco.

She doesn't seem to think much of her readers.

> San Francisco's chief housing inspector deemed living in boxes illegal.
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Nothing in the linked article suggests constraining the kid's freedom at any point.
IRC is an open protocol. Messages like what you see can be hidden by the client or suppressed by the server. And free intermediary servers can keep logs.

It's amazing to me how people think Slack is this amazing tool. If someone had thrown millions of dollars at IRC, it wouldn't suck.

But instead, you'll fork over your personal info and insist I do too.
> You've just guaranteed that no roads would ever be worked on in poor residential areas.

Why not? I said net value created. That doesn't mean each individual road has to show a profit. It means the enterprise as a whole has to show a profit. If improving roads to poor residential areas gives those people more options so they can create wealth and not be poor any more, that's a profit.
NEO's current price is ~ $108, so I believe the parent post is saying that NEO represents somewhere around 1.6% of the market cap of top 25. Since you must buy at least 1.0 NEO, if you want to balance things out just right, you'd need to have a total investment of at least $6700.

Anything less and you either have to leave NEO out entirely or you have to still have the minimum of 1, which will be a larger share of your holdings than its relative market cap.