skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You assume a high cost for choice. We explicitly selected our culinary category and business model and have developed our technology to support broad choice at low cost.

That's not so much about cost as such, but about cost of making a good impression. I hope you don't underestimate how much of a foodie an average Chinese person is. Even the demographic of middle age bachelor labourers is quite choosy and will vote with their wallets.

Earning not even bad but just "so so" rep for a restaurant... I believe, for most it is easier to close and start anew than to rehabilitate a brand. That's why I personally believe that going with the best dish you can make, and one with strongest popular appeal is the safest bet to get strong initial impression.

That is easy to see in action when you go to any "food street" in any Asian city. Among many stalls, try to find some with "generic fried noodles," and compare the lineup in front of them with ones with fancy decor and more original dishes.
Your point is, of course correct: slow growth is growth. However, it worth clarifying that population growth in much of Europe is driven by immigration rather than natural growth, and therefore does demonstrate population decline which is offset by other regions population growth.
The Devils' DP Dictionary by Stan Kelly-Bootle. From
the 1980s maybe even the 1970s. I lost my copy long ago but here are a few entries I remember:

Programmer: one who conducts informal research on the halting problem.

Close: to invoke the 'File not open' diagnostic.

Kelly-Bootle was an interesting guy. He had a career as a folk singer and songwriter in addition to being one of the first computer programmers in the UK. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Kelly-Bootle

Algorithmics by David Harel begins each chapter with a
pertinent verse from the Bible - many of the choices are clever and amusing. Also from the 1980s.

IBM Jargon and General Computing Dictionary by Mike Colishaw at https://comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf has some witty
entries. A bit like the better known hacker's dictionary
edited by Guy Steele and later by Eric Raymond, but less emphasis on technical matters and more about company traditions and office politics. From 1992.

Erudition sparkles through the famous Art of Computer Programming volumes by Knuth, but I wouldn't call them amusing.

After some thought, those were the best I could come up with, and they are all more then 25 years old. Also I see this is the only answer here. How discouraging.
I'm unfortunately familiar with similar systems. What has probably happened is that a crowdsourced process has (incorrectly) categorized the website as 2 things: "Criminal skills/Hacking", and "News". The hotel has subscribed to this categorization service and configured their settings to block any pages in the "Criminal skills/Hacking" section because it sounds scary.

Same goes for the "Piracy and Copyright infringement".

There's no conspiracy here, just the normal incompetence. Calling the number listed on the page will probably allow you to petition to reclassify the site properly, making less likely to be blocked.

Of course, filtering in general sucks, but it's not like this is an ISP, it's a hotel.
SSNs were never meant as ID. Now we are all at risk.
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I'd love to read more development diaries of games and software in general. Is there a list/collection of some?
One thing that separates entrepreneurs from normal people is they aren't afraid of having stupid ideas. A good 90% of the ideas on this list, particularly the early ones, are laughable and are ideas you wouldn't catch a serious individual dead trying to come up with. Some people try from the start to be perfect and always fail because they don't understand you need dumb little ideas to be an entrepreneur.
More natural history museums with stuffed animals that died in captivity, by accident, by natural causes. The kids get to see the animal up close, learn about behavior/history, connect the animal to the 'bigger picture' of the biosphere/ecosystem.
and Puerto Rico. A lot this nonsense would be solved if moral hazard was eliminated.
> it’s easier to build your own than to gain an understanding of React.

And, in today’s corporate how many story points did you complete this sprint “what have you done for me lately” panopticon culture, building your own looks like productivity, gaining an understanding looks like slacking - a fireable offense. Supposed tech labor shortage or not, few of us have the luxury of looking unproductive regardless of what we’re actually accomplishing.
Bootstrapping identity is a very hard problem, and implementors can't resist the easy path of piggy-backing on someone else's identity or authentication system -- social security numbers, email addresses, telephone numbers, etc.

AT&T is being sued by someone who lost $24M in cryptocurrency because someone decided to piggy-back authentication on AT&T. While AT&T should certainly be called out for having sloppy security, I can't help but feel that they never really signed up for the job of protecting such a valuable asset. It's like trying to protect Fort Knox with a consumer-grade padlock, then going after the padlock manufacturer when someone cuts it open.
I don't think of this as a hedge; rather, it's saying "look what I was able to do in my spare time!"
Many animals seem to have poor mental health in zoos, and bears, gorillas, penguins, tigers, and others are given anti-depressants and/or anti-anxiety drugs [0-4]. Repetitive behaviors, e.g., the back and forth pacing behavior of carnivores or swimming continually in a circle, is supposedly a sign of psychosis caused by confinement. An environment free from danger without the threat of hunger seems to lead to mental health problems in these animals.

That said, I think zoos are critical to educating the public about animals, preserving endangered species, enabling injured animals to live, and making people care about animals from an early age.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2014/07/animal-madness-laurel-braitman...

[1] https://www.peta.org.uk/blog/why-are-these-penguins-taking-a...

[2] http://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/why-do-polar-...

[3] http://www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2005/09/12/Zoos-using-d...

[4] http://www.slate.com/blogs/wild_things/2014/06/20/animal_mad...
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This is a really nice summary of some of the technical components required. You also need to know how to do different kinds of analysis to answer different kinds of questions. A few more things:

0. Scientific method - probably true for all domains. Not really a kind of analysis, more an approach to doing analysis.

1. Cohort analysis - used in aquisition and retention analysis.

2. Model building - used in all kinds of financial analysis.

3. A/B/... testing - determining the difference between 2 or more populations.

4. Exploratory - understanding the relationships in your data to develop intuition about it.

There are plenty of analysis techniques in use. You can learn more about these and others if you survey blogs and other literature. One that I find interesting is Tom Tunguz. He has a particular theme, but his analysis is very good. The methods and way of thought are transferrable.
http://tomtunguz.com/
> The real reason you succeeded were all those unfair advantages that you had.

Everything that you enumerated in this section is luck. Rich parents is not something you can work on, for example.

> Worse, if you do manage to persuade these people that you were in fact not all that rich or successful when you started out, and that the only connections you have were even more broke than you, well, you still don't get to give advice.

Broke connections > no connections.

I have zero connections right now. I would have to pocket 5-digit sum for marketing expenses. If I want to start a business, I have nobody to say that to. Random internet strangers don't help.

> And that's really all those "how I built an X" writeups are describing:

Stop with the universal wisdom. It does not exist. Only thing I will grant you is -- you won't gain anything from luck if you don't show up. That's it.

> Dismissing the author's wisdom and not trying to start a business will never, ever, in a million years, leave you with a successful business.

Who said it will? WTF?

> And if you keep trying, eventually you might be lucky enough to have some clown on the internet dismiss all your hard work as Confirmation Bias.

Why do you care about "some clown on the internet"? You said you live comfortably off of the profits of one of your products. Go and enjoy your life and ignore people who obviously don't want to listen to you.

Take the hint.

> If you try something with a 10% chance of success enough times, eventually it will work. Think of it as Persistence Bias if you like, and it makes a lot more sense.

Not all of us can try 50 times. Most of us cannot. If I try 2 or 3 times and fail, my savings are gone and I might actually have to live on the street. Thought of that? Thought of people who are already burned out from too many failures before? Yeah, "keep trying". Sure. When the only thing you want is some peace of mind and the world just to leave you the frak alone for 2 years but no, you have to try even harder now. A-ha. Your recipe of success via persistence is an eye-opener! Nobody ever thought of that before!

> You see, the biggest reason the business in question was successful was that our hero went out and built it. He actually tried.

True. If you never try, you will never succeed. Again though, many people cannot try 20+ times, or even 5. Don't forget that.

Your post is a useless rant (like my reply here).

People discard successful people advice because it's highly context-sensitive and includes a ton of factors that played in the favor of the said person. What worked for you might not work for many others -- and what did not work for you might work perfectly for me. This is universally true and it makes you an a-hole to dismiss it.

All in all, a superfluous article which mostly makes you wonder why a successful person cares about what random people say.

OP needs therapy sessions on self-worth.
My favorite result was “should I propose?” -5!
If the proposed solution is to make a new browser, why don't we just use Dillo?
The fact is that most animals in the wild simply aren't doing as terribly as you imply. My wife researches dog welfare and my understanding (which by the way is still not very good at all) is that most emotions don't map perfectly from human to animals so the best thing to look at would be chronic stress response and while animals in the wild are more stressed out (and there's a valid argument to be made that many species are actually happier in captivity) to characterize the levels of most wild animals as "misery" simply isn't true.
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They can charge these fees because they are the ones controlling the access to final consumers. They have reached this control by spending billions in building their platform (or even developing the smartphone in the first place) and by keeping the platform secure and simple to use.

For many brick & mortar retail segments, fees can be much higher than 30%. Supermarkets can charge easily 50% of final price as fee (i.e. they buy the product from manufacturer at 50% of final price), and for some categories in some countries it can be much higher still. This then pays for their operations (warehousing, inventory, labour, rent of spaces in attractive areas...).

Yes, consumers pay this fee ultimately, but they are happy to do so in exchange of elimination of the search friction (a vast choice available under one roof). In fact today we have largely moved away from going to the baker for bread, then butcher for meat, the local market for veggies, the hardware store for nails etc. Even dedicated stores (like clothing stores on the High Street) offer choice of sizes, opportunity to try the garments on etc.) and are in areas of high foot traffic that enable searching for the right product by browsing in nearby stores.
Ultimately, though, retail remains a low margin (in % terms) business, a proof that those fees are not that absurd.
Or you can try going to Youtube and see the police action in Xinjiang. We have video evidence of bad shit happening.

How many Uighur millionaires are there? How many Han chinese millionaires are there?

Ok, now how many Uighurs are even allowed to leave Xinjiang?
> Good written

Joke?

I'm reminded of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) which I tried to read recently and couldn't get through due to the writing. Here is one of the most highly "liked" quotes from GoodReads:

>> Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion. His hour came,—the hour that comes only once; his star rose in the horizon,—that star that rises so often in vain, to be remembered only as a thing of dreams; and it rose for him in vain. To drop the figure,—he saw and won the love of a high-minded and beautiful woman, in one of the northern states, and they were affianced. He returned south to make arrangements for their marriage, when, most unexpectedly, his letters were returned to him by mail, with a short note from her guardian, stating to him that ere this reached him the lady would be the wife of another. Stung to madness, he vainly hoped, as many another has done, to fling the whole thing from his heart by one desperate effort. Too proud to supplicate or seek explanation, he threw himself at once into a whirl of fashionable society, and in a fortnight from the time of the fatal letter was the accepted lover of the reigning belle of the season; and as soon as arrangements could be made, he became the husband of a fine figure, a pair of bright dark eyes, and a hundred thousand dollars; and, of course, everybody thought him a happy fellow.
Great, but while i see lots of talk of this for ships and planes i've seen not a single file or application from spacex to become a residential provider anywhere, much less in canada. So they remain perpetually 10+ years away.
From that article: it's analog video, 1125 scan lines in a 5:3 aspect ratio. 1991 technology, super expensive.

Here's a list of disc releases, no idea if it's comprehensive. Star Wars is not on it. https://www.lddb.com/list.php?format=ld&list=muse
Right after the last two hurricanes hit Florida, Verizon temporarily granted unlimited data to those in the affected area, which I thought was very sporting of them.

Even if your DSL/cable connection was still alive, your router battery backup ran out of power within hours, so cell phone data was the only way to communicate and stay informed.
Thanks for introducing the term "Whig history" to me!
Ascribe whatever personal significance to the death of a famous person you wish. McCain's "views" and career as a statesman have little relevance to hackers and hacking except where he personally acted in ways which affect hackers and technology they use. This is the basis on which I commented.
Gov can have that power over the rich too. Gov will freeze all their assets, claiming they were gotten illegally, and then even rich people can't pay their lawyers. See Kim Dotcom, for example. It's not that gov can't prosecute the rich; they just don't want to.
He does spend some time getting around to the point though doesn’t he? This ends up being 40 minutes of video and if you’re just interested in the Hi-Vision part it could probably be 10 minutes. He spends a lot of time talking about the timeline of various video formats, goes over repairing his machine, etc. The interesting part is maybe the last 5 minutes of this video and then the 2nd part.
Can you explain what an adequate size is and how you would know that? I learned that in the wild a territory can be 20 square kilometres, which I guess is an upper bound.
It is a hybrid of software engineering and stats.

Calling it science is a stretch. I can understand if you are solving problems in a traditional scientific field, but if you are doing economic modeling to manage investment risk and optimize profit for an internet company, it's hardly science. What a scam!
They gave their employee the ability to bypass the security PIN code locking the account. If they hadn't touted it as account security, their case would probably be better.
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-authorizes-spacex-provide-b...

Residential service filing probably (!) appears on the priority list after launching the 4-12,000 satellites into LEO.
>It's easy to remember a few top executives being prosecuted over 50 years, and hard to remember historical cases from the past 10 years.. because they are not historical yet.

That doesn't make sense.

Cases from the past 10 years should be easier to remember, because "historical" or not (this is a needless distinction here), they are (a) more recent, (b) more likely to have been written about in the news/social media/shows/etc one reads than older cases.

The use of "historical" here is a distinction that confuses more than illuminates. Even if "it's hard to remember historical cases from the past 10 years.. because they are not historical yet", it should be easier to remember big cases from the past 10 years, period.
Using dillo would be similar to turning off javascript, breaking many websites. The proposed solution is to avoid using html/js/css at all and use a different format like markdown for things that are meant for reading and give user (instead of developers) full control over all the looks.
Not a huge amount; but I got riled up reading "the far-rights are ... maintaining Australia's CO2 emission levels". I sometimes get called far right in political discussion, and as far as I'm concerned Australia has a perfectly good option to lower CO2 emissions that is being blocked by the far left. I want to see more nuclear power stations, they look like a good idea to me.

There is a big coal mine in the works (Adani) and any outflows from that mine have some potential to add further stress to the reef ecosystem, so coal v. nuclear might be tangentially related there.
I actually met Jordan Mechner a couple of times, around 2011. I had a coworker/common friend who would throw big parties I recognized him oddly enough based on his drawing style, as a fan of his blog. he was sitting in one of the bedrooms at the party drawing in his sketchbook. We talked a bit about the last express, (another one of my all time favorites) and the various iterations of PoP. He was very shy and quiet but really wonderful to chat with. Funny enough, at this same party I met another hero of my youth, Dave Taylor, one of the original members of ID. most likely because they were both working on the Karateka remake together at the time. (these were fancy hollywood party with a few film celebrity type people... but me being a game nerd only recognized the game folks that showed up)
(Not so seriously.) I suggest, it may be even worse. Arguably, a person who is able to integrate, to connect and to convey her/his thinking to an audience is more likely to be regarded widely as competent than a person who doesn't. But there's a problem with this, namely complexity of thinking. We may observe that it becomes extremely more difficult to connect in this way, as the distance in understanding and the complexity of reasoning increases from a common mean of understanding, as the load of information and education implied and required to follow an argument separates an expert from a layperson. However, there's a feeling of suitability of what is to be conveyed, to be discussed, what may be worth to be communicated. Generally, we do not like to just repeat the basics of our understanding, this is not the point we're at, the gravitational center of our deliberations. We haven't engaged in higher education, just to repeat the eyeopening one-liners of the introductory lessons over and over again. There's a gradient of complexity, and arguably a worthwhile statement is located somewhere at the higher half of it. And, as things are, the more natural we are, the better, the more successful we are in communications.

By this, we may conclude, a person commonly acknowledged for her/his competence is also a person successful in communicating understanding, thus a person, who's understanding is essentially neither more informed nor more complex than the average understanding. A person at the high point of the career, just before adhering to Peter's principle, is also a person, who has been shifting for merits, understood by just few, eventually to a field, where her/his genuine level of competence is just a bit above of the one of the general public, honoring this with general praise. The experts must stand aside, in shame, as they are necessarily excluded from this communion. Even if, by some peculiar accident, our person has maintained a respectable level of expertise, she is ultimately nudged towards a flattering level of communicability. Thus we may propose, a successful career is rather the matter of a diminishing epsilon, which separates expertise from common understanding. Peter's principle is not dysfunctional, but rather the vanishing point (quite in the literal meaning, as far as this epsilon is concerned).
Regulatory capture is the term for the regulatory body doing favors to the private industry -- not the term for the exact method for repaying them the parent described (hiring them after they're out of their regulating job).
I've never played the original, but I had the Genesis version as a kid. That game was hard, so ridiculously hard and when I did finally manage to make it to the end, i didn't have enough time left to kill the boss and finish the game. You had 60 minutes or something like that to beat it. I spent a lot of time playing it though, I think I did beat it eventually but if I did it was overshadowed by that first time making it to the end with just not quite enough time. I tried from that last password over and over again and just couldn't do it.
I get what you're saying, but it's easy to decompose "gaining an understanding" into grains useful to task-accounting methodologies like those you're lamenting.

I think the pressure towards "just write code" comes from somewhere else.
I believe you mean prosecuting & prosecute, not persecuting & persecute.
IMO, this is yet another conservative argument to put more money in their own pockets (by reducing taxes, accomplished by reducing investment in education). No matter how cynical, the results of the argued policies are always the same.

Colleges are not victims of some Godlike invisible economic hand; they set their prices as they wish, and before this dogmatic obsession with the market, they set the prices to education as many people as they could - that was their mission, not money. Instead, they are acting as market participants selling a service for which there is inelastic demand - their customers almost can't say no; education is almost invaluable. Therefore they can raise their prices indefinitely - similar to health care.

The problem is not that we are funding students. The problem is market pricing for education.
Imagine if your doctor was chosen randomly.
To add another point of anecdote, I've also left a bad dev job for less money but better mental health overall. Such a good decision, but a difficult one to make.

Higher amounts of money yield diminishing returns. It's difficult to balance it with the added benefits of a low stress job (or one with a better commute, friendlier colleagues, etc), but putting the effort it's totally worth it. This includes being honest with yourself about what makes you happy in a job, which is actually much more difficult than it sounds (as it always it when you need to be honest with yourself).
Is this intimated in the linked PDF? (I haven’t read it yet).

I agree about being poor negotiators when we’re young - and young is only a function of how long you have spent in the field you’re negotiating.